The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-09
WILSON OPENS up
He Commences the Campaign in
His District.
Has No Apologies to Make for
His London Speech.
STUDIED THE MARKET.
He Gave Special Attention to
Wheat While Abroad.

yesterday afternoon. HIS home
coming was welcomed by a grand
demonstra ton. which was participated
IN by friends and neigh bors from all
over the district. Mr.. Wilson IN re-
spending began his address with a
touching reference to the great pop
ular demonstra ton which had greeted
him upon his return, and thanked his
fellow citizens and his friends and
neighbors for the unanimity with
which they had taken part in his vel
come Referring to political matte RS,
he said he should not be able to take
up in any ordinary and satisfactory
manner the discussion OF the public
issues of the day, because ne had
been rushed from shipbOard to train,
and from train to the platform, with
scarcely any chance for thought
I'VE have reached said he, that
stage in the development of cur cOun-
try when we are compelled to have
larger and larger markets Tor our sur
plus products, and when such mar
kets. through foreign trade, are the
only safety valves for the health and
prosperity of the American labOrer IN
the field and in the factory" He re-
ferred to the struggle for federal tax
alton as a wonderful and inspiring
popular resolution, and pledged the
Democracy as the party of the people
to go on in the ornbat-
II, for one" said he, ssdo not be-
Ieve it is to come until the results
are fully measured up to the ardOr
and enthusiasm Of the people. On
one side lie good, honest, economical
government, free Industry, large and
expand ng markets for the products
of American labor, and a general
daWniner of an era of individual pros
perity On the other side lie cor
rupt government, fettered and i'm
prisoned industry. Limitation by law
on the markets in which we are to
sell and limitations by law for the
amount which We can probably pro
duce- Those are the two questions
at issue before the American people,
and, as 1 have said before, giving q
somewhat local application to what
am going to say to-day, the ques-
tion for the people of DickersOn
county. is more market for wheat,
and for the mechanics is more mar
ket for manufactured goods.
IF there IS one thing TO which
gave more attention than another
during my brief absence from this
country it was to the cOndi ton of
the wheat market of the old world.
When I inquired Why it was that
wheat has gone down to q price much
lower than 1t has ever sold for before
in the history of at least modern
England and America, the answer
was. there is a universal Flut and q
production beyond a prof ia BILE de-
mand; that not only is the United
States increa her surplus export
Of wheat, and Russia increasing her
surplus export Of wheat, but Argen-
tine is coming forward and IS now
third in quality exported to European
markets. i can not but recall the
fact. and I have stated it again and
again before the people of the coun-
try, that the Americans tax upon the
woods OF Argentine made them give
up their sheep hoclxs and go into com
petition with you in the produc-
ton OF wheat. say it is for
you to-day a question of mar
kets-a question Of consumers
the world over for the products you
produce I believe SO far as the great
cereals are concerned we produces
enough to. feed a pOpu lation twice as
large as our own. I believe SO far as
staple manufactures are concerned
we produce enough to supply a pOpu-
1ati0n as large as our own The ques-
ton is, where are we to get these
markets? Upon the old system we
have been holding up for thirty years
tariff walls to keep other people from
coming in 10 compete with us in
home market already glutted- We
have now begun to tear down our tar
if walls to ! ct US out with our pro-
ducts to compete with the rest OF the
world in all the markets Of the world.
while I was u London about two
weeks
expectedIy to myself, with an invita-
ton BY the chamber Of commerce to
be their guest at public dinner. I
was surprised, was almost sorry in
one sense to receive such an invita-
ton. because I was seeking rest and
knew then as well as I know to-day
that what 1 would say On that occa-
sion would be perverted and falsified
before the American peOpls and yet I
did not think l need be afraid to talk
to the people Of London as 7 talked
to the people Of West Virginia. So I
talked to them Just what say to you
to-day that in the past we had been
building up our tariff to keep them
out Of the Amer can markets and now
we are tearing them down to let US
out in theirs and all the other mar
lets OF the world. And I said to
them that not only ia the great pro-
duet Of agriculture. not only in our
wheat, corn, cotton, beef and meat
products, but in the products Of
our manufactures they might hence
forth find us compe ting with them in
all the markets they sought
Thirty years age we began to shut
ourselves in from all the markets of
the world: thirty years ago we called
the American merchant IN from of
the seas and surrendered the oceans
to England and other nations to
traverse them with their ships When
last Friday morning in fierce gale
when I was of the banks OF New
fOundland on one of those great
ocean ships, which seemed almost tc
be able to DEFY the" furry OF the storm
and yet WIS tossed about like a cork
upon the waters, I spied of IN q fog
few fishing schooners and felt the
men who would venture out in such