Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — CHAIRMAN WILSON ABROAD. [ARTICLE]

CHAIRMAN WILSON ABROAD.

Dlned by the London Chamber of Com merce. Congressman.W. L. Wilson, author o£ the “Wilson bill,” now traveling in Eng* 1 and, was entertained by the London Chamber of Commerce, Thursday evening, About seventy guests were including J. Sterling Morton, Secretary) of Agriculture, and his two sons. Pant and Joy Morton; Congressman Isidor) Straus, of New York; Sir Courtney Ei Boyle, Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, and a number of leading men iii trade and commerce, Mr, Wilson, rising to respond to a toast, after acknowledging the honor conferred upon him, said: All the people saw that our tariff system was generating a breed of monopolists so powerful as to defy the la,w, and which used part of the wealth they drew front sharing in the power of taxation to increase their privileges, debauch elections and corrupt legislation. lam quite sure that our protective policy has already served to promote the trade of other nations, and if continued it would still further promote such trade, and pre-emi-nently your own. So, standing before yoit a representative of those who are striving for a freer commercial policy for the* United States, 1 fear I cannot ask you td rejoice at its adoption, except as you may prefer right principles to selfish advantages. Protection lias seen our voluntary withdrawal from tne seas and from the neutral markets. Our protectionists have been building defenses to keep you and. other nations from competing with us in our home market. The tariff reformers are breaking down these defenses. Let us compete iijal) the markets of the world. Not only Is our production of cotton and! food products growing more rapidly than our consumption, but we have to-day a manufacturing plant which, urged to its foil capacity, can, in six months fully, meet our demands for a year. After referring to the growth of American trade returns “even under protection,” Mr, Wilson predicted that “now, when released Irbm such vicious laws, there will bo a new era and a revival of a steady increase in our exports, both of food products and manufactured articles. The nations of the world are drawing into nearer* and more neighborly intercourse, and the manufacturing supremacy of the world musteventually pass to that nation which, having the largest supply, shall apply it to the highest intelligence and enterprise. We are constantly confirmed in the belief,” continued Mr. Wilson, “that our supply of materials is more exhaustless and more cheaply handled than that of any other people, and if we continue to be underlings it is our own fault.” Secretary Morton also addressed the asaemblageand indorsed tlie'sentiinents expressed byMr. Wilson.

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