The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-29
He Says that While Englishmen Claim
1t Has Revived Their Industries 1t
Has Had No Like influence Here.
WILSON'S SPEECH REVIEWED
His Lack of Faith in His Own
Government Pointed Out.
Committee Appointed to Notify Mr.. Hill
and His FelIow-Nominees-New York
Constitutional Convention.

GALLIPOLIS, o., Sept. 2s.-Here, in a
beautiful park on the bank of the Ohio
river, on whose opposite shore rises the
hills of West Virginia, the author of the
Mckinley tariff law paid his compliments
to the author of the Wilson tariff law. 1t
was a notable occasion. There was good
sized audience present, composed in part OF
West Virginians. who Joined as heartily as
their Ohio neighbors in applauding the sa-
tirical references to the famous West Vir-
ginian who is at the head OF the ways and
means committee of the national House OF
Representatives, Mr.. Wilson. In the course
of his long address Governor Mckinley in
quired what industries the tariff law of 1894
created and what existing industries it had
stimulated, and said:
Il find answer to my question in the
newspaper dispatcnes OF To-Day from I'm lion, Lon,
given by the Chamber of Commerce OF
London to Mr.. Wilson, member of Congress
from the State of West Virginia, whose
rugged hillsides l see just over the river.
Sir Albert Kaye Rollitt, who presided at
the banquet, said that Mr.. Wilson's name
had become honored and familiar in Eng
land, and that London, in honoring him.
honored Itself that the new tariff law,
while it nkigat not have realized the as
eed Ensand have been 0T
opened IN Wales and Yorkshire and an i'm
petus had been. given to the textile indus
tries This Will be cheering news TO the
people OF the United States, and will bring
comfort TO the idle men VINO for a year
have been waiting for the American mills
TO reopen. You nave not heard CT any
commercial body in the United States,
through its spokesman. declaring that any
indus tries in America nave been stimulated
BY this law, Whatever benefits have gone
TO other countries. While the banquet at
London was proceeding the Edinburgh
Board of Trade sent its congratulations
There a singular absence or any Amer
lean dispatches. (ProlonSed applause)
Here Is word of encouragement which
Mr.. Wilson himself gave TO the gentlemen
of London. He said: Our protectionists
have been building defenses 10 keep you
and other nations from competing with us
are breaking down these defenses.' That
continued Governor Mckinley, lis what we
object to. If we do not defend our home
markets against the products of the cheap
er labor of other countries who Will? Is it
any wonder that the gentlemen of the
Gambler Of Commerce of London applaud
ed Mr.. Wilson when he uttered such a SEN
timent? Mr. Wilson even despairs OF free
government, for ne said: We are being
rapidly sobered, though unappalled by the
truth forced upon US that of all human
governments free government IS the most
complex and difficult, and, judging from
the worlds experience. the most uncertain
and short lived | beg to assure Mr.. Will
son, of West Virginia, that the government
of the United States. resting, as it does,
upon the will of a free people, is safe and
secure-qute as secure as the governments
that are conducted by the titled few, and
that a free people like ours, capable OF
governing themselves. and having SO dem
onstrated for more than one hundred years,
will be alert enough to see to 1t that no
industrial policy shall long continue in this
country that will lower the conditions of
rivals and rob them of their dignity and
independence