, 1888-08-24

BANGOR, AUG. 23.-tive thousand
people attended the Republican demon
s%tration to day. Mr.. Blaine was loudly
cheered when he took the platform to
make his speech. He was in perfect
health, saving a slight hoarseness. His
speech was written and he confined him
self to his manuscript. Blaine began his
remarks by stating that Democrats all
over the country had perverted his state.
ment made in New York when he com
pared the savings in the banks of English
workmen to those in Massachusetts. They
had said that he meant the aggregate of
savings in British banks when in fact he
had said the savings of the working PEG
pie. He had found those in England
amounting to 1882, 900, 000, while in Mas
sachusetts they amounted to $3l7, 000,-
900.
England, he begged his audience to re-
member, had a population of 30 1000, 900,
while Massachusetts had only l, 1850 900
inhabitants. Remembering that English
Torkingmen lived in a free trade country
and those of Massachusetts in a protected
country, 1t would be impossible to fly
from the force Of the argument. lie was
willing, however, to admit that the aggre-
gate savings in British banks amounting
to $3.50, 600, 900 all belonged to English
workers, and then.take into consideration
the proportion of the population and her
what consolation do the Democrats find.
The speaker then went on to make like
comparisons between England and other
states and his figures made the result the
same. He showed that after twenty-eight
years of a protective tariff wage workers
of New York and New England have
$4,000, 900 on deposit against an aggre-
gate of all savings of$520, 0OO, 900 in Eng
land. He said that it showed American
workmen to have saved five times as much
as Englishmen.
The Democrats, Blaine said, always
made the point that the prosperity OF
manufacturing in this country was at the
expense of farmers. To refute this Mr..
Blaine furnished statistics showing the
growth of the Western or farming states.
The Southern states had recovered from
the bankruptcy and devastation of the
four years war and under fifteen years of
protection now had 5000. 000, 900 more
property than they owned In 1860 and
still, continued the SPEAKER, these are the
very mes who are leading the fight against
protection.
Continuing, he said: Nor must | omit
in this hasty review of the condition of
our community under the protective sys-
TEN, to call your attention to our splendid
states on the shores of the Pacific. In
1860 the mines of California had greatly
diminished in value, immigration had
fallen off, agriculture had not been largely
developed, manufacturers were not fairly
started. The total property of California
and Oregon was but 1888, 900, 900. A
new career was opened to them with the
enactment of the protective tariff in 1861.
The ranch, farm and vineyard were every
where developed and cultivated, manufac-
turtles grew rapidly and a region which a
few years before had been one great min
ers' camp, became one of the most pros.
porous and most promising of the whole
Union.
California and Oregon had in twenty
years, by the census OF 1880, added more
than twelve hundred and fifty million dol
lars to their wealth and have been accu-
mulating by far greater ratios during the
last eight years, but of these results we
have no Official returns. Besides an i'm
mense product of cereals and an enor-
nous growth of wool, California is enter
ing upon the cultivation of TROPICAL
products, which have been brought
home to us over both oceans
and if not arrested in her industrial pro-
gress in the workshop, on the farm and in
the orchard she will acquire a prestige and
wealth which will put her in the front
rank of the states of the Union. Imperial
in extent, the Pacific slope is destined to
be imperial in strength.