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

gospel to every creature" There 10
neither the Ching Wengism OF China nor
the narrowness and sellshness OF our
modern Chang In this.
No nation can can be great without COM
merce. From the earliest ages TO which
history reaches with It's dim and uncer-
tain light, wealth and civilization are con-
nected with the commerce OF Eastern
Asia. From this source ancient Egypt de-
rived her enormous wealth.
Commerce was the strength and glory
OF ancient Tyre, once the queen OF the
ocean.
Palmyra, that great miracle of the des-
ert, was created by the trade OF the cara
vans. II was the commercial idea that
made the greatest Of Maoedonians, Alex.
ander. He established a mighty empire,
with an eastern capitol as its center, and
opened TO Europe the commerce OF the
Eastern seas, which built the great cities
Of t'a Caspian sea,
The great Napoleon dwelt long and
fondIy upon the ideas OF Alexander. His
conquest Of Egypt was an ambition bor-
rowed from Alexander, to bring the rich
Sea TO Egypt, and change the seat OF the
worlds wealth and dominion to the shores
of the Mediterranean.
HOW GREAT BRITAIN HAS WON Empires.
England grasped the policy Of Napoleon,
and after his sun set in blood at Water
loo, she borrowed his ideas, and has by q
free commercial policy, enriched
herself with the rich commerce
of the "exhaustless East" She has
also reached out to the great
continental island of Australia, and is
leading the United States today in oil the
Central and South American republics.
She has made herself the mistress of the
seas, while the United States, by policy
of restriction, marvellous for its selfish
ness, and idiotic in stupidity, has lost all
her ocean trade, destroyed her foreign
markets and reduced her commercial ma
rine to the grade of little fourth rate
principally like Denmark.
YEAR OF M'KINLEYIsM IN THE UNITED
STATES.
Cast your eyes away from our flagless
seas to our own land, since the infamous
Mckinley bill has come to curse us. With
an enormous crop and the largest foreign
demand ever known, we have just passed
through the most disastrous business year
in our whole history. Dun q Co. report
1928 failures for 1891, the largest ever
known, and the summing up Of official
embe zzlements and bank embezzlements
for the year foots the enormous aggregate
of s25, 100000, the largest ever known,
showing that rascality is twin sister to
Protection.
Add to this more labor strikes, more
lockouts, more labor reductions, more
tramps than ever before known, and you
catch the full scope of the damning
record.
PROTECTION AND REC1PRosITY.
Will you allow me to close this, our
toast with some kindly words in verse.
This is a convivial occasion, and we can
better tone down the rising experities of
the subject with some of the more
rounded words of rhyme. We all admire
the rhythm and fervid style of our Ameri-
can poet, Edgar Allen Poe. used to
think his Annabel Lee was the sweetest
poem in the language. With apologies to
that poet, whose early love died young
in that Kingdom by the Sea,
l will proceed to desecrate. It will be
remembered that after the Mckinley
Paganism passed the House, the prime
minister of this Administration, wrote
Senator Frye from Bar Harbor, Maine,
that remarkable letter in which the fol-
lowing very truthful sentence occurs:
"There is not section or line in the
entire bill to make market for another
pork" =,
Soon after that the man of Maine left
Bar HArbor and went for his chief, then
living sumptuously on a salary of S137 a
day and incIdentals, in the Wanamaker
gift cottage at Cape May. Here our para
phrase on the modern Pharisees com
mences:
LITTLE BEN AND JIM ON THAT CAPE BY
THE SEA.
1t was many and many year ago,
In q kingdom by the sea,
That statesman there lived whom you may know
BY the name OF Jas. @. B.
And for years he trundled and fatted his wad
As the boss OF the G. o. p.
And the Etars never beamed
Unless magic Jim dreamed
or some beautiful, succulent canopied teat,
Where he might sit
And suck the juice all out OF 1t,
In that kingdom by the sea,
In that Maine-land by the sea
Down ot )ape May In gift cottage fine
On the g, pe by the seething sea.
Was IT, tie Ben soak In the brine,
In the serf with Baby Mckee,
when big Jim came from the coast OF Maine,
With a scheme to save from ruin and rack
The country from the bill OF VIM. Mac.
A bill that would knock at one fell whack
The American flag from the sea,
All commerce from the seas.
Into the cottage went Little Ben.
From the roar Of the sounding sea,
His bathing suit adrp with brine,