The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-01-14
Speech of Gen. Sherwood.

shield, shelter; q guard from injury,
refuge. In the reign of the Georges in
England 1t was a writ, by which the King
| exempted person from arrest. Oliver
| Cromwell, as early as 1850 assumed the
title of Lord Protector of England and Ire
land. 1t is true Protection that mother
gives to her infant child; and in days not
long past, when wool growing was profit
able, farmers kept shepherd dogs to pro-
tect their innocent lambs from the wolves.
.zg~Now Protection is political term,
and is grossly perverted word. II stands
| In the same relation to the average Amer
ican citizen, as the barbaric Knight of the
Feudal times stood to the poor servile
feudatory, who was robbed of his sub
stance for the Protection that the Knight
in his castle afforded him-the right
to live as serf and work for the
glory of the dissolute barbarian and his
retainers.
s4y"Proteclion is a word stolen from
kindly suns to do duty for organized rob-
berry, masquerading as knight OF shell
ter and security.
We are too full of these deceitlul delu-
sions. All the quack nosirums of the day
are dubbed with misleading nnmo; and
all have their deluded dupes, out of whom
come ducats for the dupers.
e-ey- Salvation Oil has had large sale;
many taking 1t on account of its name;
hoping for salvation in this world which
they are sure not to get in the next.
The young man who invented st. Jacobs
Oil has gathered in his million already,
bn Ill -
ton have parted with many millions, along
with their hair, to enrich the Golfers of
the quack hirsutists, who have adorned
fences, boxes, barns and historic rocks
with the signs of various villainous decoc-
tions to furnish the rudiments of new
hairs, that never sprouted.
But, since Columbus landed on our
| shores in 1892, there never has been q
more delusive humbug than the cruel
atrocity misnamed Protection. 1t is too
| full OF black ruin to be treated in frivol-
| Gus vein.
1t Is the bastard child Of piracy and
greed, fattened and made strong on the
| best blood and Drawn OF a patriotic peo-
pie. Its champions have debauched ma
\ ton of sixty-five millions of people, and
have placed in our national capitol a
| fierce and grasping Plutocracy, that have
made free representative government a
| cruel mockery and farce.
PROTECTION is A PAGAN CHILD.
Many think that Protection, as applied
in this country, is of American and Chris
tian birth. This is mistake. Protection,
| as practiced under our present economic
system, was born in China 246 years be-
| fore Christ, and is therefore 2.138 years
| old. This was before Homer wrote his
Illiad, and before Socrates, the greatest
| of the Greek philosophers, was born.
1t was the great Ching Wang, Emperor
| of China from 246 before Christ, to 2l0,
| who built the great Chinese wall, which
| cost the labor of two million men for al
most twenty years. This wall is 1900 miles
long and was intended to shut out the en-
tire Tartar world on the North, from the
richness of the Chinese trade. 1t was
built exclusively on the principle of Chang
McKinley's bill, born over 2,lOO years la
ter, to allow the Chinese nation to get
rich, as we are now doing, by trading and
cheating themselves exclusively.
L CHlNA lS AN IDEAL HUME mhhhhls
This made an ideal home market for
China, the largest Empire of Asia then,
and the largest Empire OF either Europe,
Asia or America today, except Russia.
Hence the great policy of Protection, in
augurated over 2,100 years ago in China,
had larger field for its endeavor and
perfect fruition than the great Protection
measure OF Chang Mckinley for the Unit
ed States. .'.r
When Ching Wang inaugurated his
great policy of Protection for the Chinese
Empire, he ordered all books of philoso-
ply, of tradition, of astrology, OF history
aud Of law to be burned, throughout the
entire Chinese Empire, which then inclu-
ded Il country seven times as large as
France. He did this to destroy the power
of the educated classes, and all reverence
for the traditions OF the Chinese
race. None, save the books OF
Confucius were saved. This gave the
great doctrine of Protection a clean
start, and like the Mckinley bill, strictly
on the lines of ignorance. ....
MoKINLEYIsM CAN ONLY LIVE ON IGNo'
RANCE AND sELFIsHNEss.
Chang Mckinley would gladly do this
In this country. All the history of civili-
cation is against his policy. All the text
books of our great universities are against
IL.
In one of his recent speeches Chang
Mckinley said: VI had rather take the
opinion of a puddler on an economic
/ proposition than college professor
crammed with the logic of the books"
While there Is strong infusion Of
of Pecksnifiiian demagogery In this senti-
ment, yet II is the best fertilization OF
modern Protection of which the English
language is capable.
WHAT ARE COLLEGES FOR,
l stand tonight In the shadow of Mt
Union; college where young men lear.
only Ia books; where a curriculum Ia still
In use that was first instituted in England
In the 10th century, when Latin was the
language of polite society, and when the
scientific knowledge of to-day was still q
Numbering DIRE am, locked in the bosom
of ,he ages. The gathered wisdom of tive
centuries, all condensed in books, has
been added TO the curriculum, Books are
but the voices of God, speaking through
mans experience as expounded by Hi
. greatest children. These books are thu
only teachers at Mt. Union. But thu
champion Of Protection learns nothing o