Blaine In Indiana

Through tho news dispatches our readers have already been made familiar with Mr. Blaine's Western tour. Following we give his recent speech at the Hoosier capital in f uil. He said : Fellow-Citízens of Iitoiana: It is the studled and persistent effort of the Democratio party in tliis Presiden Hal campaigD to prejudice the West againat the East on the subject of the tu riff, muiu tui riinii t li;it t heEas tem States get the benefit of protection and the Western States get its burden. Novv, if the tariff for ])rotectiou so operatee that one sectiou gets the gain and the other gets the loss, then the whole system ot proteotion ouglit to bc abolished ; aud if the advocates of a proteotlve tariff can not prove that it is of as great advantage to the West asitistothc Kast, as great atlvantage to the South as it is to the North, and that it is a National and not a seeüonal polioy- if, I say, thoy can not establish those points, then thepolicy otijrht to bc abandoned. But I maintain- and in tho few minutes I shall occupy your attention I shall endeavor to prove by figures and by racts- that the West, tho great, growing, lemming, prosperous West, has gained more out of the protective tariff thau any section of the whole Union. [Applause.] Gentlemen, I kuow that involves questious of facts and not questious of faucy; and I cali your attentiou to tho census of 1860, and if there are any Demócrata present they will not wish to dispute the correctness of t'.iat census, for it was taken under the administration of Mr. Buchanan. I quote the figures of that census as to the wealth of eleven Western States - Ohio, Indiana, llliuois, Michigan, Wiscousin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. The last two were Territories when Mr. Lincoln carne into power, but were long since made States. Aecording to the census of 16(50 the aggregate wealth of tbeseeleven Western States wassomething under 14,000,000,000, and iu 1880, twenty years afterwards, by the National census, the wealth of those States was $16,500,000,000. [Applause.] It had increased andgrown four-fold in twenty years, and in the last eight years enough has been added to carry up the wealth of these eleven States far beyond 20,000,000,000, or a vast deallarger sum than the whole wealth of the United Btttes the day Lincoln was inaugurated. [Applause.J You eau test this question in anothor way In 1860 these eleven States had 10,000 miles of railroad, or scarcely that; and to-day, twenty-eight years afterwards, they have nearly 80,000 miles of railroad. Mind you, these eleven Western States have almost three times as much railway within their borders as the whole Union had before thn civil war. Something or other has enabled you Westera people to get along pretty rapidly; f or these States have prospered in a degree far bevond that of the old Eastern States in a ratio far greater than the Eastern States have maintained. As another proof of that progress 1 have here a singular table from the official census of 181X). I think you will agree with me that it is a suggestive table: [Here a disturbance caused by the crowded conduioü of the hall interrupted the peaker for a moment.J I was calling tbe attention of the audience to a table in the census of 18üO, in wlnch the principal towns and cities in the United States are given. I win quote those of the eleven WeBtern States, and give you their population at tliat time: Cloveland was 4:),000. Toledo was not large euoufth to be included In the statemeut at all. Detroit was 45,000. Urand I Kapids, that novv has 60,000, was not tneuliotied. Chicago- what do you say the populaüon of Chicago was in 18ü0i- 100,000. lts growtli does uot scein to have been much impeded by the protective tartff for it is now three-quarters of a inillion at least. [Applause.J Milwaukou was 45,000. Bt. Puulund Ntinaeapolis had not grown to enouKh consequence in IMÜ lo be ïuenüoned In th.s taule ut all. Together thcy now coLtain nearly 400,000 people. Columbus, O., bad 18.U00, novv some 75,000; Cineinnaü had IW),OOO; Louisvillo, OS.OOO; fcjt. Louis, 160,000; Kansas City- tho census did uot knowthorewa sucli a place; Denver- it had oever been heard of in the census; Indianapolis QOW much do you suppose it was in 16G0Í Under 18,000. Des Moines something over 3,000. Omaha? Well, Omaha had no montion at all. The aggregate of these cities was 670,000 in ISijO, and is to-day three and a halfmiUion. This is the wa.v, Mr. i huirman, the protective tarift liiis boen retarding thegrowth and development of the West. [Applause.J This is the great hardship the West has suffered by reason of the protective tariff. THE KXPOUT TRADE. When you drive the freo traders from every other ground they tel) you that the protective tariff has slifled the export trade of the United States, tliat it has built upa lot of factorics and railways, but tbat the foreign oommeroe of the country has all gono to pieees. I