Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-10-10
DON DlSPR0VEO,
Blaine's Reply to Dickinson S
New England Talk-As-
sorted with Cold
Figures.
Americas Favorite Star 10 Ap-
pear Before Miles City
Audience Saturday.
New England and the West.


GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Oct. 3.-Mr.
Blalne's railway trip to this place was
a continuous ovation along the line.
de this afternoon addressed crowd
OF workmen in Hs; tman hall, reply
ing to Postmaster General Dickinson's
declaration that "New England self
ishly puts her bands on the body
polite, absorbing the wealth and Civ
ing nothing in return. We buy CT
New England at an exorbitant price
kept up by the tariff, while at the
same time we sell her nothing" To
which Mr.. Blaine replied: "As soon
as read that statement by Mr.. Dick
inson set myself to work to procure
some statistics and | shall give you
the benefit of these. In the first place
| find that New England takes be-
tween SOC, 900 and 600, 900 tons of grain
annually. She raises only per cent
Of the wheat her people need for bread
stutfs and, as / said, she takes be-
tween 100000 aud COG, 900 tons OF grain
from the west [cheersl. Next there
are annually raised In this country
300, 900, 900 pounds Of wool. We had
only 10000, 900 pounds of wool grown
annually by the farmers of the coun-
try when the free trade tariff was in
operation just before the war. Under
the effect Of protective tariff we have
increased the amount of wool grown
almost wholly in the west to 300. .0O0, 600
pounds annually and it brings q vast
aggregation of nearly 500, ,000, goo to
the farmers Of the country. Mr..
Cleveland recommends the duty on
that be repealed and that we shall
put the wool grower ofthe west oD the
same plane as the wool growers of
Australia and Canada. The Yepubli
cans say No. and New England, OF
which Mr.. Dickinson speaks so disre-
spectfully, takes every year half Cf
that entire wool crop and pays the
west s45, 900, 600 a year for il. Besides,
~ New England needs bread for
which she pays the west s2O,0O0,00O a
year, she needs also provisions which
includes all forms of meat. and for
that and poultry in addition imported
from the west New England pays
Farmers Of these western states S55, =
00U,0OO u year. Moreover, the people
OF the east want some butter to spread
on their bread and they do not make
enough AT home and they pay the
west over S3,0OO,0OO a year for that.
Then New E1Rland makes a good
deal of Lumber-hard wood and pine
and there are just three states here
from which she gets it-Michigan
Wisconsin and Mlnuesota-s she
takes Sl0O, 100000 year Of western
lumber, principally from Michigan.
Then of copper and lead and salt and
hides aud lumber which ale taken
from the western states, in the sggre-
gate $50 100000 more. The aggregate,
you will observe, IL well up TO $780,
000,000. We all know that Mr.. Don
Dickinson belongs 10 an administrs.
tion that can afford to lepd bankers
500, ,0OO,0OO n year Of government
money without interest 80 that be
probabl, thinks SSOO,OOO,OOO is not
much Of . sum, but to those of US in
the east who pay it and TO those oI
you in the west who receive II 1t does
somehow or other come very handy
in settling our balances at the end o.
the year.