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


Ibelieve this.
THE LESSON OF THE GORILLA.
When the late unlamented Capt. Fora
ker was Governor of Ohio, attended the
Commencement exercises at Mt. Union,
as news gatherer, to which Gov. Fora
ker was to deliver an address, along with
the then Congressman Mckinley. Fora
ker was then in the full glow OF his
popularity. He was then revelling In the
cheap glory of conflict with the iong-lost
rebel flags. At a late hour he telegraphed
that sickness prevented his attendance.
Mckinley was there, but the great audi
ence were consumed III was a hot
day. with thirst to see and
hear Foraker. Finally Prof. Arm.
strong to satisfy the eager ,thronR
confined the fierce African Gorilla from
the Gaboon country. To me this gorilla
was remarkable revelation, and great
object lesson in Protection.
He is an ideal personation OF the Nc
Kinley theory 10 illustrated by the puddler
and the book professor.
He is the King OF the anthropoih apes.
He typifles in his person, what the mod
ern Protectionist is in practice.
He Is the mau like ape of Darwin before
bis brain lobes were capacious enough Tor
conscience,
AsI gazed upon this stuffed Gorilla
l saw instantly why Prof Armstrong
had opened the museum to the
masses. As the Gorilla stood there witu
that powerful club in his long extended
arms, with his CLASSY eyes glimmering
above those prominent zygomatic arches,
he seemed to personate all the intelligence
of McKinleyism and all the fierce frenzy
and picturesque aggressiveness OF For
aker. As / Razed in awful admiration
upon bis dramatic pose l could almost
hear him say:
"No rebel tags shall eoe' be returned
10hile / am Governor Of Ohio"
WHERE THE FULL FRUITIoN OF PROTECTION
IS FOUND.
The true student of history who Is anx-
ious to know what our present Chinese
policy will do for the United States can
do nothing more instructive than reading
the commercial and industrial history OF
the great Chinese Empire.
China was old in civilization, in litera-
ture, in astronomy, in many of the useful
arts when her Chang Mckinley issued bis
idiotc edict and built the great wall OF
Protection.
This has wrought utter ruin and degre-
dation upon nation of 420 millions OF
people.
The books of Confusius, which were
older than the United States is to day,
when Ching Wang was born, claim that
two million, six hundred thousand
years elapsed, between the time when the
powers of heaven and earth united TO
produce a man, and of course that man
was Chinaman.
And now this same China, with the
strongest and most intense race blood in
the world, with over two thousand years
of absolute protection, under series of
paternal emperors, had not to this
day changed the policy of Ching Wang.
1t is country today where the emperor
is absolute, where he holds In his supreme
will the life of every subject; land where
even the roses have learned to grow with
out fragrance; where love between the
sexes is an unknown word; where the
poet compares his wife to the moon and
his coucubines to the stars; where magis-
trates have no sense OF honor, and where
royalty seats intellect in the stomach. A
fixed for life in his grade, whether man
DARN or coolie, as the old red sandstone in
the bowels of the earth.
All this in vast Empire, rich in min.
erals, highly productive, and penetrated
with great rivers, ,as the natural arteries OF
trade.
The only innovation in China from an
cient customs is that the present Emperor,
(since the style has become popular in the
United States Senate) has been to sell the
rank Of civil mandarins at auction to the
highest bidder, the proceeds to go to his
Imperial Treasurer. This innovation Is
better than the prevailing style in the U.
S. Senate, where seats are bought at
private sale, with no benefit to our bank
rupt treasury.
WHAT PROTECTION HAS DONE FOR CHINA.
Protection has converted China from
the foremost nation in the world to the
most stolid, the most n-progressive, the
most cowardly and the most degraded.
She stopped the march of progress when
she built her great Chinese wall. Look
how the manhood of the Chinese race has
degenerated under Protection. In 1858 at
Canton, city with over a million inhabi-
tants. strongly fortified, and garrisoned by
Chinese soldiers, was captured by 5000
British and 900 French soldiers, with the
loss of only 10 killed and 100 wounded.
And British army of 1900 men marched
| 400 miles into the heart of China, when
China had over a million soldiers, armed
| and equipped for war.
This tells how Protection makes
towards and paltroons of men.
DARwINIsM ILLUSTRATES M'KINLEYIsM.
Darwin does not undertake to tell us in
his great work on the evolution of man,
how many years elapsed from the appear
ance of the man.liks ape to the period of
| the ape-like man, but am sure the years
were less from the great Protection edict
of Ching Wang of Canton, China, to the
| immature development of Chang McKin-
] ley of Canton, Ohio.
Let us again look at the face of the
Gorilla and thank God and take courage
that the Chang of neither Canton is of
| our breed of men.
| THE TRUST SHARKS BORROWED THEIR
IDEAS OF CHINA,
The organized pools and trusts that are
now eating out our existance are supposed
| to be of recent date. 1t is true their greed
was born of the Protective tariff, but they
also borrowed their idea OF limiting pro-
| duction from the Chinese Emperor. The
high tariff shuts out all competition, 30
that they control prices, and then they
limit production by discharging labor,
thereby increasing competition, and
! ~ pening labor. The labor that is
a =! ouI of the trusts factories must
/ eltLL. beg, tramp or starve, or live by
| crime, This in many cases is worse than
| daaeh which auda ALI our woes. In China