Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-10-13

DICKIMsolgD DOM UP.
Figures 1huU3nG who Use West
ern Products.

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ern Products.
GRAMDa RApIDs, Mich, Oct. 8.-Nr.
Blaine's railway trip to this splacs was
q continuous ovation al along the line.
He this afternoon I'd ddressedsa q crowd Of
workmen in Hartman hall replying to
Postmaster General Dckinson's deciar-
alton that "New England sel6shly
puts her hands on the body polite. ab.
sorbing the wealth and giving nothing
ih return. We buy OF New England at
extortionate prices kept up by the
tariff, while at the same time we sell
her nothing" To which Mr.. Blaine
replied: As soon as I read that state
ment by Mr.. Dickinson I set myself to
work to procure some statistics and I
shall give you the benefit of them. In
the frat place l find that New England
takes between . half . million and six
hundred Thousand tons Of grain an
nually. She raises only 4 per cent Of
what her people use for breadstuffs.
and, as l sald, she takes between five
and six hundred tons Of grain from the
west. (Cheers). Next there are an
nually raised in this country 800, ,00O, 600
pounds Of wool. We had only 6O,OOO,-
600 pounds Of wool grown annually by
the farmers Of this country when the
frse trade tariff was in operation just
before the war. Under the effect of the
protective tariff. We have increased the
amount Of wool grown, almost wholly
in the west. to three hundred million
pounds annually and it brings vast ag-
gregation ofnearly 500 900, 600 (cheers)
To The farmers of the country. Mr..
Cleveland recommends that the duty on
that be removed and that We shall put
the wool grower Of the west on the
same plane as the wool grower Of Aus.
tralia and Canada. The Republicans
say mol" and New England, Of which
Mr.. Dickinson speaks so disrespectfully,
takes every, year half Of that entire wool
crop, and pays the west SIS 900, 900 .
year for it. (Cheers.) Besides as New
England needs bread, for which she
pays tho west $2o,000,OoO u year. sho
needs also PROVISIONS which includes
all forms Of meat-and for that and
poultry in addition imported from the
west, New England pays the farmers OF
these western states $55. .0O0, 900 a year.
(Cheers.) Moreover, the people. Of the
east want some butter to spread on their
bread. and they do not make enough ut
home Daughter and applause), and they
pay the west over %, 900 900 year for
that. Then New England needs y good
deal Of lumber, hard wood and pine,
and there are just three states here from
which she gets Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota, ard she takes $1OO, ,OO0,-
600 year OF western lumber, princi-
pally from Michigan. Then Of copper
and lead and salt and hides, which are
taken from the western states aggregate
about $50, ,000, 600 more. The aggregate
you will observe is well up to $500, O,OOO,- :
600. We all know that Mr.. Don Dick.
inson belongs to an administration that
can afford to lend bankers $50 900, 600 a
year OF government money without in.
terest, so that he probably thinks $780,.
0O.OO0 is not much Of sum (cheers
and laughter); but to those Of us in the
east who pay it, and to those of you lr
the west who receive it, it does some
how or other come very handy il
settling our balances at the end OF the
year.