Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-10-27
THE RETURN OF WILSON.


The West Virginia tHhSreNs"'"" ="
London speech.
I'non his return from England Con-
gresham W. l.. Wilson was warmly
received Mt his home in Charleston,
W, Va, and in the course OF ms re-
marks alluded to his speech at the
London banquet.
I'VE have reached" said Mr., VIII
son. that stage in the development
of IL country when we are compelled
to have larger and larger markets for
our surplus products, and when such
markets. through foreign trade, are
the only safety valves for the health
and the prosperity OF the American
laborer IN the field and in the fac
tory"
lie referred TO the struggle for lower
federal taxation as a wonderful thing.
inspiring popular revolution, and
pledged the democracy, as the party
of the people, to GO on in the combat
lie continued:
Il for one, do not believe 1t IS TO CONT until
the results secured are fully measured up TO
the ardor and the enthusiasm of the people.
on the one side lie good government, honest,
economical government, freed industry, large
and expanding markets for the products or
American labor and a general dawning OF an
/ era Of Individual prosperity. On the other
side lie corrupt government, fettered ana I'M
prisoned industry limitation by law on the
markets in which We are to sell and Limitations
By law for the amount which we can protitahly
produce.
III there is one thing to which | gave more
attention than another during my brief absence
from this country 1t was 10 the condition Of
the wheat market Of the old world. When l
inquired why it was that wheat has gone down
to q price much lower than it has ever sold be-
fore in the history Of at least modern England
aud America the answer was, there is uni
yersal glut and a production beyond profitable
demand. that. not only is the United States
Increasing her surplus export Of wheat md
Russia increasing her surplus export of wheat,
but Argentine is coming forward and is now
| third in quantity exported to European mar
kets. Icannot but recall the fact, and | have
stated 1t again and again before the people Of
this country, that the american tax on the
woods OF Argentine made them give up their
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in the production OF wheat
u say it n for you to-day a question OF mar
ketS-a question Of consumers, the world over,
for the products you produce. | believe, 50
far as the great cereals are concerned We pro-
duce enough to feed a population twice rs
large as our own, | believe, SO far as staple
manufactures are concerned, We produce
enough to supply a population rs large as our
own. The question is, where are We to get
these markets; Upon the one system We have
been holding up for thirty years tariff walls 10
keep other people from coming in to compete
with us In a nome market already glutted
We have now begun to tear down our tariff
walls to let us out with our products TO COM
pete with the rest Of the world In all the mar
kets Of theworld.
while | was in London, about two week,
ago, ! was honored, very Unexpectedly to my
self, with an invitation by the chamber OF com.
mcrce TO be their guest at a public dinner. !
was surprised, | was almost sorry in one
sense, to receive such an invitation. because I
was seeking rest, and knew then as we'll as l
know to-day that what | would say on that o.
casion would be perverted and falsi1ed before
the American people, and yet ! did not think |
need be afraid TO talk to the people Of London
as | talked to tho people Of West Virginia.
And so | told them just what | have said ~
you to-day, that in the past We had been
building up our tariff to keep them out OF
American markets, and now we are tearing
down the tariff to let US ont into their and ali
the other markets Of the world. And | said
to them that not only in the great products o.
agriculture, not only in our wheat, corn. cot.
ton, beef and meat products, but in the prod,
ucts of our manufactures they might hence,
forth find US competing with them in all the
markets that they sought. Thirty years ago
we began to Shut ourselves in from all tho
markets Of the world; thirty years ago we
called the American merchant in from of the
seas and surrendered the oceans to England
and other nations to traverse them with thei,
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