The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-26
BLAINE ON TARIFFS.
The Secretary of State in Me-
Kinley's District.
TILTING AT FREE TRADERS
With More or Less Success, the Emphasis on
Lcss-An Attempt to Answer Carl
Schurz' Speech.

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reception com mittee from Canton and
escorted to this city over the Pennsylvania
road. A crowd OF 5000 people greeted
Blaine with loud cheering as he alighted
from the train and followed his carriage,
cheering all the way to the home of Major
Mckinley, whose guest he was during his
stay here. Blaine was accompanied by
Mrs. Blaine and daughter, Miss Harriet
Blaine, and Hon. William Walter
Phelps, minister to Germany. Upon
their arrival at the residence OF
Major Mckinley an informal reception
was held. Early trains in the forenoon
had brought large delegations of Repnb
leans from Youngstown, Alliance, Mas
sillon, Wooster, Woodside, Weilsville and
other towns in this and adjoining districts.
The streets were thronged and at 80 p.
nj. the 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 the
fair grounds as originally intended. The
building was packed as was the Temple of
Music, in which an overflow II eeting was
held. Blaine's principal address was at
the tabernacle where he was followed by
Major Mckinley. MIR. Blaine saId
| Mr.. Chairman and fellow citizens of
Ohio:
The contest that is now rag1 for mem
bership in the next Congress is not prop
erly contest between the Repub lean and
| Democratic parties. 1t is u contest between
protectionists and free traders. APP
plause. There are a few free traders
among the Republicans, and many pro
tectionists among the Democrats. Ap-
plause. 1t is a contest that goes to the
root OF the matter as to national prosper
ity, applause and On that issue we should
settle the question IN favor of home inter
ests, good wages and prosperity. APP
plause.
LAS | was coming out to this phase
found in a newspaper the speech of Carl
Schurz, made week ago in Boston, and
speech on the free trade side. But,
like all free traders, Mr. lSchuaz
goes back for the golden era
for American prosperity to the tariff of
1876, rather a distant view backward.
Laughter. l have so often herd of the
great and general prosperity under the
the tariff of 1916, that if you viii bear
with Inc ! shall say something of that
period.
MIR Schurz quotes me as saying-and
that is why make personal reply-that
the ten years between 1916 and 1856 under
that tariff, were years of very great pros
perity in this country. | frankly repeat
that those were years of great prosperity.
Now let me say why those years
were prosperous. That tariff of 1SH
was approved just about the time
, within less than year SlVG, 900, 600 was dis
!, bursed by the government in all branches
OF mechanism. We mad just made that ex.
penditure when the famine in ireland
, called for every surplus barrel of -four anG
| bushel of grain in the country. We haC
\
, side and sold 1t at a high price until golC
l was discovered in California and the work
t was enriched with the vast output of the
t mines. We hau hardly put that gold in cir
culation when the great revolution thai
g began III 1S4S paralyzed the industrial
=, energies Of all Europpe, and gave th,
United States market that was unpardl
elled. Europe ua1 hardly quoted the rev
| dictionary disturbance when France anC
England and Russia went into the Crimeal
war and for. two and onC-half years thos
e great nations were paralyzed n their in
4 dustries.
"Now there are four or five of what yol
: might call accidents or incidents of histor,
d that would have insured great prosperit.
}. to this country if there had not been
tariff of any kind whatever Applause
;, If the duties, instead of being what tn
q tariff made them, had been per cent. a.
. valorem; or if there had been no duties
the country would have been prosperous
:, Now, if you can produce such CONFUSION
!. in the world today; if you can start
~ great famine; if you can discover new gol
. fields with uncounted millions thrown int
: the lap of the people; if you can have ever
), | nation in Europe disturbed by revolution
- if you can have three Of the greatest ns
:, tions Of Europe go to war for two year
e and half, then we will quit talking tart
and go to supplying the vacuum which tha
condition of things in Europe would create
Applause.
/ I'm the fall of 1856, when this tariff ha
: been under way for ten years, this grea
- war came to an end, and so did all tn
= prosperity under the tariff OF 1916. Al
: plause.
/ "You all remember what happened
lS57-one of the severest panics and de
pressions this country ever Ell
, countered, and as long d
= these accidental props, these fel
10 tuitous happenings, these accidental revell
n lions, discoveries of gold, famine as 500
q as they ceased the prosperity under til
:. tariff of 1S47 ceased also. Now Insist thu
~ we do not want famine, we don't wal
revolutions, we do not want to have thou
:. sands of men slaughtered by war, in orde
IS to keep up free trade tariff an
s. make it look prosperous whe
II it is not. Laughter and applause
"a Give US protective tariff and we can g,
a. along without the slaughter or starvatic
l. of men. we can make ours elves self su!
;e tanning with something beyond for poop
Oh that need help from our abundance. An
81 in connection with the tariff of 1916, l ca
70 your attention to the history of two 9TH
al tariffs In addition to that. The only thr
8 tariffs that the United States has ever ha
u suddenly lowering duties, was the OF
'y made after the war of 1872, the compromi
e. ,-tf 80 o,,l
~ one of them led 10 business prostration
this country, which lasted in greater
less degree until there was d protect
tariff enacted Applause
Ill "You have heard of a free trade tar
ut coming to the relief of the people. [Laug
:, ter. And the only three times that t.
u people of the United States tried fl
x trade tariff, they felt adversely until pr
~ tective tariff came to the relief of the pc
1t. pie. Some people want us to let the pr
ed tective tariff go by in order to make t.
an experiment again. We would like to S
nd that experiment tried if only one or ty
ty people were to suffer, but it is pref
e. hard thing to take the dreadful and terrt
lr- chances of prostrating the industries of t
We country when there are GA, 000,000 mout
he to be fed. Applause. When the tariff
he 1916 was enacted there were only 20, 900, @
people in the country. Now we have64 90
0C0. Four years after the tariff was enacte
according to the census of the Unit
ty States, we only had 1890. 900, 900 of pre-
% erty We now have 64.000000 of peor
~ and $50 000, 00O,0 900 of property. TApplaus
ne Gentlemen, you cannot sport with tt
he number of people and with that mass
property. We cannot experiment at Il
time and hazard these vast interests VIII
we could not put the country where it
lie, to-day for years thereafter. Applause.
n 'sMr. Schurz condemns the effol
4. of Congress to secure reeipr