The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-20

WILSON ON TARIFF
A Telling and Eloquent Speech
Loudly Cheered.
PROTECTION IDEAS PUNCTURED
An Informal Banquet Follows at the Hotel
Templeton Where MIR. Wilson Again
Makes Decided Hit
Everything went with a cheer.

Everything went with a cheer.
1t was rousing rally of the Democratic
hosts, and the enthusiasm was unbounded.
The men who had been checking up the
fires Of Democratic zeal and devotion for
years, burst out into a great flame of en-
thusiasm, and the ringing cheers electrified
the sodden hearts and depressed feeling
with glorious anthem of freedom as at
the birth of new day.
The confusion caused by first announcing
that the meeting was to be held at the ex-
position building and then changing it to
the federal court room, and at the last mo-
ment deciding on the Electric Light hall,
did not prevent the people who had been
famlshing for big draught of Democratic
doctrine from finding their way, though q
great many of the lukewarm and lndiffer-
emit no doubt fell by the wayside owing to
the changes.
The Electric Light hall was none too big
and the great audience that assembled
seemed to be unit, judging from the way
they cheered and shouted the sentiments
of the speech. The great machinery rum
bling in the basement was soon drowned by
the applause that must have shook the
Tribune building and rang in the ears of
the editor with an unmistakable meaning:
"Othello's occupation IS gone.''
ON THE PLATFORM
were seated Frank Dyer, Hon. John T.
Game, Judge Judd, Colonel Merritt, Hon.
Farley L. Williams, Colonel Lett, Prof.
Holden, Major Wilkes, ex-Postnaster Bar
raft, DR.. Freeman, Thomas Marshall and ].
L. Rawlins.
IN THE AUDIENCE
there were noticed the following prominent
Democrats: William Burke, j. I. Wallace
Il. +. Neslen, Hon. T. S. Richards, G. G.
Richards, of Ogden; DR.. Pike, Of Provo; J.
ii. Moyle, Mr.. Routz, Of Provo; ]. H.
Morlen, Police Judge Lsney, w. Van Colt,
Joseph Toronto, City Treasurer Walden,
Wendell Bencon, MIR. Brigham.
Frank H. Dyer was applauded as he
moved among the audience arranging the
preliminaries Of the meeting. In fact, the
audience was so surcharged with cheers
that they lost no opportunity to open up
their lungs and let out their hearts in ap-
plause.
The general good feeling could not but
have impressed the few Republicans pre-
sent as a striking contrast to the BULLDOG
ing pow-wow that rent the Liberal gar
ment in twain on the previous evening.
THE SPEAKER INTRODUCED.
Farley l.. Williams in introducing Con-
gresham Wilson said: ION behalf Of the
Democratic club of Salt Lake City l wish
TO say that 1t is owing to the courtesy Of
the club that we are permitted TO attend
this meeting and listen to the eloquent
speaker that will address US. Utah has
been territory for nearly half of the con-
stitutional existence of our country. 1t is
bounding forward with the strength of
y Dung giant. With an intelligent and reso-
Lutte people, their attention is being turned
towards considerations Of good government
1t is but natural that there should be started
in this city Democratic club and that
Democratic principles should secure a firm
and abiding footing in Utah. We have with
US a man of national reputation, a man
who has taken large hand in the affairs
of the government, and has handled them
in mastery way. have the pleasure of
introducing to you the Hon. William L.
Wilson, Of West Virginia"
Cong ressman Wilson
was greeted by prolonged cheering, the
great audience giving him such a welcome
as made him feel that Democracy was al
ready triumphant.
II assure you, that l am glad to meet
so many Of you here tonight, and
that heartily appreciate your hearty well
Gomez said the speaker with much feel
ing. SIT is encouraging to see such a large
ano enthusiastic gathering in what is an
of year. in politics. A free people will
have, everywhere, free government. 1t
is the constant moulding into the very
stamina Of people those great principles
of freedom which must always be pre-
served. When | first started out on this
Journey to the coast had no idea of speak
ing at Salt Lake, and yet l strike it at a
very interesting period of its history.
am glad to be with you at such a
time in your history. TGreat ap-
plause. I look forward to the time
when your patriotic and industrious
people shall be admitted into the family of
states and that Utah shall be admitted with
full appreciation of free institutions
Applause. II there is any truth that
stands out uncontestible it is that free
government is the hardest to maintain and
the most complex OF all governments to
handle. You might as well expect that
men taken from the street could handle the
intricate machinery in this building as to
expect that men taken from the common
walks of life without any special training
can deal with the great questions of gov
eminent.
This great truth shonld always be kept
in mind, that the governmentwas made for
man and not man for the government.
Fellow citizens, trip across this country
such as l have taken Is in itself Demo
cratic education. A free government must
be made up of self-governing people, and
with great territory like yours il should
be especially the case. What do 1 who
live in Virginia know of the local affairs of
the people of Washington or Utah!
1.-The government which deals with the
citizens at long range is the citizens mas
ter-that government which goes on i'm
mediately under his eyes can be made and
kept his servant We say this is peoples
government and say SO rightly. Applause. |
Under our form of government terri
torial government is an anomaly. This
tendency TO concentrate power is con-
slant danger and against the idea of gov
ernment for and by the people. We are a
free people because we can hold our own
elections Applause.
Democracy not only means the largest
amount of local self government, but it also
guards against unjust taxation. Self-goy-
eminent, then, in this country, must al
WAYS be largely local government, and
while no man to-day refuses TO concede to
the federal government perfect and uncon-
trolled jurisdiction over all those matters
that are common TO the people Of all this
country-to the people Of West Virginia
and the people of Utah-it is one of the
highest missions of the Democratic party
today, as 1t has been in all its history, to
resist. first, last and all the time, the dispo-
sitlon to intermeddle, through legislation
at Washington, with the local affairs OF the
people In the several states and territories.
THE FORCE BILL.
1--WE have Just escaped in a Republican
Congress, q piece of legislation which, SO
far "a nentralizine power in the hands of