The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-24

dress from Il platform to Il large crowd
which had been waiting since early morn
ing.
Mr.. Bryan was escorted by the Colds
boro Rifles, and at the conclusion of the
speaking left for Rocky Mount
MIR. Bryan spoke as follows:
Ladies' and Gentlemen-In this cam
palgn we are fighting together instead of
lighting among ourselves. | remember
a few years ago a populist in congress
said that in South America there ran
wild ON the praires small burros that in
times of danger, when attacked by wild
animals, would get them together, put
their heads together, so they formed cir
Gle with their heels, and kicked the enc
my, but he said it was often the case
that advocates of various reforms would
put their heads on the outside and kick
each other. Uaughter) 1t has been
too often the case that those who were
lighting for reform because they could
not agree entirely would interfere with
each other and each attempt to offset the
others work. In this campaign those
who believe in the free coinage of silver
have been coming together regardless of
differences of opinion on others. Those
who believe in tariff reform and republi-
cans who believe in protection. are to-
gether when both recognize the money
question is superior to the tariff question.
NhpplduScJ ~ popullSu leuucf Ill inns
state well expressed the idea when he
said that while he believed in populist
doctrines, yet he was willing to lay some
of them aside until he could get others
For instance, he said, while he believed
IN the government ownership of railroads,
he did not want the government to own
the railroads as long as the Rothschids
owned the government. Great applause.)
1t is this willingness to lay aside minor
in bonn a. ia, IL,
acterizes our people and gives the surest
proof they are able to rise to the require
ments of the emergency. Sometimes
they accuse us of raising sectional is
sue. One of the best proofs that the
platform adopted at Chicago does not
raise sectional issue is found in the
language of the platform adopted yester-
day in New York. Let me read it to
you:
"After unreservedly endorsing the plat
form and the candidate of the Chicago
convention, the New York platform de-
clares as its deliberate judgment that
never in the history of the party has a
platform been written which embodies
more completely the interests of the
whole people as distinguished from those
who seek legislation for private benefits
than that given to the country by the
national democratic convention in 1896.
(Applause)
Here, within the shadow of Wall
street, against the combined opposition of
those leading democrats of New York
who have left the democratic party and
either gone over entirely to the republic
cans or stopped for moment at the half
way house, the democracy of New York
declares the platform adopted at Chicago
is the most democratic platform ever put
hnrp ntpty l,xr ia.
vention. (Applause) In the state of
Connecticut they have also endorsed our
platform, and likewise in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey. In these and other
eastern states the democracy is beginning
to realize that the Chicago platform pre-
sents to the American people those great
issues around which the people must clus-
ter if they are going to retain n govern
ment of, by and for the people. The
Chicago platform contained a plank eX-
pressing Il desire for an income tax, not
saying that we are going to ignore the
decision of the supreme court, but that
an income tax should be enforced so far
as the decision of the court would per-
nit, and that we would abide by the
principle. Still, if future court exer-
cising the same right to reverse the de-
cision recently given that the present
court exercised in overthrowing the pre-
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back to the doctrine we used to have and
declare that under the constitution it is
possible to make those who have large in
comes pay their share of the expense of
government, in my judgment the income
tax is just. 1t is not wal upon property,
but it is admitted that those who have
property and who demand the protection
of that property by federal laws should
be willing to support the government to
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seek to use tine Observation-Disclosures of gov
eminent for their own benefit and then
throw the burden of supporting that GOV
eminent on the backs of those not able
to bear it. (Appause) The three par
ties which have joined in my nomination
agree that while there are other issues
before the people aside from the money
question, yet the money question arises
paramount to them all and must be set
tied first. Other questions can wait: the
money question can not. 1t has been
to decide whether we shall continue the
present financial system, wherein a few
men have undertaken to run the govern
ment, or shall put the financial policy of
the American geople in the hands of the
American people, to be framed by them
and for them from now on. (Applause.J
never lose an opportunity to impress
upon the people the Importance of this
question to every citizen. The republic
can platform declares we must maintain
our present financial policy, not until we
get tired of it, but until foreign nations
get tired of it and consent for us TO aban-
don it. TO my mind no more infamous
proposition was ever indOrsed by any par
ty, and | can not believe as | look into
the faces of tens of thousands of free
Americans throughout all these states
that they are willing to trust the desti-
MES of the people in the hands of foreign
ers, which we can only remedy by petit
ton. (Applause.) The republican party
had a great opportunity before it. Here
was a democratic administration which
was being opposed by large part of the
democratic party, and it is a much more
difficult thing for a man to oppose wrong
in his own party than his opponents.
Here were democrats willing to array
themselves in opposition to the policy Of
the president, not because they loved the
president less, but because they loved the
people infinitely more. (Applause.)
when the republicans assembled in st.
Louis if they had opposed the presidents
financial policy and declared they would
restore the money of the constitution, and
the democratic party had endorsed the
administration, the republican party
would have swept the democratic party
out of existence.
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