Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-29
BLAINE SPEAKS.
RINGING WORDS FOR PROTECTION BY THE
Ex. sEcRETARY-PREsID HARRI-
soN-s ADMrNIsTR ALTON RrnopspD

should be churlish, indeed, il | did rot
make response TO your call, after You
have come several miles to this beautiful
home of Mr.. Reid, On this pleasant Oc-
tober evening. At the same time am
not making speeches in the canvass, for
reasons which are we'll known to my
friends, and which have no connection
whatever with politics.
"Generally, administrations in Pres
idential elections are challenged on ac.
count of the condition of the business OF
the country, and l submit that the Re.
publican administration of President
Harrison can triumphantly endure such
a test. (Applause). | doubt if, since
he Government of the U nited States was
instituted, anybody at any time has seen
what we call good times so general,
taking in so many interests aud spread
ing prosperity throughout the whole do
main of trade. l might appeal to New
York if the city has ever passed season
more satisfactory in financial results th5n
for the past two years, in which the
general effect on capital aud labor has
been more prosperous. (Applause).
"The opponents of the Republican
Party always represent New York as
commercial city, and not manufactur.
ing one, and yet the product of the
manufacturers of this city alone is $780,
600, 900. Anything that would cripple
that great interest would cripple the
metropolis seriously aud to a very hurt
full extent. More men in New York get
their living from pursuits protected by
the tariff than from any other scource.
| know New York is the centre of our
commerce-the great entrepot of our
trade; but all the men engaged in COM
mercial affairs 10 and about New York
are smaller in numbers than the men en-
gagged in manufactures. Nor if YOU 90
west where the Democrats this wear are
making considerable effogs and ding "a
vast amount of Boosting Qaughter) will
you find it different2
"Take OHIO. take Michigan, take
Indiana, take Illinois, and the products
of manufactures are greater in pee Iniary
amounts than the products of agriculture
in these four great agricultural States;
so that l think, when it happens to
Democratic orators, who are on
the wing, trying 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 desperate condition.
The amount of their farm mortgages
rolls up into the millions. You would
suppose it fabulous that the amount of
money they embrace could ever hZs
been so invested. This is not so ~ ing
the farmers IN New York. IT, .ot so
among the farmers in New %.Jey. 1t
IS not so among the farmers Oh Connec-
ticut. 1t is not SC among the farmers Of
Pennsylvania. 1t is not so among the
farmers of any State near by, whose con-
dition can be easily learned, but by
singular fatality it is the Western States
that have got all these farm mortgages
burdening them and taking the life out
of the people! daughter and APP
plause.)
81 do not like to state that gentle
men have voluntarily misrepresented the
facts, but before accepting them as suca,
you will do well, and wisely, to demand
the proofs.
"The tariff, SO Democratic papers say,
IS the origin of 4 plutocratic Govern
ment, when wealth shall rule and poor
men shall not get their rights. l shall
venture to challenge all statements of
that kind, and l shall make the Demo-
cratic accusers the judges in the case. A
careful examination of the list of wealthy
men in the country has been published,
and 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 $50 great fortunes, not
three, not two, not more than one would
be considered as derived from manu-,
featuring investments.
81 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. 1t is one of the
mysteries of our politics that question
which Interests England so Supremacy,
which is canvassed almost as much in
London as it sin New York, should have
the Irish vote on the side of Great
Britain. Ii the Irish vote were solidly for
protection, they could defy all the
Vaccinations of the Democratic Party
for free trade, aud throw their influence
on the side of the home market of
America against the tide of the foreign
markets of England.
81 know this appeal has been fire.
quently made to the Irish voters, but |
make it with emphasis now, for am I'M.
willing TO believe that with the light of
knowledge before them they will DELHI
erately be on the side of their former
oppressors, think | shall rely on my
good friend Egan, the brilliant and suc-
cessful Minister to Chile-whom | feel
especially glad to meet at Mr.. Reds
able this evening" think must rely
IN him to intercede with his couutrymen
his countrymen in two seuses-not to
i'd the Democratic Party in lowering
he standard and the wages of American
abor by their potential votes aud their
potential numbers" Continued ap-
lopcs