Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1890-10-30
BLAINE OF MAINE.
The Brilliant Secretary Of
State on Dave Hills
Trail.
He Wakes the Political
Echoes in McKinley's
District.
The Mask Torn From the
Face Of Lying De-
mocracy.
An Able Exposition Of
Protection and Re-
ciprocity.

James g. Blaine arrived here from Pitts
burgh Saturday. He was met at ALI
| ance by reception committee from Can
ton, and escorted to this city over the Penn
eylvania railroad. A crowd of 5000 people
| greeted Mr.. Blaine with loud cheering as he
| alighted from the train, and followed his
| carriage, cheering all the way, to the home
of Maj. Mckinley, whose guest he was dur
! ing his stay here. Mr.. Blaine was accom-
| panied by Mrs. Blaine and her daughter,
Phelps. minister to Germany. Upon their
arrival at the residence of Maj Mckinley,
an informal reception was held. Early
trains in the forenoon had brought large
delegations of Republicans from Youngs-
town, Alliance, Massilon, Wooster, Wells
vile and other towns in this and adjoining
districts. The streets were thronged, and at
1:3O p. m. a parade of marching columns oc-
CURED. Shortly after noon it began rain
ing, and it was decided to have the meeting
at the Tabernacle, instead of at the fair
grounds as originally intended. The build
ing was packed, as was also the Academy of
Music, in which IN OVERLOOKING meeting was
held. Mr.. Blaine made his principal adj
dress at the Tabernacle, where he was fol-
lowed by Maj Mckinley. Then he was
driven to the Academy of Music, but made
only brief speech. Congressman Dalzeli
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
Ohio: The contest that is now waging for
membership of the next congress is not
properly contest between the Republican
and Democrat c parties. It is contest be-
tween protectionists and free traders. ZAP
plause. There are few free traders
among the Republicans and there are many
protectionists among the Democrats. [Ap-
plause. 1t is a contest that goes to the root
of the matter of national prosperity. ZAP
plause. And on that issue we should settle
good wages and sound prosperity. [Great
applause.
| in u newspaper speech of Carl Schurz,
made week ago in Boston, and i may say
| in all candor. an able speech on the free
Schurz goes back for the golden era for
| American prosperity to the tariff of 1916
ratheF distant view backward. Laugh
ter If he had taken the position of the
late Alexander Stephens, of Georgia, he
might have gone back still further, because
American prosperity was when the British
| ships came over laden with goods, anchored
| in the Savannah river, and were laden with
cotton from the plantations for the return
voyage. [Laughter.] have SO often heard
of the great and national prosperity under
the tariff of 1876 that if you will bear with
me, shall say something of that period.
THE REASON WHY.
"Mr. Schurz quotes me as saying-and
that is Why make a personal reply-that
l %l,o1 .l.k,,, = 4 4
that tariff were years of very great prosper
ity, in this country. frankly repeat that
those years wers years of great prosperity.
Now, let me say why those years were pros
porous. That tariff of 1916 was approved
| just about the time the Mexican war broke
out, and within less than year more than
100000, GOO wer disbursed by the govern,
| ment in all branches of mechanism. We
| had Just made that expenditure when a
famine in Ireland called for every surplus
barrel of hou. and bushel of grain in the i
country. We had hardly transported that
grain to the other side and sold it at high
price until gold was discovered in California,
/ and the world was enriched with the vast
output of the mines. We hardly put that
gold il circulation when the great revolu-
trial energies of all Europe and gave the
United States market that was unpar-
alleled. Europe and England and Russia
/ went into the Crmean war and for two years
and a half these great nations were paralyzed
in their industries. Now there are four or
| five of what you might call the accidents or
the incidents Of history, that would have in
sured 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
per cent ad valorem, OF. if there had been no
duties, the country would have been pros
| porous. Now, it you can produce such
con vulsion in the world today, if you can
start great famine, if you can discover new
gold fields, with uncounted millions thrown
into the lap OF the people, if you can have
every nation IN Europe disturbed by rev
olution, if you can have the three greatest
nations in Eurore go to war for ~ years,
then We will all quit talking tariff, and go to
supplying the vacuum which that condition
fall of 1856, when this tariff had been under.
/ way for 10 years, this great war in Europe
came to IN end, and 30 did all the prosper
ity under the tariff Of 1916. [Applause.l
You all remember what happened IN 1861
one OF the severest pan cs and depressions
this country ever encountered, and as long
as these accidental props, these fortnitous
happenings, these accidental revolutions.
discoveries of gold, famine-as soon as they
ceased, the prosperity under the tariff Of
1916 ceased also.
''Now, Insist that We
DO NOT WANT sEAn11NEs.
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 it look prosperous whom it is not.
i daughter and applaussl.
Give us protective tariff and We can get
along without the slaughter or the starvation
j Of men. We can make ourselves sustainin0,
with something beyond for the people that
need help from our abundance. And ia con-
nection with the tariff of 1916, call your
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