The Lake Charles echo., 1894-10-26
WILSON IN ENGLAND.
POINTS MADE IN HIS SPEECH A
THE LONDON BANQUET.

Has Faith In the Permanent Freedom Of
the United states- -IsrItOns DO Not Re-
JOioe Mt the Prospect Of American Com
petition In the Worlds Trade.
If the facts narrated in the news col
umns Of the papers that Mr.. Wilson,
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee, had sought recuperation in an
ocean trip and had been rendered ban
quet by the London Chamber of Com
meree and had made some remarks
there in response to a toast; il these
facts had, we say, escaped the notice Of
the readers of Republican papers when
they appeared in the news items, the
dextrous and versatile commentators on
events in the editorial columns have
fully acquainted them with them.
They, the unfortunate readers, have
been told that it was eminently proper
that Mr.. Wilson should fly to England
as soon as the tariff act was law to
receive the thanks of the only people he
had served, and it was most fitting that
they should receive him with open
arms and fete and toast him as they
would any other gentleman who had
rendered them a distinguished and
profitable service.
Governor Mckinley has followed his
editorial leaders with rtmarks to his
audiences in the same strain, and the
affair rises into one of international i'm
port and one Of prime political or parti-
san Importance. Much is made of mi
nor matters in times Of political stress,
and the attention given this dinner is
another gauge of the paucity Of re-
sources to which the opponents Of the
once &. 0. p. are reduced.
| Mr.. Wilson made two points in his
speech that are worthy, the one of the
attention of our people, the other Of
those whose representatives he address
ed. I'VE are being rapidly sobered, y
he said, "by the truth forced upon as
that of all human governments free
government is the most complex, and
judgingfrom the world experience the
most uncertain and short lived. +"
For this be has been severely CRITICS.
cd by his opponents in the press and on
the stump. But Mr.. Wilson was amply
justified in his observation. He had just
come from a prolonged and but partial
ly successful struggle with banefu1 and
selfish trusts which had fastened them
selves ON the government and swerTed
Its powers to their gain.
In actual conflict with the trusts he
had found them, as he says, liable tC
defy the law and use the wealth they
drew from sharing in the power of taxa
4 ton to increase their privileges, de
hauch elections and corrupt legisla
tion. " How can o republic stand when
such is the oaseS How can we say thai
it il a republic, a free country, where
such conditions exist? 1t is true, as h'
saws, that this exposition of the power
of the trusts and monopolists craftily
gained while the attention Of the people
was diverted, has rapidly sobered th'
people to a sense Of their danger ant
the dangers to their institutions ant
\ aroused them 10 the overthrow Of theil
enemies. II ID the confidence in thu
feeling of the people that made Mr.
Wilson say that, complex and Difficult
as Is the administration Of the affairs o
a penuhlio and short lived as other
have been, freedom here will not per
ish, and that while other nation
have been great in war, commerce
science, etc, we can be great in all ant
great in the greatness of permanen
freedom"
Mr.. Wilson said nothing that bis au
ditors had not known and thought 9
long ago when he warned them Of tn
contest for the trade Of tho world whicl
they would have to meet when thi
country shall have removed the barrier
IL has raised between her own manu-