The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-12-15


the land with currency that nobody
would take, and send finance to the "old
scratch in view of what followed hard
after these lessons in banking, nothing
hut my respect for the classic tongue of
Rome prevents my declaring that the Re-
publican wild cat has proved requies'
cat to those who fondled him.
II is part Of a good citizen's creed, OBJ
tained from a source even higher than tne
Constitution OF the U nited States TO DO
Unto Others as Ye Would That Thy
Should do to You.o
A good Democrat is u good citz N. l
will not affirm the converse OF that propo'
elton, but want to remind you OF the
| chilly sensations you have felt, and your
| anxiety over the temporary nulliftcaiion OF
the Golden Rule, when you heard n round
| of applause follow some orators state
ment that, as q result OF recent tarln
| legislation In America, in homes across
| the Atlantic the pale mother wept over
| her hungry children. But this applause
| would now be roared more gently. Ihe
| hand clappers have heard something and
| the faith of many of them is now like the
works OF the little boys pap-"My SON"
said the minister, "Is your father chris
| tian?' "Ycs, guess he is, sir, but he
aint working any at itthis summer."
| 1t was not expected of me that should
talk politics upon this occasion, You may
| have noticed, Mir. TohstmaSter, that my
| line of remark has beeu historical, auto
biographical, meteorological, and care
| fully nonipartisnn; hut in reading recent
| ly a speech made ty Senator Sherman
| twenty years ago, / came across sentence
that sounds like a prophecy. vi ths
| present high rates Of duty, unexsmplad In
our country and higher by nearly 80 per
cent than they were in 1861, are matutain.
| ed on metallic and textile fabrics, we
shall have feeling Of dissatisfaction
among other interests in the country that
r, will overthrow the whole system." And
| again q clear statement of a fundamental
doctrine: "Whle the expenses of the
| National Government are largely caused
| by the protection of property, IL Is but
right to require property 10 contribute to
| their payment. 1t will not do to say that
| each person consumes in proportion TO
| his means. This is not true. Everyone
| must see that the consumption OF the rich
| does not bear the same relation to the
consumption OF the poor as the income OF
| the one does to the wages of the other.
| As wealth accumulates this injustice in
tbs fundamental basis OF our system will
| be felt and forced upon the attention OF
| Congress-" Exactly so! But that sort of
| talk now, would sound like the u!terance
| of wicked free trader and direct taxa
ZIONIST, who is supposed TO be anxious TO
| feather bis own nest with otones torn
from the very fundamental basis" OF our
temple of liberty.
| While on the subject of protection,
| few pages back, l rememoered that my
| weather almanac had something about
| farmers notions thereon "a interpreted
| by the genial essayist VIM. Nye. folks
wonder why the boys leave the farm. My
| boys left so as to get protected, they said,
| and SO they went into a clothing store,
| one OF 'em, and one went into hardware,
| aud ouc Is in the legislature talking pro-
| tsciion.n "pve always hollered for high
| tariff III order 10 hyst the public debt, but
l II. . .1..1.N
| cocpered, Wish they'd take a little whack
| at mine.n The last boy TO go, Ou' young
est, is in the drug business, and he says
| bis boss is royal feller-pr'dps he means
| T. castor royal feller--and there's no one
| left TO help me run the farm, but the
| hired man and high protective tariff"
| But do not off r a special plea for the
! farmer. Selflshucss is very common
! trait among the lineal descendants OF
| Adam, and our bucn!ic friends, Though
| better supplied with buttermilk than we.
| do not overflow with the milk of human
kindness with liveLier epurt than the
| rest of us, The Connecticut gardiner
stood not alone, who petitioned Congress
| for a prohibitive duty on West India
| oranges and banan to encourage the
sale OF bis strawberries. As S. S. Cox
| declared, "he, the garden sass protection
| let, would embargo the ships of all lands
| where currants grow, and figs and dates.
| ars suEered by the sun, in order to stimu.
| late the yeArninR in the human esouhsVus
for the Euckleberries of the Nutmeg
Stste.n
The trouble 10 not with the protected
| industry, but With the doctrine, which
penders tn human greed aud thrives
amid uumitigated selflshness. When you
| rob Peter TO pay Paul. Paul is not cCm-
| mnuIy the one that objects.
But must get back to my text, tho
there is prejudice against that practice
H.. nNNE.su.
spokesman was the colored brother who
stated that his "sarmon would be dies
posed Of two parts; first, all de things iu-
| side de tex: and secondly, all de things
| outside de tax, and. hrederin. we will
raGsIe wild the second part first"
Revert & then TO my toast, you will
notice that ii leads from the gloom of
| winter 20 the joyance OF summer; like the
| ship in T. B. Rsed's beautiful poem:
"rhs happier one, Its course has run
| From lands Of snow to lands OF SUM-"
o., coming from the heights of poesy
to the plains of fact; bright and early in
| the morning of Nov. 8lh, the red roosters
of Democracy tapped their wings and
! proclaimed that ii was time for she
| political winter to break up, unless there
was some mistake in their crownology; /;
| that over a Hill to the east, and mounting
from the horizon the more majecstically
| on account of the sturdy uplift of the Hill,
was rising the Sun Of York; that 10 spite
| of import duties upon raw material, this
| glorious election would furnish our bo-
| loved motherand her raw material free.
Not note of this hilarious canticle has
been recalled.
afew closing words / remind you
that the "Sun" named ia my toast was the
armoriaI badge or cogpizance borne, or
worn, by the head of the Yorkists. Wesee
| i. cleaning through the mist
| at the battle OF Barnet, when Edward
overthrew the sturdy phalanx OF the pro-
| tected barops, and thus became the prov>
| idsntial instrument in making way for the
rise and the reign of "the common peo-
| ple."
| BY unanimous consent / omit all dis
cussion of my fourth head-the dangers
! Incident TO warm weather, political sum
mer complaintsn may call them. There
! are things under that head Rermane to
| my subject and pertinent to this occasion,
| hoveriug in the air and waiting for a
| voice; and doubt not, that, from some
other speaker, they will find expression.
With this sentiment, gentlemen vie id
the floor. The things we condemn in
| others, LEI us ourselves not do. May our
love for our grand old party be ever en-
circled by our love for our grand old
country; ; and while, in our fervor, we
paint things red, let ua always remember
to add the white and the blue.