The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-29
The Tariff Leader Renominated
for Congress Today.
Condemns the Influence of the
Sugar Trust.
PEOPLE ARE AROUSED.
They Will Not Stand Such
Iniquities Longer.
Says Present Law is Better Than
Mckinley Bill.

MARTINsBURG, W. Va, Aug. %
Chairman Wilson, of the ways and means
committee, the Democratic tariff leader
III The house Of representatives, was re-
nominated for congress today. Mr.. Viii
son made a notable address to the con
vention: He said: THE honor to which
you summon me today Is not a new one
for me to receive at your generous
hands So many times has it como to me
IN the past-never cOIdly or grudgingly-
that J should vainly seek for new and
stronger language in which to assure you
of my increasing gratitude for your APP
prevail and support But if fitting words
are slow 10 come, l beg you not to doubt
that l am more deeply moved and more
affectionately touched by your affection
today than l have ever been before"
Speaking OF the tariff bill AIr. Wilson
said:
You have followed with waning hope
and angry disupproval the tedious and
tOrtuous passage of that bill through the
senate, and have seen that despite
nominal Democratic majority in that
body, the great trusts and monopolies
were still able to write their
taxes they had done under
Republican rule in some of its
most important schedules. The burden
a Democratic or Republican hand as
their amanuensis. But the wrong to you
IS infinitely greater when those who bear
the commission Of your own party thus
prove faithless to its highest duties.
You know by what influences this was
brought about The country knows and
history will know where to put the re-
spoons. bility for our partial failure 10 re-
deem our pledges to the people, and our
partial failure 10 dislOdge the great priv
LEGGED interests from our tariff
''The American people are aroused as
hardly anything else could have aroused
them to the deadly menace which pro-
lection begets to the purity and
the very existence of free
government They have seen
IA single great trust empowered
by our tariff laws to control the prOduc-
ton and sale OF necessity of life, par
ceiling it out to the country and using
its Ia w-made wealth and power to thwarJ
the best efforts of the people to reduce
their own taxation.
They have seen it hold up congress
for weeks and have heard its representa-
tives boldly declare that there would be
no tariff bill in which their interests
were moi protected and they have real
lied the final fulfillment Of the boast
s.When the sugar trust thus challenges
the American people to contest of
its days are numbered; It's tenn
porary triumph is its speedier and more
complete overthrow, and with its over
throw will vanish its sister brood of mo-
that are strong through its sup
port.
sBut, my friends. there is another and
brighter side 10 this picture. With
all its manifold failures, its
final retention of many protective
duties, its Objectionable sugar schedule
and its excessive duties on cOttons and
vvoOlens and metals, the new bill carries
very substantial relief 10 the people and
must be accepted as a substantial begin
ming Of thorough and progressive tariff
reform.
I'VE have a right to confess our own
shortcomings as measured by the high
OF our own principles and
professions. We have a right to hold
our own faithless servants to that respon-
sibility, which the duty of party fidelity
placed upon them
.sBut all this does not imply dissatis-
faction with our own party a whole, or
distrust as to its meanings or intention.
If the clOseness of the vote in one
house of congress gave opportunity
for a few to com bine against the people
and against all the rest of their party and
obstruct its faithful efforts to redeem its
pledges. the overwhelming mass of the
Democrats IN the country are subject to
no lust criticism. they have kept the
faith They have been true to their
principles
US IN THIS HSAt- W Q arc AOt, Incl SAOi .
subject to Condemnation by our oppo-
nents. If we have done less in the way
of relieving the peoples burdens
than we had hoped and promised, they
would have done nothing at all.
IF we have anywhere uncovered
trust and found it too strong for our com
plete dislOdgement IN the first attempt.
we have never failed to find them stur-
div and solidly arrayed for their de-
Tense.
"The weapons with which monopoly
has fought they have forged and lem
pered, and supplied the intrenchment
and fortresses behind which privilege
has shielded itself from our attack, they
have bnilded for it. stone by stone and
stron ghold by stronghold.
THE STAGE UPSET.