The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-06-04
THE LION OR THE
Il Americanism to De the Issue In the
Coming Campaign?

Il Amerfc8nfem co Be tnog issue In the
Coming Campaign?
The American Economist has the fol-
lowing spirited editorial in recent
issue:
Are the people of these United States
Of America to produce what we use, or
are foreign nations to do our work for
us? ATE we to be an Independent people,
or are we to be dependent for our sup
plies on other nations in general, and
Great Britain in particular?
If these questions have not received
sufficient emphasis during the last few
weeks we propose to raise them SO en-
phatically that our mugwump friends
will not be able to sneak away without
an answer, and that answer must be un-
equivocal. If the Anglomaniacs can
afford to make Americanism the coming
issue we can afford to have them. A
column of sneers at American products
may satiate a few of the readers of the
New York Times; paragraphs belittling
American manufactures may tickle a
few of those who stroke the lions name
with the editor of The Post; but do
loyal, patriotic Democrats want to be
numbered among this band of CONNER
cial sneak thieves, who would hand over
our industries to that notorious "fence"
known as the British CROWN
On the editorial page Of the New York
Times last Sunday appeared reprint
from an obscure sheet denouncing The
Sun for giving good report of the Tariff
League banquet, and calling particular
attention to its American features. This
report appeared under the following
headlines:
Thoroughly American. Unique BAN
quet of the Protective Tariff league. Cele-
brating glories Of the tariff. Major Nc
Kinley describes its benefits to the
people. The speakers and their senti-
ments, too, were American through and
through"
Then, says this obscure sheet, which
The Times SO prominently indorses:
"After this conspicuous illustration of
its strong sympathy with the leading
feature of modern Republican propa-
ganda, it is difficult to conceive how The
Sun can longer masquerade as Demo
cratic paper"
Is there any mistaking these words?
The "leading feature" alluded to was the
glorifcation of American institutions, of
American labor, of American industry,
of American progress. Is the Democratic
party then to join the mugwump band
of pirates who would infest the sea of
our unparalleled prosperity, pull down
the Stars and Stripes and raise the black
flag of Free-trade and misery? Shades of
Jefferson and jackson and Randall for
bidl But if it is to be so we want to
know it, and we want the people to know
it. Let the issue be made squarely and
boldly. Let US have no more straddling.
Is it to be America for Americans or is
it to be rule Britannia? The mask of
"tariff reform" is too transparent for
further use. If the following utterances
from Congressman johnson, of Ohio, ex-
presses the sentiment of the Democratic
party Let them be proclaimed far and
wide:
81 am Free-trader because I am a
Democrat.
II am for Mills, of Texas, for speaker
Of the house, because I want to have an
out and out Free-trader take the chair
held by Reed.
"Let Democratic leaders, then, be
men They acknowledge Free-trade in
private, let them stop talking in public
Of percentages merely"
Unfurl your flag, gentlemen, and lei
the colors be the same on both sides.
Raise your emblem and let us hear
whether it roars or screams. Are you
for England or America2