The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-10-30
BLAtNE'S ELOQUENCE.
It Knocks the Props from Under
the Free Traders.
Statements Anent the 40 Tariff That
Vastly strengthen the Cause of Pro-
lection - Tho Secretary Of
State at Canton, OHIO

was loudly applauueu AT une OcPlnhlnB
Of the speech, and during its delivery,
Mr. chairman and Felow.Ctlzens Of Ohio:
The contest that ~ how waging for mcmhcr.
ship Of the next Congress 's not properly
contest between the Republican ana Demo
cratic parties 1t Is II contest between prUtcs-
touists and free traders Applause There are
n few free Traders among the Republicans, and
there ufe many protectionists among the Dem
ocrats iApplause.i u Is contest that gIrs
to the root OF the matter as TO National pros.
peiity applauscl and on that ISSUE we Should
settle the question in favor of home interests,
good wages and sound prosperity lGreat
applause. As | was coming out e. this
place found in n newspaper speech
tf Mr. Carl Schur, made week ago in
Boston and, | may say in all can
dor MI able speech on tho trcc.trude side. But
lilac oil tree traders MI. SchurZ goes back to
the golden IRA for the American prosperity 10
the tariff OF isi6. rather distant view back
ward Laughter If he had taken the posi-.
tion Of the late Alexander Stephens, Of Georgia.
he might have gone back still further hecausC
Mr. Stephens thought tho golden era of Ameri.
can prosperity was when the British ships came
over laden with goods, anchored in the sutun.
nah river and wytc laden with cotton from the
plantations for the return voyage Laughter
have so often heard Of the great and general
prosperity under the tariff OF 1916 that il you
/ will bear with me shan say something of that
: period.
/ Mr. Schurz quotes me as saying and hat IA
why | make personal rcl that the ten
years lctwecn 1916 and 1875 under that tariff
were years of very great pr. sprrty in this
country ! frankly repeat that those year were
years Of Lr"ut prosperity. Now. let IN say
why those years were prosper US. That tariff
Of 1915 was approved Just ali 'ut The time tn"
Mexican war blOkc out, aud "ithin loss than u
year more than Ona hundred millions Of dollars
were disburscd by tie Government in all
branches OF m"chaui nj. We had Just madh
that expenditure when a famine in Ireland
called for ev"ry surp US ra"lcl OF -four and
bughCl of gIntn in the country We had hardly
transported that grain to the other side Hnd
sold it at hi.h price until gold was dis
coversi in California. and the world was en-.
t;chcd with the vast outpui q the Minis.
We hardly put that gold in circulation
when the great revolution that began in
1sis paraly2ed the industrial energies of n
Europe and gave the United States marlct
tina. was unparalleled. Europe had hardly
queted the revolutionary disturbance when
France and England and Russia went into the
Crmedl wa and for two years and half these
great nations were paralyZed in their indus
tres. Now, there are four or five Of what you
might cali the accidents or the incidents Of his
tory that would have insured great prosperity
to this country II there had not been q tariff of
any kind. IApplause.l If the duties instead
of being what the tariff of 1916 made them, had
only been | per cent. ad valorem, or II there
had been no duties, the country would have
been prosperous. Now II you can produce
such a convulsion in the world to-day, IL
you can start great famine, II you
can discover new gold fields, with uncCunted
millions thrown INTO the lap of the people, II
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 20 10 supplying. the vacuum which
that condition Of things in Europe would ere
ate. Applause. In the fall of 1856 when this
tarin had been under way for ten years this
great war came TO an end, and did all the
prosperity under the tariff Of 1915. lApplause.
You all remember what happened in ls57-
one of the scvereSt panics and deprCs
sons this country ever encountered, and aS
soon as these accidental props, these
fortuitous happenings, these accidental
revolutions discoveries Of gold famine aS soon
as they ceased, prosperity under the tariff OF
lsi6 ceased also Now, l insist thnt we do not
want famine We do no. want revolutions, We
do not want to have thousands of men sluugh
tered by war in order 10 keep up free-trade
tarin and make it look prosperous when it l.
not. Laughter and applause.
Give us a protective tarin and we can gel
along without the slaughter or the starvation
of men. We can make ourselves sustaining
with something beyond for the pco
pie that need help from our nbund
l call your attention historically to two Other
tariffs in addition TO that. The only thIe,
tariffs that the United States has ever had sud
denly lowering duties, was the one made aftc
the war of 1872 the compromise tariff OF ls3
and the one of 1915, and every one Of them IL,
to business prostration In this country, whcl
lasted in greater or less degree until there wa
n protective tariff enacted. Applause Yol
never heard Of u free.trade tarif coming to th
relief OF the people. Laughter. The onl
three times that the people of the United State
tried free.,radc tariff they fell into adversely
until n protective tariff came to the relief .
the people. Some people want us to let III
protective tariff go by, in order to make the cX
pertinent again. Well l would like to Sc
that experiment tried, if only one or two pee
pie were to suffer but it is pretty hard thin
to take the dreadful and terrible chance G
prostrating the Industries of the country, whe
they are 6i,00O,0)O mouths to be fed lAr
plause.l When the tariff OF 1916 was enacte
there were only 2l0O,0OJ people in the country
We now have Gi0O0,OO0 -Four years after th
tarin was enacted according to the census c
the United States we only had S000,0j000
OF property. We now have G,0000O0 pcopl
and $80,000,000000 Of property. Applause,
Gentlemen you can not sport with that numbc
, of people ind with that mass OF property.
We can not experiment even at this time an
hazard the vast interests when we could nC
! put the country where 1t stands to-day for te
Mr.. Schurz condemns the effort OF Congress
6 to secure reciprocity of trade with certai
countries. Laughter The free traders hav
always been telling us that II we would ador
! their theory we would have q new era in thi
country. On that form of statement will NJ
I differ from them, Laughter | think W
should have new era. Congress at Its las
; session concluded to adopt new policy. The
looked at South America, and they found thu
: we were receiving from those people vast in
: ports and exporting little TO them. The que
&, tion was: Shall we repeal the duty on sug,
and give that to South America, in addito
TO the coffee and the hides, and the dye wood
d and the rubber and the other things frol
O South America. and shall we ask thoS
n raeE, II we give you our markets for III
pound, TO let us enter theirs for a few shi
j. lingsS Applause oh, no; Mr.. Schurz say
u that won't do at all. You must resort to frt
trade but would like to ask Mr.. Sehurz, befo
1. this Ohio audience, how free trade is going
, let us into their markets with our product
. We have been giving Brazil market for the
" nearly sixty millions of products, ana they n
n taking from us seven or eight or nine million
n Now suppose we declare absolute free trad
How would that help us with Brazils The
have not been buying any thing, and they {
% not let any thing In free Thirty'six millic
J. dollars worth OF coffee fourteen to sixteen mi
o lions worth of rubber, several millions wor'
ID Of hides and o great many mllliol
A. worth OF dye stuffs and wood OF that kind, u
coming into the United States without shi
ing OF duty; but we want to send down the
o. some -four, some lumber, some corn and wheu
DO the products of the West, as well as OF Il
Ia East, and are not satisfied as things were goin
y [LaughteEl Well We went on and ava
sned them 70 Ihe peeess'aes @