Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-19
THE AKRON DEMOCRAT
AN OBJECT LESSON.

Canon w. H. Fletcher, vicar and
rural dean Of wrexham, Denbighshire,
wales, residuary canon of st. Asaph
Cathedral, and proctor for the chapter
in the Convocation Of Canterbury,
landed in New York on Tuesday. He
came to attend the coming bi-centen-
nary of the founding of Yale College.
The significance Of his visit Is found
in the fact that the bones of Elihu
Yale, patron of the college in its early
and needy days, and from whom 1t
is named lie buried in the little
church yard of Wrexham, in North
Wales.
The reverend gentleman with n
plurality of titles was held up on the
pier in New York, and the experience
of his rather chilly reception on the
shores of this land of liberty must
have been an eye-opener to this rural
dean, etc.
The hold-up was not indeed by any
one who will ever figure in the police
court for it, but it was done by high
waymen none the less.
1t seems that Canon FLETCHER
brought over with him package OF
pamphlets containing n description
and picture of the church of st. Giles,
at Wrexham, where the remains of
Elihu lie, and which was once ac-
counted one of the seven wonders Of
Wales. These were to be distributed
as presents and souvenirs among the
alumni and guests at the bi-centen-
ninl occasion referred to. But the
yigilant custom house officials suspect
ed some harm to the liberties of their
country In this visit of q rural dean
ETC.. and so they kept him waiting on
the pier in New York for several
hours, while they rummaged his lug
gage. and when they discovered the
pamphlets aforesaid, they pounced
upon them and made him pay duty
for bringing them into this land OF
gospel light from whence we are send
ing money to ransom missionaries
out of the hands of freebooters abroad.
Yes, they made him pay n duty! LII
II had been some one OF the great
army of shoddyltes returning from
their annual pilgrimage to "1urrup,'
loaded down with silks and jewelry
bought in exchange for money which
some one here had worked for and
earned, II ithad been one of the hordes
of white coolies being transported
here all the time to take the place of
strikers, or to underworld those who
are not striking, no duty would have
been exacted, and no one would have
been kept shivering on the wharf
pending the ransacklng Of trunks.
And all this is under Il tariff law
which 1t Is now insisted is the per-
fection of wisdom and must not be
amended or meddled with, in the
smallest particular,-not even to give
our people Il chance to sell goods
abroad.
1t is one consolation to know that
these Yale College gentlemen, who
will be very much in evidence at the
occasion referred to, are in this in
stance getting slight dose of the
medicine which they have been help
ing to cram down the throats of the
American people for some years past.
They will swallow 1t, however, and
will keep right on, begging donations
from the purse-proud benehciarles OF
this infamy upon economy, and kick
ing out Of their faculties any man
who dnres to discuss It's wisdom or Its
equity,-placing money before truth
and sound doctrine, and in time they
will, of course, reap the sure result
which the lnquisition brought upon
the universities of Europe In nn early
day, whenever they strangled free ex'
preston OF opinion. And the degrees
which will be conferred by Yale Col.
lege next week will be showered upon
the men who profit by, or defend, the
system of legallzed spoliation under
which the poor Welsh Clergyman was
robbed on the dock IN New York the
other morning.
The death OF Ex-Governor John
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