Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-31
ROUND AFTER ROUND
OF Cheering Greet M. Blaine at Albany.
An Important Argument for Protection
Afforded by London Paper.
AIRANY Oct so

! aLhANts ott- oV-
James G. Blaine arrived at 2.S0 P. NJ
and was met by reception committee com
posed of prominent republicans. There was
an immense crowd at the depot. He was
conducted to the Delevan House, and from
there to the fair grounds where a large
crowd, who came in from surrounding towns,
had gathered TO hear him.
! The meeting at the fair grounds this af-
ternoon was under the auspices of the re-
publicans of this city and Troy and was a
great political demonstration. The weather
was fine and the attendance was estimated at
! from 10 900 to 20 200. The Grant Club, to
the number of 100, in carriages, acted as es-
cort TO the grounds. Hon. Martin |. Town.
send of Troy presided. Blaine was received
with round after round of cheers. In the
course of his speech Blaine said:
The post of honor and responsibility rests
with yeu. If the republican voters come to
the polls Tuesday next, rain or shine, good
roads or muddy roads, good weather or bad
weather, Benjamin Harrison and Levi p.
Morton will be the next President and vice
President. [Cheers. He had read clip
pings from recent issue of the London
Morning Post, well known and prominent
organ of the late Lord Palmerston and an
influential paper advocating hitherto as all
English papers do the doctrine of free trade.
The editorial read as follows: But for
the serious consequences eutailed upon our
working classes who feel every day more
and more the pinch of foreign competition,
it would be decidedly amusing to note how
completely every one of the principles as
sumed by the one-sided free trade school of
this country is negatived by facts and falsi-
fed by the experience of commonplace busi-
ness men. We are constantly told that pro-
lection raises the prices of commodities
that a hostile tariff, as John Bright said but
a few days back in published letter to one
of his correspondents, is only a tax which
the community pays to support particular
industry benefited by it. As matter 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 protection enhancing the
cost of their goods, they can turn them out at
rates with which we, with all
our free trade, cannot manage to
compete. Yale lock makers can afford to
pay the carriage of their goods to England
and yet to undersell Wolverhampton mas
ters il the very heart of the lock trade, Just
as the Belgians can quote lower rates for an
gle iron delivered in Derby than the local
iron masters of the Midlands. Philadelphia
engine makers can turn out as serviceable
locomotive as any English firm and ship it
all the way to New Zealand for six hundred
pounds less than English tenders. In South
Russia the agricultural trade is said to be
passing entirely into the hands of American
exporters in spite of English and German
competitors though the latter are nearer by
5000 miles to the local market. With the
exception of made up clothing, which is SO
lAa lab - ,..l,l
because the duty on the stuffs is SO heavy,
there is not a single manufactured arti-
Gle produced in the United States, from car
pets to cotton from locomotive engines to
steel axes, from agricultural i'm
plements to cutlery and yankee notions
many little domestic appliances are called,
which is not as cheap or even cheaper there
than in this country"
Having finished the reading of the edito-
rial, Blaine asserted that there was not one
article in the United States today that is not
far cheaper than it was when protection was
first applied TO it. The argument of the
campaign is not for capital; it is for labor,
not one for the rich man, it is one for the
wage Garner and if it is lost it is lost to the
injury of every man in the United States who
earns his bread in the sweat of his face.
Applause Blaine discussed the Sackville
letter and other matters.
NBlaine closed with eulogy of Gen. Har-
risOn and prediction of Republican success.
He was followed by Judge Tenney of Brook
lyn and Gen Hastings of Pennsylvania.
This evening there was parade of all the
uniformed Republican clubs of this city and
score of clubs from abroad, including one
from Pittsfield. Blaine left for New York
in Pres. Depew's private car at 4.50 p. NJ