Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-26
EASTERN POLITICS.
Secretary Blaina Addresses The Citizens
Of Canton, Ohio.
SENATOR SHERMAN AT PIrTsBURG
Governor Hill Enlightens the Demo-
Gratis OF West Yirginia-Reed
in Illinois.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RBcoRD-uslos.l

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CANTON (O.), October 25th- Secretary of
State Blaine arrived here from Pittsburg at
noon to-day. He was met at Alliance By
a reception committee from Canton and
escorted to the city over the Pennsylvania
Railroad. a crowd of 900 people greeted
Mr.. Blaine with loud cheering as he
alighted from the train, and followed the
carriage, cheering all the way to the home
of Major Mckinley, whose guest he was
during his stay here. Blaine was accom-
panied by Mrs. Blaine and daughter, Miss
Harriet Blaine, and Hon. William Walter
Phelps, Minister to Germany.
Upon his arrival at the residence of
Major Mckinley, an informal reception
was held The early trains in the fore
noon brought large delegations of Repub-
hcans from Youngstown, Alliance, Mas
sillon, Wooster, Wellsville and other
towns in this and adjoining districts. The
streets were thronged, and at $50 p NJ
parade of marching columns occurred.
Shortly after noon it began raining and it
was decided to have the meeting at the
Tabernacle instead of al the fair grounds
as originally Intended. The building was
packed, as was also the Academy of Music,
in which an overflow meeting was held.
Blaine's principal address was at the
Tabernacle, where he was followed by
Msjor Mckinley. Mr.. Blaine said:
Mr.. Chairman, and fellop citizens of
Ohio: The contest that is now waging for
membership of the next Congress is not
properly contest between protectionists
and free-traders. Applause There are
few free-traders among the Republicans,
and many protectionists among the Demo-
TAnnlonca This 20
the root of the matter as to national pros
perity [applause], and on that issue we
should settle the question il favor of home
Interests, good wages and sound prosperity.
lGreat applause. AS | was coming out to
this place | found in a newspaper speech
of Carl Schurz, made week ago in Boston,
and may say, in all cander, it was an able
speech ON the free trade side But like ell
free.traders, Mr.. Schurz goes back to the
golden era for American prosperity to the
tariff of 1S46-rather a distant view back
ward. [Laughter.]
Il have so often heard of the great and
general prosperity under the tariff of 1916,
that if you will bear with me | shall say
something of that period. Mr.. Schurz
quotes me as saying, and that is why
make personal reply. that the ten years
between 1876 and 1856 under that tariff
were years OF very great prosperity in this
country. l frankly repeat that those years
were years OF great prosperity. Now, let
me say why those years were prosperous.
That tariff of 1916 was approved just about
the time the Mexican war broke out, and
within less than a year more than one
hundred millions of dollars were disbursed
by the Government in all branches of
mechanism. We had just made that
eIpep iiture when the famine in Ire
land called for every surplus barrel
of flour and bushel of grain of the country
We had hardly transported that grain to
the other side and sold it at a high price
until gold was discovered in California and
the world was enriched with vast output
of the mines. We hardly put that gold in
circulation when the great revolution that
began in 1S48 paralyzed the industrial
energies of all Europe and gave the United
States market that was unparalleled.
Europe had hardly quoted the revolution
airy disturbance when France and England
and Russia went into the Crimean war,
and for two years and half those great
nations were paralyzed in their industries.
Now there are four or five of what you
might call accidents or incidents of history
that would have insured greater prosperity
to this country if there had not been a
tariff of any kind whatever. Applause |
IF the duties, instead of being what the
tariff OF 1876 made them, had been only
one per cent. ad valorem, or if there had
been no duties, the country would have
been prosperous. Now, if you can produce
such CONFUSION in the world to-day, if
you can start great famine, if you can
discover new gold fields with uneounted
millions thrown into the lap of the people,
If you can have every nation in Europe
disturbed by revolution; if you can have
two of the greatest nations of Europe go to
war for two years and half, then we will
all quit talking about the tariff and go to
supplying the vacuum which that condi-
ten of things in Europe would create.
lApplause. In the fall of 1856 when this
tariff had been under way for ten years,
this great war in Europe came to an end,
and so did the prosperity under the tariff
of 1916. [Applause1 You all remember
what happened in 1S57-one of the severest
panics and depressions this country has
ever encountered, and as long as these ac-
cidental props-these fortuitous happen
ings, these accidental revolutions, discov-
cries of gold, famine-as soon as they
ceased, prosperity under the tariff of 1916
ceased also.
Now, insist that we do not want fam
ines we don't want revolutions; we do not
want to have thousands ofmen slaughtered
tariff and make ii look prosperous when il
is not. daughter and applause Give US
protective tariff and we can get along
without the slaughter or starvation of men
We can make ourselves sustaining with
something beyond for the people that need
help from our advance, and in connection
with the tariff of 1916 l call your attention
historically to two other tariffs in addition
to that. Only three tariffs that the United
States has ever had, suddenly lowering the
duties, was the one made after the war of
1872, the compromise tariff of 1888 and one
in 1916, and every one of them led to bus.
mess prostration in this country, which
lasted 10 greater or less degree until there
was protective tariff enacted. Zap
plause
you never heard of a free trade tariff
coming to the relief of the people. Laugh
teri Only the three times that the people
of the United States tried free trade tariff
they fell into adversely until the protective
tariff came to the relief of the people.
Some of the people want us to let the pro-
tective tariff 60 by, in order 10 make ex-
periments again. Well, | would like 10
see that experiment tried, if only one or
two people were to suffer, but il is pretty
hard thing to take the dreadful and terrible
chance of prostrating the industries of the
country when there are $4,000, 600 mouths
TO be fed. Applause
when the tariff of 1916 was enacted
there were 100000 of people in the
country. We now have 64,O00eO0 Four
years after the tariff was enacted, according
to the census of the United States, we only
had seven thousand millions of property
We now have GA co., 600 of people and sixty
thousand millions of property. Applause
Gentlemen, you cannot sport with that
number of people and with that mass of
property. We cannot experiment at this
time, and hazard vast interests, when we
could not put the country where it stands
to-day for ten penitential years thereafter.
[Applsuse.l
''Mr. Schurz condemns the effort of Con-
gress to secure a reciprocity of trade with
certain countries. The free traders have
always been telling us that if we would
adopt their theory we would have new
era in this country. On that form of state
ment will not differ with them. Laugh
teri / think we should have new era
Congress at its last session concluded to
adopt new policy. They looked at South
America, and they found that we were re-
ceiving from those people vast imports and
exporting little to them. The question
was, shall we repeal the duty on sugar and
give that to South America in addition to