The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-10-27
James G. Blaine Speaks.

IEIl-INH AI'IEalL ~ IltlSlt AMERICANS
Hon. James G. Blaine, while the CUES
of Hon. Whitelaw Reid at the latter.
country residence in White Plains, N. Y,
was serenaded and spoke from the porcl
as follows:
Fellow Citizens of New York: | should
be churlish, indeed, if | did not make re-
Spouse to your call after you have come
several miles to this beautiful home of Mr.
Reid on pleasant October evening. A
the same time | am not making speeche:
in the canvass, for reasons which are vel
known to my friends and which have NJ
connection whatever with politics. Gener
ally Administrations, in a Presidential
election, are challenged on account of the
condition of the business of the country
and | submit that the Republican Admin
istration OF President Harrison can tri-
umphantly endure such a test. | doubt
if, since the Government of the United
States was instituted, anybody, at any
time, has seen what we call ''good times
50 general, taking in so many interests
and spreading prosperity throughout the
whole domain of trade.
| might appeal to New York if the city
y
in financial results than for the past two
years, i'll which the general effect on cap
itai and labor has been more prosperous.
The opponents OF the Republican party
always represent New Y ork as a CONNER
cial city and not manufacturing one. and
yet the product of the manufacturers of
this city alone is 500, OOO 600. Anything
that would cripple that great interest
WOlJII prinOla ln c1,,
and to a very hultfui extent. More men
il New York get their living from pur-
suits protected by the tariff than from any
other source. | know New York is the
centre of our commerce, the great entire
port of our trade; but all the men engaged
i'll commercial affairs in and about New
York are smaller in number than the men
engaged in manufactures.
Nor if you go West, where the Demo-
Gratis this year are making considerable eff
fort and doing vast amount of boasting.
will you find it different. Take Ohio.
take Michigan, take Indiana take Illinois.
and the products of manufactures are
greater in pecuniary amount than the
products of agriculture in these four great
agricultural States. SO that | think when
1t happens to Democratic orators who are
OAA HAiS ''iAi, u ms W tlpuSC lllC HoSlllllN
OF these States against the protective
tariff, they will encounter sentiment of
which they have not dreamed. We learn
from the Democratic party that these
Western States are in desperate condi-
ton, The amount of their farm mort
cages roll up into the millions. You
would suppose it fabulous that the amount
of money they embrace could ever have
been SO invested.
This is not so among the farmers of New
\ ork. 1t is not so among the farmers OF
New Jersey. 1t is not SO among the farm
crs OF Connecticut 1t is not so among
the farmers of Pennsylvania. 1t is not so
among the farmers OF any State near by,
whose condition can be easily learned but
by singular fatality it is the Western
States that have got all these farm mort
cages burdening them and taking the life
out OF the people. | do not like to state
that gentlemen have voluntarily misrepre-
sented the facts: bnt. before accepting
them as such, You will do well and wisely
to demand the proof. The taiIf1. so Dem
ocratic papers say, is the origin vi a pluto
cratic government, when wealth shall rule
and poor men shall not get their rights.
| shall venture to challenge all statements
of that kind and | shall make the Demo-
cratic accusers the judges in the case. 4
careful examination of the list of wealthy
men in the country has been published,
and has demonstrated the fact to be quite
the reNerse-to such an extent. indeed.
that in the city of New York. taking the
first $50 great fortunes, not three, not
two, not more than one would be consid-
cred as derived from manufacturing in
vestments.
| have word to say about the Irish
vote. | see it stated that the Democrats
boast OF having the mass of them in their
ranks. This year it is one of the mystic
ries of politics that question which in
terests England so supremacy, which is
almost as much in London as
i'll New York, should have the Irish vote
on the side OF Great Britain. If the Irish
vote were solidly for protection, they
could defy all the Vaccinations of the
Democratic party for free trade, and
throw their influence on the side of the
home market OF America against the side
of the foreign market of England.
| know this appeal has been frequently
made to the Irish voters, but | make it
with emphasis now, for | am unwilling to
believe that with light and knowledge be-
fore them, they will deliberately be ON the
side OF their former oppressors. | think
shall rely on my good friend Egan, the
brilliant and successful Minister to Chill,
whom | feel especially glad to meet at Mr..
Reid 5 table this evening. | think | must
rely on him to intercede with his country
men in two senseS-nOt to aid the Demo-
cratic party in lowering the standard of
the wages of American labor by their po-
tential votes and their potential numbers
OTHERS WHO SPOKE.
When the applause which followed MI
Blaine speech had subsidized there were
calls for Patrick Egan, and the Minister
to Chill responded in short speech, in
which he claimed that the Republican par
ty deserved all the credit for having called
out the principles of humanity and civil
ization.
Chauncey NJ. Depew then spoke He
was in numerous vein and paid West
chester county many compliments that
delighted his hearers. He said that Blaine
is the one man in one hundred years that
commanded the respect of all parties and
all men. Mr.. Reid was called for at the
close of Mr.. Depew's remarks He sim
ply thanked the country people for thei,
courtesy to his guest.
Chestnut!
A MOutrOSe. Pa. mar advises farmers 10