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Blame's Letter.
New York, July 18. Following is
Mr. Blame's letter of acceptance:
Augusta, Me., Julv 15, 1884.
To the Hon. John B. Henderson,
and others of the Committee Gentle
men: In accepting the nomination for
the Residency, tendered me by the
.Republican national convention, I beg
to express n deep sense of the honor
which is conferred and of the duty
which is imposed. 1 venture to ac
company the acceptance with come ob
servations upon the questions involved
in the contest, questions whose settle
ment may ailed the future of the na
tion, favorably or unfavorably, for a
lone; series of years. In enumerating
the issues upon which the Republican
party appeals for popular support, the
convention has been singularly ex
plicit and felicitous. It has properly
given the leading position to the in
dustrial interentR of the country, as
affected by the tariff on imports. On
that question the two political parties
are radically in cui.flict. Almost the
lirst act of the Republicans, when
they came into power in 1SG1, was
the establishment of the principle of
protection to American labor and to
Anmrican capital. This princip e the
Republican party has ever since stead
ily maintained, uhile on the other
hand the Democratic party, in con
gress, has, for fifty years, persistently
watred upon it. Twice within that
period our opponents have destroyed
tariffi, arranged for protection, and
since the close of the citil war, when
ever they have controlled the house of
repiesentatives, hostile legislation has
been attempted, never more conspicu
ously than in their principal measure
at the late session of conijrpss.
changes naturally essential.
Revenue laws are, in their very na
ture, subject to frequent revision, in
order that they may be adapted to
ciiSfigeSTindjnipdifications of trade.
The Republican rjrly-is not contend-
ing for the permanency of any particu
lar statute; the issue between the two
parties does not have reference to a
specific law; it is far broader than it is
far deeper. It involves a principle of
.vide application and beneficent influ
ence, against a theory which we be
lieve to be unsound in conception, and
inevitably hurtful to practice. In the
many tariff revisions which have been
necessary for the past twenty-three
years, or which may hereafter become
necessary, the Republican party has
maintained and will maintain the poli
cy of protection to American industry,
while our opponents insist upon a
revision which practically destroys
that policy.
The issue is thus distinct, well de
fined and unavoidable. The pen-ling
election may determine the fate of
protection for a generation; the over
throw of the policy means a large and
permanent reduction in the wages of
the Aniercan laborer, besides involv
ing the loss of vast amounts of Ameri
can capital, invested in manufacturing
enterprises. The value of the present
revenue system to the people of the
United States is not a matter of theory,
and I phall submit no argument to
sustain it, but only invite attention to
certain facts of official record, which
seem to constitute a demonstration.
RESULTS OF FREE TRADE AND PROTEC
TION. In the census of 1850 an effort was
made for the fiist time in our history,
to obtain a valuation sf all tire proper
ty in the United States. The attempt
was, in a large degree, unsuccessful,
partly from a lack of time and parti)
from prejudice among many, who
thought the inquires forshadowed a
scheme of taxation. The returns were
incomplete and unsatisfactory. Little
more was done than to consolidate tho
local valuation used in th. states for
the purposes of assessment, and that,
as every one knows, differs widely
from a complete exhibit of all the prop
erty. In the census of 1SG0, how
ever, the work was done with thorough
ness, the distinction between "assess
ed" value and "true" value being care
fully observed. The grand result was
that the "true" valuo of all property
in the states and territories (including
slaves) amounted to 14,000,000,000.
This aggregate was the net result of
the labor and savings of the people
within the area of the United States
from the time the first British colonist
landed in 1607 down totheyear I860.
It represented the fruit of the toil of
250 years. After Tp60 the business
of the country was encouraged and de
veloped by a protective tariff. At the
end of the twenty years the total prop
erty of the United States, as returned
by the census of 1880;amounted to the
enormous aggregabBtpf 44,000,000,
000. Tbis great result was attained,
notwishstanding tbejfact that count
less millions had, injthe interval, been
wasted in the progressof a bloody war.
It thus appears that while ourpopula-H
tion between 1860 and 1580 increased
60 per cent., the aggrsgeyi property
of the country incr-ci!214 percent.,
show ing a vastly enhaiftU wealth per
capita among the people. Thirty
thousand millions, of dollars had been
added during these twenty years to
the permanent wealth of the nation.
WONDERFUL ADVANCEMENT.
