The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-09-26
PARTY OF BUGABOOS.
REPUBLICAN ALARMlsrs AGAIN DEEP
IN GLOOM.

See Appalling Dangers TO Our Industries
In Japan - Old John Bull scareorow
Laid Away and Horns Put on the Jap.
Projections warory For 1900.
Time and again the dexterity Of the
fencing of oupRepublican opponents has
excited admiration for its skill If it has
raised disgust at its insincas.ty. No cor
ner into which they have been driven by
reason, facts or lot was too tight to
hold them. When thought you had
them nailed down o4d chained up be-
yond the possibility of movement, presto |
and there they were out in the open as
saucy and audacious as ever, It is con-
tinual hunt for what Holmes calls that
medieval gentleman in semilunar
malls" who Is never 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 con.
test and making up its mind deliberate
ly as to the merits of the case, caring
little for the contestants, but very much
for the truth Of the matter. SO it makes
II incumbent on the journalist to fol.
low his elusive opponent from one field
to the others ON which he reappears and
smite him there hip and thigh.
For many years England has been the
stock economic bugaboo Of the Republic
an press and stumpers. It has been set
Up and knocked down, tricked out in
hideous and fearsoIfie 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 in
dulgent smile that implies knowledge
Of the hollowness of the ogre. English
free trade, English pauper labor, Eng.
lish gold, the Golden club, the food Of
cheap English goods, the cunning Eng.
lishmen seeking to break down our
trade barriers and deluge us with cheap
products, and then, when they had
silenced the guns Of our poor manufac-
turers, run up prices with a rush-all this
is evidently regarded now by the oppo.
sition as being played out The spectacle
Of our manufacturers sending their
wares into England, our iron ore and
iron, our steel rails and woolens, our
boots and shoes and leather, makes the
lachrymose warning Of ruin appear so
ridiculous that even Republican edi-
tor perceives its absurdity and beats
retreat. But If one bugaboo becomes un-
serviceable another must be found or
acknowledgment made that the zig is
up" with the party Of bugaboos So the
world is secured for one, and il is found
in Japan.
Some one writes to that organ of pro-
tectionists, comically named The Amer
ican Economist for no other perceptible
reason than that 1t is not economic, por-
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 the
powers. We have again the appalling
narrative of low wages coupled with re-
markable ingenuity and productiveness,
which, in the domain Of cottons, has
already made the cotton makers of even
old England quake in their boots.
Due stress is laid ON the development
in the mechanical industries, and am
pie warning is given that here is a peo-
pie capable Of producing the things civil
lized Americans need so cheaply that
unless the barriers are put up higher
than ever the good people Of this coun-
try 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
satisfactory and liberal manner. Con-
tent heretofore to send us their quaint
bric-a-brac, these Yankees Of the far
orient are now ambitious to send us cot
tons 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 bright
ems and glows. The old bugaboo takes |
on new habiliments 1t no longer dan
giles before the public eye as the fat,
purse proud, grasping, cunning and
scheming John Bull, but is now the |
olive colored, almond eyed, sleek, suave,
slkirted Jap, dextrous of hand and MIN
cestry, appropriating our implements of
industry and manning them with labor
Indifferent to its dignity, happy with
out pianos in its homes OF 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 cloven,
and let the warcry of 1896 be: "Up |
with protectionl Down with the Japa-
nese P'-St Paul Globe.