The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-10-11

Baltimore, Oct. O. - The Baltimore
Sun correspondent boarded the New
York rs she came UP from quarantine
and carried to Mr.. Wilson the first
home news he hid received for some
time. His attention was called to
the speech of MAJ. Mckinley COM
menting On the London speech and the
chamber of commerce dinner. He
read this attentiy ely, and, putting
down the paper, remarked:
1.-THE best answer to all this Is the
speech delivered and which Maj.
Mckinley is criticising. If Mai. Nc
Kinley is rightly reported he has
simply garbled my speech by taking
the first half of q sentence to twist it
one way and emitting the other half,
which showed 1t could not be 50 used.
/ knew full well that whatever /
might say on such question would
be thus garbled and falsely presented
to the American people by protection
list speakers and papers, and so / did
what seldom do or have time to do
dictate and gave Reuters Press full
and accurate copy Of my remarks in
advance. My speech was reported
fairly well in the London Times. and
called for the long editorial in that
paper the next day, from which Maj.
Mckinley and his followers may take
all the comfort they can draw. / mean
now, that it has been so garbled, to
publish the speech in full and spread
1t over my district. 1t is just what /
have been saying and shall continue
to say to my own people.
Considered 1t an Honor.
Il went abroad at my doctors sug-
gestion to shake of my unspeakable
fatigue, so as to take as much part as
/ could in the campaign. In England
l 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 country
and myself to decline, coming from
the greatest commercial chamber of
the world, and accepted, feeling that
/ could not show my appreciation of
1t better than speaking as an Ameri-
can citizen and exactly as l speak
here at home. In this was not de-
ceived. NV speech was received by
the whole audience in the spirit in
which it was made, and while many,
perhaps most of them, may have dis
agreed with me, ] found more than
one long-headed Englishman who
agreed that our reduced tariff would
make us a great competitor in the
worlds markets, and eventually re-
e.. Ii. <1F ysnrp
trade of the world"
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
public men, he said, so far seem to
know but little of the new tariff, and
he heard not many expressions of
opinion on the subject. but as gen.
eral rule the English people welcome
anything that will promote trade.
Mr.. Straus here interposed and de-
clared that Mr.. Wilson, with char
acteristic modesty, had tried hard to
conceal himself and keep out of public
notice, But the hospitable British
business man had learned of his pres
ence In London, and
Insisted ON Being HOspitable.
The entertainers, Mr. Straus added,
are the greatest merchants of the
world, and the complement paid to
Mr.. Wilson, as tribute to his dis
tinguished ability and great reputa-
ton as a patriot, Is one that few
Americans have received in foreign
country. Mr.. Wilson repeated he was
De, fectly aware of the use the Re
pubIicans would make of the incident,
bus to have refused to attend the
banquet, he said, would have been III
lied, churlish and coward1y.
Mr. Wilson was asked whether he
hal made an Investigation about
trusts In England,
81 did not this time," he replied,
''bpt when 1 vas in England in 1850
/ DID, and discussed the subject in a
series of articles l wrote for the Sun
ut that time. Some of these articles
were written from England. Trusts
as we know them cannot exist in
Great Britain Where the whole world
is free to G me In and compete no
trust can corher the market
With regard To coal, Mr.. Wilson TN
derstands tn 1t the English syndicate
which formerly owned the NoIa
Scotia mines were much pie l,el at
getting rid of the property. Practical
ly bunker coal was on the free list in
the Mckinley bill. Foreign steamships
could and can buy Nova Scotia coal
at Boston or any American port free
Of duty, and yet they prefer to buy the
Maryland and Virginia coal. This
fact alone ought to do away with the
scare about free coal,
IF you should unfortunately be de-
feated for the house," observed Mr.
Straus, II have no doubt the people of
West Virginia will insist ON putting
you in the senate"
II much prefer the house, Mr.. Will
son replied. st is a far greater and
more attractive field"
Mr.. Wilson proposes to begin his