The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-24
THE VESTS PROGRESS,
UNDER THE BENEFICENT INFLUENCE
OF PROTECTION.
what High Tariff Has Done for the Great
Northwest-Iniercsii sling ana Instructive
Facts and Figures-voters, Read Them
and Ponder Them.

lSpeocn OF MIR. Blaine nj lEuiandpousl
IT 10 the studied and persistent effort or tho
Democratic party I'm this Presidential campaign
20 prejudice the West against the East on the
subject OF the tariff maintaining that the East
ern States get the benefit of production ond the
Western States get its burden. NOW, IL the tarin
for protection operates that one section gets
the gain and the other gets tne loss linen ah Inc
ished aud IL the advocates OF protective tarin
cannot prove that IL Is of as great advantage TO
the West as IL is TO the East, as great advantage
10 the South as IL is 10 tho North and that IL ia
a national and not sectional policy-if say,
they csnnot establish those points then the
policy ought to he abandoned. But maintain
and in the few minutes l shall occupy your at
tention shall endeavor TO prove by ngures and
10y facts-that tho West, the great, growing,
teeming, prosperous West, has gained more out
OF the protective tariff than any section OF the
whole Union.
Gentlemen, know that involves questions OF
facts and not questions of fancy and call
your attention TO the census of 1860, and il there
are any Democrats present they will not wish TO
dispute the correctness of that census, for IL
was taken under the administration OF Mr.. Blu
channn. Quo,e the figures of that census as TO
"a wealth OF eleven Western States-Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, Missouri Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado.
The last two were Territories when Mr.. Lincoln
came into power. but were long since made
States. According TO the census of 1860 the az
gregato wealth or these eleven Western States
was something under -, 900 900 .00O and in 1850,
twenty years afterward, by the national census,
tho wealth OF those States was Sl6,5 JO,000,0OO.
years, and in the last eight years enough has
been added TO carry up the wealth of these
eleven States lar beyond S20.O0O.0JO,OOO or vast
Deal larger sum than the whole wealth OF the
Unitel States the day Lincoln was inaugurated
You can test this question in another way. In
1870 these eleven States had 10000 miles OF rail
road. or scarcely that and to-day, twenty eight
years aftorward they have nearly 5000 miles
OF railroad. Mind you, these eleven Western
STATES have almost three times as much rail-
way within their borders the whole Union
had before the civil war. Something or other
has enabled YOU Western people to get along
pretty rapidly for these states have prospered
IN degree far beyond that of the old Eastern
States, in n ratio far greater than the Eastern
States have maintained. AS another proof of
that progress have here a singular table from
tho official census OF 1850, in which the princi-
pal towns and cities in the United States are
given. L will quote those of the eleven West
ern States and give you their popula-
Toledo was not large enough To be included in
the statement at all Detroit was IS 900. Grand
R'pids tina. now has $1,000 was not IN sntoned.
Chicngo-wbat do you say the population OF Chi
cago was in lSt02-lO0,O 0J. Its growth does not
see IN to have been much impeded by the protec-
tive terih for il il now three-quarters OF mill
ion at least Milwaukee was 5000. ST. Paul
aud Minneapolis had not grown enough conse-
qucnce in 1851 10 be mentioned in tn table At
ali Together they now contain nearly 10000
800; Cincinnati hh loo OOJ; Louisville 6S. 900;
81. Louis, Us 90; Kansas City-th9 census dit
not know there was such place; Denver-it had
how much do you suppose it was in 1860? I'm
der 5000 Des Mones, something over 5000.
Omaha? Well, Omaha had no mention Mt all.
The aggregate OF those cities was 67O.0)U in
1860. and IL to-day three and II half million. This
ia the way. Mr.. Chairman, the protective tariff
has boon retorllns the growth and development
OF the Wost This is the great hardship the
West has suffered by reason OF the protective
tariff.
