Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-26
BLAINE AT CANTON.
SECRETARY OF STATE MEETS WITH AN OVATION
AT MKINLEY'S HOME.
he Discusses Protection, and Explains Why the
Country Was PrOsperou, Under the Tariff Of
lS46-He Replies to Carl Shurz's Boston
Speech-Sherman at Rttsburg

at noon to-day. He was met by crowd OF
5000 people, who escorted him, cheering
all along the line TO the house of Major
/ Mckinley, where he is entertained. On
account of rain, the meeting was held at the
tabernacle instead of at the fair grounds,
as originally intended. The building was
packed, as was also the Academy of Music,
in which an overflow meeting was held
Mr.. Blaine made his principal address at
the tabernacle, where he was followed by
Major Mckinley. Then he was driven TO
/ the Acadeihy of Music, but made only a
| brief speech. Congressman DalZell was
/ the principal speaker at the Academy
Mr.. Blaine spoke as follows at the taber
nacle being loudly applauded at the begin
ming of the speech and during its delivery
"MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW CITIZENS
| OF OWO:-The contest that is now waging
/ for membership OF the next Congress is not
properly a contest between the Republican
and Democratic parties 1t is a contest be-
tween protectiOnists and free traders
/ Applause There are a few free traders
among the Republicans and there are many
/ protectiOnists among the Democrats. Ap-
plause IL is contest that goes 70 the
root of the matter Us TO national prosperity
/ Applause, and on that issue we should
settle the question in favor of home inter-
/ ests, good wages and sound prosperity
/ Great applause.
"AS i was coming out TO this place
found IN newspaper speech by Mr. Carl
Shurz made week ago in Boston, and l
NAV say in all candOr an able speech on the
free trade side. But, like all free traders,
/ Mr. ShurZ goes back for the golden era
/ for the American prosperity to the tariff of
/ lS46-rather a distant view backward
/ laughter.l Mr.. Shurz quotes me as say
/ ing-and that is why make personal re-
I Ir,1t hnf ba ran baf
/ 1896 under that tariff were years of very
great prosperity in this country That
tariff of 1916 was approved just about the
time the Mexican war broke
out. and within less than
wear more than one hundred millions of
dollars were disburscd by the government
i'm all branches of trade in Mexico. We
/ had lust made that expenditure when
famine in Ireland called for every surplus
barrel of flour and bushel of grain in the
country We had hardly transported that
grain to the other side and sold it At high
price than gold was discovered in Califor
MIA and the world was enriched by the vast
output of the mines. We had hardly put
that gold in circulation when the greatrev-
olution that began in ISIS paralyZed the
industrial energies of all Europe, and gave
the United States market that was un-
paralleled Europe had hardly Quieted
the revolutionary disturbance when
France and England and Russia
went into the Crimean war. and for two
wears aud - half those great nations were
paralvzed in their Industries. II the du-
ties instead of being what the tariff Of
+ 1916 made them, had been only per cent
ad valorem orif there had been no duties
the country would have been prosperous
lu the fan of 1856, when this tariff had
been under way for ten years, this great
war in Europe came 10 an end, and so ana
all the prosperity under the tariff OF lS46
I Applause You all remember what hap
pened i'm lS51-one of the severeSt panlcs
and depresSions this country ever encoun-
tered, and as long as the accidental props
these fortuitous happenings, these acct
dental revolutions, discoveries OF gold.
/ famine. as soon as they ceased, the pros
peritv under the tariff of 1916 ceased also.
Give us a protective tariff, and we can
get along without the slaughter or starva-
tion of men. You never heard OF lree
trade tariff coming 10 the relief OF the peo-
ple. Laughter. The only three times
/ that the people of the United States tried u
/ free trade tariff they fell into adversely un-
I iii protective tariff came to the relief OF
the people Here we now have siXty-four
millions of people and sixty thousand mil
lions of property Applause
Gentlemen, YOU cannot sport with
that number Of people, and with that
mass of property. We cannot experiment
even al this time. and hazard the vast IN
terests when we could not put the country
where it stands to-day for ten penitental
years thereafter Applause The free
traders have always been telling us that if
we would adopt their theory we would
have "a new era in this country. On that
form of statement | will not differ from
them Laughter | think we should have q
new era. Congress at its last session con-
cuded 10 adopt a new policy. They looked
at South America and they found that we
were receiving from those people vast im-
ports and exporting little TO them. The
question was, Shal. we repeal the duty on
sugar and give that 20 South America, in
addition 10 the coffee aud the hides, and the
dive woods and the rubber and the other
things from South America; and shall we
ask those men if we give yoU our markets
for the pound TO let US enter theirs for
few shilings, Applause on, no, Mr..
Schurz says that won't DO at all You
must resort 10 free trade. But | would
like 10 ask Mr.. Schurz, before this
Ohio audience. how free trade is going TO
let rs into their markets with our products.
We have awakened TO the necessities OF
the situation and find that Southern coun-
tries feel Just as we do, that two nations
dealing with each other must deal as two
men do with each other, fairly, honestly,
liberallv. so that the advantage shall not
ALWAYS be on the side of the one man, or on
the side of the one nation. Applause
Well. that was reciprocity Yet am sure
and / speak with great candor when l say
that I believe that we will make a very
] favorable arrangement TO trade with Soutn
America.
When reciprocity was first suggested,
the free traders nearly all approved it. At
that time they thought 1t would divide the
protectionists in Congress, and they urged
/ in very earnestly as long as they thought
there would be some division.
MIR. Blaine did not finish this paragraph,
as the crowd in the gallery at his left hand
became so excited and started half panic
stricken for the exit. Mr.. Blaine and
Minister Phelps discovered at a quick
glance that the gallery was IN no danger OF
falling and both shouted to the crowd ana
waved their hands to reassure the excited
throng When quiet was restored Mr..
/ Blaine resumed his remarks as follows :
Now as was saying these free traders
thought they heard little crack cheers,
they thought that the Republican party
would be stamped. Applause Now tne
/ Republicans are not frightened by crack.
/ rCheersl As long as the free traders
thought that there would be DIVISION III
the Republican party they encouraged re-
ciprocity, but very soon they found that
the Republican party was not in the habit
of having divisions in its ranks. Cheers
The ranks closed up and the reciprocity
provision was adopted by the Republican
Congress. Cheers. l don't propose to
say anything about its success. We are
given a year in which to try it. Let US
wait year and see what can be done
/ rCheersl Your duty gentlemen, if l
NAV suggest it, is to elect pro
tectionist to Congress. Cheers and
cries of 1--WE will 1t is very great dis
tinction to any man to be placed at the head
of the Committee of Ways and Means, and
to lead the House of Representatives.
/ Cheers That is where Thaddeus Stev-
ems stood the last eight years of his life;
that is where the great citizen of Ohio,
lately deceased, Gen. Robert c. Schenk,