Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-10-27
SECRETARY BLAINE
Speaks at Canton, Ohio, Con.
gresham xeKiDlsy's Home.
An Able Speech Retaliation Of Carl
Sthuil's Speech at Boston.
A 9 rong Argument in Favor Of Pro-
lection and Reciprocity.

biAine, Miss Harriet Blsins and Hon. vii
liam Walter Phelps.
AT the residence of Maj. Mckinley Al
Informal Zee tpiion was heidi.
10 the afternoon the Tabernacle va,
packed as was slso the Academy Of Music
in which an overflow mettihz was hela.
Mr. Blsiae made bis principal address Al
the Taseynsele- where he was followed b,
Maj. Mckinley. Then he MAS driven L
. the Academy Of Mastc, bat made only a
brief speech. Congressman Daizell va.
the principal speaker At Ia. Academy.
Mr. Blaine spoke as follows at the Tab.
ernacle. bsing loudly applsuded a. the be.
ginning Of the speech and during its deiiy
cry;
The contest is bow waging for me mber.
ship CT tt III II Congress is not properly a
contest between the Republican and Demo.
@ attic parties; it is a contest between pro
1, isnists and flee traders. There are 4
few free traders among the Republicans
and there are many protectionists among
the Democrats. II iss contest that goe.
to the root of the matter rs 10 national pros
perlty, and on that issue we should stt,ls
the question in favor of home interests
good wages and sound prosperity. (Grcsl
applause.
As was coming out Of this place found
in n new spaper \ speech of Mr Carl Schurz
made a week ago in Boston, AMI may say
in all csu1or. an abe speech, on The free
trade side. But like all free traders. Mr.
Schurz goes back for the golden era for ,he
American prosperity TO the tariff of lsiG-
rather distant view backward. laugh
ter
If he had taken the position OF the late
Alexander Stephens Of Georgia he nj shi
have gone back still. further. because Mr..
Stephens thought the golden era of Amer
lean prosperity was when the British ships
came oscr laden with goods, anchored in
the Ssva alnah river ard were laden with
cotton from the plantations for the return
voyage. Laughter
have 50 often heard Of the great and
general prosperity under the tariff of 1916.
that, if you v i'll bear with me, | shall say
something of that period.
Mr.. Schu'z quotes me as saying, and
that is why | make personal reply. that the
ten years between 1886 and 1856 uui, r
that tariff were years of very gteat pros
petty in this country. | frankly repeat
that those ten years were years of great
prosperity.
Now let me say why those years were
trosDerous. That tariff of l~4G was ap-
proved just about the time the Mexican
war broke out. and vi hin less than year
more than 500 .0G0, 900 was disbursed by
the governms Mt in all branches of mechan-
ism.
We had just made that expenditure when
famine in Ireland called Tor every sur
plus barrel Of flour and bushel of grain in
the cauutry.
We had hardly transported that grain to
the other side AMI sold it at high price
until gold vas discovered in Csl!fori is,
ard the world was enriched with the YES,
outpu. of the minis.
We hardly put tina, gold into oiiculaion
when the great revolution that began in
1915. psrslj zed the industrial cuersiee of
all Eurooe and gave the United States a
market that wss unparalleled
Europe had hardly quieted the revola-
tionary disturbance when France and Eng
land and Russil went into the Crime An war
and for tso years and half those grca.
nations were paraly zei in their industries
Now, there are four or five of what you
may call the accidents or incidents Of his
tory ,hat would have Insured great prosper
ity TO this country, if there had not been
u tariff of any kind whatever. CAppausc J
IT the duti, ,s Instead of bong what the
tariff Of 1916 msde them, had been only |
per cent. al valorem, or il there had b en-
no du.ies, the country would have bten
prosperous.
Now If you can produce such convul-
zion in The world today, If you can start =
great famine, If you can discover new god
fields with uncoulted millions thrown to
the lap of lie teopie. if you can have
every nation in Europe go to war fr tso
years snd half, then We will all quit tals-
ing tariff and go to suppl, itg the vacut NJ
which that coniit on.of Il ings 10 Europe
wsuld create. (Applause.I
La the fail of 1856. when this tariff h,d
been under way for ten years, thus great
war in Europe came 10 an end and so did
al the prosperity undsr The tariff Of 1876
You all remember wi a. happen d in
ls5,-one of the seyerest panics and de-
pressions this country ever Encountered.
and IS long as these accidental props these
fortuitous happenings. these accidental
revolutions, discoveries of gold, famine
as soon as they ceased the prosperity uld, r
the tariff of 1916 ceased also.
Now I insi.t tha. We do not want famines.
we do MOI want revolutions, we do not want
ID have thousands of men slaughte red by
war in order to keep up free tra1e tar'fi
and make it look prosperous when i. is not,
laughter and sppiarse.l
Give US a prots ctivr tariff and we can
get along Without the slaughter or the starv.
alton. of men.
We can make ourselves sustaining with
something beyond for the people that need
help from our abundance. and in connec
tiou with the tariff of 1886 call your at
teniinn Historically TO two other tariffs 10
addition to thit,
The only three tariffs thst the nited
States has ever had suddenly lowerir z
duties, was the one made after the war OF
1912. the compromise tariff of 1888 and the
one in 1876. and every one of them le1 To
busig css prostrstion in this country. which
lasted in greater or less degree urtil there
was protective tariff enacted. fApplauss.
You bever heard Of free trsds tariff
coming t, the reli, of the people. Laugh
ter) The only three times that the people
Of tee Uoi'ea States tried a free trade tar
if they II II into aiysrsiEy, until a protsc
tive tariif came to the relief ef the people
Some people want Us to let the ptotee-
,iva rs,;s 90 hv in a,lsr n n,ke ~ ~
,e,;T.rr ag.;n weu wonid H. +, .,s
that Experiment. tfiad il only one or two
people were to suffer. hut il isa pretty
b,I5 hing N take the drp,afuI a,d ,sr,;,,I,.
chance ~ ores,r.t;ny ~. ir,tustriss ~ the
county when there are 81 ,000.o o.;
months To he fed 1,rnlsu.s
When the tariff of 1916 was enacted
,hsre we're onyv 20 100 oi,1 IF ororIs IN In.
coyrtrv nox ~ h.vs et oo,5 ono Fan,
vs,r, sf,sr tho tariff g., e,ac.sd -.oco-i-
mo 10 tho cersu. of ,bs RATED S.,te, .e