Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-06

90 Rrralgh us pesoye the par OF pups.s
opinion upon the charge that we are trying
to disturb order and to overthrow law
want for a moment to meet that PROPOSE
ton. There Is nothing in our platform
that justifies that charge. If they say that
our declaration in favor of an income tax
is an attempt to discredit the supreme
court, / deny 1t. There is nothing in our
platform on that subject which is half as
severe as the minority OF the court itself
uttered against the Judgment of the su-
III enc court. We expect that decision at
some time In the future, to be overruled.
We expect that In this nation it will some
time be possible to make wealth bear Its
share of the burdens Of the government. :.
Il cell your attention 70 the fact ths6
the men who are critictsing us for sttN
favoring an income tax do not themselves
criticize the Income tag. 4 Is strange, my
Friends. how suddenly some of these peo-
ple-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 respect decision
of court. Men who have incomes on which
they would have to pay tax, instead of
telling you that they are not willing to
pay the tax, jump on to us and charge us
with disrespect of the court. If those men
who want the protection Of government
and yet want others to bear the burdens of
government We're honest and courageous
to was not our criticism of the court, but
the law itself, because they'did not want to
pay the tax.
VIII Enforce the Law.
"Onr opponents want you to believe that
we are opposed to the enforcement of the
law. So far as that criticism is directed
against me as a candidate, I assert, as
have asserted before, that there is not q
citizen in all this land who believes more
thoroughly In the enforcement Of every law
upon the statute books than do, and my
friends. II by the suffrages Of my country
men may be made the chief executive OF
this nation, will promise you that will
so enforce the laws that some Of my critics
will come on their knees begging not to
have the laws enforced Let me state to
you reason for the opposition of some of
these railroad presidents which they
themselves do not suggest. They oppose
our platform not SO much because 1t de-
clares for free coinage-they can stand
free coinage. They object to it because we
army to settle labor trouble. that we shall
have arbitration to settle them. They say
that we are not in favor Of law and order.
say that we are the ones who desire q
peaceable solution of all questions, and
that they are the ones who always appeal
to force and deny justice when they do 1t.
But the worst part of all this opposition Is
that the men who attempt to destroy labor
organizations and to make the laboring-
man defenseless are the men who in this
campaign, are attempting to use the votes
OF laborers themselves to overthrow their
rights.
There is another plank which these men
find fault with, but they do not say much
about it, and that 10 the plank wherein we
declare against government by injunction,
and in favor Of the bill that passed the
senate to protect people who are arrested
for contempt. Why do they not criticise
that plank? Because the bill which we in
dorsed in our platform passed the senate
of the United States without opposition
enough to secure a roll call. The bill Is
just. 1t is giving the right of trial by jury,
and these men dare not oppose the Justice
of the measure, and therefore they seek
some other excuse upon which to oppose
the principles of our platform"
Mr.. Bryan then .rehearsed his familiar ar
guments in relation to the merits of the
gold standard as compared with bimet-
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