The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-28

London, Sept 27.-The dinner given
i by the chamber of commerce to Con-
gresham w. L. Wilson took place ali
the Hotel Metropole, this evening
About seventy guests were present, in
Guiding J. Sterling Morton, secretary OF
agriculture, and his two sons, Paul and
Joyce Morton; Congressman Strauss, OF
New York; Sir Courtney E. Boyle, per
manent secretary of the board of trade
and a number of leading men in trade
and commerce. United States Ambas-
secretary of the United States embassy
sent regrets.
After the toasts to the queen had
been drunk, the chairman proposed a
toast to the president of the United
States. He referred in eulogistic terms
| to Americas former representatives in
London-Lowell, Lincoln and Phelps,
and the present representative, Mr.
Bayard, the mention of whose names
was greeted with loud cheers. He ex-
tended hearty welcome to- the
guests and to Secretary Morton, as
representing the American government
/ The toast was drunk standing amid
| loud and prolonged cheers.
Proposing a toast to the guests, Sill
Albert Rollitt said Mr.. Wilson's name
! had become honored and familiar ir
England. In honoring the guests, he
said, they were honoring London, and
| it's chamber of commerce asked him tc
take back with him message of peace
and goodwill. Nothing, he went on
could be worse than a war between the
two great allies. That was why arbitra-
ton in the Alabama and Behring sea
was acceptable to Great Britain. If, as
he hoped, the period of tariffs was be
ginning to end. both countries ought tt
honor Mr.. Wilson. Benefit had already
been experienced in England. Furnaces
had been reopened in Wales and York.
shire, and an impetus had been given
to the textile industry.
! Mr.. Wilson, rising to respond, was
greeied with cheers which lasted fol
several minutes. The various points in
| his speech were also warmly cheered
After acknowledging the honor con-
ferred upon him and reciting the events
iof the long struggle to overthrow pro-
lection, Mr. Wilson said:
Brood of MOnopoIists.
"All the people saw our system was
generating a brood of monopolists sc
powerful as to defy the law, and which
used part of the wealth they drew from
sharing in the power of taxation to in
crease their privileges, debauch cleo
lions and corrupt legislation.
| 81 am quite sure our protective
policy has already served to promote
the trade of other nations, and, if con-
tinued, it would still further promote
such trade and prominently your own
! So, standing before you, a representa-
1 tive of those who are striving for q
| freer commercial policy for the United
| States, / fear l cannot ask you to re.
| joice in its adoption, except as you may
| prefer right principles to selfish ad.
vantages. Protection has seen oul
voluntary withdrawal from the seas
and from the natural markets. Oul
protectionists have been building .de.
! fences to keep you and other nations
from competing in our home markets
The tariff reformers are breaking down
these defenceS. Let us compete in al
markets of the world. Not only is oul
production Of cotton and food products
growing more rapidly than our con-
sumption, but we have today manu-.
featuring plant which, urged to its
full capacity, would in six months fully
meet our demands for year.
THE nations of the world are growing
more and more neighborly and the
manufacturing supremacy of the world
must eventually pass to that nation
which, having the largest supply, shall
apply it to the highest intelligence and
enterprise.
1--WE are constantly confirmed in the
belief continued Mr.. Wilson, thai
our supply of materials is more eX-
haustless and more cheaply handled
| than that of any other people, and il
we continue to be underlings it is oul
own fault.
1--WE are being rapidly sobered, though
unappalled by the truth forced upon
us, that of all human governments, g
| free government is the most complies
and difficult, and, judging from tbs
worlds experience, the most uncertain
and short-lived.
"Our institutions are strong, because
| they are deeply rooted in the past. II
lis for you and for us to show that
while other nations have been great in
war, commerce, science, ETC., we can
be great in all and great in the great
ness of permanent freedom"
Adieu, Protection.
Secretary Morton was the next
sneaker. He said Mr.. Wilson had
istated what was absolutely correct
and that the people of America had
finally said adieu to the protective sys-
item. free lrdOe ndQ DeSu uSSu dS d
boyle with Americans; but at last the
farmers recognized that free trade die
not compel trade anywhere, but sim
lply permitted an American citizen to
trade wherever it was most advanta-
geous. Mr.. Morton said: eve, as
Americans, feel at home here" and the
remark was loudly cheerd.
Sir Courtney Boyle, toasting Sir AL
bert Rollitt. said they owed debt
Iof gratitude to Mr.. Wilson and his
cool colleagues in Congress, and they
hoped their action was not final He
declared their claim was just, thai
they had changed the policy of Amer
lea from a harmful one to one befit-
ting not only themselves. but the
commerce of the world.
BIG SUIT AGAINST MEXICO.
San Francisco. Sept 27.-Specia
United States Attorney John B. Lines
of Washington, D. c., representing ths
department of justice, has arrived here