New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-01
PROFESSOR WILSON IN LONDON.
HE FORGOT FEW PERTINENT FACTS WHEN HE
ADDRESSED TIE LONDON CHAMBER
DAiAi

or COMMERCE.
Washington Sept 80 (Specian.-Whre Chairman
Wilson Of the Ways and Means Committee. was en-
joying the viands and wines. ana 2recly drinking
in the app OF the London Chamber Of Commerce
Thursday night he gave thought to the s'ress
ana suffering entailc1 upon hundreds of thousanl,
OF mis- own coun;rymen and their families b. the ac-
ton OF himself and mis- fellow Democrats in Con
gross and their threat which he repeated OF further
and more radical action in the same direction, un-
less it when he declared that unprotected Amer
lean Industries would give higher wages 10 American
waCe-earners. Among other things he said.
The workingmen of America were constantly told.
and for time induced to believe. that better wages
and higher standard OF living depended solely
upon the taxation of foreign importation: that any
reduction of this taxation would plunge them in the
hOpelessness o; The sJ-calici pauper labor II Eu-
rope. II was against such arguments they had been
compelled sov.y and laborously to MAINTAIN a fight
The American people however were not hard 20
educate when they once gave their attention u the
great question of their taxation. because they
had been trained in The great principles Of liberty.
Yet. when Mr. Wilson said that. he must have been
conscious that the earnings OF coal miners in his
dstric: curtaed under the mere threat
of free coal. and mus, stand permanent reduction
under the reduced duty AGAINST which he 50
stubborniy fought. He must also have been con-
scious that the wage-earners in every other pro-
ductive industry in his district and STATE. rs well
in every other State. have suffered on account Of
what Congress has already done and the threats of
himself and his fellow Democrats as t. what they
still propose to DO. He mus, also have been CON
scious that in his district to-day. in which a
few small manufa curing industries are struggling
to exist and grow. hundreds Of wage-earncrs are
idle on account of the paralysis caused 10y what
Democratic Congress has already done and throa tens
vet 10 do Mr.. Wilson IS not reported a: having
said what 50 many democratic in this country are
saving every day-that the enactment Of recent tariff
legislation has been followed 10y revival of manu-
featuring industries. while carefully ignoring III"
fact that without exception in every establishment
reopened the number of wagcearners is smaller and
the wages less than before the recent actoh "i
the Democratic Congress.
In this relation statement made by Representa-
tive Aldrch. of Chicago is pertinent ana interest
ing His district includes South Chicago where
large number Of manufacturing establishments are
situated Mr. AIdrch was in Washington this
week. and before coming here he made tour
OF observation through these establishments. IN"
result of his personal observation and Inquiries
was that in the manufactures which have re
sumed operations under the new law the average
number of hands employed Is about one-iourth as
large as II was formerly. and that the wages OF
those who employed range from 10 to % pr
cent and In or two cases ~ per cent lower
than they did before those industries were par
alyzed 10y Democratic threats OF lrcetrade l"gi'a-
ton.
fact like this would Sem to- be Gpie as yg
meeting Of the London Chamber OF Comm"rcc last
is His,issinS !.the markets OF the world So eo-
dressing audiences composed OF American wage
earners I'm his own West Virginia district next
month when he declared that the American tariff
refOrmers" are now tearing down the dcfcnces
which have been built 70 prevent the omnaton Of
the American home market by British am other
foreigners Chairman Wilson's great and good
friend Sir Arthur Kaye Rott. we'll Irosl-
lent Britain. Of the Sheffield Chamber ~ Com
merce: President Eastwood Of the Iiuddershcll
Chamber OF Commerce. and the other eminent
Englshmen who sat a the festive board must
have applaudel that statement. bat thcy were not
moved to mirth. they were when Nr. Wilson re
marked that he not sure that he could call
upon his hearers 10 rejoice at the acaoinplish-
ment of tariff reform I'm the United States. "Ncop'
inasmuch they approved sound principles more
than they valued selfish advantage. This remark
rewarded with Hear Hear and laughter.
which would to indicate that after al tho
Engshman is not destitute OF the sens" 81 huWOr.