ugain quote from the oensus and show you that from the time the Declaration of Indopendence was made down to the time that LJncoln was eleted President-I will go further back. From the time America was discovered by Columbus down to tho election of Abraham Linooln the aggre ate shipment of all thoso years, of all those eenturies, from the United States amounted to Í 9,000,000,000 in value. Now, marlt you, that covered the entire history of the Government down to 1860; and frorn 1800 to 1888 the aggregate amount has been f 17,500,000,000-almost doublé as much in the twenty-eight years of the present proteetive tariff as it was during the vvhole previous history of ttie American continent. [Applause.] That Is the way, gentlemen, in which protection has operated. I had occasion in speaking on this samo subject in the East, when contrasting what protection had done for the laboring man of Amertott as compared with the laboring man oiEurope, to show vhat the laboring men of New Kngland had in savings bank as comparecí with those of Old England and 1 saw In moro than ono Western Democratie papar the remark: "O, yes, you havegot uil tho money in tho East;'it is well enough for you to uphold protection." But, gentlemen, you must remember the different oonditloni. The wealth of the West has been in growing towns, in settled farms, in great lines of railway, in vast agricultnral development, all of which goes forwuni morerapidly in the West. Those in vest men ts in the West take tho place of the cash deposita which the laboring men of the Kast have placed la the savings banks; but the ratio ot increase of prosperiiy ander the protective tariff for the last iwmty even yean lias been largely in iavorof the West as in. Eagt ao that the poltey of protectiuu has not proved asectional poUcy. Why, pentleiiKMi, thero is uo longer the old dUtlnctlon bMweea manataotarlog Biates and the agrioultural States. Do you reckon yi.urselvs bars in Indiana an agricultural State ilmplyl Tour manufactures this year in the Stat of Indiana have a torear cash valué than you r total agricultura! product Applaue.J Manufactures re no longer , n tratad on the Bastar ide of the Ailctri,, , ie, i!;( t.,y of Chicago is the lariresl center of stoel manufacture in America, lt has run ahead of Rttsburgb, and under the inflence of this tariff the manufacturinjf interest has spread eacti year farther and farther westward, brlnglnsj the home market nearer and nearer the source of food supply and provingallthe vvhile to every intelligent voter in the country that the nearer you bring the food consumera to the food producers the more certain is the prosperity ot both. I had ciccasion to show the other day In Michigan from indisputahle statistics that the little i-cgion of New England- with not bo much population as Illinois and Indiana, with scarcely so much área as Illinois alone -I had occasion to show that that little area with six small States takes more from these Western States than is shipped to Old Englund, and that those littlo States take from the other States of this Union every year in food umi ruw material for manufacturo the enorinous aggregate of over $400,000.000 in money. [Applause.] Add to that the aniount New York, Pouneylvania and New Jersey take from the South, the Southwest and the great West and you have an aggregate of more than $1,000,000.000 of material [applausej and this country will have realized the great objective point of the tariff system when every agricultural State shall have its market near to the producers. Farmers of the West, you havo been complaining of the prise of wheat and erroneously charging tho fall upon the protecti ve tariff. Why has wheat f ailen during the last ten ycars? Because you have to meet in the markets of Europe the wheat of Russia that is raised in that vast country with labor that is not more than eight to twelve cents a day; and, boyond that, you are meel ing vast imports of wheat from India, where England has been expending hundreds of millions of dollars to cheapen and expedite transportaron to Europe. Neglect your home market and the larger amount you will flnd unsalable and the harder will be yur competition with these hard-worked wheat producers on tho other side. Suppose you turn half the manufacturers and mechan ics under the basis of free trade - suppose you turn half of thom into wheat producers and farmers, isn't the market of the farmer cut off just that much, and the surplus of his produot increased? Suppose you add another 150,000,000 bushels to the product of the Weet, where will you market it? Where will you lind the men who are ablo to pay ior it who want to caM Remetnber, gentlemen, it is the homo market of the United States that every day is affording more and more to the agriculturists of this country their best market, and the home market of the United States is the rcsult, logically and indisputably, of the protecüve tariff. [Great applause.J