The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-03
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not entirely honest in It's. ,leAIiaEs tl-h
the rpeople. (Applause) And uv.~,
addressing myself to the paramount issue
OF this campaign l want to call your at
tention to two or three questions which
have been raised by our opponents. We
have declared that the money question is
the paramount issue and some of them
are not willing to meet us on the money
question and have sought to raise other
questions to confuse the public mind.
My friends, just one word about these
other questions Some of our opponents
have attempted to arraign us before the
bar of public opinion upon the charge that
we were attempting to disturb order and
to overthrow the law. 1 want, for II mo-
ment, to meet that proposition. There
is nothing in our platform that justifies
that charge. If they say that our decla-
Tations in favor of an income tux is an at
tempt to discredit the supreme court, /
deny it. There is nothing in our plat
form on that subject which is half as Sc
we're as the minority report uttered
against the judgment of the supreme
court. Applause.) Let me call your
attention to a criticism which Abraham
Lincoln made of Il decision of the SUI
preme court and when you read this crit
icism you will find how far we fall short
of him in criticism, and yet there are
good people in this country to-day who
think that Abraham Lincoln was not
only great man but u good man and a
patriot. (Applause.) Here is his Ian
guage in June, 1857:
1--WE believe rs much rs Judge
Douglas, perhaps more (he adds) in
obedience to and respect for the judicial
department of the Government, and we
think that the bred Scott decision was
erroneous. We note that the court that
made 1T has often overruled its Own de-
cisions, and we shall do what we can to
have it overrule this.
my friends, the position taken by
Abraham Lincoln is exactly the position
we take to-day. Great applause) We
expect that decision at some time in the
future to be overruled. We expect that
in this nation it will some time be possj-
BILE to make wealth bear its share of the
burdens of government. Great applause
and cheering.) | call your attention to
the fact that the men who are criticising
us for still favoring an income tax do not
themselves criticise the income tax. 1t
is strange, my friends, how suddenly
some of these people who have been in
court all their lives as defendants against
charges of violating the law-it is strange
how these people have suddenly come to
defend decision of the supreme court
(Applause) Men, who under the income
tax would have to pay a tax, instead of
telling you that they are willing to pay
| they jump onto us and charge us with
| disrespect to the court. II these men who
want the protection of government and
| yet want others to bear the burdens CT
government, were honest and courage
Gus, they would tell us that what they
| objected to was not our criticism OF the
court, but the law itself, because they do
not want to pay taxes. Great up
plause)
another thing: our opponents want
you TO believe that we are opposed to the
enforcement OF law. So far rs that criti
cism is directed against me as candi
date assert what l have asserted before
that there is not n citizen in all thi:
land who believes more thoroughly il
the enforcement of every law upon TIL,