, 1888-11-01
BLAINE AT ALBANY
lie is Received With Open Arms
by the People.
AN ADDRESS ON LIVE ISSUES.
Thurmans Ohio Canyass---The Iates,
Democratic Dodge to Secure
Indiana.

ALBANy., Oct. 30.--Sinee the Tippeca.
noe and Tyler too campaign, neither this
old knickerbocker town nor the surround.
ing country has known such demonstra-
tion as that OF to-d"y, furnished by the re-
publicans of Albany and Troy. Great en-
thusiasm greeted Mr.. Blaine and his party
as they drove upon the fair grounds, where
it is estimated 10000 persons were gath
cred. Blaine, though he said he was not
at his best. physically, spoke clearly and
strong. and that he was heard was evident
by the frequent demonstrations of the
crowd. He said in particular: ut is al
most too late for argument, but wish to
give you one, and to give it in very sug-
gestive mode, not from myself but from
another, not from an American, but from
an Englishman. hold in my hand
clipping from recent issue of the London
Morning Post, we'll known and promi-
nent organ in England, the organ Of the
late Lord Palmerston,, "a paper advocating
hitherto, as all English papers do, the doc
trine Of free trade. The Post is getting u
little fatigued with certain arguments of
the free traders. IL does not believe in all
that is said against the doctrine of protec-
tion, and | am sure can instruct you no
more pleasantly than to ask my
friend from Brooklyn, Mr.. Ten
n.y.. to read from an editorial
which shall hand him from the Morn ing
Post.
EXTRACT FROM THE POST.
Mr.. Tenny read As follows. But for
the serious consequences entailed upon
our working classes, who feel every day
more and more the pinch of foreign COM
petition, 1t would be decidedly amusing to
note how completely every one of the prin-
ciples assumed by the one-sideed free
trade school of this country is negatived
| by facts and falsiiied by the experience of
the commonplace business man. We are
constantly told that protection raises
prices of commodities, that a hostile tariff.
as John Bright said but q few days back
in his published letters to one of his cor
respondents, is only a tax which the COM
munlty pays to the support of the particu-
lar industry benefited by it. As mat
ter of fact, what do we find in America?
| Why their manufacturers can actually
beat us out of the field on the score Of
mere cheapness only. So far from pro.
lection enhancing the cost of their
rates with which we with all our
free trade, can not manage to compete.
The Yale lock-makers can afford to pay
the carriage of these goods to England,
and yet undersell Wolverhampton, mas
ters in the very heart of the lock trade,
just as Belgians can quote lower rates for
Angle iron delivered in Derby than
the loca' iron master of Midlands. At
Philadelphia, engine makers can turn out
as serviceabe locomotive as any English
firm and ship it all the way to New Zea-
land for 600 pounds $4,000 less than the
/ English trader. In the south of Russia
the agriculture trade is said to be passing
entirely into the hands of American ex-
porters in spite OF English and German
competitors, though the latter are nearer
by 1000 miles to local market With the
exception of made-up clothing, which is
dear because labor is highly paid and not
because the duty on such stuff is
so heavy, there is nothing in manufac-
tured articles produced in the United
States, from carpets to cotton, from loco
motive engines to steel axes,
from agricultural implements to
cutlery and Yankee notions"
as many little domestic appliances are
called, which are not as cheap, or even
cheaper than they are in this country"
BLAINE CONTINUES.
Mr.. Tenny having finished reading. Mr.
Blaine resumed: 'That is most effectual
contradiction to the story which free trade
orators have been telling us during the
whole campaign, that the people of the
United States are ground down by high
prices. 1t is not so. and at last we get an
English minister to admit it. And say
here that there is not one article in the
United States to-day that ia not far cheap.
er than it was when protection was APP
piled to it.. The argument that is now
closing between protection and free trade.
saying, in the first speech made in the.
campaign, IL not for capital. II is for
labor. 1t is not one for the rich man, it is
one for the waGe-earners, and IL 1t is lost,
it is lost to the injury of every man in the
United States who earns his bread by ths.
sweat Of his brow. Applause We are
not going to have the British
minister in Washington to tell us how ta
vote. You are reading good deal in the
democratic papers just now as to Lore
/ Sackville West being recalled. The
Cleveland administration. want to SHOW
their indignation for his Intervention. It
will only take one word to recall him
What they have been doing is trying To-
get the English prime minister in London
to recall him" Referring to the state
ment made by Congressman Collins to the
effect that Vests letter having been maaa
public by Blaine at the Madison Square
meeting the speaker said: The letter,
had been published for four days, and
Lord Sackville had admitted, and NJ,
Bayard had three times criticised it 0y
saying it was private affair and none n
his business, and / referred to 1t in a'
public meeting and now Mr.. Collins sayA
It is the most remarkable conspiracy TX
modern times. Applause and laughter.t \
Any thing to get that of their sbould8as.
REPUBLICANS WOULDN'T HAVE IT..
No republican administration ever Ind
the intervention of the British minister aud
never will. No advocate of protectionijn
this country ever had the sympathy
of British ministers and never will, LAP.
plausel while England would resent 10