Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-05-15
The Lion or the Eagle ?

Are the peoplefof these United States
of America To- produce what we use, OF
are foreign nations to do our work for us
Are we to be an independent people, OF
are we to be dependent for our supplies
on other nations in general and Great
Britain in particular ?
If these questions have not received
sufficient emphasis during the last lew
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 I'M
equivocal. If the Anglomaniacs can al
ford to make Americanism the coming
issue we can afford to have them. A col
umn of sneers at American products may
satiate a few of the readers OF the New
York Times paragraphs bellttllng
American manufactures may tickle a few
of those who stroke the lions name with
the editor!of the Post but do loyal, pa
triotic Democrats want to be numbered
among this band of commercial sneak
thieves, who would hand over our indus
tries to that notorious fence" known as
the British Crown?
On the editorial page of the New York
Times last Sunday appeared a reprint
from an obscure sheet denouncing the
SIN for giving a good report Of THE
TARIFF lI.EAGUE banquet, and calling
particular attention to its American fea-
lures. This report appeared under the
following headlines
THOROUGHLY AMERICAN.
UNIQUE BANQUET OF THE PROTECTIVE
M TARIFF LEAGUE.
CELEBRATING GLORIES OF THE
TARIFF.
MAJOR MCKINLEY DESCRIBES ITS BENE-
FITS TO THE PEOPLE.
The Sneakers and their Sentiments, Too,
Ueye Amst76aN Through and Through
Then says this obscure sheet, which the
Times so prominently indorses:
After this conspicuous illustration Of its
sti ong sympathy with the leading feature OF
modern Republican propaganda, it is difficult
to conceive how the SIN can longer mas
querade as a Democratic paper.
Is there any installing these words
The Heading feature" alluded TO was the
plorihcation of American institutions, of
American labor, of American industry,
OF American progress. Is the Demo-
cratic 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
bid 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 t. 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-
press the sentiment Of the Democratic
party let them be proclaimed far and
wide:
I am Free.Trader because am Demo
crat.
am for Mills of Texas, for speaker Of
thesHouse, because 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 percent
ages merely.
Unfurl your flag, gentlemen, and let 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 America ?--Ame1f1aH Economist.