The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-24
THE TARIFF FIGHT
What Protection Did for
This Coast.
Gen. Harrison Exempt From vis-
itors, ON an Impregnable Erie IsI-
and-Aissouri Democratic Con-
ventiep-Nebraska Republicans
The Venerable Mr.. Thurman Rest
Ing Erom His Effort.

BANGOR, Me-, Aug. 23-Five thou
sand people attended a Republican
demonstration to-day. Mr.. Blain,
was loudly cheered when he took tn,
platform to make speech. He wa,
in perfect health, but having Sigh
hoarseness- His speech was written
and he confined himself to the manu-.
script. He began his remarks BY
stating that the Democrats all over the
country had perverted his statemen,
made in New York, when he COM
pared the savings in the banks O;
English workmen to those in Massa-
chusetts. They had said he meant
the aggregate of savings in the
British banks, when in fact he
had said the savings of the
working people. He had found those
in England amounting 10 sls2 600 900,
wilhelm Massachusetts, they amounted
to $3l7 COO 600. England. he begged
his audience to remember, had pop
| ulation of S0,00o.ooo, while Massachu-
setts had only l,150,000 inhabitants.
Remembering that English working
men lived in a free trade country and
those in Massachusetts, in a protected
country, il would be impossible 10 fy
from the force OF the argument. He
was willing, however, to admit that
the aggregate savings in British banks.
amounting 10 $50, coo 600, all belonged
TO English workmen, and then take
into consideration the proportion of
the population, and then what eonso-
lation do the Democrats find.
The speaker then went on to make
like comparisons between England
and the states, and his figures made
the result the same. He showed that
after % years OF protective tariff the
wage workers of New York and New
England have $715. GOO, coo on deposit,
against an aggregate of all savings of
$3.50, 600 coo in England He said that
it showed the American workmen to
have saved five times as much as
Englishmen.
The Democrats, he said, always made
the point that the prosperity of manu-
featuring in this country was at the
expense of the farmers To
refute this Blaine furnished
statistics showing the growth
of the Western or farming states.
The Southern states had recovered
from the bankruptcy and devastation
of four years of war, and after Is years
OF protection now had 500, 900 eco more
property than the South owned in
lsG0, and still, continued the speaker,
these are the very ones who are lead
ing the fight against protection.
Continuing he said Nor must
omit. in this hasty review of the con-
:, -. IS So "a L.
protective system, to call your atten-
tion to our splendid states on the
shores OF the Pacific. In 1860 the
miEes of California had greatly dimin-
ished in value. Immigration had
fallen oil. Agriculture had not been
largely developed. Manufactures were
not fairly started. The total property
of California and Oregon was but $253.
000,0U0. A new career opened TO them
with the enactment of protective tariff
in 1851. The ranch. farm and vine
yard were everywhere developed and
cultivated, manufactures grew rapidly,
and the region which few years ago
had been one great miners camp be-
came one of the most prosperous and
most promising OF the whole Union.
California and Oregon in 20 years,
more than l,250. 0.000,0o0 to their
wealth. and have been accumu-
lating at far greater ratio during the
last eight years. but Of these results
we have no official returns.
Besides an immense product OF
cereals and an enormous growth
of wool, California l. entering upon
the cultivation OF tropical products
which have been brought home to us
over both oceans. and if not arrested
in her industrial progress in workshop.
on farm and in orchard, she will ac-
duire pres tige and wealth which will
put her in the front rank OF the states
Of the union.
Imperial in extent. the Pacific slope
is destined 10 be imperial in the
strength and splendoF OF her full de-
yelopment.
At the conclusion OF Blaine's speech
addresses were made by J. A. kasson
OF Iowa, c. Il. Loving OF Pennsylvania,
and others.