These results are regarded by the
older nations of the world as phenom
enal. That our country should sur
mount the peril and the costs of a
gigantic war, and for an entire period
of twenty years cake an average gain
to its wealth of 3125,000,000 per
month, surpasses the experience of all
oilier nations, ancient or modern.
Ereu the opponents of the present rev
enue system do not pretend that in
the whole history of civilization any
parallel can be found to the material
progress of the United States, since
the accession of the Republican party
to power.
The period between 1860 and to day
has not been one of material prosper
ity onlv; at no time in the history of
the United States has there been such
progress in the moral and philanthrop
ic field. Religious and charible in
stitutions, schools, seminaries and col
leges have been founded and endowed
far more generously than at any pre
vious time in our history. Greater
and more, varied relief has been ex
tended to human suffering, and the en
tirtrprogress of the country in wealth
has been accompanied and dignified by
n tirnadpning .and elevation of our
national character, as" a people.
Our opponents find fault that our
revenue system produces a surplus, but
they should not forget that the law has
given a specifis purpose to which all of
the surplus is profitably and honora
bly applied the reduction of the pub
lic debt, and the constquent relief of
the burden of taxation. Not a dollar
has been wasted, and the only extrav
agauce with which the party stands
charged is the generous pensioning of
soldiers, sailors and their families, an
extravagance which embodies the
highest form of justice, in the recogni
tion and payment of a sacred debt.
When reduction of taxation is to be
made the Republican party can be
trusted to accomplish it, in such a form
as will most effectively aid the indus
tries of the nation.
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.
A frequent accusation by our oppo
nents is that the foreign commerce of
the country has steadily decayed under
the influence of the protective tariff.
In this way they seek to array the im
porting interest against the Republi
can party. It is a common aud yet
radical error to confound (he commerce
of the country with its carrying trade;
an error often committed innocently
and sometimes designedly, but an error
so gross that it does not distinguish be
tween the ship and the cargo. For
eign commerce represents the exports
aud imports of i country, regardless of
the nationality of the vessel that may
carry the commodities of exchange.
Our carrying trade has, from obvious
causes, suffered many discouragements
since 1860, but our foreign commerce
has, in the slmie p-riod, steadily and
prodigiously increased. Increased in
deed, at a rate and to an amount which
absolutely dwarfs all previous develop
ment of our trade beyond the nea.
From 1860 to the present time the
foreign commorco of the United
States, divided with approximate
equality between'exports and imports,
reached the astounding aggregate of
824,000,000,000. The balance in the
vast commerce inclined in our favor,
but it would have been much larger if
our trade with the countries of Amer
ica, elsewhtre referred to, had been
more wisely adjusted. It is difficult
even to appreciate the magnitude of
our export trade since 1869, and we
can gain a correct conception of it only
by comparison with previous seaults in
the same field; '. .
A FAVORABLE COMPARISON.
The total expoits trora the United
States, from the declaration of inde
pendence in 1776 down to the day of
Lincoln's election in 1S60, added to all
that had previously been exported
from the American colonies from their
original settlement, amounted to less
than 89,000,000,000; on the other
hand our exports from 1860 to the
,close of the late fiscal year exceeded
12,000,000,000, the whole of it being
the produce ot American labor. Evi
dently a protective tariff has not in
jured our export trade when under its
influence we exported in twenty four
rears 40 per cent, mors than the total
amount that had been exported in the
entire previous history of American
commerce. All the detail, when an
alyzed, correspond with this gigantic
result. The commercial cities of the
union never had such growth as they
have enjoyed since 1860. Our chief
emporium, the city of New York, with
its dependencies, has within that peri
od, doubled her population and in
creased her wealth five fold. During
the some period the imports an i ex
ports which have entered and left her
liarjj'or are more than double in bulk
and value of the whole amount re
ported by her between the settlement
of the first Dutch colony on the island
of Manhattan and the outbreak of the
civil wur in 1860.
AGRICULTURED AND THE TARIFF.
