The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-29
Gov. McKinley's Comment on
Wilson's London Banquet.
ENGLAND OUR INDUSTRIAL FOE.
If Europe Manufactures Our Goods
Our Labor viii Be Idle.
NiIis and Factories. but How Is the
American Workman Benefitee.-sen-
ator HiiPs Campaign for Governor.

GAIIERoLIs, O., Sept. A-3ov McKin-
ley spoke here toaIgh, 10 q big audience
Many people came from nearby West yir-
ginia points TO hear him. In the course
of his long address Gov. Mckinley in
auirsd what industries the tariff law of
Isai created and what existing industries
il had stimulated, and said:
al find an answer to my question in q
newspaper dispatch of today from Lon
don, furnishing particulars of banquet
gwen By the Chamber of Commerce of
London 10 Mr.. Wilson, member of con-
gress from West Virginia, whose rugged
hiIisides | see Just over the river. Sir
bert Roliitt, who presided at the ban
quet, said that Mr.. Wilson's name had
become hanored and familiar in England
and that London. In honoring him. hon.
ored itself; that the new tariff law, while
it might not have reaIized the expectations
of its promoters. had already benefited En-
slard. Furnaces have been reopened in
Wales and Yorkshire. and an impetus has
been given TO the textile industries.
This will be cheering news TO the peo-
pie OF the United States. and will bring
comfort to the idle men who for a year
have been waiting for ths American mills
20 reopen. You have not heard of any COM
mercal body IN the United States, through
its spokesman, declaring any industries in
America have been stimulated oy this lax.
whatever benefits have gone TO other coun-
tries While the banquet st London y as
proceeding the Board of Trade of Edin-
burgh sent its congratulations. There
was singular absence OF any American
dispatches
"Here IS the word of announcement
from Mr.. Wilson himself. which ne gave
10 the gentlemen. He said: Our protec-
tionists have been building defensss TO
keep you and other nations from compe;-
ing with Gs in our home markets. The
tiriff reformers are breaking down these
de.eases' That is what We object to- II
We do not defend our home markets
against the products of the cheaper labor
of other countries, who will? Is it
any wonder that the people of the Cham
Der of Commerce apniauded Mr.. Wilson
when he uttered such a statement Mr.
Wilson even despairs of free government,
Tor he says We are being rapidly sobered,
though unappailed, by the truth forced
upon Us that OF all human governments
free government is the most
complex, and jddged from the worlds
experience the most uncertain and
shortest lived. beg to assure Mr. Will
son, Of West Virginia, that the government
OF the United States. resting as ii does on
the free will of free people, Is safe and
sscure--quiie as secure as the gov
ernmenis that are conducted by the titled
few, and that free people ike
ours. capable of governing themselves
and having so demonstrated for more than
Io5 years. will he alert enough to see to it
sh9r no industrial poiicy shall long con-
tjnue in this country that will lower the
condition of its people to the level of their
European rivals, and rob them of their
dignity and independence"