The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-24

party, you have taken from it lis most
sacred memory, my friends. Cap
plause.)
Now, let me call your attention to
another thing they complain of. They
say we criticize the supreme court.
Let me read you what we say on that
subject" and the speaker quoted the
plank in the Chicago platform denounc-
ing the supreme court for it's decision
against the income tax.
Continuing, Mr.. Bryan said:
What criticism is there? I call at
! tenfion to the fact that the court over
ruled the decisions OF hundred years.
We declare that congress ought to use
all the constitutional power that re-
mains. Let them insist that, having
taken part, we dare not use what they
left. We demand that congress shall
use such power as may come from
reversal by the court as it may here
after be constituted. Has no court
hereafter a right to reverse the de-
cision of this court? If not, what right
had this court to reverse the courts
for one hundred years before it? ZAP
plause.) This court changes from time
to time; judges die or resign, and new
! judges take their places. Is it not pos
sible, my friends, that future judges
may
ADHERE TO THE PRECEDENTS
of hundred years instead of adnering
to a decision rendered by a majority
of one, and THAI one changed his mind
in two months? Every time a lawyer
goes into court and asks for a reversal
of a decision of the court-and it is
not an infrequent thfng-every time a.
lawyer does 1T, he attacks the correct
ness of the decision which he desires
/ fr 1r,x- ~ ~ 10
what the Republican PLATFORM said
about decisions Of tine supreme court
in 1860.
We condemn the recent opening of
the African slave trade under the cover
of our national flag, aided by perver-
sdons of judicial power
THAT is what that platform said
it declared that a decision OF the court
was a. perversion of judicial power
There is no language in our PLATFORM
that is as harsh on the supreme court
as that Republican platform. ZAP
planse.)
My friends, on these two questions
where we are assaiEed by the Republic
cans today, we have not taken as en-
pllatic a stand as the Republican party
took in the first platform upon which
! it elected a president of the United
States. Let me read to you now what
J
prene court This is from his in
augura1 address:
. 1 do rot forget the position assumed
by some that constitutional questions
are to- he decided by the supreme
court; nor do 1 deny that such decis-
ions must be binding in any case upon
parties to the suit as to the object Of
that suit
The next paragraph was quoted and
then Mr.. Bryan said:
Mr. Lincoln says that if it is meant
to be asserted that the supreme court
/ has a right to determine the policies of
the people on great questions, that they
will have resigned our government into
the hands of the supreme court. Our
( platform is not as harsh as the
LANGUAGE OF ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN.
81 quote these authorities, my friends,
in order that you see how far-fetched
( is the criticism that is leveled against
US l quote these in order that you may
see that the very men who used the
criticisms against US must, in order to
do so, abandon the Republican plat
form upon which Lincoln was elected.
I (Applause.l Now, our opponents say
/ that we are opposed to the enforcement
J of the law. l deny it. l stand as The
candidate of three parties. 1 DO not
speak Of myself as an individual, be-
cause the individual is lost in a cam
paign in the representative character
! of a candidate. But, my friends, 1 want
to say to you that the fear that is
expressed is not a fear that if elected 1
/ will not enforce the law. ! have said
4 it before and [ say it again, that if,
! by the suffrages of my countryman,
an placed in that position which is
the highest position in the gift of the
people of the world, every law shall
/ be enforced against the great as well
as against the small. Great appiause.)
1T is not
A FEAR OF LAWLESSNESS
my friends! Think of the men who
have transgressed the law being afraid
that there will be a lax enforcement of
/ the law!
Think of the men who have consid-
cred themselves greater than the gov
eminent, who are afraid the govern
ment will not be great enough!
"They remind me of the man in
court-the person who seemed uneasy
and the judge assured him that he had
nothing to fear; that he would get JUS
tice in that court, and he says: Great
heavens, judge, that's what I'm afraid
Of (Applause.) They say that we have
been the peculiar objects of these impu-
tations. We pause, therefore, for a mo-
ment to reDel thin.
I'VE entertain no sentiments diverse
1 to social order; we seek not to destroy
but to preserve in their purity the in
stitutions of our country, whose Ian
guage is the language of Samuel ].
Tilden (applause), used in an address
to farmers and mechanics, delivered
on February 6, 1883. They accused re-
formers, then, of being destroyers of
the peace, and he asserted then,
AS WE ASSERT NOW,
that we have not come to destroy. Let
denis: "A powerful moneyed corpora
the government to whom it owes its
existence, assailed the purity of our
press. A mighty combination of poll
tic:ans and moneyed interests is again
| in the field to control elections, to
change the administration of the gov
| eminent, and to re-eStabliSh the SUI
premacy of the great moneyed corpora
tons over the business of the country
That same moneyed power is in exist
ence today, and it is doing the same
work today that it did in the days of
Tilden, and business men are, terrified.
Tilden said the patriotism of the people
prevailed in that struggle I believe
that the patriotism of a patriotic people
will prevail in this struggle. To think
otherwise would be to despair of a gov
eminent like this. My friends, we can
not have a free government unless the
people are free to act. l repeat, nv
friends, that this government by the