The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-28
Secretary of Agriculture Morton
is Also a Guest.
TO TOASTS.
They Both Strongly Praise the
New Tariff Law.

Hotel Metropolis last evening. a bout
seventy guests were present. includ-
ing J. Sterling Morton. secre tary Of
agriculture and his two sons, Paul
and Joyce Morton, Congressman
Strauss Of New York, Sir Cour they F.
Boyle. permanent secretary Of the
board Of trade and commerce
United States Ambassador Bayard
and James r. Roosevelt. secretary Of
the United States embassy, sent re-
grets-
During the dinner Mr.. Wilson con
versed with Sir Albert Kaye Rollit,
the chairman Of the evening. on the
tariff and other questions After the
toast to the queen had been drunk,
the chairman proposed toast to the
president Of the United States, which
was drank standing.
Proposing a toast to the guests, Sir
Albert Rollit said that Mr.. Wilson
name had become hon ored and famil-
lar in England. In honoring the
guests he said they were honOring
London and its cham Der of commerce
asked them to take back with them
a message Of peace and good will
Nothing, he went on, could be worse
than a war between the two great
allies. That was why arbitration in
the Alabama and Behring sea cases
was acce pta bic to Great Britain He
was not sure that the worst wars OF
the future would not he tariff wars
If, as we hoped, the period Of tariffs
was beginning to end, both countries
ought to honor Mr. Wilson. The
benefit had already been experie need
in England Furnaces had been re
opened in Wales and Yorkshire and
an impetus had been given to the
coined Mr.. Wilson and Mr. Morton,
whose names he had courted in the
toasts-
Mr.. Wilson, rising to respond, was
greeted with cheers which lasted sew
eral minutes. The various points IN
his speech were ais warmly cheered-
After ackn owlodging the honor
conferred upon him and reciting the
events of the long struggle to over
throw protection, Mr. Wilson said:
ssA11 the people saw our system was
generating a brood of monopolsts 50
powerful as to defy the Jaw and which
used a part Of the wealth they draw
from sharing IN the power of taxa
ton to increase their privil eyes. de-
bauch elections and corrupt legisla-
ton.
II 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 rep
United States, fear / cannot ask
you to re joice at its adoption except
as you may prefer right principles to
selfish advantages. Protection has
seen our voluntary withdrawal from
the seas and from the natural mar
kets Our prOte ctionists have been
building defences to keep you
and other nations from competing
with US in our home market
The tariff refOrmers are break
compete in all markets Of the world.
Not only is our production of cotton
and food products growing more rap
idly than our consumption, but we
have today a manufacturing plant,
which urged to its full capacity would
in six months fully meet our demand
for year.
ssThe tariff, hitherto. has given
manv temptations to form trusts and
limit the output. But, fortunately,
the way now seems open to give the
working people more control over
nopo1ies which are corrupting our
politics, must be with ourselves.
Without Boosting. / may say that il
is not in our line to long be under
lings This is the real meaning of
the aspirations of the greater
reform movement in America. 1t is
in no selfish, exultant temper that I
thus give YOU neigh bOrly warning of
our plans and expectations
1--WE are constantly confirmed in
the belief" continued Mr. Wilson,
ssthat our supply of materials is more
exhauSt1esS and more cheaply ham
died than that of any other people,
and if we continuetO be underlings it
is our own fault. We are being rap
idly sobered, though unappalled, by
the truth forced upon us, that Of all
human eovernme nts, free govern
ment is the most complex and diff
cult, and Judging from the worlds
experience, the most uncertain and
shortlived. Our institutions are strong
because they are deeply rooted in the
past 1t is for you and for as to show
that while other nations have been
great in war. commerce. science. etc,
we can be great in all, and great IN
the greatness Of permanent freedom
Secretary Morton was the next
speaker He said that Mr. Wilson had
stated what was absolutely correct,
and that the people Of America had
finally said adieu to the prote ctiye
system. Free trade had been used as
a boogy with Americans, but at last
the farmers recog nized that free trade
did not compel trade anywhere. but
simply permitted an American citizen
to trade wherever it was most adj
favor Of arbitration, and said that
Great Britain and the United States
must soon arrange an arbitration
treaty, SO that brute force would
cease to be factor, standing armies
would pass away as dews. and war
would become impossible God speed
the hrr7w xvhan <r1rh "A treaty should