Show egotistical MR comments on ills speech before the chamber of commerce baltimore md oct 7 abe baltimore sun correspondent boarde dj tho new york as she came up from quarantine and carried to mr wilson the first home news he had received for como time ilia attention was called to the suns report of the speeches of major mckinley McKin loy commenting on tho london speech and tho chamber of commerce dinner he read this attentively and putting down the paper beu that the beet answer to all this is the I 1 delivered and which major mckinley is criticizing criticising critic ising if major mckinley is rightly reported ho has garbled my speech by using he first half of a sentence to twist it in one way and omitting the last half which could not be used I 1 know full well that whatever I 1 might eay on such an occasion would be thus garbled and falsely presented to the american people by protection speakers and papers and I 1 did what I 1 seldom do or leave time to do dictated and gave to lieu ira agency an accurate copy in advance my speech was reported fairly well in the london times and it called forth the long editorial in that paper next day from which mr mckinley and his followers may take all the comfort they can draw 1 I went abroad at my doctors suggestion to shake off my unspeakable fatigue so s to take part indich possible in the campaign in england t visited friends at oxford and cambridge everybody being in london phrase out of town I 1 saw a few public men the dinner tendered me was I 1 felt too great an honor to my country and myself to be declined coming from the creat commercial chamber of the world I 1 accepted feeling that I 1 could not show my appreciation of it better than speaking as an american citizen and exactly as I 1 speak here at home in this I 1 was deceived my speech was received by the whole audience in the spirit in which it was made and while many perhaps most of them may have disagreed with me I 1 found that than one levelheaded level headed englishman gl ishman agreed that our reduced tariff would mako us a geat competitor in the worlds markets and eventually regain for us our share of the carrying of the world in london lr wilson paid not the slightest attention to politics and saw few public men except at the chamber of commerce dinner the english public men so far to enow but little of the new tariff and ho did not hear many expressions ot opinion on the subject but as a general rule the people always welcome any thing will promote trade mr strauss here interposed and declared that mr wilson with characteristic modesty had tried hard to conceal him belf and keep out of public notice but the hospitable british business men had learned of his presence in london and insisted on entertaining him the entertainer mr strauss added are the greatest merchants of the and the compliment paid to mr wilson as a tribute to his distinguished ability and great reputation as a patriot is one that few americans have received in a foreign country mr wilson repeated that he well aware of tho use the republicans would make of the incident and for him to have refused it would have been ill bred churlish and cowardly mr wilson was asked whether he had made any about trusts in england 1 did not this time ho replied ren lied but when I 1 was in england in 1889 I 1 did and discussed the subject in a series of articles I 1 wrote for the sun at that time some of those articles were written from england trusts as we know them of course cannot exist in great britain where the whole world is free to compete no trust can corner tho market with regard to coal mr wilson stated that tho english syndicate who formerly owned the nova scotia coal minea much pleaded at getting rid of the property practically bunker coal was on the free list in the mckinley bill foreign steamships could and can buy nova scotia coal at boston new york and at any american port free of duty and yet they prefer to buy the maryland and virginia coal this fact alone kueht to do away with the decare about free coal it you should unfortunately be defeated for the house observed mr strauss 1 I have no doubt the people ot west virginia will insist on putting you in the senate 1 I much prefer tho house mr wilson replied it ia a far creator and more active body mr proposes to begin his canvass at once |