The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-08


New York as she came up from Quar-
- antine and carried to Mr.. Wilson the
irst home news he had received for
some time.
His attention was called to the Suns
report of the speeches of Major Nc
Kinley, commenting on the London
speech and the chamber of commerce
dinner. He read this attentively, and,
putting down the paper. remarked:
1.-THE best answer to all this is the
speech I delivered. and which Major
Mckinley is criticising.
HIendacious Mckinley.
eff Major Mckinley is rightly re-
ported, he has simply garbled my
speech by using the first half of a
sentence to twist it in one way and
emitting she last half which could not
be so used. knew full well that what
ever 1 might say on such an occasion
Nwould be thus garbled and falsely pre-
scented to the American people by pro-
teAction speakers and papers. and so
did what seldom do. or have time to
dedicated and gave to the press an
accurate synopsis Of my speech and a
full copy of the address to the London
Times. which called forth the long ed
itorial in that paper the next day,
from which Mr.. Mckinley and his fol-
lowers may take all the comfort they
= can draw.
81 went abroad at my doctors sug-
gestions. to shake off my unspeakable
fatigue, so as to take part as much as
I visited friends at Oxford and Cam
bridge Everybody being, in London
phrase. out of town. / saw few public
men. The dinner rendered me was,
felt, too great an honor to my coun-
try and myself to be declined, coming
from the great commercial chamber
of the world. L accepted. feeling that
I could not show my appreciation Of
it better than speaking as an Ameri-
can citizen and exactly as l speak here
at home. In this 1 was not deceived
Ny speech was received by the whole
audience in the spirit in which it was
made, and while many. perhaps most
of them. may have disagreed with
me. 1 founa that more than one long
headed Eng'ishman agreed that our
reduced tariff would make us a great
competitor la the worlds markets, and
eventually regain for us our share Of
the carrying trade of the world"
Refusal Would Have Been Churiish.
In London Mr.. Wilson paid not the
slightest attention to politics and saw
few public men. except at the chamber
of commerce dinner. The English pub
/. lie men so far seem to know but little
, of the new tariff. and he heard not
many expressions of opinion. on the
subject But as a general rule the
English people always welcome any
thing that viii promote trade.
Mr.. Strauss here interposed and de-
clared that Mr. Wilson. with charac-
teristic modestv. had tried hard to con-
ceal himself and keep out of public no.
4ice. but the hospitable British bust
ness men had learned of his presence
;n London and insisted on entertaining
him.
The entertainers, Mr.. Straus added,
are the greatest merchants of the world,
and the compliment paid to Mr.. Wilson.
as a. tribute to his distinguished ability
and great reputation as patriot, is
one that few Americans have received
An foreign country. Mr.. Wilson re-
peated that he was perfectly well aware
of the use the Republicans would make
of the incident, and for him to have
refused it. would have been ill-bred,
churlish and cowardly.
Trusts in England.
Ny Wilson was asked whether he had
made any investigation about trusts
in England.
II did not, this time" he replied,
ssbut when 1 was in England in 1889
did and discussed the subject in a
series of articles 1 wrote for the Sun
at that time. Some Of those articles
were written from England. Trusts, as
we know them, of course cannot exist
in Great Britain. Where the whole
!. world is free to compete no trust can
IA corner the market
with regard to coal, Mr.. Wilson stat
ed that the English syndicate which
formerly owned the Nova Scotia mines
were much pleased at getting rid OF
the property Practically, bunker coal
was on the free list in the Mckinley
bill. Foreign Steamships could and
can buy Nova Scotia coal at Boston,
New York or at any American port
free of duty. and vet they prefer TO buy
the Maryland and Virginia coal. This
fact alorc ought to do away with the
scare about free coal.
IF you should unfortunately be FOL
the House." observed Mr.. Straus, q
have no Goubt. the people of West
Virginia viii insist on putting you in
the Senate
Il much prefer the House." Mr.. VIII