The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-26
CONTEST FOR
HOME INTERESTS.
Stirring Address by Secretary
Blaine in Ohio.
The Real Issues at Stake in the Present
Congressional Campaigns.
Short Review Of National HiStOry-The
Difference Between the Two Great
Political Parties.
Special TO THE MORNING CALL.


State Blaine arrived here from Pittsburg at
noon to-day. He was met at Alliance by
Reception Committee from Canton, and es-
corted to the city over the Pennsylvania
Railroad. A crowd of 5000 people greeted
Mr.. Blaine with loud cheering as he aliGhted
from the train, and they followed the car
riage cheering him all the way to the home
of Major Mckinley, whose guest he was
during his stay here. Mr.. Blaine was ac-
companied by Mrs. Blaine and their daughter.
Miss Harriet Blaine, and Hon. William
Walter Phelps, Minister to Germany.
Upon the arrival of the carriage at the resi-
dence Of Major Mckinley, an informal re-
ception was held. The early trains in the
forenoon brought large delegations of Re-
publcans from Youngstown, Alliance,
Massillon, Wooster. Wellsville and other
towns in this and the adjoining districts.
The streets were thronged, and at 80
o'clock in the afternoon parade Of the
marching columns occurred. Shortly after
noon it began raining, and it was decided TO
have the meeting at the Tabernacle, instead
of at the Fair Grounds as originally in
tended. The building was packed, as was
also the Academy of Music, in which an
overflow meeting was held.
SECRETARY BLAINE'S ADDRESS.
Blaines principal address was at the
Tabernacle, where lie was followed by Major
Mckinley. Mr. Blaine said: Mr. Chairman
and fellow w-citizensl OF Ohio-The contest
that is now waging for the membership Of
nxt Il. not nrlr toe
between the Republican and Democratic
parties; this is a contest between projections
lists and free-traders. [Applause.l There
are few free-traders among the Republi-
cans and many protectionists among the
Democrats. This is contest that goes 10
the root of the matter as to 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 l found in a
newspaper speech of Carl Schurz made a
week ago in Bos ION, and l may say in all
capdor it was an able speech on the free
trade side; but, like all free-trsders, Mr..
Schurz goes back for the golden era for
American prosperity to tue tariff CT 1876
rather a distant view backward. L have SO
often heard of the great and general pros
perity Of the tariff If '46 that if You will
bear with me l shall say something of that
period.
ACCIDENTS OR INCIDENTS.
"Mr. Schurz quotes me as saying-and
that is why l make personal reply-that
the ten years between 1876 and 1886 under
that tariff were years OF very great pros
perity in this country. frankly repeat
that those years were years of great pros
perity. 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 year
more than one hundred millions OF dollars
were distributed by the Government in all
of the 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 to the other side and sold it at a high
price until gold was discovered in Califor-
mia and the world was enriched with the
vast output of the mines. We had hardly
| put that gold in circulation when the great
| revolution that began in 1913 paralyZed the
| industrial energies Of all Europe, and gave
| the I nited States a market that was unpar-
| alleled. Europe had hardly quieted its rev.
| OlutioBary disturbance when France and
| England and Russia went into the Crimeap
| war, and for two years and half those
| great nations were paralyZed in their in
| dustrieS Now, there are four or five of
| what you mi ght call accidents or incidents
| of history that would Lave insured great
| prosperity to this country if there had not
been tariff of any kind whatever. Zap
| plause.
COLLAPSE OF PROSPERITY.
"If the duties. instead of being what the
| tariff Of 1876 made them, had been only
| per cent ad valorcm, or if there had been
| no duties, the country would still have been
| prosperous Now, if you can produce such
convulsion in the world t0-day, il you can
| discover new gold fields with uncounted
millions thrown into the lap of the people,
| if you can have every nation in Europe dis
| turbed by revolution, If you can have two
| of the greatest nations in Europe 60 to war
| for two years and a half, then we will all
quit talking tariff and 90 to supplying the
| vacuum which that condition of things in
| Europe would create. Applause.
:" In the fall of 1856, When this tariff had
been under way ten years, this great war in
| Europe came TO an end, and so did pros
| perity under the tariff of 1916. You all
| remember what happened in 1S57-one of
the severest panics and depressons that
this country ever encountered, and as soon
as these accidental props, these fortutous
| happenings, these accidental revolutions,
| discoveries of gold, famine, as soon as
they ceased prosperity under the tariff OF
1916 ceased also.
| OTHER TARIFFS.
"Now insist that we do not want famines,
| we don't 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 when 1t Is not.
| Laughter and applause.J Give US pro-
tective tariff and we can get along without
| slaughter or starvation of men. We can
| make ourselves sustaining with something
| beyond for the people that need help from
| our advance. And in connection with this
tariff of '46 1 call your attention historically
to TWO other tariffs in addition to that. The
| only three tariffs that the United States has
ever had suddenly lowering duties were one
| made after the war of 1872, the compromise
| tariff OF '3S and one in '46, and every one of
them led to business prostration in this
| country, which lasted in greater or less de-
| gree until there was protective tariff en-.
acted. [Applause.]
| OPPOSED TO EXPERIMENTS.
"You never heard of a free-trade tariff
coming to the relief Of the people. Laugh
| teri The only three times the people OF
the United States tried free-trade tariff
they fell into adversely until protective
| tariff came to the relief of the people,
Some people want us to let the protective
| again. Well, would like to see that ex-
| pertinent tried if only one or two people
were to suffer. but it is pretty hard thing
to take the dreadful and terrible chance OF
| the prostration of the business industries
| of the country when there are sixty-fou1
| million mouths to be fed. [Applause.,
| When the tariff Of 1876 was enacted there
were only twenty millions of people in this
country. We now have sixty-four millions.
-Four years after the tariff was enacted, ac-
| cofdiiig to the census Of the United States
we only had seven thousand Millions oi
| property. We now have sixty-four millions
! Of people and sixty thousand millions o1
| property. [Applause.l
A NEW ERA.
! "GentlemeD, you cannot sport with thai
number Of people and with that mass oi
property. We cannot experiment at this
time and hazard vast interests when we
could not put the country where 1t stand: