Omaha daily bee., 1890-10-26
BLAINE AMONG The BUCKEYES
The Secretary of State Addresses the Peo-
pie Of McKinley's District,
REpLETE WITH CONVINCING ARGUMENTS
He Takes Occasion to- Make n Per-
sonal Reply to Carl schurL-
Speaker Reed speaks to
Rockford People.

! Blaine arrived here from Pitts burg at noon
| today He was met at Alliance by the re-
ception committee from Canton and escorted
to the city over the Pennsylvania railroad. \
crowd of 1900 people greeted Mr.. Blaine
| with loud cheering as be alighted from the
train and followed his carriage, cheering all
the way to the home of Major Mckinley
whose guest he was while here. Blaine was
accompanied by Mrs Blaine aud daughter,
Miss Harriet Blaine, aud Hon. William
| Walter Phelps minister to Germany.
Upon arrival at the residence of Major Nc
| Kinley an informal reception was held. Early
trains in the forenoon mad brought large dele
cations Of repu blicans from Youngstown,
| Aliance Massillon, Wooster, Welmile aud
other towns in this and adjoining districts
| The streets were thronged and at / 80 p. IN. a
| parade of marching columns occurred
| Shortly after noon it began raining and it
was decided TO have the meeting
at the Tabernacle instead of the fair
! grounds, as was intended The building was
| packed, as was also abe Academy of Music
in which an overfowing meeting was held
Baine's principal address was at the taber-
nacle, where he was followed by Major Nc
Hinlcy. Mr. Blaine said
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow.citizeus of Ohio
| The contest that is now waging for member
| ship in the next congress is not properly a
contest between the republican and demo-
! cratic parties. II is a contest between pro-
tectloDists and free traders. Applause.
| There are few free traders among the re
| publiCans and many prOtectiOnfSts among the
democrats. Applause II is a contest that
| goes TO the root of the matter as TO nation al
| prosperity, and on that issue we would set
tie the question in favor Of home interests,
| good wages and sound prosperity Great
AG | inn tnSg MI,
found in newspaper speech of Carl
| Schurz, made a week ago in Boston aud,
may say in all candor. an able speech on the
free trade side, but like all free traders, MIR
| Schur2 goes back to the golden
era of American pros perity - to the
| tariff of 1916 rather distant
view backward. Laughter. | have SO
| often heard of the great and general pros
perity under the tariff of 1915 that if you sill
| bear with me snail say something Of that
| period Mr.. SchurZ quotes me as saying
and that is why | make personal reply
that the ten wears between ls4G and 1856
under that tariff were years of very great
| prosperity in this country. | frankly repeat
that those years were years of great pros
perity. Now let me say why those years
were prosperous. That tariff of 1916 was ap-
proved Just about the time the Mexican war
broke out, and within less than year more
than slO0,0OOO0O We're disbursed by the
| government in all branches of mechanism
We had just made that expenditure when
the famine in Ireland called for every surplus
barrel of -four and Dushel of grain in the
| country. We had hardly transported that
grain to the other side aud sold it at high
price when gold was discovered in California
and the world was enriched with the vast
output of the mines. We had hardly nut
that gold in circulation when the great revo.
| luton that began in 1913 paralyzed the in.
dustres of all Europe and gave the United
States market that was unparalleled. E,u.
rope had hardly quieted the revolutionary
IG-N Naphl a 4
Russia went into the Crimean war and for
| two years and q half those great nations were
paralyzed in their industries. Now, there
are four or five of what You might call acc
| dents or incidents of history that would have
insured great prosperity to this country if
there had not been tariff of any kind what
ever. Applause. If the duties, instead of
being what the tariff of 1916 made them, had
been only per cent ad valOrem or if there
had been no duties, the country would have
been pros sperops Now, if you can produce
such a convulsion in the world today if you
can start a great famine, if you can dis
cover new gold fields with uncounted
millions thrown into our laps. YOU
can have every nation in Europe
disturbed by revolution, if you can have
the three greatest nations of Europe go TO
war for two years and half, then we will all
quit talking tariff and go to supplying the
vacuum which that condition ofthings would
create Applause. In the fall of s56,
when this tariff had been under way for ten
years, this great war in Europe came to an
end, and so did all prosperity ana so did the
tariff of 1916. Applause. You all remenl-
ber what happened in lS51-one of the sever
est panics and depressions this country has
ever encountered-and as long as these acci-
dental props, these fortuitous happenings,
these accidental revolutions, discoveries of
gold, famine-as soon as they ceased the
prosperity under the tarif n OF ! $40 ceased also
Now insist that we do not want famlnes
we do not want revolutions: we do not want
to have thousands of men slaughtered by war
in order TO keep up free trade tariff and
make IL look prosperous when it isn't.
Laughter ana applause. Give us a protect
i've tariff and we can get along without the
slaughtero or starvation of men. We can make
ourselves sustaining with something beyond
for people that need help from our abund-
ance and in connection with the tariff OF
1916 call your attention historically TO two
other tariffs In addition TO that. The only
three tariffs the United States ever lad
which suddenly lowered duties was the one
after the war Of 1872, the compromise tariff
ls.Ss and the one in 1916. and every one OF
them led to business prOstration in this coun-
try which lasted in greater or less degree
thtil there was a protective tariff nau CUR
ated Applause. You never heard of a
free trade tariff coming TO the relief of the
people. Laughter The only three times
that the people of the United States tried a
free trade tariff they fell into adversely until
d protective tariff came 10 the relief of the
people. Some people want US to let the pro
tective tariff so by in order to make expert,
ments again. Well, would like TO see that
experiment tried If only one or two people
We're to suffer, but it is pretty hard thing
to take the dreadful and terrible chance OF
prostrating the industries OF the country
when there are sixty-four million mouths
To be fed. Applause When the tariff OF
1916 was enacted there We're only 2OOOO,0Ot
people IN the country We now have
, 64,O0,0OO. Four years after that tariff was
enacted, according 10 the census of the United
States, we had only 81, 100000, 900 of property
We now have 64,0OO00O people anC
5000, 10000 of property. Applausel
Gentlemen, you cannot sport with that mum
Der OF people and that mass of property. We
cannot experiment at this time and hazarC
vast interests when we could not put In,
country where il stands today for ten peni
tential years thereafter lApplausel. Mr.
SchuIZ condemns the effort Of congress 10 Sc
cure reciprocity of trade with certain coun
tries. LLaughterl, Free traders have
, always been telling US that if we would adOp
their theory we would have new era in III,
country On that form Of statement l vii
not differ with them. Laughter. l thnl
we should have new era. Congress at its
last session concluded Ia adopt
new policy, They looked at South
America and they found that W,
Were receiving from those people vast i'm
| iWann ~ and li,.n a. IN.