Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-09
OUT OF ITS OWN MOUTH.
THE FEDERAL SUPREME COURT JUDGED
Mir. Bryan Quotes from the Opinions of Jus tees Harlem and Brown With Great
 Effect at Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids, Ia., Oct. S.-To an appre- ciative audience that filled the grand stand and bleachers at Athletic park and flowed over into the field, William Jen- nings Bryan made a short speech this afternoon during his stop of nearly two hours in Cedar Rapids. Between 5000 and 5000 people were present. John M. Red mon introduced Mr. Bryan, who said in part:
 "The three parties which agreed on my nomination made the money question of first importance and our opponents will concede that the settlement of the money question overshadows all the questions, and yet our opponents, not sat isfied to fight the battle on the money question, have attempted the bringing of other isSues They have even gone so Tar as to declare that in expressing a desire for an income tax we are not showing proper respect for the supreme court, which declared the last income tax law unconstitutional. We believe that we have a right to express a desire for an income tax; we believe that we have right to express a hope that a future court will undo what the present court has done. And in expressing that desire we were not subjecting ourselves to any just criticism. Let me show what has been said in regard to that decision, and then WILL tell you the HdIile Ol lle dIl- archist who said it. Here is what some one has said: The practical effect of the decision today is to give a certain kind of property the position of favoritism and advantage inconsistent with the funda- mental principles of our social organiza- tion, and to invest them with power and influence that may be perilous to that portion of the American people upon
 whom rests the largest part of the bur
 dens of government and who ought not
 to be subject to the dominion of aggre
 gate wealth any more than the property
 of the country should be at the mercy
 of the lawless.' What man was it, do
 you suppose, who said that the people ought not to be subject to the dominion
 of aggregate wealth? What anarchist do
 you suppose that was? A republican judge of the supreme court and his name
 is Harlan. Nothing in our platform is
 more severe than that, and yet that is the
 language of one of the judges of the su-
 preme court.
 Let me read again: While I have no doubt that congress will find some means of Surmounting the present crisis,
 my fear is that in some moment of na-
 tional peril this decision will rise up to frustrate it's will and paralyze its arm hope 1t may not prcve the first step to-
 ward the submergence of the liberties of
 the people in sardid despotism of wealth.
 Who Is it that fears a submergence of
 the liberties of the people in sordid des- potism of wealth? What anarchist said
 that? These are the words of republi- can member of the supreme court of the United States-Justice Brown-in crticis- ing the decision of the supreme court. Great cheering) More than that, he adds these words: As I cannot escape the conviction that the decision of the court in this great case Is fraught with mmeasurable danger to the future of the country, and that as it approaches the proportions of national calamity I | feel it my duty to enter my protest against it.
 "If two republican members of that court can use the language which I have quoted against the decision, certainly the democratic party has a right to express | the hope that some future court will go back to the precedent of 100 years and refuse to be bound by an opinion rem dered by a majority of one (Great cheer ing) So that if our opponents are not willing to meet us on the money ques- | tion and desire to turn the fight on the 1 income tax, I am willing to array the pa- triotism of the great masses of the people who are overtaxed against the patriotism of the few men of large wealth who enjoy | the protection of government and yet re- l fuse to hear it's burdens"
 The remainder of the speech was de- voted to discussion of the money ques- tion, no new lines being taken up MT. Bryan left Cedar Rapids for Marshall town, la, over the Northwestern at 5:45 D. m. His train travelled on special schedule