Show REPLY the wilson gorman bill improves great condition but we yet to hear of a american industry that will be Benent ted by it gallipolis Galli polis 0 sept 28 mckinley spoke here tonight to a big audience many people came from nearby west virginia points to hear him in the course of his long address governor mckinley inquired what in the tariff law of 1894 created and what existing industries it had stimulated and said 1 I find answer to mv question tion in a newspaper dispatch of today from london furnishing particulars tic ulars of a banquet given by the chamber of commerce of london to mr wilson member of congress from the state of west virginia whose rugged hillsides I 1 see just the river sir albert collitt Rol litt who presided at the banquet said that mr wilsons name had become honored and familiar in england and that london him honored itself that the new tariff law while it might not hare realized the aspiration of its promoters had already benefited england 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 people of the united states and will bring comfort to the idle men who for a year have been waiting for the american mills to reopen you have not heard of any commercial bodies 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 proceeding the board of trade at edinburgh SENT ITS there was a singular absence of any american dispatches here is of encouragement mr wilson himself gave to the gentlemen of london he said our protectionists have been building defenses to keep and other nations from competing with us in oar home markets the tariff reformers are breaking down aliese defenses that continued governor mckinley is what we object to if we do not defend our home markets against the products of the cheaper labor of other countries who will 7 Is it any wonder that the gentlemen of the chamber of commerce of london applauded it mr wilson even dea paira of free government for he said we are being rapidly sobered tob ered though by the truth forced upon us that of al human governments the free government is the most complex and judging from the worlds experience is the most uncertain aud shortest lived I 1 beg to assure mr wilson of west virginia that the government of the united states resting as it does upon the free will of a tree people is sate and secure quite as secure as the governments that are conducted by the titled few and that a free people like ours capable of governing themselves and having so demonstrated for more than a hundred years will be alert enough to see to it that no industrial policy shall long continue 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 |