The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-29
M'KINLEY REPLIES
He Answers Mr.. Wilson's Speech
at the London Banquet.
Criticises the Compliments Paid
Wilson by Englishmen.
MILLS OPEN THERE.
But No American Mills Start Up
Says Mckinley.

GALLIPoLIs, Ohio. Sept. 29.-Here,
in beautiful park on the bank of the
Ohio river, on whose opposite shore
rose the hills of West Virginia, the
author Of the Mckinley. tariff law paid
his compliments to the author of the
Wilson tariff law. In the course of
his long address, Governor Mckinley
inquired 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 dispatches of to- day
from London, furnishing particula airs
Of banquet given by the cham Der
of com merce of London to Mr. VIII
son, mem Der of congress from the
state of West Virginia, whose rugged
hif1sides / see Just over the river.
Sir Albert Kave Rollit, who presided
at the banquet, said that Mr.. Wilson's
name had become hOnOred and famil-
lar in England and that London, in
IGNORING him hOnOred itself; that the
ne tariff law, while it might not
have realized the aspirations of its
promoters, had already benefited
England
Furnaces have been reopened in
Wales and Yorkshire and impetus
has been given to the textile indus
tries This viii be cheering news to
the people of the United States and
will bring comfort to the idle men
who, for year, have been waiting for
the American mills to reopen You
have not heard any mercial body
in the United States, through its
spokesman, declaring that any indus
tries in America have been stimulated
by this law, whatever benefits have
gone to other countries While the
banquet at London was proceeding, the
board of trade at Edin 0urgh sent its
cOngra tuIatiOns. There was singular
absence of any American dispatches.
prolonged applause-) Here is a word
OF encourage which Mr.. Wilson
himself gave to the gentlemen Of
London. He said. Our prOtectiOnists
have been building defepses to keep
you and other nations from cOmpe t.
ing with in our home market IS
The tariff refOrmers are breaking
down these defenses;' That" con
tinued Governor Mckinley. sis what
we object to- If we do not defend
our home markets against the pro
duets of the cheaper labor of other
countries. who VIII? Is it any won
der that the gentlemen of the cham
Der of commerce OF London applaud
ed Mr.. Wilson when he uttered such a
sentiment?
government, for he said we are being
rapidly sObered, though unappalIed,
by the truth forced upon US that of
all human governments a free
government IS the most COMP e1I, and,
judged from the worlds experience,
the most uncertain and short
lived l beg to assure Mr. Viii
son of West Virginia that
the government of the United States
a free people, is safe and secure
quite secure as governments that are
conducted by the titled few, and that
a people like ours, capable of govern
ing themselves, and having so demon
strated for more than one hundred
years. will be alert enough to see to it
that no industrial policy shall long
lower the conditions of its people to
the level of their European rivals and
rob them Of their dignity and indie
Pendence-''