The agricultural interests is by far
the largest in the nation, and is en
titled, in every adjus'ment of revenue,
to the. first consideration. Any policy
hostile to the fullest development of
agriculture in the United States must
be abandoned. The opponents of tho
present system of revenue have labor
ed very earnenslly to persuade the
farmers of the United States that they
are robbed by a protective tariff, and
effort is thus mado to secure their vast
influence, but happily the farmers of
America are intelligent, and cannot
be led by sophistry, when conclusive
facts are before them. They see plain-
ly that during the past twenty
years nealth has not been acquired in
one section or by one interest at the
expense of another section, or another
interest. They see that the agricul
tural states have been even more rap
id in progress th.m the manufacturing
states. The farmers see tliitt in 1860
Massachusetts and Illinois htd about
the same wealth, between 800,000,
000 and 900,000,000 each, and that
in 1830 .Massachusetts had advanced
to 2,600,000,000, while Illinois-had
advanced to 3,200,000,000. Tliev
see that New Jersey and Iowa were
just equal in population in 1860 and
that in twenty years the wealth of
New Jersey was increased by the sum
of eight hundred and fifty millions of
dollars, while the wealth of Iowa was
increased by the sum of fifteen hun
dred millions. They see that the nine
leading agricultural states of the west
have grown so rapidly in prosperity
that the aggrer,nte addition tq their
wealth since 1860 is almost as great as
the wealth of the entire country in
that year. They see that the sooth,
which is almost exclusively agricul
tural, has shared in the general pros
perity, and that having recovered from
the loss and devastation of war has
gained so rapidly that its total is at
least double of that which it possessed
in 1860, exclusive of slaves.
lu these extraordinary developments
the farmers see the helpful impulse of
a home market, and they see that the
financial revenue system enacted since
the Republican party came into power
has established and constantly expan
ded the home market. They see that
even in the case of wheat, which is
your cereal export, they have sold,
in tho average of the years since the
close of the war, three bushels at home
to one they have sold abroad, and that
in the increase of corn, tho only other
cereal which we export to any extent,
one hundred bushels have been used
at home to three and a half bushels
exported. In some years the disparity
has been so great that fcr every peck of
corn exported one hundred bunhels
have been consumed in the home mark
et. The farmers see that in the in
creasing competition from the grain
field3 of Russia and from the distant
plains of India, the growth of the
home market becomes daily of greater
concern to them, and that i's impair
ment would depreciate the value of
every acre of tillable land in the Un
ion. our Internal commerce.
Such faces as these, touching the
growth and consumption of cereals at
home, give us some slight con
ception of the vastnefs of the internal
commerce of the United State?. They
suggest also that in addition to the
advantages which the American peo-J
pie enjoy from the protection against
foreign competition they enjoy the ad
vantages from absolute free trade over
a large area, and with a greater popu
lation than any other nation. The in-.
ternal commerce of our thirty-eight
states and nine territories is carried on
without let or hindrance without tax
ation or governmental interference of
any kind wliatever. It spreads freely
over an area of three and a half mill
ion square miles, almost equal in ex
tent to tho whole continent of Europe.
Its profits are enjoyed by fifty-six mill
ions of American freemen, and from
this enjoyment no monopoly is created.
According to Alexander Hamilton,
when he discussed the same subject in
1790, the internal competition which
takes place does away with everything
like monopoly, and by degrees reduces
the prices of articles to the minimum
of reasonable profit on the capital em
ployed. It is impossible to point to a
single monopoly in the United States
that has been created or fostered by
the industrial system which is upheld
by the Republican party.
Compared with our foreign com
merce, those domestic exchanges are in
conceivably great in amount, requiring
merely, as one instrumentality, as large
a mileage of railway as exists to day
in all other nations of the world com
bined. These internal exchanges are
estimated by the statistical bmeau of
the treasury department to be annually
twenty times as great in'atnuut as our
foreign commerce. It is into this vast
field of home trade, at once the crea
tion and the heritage of tho American
people that foreign nations are striv
ing, by evory device, to enter. It i9
into this field that the opponents of
our present revenue system would free-
ad ru it the countries of Europe;
countries into whoso internal tfacRTVe
could not reciprocally enter; countries
to which we should be surrendering
every advantage of trade, and from
which we should be gaining nothing
in return.
labor and capital.
This would be disastrous to the me
chanics and the workingraen of the
United States. Wages are undoubtly
reduced when an industrious man is
not able by his earnings to live in com
fort, educate his children and lay by
sufficient for the necessities of old age.
The reduction of wages, inevitably con
sequent on throwing our home market
open to the world, would deprive them
of the power to do this. It would
produce a conflict between the poor
and the rich, and in the sorrowful de
gradation of labor would plant seeds
of public danger.
