Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-08-24
ANOTHER RESPONSE FROM Mr..
BLAINE.
MIR Blaine responded as foil.

or signifies the great popular inter
est in a question upon which | am
supposed at least to have a consls'
tent record and earnest zeal. APP
plause. You have before you a
contest in which that great issue is
to be settled by the American peo-
pie tor perhaps an indefinite
period.
"The year 'S7 was prosperous
and the President, at its close, pro-
posed a radical change In the in.
dHstrial system which had prOduc-
ed that great prosperity. Since
that day there has been confusion
in the commerce and manufacto-
ries of the United States. APP
plause. The question before the
American people IS whether he and
his administration shall be sustain.
ed in that movement. Against
him, the Republicans, having the
best cause, have nominated the
best man applause] for Presl-
dent-a man of sound experience
and heroic record in war; man OF
great purity OF character; great
firmness and worthy of the best
days OF administration in this coun-
try.
"YOu have associated with him
q man whom To New Workers |
need not further describe than to
say his name is Levi p. Morton.
Applause.
AGAINST these you have two
gentlemen of whom | would not
speak IN terms other than personal
respect. In their vice presiden-
tial candidate l have a friend OF
many years standing. l am a per
sonal admirer of Judge Thurman.
But l beg you to observe that at a
critical period in the country the
vice president, George NJ. Dallas,
IN casting vote In a tied Senate,
destroyed the protective tariff OF
1912. If you do not prevent them
Mr.. Thurman will be in a position
to re.enact the vote of George Nj.
Dallas in 1912. Therefore, the
more amiable and the more able
the man may be, the worse will be
| his influence before the American
people. Applause.
ENGLAND UNITED POR CLEvE-
LAND.
"NOw. gentlemen, l have lately
been IN England for some months.
| | found in English public opinion
a very great difference in opinion
upon almost all questions. They
are about as divided upon what
you call the Irish question; they
are about as divided on the forci-
BILE policy of Gladstone and Sails
bury they are divided even upon
the continuance of the House OF
Lords, and they're not absolutely
unanimous in support OF a mon.
archy. Laughter and applause
"But there is one opinion they
are united in and that is that Hon.
Grover Cleveland, President of the
United States, embodes in his per-
son the regular form of revenue
and tree trade for the United
States, which they like. Applause
The American people find their IN.
terests in one policy and the En-
glish want to change that policy
so as to conform to their interests.
That, gentlemen, is the prime
question before you In the next
November election.
81 am glad that this meeting is
called in the name of the laborlng
people, because this question is
from first to last, from skin to core
and back to skin again, question
of labor. Loud applause If
Won agree to live in as poor nouse,
eat as poor food, aud receive as
low wages as the people in En-
gland receive, we can produce as
cheap goods as the Democratic adj
ministratiOn wants to see. Laugh
ter and applause.
"But it will be otherwise il you
wish to better yonr condition, and
if YOU want tho industrial system
of protected interests that prevail
in this country now to be main
tanned. The savings OF the wage
workers OF England, Scotland and
Ireland are not near as great as lie
tonight in the savings banks Of
Massachusetts to the credit OF the
wage workers of that small state.
If YOU turn the administration
of this republic today into free
trade channels you may not expect
those great savings, for you VIII
put our labOring men throughout
the country into competition with
the laboring men of Great Britain,
and in the course Of five or ten
wears YOU will make them as poor
upon this side Of the water as they
are upon the other.
81 will not, in this campaign,
stop to argue the question upon
any other basis. | have no per-
sonaIlty to indulge in. | have no
sores to heal. Loud cheers. |
would rather have your cordial,
heartfelt, sympathetic welcome
than any office you care to bestow
upon me. [Applause.l But in
this canvass, | shall take a great
err or less part, | shall hold this
question from beginning to end as
the question that interests every
man, woman and child in the coun'
try that depends upon their daily
labor for their daily bread. APP
plause.
"There is no need of laws to pro.
fect capital. Capital takes care OF
itself and gets a full share; but
there are laws that can elevate the
condition Of laborlng men and
there are laws that can degrade
him.
"NOw, gentlemen, you represent
a critical state-New York. Your
vote can be decisive upon that one
issue. Do not be diverted from
that one question by side issues.
DO not be misled by petty SQUAD
bles upon this or that small issue
or upon personal questions OF
abuse, on the one hand or the 9TH
err; bat give your votes 40 inde'
pendent laboring men, give them