Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-10-04

FALSE CLAIMS As To L,ron.

Cogsnt Argument by R"pr' Senf"-
uNs Wilson. Of NVesI Virginia.
IN closing his argument on the free
wool bill in the House, Hon w. l.. vii
son, Of West Virginia, gave the follow
ing mastery exposition Of the different
conditions affecting labor in this country
and in Europe:
There is great exagertion here and
everywhere as TO the character of for
eign labor. | read few days ago y
statement made by Mr. Butterwortl. of
Ohio, that he diligently looked for this
pauper labor OF Europe wherever lac was.
In Europe last summer. In Germany,
i'm Belgium, in Holland lac looked for it.
and did not find IT,
"lf lie had looked for il in the fields IT
the planters, if lac had looked for it in
the fields of the farmers. if he had looked
for it in the fields of the wheat-growers,
II he had gone further and looked in tie
fields of the cotton-growers, lac would
have found that pauper labor.
But, sir, why do gentlemen compare
countries like those with this country Of
ours? England has $4,000, 900 people.
England is one-third the size of Cali
fornia, one fifth the size of the State Il
Texas. ILis an old country, where for
hundreds and thousands of years mil
lions Of people have been treading upon
each others heels in the struggle for the
necessaries Of life.
1T is country where every acre Of
land has long since been appropriated
where land monopoly prevails; coun-
try where the laws come out of the past
saturated with privilege, saturated with
injusticej country where the people
are divided into hard, unbending social
division; a country where every natural
resource Inns long since become private
property, where the forests have been
feled and the mines have been dug into
aud the fields have been narrowed for
hundreds of years to supply the wants of
millions of population.
And yet, gentlemen, compare the
condition of the people of that country
with the condition of the people of this
country, country that until few years
ago, almost in the day of our fathers,
was hidden from the knowledge of the
people of those older worlds. Here,
while they were exhausting their fields,
the mold in our agricultural valleys WAS
deepening, Here, while they were eN-
hausting their mines, ours were lying uu-
disturbed i'm the mountains. Here. while
they were exhausting their forests, not
the sound of an axe broke the silence of
the woods.
And now, when there is let into this
country but handful of people, SO to
speak. the most intelligent, the most en-
terprisiug, the besteducated people of the
world, people that have brought With
them to this country all the knowledge.
all the science, all the inventions, all the
tools, all the capacity for self govern
ment aud all the blessed influences of
the Christian religion, when they are let
loose in this great country
from sea to sea, rich, untouched. uneN-
hausted, unexplered--you come here
aud elsewhere and say that we owe our
better conditions in every rcepcct not To-
the bounty Of Almighty God in giving
us such country. not to the wisdom aud
sacrifice of the fathers in giving us free
institutions and equal laws, not to the
enterprise and intelligence of our own
people, but to poor little two-by six law
of Congress made by yourselves in the
way ] have Indicated