The Portland daily press., 1892-10-15
Depew Also Make Remarks.

Depew Also Make Remarks.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, October IA
Hon. James G. Blaine addressed large
number Of people from White Plains
and the surrounding towns, who sere-
naded him this evening at Ophir Farm,
Hon. Whitelaw Reid's residence. Mr..
Blaine said:
II should be churlish indeed if I did
not make response to your call after
you have come several miles to this
beautiful home of Mr.. Reid on this
pleasant October evening. At the same
time 1 am not making speeches in the
canvass, for reasons well known to my
friends, and which have no connection
whatever with politics. Generally, ad-
ministrations, in presidential elections,
are challenged ON account of the busi-
ness of the country. and | submit that
the Republican administration of Presi-
dent Harrison can triumphantly endure
such test. 1 doubt if, since the gov
sernInent of the United States was insti-
tuted, anybody, at any time, has seen
what we call good times so general,
taking in so many interests and spread
ing prosperity throughout the whole
domain of trade. I might appeal to New
York to learn if the city has ever passed
season more satisfactory in financial
results than the past two years, in which
the general effect on capital and labor
has been more prosperous. The oppo-
nents of the Republican party always
represent New York as commercial
city, and not manufacturing one, and
yet the product of the manufactures of
this city alone is 500, 100000. Anything
that would cripple that great interest
would cripple the metropolis seri-
ously and to very hurtful extent. More
men in New York get living from pur-
suits protected by the tariff than from
any other source. / know that New
York is
The Centre of Our Commerce,
the great entrepot of our trade but all
the men engaged in commercial affairs
in and about New York are smaller in
numbers than the men engaged in manu-
factures. Nor if you go West, where
the Democrats this year are making con-
siderable effort and doing a vast amount
of boasting, will you find it different
Take Ohio, take Michigan, take Indiana
take Illinois, and the products of the
manufactures are greater in pecuniary
amount than the products of agriculture
| in these four great agricultural states.
So L. think that when it happens that
Democratic orators are on the wing try
ing to arouse the hostility 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 a
desperate condition. The amount of
their mortgages rolls up into millions.
You would suppose it fabulous that
the amount of money they embrace
could ever have been SO invest
ed. This is not so among the
farmers of New York; it is not so among
the farmers of New Jersey; it is not so
among the farmers of Connecticut; not
so among the farmers of Pennsylvania;
not so among the farmers of any state
nearby whose condition can be easily
| learned; but by a singular fatality it is
the Western states that have got all these
farm mortgages burdening them and TAX
| ing the life out Of the people. lido not
| like to state that gentlemen have volun-
tarily misrepresented the facts, but be-
| fore accepting them as such, you will do
l
1.-THE tariff, SO the Democratic papers
say, is the origin of plutocratic govern
| ment, where wealth shall rule and the
poor men not get their rights. | shall
venture to challenge all statements of
| that kind and shall make the Democratic
accusers the judges in the case Care
full examination of the list of wealthy
men in the country has been published
| ana has demonstrated the fact to be
quite the reverse, to such an extent, in
| deed. that, in the City of New York,
| taking the first 1S0 great fortunes not
three, not two, not more than one, would
be considered derived from manufacture
ing Investments.
II have word to say about the Irish
vote. l see it stated that the Democrats
boast of having the mass of them in
their ranks this year. 1t is one OF the
mysteries of politics that question
which interests England supremely,
canvassed almost as much in London as
| New York, should have the Irish vote on
I the side of Great Britain. If the Irish
vote were solidly for protection, they
could defy all the Vaccinations of the