The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-01
WILSON'S SPEECH.
An Echo of the Catchings Letter and
What 1t Means in a General Way.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
As a fitting echo TO the Catchings letter
from President Cleveland's chief OF cuck-
COS. or a keynote to the campaign OF apoi-
ogy and explanation upon which the Dem
ocrats are entering with fear and trem-
bling. the speech of Chairman Wilson be-
fore the convention which renominated him
for Congress yesterday is alike appropri-
ate. So does il form q fitting finale TO the
wreck which My Policy" and its attend
ant ills has made OF American industry. for
the bold threat of Mr.. Wilson that COM
plete tariff reform (which every Sensi-
bic man knows TO mean free trade) Is 10
follow another Democratic Congress. points
plainly 10 another long. weary wais and
sickening uncertainty for energy ard enter
prise which may well cause hope 10 give
way to despair. The speech peals out IN
trumpet tones once more the awful incom-
potency which has proven so heavy A bur
den. so great a disaster TO the country in
the council of the brave" which Cleve-
land says the trusts have blighted. Chair
man Wilson may have pleased his back
w,)ds constituents by the whoop and huT-
rah of his speech. and his denunciation OF
enterprises of magnitude, made possible by
the policy OF protection as followed b. the
Republicans I'm the better days of the coun-
try; but the idle and discouraged wage
worker will look through the party per
ndy and ~dishonor" bill. and the speech as
well, in vain for any promise q; smies-
ment al his old wages or hope Tor re.'ef Tor
his half-clad wife and hungry children nor
VIII the farmer ind in eieher any hope ror
better things than lucent wool ami i3-Cent
wheat. while he is at once confront-d Win
the positive knowledge that lofSe ConS1mr-
ton OF his products will decrease in Iiopof-
ton TO the aggregate earnings II .is coCfi-
trymen who are not producers.
Had Mr.. Wilson been an honest man he
should have told his constituents that the
cheaper clothing. cheaper tools. cheaper
pottery" etc. which he said were promised
by the bill. meant idleness or wages like
those paid to Europe's pauper LABOR for
more than a million Americans. When he
said it meant "freer and larger commerce.
with those nations that buy our farm
products and better markets FOR our
farmers he but illuminated and empha-
sized that total lack OF capacity TO grasp
a fundamental business proposition con-
stantly characteristic OF Democrats since
one good old DAYS Jay ba %he en A rindo MAS
nopolists manufacturing goods In competi-
ton with the manufacturers of England
and continental Europe, TO whom he ana
his ilk are so painfully anxious TO let the
bars of American down. HE
could not have had in mind Cuba and Span
ish America, where, by one fell sSoop, he
and his co-conspirators against American
progress deprived American producers. and
especially American farmers, of a market
for many millions more OF their products
each year than the aggregate produced in
o M e slm %af's wholly diS' by the MeKini;ey biz.
But, consistently with his general want
of business acumen, he looked past the
millions of workmen in America, who. I'M
der the operation of the Mckinley bill,
bought over 80 per cent. OF, our farm prod
prated OF by free-trade theorists-and
found only in Europe. and where the
American farmer must compete with the
products of cheap land and pauper labor
In Australia, India and Africa. The pri-
mary difficulty with Wilson and his coll
saries of life are imported into America.
and hence are taxed. No greater fallacy
upon the people by Democratic stumpers.
Diamonds admitted free OF outy for the
ABOUT ppor a the s shaea of s Wilson's rer ability sns rf fo . are
form the tariff, and afford an accurate
epitome or the concentrated business sense
and sincerity of the Democratic tariff
tinkerers.
That a proposition to pay a public debt
is, TO an average Democratic politician,
like water to a dog with hydropho5ia, IS
clearly proven by Mr.. Wilscn's speech. He
pirates and pirates about the excessive rev
enue collected under the Mckinley bill,
and holds up his hands in holy horror be-
cause more has been collected than was
ment. But If we are to accept that ancient
maxim of Dean Swift, 'Halve the Guty
and double the revenue"-and IL has stood
undisputed for generations-then Wilson
and the other opponents OF payment OF
public debts may well prepare 20 have fits:
for that the German bill will cause the
! country to be flooded with foreign-made
goods is as easy to believe as that two
ands two make four.
.Summed up, the new tariff bill means
less work and less wages for Americans;
lower prices for farm products. more
limited markets, more Popuiists. more An
archists. more Coxey armies. more soup
houses and a sudden stop ia the march
of progress. Summed up. Wilson's speech
means that he thinks he can fool the peo-
| pie; IL will cause increased lack OF conf
dence in settled conditions: increased I'M
| rest, and a growing conviction of the
| truth of that famous announcement In a
Republican speech years ago that ma
| tional Democracy IL a national sin. and IL
| ought to be destroyed"
A wORKINGMAN.
| Newcastle Ind. Aug. 81.