The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-14
WILSON'S GREAT SPEECH.
Senate Bill, Even, Less Burdensome
Than the Mckinley MOnstrosity.


Mr. Wilson took the floor. He spoke |
calmly, but eloquently, the Democrats
crowding about him and listening in
tently to his every word. Again and
again the applause broke forth.
Mr.. Speaker" he said, II have made
the motion, which L have sent to the
clerks desk, not on my own response
bility or from my own volition, but as
the official organ of the caucus of my
associates on this side of the House
and by their direction. l shall say very
little myself on this occasion in advo-
cacy of this motion, and [ am sincere
and frank in what I shall submit to
the House. l DO not pretend | am
gratified at the outcome of this pro-
longed controversy. / do not pretend
that up to the very last I had not cher
ished the hope and the faith that we
would reach another and a better and
a more satisfactory conclusion of this
conflict between the two houses of the
American Congress. l had hoped and
believed, until there seemed to be no
ground scarcely for hope and belief,
that in such contest, this House,
backed by the American people and en-
Enthusiastically sustained by the Dem
ocratic party, would be able to achieve
some honorable compromise between
the two houses which we could have
accepted, not from sense of duty, but
with a sense of satisfaction and a feel
| ing that we had responded to the man
| dates of the American people
A Lesson Learned.
But, Mr. Speaker. we have simply
realized in this great fight, the fact so
well stated by the great leader of tariff
reform fight, on the great question,
that when the people had gained a VIC
tory at the polls. they must have a fur
| Their Stand-up-and-knock fight
With their own representatives. And
we have realized, if nothing else. the
salutary lesson of the intrenchment of
the political system in this country
under thirty years of class legislation.
until the mere matter of tariff sched-
ules is a matter of insignifcance, and
the great question presents itself. is
this to be a government by self-taxing
lpeople, or a government by trusts and
monopolists? applause on the Demo
jcratic side)
eff we have taken out of this fight
no other lesson than that, it has been
to us a great, an inspiring and valua-
BILE lesson. If we have not been able to
get all the mandates the people told us
to get, all the high enthusiasm the
people expected to get, we have brought
this dangerous fact face to face with
American freemen, and we have maze
some breach in the protective system
through which the hosts of American
freemen will continue to march. CAD
plause on the Democratic side)
II shall not attempt, as I said in the
outset, to explain the merits or dwell
upon the dement's of the six hundred
odd amendments to this bill which thi.
House is about, of necessity, to concu1
in. Perhaps / could not do Justice. a:
yet, to the merits of the case. NY at
tention has been so steadily directed
to the dement's that it would reuuir,
some experience to learn what the mer
its are. daughter and applauge)
Better Than the Mckinley Bill.
/ but whatever the measure of short
e comings of this bill n,its present for m
! whatever be its dement's in man
/ schedules, this I do know-that it i
: better than the Mckinley law Dem
4 ocratic applause) This 1 do know
i that in a part of it, it does afford som
: relief to the taxpayers of the country
n and does clip the wings of the gian
t monopolies which are now oppressin
n them and blocking legislation (applaus
e on the Democratic side; derisive erie
e on the Republican side.
!. Take even those portions of the hi
|, lover which this contest between tn
d two houses has BEN waged: take iro
d ore and coal. upon which we have cor