The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-14

| blossom as the rose-those pioneers
/ away ont there, rearing their children
/ near to Natures heart, where they can
minole their voices with the voices OF
| the birds-out there where they have
| erected schoolhouses for the educa-
| cation of their young. and churches
| where they praise their Creator and
| cemeteries where sleep the ashes OF
| their dead, are as deserving of the con-
| sideration of this party as any people
| in this country.
NOT A WAR OF CONQUEST.
eft is for these that we speak. We
| do not come as apressors. Our war is
not a war of conquest. We are tight
| mo in the defence of our homes. our
| families and prosperity. We have pc
| titioned. and our petitions have been
scorned. We have entreated, and our
entreaties have been disregarded. We
| hav begged. and they have been mock
| ed, and our calamity came.
1--WE beg no longer; we entreat no
more; we petition no more. We DEFY
| them.
| "The gentleman from Wisconsin has
| said that he fears a Robespierre. My
| friend. in this land of the free you need
| fear no tyrant who will spring up from
| among the people. What we need is
| an Andrew Jackson, to stand, as jack
| son stood, against the encroachment
| of aggrandized wealth.
| They tell us that this platform was
made to catch votes. We reply TO them
| that changing conditions make new
issues: that the principles upon which
rest Democracy are as everlasting as
l 81. HI hot "a
piled TO new conditions as they arise.
| Conditions have arisen, and we are at
| tempting to meet those conditions.
| They tell us that the income tax
ought not to>be brought in here, that
| It is new idea. They criticise us for
our criticisms of the Supreme court of
| the United States. My friends, we
have not criticised. We have simply
called attention 10 what you know.
| If Won want criticisms read the dis
senting opinion of the court. That
| will give Won criticisms.
| They say we passed an unconstitu-
| tional law. | deny it, The income
| tax was not unconstitutional when 1t
was passed. 1t was not unconstltu-
tional when it Went before the St-
preme court for the first time. 1t dld
not become unconstitutional until one
/ Judge changed his mind, and we can
| not be expected to know when judge
will change his mind.
INCOME TAX JUST.
THE income tax is a just law. 1t
simply intends to put the burdens of
| government justly upon the backs Of
| the people. | am in favor of an in
come tax. When | find a man who is
not willing TO pay his share of the
burden of the government which pro-
| tects him / find man who is UNI
worthy TO enjoy the blessings of a
| government like ours.
| "He says that we are opposing the
| National bank currency. 1t is true. Ii
| YOU will read what Thomas Benton
| said you Will find that he said that
| in searching history he could find but
one parallel to Andrew Jackson. That
| was Cicero, who destroyed the con-
/ spiracv of Catiline to save Rome. He
| did for Rome what Jackson did when
| he destroyed the bank conspiracy and
saved America.
I'VE say in our platform that we
/ believe the right to coin money and
| issue money is a function OF govern
ment We believe it. We believe it is
a part Of sovereignty and can no more
| with safety be delegated to private
| individuals than we could afford to
delegate TO private individuals the
| power to make penal statues or levy
| laws for taxation.
MIR. Jefferson. who was once re-
| garded as good Democratic authority
| seems to have a different opinion from
| the gentleman who has addressed as
on the part of the minority.
| Those who are opposed to this
/ proposition tell us that he issue OF
| paper money is a function of the
| bank and that the government ought
| to go out of the banking business. |
| stand with Jefferson rather than with
| them in holding, as he did, that the
| issue of money is a function of the
| government, and that the banks ought
to go out Of the government business.
| TENURE OF OFFICE.
| They complain about that plank
which declares against the life tenure
| in office. They have tried to strain
it to mean that which it does notmean.
| What we oppose in that plank is the
| lift tenure that is being built at
| Washington, which excludes from
| participation in the benefits tine hum
| bier members of OUR society. | cannot
| dwell on this longer in my limited
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| time.
| let me call attention to two or
three great things. The gentleman
| from New York says hat he will pro-
| pose an amendment providing that
| this change in our law shall not affect
| contracts already made. Let me re-
/ mind HIM that there is no intention of
| affecting Those contracts which, ac
| cording to the present laws, are made
payable in gold. But if he means to
| say that we cannot change our none
| tary system without protecting those
| WHO have loaned money before the
| change was made, | want TO ask him
| where, in law or in morals, he can find
| authority for not protecting The debt
| ors when the act of 1873 was passed,
| when he now insists that we must pro-
| text the creditor.
He says he also wants ITO amend
| this law and provide that if we fail to
/ =,