The morning call., 1894-09-29
HURLS 1T BACK
Mckinley Answers Mr..
Wilson.
THAT LONDON SPEECH
Suggestive of Political
Suicide.
ALL RIGHT FOR ENGLAND,
But American Mills Have Not
Started Up.
ALL RIGHT FOR ENGLAND,
SOMETHING LIKE A BOOMERANG
The West Virginian Has Furnished
His Opponents With Excellent
Campaign Material.

GALLIPoLIs, Ohio, Sept. Ex-Governor
Mckinley spoke here tonight to big
audience. Many people came from near
by West Virginia points to hear him.
In the course of his long address Cover
nor Mckinley inquired what industries
the tariff law of 1894 created, and what
existing industries it had stim ula ted, and
said:
II find answer to my question in q
newspaper dispatch of to-day from Lon
don furnishing particulars of banquet
given by the Chamber of Commerce of
London to Mr.. Wilson, member of Con-
gress from West Virginia, whose rugged
hillsides l see just over the river. Sir
Albert Rollitt, who presided at the ban
Quet. said that Mr.. Wilson's name had be-
come honored and familiar in England,
and that London in honoring him honored
itself; that the new tariff law, while it
might not have realized the expectations
of its promoters, had already benefited
England.
Furnaces have been reopened in Wales
and Yorkshire and an impetus has been
given to the textile industries. This will
be cheering news to the people OF the
United States, and will bring com fort to
the idle men who for a year have been
waiting for the American mills to reopen.
You have not heard of any commercial
body in the United States, through its
spokesmeE, declaring that any Industries
in America have been stimulated by this
law, whatever benefits have gone to other
countries
'Whie the banquet at London was pro-
ceeding the Board of Trade at Edinburgh
sent its congratnla ions. There was a sim
gular absence of any American dis patches.
Here is the word of encouragement Mr.
Wilson himself gave to the gentlemen. he
said: Our prOtectlonists have been build
ing defenses to keep you and other nations
from competing with us in our home mar
kets. The tariff reformers are breaking
down these defenses.'
THAT" said Governor Mckinley, "is
what we object to. If we do not defend
our home market against the products of
the cheaper labor of other countries who
will? Is it any wonder that the gentle
men of the Chamber of Commerce ap-
plauded Mr.. Wilson when he uttered such
statement?
"Mr. Wilson even despairs of free gov
ernment, for he says we are being rapidly
SoUoIcu' 1uOusu uHhpDdlleu ny IH6 truth
forced upon US that of all human govern
ments free government is the most COM
plex, and judged from the worlds expert
ence the most uncertain and shortest ived.
l beg to assure Mr.. Wilson of West Vir-
ginia that the Government of the United
states. resting. as it does, upon tie free
will of a free people, is safe aud
secure, quite as secure as the govern
ments that are conducted by the titled
few. and that free people like ours, cap
able of governing themselves, and having
so demonstrated for more than a hundred
years. will be alert enough to see to it that
no industrial policy shall long continue in
this country that will lower the condition
of.its people TO the level of their European
rivals and rob them of their dignity and
independence.