The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-08-21

class of business men. All, my friends,
we say not a word against those who
live upon the Atlantic coast, but those
hardy piupeers who braved all dangers
of the wilderness, who have made the
! desert to blossom as o. rose those plo-
| neers away out there, rearing their
| children near to natures heart where
they can mingle their voices with the
vo.ceS of the blrds-out there where
they have eredlad school houses for the
education 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-
sideratlon Of this party as any people
in this country. Great applause.) We
have petElored and our petitions have
been scorned We have entreated and
our entreaties have been disregarded.
and they have Knocked when our cllam-
| ity came.
We beg no longer; we entreat no
more; we petition no more. We defy
them. Great applause and confusion
in the silver delegations)
The gentleman of Wisconsin has said
that he feared a Robespierre. My
friends, in this land of the free, we need
fear no tyrant who Will spring up from
among the people. What we need is an
Andrew Jackson to stand as Jacksoh
stood against the cncroachments of ag-
grandization of wealth. Great APP
plause.) They tell us that this plat
form was made to catch votes. We re-
ply TO them that changing conditions
make new issues;that heprirciples upon
which rest Democracy are as everlasting
as the hills. but that they must be APP
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 moi
to be brought in haSe, that 1t Is new
idea. They crticse us for our crlti-
cisms of the Supreme court of the Unit
ed States. My friends, we have not
criticised We have simply called at
tention to what you know. If you want
criticisms, read the dissenting opinion
CT the court. That will give you crli-
cisms. (Aplause) They say we pass
cd an unconstitutional law. | deny it.
The Income tax was not unconstitution-
al when it was passed. 1t was not un-
constitutional when 1t went before the
Supreme'co 'rt for the first time. 1t did
not become unconstitutional until one
Judge changed his mind. We cannot
be expected to know when judge will
change his mind. applause and q
voice, "Hit 'em agan.9 The income
tax Is a just law. 1t simply intends to
put the burden of government justly
upon the backs of the people. l am in
favor of an income tax. (Applause)
When / find man who Is not willing
to pay@pis share for the government
which protects him find a man who ls
unworthy to enjoy the blessings of
government like ours. (Applause) He
says that We are opposing the national
bank currency. 1t is true. If you viii
read what Thomas Benton said you viii
o.. H. 4 s., ~ .Ns 1,.N he.
could lrd but one parallel to Andrew
Jackson. and that was Cicero, who de-
stroyed the conspiracy of Catalina and
saved Rome.
He did for Rome what Jackson did
when he destroyed the bank conspiracy
and saved America. (Applause) We
say in our platform that we believe that
the right to coin money and issue money
Is function of government. We believe
1t. We believe it Is part of sover-
eighty, and can no more be delegated to
private individuals than we could afford
to delegate TO private individuals the
power to make penal statutes or levy
laws for taxation. (Applause) Mr..
JEFF rson who was once regarded as
good Democratic authority, seems to
have a different opinion from the gen.
tlemcn who have addressed us on the
part of the minority. Those who are OPP
posed to the proposition tell us that the
issue of paper money Is function OF
the bank, and that the government
ought to go out of the banking business.
/ stand with Jefferson rather than with
them and tell them, as he did, that the
issue of money Is a function of the gov
ernment, and that the banks ought to
go out OF the government business.
Thsy complain about the plank which
declares against the life tenure in office.
They have to make 1t mean what II does
not mean, What we oppose IN that
plank Is the life tenure that Is being
built UP at Washington which excludes
from party representation in the bene.
its the humber members of our society.
cannot dwell longer in my limited time.
(Cries of Go on; so on.') Let me call
attention to two or three great things.
The gentleman from New York says
that he will propose an .amendm5 mt pro-
viding that this change In our law shall
not affect contracts already made.
Let me remind him that there Is no in
tention of affecting these contracts,
which according to the present laws
are made payable in gold. But If he
means to say that we cannot change
our monetary system without protect
ing those who have loaned money be-
fore the change was made, l want to ask
him where. m law or In
morals, he can And authority
for not protecting the debtors
when the 1ct of 1873 was passed, but
now insists that we must protect the
creditor. He says he also wants to
amend this law and provide that II we
fail to manta n a parity within q year
we viii then suspend the coinage
Of slly er. We reply that when we ad-
vocate thing which we believe win
be successful we are not compelled to
raise 4 doubt as to our own sincerity
by try ing to show what we viii do (
we can. I ask him If he will apply his
logic to us, why he does not apply 1t to
himself. He says that he wants this
country TO try TO secure an interna-
tional agreement. Why doesn't he tell
us what he IL going to do ( they fan
to secure an International agreement
There IL more reason for him to do that
than sot us to fall to maintain the
parity. They have tried for so years
to secure an international agreement.
and they are SIN wa ting for II most
lmpatlently and don't want 1t at all
(Cheers and lsughter)
Now cny friends, let me come to the
great paramount issue. If they ask us
why it Is that we say more upon the
money question than we say upon the
tariff question, ] reply 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 these
things in our platform In which we be-
Hove. we reply to them that when we
have restored the money OF the constitu-
ton all other necessary reforms will be
possible and until that is done there Is
no reforr' that can be accomplished.
(Cheers,) WY ! say that ,in three
months has come such change In the |
Three months ago, when 1t