Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-10-30
The OHIO CAMPAIGN.
A Prosperous and Beautiful State-The
End of the Campaign.

Special Correspondence OF the New Mexican.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. rs, 81.
Then come along come along, rally for the fray,
Mckinley and protection are bound to gain the
day,
Our factories are booming there's plenty in
the land,
Uncle sam is doing business at the same old
stand"
There is a great deal more truth than
poetry in the above crude lines, which are
being sung from centre to circumference
of the Buckeye state.
That is the answer of the farmers,
mechanics and laboring men OF Ohio to
the whining, lying jeremiads of Campbell,
Mills and their imitators, who are declar-
Ing that poverty and restitution are the
logical results OF protection.
A full quarter of century has passed
away since | made my first protective
tariff speech here and in that short time
the change for the better ia almost in
credible. can hardly believe that the
Garden of Eden could be more beautiful
or more fertile than this highly favored
state. All last week | have been speak
ing to farming communities, happy as
men can be, prosperous far beyond the
ordinary lot of man and more con-
tented than it is generally given to
mere mortals to be. Oh what lovely
state Ohio is at this time of the year,
as Irving says, "The rich and luscious
season of autumn" The superabund
ant corn crop is yet piled in great stacks
in the fields, which are already covered
with the tender green wheat spears, Civ
ing rich promise of another ample crop
next year; pumpkins gliding the earth
with their yellow forms, telling of mellow
fires during the long winter days barns
(and such barns as | never saw before,
two or three stories high actually burst
ing with the supplies of potatoes, wheat,
oats and fruit.
The old fashioned farm houses of the
last generation have almost disappeared
and new residences containing all the
requirements of civilization, comfort and
refinement have taken their places.
Saturday last was carried far away
from the railroad and l was amazed at
the beauty of the houses. | did not see
one in a ride of twenty miles less than
two stories high and some of them were
gems of architectural beauty. Now set
all this in glowing frame of our I'M
equaed autumn foliage, softened and
blended by the shimmering haze OF the
sun-lit Indian summer and some slight,
very slight idea may be formed of
'"The queen of the west, in her gar
lands dres't
on the banks of her beautiful river"
Last year the question would be, what
will we do with all this abundance? But
the answer is contained in the following
splendid figures Just issued by the Bureau
OF Statistics. "There has been an in
crease OF our exports during the past over
the proceeding year of $62 ,9l4 ,O2l, max
ing grand total of exports of 1923 ,O9l, :
1856; next year they will in all probability
reach billion dollars, and the largest
part of this increase is in agricultural
products" And the calamity howers
call this unparalleled prosperity power
ty. 1t is insulting Gods gracious good
| ness to us to teach our greatly favored
farmers to repine and complain in the
presence of such prosperity as neither
they nor their fathers ever enjoyed.
We are just entering on the last week
of campaign which will be remembered
tween Amerca G and tie TEngsRR ahd Ehg b.
lish-American free traders and l can see
nothing but victory ahead. l speak in
the following places which carry me up to
the election. Milford Centre, Urbana,
North Lewisburg, Coschocton, afternoon
and evening in New Lisbon, Leetonia,
and on Monday evening, November 2, at
Toronto, in Jefferson county, and then for
victory and home again. Your friend,
A. L. MORRISON.