The Monticellonian., 1894-10-26
THE RETURN OF WILSON.
The West Virginia Congressman Fon Fl
 London Speech.

| HpteChs
 | Upon his return from England Con- 1 gressman ". L.. Wilson was warmly
 received at his home in Charle ston,
 w Va, and in the course of hisIre- marks alluded to his speech at fthe London banquet
 I've have reacbe ed,"s said Mr.. Will 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 a wonde] ful thing, inspiring popular revolmt ion, and pledged the demoeracys as the party of the people, to go onlin the combat. He continued:
 T for one. do not believe h isl to come until the results secured are fully m ensured up to the ardor and the enthusiasm of the people. On the one side lie good goYeT nment honest, | economical government, freed industry, large and expanding markets for the products of l American labor and general dawning of an
 era of individual prosperityi, On the other i side lie corrupt government. dettered and im- | prisoned industry, lmitatio by law on the
 markets in which are to sell and limitations l by law for the amount which we can proftably l produce
 If there is one thing to w tch gave moro i attention than another during ny brief absence ] from this country 1t was to Inc condition of 1 the wheat market Of the old world. When 1 inquired why 1t was that wheatthas gone down
 to price much lower than il |. is ever sold be-
 fora ff tha fzt.1 ffa hnHa Er,trI
 and America the answer was, there is uni
 versal giut and a production beyond profitable
 demand. that. not only Is thetEEited States
 increasing her surplus export oi wheat and
 Russia increasing her surplus export Of wheat
 but Argentine Is coming forward and Is now
 third in quantity exported tos European mar
 kets. Ieannot but recall the fact, and haYe
 stated It again and again before the people of
 this country, that the American tax on the
 weols of Argentine made them give up their
 sheep walks and go inSo compettttoniWtth you
 in the production of wheat.
 T say 1t is for you to-day a question of mar-
 kets-a question of consumers, the world over, l for the products you produce. l believe, so
 far as the great cereals are concerned, We pro-
 duce enough to feed q population twice as
 large as our own believe, ss far as staple manufactures are concerned, we produce
 enough to supply a population as large as our own. The question is, where are we to get
 these markets: Upon the onesystq m we have l been hOlu1ng up TOT thirty yeG.rS taulU walls to l keep other people from coming in Ito compete
 with us in a home market already glutted We have now Eegun to tear dowil our tartR
 walls to let us out with our products to com
 pete with the rest of the world in an the mar i kets of theworld.
 i While l was in London, about two weeks
 ago, was honored very unexpectedly to my l self, with an invitation bS the chamber of com merce to be their guest Ut public dinner. i was surprised. l was almost sorry in one l sense to receive such an invitation, because i was seeking rest and I knew then as well as l know to-day that what would say on that oc-
 casion would be perverted and faistfed before l the American people, and, yet l did not think 1 need be afraid to talk to the people of London
 as l talked to the people of West Virginia. i And so told them just what 1 have said to I you to-day, that in the past we had been i building up our tariff ao keep them out of ] American markets. and now tearing l down the tariff to let Us out into their and all i the other markets of tlbe world And l said l to them that not only In the great products of l agriculture. not only in onr wheat, corn. cot
 ton, beef and meat products, but in the prod-
 nets Of our manufactures they might hence- I forth find us competing with them in all the
 markets that they souFht 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 eff the
 seas and surrendered the oeelns to England l and other nations to traverse them with their i ShinS.n