The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-08
The GREAT CAUSE,
William l.. Wilson Sounds
the Keynote of the Con,
gressional Campaign.
SPEECH AT CHARLESTON
Unnecessary Taxation Is Direct
Robbery of the Poor-Pro-
gress the Watehword'
Phases of the Local Campaign
Democratic Enrolment and
Primaries = Warning
Republicans.
SPEECH AT CHARLESTON

CHARLESTOWN, w. Va, Oct. ., lisa
CONGRESSMAN w. L. Wilson opened ms
campaign here today amid much en-
thusiasm He was accompanied from
Washington by Hon. John T. McCra"'
Chairman of the Democratic Congress
sional Committee, and w. A. CroHut.
At Harper's Ferry, ten miles from this
city. delegation of leading Democrats,
headed by Col Anderson, Chairman OF
the Jefferson County Democratic Com
mittee, met the distinguished tariff re-
former and welcomed him to his native
State OF West Virginia and to the dis
triet he has so long and ably represent
cd Arriving here he was met by an
enthusiastic crowd of Democrats, VINO
cis. cred him to the echo. Preceded oy
the local band a procession was formed,
and with Mr.. Wilson, Mr.. Mccraw' Col
Anderson and others, the procession pro-
ceeded to the Assembly Hall
WILSON'S SPEECH.
After making due acknowledgement for
the welcome given him, Mr.. Wilson SAID
In part:-'I do not for one moment SINK
this demonstration into mere personal
welcome to me as your countryman OF
even as a candidate for public offlce. II
shows your unfiagging interest in great
cause, and your sturdy purpose 10 pe
contented with no half or partial VIC
tory for that cause The battle for tarlH
reform and industrial freedom has peen
a wonderful and inspiring contest. lts
earnestness, its enthusiasm, its patrlotic
and almost heroic ardor, its persistence
all make it one of the great popular up
rfssngs of our history. In view OF all
this we cannot believe that the results
already accomplished, the ground already
won, is all that is to come from this
grand effort of the people. They are
but the promise and the guaranty OF
final and lasting success, measuring up
TO the magnitude and the earnestness
of the. popular movement.
s.The' issue today is between those who
wish to hold on to what we have gained
and to push onward to complete vic
tory. and those who wish to undo what
we have gained and return TO the sys-
tenn which the people have assayed to
overthrow. In the one direction lie
good government just taxation, rest
from agitation and discomfort, with un-
limited expansion of all those great in
dustries through which labor finds en-
ployrnent and the masses of our people
achieve plenty and prosperity. In the
other direction lie corrupt government,
class taxation, renewed and perpetual
agitation and discomfort, with an arti-
fetal limitation of the great industries
that give employment to labor and pros
perity to the people.
PROTECTION IS ROBBERY.
s'To deprive any citizen of the fruits
of his own toll by unjust taxation is
robbery. To deprive him of the oppor-
tunity to toll for his living is still worse
robbery. We have reached stage in
our development where the great need,
the absolute necessity of the American
farmer and laborer is larger markets
for what he produces. Our capacity for
producing has far outstripped our own
power of consuming. For a surplus of
farm products or of manufactured goods
there is but one healthy safety-valve, and
that is commerce. Without that safety
valve there is distress and suffocation.
Without buyers for our products there
Is no employment or precarious employ
ment and scant wages for labor. These
are simple truths, but they are for most
American workingmen tremendous truths
for they control their welfare and decide
their condition in life.
American industry is, today, thanks
to the recent action of the Democratic
party, about to enter, is already enter
ing, upon new era. Its worst fetters
are broken. The dawn of a new day
is lighting its horizon. The signs of a
business revival are unmistakable, not,
let US hope. by any sudden and un-
healthy expansion, which will speedily
break down again, but by the steady
growth that carries no reaction with it,