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Show HI.AINK8 WATEBVILI.K SPEECH. There is no use disguising tho fact that Mr. Blaine is playing sad havoc with Mr. McKinley's pet tariff scheme, and that his speech delivered at Water-villo Water-villo yesterday, supplementing his recent re-cent letter to the senate on the samo subject will be used with telling effect by the democrats in tho pending congressional con-gressional election. It will bo remembered remem-bered that Mr. Blaine, though absent at the time in Europe, sounded tho key note in the late presidential campaign in giving first prominence to the tariff question, and it was upon this issue that tho republican party won; hence anything he may now say upon the samo thing will bear tremendous weight with it. True, some small bored politicians insinuate that Mr. Blaiuo is less anxious to put through his reciprocity scheme as to damage a set of personal enemies within his own party, chief among thorn Speaker Ueed with whom ho is notonspoaking terms, blit such a charge Is simply preposterous, preposter-ous, Mr. Blaine is too big and too generous gen-erous a man to resort to so contemptible contempti-ble a trick. Besides that ho does not in any way repudiate his former belief in protection to American Industries, only modifying.orrather supplementing it, in certain particulars where, in his opinion, opin-ion, a mutual benefit might occur from mutual exchange. It would bo folly to suppose that so astute a statosmau as he, does not consider the effect upon tho country and the republican party of the new policy; indeed it is presumable that he foresees now, as he did in 1H88, ahead of any other man, the necessity of a more liberal tariff policy, and that he is less concerned con-cerned at tho loss of a stray congressional congress-ional seat this year, than at the prospects pros-pects of the national ticket two years hence, To the unyielding bigots who pretend to believe that any modification of the tariff must be on the line of higher duties, du-ties, Mr, Blaine's Waterville speech is recommended as a wholesome lesson. If they will read and digost It proporly they might profit by it, |