The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

Der of judges and pack the court TO get
a decision TO please them. (Applause.)
My friends, our fathers who framed
this government divided its great DOW
ers between three great departments
the legislative, executive and the judicial.
1t sought 10 make these independent,
the one of the other, so that neither
might overshadow or destroy the other.
The Supreme court, the most dignihed
judicial body in the world was appointed
TO interpret the laws and the constitu-
ton, and when that court pronounced
decree as 10 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 it to
conform with our views. That is the po-
sition today.
you are TO answer. then, my fellow
citizens, in all the gravity of n great
crisis, whether you will sustain party
who propose TO destroy the balance which
our fathers instituted in our system of
government. and whenever a tumultuous
Congress disagrees with the Supreme
court and subservient President is in
the white house, that the judgment of
the court shall be reconsidered and re-
verscd by increasing the number of
judges and packing the court with men
who will decide as Congress wants them
to. (Applause) | cannot exaggerate the
gravity and the Importance and the dan
ger of this assault upon our constitutions
al form of government.
II do not intend to spend any time in
the discussion of the tariff question. That
debate has been won, and need not be
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 a 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 gradual drying up,
less and less, until universal business dis
traction and anxiety prevails over all of
our community. | do not believe there
has been a 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. (Applause.) 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 it about? Gentle
men, who is there to defend the Wilson
tariff bill? Who says it is a good tariff
measure? CA voice: "Nobody.O / don't
believe n candidate can be found TO say
that it is. Mr.. Cleveland repudiated
il. 1t was so bad that he could not
attach his official signature to it, and it
became law without il. He said il
was full of incongruities 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
preaching S50,000,00O every year, and
the national treasury has been contin-
ually in 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, but IL has practi-
caIlv contributed to the financial depres-
sion that we are in. The maintenance
of the gold reserve up to S100,OO0,OOO
Inv the government for the redemption
Of our notes was essential TO confidence
i'm the stability of our finances. When
tho Government reserve runs down pco-
nIa begin at once to say: We may come
70 silver basis if gold is going out
The reserve is generally down and this
fear is greatly increased, but how can
Won keen a gold reserve of S1OO.OOO,OOO
whom YOU have not got S100.00O,O 900 in
Tho treasury all told? How can you
maintain this gold reserve for redemp-
tion of notes when you have an annual
and continuous deficit and your income
not edualing your deticitF SO that, my
friends. this tariff bill has not only con-
tributod. by increasing importations, by
taking away the needful support for our
own manufacturers, bur IL has contrib
uted i'm the way Of increasing the silver
scare 70 bring us into the present condi-
tion of distrust and dismay which now
prevails. (Applause)
oRut I do not intend to follow that
question further. / am quite as much
annosed TO chcapening the American
buckingham and working woman MS
am 10 cheapening our dollars. tap
nIouse). | am quite as strongly in favor
Of keeping days work at nome as am
eold dollars. (Applause).
MY friends, as n Republican, / am
nroui of many things, but can sum up
as tho highest satisfaction L nave hau
Ia tho marty and its career that the
nrosnect of Republican success never did
distnrb business. (Applause). In con
nection with this financial matter, 90 we
l ni ronI;ye how important the choice of
,,' oroSidcnt is? Do you know that, as
~ law il now, without the passage OF
s ony e free coinage of silver at all, it is
ny the mower of the President. of the
IIrited States to bring the business of
The country to a silver basisY All he
has 10 do is to let the gold reserve GO,
IN nav out silver when men ask LOT
w and we are there already. II is
e evi' because the presidents of the
tinted States that we have had, ana the
one we have now, have regarded II
yndcr the law as his public duty 70