Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-04
Mckinley Answers Wilson.

At Gallipolis, o. last Friday night in
beautiful park on the bank ofthe ONO river
the author Of the Mckinley tariff law, paid
his compliments to the author oil the VII
son tariff law. II was notable occasion.
There was a good-sized audience present,
co imposed in part Of West Virginians, who
Joined as heartily as their Ohio neighbors
in applanding the satirical references to
the famous West Virginian who is the head
of the Ways aud Means Committee OF the
National House OF Representatives,, Mr..
Wilson. In the course Of his long address
Governor Mckinley inquired what indus
tries the tariff law of 1894 created, and
what existing industries it had stimulated,
and said:
| find answer to my question IN tie
newspaper dispatches of to-day from Lon
don. furnishing particulars of banquet
ziven by the Chamber of Commerce OF
London to Mr.. Wilson, member OF Con
press from the State of West Virginia,
whose rugged hill.ides | see just over the
river.
Sir Albert Kaye Rollitt, who presided 1t
the banquet, said that Mr.. Wilson's name
had become honored and familiar in Eng
land. and that London in honoring hin
honored itself; that the new tariff law,
while 1t might not have realized the asp'ra
tions of its promoters, had already benefit
ed England Furnaces have been reopen
ed in Wales and Yorkshire, and an I'M
petus has been given to the textile INDUS
tries.
This will be cheering news to the people
of the United States, and will bring COM
fort to the idle men who for more than
rear have been waiting for the American
mills to reopen. You have not heard OF
any commercial body in the United States
through its spokesman declaring that any
industries IN America have been stimulated
by this law, whatever benefits have gone
to other countries.
While the banquet at London was pro-
ceeding, the Board of Trade OF Edinburgh
sent its congratulations. There was q stu
GUAR absence of any American dispatches.
prolonged applause Here ID word OF
encouragement which Mr.. Wilson himself
gave to the gentleman of London. He
said:
Our protectionists have been building
defensss to keep you and other nations
from com peting with US in our markets.
The tariff reformers are breaking down
these defenses.
That is what we object to. l. we do not
defend our home markets against the
products of the cheaper labor OF other coun-
tries, who willf Is it any wonder that the
Chamber OF Commerce OF London applaud-
ed Mr.. Wilson when he uttered such senti-
mentf
Mr.. Wilson 9 ven despairs of free govern
ment, for he said we are being rapidly
sobered, though unaDpalled by the truth
forced upon us, that Of all human govern
ments free government is the most com
plex and difficult, and, judging from the
worlds experience, the most uncertain and
short-lived. | beg to assure Mr.. Wilson OF
West Virginia, that the Government OF the
United States, resting as it does upon the
will of free people, is safe and secure
quite as secure as the governments that are
conducted by the titled few; and that free
people like ours, capable of governing them
selves, and having so demonstrated for more
than 100 years, will be alert enough to see
to it that no industrial policy shall long
continue in this country that will lower
the conditions of its people to the level Of
their European rivals and rob them of their
dignity and Independence.