The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-22

Richmond, ~. Sept. 1S.-William J;
Bryan arrived ut Goldsboro, n. O., at ll:ou
last night, where the private car he is
travelling in was sidetracked until . O'Clock
this morning. at which hour he delivered
an address from a platform TO large
crowd which had been waiting since early
morning. He said:
1.-The Chicago platform contained 4 plank
expressing desire for au income tax, not
saying that we are going to ignore the de-
cision of the supreme court, but that an
income tax should be retained and enforced,
so far as the decision of the court Would
permit and that we would abide by the
principle till future court. exercising the
same right to reverse the decision recently
given that the present court exercised III
overthrowing the precedent of a hundred
wears should go back to the doctrine we
used to have and declare that under the con-
etitution, it is possible to make those who
have large incomes to give share to the
expenses OF the government. In my Judg-
ment the income tax is just. 1t is not war
upon propert5 but it is a demand that
those who have property and who demand
the protection of that property by federal
laws should be willing to support the gov
eminent to which they look for that pro-
lection, and not seek to use the instrument
talities of government for their own beneht
and then throw the burden of supporting
not able to bear it. The three parties
which have joined il my nomination, agree
that while there are other questions before
the country aside from the money ques-
ton, yet the money question rises para
mount to them all, and must be settled
first. Other questions can wait, the money
question cannot. 1t has been forced upon
public attention; it has been brought before
the people, and we have to decide whether
we shall continue the present financial sys-
tenn wherein few men have undertaken
to run the government, or shall put the
financial policy of the American people in
the hands of the American people to be
framed by them and for them from now
on
Not day passes that l do not meet Re
pubicanS who tell me they voted for
Abraham Lincoln and voted the Republican
ticket ever since, but they found more of
the Republicansm Of early days in the
Democratic platform than they can find in
the Republican platform of this year. They
say there is more there to give them hope
of the maintenance of free institutions
than they can find in the Republican plat
form. They are not willing to trust foreign
nations to do for the American people
what the Republican party refuses to do.
If anything is wrong with our laws we
can correct them at the ballot, but il we
transfer the legislative power from Wash
ingtOn to Lombard street cur ballots cannot
knee and beg for sympathy and compass
sion from those who have never known
sympathy or compassion. Those who are
denominated as money changers Rave never
in all the history of the human race list
ened to anything but force. They have no
heart They cannot feel. They know
nothing but greed and ayarice, which have
no conscience to which you can appeal.
When these Republican politicians refuse
to tell the American people what kind or
a system they would have they must not
expect the American people to put their
financial affairs in the hands of those who
do not know what ought to be done; or If
they know, are determined not to let any
body else know what they know. There
is no ground upon which the opposition
is willing to fight this battle They dare
not declare in favor of the gold standard
because all history teaches that nothing
but serving has followed the experiment Of
q gold standard.
We are sometimes accused of using eX-
travagant language, but we do not have to
use extravagant language. Whenever we
want 10 be very emphatic we turn
back to the utterances of men like
Mr.. Carlisle, who are now wOr-
Shipping the golden calf and use their
language 10 show what emphasis was be-
fore their hearts we're turned from the
people to Wall street. If we have the
universal gold standard it means that the
annual supply of money given to all the
people of the world must be drawn from our
gold mines each year, and not all or that
can go to the minis, because the great bulk
of it is used in the arts. The gold used
in the arts is increasing every year ana
we shall reach a time, in fact, some insist
that that time IS already reached. when
the total amount of sold produced every
year will be needed for the arts and leave
no annual output to keep up with the de-
mand for money.
+nIly ac
along with less and less money as the
wears go by Some of them have such con-
fidence in the substitutes for money that
they believe the time will soon come When
we will need no money at all. Iney remind
me of the man who thought fish could be
made to live without water he TOOK
herring and put it into pail of salt water,
and gradually took out the salt water and
mt in fresh water until the water was
almost entirely fresh. But the change was
made so gradually that the fish dld not
notice it and kept on living. And then he
began to take the fresh water little eacn
day and did it so gradually that finally 1t
was all gone Yet the fish had not been
able to detect the decrease. Then he took
the fish out of jar and put 1t into blrd
cage and fed it like a bird, but one DAY
when he was gone his attendant thought
+heI fish was not doing we'll and he put
saucer of water in the cage that the hSh
might moisten its food. When the man
came back, behold, the fish had got his head
in the water and drowned because it was
not used to it.
"My opponents think you can gradually
substitute something else for money and do
it so gradually that after awhile people
would not know what to do with money
if thov had it. But, my friends, it won't
work.
A procession headed by the ever-present
country band escorted Mr.. Bryan TO the
fair grounds at Rocky Mount, \. c., and
he addressed a large crowd as follows:
eve are engaged in a campaign which
is drawing the line between the producers