When you drive the free-traders from every
o. her ground they tell you that the pro ective
tariff has s;ihed the export trade of the United
States, that il has bull up lot Of factor es and
RAILWAYS but that the foreign commerce of the
country has oil gone TO pieces. l again quote
from tho census and show you that from the
time the Declaration OF Independence was made
down 10 the time that Lincoln was elected
Presideut-l will 20 further back. From the
time Anne RIGA was discovered by Columbus down
20 the election of Abraham Lincoln the agcre-
gnto shipment OF all those years, of all thos &,
centuries from the United States amounted to
80 00a,O0OO0 in value. Now, mark You. that
covered the entire history OF the Government
down TO 1860 and from 1860 TO 1855 the aggregate
amount has been Si7.jj0,00D. 0OO-almost double
as much i'm the twenty -eght years OF the present
protective tariff as it was during the whole pre-
vious history OF the American ntinent. That
is the way, gen lemen, in which protection has
operated
! had occasion, in speaking on this same sub
lCct n the East when contrasting what protec-
ton had done for the laborng man OF America
ms compared with the laboring man OF Europe.
20 show what the laboring men of New England
Ea1 in savings banks compared with those of
Old England, and saw in more than one West
efn Democratic paper the remark %, yes, you
have co. the money in the East 10 is well
enough for you TO uphold protection" But,
gentlemen, You must remember the different
conditions. The wealth OF the West has been
in growing towns, in settled farms in great
lines OF railway, in vast agricultural develop
1lent, all Of which goes forward moro rapidly I'm
the West. Those investments in the West take
the place of tho cash deposits which the labor
Ing men OF the East have placed in the savings
banks but the ratio OF increase of prosperity
Ia Ofpgf iva oriH for na Ioot
seven years has been largely in favor OF the
Ness as against the East, that the policy of
protection has not proved sectional policy.
why, gentlemen, there Is no longer the old
between manufacturing States and
ne agricultural States. Do you reckon your
selves here in Ind ana an agricultural State
simply? Your manufactures this year in the
State OF indiana have n larger cash value than
your total agricultural product. Manufactures
are no longer concentrated on the eastern side
OF the Alleghenies. The city OF Chicago ia the
largest center of steel manufacture in America.
II has run ahead of Pittsburgh, and, under the
influence of this tariff, the manufacturing in
terest has spread each year farther and farther
westward, bringing the home market nearer and
nearer the source OF food supply, and proving all
the while TO every intelligent voter in he coun-
try that the nearer you bring the food consumers
no the food producers the moro certain ia the
prosperity # both.
had occasion TO show the other day in Mich
igan from indisputable statistics that the little
70 ion of New kngland-with not much pop
ulntion as Illinois and Indiana, with scarceiy so
uucD hleh as llililOls hlOue-l Qhl OccuSlOn TO
show that that little area with six small States
takes more from these Western States than is
shipped TO Old England, and that those little
States take from the other States of this Union
every year in food and raw material for manu-
facture the enormous aggregate of over $780,
5000 o in money Add to that the amount New
York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey take from
Che South, the Southwest, and the great West
and You have an aggregate of more than -, 0O0,-
C00,t0 Of material; and this country will have
realized the great objective point OF tho tariff
system when every agricultural State shall have
its market near TO the producers.
Farmers OF the West, you have been COM
planning OF the price of wheat and enormously
charging the fall upon the protective tariff?
Why has wheat fallen during the last ten years?
Because you have 10 meet in the markets of
Europe the wheat OF Russia that is raised in
that vast country with labor TINT is not more
than 60 ~ cents n day; and beyond that, you
are meeting vast imports of wheat from India,
where England has been expending hundreds OF
millions Of dollars to cheaper and expedite
transportation To Europe. Neglect your home
market and the larger amount you will find I'M
salable and the harder will DO your competition
with those hard-worked wheat producers on tho
other side. suppose you turn half the manu-
free trade-supDose you turn half of them into
wheat producers and farmers, isn't the market
of the farmer cut off just that much and the
surplus Of his product increased? suppose you
add another 1j0.000.O0O bushels TO the product OF
the West, where will you market It? Where
will you find the men who are able to pay for IL
who want 10 ent2 Remember, gentlemen, IL ia
the home market Of the United States that
every day is affor ling more and more to the
and the home market of the United states is the
result. logically and indisput ably of the BRO