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BLAINE ON OHIO'S STUMP.
A TARIFF sPEECR AT THE HoMn
OF MAJ. M'KINLAY.


Free Trade
CANTON, O., Oct. 25.-Secretary Blaine
arrived here from Pittsburg at noon to-dav.5
He was met at Alliance by reception conn
mittee from Canton and escorted TO the
city over the Pennsylvania road. A crowd
of 300 people greeted Secretary Blaine with
loud cheering when he alighted from ths
train and followed his carriage, cheering.
all the way to the homo of Mai Mckinley.
here. Mr.. Blaine was accompanied
by Mrs. Blaine and her daughter, Miss Har-
riett Blaine. and William Walter Phelps.
minister to Germany. Upon their arrival
at the residence of Maj. Mckinley an in
formal reception was held. Early trans in
the forenoon had brought large delegat mas
OF republicans from Youngstown, Alliance.
Massillon, Wooster, Wellsville and other
towns in this and adjoining districts.
PARADE or CLUBS.
The streets were thronged, and at 80
o'clock this afternoon parade of marching
clubs occurred
o.tly after noon 1t began raining and
IL was decided TO have the meeting at the
tabernacle instead Of at the fair grounds, as
originally intended. The building was
in which an overflow meeting was held
Secretary Blaine made his principal ad.
dress at the tabernacle, where he was fol-
lowed by Maj. Mckinley. Then he was
driven 10 the Academy of Music, but made
only brief speech. Congressman DalzalE
was the principal speaker at the academy.
BLAINE's SPEECH.
Secretary Blaine spoke as follows at the
tabernacle, being Loudly applauded at the
beginning of the speech and during its
delivery:
The contest that is now wagng for the MEM
bership OF che next congress Is not properly a
contest betw cen the Republican and Democratic
parties. IL Is . contest between protectionist4
and free traders. Applause. There are few
free traders among the republicans, and thers
are many protectionists among the demo-
Gratis. lApplausel It is contest thas
goes to The root Of the matter as to
that issue we should settle the question
OF home interests. goodness and sound pros
per.ty. tGrsat applause. As | was coming
speech Of Carl Schurz made a week ago In Bos-
ton, and may say with ell candor an able
speech on the free trade side, but like all free
traders Mr.. Schurz goes back for the golden
age for American prosperity to the tariff OF
1916, rather distant view backward.
REFERENCE TO SAVANNAH
II he had taken the position of the late Alex-
ander Stephens of Georgia he might have gone
back still farther, because Mr. Stephens thought
the goldea age OF American prosperity was
when British ships came laden with goods,
anchored Ia the Savannah river, and were laden
with cotton from the plantatiC MS for return
the great and general prosperity under the
tariff of 1876 that II you will
bear with me | shall say something OF
that period. Mr.. Schurz quotes me as saying
and that Is why make a personal reply, that
the 10 years between 1S48 and 1866 under that
tariff were years OF very great prosperity IN
this country.
WHY THEY WE'RE PROSPEROUS.
frankly repeat that those years were years
OF great prosperity. Now let me say why those
years were prosperous. That tariff In l846 was
approved Just about the time the Mexican war
broke out, and In less than a year more than
S100. 900 900 were disbursed by The government
In all branches OF IN chanism. We had Just
made that expenditure when the famine in Ire
land called for every surplus barrel OF -four and
bushel OF grain In the country. We hardly
transported that grain to the other side and
sold 1t at high price until gold was discovered
ia California and the world was enriched with
the vast output OF the mines. We hardly put
that gold In circulation when the great revou-
ton that began In 1913 peralyzed the Industrial
energies OF oil Europe and gave the United
States a market that W was unparalleled. Europe
had hardly quieted the revolutionary disturb
ance when France and England and Russia
went into the Crimean war, and for az years
these great nations were Daralyzed In their in
dustries. Now, there are four or five of what
you might call the accidents or Incidents of
history that would have insured great prosperity
TO this country IL there had not been tariff or
any kind. LApplause.I Ii the duties, instead Of
being what the tariff OF 1S46 made them, had
been only par cent. ad valorem, or IL there had
been no duties, the country would have been
prosperous.
HOW dooD TIMES CAN BE RESTORED.
Now IL you can produce such conyulsion In
the world to-day, If you can start a great fam
inc, If you can discover new gold fields with
united millions thrown into the lap Of the peo-
MIA 4 vou ga hay Of Rgtrn dfa.
turbed by war for two years, IL you can have
the three greatest nations in Europe go 10 war
for for tive years t.1d,rs and half nal, then Sa we
to supplying the vacuum which that con
dtion of things in Europe would cause.
Applause. In the fall of 1856. when this tariff
had been under way for ten years, this great
war In Europe came TO an end, and so did all
the prosperity under the tariff OF l846. Zap
pauseI You all remember what happened in
i857-one Of the severest panics ana
depressions this country ever en-
countered. AS long as these accidental
and fortuitous happenings, these accidental
lasted every one prospered. As soon as they
ceased prosperity under the tariff OF 1886
ceased also. Now insist that we do not want
famine, we do not want revolutions. we don't
want TO have thousands OF men slaughtered by
war in order 10 keep up a free trade tariff
aud make 1t look prosperous when it it Is not.
Laughter and applause)
A PLEA FOR PROTECTION.
Give us protective tariff and we can get
along without war or famine OF men. We can
make ourselves self-sustaining with some hing
beyond for the people that Sed help from our
abundance In connection with the tariff Of
1916, l call your attention. historically, to two
other tariffs In addition to that, the only three
tariffs the United States has ever had. Snd-
denly lowering duties was the made after
the war OF 1861, the compromise tariff Of 1888
and the one In 1886, and every one OF them led
to business prostration in the United
or less degree until there q
protective tariff enacted. Applause. You
never heard OF a free trade tariff coming to the
relief Of tho people. LLaughter.] The only
three times that the people Of the United States
tried free trade tariff they fell into diversity
until "a. protective tariff came 20
the relief OF fine people. Some people
want US to let the protective tariff go by in
order to make the experiment again. MeiL
would like TO see that experiment tried only
one or two people we're to suffer but IL Is
pretty hard thing to take the dreadful and ter
rible chances OF prostrating the Industries or
the country when there are 64,0oo,000 mouths
to be fed.
WEALTH OF THE PEOPLE.
When the tariff of 1845 was in force there
were only 28, ,0000 600 people in the country. We
have now Ga 900, ,000 Four years after the tarin
was enacted, according to the census or the
United States we only had $1,000 0,OOO,O0O OK
property We now have 64O0o,O00 OF peo-
pie and $50 900 600, 900 OF property lAnpiause.t
I3entiemen you can't sport With That number OF
people and with that mass OF property. We
! cannot experiment even at this time and hazard
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