Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-04
HnHnREp IN ENGLAND.

The dinner in honor of Mr.. Wilson, who
was the author Of the Wilson tariff bill,
given by the London Chamber of Com
merce a few evenings ago, was aremarka'
BILE affair in some respects, but it can
hardly be wondered that the gentlemen OF
the London Chamber of Commerce, inter
ested as they are in the extending OF the
trade of England, should feel called upon
to dine Mr.. Wilson, who was so conspic-
uously prominent in the passage of the
new tariff law. under which the Lon
doners have found it possible to send SO
many more of the articles manufactured
in their country into the United States.
Without any other evidence to prove 1t
we are safe in assuming that gpere is toe
much intelligence among American clti'
gems to prompt them in coming TO any
other conclusion than that the British
gentlemen interested in the extension oil
the trade of their own country law some
thing of advantage to them in the tarln
efforts of Mr.. Wilson, or they would not
have gone to the trouble and expense oi
givi ng a feast in his honor.
To be sure, there are plenty of other evl
dences of the delight of Englishmen In
terested in the promotion of their OWL
trade over the tariff policy advocated by
| Mr.. Wilson and the party he represents
| but this adds new one, readily grasped
| and cannot fail to appeal to the gooe
sense of the honest Democrats who woult
| not knowingly cast a vote calculated u
| place in power those who are willing ant
| anxious to surrender our markets to th'
cheap labor productions of another coun
| try, to the certain detriment OF our owl
| manufacturers and the workingmen wht
are employed by them. Those Democrats
who are yet of the opinion that they VII
| vote the ticket of the party of which Mr.
| Wilson is a leader may well be expected
| to stop and consider seriously what thu
honor paid by the London Chamber o
| Commerce to Mr.. Wilson really means
| If thev will give the subject any consider
| alton it cannot be doubted that they vii
| not hesitate about joining the great ma
| iority who have already made up thel
/ minds that the best way to keep English
| men from providing dinners for Mr.. vii
| son, and others like him, is to provide
| policy of government for the Unlte'
| States under which the workingmen an'
| their families can count on more and bet
ter dinners than many of them have en-
| joyed since the party and the policy
| Mr.. Wilson came into power.
| At the London dinner the toast to Mr.
| Wilson was proposed by Sir Albert Rol
| lit. Mark the language used on the occa
sion by Sir Rollit:
| Nothing, he went on, could be wors
than a war between the two great allies
That was why arbitration in the Ala
bama and Bering sea cases was accept
able to great Britain. He was not sur
| that the worst wars of the future woult
not be tariff wars. If, as he hoped, tn
period of tariffs was beginning to end
both countries ought to honor Mr. VII
son. The new tariff might not have real
ized the aspirations of its promoters, bu
it had established freer system of trad
and substituted a certainty for an uncer
tainty, to the benefit of both countries.
Benefits had already been experienced
I'm England Furnaces had been reopene'
I'm Wales and i'm Yorkshire, and an i'm
| pStus nAu Dsen given W @h0 |eAsH0 aA
dustries. He again welcomed Mr.. VIII
SON and MT. Morton, whose names h
had coupled I'm the toast.
| And the response of Mr.. Wilson Is o
equal interest There was no attempt be
| tween the two who so well understood
each other to hold back anything or tr,
to refrain from speaking to the point Mr.
| Wilson said, among other things:
"Our protectionists have been buildini
dsfenses to keep you and other nation
| from competing with in our hom
| market. The tariff reformers are break
ing down these defenses.
''Let compete in all the markets o
| the VT. Not only is our production
cotton and food products growing NOR
rapidly than our consumption, but w
| have today a manufacturing plant which
urged to its full capacity, can in sil
months fully meet our demands for
| year"
Are there any people here left who thinl
| for themselves who will give support t.
the Wilson policy, which is the Demo
cratic policy, after such an admission a
that made by Wilson in Londonf