Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-31
a GALA DAY.
Twenty Thousand Peep Listen to Biaip.
at Albany.

twenty ihOusRud Peop Listen to Blaine
at Albany.
ALBANY, October 30th-Since the Tippe-
canoe-and- Tyler-Too campaign neither this
old Knickerbocker town, nor surrounding
countryside, has known such demonstra.
ton as that OF to-day furnished by the Re-
publicans of Albany aud Troy. Great en-.
thusissm greeted Mr.. Blaine and his party
as they drove upon the fair grounds, where
1t is estimated 10000 persons were gath
cred. Blaine, though he said be was not
at his best, physically, spoke clearly and
strong, ard that he was heard was evil
denced by the frequent demonstrations of
the crowd. He said in part
BLAINE's SPEECH
1t is almost too late for argument but l wish
to give you one, and to give it IN a very suggest
and not from an American, but from an Eng
lishman. hold in my hand clipping from a
recent issue of the London Morning Post, we'll
known and prominent organ in England-the
organ of the late Lord Palmerston, a paper adj
vocating hitherto as all English papers do. the
doctrine of free trade. The Post is getting a
little frightened with certain arguments by the
ffee-traders. 1t does not believe in all that is
said about the doctrine of protection and am
sure can instruct you no more pleasantly than
to ask my friend from BROOKLYN (Mr Tenny1 to
read from the editorial which l shall hand to
him from the Morning Post.
WHAT THE LONDON "PosT" SAYS.
Tenny read as follows:
But for the serious consequences entailed
upon our working classes, who feel every day
more and more the pinch of foreign conlpeti-
tion, it would be decidedly amusing to note how
completely every one of the principles assumed
by the onesided free trade school of this coun-
try is negatived by facts and falsfed by the ex-
perience of commonplace business men. We
are constantly told that protection raises the
price of commodities that the hostile tariff
as John Bright said but few days back in a
published letter to one of his correspondents
is only tax which the community paws to sup.
port particular industry benefited by it asa
matter of fact, what do we find in America?
Why, their manuf cturers can actually beat us
out of the fed on the score of cheapness
So far from protection enhancing the cost
of their goods they can turn them out
at rates with which we, with all our
tree trade, cannot manage to compete. The
Yale lockmakers can afford to pay the carriage
of their goods to England and yet undersell the
Wolverhampton masters in the very heart of the
lock trade, just as the Belgians can quote lower
rates for angle-iron delivered in Derby than
the local iron masters of Midland. The Phila-
delphia engine makers can turn out as service
able locomotives as any English firm, and ship
them all the way to New Zealand for G600-
three thousand d9llars-less than the English
tenders. In south Russia the agricnltura trade
is said to be passing entirely into the hands of
American importers, 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
cause the duty on stuffs is so heavy there is not
a single manufactured article produced in the
United States, from carpets to cotton. from loco
motive engines to steel axes, from agricultural
implements to cutlery and Yankee notions "
las many little domestic appliances are called,
which is not as cheap, or even cheaper, there
than in this country.
FREE-TRADE oRAToRY ANSWERED.
Mr. Tenny having finished reading, Mr..
Blaine resumed:
That is most effectual contradiction to the
story which the freetrade orators have been
telling US during the whole campaign-that the
people of the United States are ground down by
high prices. 1t is not So and at last we get an
English witness to admit it; and say here
that there is not an article in the United States
to-day that is not far cheaper than it was when
protection was opposed to it. The argument
that is now closing between protection and free
trade is the argument which took pleasure in
saying, in the first speech that l made in the
campaign, that it is not for capital but labor
1t is not one for the rich man-it is one for
wage earners, and, if it is lost it is lost to the
hurt of every man in the United States who
earns his bread by the sweat of his brow ZAP
plause We are not going to have a British
Minister in Washington tell us how to vote
You are reading good deal in the Democratic
papers just now as to LoId Sackville West being
recalled. The Cleveland Administration wants
to show their Indignation, for his Intervention
1t Will only take one word to recall him. What
they have been doing is trying to get the Eng
lish Prime Minister in London to recall him.
Referring to the statement made by Con-
gresham Collins, to the effect that the
West letter had first been made public by
Blaine at the Madison Square meeting, the
speaker said:
The letter haG been published for four days
and Lord Sackville had admitted and Mr. Bay
ard had three times criticised it by saving that
1t was private affair and none of his business
and referred to it in public meeting And
now, Mr.. Collins says, it is the most remarkable
conspiracy OF modern times Applause and
laughterEanything to get that off their Shout
ders. No Republican Administration ever had
the intervention of British Minister and
never will. No advocate of protection in this
country ever had the sympathy of the British
ministers, and never will. Applause Eng
land would resent to the last degree any inter
Yention in her affairs by an American Minister
and If our people want TO resent it they can re-
sent IL one week from to-day, in very simple
way They can resent it by voting for Benia-
min Harrison for President TGreat cheering
and applause. They can resent it by restoring
to power the party with whose existence the
prosperity of the United States for twenty-f,ur
years was identifF d-the Republican party
which, in peace and in war, has had the high
honor of the country at heart under all crcuIIl-
stances. fApplause
GENERAL HARRLsoN's cHARAcrER.
Referring to the g Democratic attempts to
sneer at General Harrison" Mr.. Blaine
said:
General Harrison stands. as much as any naua
IN tbs world ever stood, on his own merits aud