New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-15


If you want criticisms, read the dissent
lug opinion Of the court. That will give
you criticisms. They say we passed an
unconstitutional law. I deny It. The
income tax was not unconstitutional
when it was passed. It was not uncon.
stitutional whec it was before the SUI
preme court for the first time 1t did
not become unconstitutional until one
Judge changed his mind, and we cannot
be expected to know when a judge will
change his mind. The income tax is a
just law; it simply intends to put the
burden of government justly upon the
backs of the people. I am in favor of
an income tax. .....-
There are two ideas of government.
There are those who believe that if YOU
just legislate to make the well-to do pros
porous that their prosperity will leak
through on those below. The Democrat
jc idea has been that if you legislate to
make the masses prosperous their pros
perity will fnd its way up and through
every class and rest upon it. You come
to us and tell us that the great cities are
in favor of the gold standard. I tell you
that the great cities rest upon these broad
and fertile pra1ries. Burn down your
cities and leave our farms, and your Cit
les will spring up as if by magic, but de-
stroy our farms and the grass will grow
in the streets of every city in this coun-
try.
My friends, we shall declare that this
nation is able to legislate for its own
people on every question, without wait
ing for the aid or consent of any other
nation on earth, and upon that issue we
expect to carry every single state IN the
Union. / shall not SANDER the fair State
of Massachusetts, nor the State of New
York by saying that when its citizens are
confronted with the proposition, is this
nation able to attend 20 it's own business
i will not slander either one bV saying
that the people Of those states will de-
clare our helpless impotency as nation
to attend to our own business. 1t is the
issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors,
when but three millions, had the courage
to declare their political independence
of every other nation upon the earth.
Shall we, their defendants, when we have
grown to- 7O,00O,00O, declare that we
are less independent than our fore-fath-
ers? No, my friends, it will never be the
judgment of the people. Therefore, we
care not upon what lines, the battle is
fought. If they say bimetallism is good,
but we cannot have it till some nation
helps US, we reply that instead of having
a gold standard because England has. we
shall restore blmetallism and then let
England have bimetallism because the
United States has. If they dare to come
out in the open to defend the gold stand
ard as a good thing, we shall fight them
to the uttermost, having behind Us the
producing masses Of this nation and the
world. Having behind US the CONNER
cial interests and the laboring interests
and all the toiling masses, we shall ans
wer their demands for a gold standard
by saying to them, you shall not press
down ron the brow Of labor this crown
Of thorns. You shall not cruelty man.
kind upon cross Of gold.
Now, my friends, let me come to the
great paramount issue. II they ask us
here why it is that we say more Oh the
money question than on the tariff: I re-
ply that if protection has slain
its thousands, the gold standard
has slain its tens of thousands.
If they ask us why we did not embody
all those things in our platform which
we believe, we reply to them that when
we have restored the money Of the con
stitution, all other necessary reforms
will be possible, and that until that is
done, there is no reform that can he ac-
complished. lCheeFing) Why is it that
Within three months such u change has
come over the sentiments of this coun-
try? Three months ago, when It was
confidently asserted that those who be
lieved in the gold standard would frame
our platform and nominate our candi-
| date, even the advocates of the gold
standard did not think that we could e.
i lect q president; but they hal good rea.
son for the suspicion, because there is
scarcely a state here to-day asking FOL
the gold standard that is not within the
/ absolute control Of the Republican par
], ty. But note tile change. Mr.. McKin
.ly was nominated at st. Louis upon
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