Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-08-28

The supreme court Of the United States
and the federal lower courts are ar
raigned because they used the familiar
writ of injunction to suppress violence,
10 restrain men from breaking the law.
and that platform plainly means-l
Nill show you that II was 50 under
stood in the convention and in the com
mittee on resolutions-that the Demo-
cratic policy was that when the su
preme court exercising its constitu-
tional power ana duty gave an inter-
probation 10 a law of the nited States
| that was not pleasing t. Congress
they wuuld increase the number of
Judges and pack the court 10 get q
decision 10 please them. tApplause).
You are To answer. th.u. my follow citi-
Zens in All the gravity Of great crisis
whether sou viii sustain pHrty who pro-
pOse 20 destroy the balance which our
fathers instituted IN our system of gov
rGments ana whenever tumultuous
Congress diSagrees with the supreme
court and Subservtert President is in
the W nitr House that the Judgment of
the court shall br recouAidertd and re-
Viscd by increasing the number OF Judges
tud packing the court with men who wilt
decide Is Congress wants them 10. ZAP
piau~e. ] cannot eNaEger1te TIM gravity
nd the Importance and the danger of this
government.
Whatever the question is whether Mr.
Bryun's views or NJ. Tillmaus views of
constitutional! question shall prcYai! Or
that Of inc august tribunal appointed BY
thc constitution to settle il. the courts are
fuut dcfcnse of the weak. The rich and
powerful! have other resources tEe poor
H.Yo not. The nigh minded iul, pendent
Judiciary that Will hold 10 the lines. on
ucstIOnS. between wealth aud labor, be-
jWcen the rich ana poor. X the defence
M security OF the defenceless cap
plauSct
do not intend to spend any time in the
discussion Gf tine tariff question. That
1ebat, has been won 1Appiausob. and need
not be- protected. II might run ON cter-
ualE upon tine oratorical lines. We hau
had some experiences hut they were his
toriCal and remote and not very inStruC-
tive to this generation. We needed an
experience Of our own ana We have had
| IL uaughter). 1t has been a hard lesson
but very convincing one and every
body WAS in the schoolhoUse when il was
given him. ULaushterl.
In 1881 we had the most prosperous times
;he most general diffusion Of prosperity
the most universal participation in pros
nerty and the highest mark Of prosper
ny We have ever attained rs a nation
tAppiause). Now what has happened
nce? Then our business prosperity was
Ike the strong current of the mighty
river: now it is like failing spring III an
August droUgh. 4 panic IN 1895 Of most
extraordinary character has been sue
ceeded by a gradual drying up. less ana
s. ana less. until universal business dis
traction aEd anxiety prevails al over our
community.
That is the situation. What has brought
il about? Gentlemen. who is there 10 de-
iend the Wilson tariff hill? Who says it is
n good tariff measure? CA voice 'nObodV'D
don't believe Democrat can be found
20 say that it is. Mr. Cleveland repudi-
dted it, 1t was 50 bad that he would not
attach his Official signature to it. and il
became q law without. What has been
the result of that measure? When a few
years ago during the Morton campaign in
New York J discussed this question
| said that Democratic doctrine used
To be that the burden of our public ex-
penses should be laid upon importa-
tions; that the tariff should provide
for the cost of running our govern
ment, and | pointed out then how our
Democratic friends had left that plat
torn ana We're now endeaVorng to
obtain revenue by internal taxation
rather than to allow the support of the
government of the United States to be
maintained upon the importatons of
foreign goods. What has been the re-
suit?
one of these experiments in internal
taxation, the income tax. was held to
be unconstitutional by the supreme
court So eager We're our Democratic
friends to relieve their embarrassment
and to put directly upon our people,
according to the English system. a tax
10 support our government, that they
passed an unconstitutional act in or
der to levy internal taxes and help out
n tariff bill which had reduced the du-
ties upon imports. Now. what has
been the effect of that?
1t has failed to produce revenues
enough supplemented by our internal
taxes. to maintain the government.
There has been an annual deficit an
preaching $4,000, 900 every year and
the national treasury has been contin-
ually in a state of embarrassment.
Our manufacturers. left without ade-
quate protection, have been success
sively and gradually closing up and
putting out their fires. But not only
has this produced such an effect. but
it has practically contributed to the
financial depression that we are in. i
The maintenance OF, the gold reserve
up to $10O,O00,00O by the government for
the redemption of our notes, was es-
sential to confidence in the stability of |
our finances. When the government
reserve runs down, people begin at
once to say, We may come to a silver |,
basis. gold is going out. The rcserv, !
is generally down and this fear is
greatly increased sut how can you
keep gold reserve of Sl00. .000. 600 when
you have not $lG0 100000 in the treas
ury all told? How can you maintain
this gold reserve for the redemption of
rotes when you have annual and con-
tlnual Gehcit in your income, not J
equalllng your expenses?
50 that. my friends, this tariff bill
has not only contributed. by increas-
ing importation, by taking away the
needful support for our own manu-
factures, but it has contributed in the
way of increasing the silver scare to