St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-26
Reflect The MAJOR,
Secretary Blaine Pleads With
Buckeyes to Give MeKin-
ley Their Votes.
The Issue, He Claims, Is Be-
tween Protection and
Free Trade.
With One Strong Pull the
Monopolists Can Retain
Supremacy.
It May Be Death to the Masses,
but Trusts Will Sur
vive.

CANTON. O., Oct. 25.-Secratary of
State Blaine arrived here from Pitts
burg at noon to-day. He was met at
Alliance by reception committee from
Canton and escorted TO this city over
the Pennsylvania railroad. a crowd of
5000 people greeted Mr.. Blaine with
loud cheering as he alighted from the
train and followed his carriage, cheer
Ing all the way. to the home of Maj.
Mckinley, whose guest he was during
his stay here. MIR. Blaine was accom-
panied by Mrs. Blaine and her daugh-
ter, Miss Harriet Blaine, and Hon. Will
lam Walter Phelps, minister to Ger
many. Upon their arrival at the resi-
1ence of Maj. Mckinley, aD informal
reception was held. EARLY trains
In the forenoon had brought
large delegations of Republicans from
Youngstown. Alliance. Massillon.
Wooster, Wellsville and other towns in
Ibis and adjoining districts. The streets
we're thronged and at 80 p. m. parade
Df marching columns occurred. Shortly
after noon it began raining, and 1T was
decided to have the meeting at the Tab
ernacle Instead of at the fair grounds,
rs was originally intended. The build
Ing was packed. as was also the Acad-
emy of Music, i'm which an overflow
meeting was held. Mr.. Blaine made
his principal address at the Tabernacle,
where he was
Followed by Maj. Mckinley.
Then lie was driven t) the A ademy of
M ia hrl.4 nG,all
Congressman DalzeIl was the principal
speaker at the Academy. Mr.. Blaine
spoke as follows at the Tabernacle. be-
ing loudly applauded at the beginning
Df the speech and during its delivery:
MIR. Chairman and fellow citizens of
Ohio: The contest that is now wagng
ior membership Of the next congress is
not properly a contest between the Re-
publican and Democratic parties. 1t is
a contest between prOtectionsts and
free traders. There. are a few free
traders among the Republicans. and
there are many protectionists among
the Democrats. 1t is contest that
goes to the root of tine mat
ter as to national prosperity.
and on that issue we should
settle the question in favor of home in
terestS, good wages and sound pros
peri V. As / was coming out to this
place found in newspaper speech
Of Carl SchurZ'. made week ago in
Boston, and may say in all candor an
able speech on the free trade side. But,
like all free traders, Mr.. Schurz goes
back for the golden era for American
prosperity to the tariff of 1S46-rather a
distant view backward. If he had taken
the position of the late Alexander
Stephens, of Georgia, he might have
gone back still further, because Mir.
Stephens thought the golden era of
A5erican 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. L have So often heard
of the great and general pros
you will bear with ME, | shall say some
thing of that period. Mr.. SchurZ quotes
me as saying-and that is why make a
personal reply-that the ten years be-
tween 1916 and 1856 under the tariff
were years of very great prosperity in
tins country. l frankly repeat that
those years we're
Years of Great Prosperity.
Now let me see why those years were
prosperous. The tariff of 1916 was ap-
proved just about the time the Mexican
war. broke out. and within less than
gear more than 00,000.000 were dis
burSed 10y the government in all
branches of industry. We had just
made that expenditure when a famine
in Ireland called for every surplus bar
rel of -four and bushel of grain in
the country. We had hardly trans
ported the grain to the other side and
sold it at a high price until gold was dis
covered in California, and the world
was enriched with the vast output of
the mines. We badly put that gold in
circulation when the great revolution
that began in 1913 paralyZed the indus
trial energies of all Europe, aud gave
the United States market that was un-
parallel. Europe had hardly Quieted
the revolutionary disturbance when
France, England and Russia went into
the Crimean war. and for tWO years and
a half those great nations were par
alyZed in their Industries. Now there
are four or five of what you might call
the accidents OF the incidents
of history that would have in
Snred great prosperity to this
country if there had not been
Il tariff of any kind whatever. If the
duties. instead of being what the tariff
of 1916 made them, had been only pc r
cent al valorem, or if there had been
no duties, the country would have been
prosperous. Now if you can produce
such convulsiOn in the world to-day.
if you can start great famine, if you
can discover new gold fields with un-
counted millions thrown into the lap of
the people, if you can have every nation
III Europe
Disturbed by a Revolution,
if yOu can have the three greatest ma
tions in Europe 20 TO war for two years
and half, then we will all quit talking
tariff and go to supplying the vacuum
which that condition of things in Europe
would create. In the fall of 1856, when
tins tariff had been under way for ten
years, this great war in Europe came to an
and, and SO did all the prosperity under
the tariff of 1916. You all remember
what happened in 1S51-One of the
severest panicS and depressions this
country ever encountered; and as long
as these accidental props, these fortul-
tOus happenings, these accidental revo-
lutions, diScoveries.of gold, famines-as
soon as they ceased. the prosperity
undlr the tariff of 1916 ceased also.
Now insist that we do not want fam
inc. We don't want revolutions. We
don't want thousands of men slaugh-
tered by war in order to keep up a free
trade tariff, and make it look prosper
Gus when it is not. Give US protective
tariff, and we can get along without the
slaughter or the starvation of men.
We can make ourselves sustaining
with something beyond for the
people that need help from our abun-
dance: and. in connection with the tar
Ill of lS4e, / call your attention his