The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-10-11
naR. WILSON ar HOME.
wh@ West Virginia C0ngressman
Meets OLD Friends.

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Meets OLD Friends.
Charlestown, w. Va, Oct 10.-Hon.
w. L. Wilson arrived here to-day
from the East. He was met at Harp
er's Ferry by special train crowded
with enthusiastic Second district Dem
ocrats, who escorted him to his native
town. In Mr.. Wilson's party were
Hon. Revert w. Hunter of Virginia;
Hon. Il. r.. Barton Of Winchester, Va;
Hon. John r. McGraw, chairman of
the Democratic congressional commit
tee; ex-Congressman b. II. Meyers Of
Harrisburg, Pa, and Hon. Fred J..
Nelson Of Frederick City, Md. The
great mass meeting was convened at
the court house Immediately after the
arrival Of the special bearing Mr..
Wilson, Chairman McGraw calling the
meeting to order and introducing Mr..
Wilson, who was received with great
applause. He referred to the struggle
for lower federal taxation as O won
derful thing, inspiring popular revo-
luton, and pledged the Democracy as
the party Of the people to go on In the
combat.
II for one" said he, "do not believe
II Is to come until the results secured
are fully measured up TO the ardor and
enthusiasm of the people. On the
one side lie good government, honest
economical government, freed indus
try, large and expanding markets for
the products Of American labor and q
general dawning of an era Of individ-
ual prosperity. On the other side lie
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prisoned industry, limitation by law
for the amount which we can profit.
ably produce. Those are the two sys-
TENS now at issue before the American
people, and as have said before, Civ.
Ing somewhat local application TO
what I am going TO say to-day, the
question for the people Of Jefferson
county IL more markets for wheat and
for the mechanics IL more markets fO'
manufactured goods.
Am Unexpected Honor.
while I was In London about two
weeks ago was honored, very unex-
pectedly to myself, with an Invitation
by the chamber Of commerce 10 be
It's guest at public dinner. I was
surprised: ! was almost sorry In one
sense to receive such an invitation,
because l was seeking rest, and
knew then AZ well as Lnow to-day
that what / would say on that oc-
casion would be perverted and falsi-
fed before the American people, and
| yet did not think / need be afraid
to talk to the people of London as
talked to the people of West Virginia.
And so I told them just what have
said to 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 out into theirs and all
the other markets Of the world. And
l said to them that not only In the
great products OF agriculture, not only
In our wheat, corn, cotton, beef and
meat products, but In the products or
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 I'm from all the markets OF
the world; thirty years ago we called
the American merchant In from the
sea and surrendered the oceans to
England and other nations to traverse
them with their ships.
when last Friday morning In a
fierce gale when was off the banks
of Newfoundland, on one Of these
great ocean ships which seemed al
most able to defy the fury Of the storm
and yet was tossed like a cork upon
the waters, spied of in fog a few
fishing schooners, and felt the men
| Hvhn carId yapf,Iro ont iY, cYIoh WOO fh
er in their little fishing boats We're the
lnen who could yet restore the Amerl-
can merchant marine upon the seas
and carry our flag in safety through
to all the ports Of the world"
Mr.. Wilson continued his tariff argu-
ments for fully an hour and was sue
ceeded by Mr.. Myers Of Pennsylvania
and Hon. ]. T. McGraw.