The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-05-06
ENGLAND AND THE DEMOCRAcY.

The nation is on the threshold of
another Presidential campaign. The
issues to be decided are not less mo-
mentouS than those of 1888. Upon the
verdict of the voters next November
will depend the industrial independence
of the United States. Republican tri-
umph means the maintenance of the pro-
tective tariff, the continuous develop
ment of American industries and the Sc
curing of the home market for Ameri-
can products. A sweeping Democratic
victory would reverse the nations in
dustrial progress. 1t would put the fact
DRY fires out, stop the whir of thousands
of looms, throw open the American mar
ket to the foreigner and place the Amer
lean consumer at the mercy of the Brit
ish manufacturer.
In the contest just beginning the work
of the foreign manufacturers will be
done by the Democratic party. There
is nothing that Great Britain would like
to see better than Democratic success.
1t would take millions of dollars out of
American pockets and put them into
British pockets. 1t would make us once
more commercial dependency of Great
Britain. 1t would restore England to
the industrial supremacy of the world.
Nobody understands this better than
British manufacturers. The following
extract from an editorial in London En-
cheering of April Sth, one of the leading
trade journals of Great Britain, shows
how American politics are regarded in
England. In speaking of the exports of
British manufacturers to this country
the article in question says: 1.-THE vol
ume of that export trade has decreased
it is true; the Mckinley bill was in
tended to foster native industries, es-
pecially the tin plate industry, and this
it is doing, to a very satisfactory extent
from the American point of view, and
just so much as it has stimulated Amer
lean industries at the expense of our own,
by just that extent it is regarded with
favor by large majority in the United
States, no matter what their shades of
political opinion may be. There is a
somewhat general idea in this country
that the Mckinley Tariff bill will be re-
pealed before long, or at all events be so
much modified that the sting will be
taken out of those clauses most object
ionable to British manufacturers; and it
is for this reason that the hopes of the
Democrats for the approaching Presl-
dental election are so largely shared in
this country"
England is for the Democrat party be-
cause that party is for British interests
and against American interests. "The
hopes of the Democrats are the hopes
of the British manufacturer. The ause
of the Democrats is the cause of Great
Britain. 1t is useless for Democrats to
deny this fact when the principal jour
nails of England themselves acknowledge
it.
No words of sympathy for the Repub-
lican party are found in the British
newspapers. "The hopes" of the par
ty are not shared by British capitalists.
The voter who wants to aggrandize arts
tocratic Great Britain at the expense of
republican America has no business in
the Republican ranks. The voter who
wants to maintain American labor, pros
perity and independence has no right to
be anywhere else. Repubicanism and
Americanism are synonymous terms.