The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-12

Der of judges and pack the court to get
decision to please them. (Applause)
MY friends, our fathers who framed
this government divided its great pow
ers between three great departments
the legislative, executive and the judicial.
1t sought to make these Independent,
the one of the other, SO that neither
might overshadow or destroy the other.
The Supreme court, the most dignhed
judicial body in the world. was appointed
to interpret the laws and the constitu-
ton, and when that court pronounced
decree as to the powers of Congress
or as to any other constitutional ques-
ton, there is but one right method if we
disagree. and that is the method pointed
out by the constitution-to amend II to
conform with our views. That is the po-
sition today.
you are to answer, then, my fellow
citizens, in all the gravity of great
crisis, whether you will sustain a party
who propose to destroy the balance which
government. and whenever n tumultuous
Congress disagrces with the Supreme
court and a subservient President is in
the white house, that the Judgment of
the court shall be reconsidered and re-
versed by increasing the number of
judges and packing the court with men
who will decide as Congress wants them
to. (Applause.) l cannot exaggerate the
gravity and the Importance and the dan
ger of this assault upon our constitutions
al form of government.
Il do not intend to spend any time in
the discussion of the tariff question. That
debate has been won, and need not he
protracted. 1t might run on eternally
upon theoretical lines. We had had some
experiences, but they were historical and
remote, and not very instructive to this
generation. We needed an experience of
our own. and we have had it. 1t has
been hard lesson. but very convinc-
ing one and everybody was in the school
house when il was given him. A panic in
1893 of most extraordinary character has
been succeeded by a gradual drying up,
less and less, until universal business dis
traction and anxiety prevails over all of
our community. l do not believe there
has been time. except, perhaps. in the
very heat of some active panic, when
universal fear and anxiety and watchful-
ness, even to the point of desperation,
has characterized this great metropolis
as it does today. (ApplauseD Men have
been afraid to go away for vacation.
They have felt that they must every day
in this burning heat come to the city and
watch their business. That is the situa-
ton.
''What has brought il about? Gentle
men. who is there to defend the Wilson
tariff bill? Who says il is n good tariff
measure? "a voice: "Nobody.D l don't
believe n candidate can be found to say
that it is. Mr.. Cleveland repudiated,
it. Ii was so bad that he could not
attach his official signature TO it. and it
became law without it. He said il
was full of incongruties and ineQuali-
ties. What has been the result of that
measure? 1t has failed 10 produce rev.
enue enough, supplemented by our inter
nal taxes, to maintain the government.
There has been an annual deficit APP
proaching SJ0.00O.0O0 every year, and
the national treasury has been contin-
ually i'm a state of embarrassment. Our
manufacturers. left without adequate
protection, have been successfully and
gradually closing up and putting out
their fires But not only has this pro-
duced such an effect. bur 1t has practi-
cally contributed to the financial depres-
sion that we are In. The maintenance
of the gold reserve up to S1O0000.OOO
by the government for the redemption
of our notes was essential to confidence
in the stability of our finances. When
the government reserve runs down peo-
Dle begin at once to say: We may come
| to n silver basis if gold is going out
| The reserve is generally down and this
| fear is greatly increased but how can
| you keep gold reserve of $1O0,000,O00
when YOU have not got 100000. 900 in
L
maintain this gold reserve for redemp-
| ton of notes when you have an annual
| and continuous deficit and your income
not coualing your deficit? So that, my
| friends. this tariff bill has not only con-
| tributed by increasing importations, by
| taking away the ncedful support for our
| own manufacturers. bur II has contrib
uted in the way of increasing the silver
scare to bring us into the present condi-
| ton of distrust and dismay which now
prevails. (Applause.)
"But I do not intend to follow that
| question further. | am quite as much
| opposed to cheapenng the American
workingman and working woman as l
| am to cheapcping our dollars. tap
| pIause). / am quite as strongly in favor
of keeping days work at home as l am
gold dollars. (Applause).
"AIy friends. as a Republican, l am
proui of many things. but l can sum up
as the highest satisfaction l have had
in the party and its career that the
nrospect of Republican success never did
| disturb business. (Applause). In con-
nection with this financial matter. do we
nil realize how important the choice of
n president is? Do YOU know that, as
the law is now, without the passage OF
any free coinage of silver ut all, u Us
i'm the power of the President of the
limited States to bring the business OF
The country to n silver basis? All he
bas TO do is to let the gold reserve 60
to nav out silver when men ask fol-
COLI and we are there already. Ii is
only because the presidents OF me
United States that we have had, ana the
ono we have now, have regarded II
nnder the law as his public duty To