Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-13

In the markets for which it is now pro-
posed to surrender our own. In ac-
cording the courtesies extended to
you by foreign governments and states
men, you have not committed the error
of confounding the splendor of the court
with the happiness OF the people, and we
seek your advice, confident that your
Judgment has not been warped by for
eign influences, and that your counsel
will be untainted by selflshness ard free
from sophistry, and that 1t will repre-
sent the best interests of the republic,
and therefore of American labor. Our
conscience assures us that should your ad-
vice be accepted by this country the,
enemies of our free institutions, in Fort
Sumter or st. James, shall not have IL to
say again that they humbled the flag OF
this supreme and inviolable land. We.
find those who are seeking the over
throw of our protective system repeating
to the working people the charge that''pro-
lection does not protect, y and they point
to n great industrial centers, where
many are found in poverty and
out of employment. We appeal to you
to turn the light of your experience and
Judgment upon this problem, with n view
to r~eassuring the wage workers and all
patriotic citizens who may be influenced
by the sophistries Of those who regard
with contempt the legitimate efforts of
he working people to better their con-
dition and maintain a higher standard of
wages and comfort Than prevails in
Europe. There has not been during that
period an openly avowed determination
by any political party to overthrow the
protective system until the present ad-
mfnistration threw down the gauntlet
Mr.. Blaine responded:
"Mr. Chairman:-It would be consid4
cradle egotism on my part to take this
magnificent demonstration as personal
altogether to myself. 1t rather signifies
great popular interest in the question
upon which / am supposed, at least, to
have a consistent record and an earnest
zeal. And you have before you a con-
test in which that great issue is to be
settled by the American people for per-
haps an indefinite period, one way or the
other. The year 1887 was prosperous,
and the president at its close proposed a
radical change in the industrial system,
which had introduced that great pros
perity, and since that day there has been
confusion in the NJ and manu-
features of the United States. The ques-
tion before the American people is
AittiSh hS aLib IiS nQilllLtStlh tlOn EIldll
be sustained in that movement. The
Republicans having the best cause, they
have nominated the best man. They
have given to you for president a man of
sound experiences; heroic record in war;
great purity Of character; great firmness;tl
and worthy of the beso days of admin,
istratton in this country; and you have
associated with him a man whom to New
Workers I need not further describe than
to say that his name is Levi p. Morton,
a man of most generous character, in
telligept comprehension of affairs. the
widest n most statesmanlike views on
all public questions pending before the
American people. Against this you
have gentlemen Of whom 1 would
not speak in terms other
than those of entire personal respect.
In their vice presidential candidate I
have q friend of many years standing,
and / am a personal admirer of Judge
Thurman. But / beg OF you to observe
that at q critical period in this country
the vice president, George M. Dallas, IN
casting a vote in a tied senate, destroyed
the protective tariff of 1912. II you do
not prevent them, Thurman will be in a
position to re-enact tho vote of George
M. Dallas. in 1912. Therefore, the more
amiable and more able a man may be,
the worse will be his influence before
the American people.
Now, gentlemen, / know that in dis
cussing the question of the protective
tariff we are always pointing out what
England is doing. Ihave lately been In
England for some months, and / found
in English public opinion q very great
difference of opinion upon almost all
nNpaGftnnn - HINT kI4-N 4, -
are united on, and that is that the Hon.
Grover Cleveland, presidents OF the United
States, embodies in his person a regular
form of revenue and free trade for the
United States which they like. Now I
nave no objection to their right OF
opinion, nor do I intend
to speak disrespectfnlly of the
English, for have received aG their
hands very graceful and cordial hospital
ity, which I would be a churl not to ac-
knowledge before en- American audience;
but that does not affect the pending con-
dittons--that the American people find
their interest in one policy, and that the
English want to change that policy so as
better to conform to their interests.
Aud that, gentlemen, is the prime cues
ton before you at the next November
election.
am glad this meeting is called in the
name of the lab0ring people, because this
question is, from first to last, from skin
to core, a question Of labor. If you will
agree to live in as poo; a house, and eat
as poor food, and receive as low wages
as the people of England receive, we can
produce as cheap goods as the Demo-
cratic administration wants to see. But
it will be. otherwise II you wish to bet
ter your condition, and want the indus
trial system of protected interests that
prevail in this country now, to be main
tanned. The savings Of the wage work.
ers 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. II you turn the admins
tration of this republic to-day into free
trade channels, You may not expect
those great savings, for you will put our
!aooring men throughout the country
into competition with the laboring
men of Great Britain, and In five
or ten years you will make them
as poor on this side as thew
are on the other side of the water. /
will in this campaign not stop to argue
the question upon any other basis. I
have no personality to indulge in. 1 have
no sores to heal. I would rather have
your cordial, heartfelt and sympathetic
welcome than any office you care to be-
stow upon me. But in this canvass, in
which ] shall take q greater or less part,
shall hold this question from beginning
to end as. the question that interests every
man, woman and child in this country
that depends upon daily labor for daily
bread.
Be decisive upon that one issue. Do not
be diverted from that one nnestinn nv