The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-10-12

You thought you had
d down and chained up
he possibility of movement,
Rand there they were out in
pen as saucy and audacious as
1t is a continual hunt for what
ines call that medieval gentle
In in semi.lunar smalls" who is
yer there when YOU put your finger
'on him. In private life one soon
learns better than to waste thought
or time in contests with so shifty an
antagonist, but in public there is the
great audience watching the contest
and making up its mind deliberately
as to the merits Of the case, caring
little for the contestants, but very
much for the truth of the matter.
So it makes it incumbent on the
journalist to follow his elusive op-
ponent from one field to the other
on which he reappears and smite
him there hip and thigh.
For many years England has been
the stock economic bugaboo of the
Republican press and stumpers. 1t
has been set up and knocked down,
tricked out in hideous and fearsome
array and shaken before affrighted
audiences with an effect that has
been gradually wearing off, until the
expressions of alarm have for the
most part given way to the indulgent
smile that implies a knowledge of
the hollowness of the ogre. English
free trade, English pauper labor,
English gold, the Golden club, the
flood of cheap English goods, the
cunning Englishmen seeking to
break down our trade barriers and
delude us with cheap products, and
then, when they had sileneed the
guns of our poor manufacturers, run
up prices with rush--all this is
evidently regarded now by the oppo-
sltion as being played out The
spectacle OF our manufacturers send
ing their wares into England, our
iron ore and iron, our steel rails and
woolens. our boots and shoes and
leather, makes the lachrymose warn
ing of ruin appear 50 ridiculous that
even Republican editor perceives
its absnrdity and beats retreat.
But if one bugaboo becomes unser-
vleeable another must be found or
acknowledgment made that the
zig is up" with the party of buga.
boos. So the world is secured for
one, and it is found in Japan.
. Some one writes to that organ of
protectionists, comically named The
American Economist for no other
perceptible reason than that it is not
economic, portraying in vivid colors
the danger to our industries that
turks In the new nation which has
so suddenly and dramatically taken
It's place among the powers. We have
again the appalling narrative of low
wages coupled with remarkable in
genuity and productiveness, which,
IN the domain of cottons, has already
made the cotton makers of even old
Eng land quake in their boots.
Due stress is laid on the develop
ment in the mechanical industries,
and ample warning is given that
here is a people capable of produc-
ing the things civilized Americans
need so eheaply that unless the bar
riers are put up higher than ever the
good people of this country will be
supplied with them at prices unheard
of, to the utter discontinue of the
gentlemen who have been supplying
them at figures which admitted of
their enjoying all the comforts of
life in a satisfactory and liberal man
ner. Content heretofore to send us
their quaint bric.a brac, these Yam
KEGS of the far orient are now ambi-
tious to send US cottons and silks,
ironclads and bicycles and other
things indispensable in any well
supplied American home.
Thus, as the silver lining of their
cloud fades into pervading gloom on
the eastern horizon, the western edge
brightens and CLOVIS. The old buga-
boo takes on new habiliments. 1t no
longer bangles before the public eye
as the fat, purse proud, grasping,
cunning and scheming John Bail,
but is now the olive colored, almond
eyed, sleek, suave, skirted Jap, dex-
trous of hand and nimble of wit, i'm
itative as his simian ancestry, APP
propriating our implements of indus
try and manning them with labor in
different to its dignity, happy with
out pianos in its homes or chromos
on their walls. Send John Bull and
all those paraphernalia to the garrett
Bring on the Jap. Get out the red
paint and make him hideous with it.
Put horns on his head and make his
feet cloyen, and let the warcry of
1896 be: Cup with protection Down
with the Japanese"
The Little Babies BOOhO0ed.