Show BROOD O 11 MONOPOLl T Results of the Protective Tariff ctve Ta System of the United States IDED AND ABETTED DEFIERS OF THE LAW PEOPLES MONEY USED TO DEBAUCH AND CORRUPT Nation of the World Are Growing More and More Neighborly and Manufacturing Supremacy Must Pass to the Nation Having the Largest Supply and the Highest Intelligence and Enterprise Says Ulr Wilson i London Sept 27The dinner given by the chamber of commerce to Congressman Con-gressman W L Wilson took place ait the Hotel Metropole this evening About seventy guests were present including in-cluding J Sterling Morton secretary of agriculture and his two sons Paul and Joyce Morton Congressman Strauss of New York Sir Courtney E Boyle permanent per-manent secretary of the board of trade and a number of leading men in trade and commerce United States Ambassador Ambas-sador Bayard and James R Roosevelt secretary of the United States embassy sent regrets After the toasts to the queen had been drunk the chairman proposed a toast to the president of the United States He referred in eulogistic terms to Americas former representatives in London Lowell Lincoln and Phelps and the present representative Mr Bayard the mention of whose names w greeted with loud cheers He extended ex-tended a hearty welcome to9 the guests and to Secretary Morton as representing the American government The toast was drunk standing amid loud and prolonged cheers Proposing a toast to the guests Sir Albert Rollltt said Mr Wilsons name had become honored and familiar in England In honoring the guests he said they were honoring London and its chamber of commerce asked him to take back with him a message of peace and goodwill Nothing he went on could be worse than a war between the two great allies That was why arbitration arbitra-tion in the Alabama and Behring sea was acceptable to Great Britain If as he hoped the period of tariffs was beginning be-ginning to end both countries ought to honor Mr Wilson Benefit had already I been experienced in England Furnaces had been reopened in Wales and Yorkshire York-shire and an impetus had been given to the textile Industry gven Mr Wilson rising to respond rsing repond was greeted with cheers which lasted for several minutes The various points in his speech were also warmly cheered After acknowledging the honor conferred con-ferred upon him and reciting the events of the long truggle to overthrow protection tection Mr Wilson said Brood of Monopolists All the people saw our system was generating a brood of monopolists so powerful as to defy the law and which used part of the wealth they drew from sharing in the power of taxation to increase in-crease their privileges debauch elections elec-tions and corrupt legislation I am quite sure our protective policy has already served to promote the trade of other nations and if continued con-tinued it would still further promote such trade and preeminently your own So standing before you a representative representa-tive of those who are striving for a freer commercial policy for the United I J States I fear I cannot ask you to rejoice re-joice In Its adoption except a you may prefer right principle to selfish advantages ad-vantages Protection has seen our I voluntary withdrawal from the seas and from the natural markets Our protectionists have been building de fences to keep you and other nations from competing in our home markets The tariff reformers are breaking down these defences Let us compete in all markets of the world Not only is our production of cotton and food products growing more rapidly than our consumption con-sumption but we nave today a manufacturing manu-facturing plant which urged to its full capacity would in six months fully meet our demands for a year The nations of the world are growing more and more neighborly and the manufacturing supremacy of the world must eventually pass to that nation which having the largest supply shall apply enterprise It to the highest intelligence and We are constantly confirmed in the belief continued Mr Wilson that our supply of materials is more exhaustless ex-haustless and more cheaply handled than that of any other people and i we continue be underlings it is our own fault We are being rapidly sobered though unappalled by the truth forced upon us that of all human governments a free government is the most complex and difficult and judging from the worlds experience the most uncertain and shortlived Our institutions are strong because they are deeply rooted in the past I is for you and for us to show that while other nations have been great in war commerce science etc we can val cmmerce scence be great in all and great in the greatness great-ness of permanent freedom I Adieu Protection Secretary Morton was the next speaker He said Mr Wilson had stated what was absolutely correct and that the people of America had finally said adieu to the protective system sys-tem Free trade had been used a a bogie with Americans but at last the I farmers recognized that free trade did not compel trade anywhere but simply sim-ply permitted an American citizen to trade wherever it was most advantageous advanta-geous Mr Morton said We as geus 111 Americans feel at home here and the remark was loudly che erd Sir Courtney Boyle toasting Sir Albert Al-bert Rollitt said they owed a debt of gratitude to Mr Wilson and his cool colleagues in Congress and they hoped their action wa not final He declared their claim was just that they had changed the policy of America Amer-ica from a harmful one to one befitting befit-ting not only themselves but the commerce of the world |