The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-10-08
The Republican Alarmlsts Again In Very
Deep Gloom.
PROTECTION WAR CRY FOR 1896.
They sec Appalling Dangers 60 Our
Industries I'm japan Old John
Hull Scurcrrow E.nid Away md
Horns Put ON The Jap -OricntnIs
hmbifioE 10 Send ~ Cotton. Etr'

excited Arbitration for its skill if it has
raised disgust ut it's insincerity. Nocur-
ner into which they have been driven by
reason, facts or logic was too tight to
hold them. When you thought you had
them nailed down and chained up be-
yond the possibility of movement, presto
and there they were out in tho open as
saucy and audacious as ever. 1t is IA con
tinual hunt for what Holmes calls that
medieval gentleman in semilunar
smails who Is never there when you
put your finger on him. In private life
ono soon learns better than to waste
thought or timo in contests with so
shifty an antagonist, but in public there
is tho great audience Watching the con-
test and making up its mind deliberate.
~ ns to tho merits of tho case, caring
httlo FOR tho contestants, but very much
Tor the truth of the matter So il makey
1t incumbent on the journalist to fol.
low his elusive opponent from one field
to tho others on which ho roappears ana
smitc him there hip aud thigh.
For many years Eng land has been tho
stock economic bugaboo Of the Republic
an press and stumpcrs 1t has boon set
up and knocked down, tricked out in
hideous and tcarSomo array and shaken
before aifrightcd audiences with an
effect that has been gradually wearing
oil, until the expressions of alarm have
Tor tho most part given way to the in
dnlgcnt smile that implies II knowledge
Of the hollOwnoSs of the ogre. English
free trade, English l-aScr labor, Eng
fish gold, the Cuhdcn club, tho flood OF
cheap English goods, the cunning Eng
lishncn seeking to break down our
trade barriers and dclugc us with cheap
products, and then, when they had
silcncod the guns of our poor manufac-
turcrs, run up prices with rush-all this
is evidently regarded now by the oppo-
sition as being played out. The spectacle
of our manufacturers sending their
wares into Eng land, onr iron ore and
iron, our steel rails and woolcus, our
boots and shoes and leather, makes tho
lachrymosc warming of ruin appear so
ridiculous that even Republican obi
tor pcrceives its absurdity and beats Il
retreat But if one hugahoo becomes m
serviceablo another must be found or
acknowledgment made that tho Zig is
wolld Is secured for ono, and it is found
i'll Japan.
Some ono writes to that organ of pro-
tcctioniStS, cumically named Tho Amer.
lean Economist for no other porceptiblo
reason than that it is not economic. Dor.
traying in vivid colors the danger TO
our industries that turks in the new
nation which has SO suddenly and
dramatically taken its place among tho
powers. We have again the appalling
narrative of low wages coupled with re-
markablc ingenuity and productiveness,
which, i'll the domain Of cottous, has
already made the cotton makers Of even
old England quake in their boots.
Due stress is laid on the DEVELOPMENT
i'll tho mechanical industries, and am
pie warning is given that here is pco-
pie capable OF producing the things civil
h2cd Americans need so chcuplv that
unless the barriers are put uI higher
than ever the good people IF this coun-
try will he supplied with them at prices
unhcard of, To the utter discontinue uf
the gentlemen who have been supplying
them ut figures which admitted Of their
enjoying AL the comforts of lifu III a
satisfactory and liberal manner. Con-
tent heretofore To send us thcir quaint
brlc-a brac, these Yankees of the far
orient arc now ambitions to send MS cot
tons and silks, ironclads and bicycles
and other things indispensable III any
we'll supplied American homc
Thus, as the silver lining of their
cloud fades into pervading gloom on the
eastern horizon, the western edge bright
ems and glows. Tho old buguboo takes
on new hgbiliments 1t 10 longer dan.
giles before the public eye as the fat,
purse proud, grasping. cunning and
schcming John Bull Int ig now tho
olive colorcd, almond eyed, sleek, suave,
sklrted Jap, doxtrous Of hand and nim-
bic Of wit, initiative as his Simiau an
cestry, appropriating our implements Of
industry and manning them with labor
indifferent to its dignity, happy with
out pianos III its homes or chromos on
their walls Send John Bull and all
those paraphcrnalia 10 the garnet. Bring
on the Jap. Get out the red paint and
make him hidcous with it. Put horns
on his head and make his feet clovcn.
and let the warcry of 1896 be: ''UL
with protection Down with tho Japa.
nesc r'-St. Paul Globe.