Show WILSON ON THE RETURNS does not believe that tariff reform has been rebuked new york nov 11 in a letter to the press from washington hon L wilson his views of tho cause of defeat u hard times is enemy before which nu political party in america has ever been ablo to make a successful stand when in power this Is and perhaps always will be a weak point in popular government when labor Is out of employment when farm products low when our financial ays ten is the administration of government and the most laws do not avail to save from temporary and disastrous overthrow moreover the whole leeching of the protective system trains men to depend not on individual ei eibrt rrt the plain virtues of industry thrift and temperance for business prosperity and material comport com lort but on government aid and lars of Oon eress lt me add also that we together with other progressive nations arc now passing an area of change of of somewhat tumultuous agitation the abid adoption of the great instruments of modern industry and trade the complete revolution which these are bringing about in production and distribution their heady obliteration of am memorial handicrafts thir dislocation of many industries all thi together with the unsettled relations between labor and capital has swept us into an era where for some year it a be increasingly crea singly dini cult for any one parly to hold ou to alie federal government lor any long time 1 I do not believe the people hive re baked or discarded td tariff reform in their action last tuesday in evary campaign kinoe 1830 except that of the democratic party has won a decided victory on that issue to contend therefore that the people have now chastised the cratic party for doing what they put into their power to do Is to question their honesty and intelligence if they have indicted chastisement it is because the party did not carry out with promptness and thoroughness the work they committed to it the long and indefensible delay in ahn sinister suspicions that fathered ea around certain schedules and as they are framed a disappointment and disgust among the rank and file of the party that led to apathy and even misjudged honesty in the recent elections 1 I have no doubt that had the bill passed the house on the 1st day of february passed the senate as earla may n substantially its original shape the result in missouri and in many other sections of the country would have becsi reversed and the democrats might hare weathered the industrial storm with credit if not success washington D 0 nov ll 11 W L wilbel stopped over in washington aisy ti sy and left tonight new kniland where he delivered three lectures he denied a published report anat li was to succeed attorney general ainey in pet nothing has been said to me on the subject not is there likely to be for attorney general cincy Is a better attorney general than I 1 would be |