The Republican party has steadily
maintain just relations between labor
and capital, guarding with care the
rights of each. Conflict between the
two has always led in the past, and
will always lead in tho futurp, to the
injury of both. Labor is indispen
sable to the creation and profitable usa
of capital, and capital increases the
efficiency nnd value of labor. Who
ever arrays the one against the other
is an enemy of both. That policy is
wisest and best which harmonizes the
two, on (be basis of absolute justice.
The Republican party has protected
the free labor of America so that its
compensation is larger than is real
ized in any other country. It has
guarded our people againsfj the unfair
competition labor from China, and of
similar evil from Europe. It is ob
viously unfair to permit capitalists to
make contracts for cheap .labor in for
eign countries to the hurt and dis
paragement of the labor of American
citizens.
a dangerous policy.
Such a policy (like that which would
leaie the time and other conditions of
home labor exclusively in the control
of the employer) 13 injurious to all
parcies, and not the least so the un
happy persons who are made the sub
jects of the contract. The institutions
of the United States rest upon the in
telligence and virtue of all the people.
Suffrage is made universal, as a just
weapon of self-protection to every citi
zen. It is not tho interest of the Re
public that any economic system
should be adopted which involves tho
reduction of wages to the hard stand
ard prevailing elsewhere. The Repub-
lican party aims to elevate and digni-
fy labor, not to degrade it.
As a substitute for tho industrial
system which, under tho Republican
administration, has developed such ex
traordinary prosperity, our opponents
offer a policy which is but a series of
experiments upon our system of rev
enue; a policy whose end must harm
our manufactures and the greater part
of oor labor. Experiments in our in
duatrial and financial systems is ther
country's greater dread; stability is its
greatest boom. Even the uncertainty
resulting from tho recent tariff agita
tion in Congress has hurtfully affected
the business of the entire country.
Who can measure the harm tor our
shops and our homes, to our farms
and our commerce, if the uncertainty
of perpetual tariff agitation is to be in
flicted upon the country. We are in
the midst of an abundant harvest; we
are on the eve of a revival of & gen
eral prosperity. Nothing stands in
our way but the dread of a change in
the industrial system which has
wrought so wonderful a chango ia
the last twenty years, and which with
tho power of increased capital, will
work still greater marvels of prosperity
in the twenty yoars to come.
OUR FOREICN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor our do
mestic development. Wo are at peace?
with the world; at peace upon a sound
basis, with no unsettled questions of
sufficient magnitude to embarrass or
distract us. Happily removed by gto
graphical position from participation
in the questions of dynasty or bound
ry which so frequently disturb tho
peace ot Europe, we ore left to culti
vate friendly relations with all; and
free from entanglements in the quar1
rels of any. The United States has
no cause and no desire to enter into
conflict with any power on earth, and
we rest in confidence that no other de
sires to attack Us.
With tho nations of the western
hemisphere we should cultivata closer;
iTtO&llOnS, BLrt Fnr our J I !! .
parity and advancement we should in-
duceirrr-tpjoin with us iran n grq-
mrnt that fortluj future all inter'
national troubles in North or Soutb
America should be adjusted by im"
partial arbitration, and not by arms
This project was part of tho fixed
policy of President Garfield's admin
istration, and it should, in my judg-
ment, be renewed, Its accomplish
ment on this continent would favorablo
affect the nations beyond the nea, and
thu3 powerfully contribute at no dis
tant date,- to the universal acceptance)
of the philanthropic and Christian
principle of arbitration. The effect
of suggesting this to Spanish-American
states has been most happy, and
has. increased tho confidence of those
people in our friendly disposition. It
fell to my lot, as secretary of state, in
June 1881, to quiet apprehension in
the Republic of Mexico by giving as'
assurance, in an official dispatch,
that there is not the faintest de
sire in tho United States for
territorial aggrandizement. The bound
aries of the two republics have been es
tablished in conformity with the best
jurisdictional interests of both. The
line of demarcation is not merely con
venience; it is more. It separates the'
Spanish American people from ther
Saxon-American people; it divides oner
great nation from another with dis
tinct and natural affinity. Vfi seek
the conquest of peace. We desire to
extend our commerce, and in an
especial degree with our friends and
neighbors on this continent. Wehav
not improved our relations with Span
ish America as we should, and as w
mighl have done. For more than a
generation the sympathy of these
countries has been allowed to drift
away from us. We should now make
every effort to gain their friendship.
Our trade with them is already large.
During the last twenty years our ex
changes in tho western hemisphere
have amounted to 350,000,000, near
ly cne fourth of our entire foreign
commerce.
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