Protection's Champion

Boston, Feb. 10.- Abanqnet was given by the Home Marfcet Clnb laRt evening to Senatxr John Sherraan and otliers. In his speech Mr. Sherman arraigned tlie Preident's Civil-Service policy, an.l said he had practised the moet general, swe:ping remováis in public offices siuce the Government wa established. Out of rÜ,000 places he had removed or obaaged -i:,000, and out of the 43,000 there were not flfty Benublicans araong the appointees. This is the kind of Civil -Service reform practised by Mr. Cleveland, said Mr. Sherman, and yet he is extolled by James Hussell Lowell, who places CivilService reform above all other objeets ot public policy. Senator Sherman also said thatprotection waB the ouly eafeguard for home industries. He also held that the gurpluB was the natural result of the country'a increasing wealth growing; out of the policy of protecting home industry. He aw no reason why the surplus might not be applied to the paymen of the debt as previous Administrations had done, or it might be reducod by diminishing taxation, to as not to dietnrb home jroducblon.