The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-08-30
A BLAINE BLAST.
Another Powerful Protection
Argument by the Great
American.
4 Comparison Of the Savings of
American and English Wage
Workers.
Criticisms Upon a Former
Speech Fully Answered and
Overthrow.
How This Country Has Pros
pered Under the Protective
System.

feet as could be desired for the repub
lican demonstration.
Mr.. Blaine, accompanied by his sons,
Walker and James, Col. Coppinger,
Hon. Geo. r. Loring and DIR. Doane of
Massachusetts,, arrived on the train
from Augusta at noon and was es-
corted to the residence of Hon. c. A.
Boutwell, by uniformed clubs accom-
panied by band. The speaking of
the day took place in Center park,
where stands had been erected and
seats placed.
A crowd estimated at from 5000 to
5000 persons had assembled and
packed the space in front of the speak
er's stand. When Mr.. Blaine was
seen approaching the audience broke
into applause and the band struck up
Hail to the Chief.' AS Mr.. Blaine
stepped on the platform ringing cheers
were given. The meeting was called
to order by NJ. G. Trask, chairman of
the city committee. He introduced
Hon. Barker, who introduced Mr..
Blaine as the grand AgamemnOn of
the republican force, the shepherd of
the people, our own James G. Blaine.
| Applause and cheers His speech,
which follows, was written and he con-
fined himself closely to the manu-
script, which he had in his hand. The
speech was as follows;
Fellow citizens;
In a brief speech which 1 made in
the city of New York on the day of my
arrival from abroad, L remarked as
illustrating the superior condition of
laboring men in the United States
that the wage workers in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and ireland
did not have in the savings banks of
that country as large sum to their
credit as did the wage workers of the
comparatively small state of MasSa-
chusetts in the savings bank of that
state. A day or two afterwards this
ponderous and most signihcent fact
was violently contradicted by many
democratic papers. They one and all
perverted my statement by imputing
to me the declaration that there was
a larger aggregation of money in the
savings banks of Massachusetts than
| there was in the savings banks of
the British Isles. happened
to know quite as well as the gentleman
who contradicted me the exact figures
| in both cases. l was very careful in
L
( myself strictly to the wage workers in
| Great Britain and Ireland, and the
amount to the credit of the wage work
ers in Massachusetts. It Twill be shown
by the report of my speech in the very
papers that afterwards misquoted it.
1t is really in that special feature of
the deposits that the pith of the whole
question lies. Let me now give the
figures for Great Britain and Ireland,
and in so doing will use dollars in
stead of pounds, so as to make all COM
parsons the more quickly apprehended,
and will give the British depOSitors
an advantage OF 3 per cent in reckon
ing the pound equivalent to five dol
lars:
The total amount at the close of last
year in both savings and postal banks
of the United Kingdom was the round
sum -of $500 ,000, 200, but the whole of
this sum was by no means to the credit
of the wage workers of the Kingdom.
Under the English law various other
classes are permitted to make deposits
both in savings and postal banks.
| From an authoritative British publ
cation, you may learn that persons of
independent means, professional men
and their wives may depOsite in these
institutions; SO also may policemen,
letter carriers, revenue officers, PEN
siOners and their wives; so also may
minors having accounts in their own
names; so also may females described
only as married women, widows OF
"Spinsters:n SO also may "truSt &C
counts" be deposited, including all
joint accounts or principally for
minors; so also may persons engaged
in education, male and female, which
includes professors in universities and
colleges, principles and teachers in
all other schools. The limit for any
one depoSitor is $50 per year, and the
amount cannot exceed 81 600 with in
terest. What proportion the deposits
of wage workers bear to the whole is
not officially reported, but as in this
country it is simply estimated. l
found in England that the amount be-
longing to actual workers was vari-
ously stated; some putting it as low as
ten per cent of the total deposits while
most of those from whom l sought in
formation put it at about twenty-five
per cent. For the sake of beinh just
and even liberal in the comparisons
let us estimate at thiIty-five per cent
or more than one-third of the total de-
posites-a sum equivalent to one
hundred and eighty-two millions of
dollars 1882, 900, 600 belonging to
actual wage workers in the Kingdom.
That is an estimate many millions
higher than was made by any English
man OL WHO'LL Hl4Q6 lIQulIfcS. Leu
us now turn to Massachusetts for the
other side of this comparison.
i At the close of the last year the
total amount of deposits in the savings
bank of that commonwealth was more
than three hundred and seventeen
million dollars, (S317 .000, 000) and this
in an addition to fitty-eight millions
1853, 900 COO in trust companies and
cooperative banks which also receive
\ a
which shall lake NO note. confirming
myself to the savings banks proper.
as in England, there is NO official
statement as to the occupation of de-
positions, but at the treasurer's Office of
Massachusetts 1t is estimated that
IS per cent of the whole amount, or
S237 ,0O0, 600, belong to the wage work
ers Of the state. In case of the Brit
ish depositOrs, / assigned them 10 per
cent more than any estimate which
. | / received in England. So now let US
reduce the estimate of the treasury of
|, Massachusetts, by 10 per cent, and as
sign only IS per cent to the credit of
the wage workers of that state and
, the amount will be found to be
. the amount to the credit OF the wage
workers of the United Kingdom.
beg you, gentlemen, to take in the
full force of this statement. l am
making comparison between the saw
ings of the wage workers Of kingdom
accounted the wealthiest of Europe,
with q population Of 80 .OO0, 600, on the
. one hand, and on the other hand the
savings Of the wage workers In one Of
the smallest states, terrftorialIy, of the
American union, with population at
the last census Of million and
three quarters II ,7S3. 0S5). and
only a little more, perhaps, than
two millions to-day. The British arti-
san working under a system of abso-
lutte free trade. the Massachusetts,
, workman working under well organ
lied system of protection. The figures
: have such poFtentOus meaning that il
2 IS no wonder the democratic free trade
: papers fs from them and reject theiE
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