The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-10-11
BLAINE AT GRAND RAPIDS.

Walker Blaine, General Keieg, General
Alger, Colonel Moves, Major Hopkins, |
General MiIliken, Jam al. Stone and |
several other prominent republicans
left by a special train for Grand Rap
ids at o'clock this morning. At $3.50
Mr.. Blaine, accompanied by his son
and General Alger, arrived at the CEN
trail depot. Mr.. Blaine's step was Wig
orous and buoyant, his eye bright. his
voice clear and strong, and his cheek
had healthy glow. In response to an
inquiry, Mr.. Blaine said that he now
finds no difficulty in speaking and has
been advised by his physician that he
is entirely cured of his cold.
LANSING, Mich, Oct, Sat each
of the stations crowds had gathered,
but until Howell was reached the train
whirled through without stopping. At
Howell some 500 citizens were assem-
bled and shout was sent up for the
distinguished travellers. Mr.. Blaine
at first objected to showing himself,
but was finally persuaded to meet the
crowd at the rear platform of his car.
Upon his appearance he was saluted
said: II am very glad to see you gen.
tlemen, are you going to wake things up
here for Harrison AMI Morton?" You
bet we are" responded a number of
voices. General Alger came out on the
platform and was received with cheers.
The train ran into Lansing at IL
o'clock, having run eighty miles from
Detroit in two hours. Grand Rapids
| will be reached at l O'Clock and the
not no at
Grand Rapids Mr.. Blaine will start on
his Indiana tour making his first
speech at Goshen on the 10th, and con-
tinuing on to Indianapolis on the 18th.
New Albany 18th, Evansville 18th, and
the Tippecanoe Battle Ground on the
nth.
From Lansing the train passed with
out stopping to Grand Rapids where
MIR. Blaine was met by an immense
and enthusiastic crowd. a number of
leading manufacturers had given their
employees a holiday and number of
| excursion trains from various points
had unlOaded their thousands into the
| already OVercroWded streets of the
city. Escorted by long procession of
uniformed companies, Mr.. Blaine and
party were conveyed in carriages to
the Morton house where they dined.
| At 8 O'Clock the doors of Hartman 8
hall were thrown open and the crowd
poured in great flood which occupied
every inch of space. The larger
part of it was made up of workmen in
the factories who listened to Mr..
Blaine with close attention and fire.
quently cheered his good points. Mr..
Blaine addressed the meeting as fol-
lows:
| Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW CITI-
zENs OF MICHIGAN:-I have no doubt
you have often heard that thu system
of protection was devised for the bene-
fit of New England, that the east gets
all the advantage and that the west
SustainS all the burden. That has
been the cry uf tue free traders ever
since there was a west, vet under it all
the west does somehow in this great
national progress keep her place in
the van and in point of rapidly
expanding enterprise and in point of
great acquisition of wealth keeps ahead
of the east in the ratio of acquisition.
am especially influenced this after
noon TO call your attention to the issue
involved in that charge by having read
4 in Detroit paper that the Hon. Don
NJ. Dickinson, postmaster general I'M
der President Cleveland, has lately
been delivering himself on that subject
and I quote among other things from
what he says, the following: New
England selfishly hangs on the body
polite, absorbing the wealth and Civ
ing nothing in return. We buy of New
England at extortionate prices kept up
by the tariff. while at the same time
we sell her nothing" If Mr.. Dick
inson in these deliverances speaks
the words of sober truth it is very
serious matter. If New England is
prospecting under a protective tariff
and is selling largely to the west every
year and is buying nothing from her
it presents, / say, very serious aspect
of affairs and there should be a radical
change, and evidently it cannot be a
permanent condition of trade. As
soon as ] read that statement by Mr.
Dickinson, set myself to work to
procure some statistics and shall give
you the benefit of them, and l premise
at this point by saying that every
time you hear u western man COM
i New England, for which | shall
especially speak at this time = gets
everything and gives. nothing-sells
everything and buys nothing. you hear
the same man telling you that our
great market is beyond the ocean in old
England applauseI and that there is
where the west should look for the sale
of her products. You can always tell
one of them by that sign. daughter
I Il
two past with the aid of my frien0,
Governor Alger, in the securing of
some statistics on the, point of New
England taking nothing from the west.
| In the first place find that she takes
between q halt million ana six hun
dred Thousand tons of grain annually.
, She raises only four per cent of what
her people need for breadstuffs and as
said, she takes between
tons of grain from the west
(Cheers.) Next there are annually
raised in this country SOC. COO, 600 pounds
of wool; we had only go 600 600 pounds
Of wool grown annually by the farmers
, of the country when the free trade tariff
was in operation just before the war
Under the effect of the protective tariff
we have increased the amount of wool
,, grown almost wholly IN the west, Il
! 800, 000, 600 pounds annually, and i
brings vast aggregate of nearly 500,
), coo, Geo (cheers) to the farmers of tn
country. Mr.. Cleveland recommend
that the duty on that be repealed ant
\ that we shall put the wool grower O
!. the west on the same plane as the woo
: grower of Australia and Canada
: The republicans say: mo,
4 Nj. Dickinson speaks so dis
. respectfully, takes every year half o
that entire wool crop and pays tn
west S45, 000, 900 year for it. (Cheersl
Besides as New England needs breai
- for which she pays the west S20, 00B, 90
year, she needs also provisions
y which includes all forms of meat-aB
n for that, and poultry IN addition i'm
e ported from the west, she pay
. the farmers of those western state
So. 600, coo a year. fGheers). More
l. over the people of the east want som
II butter to spread on their bread an
II they do not make enough at HON
le daughter and applausel and they pa
sr the west over s.. Goa, 900 a year for tina
1t Then New England needs a good lie;
70 of lumber. hard wood and pine, an
le there are just three states here frol