The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-15
Mckinney Buncornhe.

n -AEuitlul source OF Mckinney
buncombe is Europe. Our Repub
lican friends think it very smart
and patriotic to sneer at all the iv.
ilized world outside of the United
States. Whenever attention is call.
ed to the fact that the Mckinley
tariff has put us outside the pale
of international good will, these
smart gentlemen, like spoiled chill.
dren, perk up and say: "Who cares
for the sympathy or good will OF
other nations?''
There is no nation, however great
and powerful, that can afford to
despise the opinion of civilization.
For instance, take the case of Rus
STA. That great despotism surely
ouhgt to be impervious to popular
criticism in other countries, if any
power could be, but there is plenty
of evidence that il winces even un-
der magazine articles written by an
American citizen and makes con-
siderable effort one way and anoth-
er counterfeit their effect. 1t would
be easy 20 say that the Russian
Government need not care what
American people may think of it,
but clearly enough it does care.
There is no other influence in the
world so powerful in the long run
upon the conduct of men Us popu
lar opinio-:, and it is a force which
nations as well as individuals can
not affoad to 81 orn.
Much has been said lately of the
contingency of a war between the
United States and some other pow
er, Just as the friendship of man
is valued in the time of trouble, so
is the friendship of nations appre.
ciated in war time. Even yet the
pleasant relations which existed
between the Uuited States and Rus
sia during the Civil War tinge the
sentiment of the country toward
the great Muscovite power, and
even yet the hospitality of the rul-
ing classes of Great Britain toward
us ut that period affects our dispo-
sitiOn toward the nation which
would naturally be nearest us.
With every European nation
against us in time of warfare although
their governments might refrain
from openly aiding our opponents,
our difficulties would be enormously
increased. But we need not con.
jure up the image of war to appre-
ciate the advantage of international
friendship. 1t we desire to build
up foreign trade-it is rather diff
cult to find out whether our Repub.
lican friends are for or against the
advancement of foreign trade, but
we will give them the benefit of the
doubt-the first step in that direct
ion is to avoid stirring up unneces-
sary ill-feeling against US as ma
ton. 1t is besotted craftsmanship
that asks: "What do we care for
abroad?" The great man who
drafted and the great men who
signed the immortal Declaration had
'a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind"
With Pennsylvania Protectionists
calling in deputy sheriffs to defend
their property from their Hungar-
ian laborers, who were hired be-
cause they were cheap and were
imported to take the place of intel
ligent American labor, it is not a
happy time to talk about degrading
industrial enterprises to competition
with the pauper labor of Europe
There are few persons left now SC
dull as to imagine that the McKin.
ley duties were imposed to benefit
American laborcrs. They have 8
political, not an industrial reason
for existence. They form burden
upon the necks of all classes O
American citizens, us the people
have found out, placed there t.
benefit the employers oflabor out o
whom the "fat" is fried for the Re
publican party when election tim.
comes round. We are not sacri
ficing the worlds friendship TO
the sake of the American la
boring man, but for the "fat" tina
Quay can get out of the American
laboring mans employer.-Reqister