The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-08-28

we come TO speak for this broader
class Of business men. All, my friends,
we say not a word against those who
1--we upon the Atlantic coast, but those
hardy pioneers who braved all dangers
Of the wilderness, who have made the
desert to blossom as a rose; those plo-
neers away out there, rearing their
children near to natures heart where
they can mingle their voices with the
voices Of the blrds-out there where
they have eredJed school houses for the
education of their young and churches
where they praise their Creator and
cemeteries where sleep the ashes of
their dead-are as deserving of the con-
Sderatlon Of this party as any people
in this country. Great applause.) We
have petptloned and our petitions have
been scorncd. We have entrea.ed and
our entrea ties have been disregarded,
and they have Knocked when our calam-
ity came.
We beg no longer; we entreat no
more; we petition no more. we defy
them. Great applause and confusion
In the silver delegations)
The gentleman of Wisconsin has said
that he feared a Robespierre. My
friends, in this land of the free, we need
fear no tyrant who will spring UP from
among the people. What we need Is an
Andrew Jackson to stand as JacKsO.r
stood against the cncroachments of ag-
grandization of wealth. (Great APP
plause.) They tell us that this plat
form was made to catch votes. We re-
ply to them that changing conditions
make new issues ;that the prirciples upon
which rest Democracy are as everlasting
as the hills, but that they must be APP
piled to new conditions as they arise.
Conditions have arisen and we are at
tempting to meet those conditions They
tell us that the income tax ought not
to be brought in here, that 1t Is new
idea. They critclse us for our crti-
cisms of the Supreme court of the Unit
ed States. My friends, we have not
criticised. We have simply called at
tention to what you know. If you want
criticisms, read the dissenting opinion
CT the court. That will give you crli-
cisms. (Aplause) They say we pass
cd an unconstitutional law. I deny 1t.
The income tax was not unconstltution-
al when it was passed. 1t was not un-
constitutional when 1t went before the
Supreme co',rt for the first time. 1t did
not become unconstitutional until one
Judge changed his mind. We cannot
be expected to know when a judge will
change his mind. (Applause and
voice, "Hit 'em again.'0 The income
tax Is a just law. 1t simply intends to
put the burden of government justly
upon the backs of the people. 1 am in
favor of an income tax. (Applause)
When find q man who Is not willing
to pay his share for the government
which protects him find man who ls
unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a
government like ours. (Applause.) He
says that we are opposing the national
bank currency. 1t is true. If you will
read what Thomas Benton said you will
ho sol In la ofp ha
could find but one parallel to Andrew
Jackson, and that was Cicero, who de-
stroyed the conspiracy of Catallne and
saved Rome.
He did for Rome what Jackson did
when he destroyed the bank conspiracy
and saved America. (Applause.) We
say in our platform that we believe that
the right to coin money and Issue mon y
Is function of government. We believe
1t. We believe 1t Is a part of sover-
eighty, and can no more be delegated to
private individuals than we could afford
to delegate to private individuals the
power to make penal statutes or levy
laws for taxation. (Applause) Mr..
Jefferson, who was once regarded as
good Democratic authority, seems to
have q different opinion from the gen.
tlemeh who have addressed us on the
part of the minority. Those who are op-
posed to the proposition tell us that the
issue of paper money Is a function or
the bank, and that the government
ought to go out of the banking business.
l stand with Jefferson rather than with
them, and tell them, as he did, that the
Issue of money is function of the gov
ernment and that the banks ought to
go out of the government business
They complain about the plank which
declares against the life tenure In office.
They have to make 1t mean what 1t does
not mean. What we oppose In that
plank Is the life tenure that Is being
built up at Washington which excludes
from party representation In the bene
fits the humber members OF our society.
cannot dwell longer In my limited time.
(Crles of Go on; so on.'O Let me cali
attention to two or three great things. |
The gentleman from New York says
that he will propose an amendment pro-
vlding that this change In our law shall |
not affect contracts already made
Let me remind him that there Is no In |
tentlon of affecting these contracts, |
which according to the present laws,
are made payable in gold. But II he
means to say that we cannot change
our monetary system without protect
ing those who have loaned money be- |
fore the change was made, I want to ask
him where, n law or In
morals, he can and authority
for not protecting the debtors
when the act of 1873 was passed, but
now insists that we must protect tn,
creditor. He says he also wants to
amend this law and provide that II we
fail to maintain a parity within a year
we will then suspend the coinage |
of silver. We reply that when we ad-
vocate thing which we believe win |
be sutcessful we are not compelled to |
raise a. doubt as to our own sincerity |
by trying to show what we will do { |
we car. I ask him IL he will apply his |
logic to u.s. why he does not apply II to |
himself. He says that he wants this
country to try to secure an interna- |
tional agreement Why doesn't he tell !
US what he is going to do 4 they fall !
to secure an international agreement, |
There Is more reason for him to do that |
than for us to fail to maintain the |
parity. They have tried for 80 years ,
to secure an international agreement, |
and they are still wa ting for II most |
impatiently and don't want It at all,
Cheers and laughter)
Now, ry friends, let me come to the |
great paramount issue. If they ask us |
why II Is that we say more upon the |
money question than we say upon the |
tariff question, reply that If protection
has slain its thousands the gold sta ndard |
has slain its tens of thousands. If they
ask US why we did not embody all these
things I'm our platform In which we DE
liert. we reply to them that when we
have restored the money OF the constitu-
tion all other necessary reforms will be
possible and until that Is done there is
no reforr~ that can be accomplished.
(Cheers.) Why / say that In three
months has come such a change In the |