The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

ton of independence in 1776 down to the
day of Lincoln's election in 1860, added to
all that had been previously exported
from the American colonies from their
original settlement, amounted to less than
So, coo, 000,O 600. On the other hand our ex-
ports from 1860 to the. close of the last
fiscal year exceeded $4,000, coo, ,G00-the
whole of it being the product of American
labor"
Mr.. Blaine was never tired of talking
about the great home market which pro-
tective tariff served to preserve to Ameri-
can industry.
"Facts touching the growth and con-
sumption of our cereals at home give US
some slight conception of the vastness of
the internal commerce of the United
States They suggest also that, in addi-
ton to the advantages which the Ameri-
can people enjoy from protection against
foreign competition, they enjoy the ad-
vantages of absolute free trade over a
larger area and with greater population
than any other nation.
'The internal commerce of our States
and Territories is carried on without let or
hlndrance, without tax, detention or gov
ernmental interference of any kind what
ever. 1t spreads freely over an area of
$500, 900 square miles-almost equal in ex-
tent to the whole continent of Europe.
1t is impossible to point to a single
monopoly in the United States that has
been created or fostered by the industrial
system upheld by the Republican party.
Compared with our foreign commerce.
these domestic exchanges are inconceiv-
ably great in amount, requiring merely as
one instrumentality as large mileage of
railway as exists in all the other nations of
the world com bined.
y ''These internal exchanges are estimated
by the Statistical Bureau of the Treasury
Department to be annually twenty times
as great in amount as our foreign COM
merce. 1t is into this vast field of home
trade-at once the creation and the herit-
age of the American people-that foreign
nations are striving by every device to
enter. 1t is into this field that the oppo-
nents of our tariff system would freely ad-
nit the countries of Europe-countries
into whose reciprocal trade we could not
reciprocally enter; countries to which we
should be surrendering every advantage
of trade, from which we should be gaining
nothing in return.
"As a substitute for the industrial sys-
tenn which under Republican administra-
tion has developed such extraordinary
prosperity our opponents offer a policy
which is but q series of experiments upon
our system of revenues-a policy whose
end must be harm to our manufacturers
and greater harm to our labor. Expert
ment in the industrial and financial system
is the country's greatest dread, as stability
is its greatest boon. Even the uncer-
tainty resulting from the recent tariff agi-
tation in Congress has hurtfully affected
the business of the entire country Who
can measure the harm to our shops and
our homes, to our farms and our com.
merce, if the uncertainty of perpetual
tariff agitation is to be inflicted on the
countryP"
General John A. Logan, accepting the
Vice-Presidential nomination on the
ticket with Blaine, also discussed the
tariff in manner not uninstructive to
voters now:
'If there be nation on the face of the
earth which might, if it were a desirable
thing, build wall upon its every bound
ary line, deny communion to all the
world and proceed to live upon its own
resources and productions, that nation is
the United States. There is hardly a
legitimate necessity of civilized commu-
mites which cannot be produced from the
extraordinary resources of our several
States and Territories with their manu-
factories, mines, farms, timber lands and
waterways. This, taken IN connection
with the fact that our form of government
IS entirely unique among the nations of