Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-18
The RETURN OF WILSON.

The West Virginia Congressman ON HIS
London Speech.
Upon his return from England Con-
gresham w. L. Wilson was warmly
received at his home in Charleston,
w. Va, and in the course of his re-
marks alluded to his speech at the
London banquet.
I'VE have reached" said Mr.. Wil-
son. "that stage in the development
of our country when we are compelled
to have larger and larger markets for
our surplus products, and when such
markets, through foreign trade, are
the only safety valves for the health
and the prosperity of the American
laborer in the field and in the fac
tory"
He referred to the struggle for lower
federal taxation as wonderful thing.
inspiring popular revolution, and
pledged the democracy, as the party
of the people, to go on in the combat
He continued:
II for one do not believe it is to come until
the results secured are fully measured up to
the ardor and the enthusiasm of the people.
On the one side lie good government, honest,
economical government, freed industry, large
and expanding markets for the products OF
era of individual prosperity. On the other
side lie corrupt 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 prohtabiy
produce
If there is one thing to which gave more
attention than another during my brief absence
from this country 1t was to the condition OF
the wheat market OF the old world. When
inquired why 1t was that wheat has gone down
To, r,rico 1nxv han a M.
fore in the history Of at least modern England
aud America the answer was. there Is uni
versal glut and a production beyond profitable
demand that. not only is the United states
increasing her surplus export OF wheat and
Russia increasing her surplus export OF wheat,
but Argentine Is coming forward and Is now
third In quantity exported to European mar
kets. cannot but recall the fact and have
stated it again and again before the people OF
this country. that the American tax on the
woods OF Argentine made them give up their
sheep walks and 60 into competition with you
In the production Of wheat
IT say it is for you to-day question Of mar
kets-a question OF consumers the world over,
for the products you produce. believe, so
far as the great cereals are concerned. we pro-
duce enough to feed population twice as
large as own believe, far as staple
manufactures are concerned, We produces
enough to supply population as large as our
own. The question Is, where are We to get
these markets? Upon the one system we have
been holding up for thirty years tariff walls to
keep other people from coming in to compete
with US in home market already glutted
We have now begun to tear down our tariff
walls to let us out with our products to COM
pete with the rest OF the world in all the mar
kets Of theworld.
while was in London, about two weeks
ago. was honored very unexpectedly to my
self, with an invitation by the chamber of com-
merce to be their guest at q public dinner. ]
was surprised, I was almost sorry In one
sense, to receive such an invitation, because
was seeking rest, and knew then as well as
know to-day that what would say on that &C.
casion would be perverted and falsihed before
the American people. and yet did not think
need be afraid to talk to the people OF London
as talked to the people of West Virginia
And so told them just ~nat have said to
yoY to-day, that II the past We had been
building up Cur tariff to keep them out of
american markets. and now we are tearing
down the tariff to let us out into their and all
the other markets Of the world And / said
to them that not only in the great products OF
agriculture. not only in our wheat, corn, cot
ton beef and meat products. but in the prod
ucts Of our manufactures they might hence
forth find US competing with them in all the
markets that they sought. Thirty years ago
we began to shut ourselves in from all the
markets Of the world; thirty years ago we
called the American merchant In from on the
seas and surrendered the oceans to England
and other nations to traverse them with their