The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-10-17
Election Tuesday, Nov. g.
POLITICAL BLUNDER
Wilson's Free Trade Speech in
London Carries Dismay
Into the Democratic
Camp.

uiS hhhicy oh"Ws = y rfec lIduc It AZ
Iacies-Robbed His Ex-siave and
the GOvernment-MncVe Cam
gn-Political Points.
Washington, D. c., Sept Ex-senator
Faulkner end the other campaign man.
ayers at democratic headquarters this
morning were asiounded when they read
the press reports of William L, Wilson's
free trade speech before the London
chamber of commerce, and of the enthu
siastic reception it met from the British
manufacturers and merchants. They
could not understand how the chairman
of the ways aud means committee had
made such political blunder lust at this
critical juncture.
At republican headquarters there were
broad smiles over Prof. Wilson's per.
Torrance. Orders were given for the
printing OF the press reports of the Lon
don banquet as a campaign document.
Before the end of next week Wilson's
district will be flooded with them. Tele-
grams were sent directing that the fullest
possible report of the speech and the
attendant scenes of British jolifcation
over Prof. Wilson's sentiments be for
warded from London by the nexts Gamer.
1t is believed at republican headquarters
that the banquet insures Wilson's defeat
and will cost the democracy thousands OF
votes in New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut.
Mckinley Pays His Resp cts to Will
son.
Gallipolis, o., Sept. 2S.-Here, in a
ASaG,iful park on the bank of the Ohio
river, on whose opposite shore rise 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 notable occasion. There vas a
good-sized audience present, composed in
part OF West Virginians, who joined as
heartily as their Ohio neighbours in ap.
plauding the ssatirical references to the
famous West Virginian, who is the head
of the ways and means committee of the
national house of representatives, Mr..
Wilson. Ia the course of his long ad-
dress Governor Mckinley inquired what
industries the tariff law of 1894 created
and the existing industries it had stimu.
loted, and said:
find the answer to my question in the
newspaper dispatches of today from Lon
don, furnishing particulars of banquet
given by the chamber OF commerce OF
London to Mr.. Wilson, member of con.
gress from the state of West Virginia,
whose rugged hillsides see Just over the
river. cir Albert Kaye Rollit, who
presided at the banquet, said that Mr..
Wilson's name had become 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 aspirations OF its promoters,
had already benefited England. Fur
naces 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 colafort
to the idle men who for year
have been waiting for the American
mills to reopen. You have not heard
of any commercial body in the
United States, through its spokts.
man, declaring that any industries in
America have been stimulated by this
law, whatever benefits have goue to other
countries. While the banquet a, the
London chamber of commerce was pro-
ceeding, the board of trade at Edinburgh
sent its congratulations. There was a
singular absence of any American dis
patches. prolonged applause.) Here is
word OF encouragement w;nch Mr..
Wilson himself gave to the gentlemen OF
London. He said:
"'Our protectionists have been build
ing defenses to keep you and other ma
tons from competing with Ills IN our
home markets. The tariff reiormers are
breaking down these defenses.
THAT" continued Governor ucKin-
ley, sis what we object to. If W. do not
defend our home markets against the
products of the cheaper labor II other
countries, who will? Is it any wohder
that the gentlemen of the chamber of
commerce Of London applau ei Mr..
Wilson when he uttered such senti-
ment? Mr. Wilson even dcsbairs OF
free government, for he said, we re
being rapidly sobered, thong unap-
palled, by the truth forced upon rs That
of all human governments free govern
ment is the most complex and difficult,
and, judging from the worlds experience,
the most uncertain and short lived' |
beg to assure Mr.. Wilson of Wet Vir-
ginia that the government OF the United
States, resting, as it does, upon the will
of a free people, is safe anu secure-quite
as secure as the governments that are
conducted by the titled few-and that a
free people like ours, capable of govern
ing themselves, and having so demon.
strated for more than 100 years, will be
alert enough to see to it that no indus
trial policy shall long continue in this
country that Will lower the conditions Of
its people to the level Of their European
rivals, and rob them of their dignity and
independence"