The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
DER of judges and pack the court to get
, decision to please them. (Applause.) !,

My lIiSluS, Jul luluctS VIII 1lullcu
this government divided it's 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 o%vershadow or destroy the other:
judicial body in the world. was appointed
to interpret the laws and the constitu-
ton, and when that court pronounced
a decree as to the powers of Congress
or as to any other constitutional ques-
ton, there is but one right method if we
out by the constitutional amend it to
conform with u views. That is the po-
siti0n today.
"You are to answer, then, my fellow
citizens, in all the gravity of a great
crisis, whether o will sustain a party
who propose to destroy the balance which
our fathers instituted in our system of
SES ongress dis anq %he %itS t 4 euS gunre%e
court and a subservient President is in
the white house, that the judgment of
the court shall be reconsidered and re-
versed by increasing the number of
judges and packing the court with men
who will decide MS Congress wants them
gravity and the Importance and the dam
ger of this assault upon our constitution
nj form of government.
II do not intend to spend any time in
the discussion of the tariff question. That
debate has been won, and need not be
protracted. 1t might run on .eternally
experiences, but they were historical and
remote, and not very instructive to this
generation. We needed an experience of
our own, and we have had it. 1t has
been q hard lesson, but a very conyinc-
ing one, and everybody was in the school
house when it was given him. A panic in
been succeeded BY a gradual drying up,
less and less, until universal business dis
traction and anxiety prevails over all Of
our community. l 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-
has characterized this great metropolis
as it does today. Applause.) Men have
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? "a voice: Nobody" I don't
| believe O candidate can be found to saw
that it is. Mr.. Cleveland r%epudiated
it. 1t was so bad that he could not
attach his official signature to it, and it
became a law without it. He said II
was full of incongruities and inequali-
measure? 1t has failed to produce rev.
enue enough, supplemented by our inter
nal taxes, to maintain the government.
| There has been an annual deficit an
preaching $50,OOO,O0O every veal, and
the national treasury has peer contin-
ually in a state of embarrassment. Our
manufacturers, left without adequate
gradually closing up and putting out
their fires. But not only has this pro-
duced such an effect, but it has practi-
cally contributed to the financial depres-
sion that we are in. The maintenance
of the gold reserve up to 100000 600
by the government for the redemption
of our notes was essential to confidence
in the stability of our finances. When
the government reserve uns down peo-
pie begin at once to say: We may come
to 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 100000 OO
when o have not got 100000, 900 in
the treasury all told: How can you
maintain this gold reserve for redcinp.
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 ncedful support for oul
own manufacturers. bu, 1t has contrib
uted in the way of increasing the silvc,
scare to bring us into the present condi
ton of distrust and dismay which nov
prevails. (Applause.)
"But l do not intend to follow thu
question further. l am quite as mucl
opposed to %cheapening the American
workingman and working woman as
am to cheapening our dollars. ,An
plause). I am quite as strongly in favo
of keeping days work at home as I an
gold dollars. (Applause).f
"My friends, as q Republican, / ar
!, proud of many things. but l can sun u
!, as the highest satisfaction l have ha
in the party and it's career that tn
| prospect of Republican success never di
disturb business. (Applause). In cor
] nection with this financial matter, do W
all realize how important the choice q
a president is? Do you know that, q
S the law is now, without the passage q
any free coinage of silver at all, it
I in the power Of the President of til
!, United States to bring the business {
/ the country to a silver basis? All L
has to do is to let the gold reserve z,
. to pay out silver when men ask Il
Q gold, and we are there already. 1t
: only because the presidents of til
United States that w have had, and IL
:, one we have now, have regarded
: under the law as his public duty
y maintain the gold basis, maintainiu