The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-10
OVATION TO WILSON.
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old town, the county seat Of jefferson
county Not only did the democratic
voters from the rural districts and towns
and villages of the eastern panhandle
respond to the call of the local commit
tee arrangements, but the more remote
counties of the congressional district were
fully represented and not a few Old Vir-
ginians and citizens of Maryland, and
even of Pennsylvania journeyed by rail
to this out-of-the-way nook TO assist in
the welcome TO the great exponent of the
democratic policy and to listen to the ad-
dress he was to make
The arrangements for the events of the
day were set on foot about the time Mr..
Wilson sailed on his return voyage, and
he therefore had no idea of what was
going on until his arrival al New York
Saturday He was there apprised of the
arrangements, and as a result delayed
his arrival at his home until today in
order to meet the plans Of the local COM
mittee. Mr.. Wilson's party arrived at
Harper's Ferry on the main line Of the
Baltimore & Ohio road on board the Chi
c3go Express at O'Clock this afternoon.
Accompanying Mr.. Wilson were the Hon.
John l.. MacGr3w, chairman of the dem
ocratic congressional committee of the
district; the Hon. Robert Henter Of Vir-
g.nia; the Hon D. T. Barton Of
J. Nelson Of Fredericks City, Nd.
The Hon. B. T. Myers of Harrisburg Pa,
Joined the party a Harper's Ferry.
Reception Appreciated,
Mr. Wilson began his address with a
touching reference TO the great popular
demonstration which had greeted him
upon his return and thanked his fellow
citizens and his friends and neighbors for
the unanimity with which they had taken
p2rt in his welcome.
Referring TO political matters Mr.. Will
son said he should no, be able 10 take up
in an orderly and satisfactory manner
the discussion Of the public issues Of the
day, because IN y h31 been rushed from
zh- picard 10 train and from train 10 the
p-a1f l'n 'vi-h scarcely any chance for
tl1UgGt
1--WE have reached" said he. that stage
ia tha develoom M Of our country when
we ere compelled 20 have larger and larger
mark Is FOR cur surplus products and
when such markets, through foreign trade,
are only the Safety-ValVes for the heath
and prosperity of The American iaborer IN
the I'd and in the factory
He referred to ths struggle for lower
federal taxation as a wonderful and in
spring popular revolution, and pledged
the democracy. as the party OF the people,
to . on in the combat
Il for one said ne, do not believe x IS
to come unit. the results secured are fully
measured up t. the ardor and the enthusi-
asm of the people
con the one side lie good government,
honest. economical government, freed in
dusiry. large and expanding markets for
the products or American l3b0- and the
general dawning Of an era Of individual
prosperity. On the other side lie corrupt
government fettered and imprisoned in
dUs.r.- limitation by ,aw ON the. merlge.s
in which we are 10 se.!, and limitations hy
law for the amount which We can profit
so.y produce. Those are the two systems
r. ~ al issue before the American people
and as I have said before, giving d some
wh3t loc3. appp-cation 70 what I am GO
ing % say today. the question for The peo-
PIE Of jefferson county is more markets for
wheat and f5r the mechanics is more mar
kets Tor manufactured goods.
The Markets OF Europe.
IF there is one thing to which I gave
more attention than another during my
brief absence from this country it was
to the condition Of the wheat market os
the old world. When 1 inquired WHY it
was that wheat has gone down to price
much lower Than il has ever sold before
in the history of at least modern England
and America the answer was there Is a
universal glut and a production beyond
profitable demand; that not only $ he
United States increasing her surplHf eN-
port Of wheat and Russia increasing her
surplus export of wheat, but Argen .ne
IS coming forward and is now thiri IN
quantity exported to European mar
kets cannot but recall the
and before the people OF this coun-
try that the American lax on the woods
Of Argentine made them give up their
sheep walks ana go into competition with
YOU in the production of wheat. l say il
is for you today question OF markets
4 question of consumers, the world over
for The products you produce. L believe 50
far as the great cereals are concerned we
produce enough TO feed a population twice
as large as our own. believe so 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 markets2 Upon the
one system we have been holding l0 for
thirty years tariff walls to keep other peo-
pie from coming in 10 compete with as in
a home market already glutted. We have
now begun 10 tear down our tariff walls
To let us out with our products to COM
pete with the rest of the world, in all the
markets of the world
That London Speech.
while l was in London about two
weeks ago I was honOred, very uneXpect-
edly to myself, with an invitation by the
chamber of commerce to be their guest
at a public dinner. / was surprised. I
was almost sorry in one sense to receive
sucn an invitation, because / was seeking
rest, and know then as well as 1 know
today that what | would say on that oc-
casicn would be perverted and falsified
before the American people, and Yer L
did not think j need be afraid TO talk
to the people of London as / talked TO
the people of West Virginia. So talked
TO them just what 1 say to you today
that in the past we had been holding up
our tariff to keep them out Of the Amer
lean markets, and now we are tearing
down the tariff to enable US TO meet
them in all other markets Of the world;
and 1 said 10 them that not only In the
great products of agriculture, not only
ia our wheat, corn, cotton, beef and meat
products, but in the products of our man.
uflctures they might henceforth find US
competing with all in all the markets
that they sought. Thirty years ago we
began to shut ourselves in from all the
we called the American merchant in from
off the seas and surrendered the oceans
to England and other nations to traverse
them with their ships
When last Friday morning in fierce
gale, when l was off the banks of New
Foundland on one of these great ocean
ships which seemed almost to be able to
defy the fury Of the storm and yet
was tossed about like a cork upon the
waters, I spied off in a fog a few fishing
SclOOners and 1 felt that the men who
could venture out in such weather in
their LITTLE fishing bOatS were the men