The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-10
THE LESSONS OF HISTORY.
A Very Intelligent Canton Gentle
man
Discusses the Paganism of Mckinley as
Opposed to the American Ideas of q Re
publio.

ED. NEws-DEMooRAT: :-Amopg strange
statements made by Major Mckinley at
Niles, was the following:
1--WE neither take our patriotism or po-
litical economy from other nations-tf we
had we would yet be in our swaddllng
clothes, dependency and province OF
Great Britain.n
Britain and the colonies, which resulted
in the creation of this government
As every public school pupils ought to
know, there is no excuse for public man
TO display ignorance. The rebellion OF
the colonies came because OF these regu-
lations by the home government to pre-
vent the colonists from trading in direc.
tions and in manners best suited to their
needs, and TO the development OF the
county. Great Britain sought to keep
the commerce of the kingdom within the
kingdom, believing that any traffic be-
tween the colonists and other nations was
lust SO much loss to her wealth, the same
principle which Major MCKINLEY asserts
to-day, and that to prosper Great Britain
the colonies must conflne their trade
TO themselves, which was the "home
marketn idea. This was the idea that
governed all the nations then, and the
reason they struggled so hard to establish
colonies on the new continent, as they
have since done in Asia and Africa.
as the unerring law governing commerce
always dictates, and this nation was born
by them not following Major Mchinley'i
ideas, We should, therefore, be thankful
that Major Mckinley was not born a cen
| tury and half sooner, for under his guid
ance the colonies might have har kened to
the voice of the mother country that they
| had territory enough in that great Amer
| lea, and not to trade with those paupel
| foreigners, and the result would have beer
| that we still would have been patriotic
Britons, neither taking "our patriotism ol
political economy from other nations"
Still, before there was any Nation here
| and before protective tariffs were insh
| tuted, both the iron and steel industries
were established in this country.
The war of the Revolution was not Q
| war. in its origin, with the object OF or
| panizinQ o new nation. 1t was a war fol
freedom of trade. The republic followed
as consequence of that war. 1t was the
| idea that isolation in commerce II
the means to utmost prosperity
| that caused the loosening Of Britain'i
| hold on America. The colonists per
ceiyed the vast truth that trade cannot bt
| directed by law without being curbed anc
| dwarfed. Major Mckinley has not only
received his political economy" from
Europe, but he is a century behind the
| times. II United States had colony ou
| in the Pacific, or Atlantic ocean, wha
method of treatment would Major Ac
| Kinley favor for il. Why, that 1t shoult
| buy exclusively from the home govern
ment and not trade with foreigners. Tha
/ was exactly what England did to heI
colonies and what the colonies
| rebelled against. Yet he say
| the principle Of exclusion of commercial
| intercourse is q native American one.
Our navy went once into Asian water
| and forced nation that wished no com
merce with any person beyond her owl
borders, to open her ports to our trade
and take down the sign, mo Admittanc,
| Even on Business
| Even what is callen the keynote doe
| not chord with the American tune!
The principle of protection is discordan
| with that embodied in the Republican
| form of government. 1t is paternal in tn
| extreme. 1t would be proper assump
ton for monarchialg governments, holding
| as they do, that the people are the subject
| of the ruling power, to undertake to con
| troll and direct the business interests, bu
| il is antagonistic to the very principl
| upon which our government is founded
| The only function q Republican govern
ment has, and the only one il can right.
assume, is to provide for each individua
equal opportunity to pursue the ayocation
| of life, insuring his liberty and safety
| Republican government cannot be eS
| planned on any other principle. An,
thing beyond that is either monarchial o
/ socialistic. When bounties are paid t
certain men for engaging in specifiet
industry; and when it is said to Others
that the people shall be SO burdened wit
the cost of this article for a number O
| years, that il you engage in il
manufacture they will be forced to bu
from you, though your prices are highe
| than the former ones, Ii cannot be any
thing but class legislation. With sue
precedent for federal interference in tn
pursuits of the people, what argumen
that avails anything can be made to tn
! demand OF the socialist that the govern
ment take charge of the railways, the Goa
mines, and all such corporations.
would not be radical change, only pre-
gression. Why should not the government
control the production of coal as we'll a
tin2 If the government pays a mau t
make sugar why not pay him to max
plows and bridges. The people could Re
along without sugar, and many of then
do, but they could not dispense with tn
plows and bridges.
Socialism is making much more rapi,
progress in this country than most peopl
are aware. There is q Roodly numbe
of extreme advocates in this city
and some day, when their de
the federal government in the affairs o
business, are made, predicted on the in
reference now made under the cowardl
plea that we cannot compete with othe
countries, these high tariff men will OF
pose them and declare that socialism, o
federal control Of the industries, is incon
sistent with republican government, an
mourn that il ever was allowed to b
brought here from Europe.
| And yet he says: I'VE neither take ou
patriotism or political economy froI
other nations.n Where did he get it then
Any examination of it, as a principle
shows it to have not only been born i
Europe, reared there, but cast Off as evi
before he picked it up. There is not a trea
tise on the principles at the base of ou
government which will uphold the Mo