The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-10-26
BLAINE DOESN'T like IT
He Takes the Democratic Side Of The
Tariff Question.
JUSTICE NOT FREE TRADE
MckinIey's Theories of Trade Not
Pleasing to the Smartest
Man In the Repub-
lican Party.

ctate Diditle dfrlVeu mere from IlttsDuFS
at noon to-day. He was met at Alliance
by reception committee from Canton
and escorted to the city over the Penn
sylvania road. A crowd OF 5000 people
greeted Blaine as he alighted from the
train and followed the carriage, cheering
all the way, 10 the house of Major Nc
kinley, whose guest he was during his
stay here. Blaine was accompanied by
Mrs. Blaine and daughter. Miss Harriet
Blaine, and Hon. William Walter Phelps,
minister 10 Germany.
Upon arrival at the residence OF Major
Mckinley an informal receptisn was held.
The early trains in the forenoon had
brought large delegations Of republicans
from Youngstown, Alliance, Massillon,
Wooster, Wellsville and other towns in
this and adjoining districts. The streets
we're thronged and at 30 p. IN. a parade
of marching columns occurred.
Shortly after noon II began raining and
il was decided 10 have the meeting at the
tabernacle instead Of the fair grounds as
originally intended. The building was
packed, as was also the academy of mu-
sic, in which an overflow meeting was
held. Blaine's principal address was at
the tabernacle, where he was followed by
Major Mex inley.
Mr.. Blaine said: "Mr. Chairman and
fellow citizens Of Ohio. The contest that
is now raging for the membership Of the
next congress is not properly a contest
between the republican and democratic
parties. Ii is contest between the pro-
tectionists and free traders. There are a
few free traders among the republicans
and many protectionists among the DEM
ocrats. II is q contest that goes 10 the
root OF the matter as 10 national pros
perity and on that issue we should settle
the question in favor OF home interests,
good wages and sound prosperity.
"As was coming out TO this place /
found in newspaper a speech OF Carl
Schurz, made n week ago in Boston, and
/ may say in all candor, an able speech
like oil free traders, Mr.. Schurz
goes back for the golden era
for American prosperity 10 the tariff Of
loi6. A rather distant Wow backward. /
hive SO often heard of the greas and gen.
crai prosperity under tho tariff Of 1Si6
that II 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 10 years be-
tween 1876 and 1856 under that tariff, were
years of very great prosperity for this
country. Now, let me say why those
years were prosperous. That tariff Of
1876 was approved just about the time the
Mexican war broke out and within less
than a yaar ,,..a tlo m 1no nln non 80 "A lnlI N 20
were dis5ursed 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 bushel Of
grain in the country. We had hardly
transported that grain 10 the other side
and sold il at high pllce until gold was
discovered in California, and the world
was enriched with the vast output Of the
hines. We hardly put that gold
in circulation when the great
revolution that began in lsis, paralyzed
industrial energies of all Europe and
gave the United States a market that was
unparalleled. Europe had hardly quieted
the revolutionary disturbance when
France and England and Russia went
into the Crimcan war aud for two years
and a half those great nations were para
lyzed in their industries.
"Now there are four or five of what you
might call accidents or incidents of his
| tory that would have insured great pros
perity to this country IL there had not
been tariff of any kind whatever. II
the duties, instead Of being what the tar
III made them, had been only one pei
| cent. ad valorem, or IL there had been nc
> duties, the country would have been pros
porous. Now If you can produce sucl
commissions in the world today. ifyou cat
start great famine, II you can discover
new gold fields, with uncountet
, millions thrown into the lap of the peo
pie, il you can have every nation il
Europe disturbed by revolution. II yol
can have the three greatest nations o
Europe go TO war for two years and a hal
then We will all quit talking tariff anI
\ 20 to supplying the vacuum which tha
condition Of things 10 Europe woult
create. In the fall Of 1856, when thi
tariff had been under way for ten years
this great war in Europe came TO an end
and SO did all prosperity under the taril
OF 1876. You all remember what hap
pened in 1s57-one OF the severest panic
and depressions this country ever en-
countered-and as soon as these acci
dental props, these fortuitous happen
ings, these accidental revolutions. dis
{, coveries Of gold, famine-as soon as the
ceased prosperity under the tariff Of lsi
ceased also.
"Now, | insist that We do not wan
famnes, we don't want revolutions, "
y do not wan; to have thousands OF me
slaughtered by war in order /
keep up a free trade tariff and max
il look prosperous when il is no
. Give us protection tariff and we can &C
along without the slaughter or staryatio
v of men. We can make ourselves sci
sustaining with something beyond for III
people that need help from our abundanc,
And in connection with the tariff OF 1876
call your attention historically 10 tw
/, other tariffs. In addition 10 that, Ill
, only three tariffs that the United Stat,
has ever had, suddenly lowering the d
ties. was the one made after tile war ,
lsl2, the compromise tariff of 1883 and ii
one in 1876 and every one OF them led
Z. business prostration in this country, whlc
lasted in a greater or less degree uni
there was protective tariff enacted.