Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-09-15

trous results, which will prove
distressing to thousands. 7 be-
lieve gold and silver coin to be
the money of the constitution, in
deed the money of the American
people anterior to the constitu-
ton, which the great organic law
recognized as quite independent
of it's own existence. No power
was conferred on Congress to de-
clare either metal should not be
money. Congress has therefore,
in my Judgment, no power to de-
monetize either. If, therefore,
silver has been demonetized, I
am in favor of remonetizing it.
If it's coinage has been prohibit.
ed, I am in favor of ordering it
resumed"
Said the Republican National
platform in 1888:
"The Republican party is in
favor of the use of both gold and
silver as money and condemns
the policy Of the democratic ad-
ministration in it's efforts to de-
monetize silver"
And again it said in 1892.
1.-The American people from
tradition and interest favor BIZ
metallism, and the Republican
party demand the use of both
gold and silver as standard mon
ey."
| Even those who criticise the
supreme court income decision,
are in good company.
Of the bred Scott decision,
Thomas H. Benton said: Il
81 made a new departure in
the working Of the government,
declaring slavery to be the law
| of the land, while freedom was
the exception"
b. V. Smalley, who is one now
having great and unusual respect
for the supreme court, says of
the bred Scott case. in his his
tory of the republican party:
"The PRONUNCIATION of the bred
Scott decision Immediately after
the Inauguration of Mr.. Buchanan
gave new vigor to the republican
party, showing as it did that the
pro-slavery party intended to
finally subjugate the whole coun-
try and make of it vast slave
EMPIRE
Houghton's "American Poll
tics" said:
Ls''The bred Scott decision was
the last attempt made to decide
the struggle by form Of law. The
course of events tended rapidly
to a settlement of the difficulty
by the force of arms adding
that lit was evident that the free
states would never receive this
as law although it was promulga-
ted by the supreme court
| Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln S his
torians, say:
This remarkable decision
challenged the attention of the
whole people to a degree never
before excited by any act of their
courts of law. Multiplied edi.
lions were at once printed, scat
tered over the land, read with
the greatest avidity and earnest
ly criticised And on page 81
one reads that "the decision
widened immensely the already
serious breach between the north
and the south, and that 'tthe re.
publican party declared that the
bred Scott doctrines of the SUI
preme conrt should not be made
a rule of political action"
Finally, Lincoln himself took a.
turn at .denunciation'' of the
court, as the comment of Bryan's
platform is called. June 25th,
1867, Lincoln said: - s. s.zz =s.s =
hen, as is true, we find the
court wanting in all these claims
public confd ence, it is not re-
sistance, tits not factious,.it is
not even disrespectful to treat it
as not having quite established
settled doctrine il this country,
When Lincoln opened out on
the stump with Don las he said: {
The first man Who ever said
that the declarat ion Of iindepen-
Idence g to 81 men was q self