The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-15

last ascSl year larger SURPLUS sAah ~
has had In twenty years. Whatever faults
the English people may have, It must be
admitted that they have keen CONNER
ciaf instinct Napoleon called them "a
nation of saopksspers." and he was pretty
nearly right.
When. therefore, the manufacturers be-
gin to look TO the prospect OF Mckiniey's
election with alarm. n may be taken as
a very safe Indication that the policy he
represents Is the. one which will come
most nearly TO lessensng English trade
and transferring prosperity back TO these
shores.
The people surely cannot have forgotten
how tub.lant the English were over the
prospect OF Democratic success. and how
Cleveland was iauded to the skies by the
British press. He Is yet very popular over
there Not that he has Intentionally done
ANYTHING TO damage this country's inter-
eats or 20 further those Of Great Britain.
but he In identified In the minds OF the
british workingman. OF busy mill hands
and prosperous merchants with good
OF broad views But what was fun for tina
boys has been death 10 the frogs. II is
probable that the hard times OF the past
few years are scarcely known to the great
body OF the English people, with the ex-
esption. perhaps. OF some agrieuiturists.
They are prosperous. and assume that
everybody else Is: or II not. that II must
be our own fault or is due to our natural
inferiority TO the British. At any time
Il II easy. when prosperous ourselves. 20
look upon the struggles OF less fortunate
neighbors with equanlmsty and advise
them 10 be eontented with their lot.
But the end seems to be drawing nigh.
The English manufacturers, shrewd
themselves, can hardly believe that Amer
leans. who pride themselves upon their
stfll greater shrewdness. will so soon re-
peat the binnder OF 1885,, and re-eiect the
Democrats TO power with their vision
arv schemes for creating wealth by means
OF the multiplication table and their utter
incapseity for administration. The Brit
ish manufacturers are preparing for the
contemplate bringing their machinery over
here In order 20 profit by the business
activity they see 20 he inevitable when
this country wakes up from It's dreams OF
gauzy wealth and once more turns It's at
tention to business.
And these Envlishmen are right. They
do not chase butterflies or lose their heads
over rhetorical plstltudes about crowns
Of thorrs and crosses Of gold. They at
tend strictly 10 business. and when they
get through they want 10 be paid In iust
the very best kind OF money there Is. You
do no, ind them petitlonins parliament to
he paid in poor mans money, in the beg
CARLY cosn OF the Mexican peou or Of the
Chinese ceolle. You DO not hear OF bodies
Of British wofi<ingmen psraiinr the
streets yelling for the government 20
double the price Of bread and increase the
cost of all provisions; 70 reduce the pur-
chasing power OF the shIlllnS-to go hack
10 the days when they assembled IN tens
OF thousands AMI demanded that bread
should he chespened. because when food
was cheap there could be no such thing as
famine
After four years OF clover and Grover"
az free trade disturbance ana distress
when the opportunity 20 recover some OF
our lost ground returns once more. when
the English manufacturer Is trembling
fer fear We shall wisely proat BY our ex-
perlenes-at such a supreme moment thera
comes along a Democrats fakir with a
penny whistle. un springs another ,maEi-
native leader with another fanolfgi short
eat 70 wealth. and some 81 the same de-
luaea people are dancing or Ike ,he chill
dran who followed the Pied Piper of
Hamsiin.
How those English manufacturers and
their na.llhaats would chnekle - they
Thought that. after all she'r fears were
srounalsss ana Mckinley would not be
7 elected II would cst 10 squire With them
I II we sesraudea oar creditors witA 5e-cent
/ silver: 7, would not hurt them that we
I we're selrg PAID ourselves IN our own &C.
/ nr~csases coin; II would not intars thsm
I e our commerce were overturned BY a
/ panic s.a eur industries Frustrated by
contraction due to ire withdrawal % eoa-
/ 1ssncs ard wel3
I II would BE their harvest tire: no need
20 ship their Tnlils ana Icons over here.
I q aeSnsan thsir msll~sowsss ana their FUR
/ naees. ard start sss!u in a rev country.
/ sTsey eou}s safety pat en- 8 rev coat Of
T rA'et. she ynitssass eoala 49, cot their
I frzlt trees ard renew their vegetable gar.
sens. because Z Mckinley Is defeated IN.
B supremacy 81 british Industry. the retire
( Eress1oa * American enterprises wili -
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