The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-29

lSSk-HfOI. W III. ~. NliSOn-lout
Democrats in and out Of Congress
who arc not pleased with certain feat
ures OF tho Wilson bill, especially those
who oppose free coal, are confronting
the William L. Wilson OF 1884 with tho
William l. Wilson of 1894, Then as
now Prof. Wilson was free trader, but
in that earlier day he could SEQ some
things for which now he has no eyes.
Compare Prof. Wilson on the Morrison
bill with Prof. Wilson on the Wilson
bill:
I. From HTliGn l. IFaon's From HiRlidm L Wilson's
2 speech OF Nays. ISL. sreech, JnnudrVS. 1891.
~ As / have said, ami The committee have
: in inror Of bill for the endeayorcd TO meet the
reduction OF taxes. duty entrusted to them
4 Where this bill ,depaTIsIaS far as they could by
from its general scheme releasing from taxation
Of merely reducing X-Ithose great interests on
Is and seeks to enargeIwhIch the Industrial
Z tho free list itbears un-Iprosperlty mud wcllbe-
evenly, and. aS l be-Ilng OF the American
lleve. unIustly on some Ipeoploa arc most depend
I OF the interests OF mylent They felt they
) own state. To take any lcould not begin to re-
2 one interest and trans form this system unless
fer IL suddenly 10 the lthey boldly and hon
free list Is TO bold 1t testify md unseldshly
tributary 10 all the rest. sought 10 relieve from
while peprlvlng Il oftnShtlon the great fan
nny.sharc In the COM damentll EnateriRls OF
mon protection. What American Industry. And
T ever reduction Is made $50 the bilt proposes to
should be made soput on inc free list
grudrllly az not TO those great elemental
wreck, to disturb or 10 materials OF Industry
( alarm lany OF our grcatlwool, Iron orc, conl and
{ industries. aud this re- lumber.
turn toward n peace
+ tariff ought to be made EFst
by even progress on o. FL
sca.e OF Justice to NIL.
to InJ1sS4 Prot. Wilson objected to the
sudden transfer to the free list OF "any
ono great industry" To-day no is
doing his level best to transfer to the
free. list, and with all tho suddenness of
which he complained in the Mills bill,
not. one great industry but the four
great industries OF wool, iron ore, coal
and lumber. It would fatigue the most
+ dcvilish ingenuity devise a scheme to
sinfict greater injury on the state Of
West Virginia.
It does. not follow that public man
who changes his opinions lays himself
open to tho public condemnation.
Change Of opinion is sometimes the
highest duty Of the statesman, but no
must justiiy the change OF view. What
! conditions attached TO wool, iron ore,
tcoal and lumber in 1854 that have dis
appeared in 1891? Why it it less un-
just to-day to place on the free list the
foreign products which compete with
Sthese homo industrie,2
n Prof. Wilson said in the house tho
other day thu. it makes no difference
what he thought aud said ten years ago.
1T makes great difference, for no can
show no difference in conditions to JUS
fifty hls'change Of opinion.
& InlsS4 ho thought it wrong ito dis
3turb or to alarm any OF our grea. indus.
stties.n In 1904 no is the author and
Echief champion OF bill which has dis
gturbed and alarmed all American in
9dustries. II i. was irupolitic and unjust
Ito DO this in 1854 it cannot DO polite
] and Just to do it in 1894.
Prof. Wilson OF 1854 meetsand COM
3ptetely oycrthrows the Prof. Wilson OF
1891. II tho people OF his district got
the chance they will finish tho job in
November next. There is some reason
TO apprehold that they may not get tho
chance.