The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-08

Der of Judges and pack the court to get
a decision to please them. (Applause.) :.
My friends, our fathers who framed
this government divided its great pow
ers between three great departments
the legislative, executive and the judicial.
1t sought to make these Independent,
the one of the other. so that neither
might OvershadOw or destroy the ether;
The Supreme court. the most dignihed
judicial body in the world. was appointed
10 interpret the laws and the constitu-
ton. and when that court pronounced
n decree as to the powers of Congress
or as to any other constitutional cues
ton. there is but one right method II we
disagree. and that is the method pointed
ont by the cOnstitution-to amend 1t to
conform with our views. That is the po-
sitiOn today.
You are to answer. then, my fellow
citizens. in all the gravity of a great
crisis. whether You will sustain a party
who propose to destroy the balance which
our fathers instituted in our system of
government. and whenever a tumultuous
Congress disagrccs with the Supreme
court and Il subscrvient President is in
the white house. that the judgment of
the court shall be rcconsidered and re-
versed by increasing the number of
judges and packing the court with men
who will decide as Congress wants them
to. lApplauSc.) | cannot eXaggcrate the
gravity and the Importance and the dan
ger of this assault upon our constitution
al form of government.
Il do not intend to spend any time in
the discussion Of tn" tariff question. That
debate has been won. and need not ic
rr"tr!G'"l II Wisl' IHn on rtIrn,liy
experiences. I'M th'N W'r' historical and
remote. and NOT very iu~tructIN" t. this
generation. W" needed al experience Of
our own. ami We have had il. Il has
been a hari lesson, iut Il very conViuc-
ing one. aud everybody was in the school
house when il WAS given him. y panic III
1S.3 of most extraordinary character has
been succeeded by Il gradual drying up,
less and less. until universal business dis
traction and anxiety prevails over all of
our community. | do not believe there
has been a time. except. perhaps, in the
very heat of some active panic, when
universal fear and anxiety and watchful-
ness, even to the point of desperation,
has characterized this great metr )polis
as it does today. CApplause.) Men have
been afraid to go away for a vacation.
They have felt that they must every day
in this burning heat come to the city and
watch their business. That is the situa-
ton.
"What has brought it about? Gentle
men, who is there to defend the Wilson
tariff bill? Who says it is a good tariff
measure? CA voice: "NObody."o l don't
believe Il candidate can be found to say
that it is. Mr.. Cleveland ~repudiated
it. 1t was so bad that he could not
attach his official signature to it. and it
became Il law without it. He said it
was full of incongruities and inequali-
ties. What has been the result of that
measure! 1t has failed 10 produce rev
enue enough, supplemented by our inter
nal taxes. to maintain the government.
There has been an nnual deficit aD-
o%roaching $J0.O00.0 900 every year. and
the national treasury has been contin-
ually in IA state of embarrassment. Our
r.
projections. have been successfully and
gradually closing up and putting out
heir fires. But not only has this pro-
Jnced such an effect. but It has practi-
.ally contributed to the financial depres-
sion that we are in. The maintenance
IF the gold reserve up to 500. 000. 000
nv the government for the REDEMPTION
Of our notes was essential to confidence
in the stability of our finances. When
the government reserve runs down pe0-
ple begin at once to say: We may COME
90 a silver basis if gold is going out.
The reserve is generally down and this
fear is greatly increased. but how can
you keep a gold reserve of $1OO.OOO.O OC
when you have not got 500. 600, 900 in
the treasury all told: How can you
maintain this gold reserve for redemp-
ton of notes when YOU have an annual
and continuous deficit and your income
not equaling your deficit? So that. my
friends. this tariff bill has not only con.
tributed. by increasing impOrtatiOns. by
taking away the needful support for ON
own manufacturers. bur II has contrib
uted i'll the way of increasing the silver
scare to bring us into the present condi
ton of distrust and dismay which now
prevails. (Applausc.)
But | do not intend to follow tina,
question further. l I'M quite as Eucl
opposed TO cheapening the American
workingman and working woman as
!, am to cheapcning our dollars. TAP
plause). | am quite as strongly in favoI
of keeping days work at home us | All
} gold dollars. tApplausrI.
My friends. rs Il Republican. | an
proud of many things. hut | can sum M
as the highest satisfaction | have IN.
in the party and its career that tn,
/ prospect of Republican success never iii,
disturb business. IApplause,. In con
~nection with this financial matter. do W,
: all realize how important the choice o
-. a president is? Do You know that. Il
the law is now. without the passage o
: any free coinage of silver at all. it i
! in the power of the President of tn
, United States to bring the business o
, the country to a silver basis: All h
> has TO do is to let the gold reserve 20
to pay out silver when men ask 70
gold. and we are there already. 1t i
. only because the presidents of tn
, United States that we have had, and tn
one we have now. have regarded i
under the law as his public duty t