The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-10-31
BLAINE IN ALBANY.
A Meeting Recalling the
Tippecanoe Campaign.
SOLID rEurHs rroH ENGLAND.
Protected Americas Manufacturer
Compete with Foreigners Abroad
How Voters May Resent the In
terfereace Of the British Minister
-Harrisen's Hencrab1e Ancestry.

-Harrisen's Henerable Ancestry,
ALBANY, Oct 30 Since the .sTippe.
canoe and Tyler too" campaign
neither this old Kniekerbocker town
nor the surrounding countryside has
known such demonstration as that
to-day furnished BY the Repnhli-
cans of Albany and Troy Great en-
thusiasiu greeted Mr.. Blaine ana his
party as they drove upon the fair
grounds. where it is estimated that
1000 persons were gathered. Blaine,
although he said he was not at his
best physically, spoke clearly and
strongly, and that he was heard was
evidenced by frequent cheers of the
crowd.
He said in particular: ..Itis almost
too late for argument, but | wish
TO give you one and to give it
In very suggestive mode, not from
myself, but from another: not from
an American, but from an English
man. hold in my hand q clipping
from = recent issue of the London
Moraiag Posi-. a well known and promi-
nent organ in England, the organ of
the late Lord Palmerston; paper
advocating hitherto, as English papers
do. the doctrine of free trade. The
Post is getting q little fatigued with
certain arguments of free-traders. 1t
does not believe in all that is said
against the doctrine of protection, and
| am sure cannot instruct YOU more
pleasantly than to ask friend from
Brooklyn, Mr.. Tenny, TO read from
the editorial, which | shall hand
to him, from the Morninq Past. y
TESTIMONY FOR PROTECTION FROM Exc
LAND.
Tenny read as follows. "But for
the serious consequences entailed
upon our working classes, who feel
every day more and more the pinch IF
foreign competition, il would be de-
eidedly amusing 10 note how com
pletely every one of the principles as
sumed by the one-sided free trade
school of this country is negatived by
facts and falsified by the experiences
of commonplace business men. We
are constantly told that protection
raises the prices OF commodities that
the hostile tariff, as John Bright said
but a few DAYS back in a published
letter to one of his correspondents, is
only tax which the community pays
to support particular industry bene-
fitted by it. As q 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 protec-
ton enhancing the cost of their goods,
they can turn them out at rates with
which we, with all our free trade, cam
not manage to compete. Yale lock
makers can afford to pay the car
riage of their goods to England and
vet undersell Wolverhampton masters
in the very heart OF the lock trade,
Just as the Belgians can quote lower
rates for Angle iron delivered in Der
by than the local iron masters of
the Midlands. Philadelphia engine
makers can turn out as servieeable a
locomotive as any English firm, and
ship it all the way to New Zealand, for
$500 less than English makers. 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 dear because labor
is highly paid and not because the
duty on stuffs is so heavy, there is not
a single manufactured article pro-
duced in the United States from car
pets to cotton, from locomotive en-
gines to steel axes, from agricultural
implements to cutlery and Yankee
notions, as the many little domestic
appliances are called. which is not as
cheap or even cheaper there than in
this country"
1T Is RATTLE FOR LABOR.
Mr.. Tenny having finished reading
Mr.. Blaine resumed; THAT is the
most effectual contradiction to the
story which free-trade orators have
been telling us during the whole cam
paign, that the people of the United
States are ground down by high prices.
1t is not so. and at last we get an Eng
iish writer to admit it, and say here
that there is not one article in the
United States to-day that is not far
cheaper than it was when protection
was applied to it. The argument that
is now closing between protection and
free trade Is an argument which took
pleasure in saying in the first speech |
made in the campaign Is not Tor capi-
tai. 1t j. for labor. 1t is not one for
the rich. Ii is one for the wage earn
ers, and If it is lost ii is lost to the
hurt of every man in the United
States who earns his bread in the
sweat of his brow Applause.
rHK sAcKyiLLR LErTER.
I'VE are not going to have the Brit
ish minister in Washington tell us
to vote. You are reading good deal
in the Democratic papers just now as
to Lord Sackville being recalled. The
Cleveland administration want to show
their indignation for his Intervention.
Ii will only take one word to recall
him. What they have been doing Is
trying to get the English prime minis
ter in London to recall him. Re
ferring TO the statement made by Con-
gresham Collins 10 the effect that the
Sackville letter had been made public
DIV Blaine at the Madison Square
meeting, the speaker said The
letter had been published for four
days. and Lord Sackville had admit
ted, and Mr. Bayard had three times
criticised il by saying IL was a private
affair and none OF his business. ] re-
ferred to il in a public meeting, and
now Mr.. Collins says il is the most
remarkable conspiracy OF modern
times. IApplause and laughter. Any
thing TO get that off their shoulders.
No Republican administration ever
had the intervention OF the British
minister and never viii. No advocate
of protection in this country ever had
the sympathy OF the British minister
and never viii. Applause.
HOW TO RESENT THE INTERFERENCE.
England would resent TO the last
degree any intervention in her affairs
by the American minister, and il
the people want TO resent II they can
resent II one week from to-day in a
a very simple way. They can resent
ii by voting for Benjamin Harrison
for president. EGreat cheer ng and
appiaase.l They can resent il b. vot-
ing for protection to American manH-
faetures. They can resent II by re-
storing 10 power the party with whose
existence the prosperity OF the United
States for - years was identifed-the
Republican party, whish in peace and
In war has had the high hoaor Of the
country under all circumstance
lApplaase.
HAKgIsoS's aosoRABLE LINEAGE,