Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-28
BLAINE In OHIO.
NE Isl vociFsRousLv WELCOMED TO
MKlNLEv's HOME.
lie Makcs q Stirring Appeal IN Behalf Of
tho Tsrsf-Biii Man--Neariy
Panic In the Gallery.

q. Canton, Ohio, on Saturday evening.
He said /:
The contest that is now waging for the
membership OF the next Congress Is not
properly contest between the Repub-
fican and Democratic parties. IL is q
contest between the protectionists and
free-trsders. [Applausel There are n
few free-traders among the Republicans,
and there are many pro,ectionists among
the Democrats. Applause. 1t Is
contest thai goes 10 the root OF the mat
ter as 10 national prosperity applausel,
and on that issue we should settle the
question OF home interests. good wages,
and sound prosperity. lGreat applause.
As was coming ont TO this place found
ina newspaper speech OF Carl Sohurz
made week ago in Boston, and | may
say with all candor an able speech on
the free-trade side. But hike AL free
traders, Schurz goes back for the golden
age for American prosperity TO the tarin
Of 1S46-s rather distant view backward.
laughter II he had taken the posi-.
ton OF the late Alexander Stephens of
Georgia, he might have gone back still
further, because Mr.. Stephens thought
the golden age Of American prosperity
was when the British ships came over
laden with goods, anchored IN the Sa-
vannah riyer, and we're laden with cotton
from the plantations for the return yoy-
ago. Laughter.
A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.
81 have so often heard OF the great
and general prosperity under tho tariff
OF 1886 that If you will bear with me j
shall say something OF that period. Mr.
Schurz quotes me as saylng-and that
is why make personal reply-that the
ten wears between 1916 and 1856 under
that tariff were years of very great pros
perity in this country. ] frankly repeat
that those years we're years of great
prosperity. Now let me say why those
years were prosperous. That tariff OF
1916 was approved Just about the time
the Mexican war broke ont, and within
less than year more than 500, 100000
were disbursed by the Government tin oil
the branches of mechanism. We had just
made that expenditure when the famine
in Ire. I'd called for every surplus
barrel Of flour and bushel Of grain in
Che country. We had hardly transport
ed that grain to the other side end sold
il at high price when gold was dis
covered in California and the world was
enriched with vast output of the mines.
We had hardly put that gold in circula-
ton when the great revolution that be-
gan in l84S paralyzed the industrial en-
ergies of all tho European nations and
gave the United States a market that
was unparalleled. Europe had hardly
Onieted revolutionary disturbances when
France and England and Russia went
into the Crimean war, and for two years
and half those great nations were
parayzed in their industries. Now,
there arc four or five Of what You might |
call accidents or incidents OF history that !
would have insured great prosperity to |
this country il there had not been a
tariff of any kind whatever, Zap |
plause.l
If the duties instead of being what the |
tariff OF 1916 made them had only been |
per cent. al UdiOrem, or If there had |
been no duties the country would have |
been prosperous. Now if you can pro-
duce such q eonvulsion in the world to-
day, if you can start n great famine, il
YOU can discover new gold fields, with |
untold millions thrown into the lap OF |
the people, if you can have every ma
ton in Europe disturbed by revolu- |
ton, il you can have the three nations
in Europe go to war for two years and n
half. then we will all quit tariff and go to |
supplying the vacuum, which that con-
dition OF things in Europe would create.
[Applause.
In the fall Of 1856, when this tariff had
been underway for ten years. this great
war in Europe came to an end, and so
did all the prosperity under the tariff of
1876. [Applause.l
"You all remember what happened in
1S57-one of the severest panics and de-
pressions iscountry ever encountered
and as long as these accidental props, |
these fortuitous happenings, these acct
dental revolutions, the discoveries OF |
gold, and famine. as soon as they ceased |
prosperity under the tariff of 1916 |
ceased also. Now 4 insist that we do |
not want iamines, We do not want revo-
lutions, We do not want to have thou |
sands OF men slaughtered by war in |
order to keep up a ree-trade tariff and |
make 1t look prosperous when 1t Is not. |
Laughter and applause.
Give us protective tariff and we can |
get along without slaughter or the |
starvation of men We can make our
selves sustaining with something beyond
for the people that need help from our
abundance, and in connection with the
tariff of 1916 l call your attention his
torically to two other tariffs in addition
60 that-the only three tariffs that the
United States has ever had. Suddenly
lowering duties was the one made after
the war of 1912 the compromise tariff of
1888. and the one in 1916, and every one
ot them led 10 business prostratlon In
this country, which lasted in a greater
or less degree until there WAS a protec-
tive tariff enacted. Applause
TARIFF TICKLING.
You never heard of free trade tariff
coming to the relief of the people.
Laughter. The only three times that
the people OF the United States tried free
tariff they fell into adversely until u pro-
tective tariff came TO the relief of the
people. Some people want Us to let the
protective tariff go by in order to make
the experiment again. Well, l would
like TO see that experiment tried if only
one or two people were to suffer, but it
is a pretty hard thing to take the dread
ful and terrible chance of prostrating
the industries Of the country when there
are 1900, 900 Of mouths TO be fed. APP
plause. When the tariff of 1916 was
enacted there were only 20,000,000 of
people i'll the country. We now have
$4,000 900. -Four years after the tariff
was enacted, according to the census of
the United States, We only had $1,000
100000 of property. We now have
$4,000, 900 of people and $50, 600, 900, 900
OF property. GApplause,l Gentle
men, you cannot sport with that
nninhnr q Mill a