The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-16
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| tell YOU that il was because the strug
Cling masses found i'll that platform m
| inspiration. and aggregated wealth
found i'll il a menace to every man wht
robs his neighbor for his own benefit
Ii was those who have entrenched them
selves behind abuses of government who
objected to that platform. and well they
might object. because that platform was
aimed at every abuse of government and
was glad that | was supported 10y
these who would have only asked me
for just laws. am glad that the six
million and Il half who voted for me
simply wanted me to get other people
hands out of their pockets (appause)
and not to get their hands into other
peoples pockets.
Let me recall some of those plankS
I'VE advocated the arbitration of diff
fcrcnccs between corporations engaged
in Interstate commerce and their EN-
ployceS. Every great strike which
brings loss to the employer destroys
the labors and Inconvenience business
and brings us one step nearer to arbi-
tration as Il means of settling those diff
fcrences.
The Chicago platform favored arhi-
tration. Democrats that stood upon il
then, favor it. now. That platform de,
clared against government by injunction
and since the election we have object
lessons which we did not have before.
Thomas Jefferson believed in tria
by jury. and government by injunction
is merely a disguised method by which
Il man charged with crime shall be de
al 4 bn ;,rbt nf
cheers and APPLAUSE. That plank il
stronger than it was before.
The Chicago platform declared in
favor of the income tax. aud an income
tax is stronger now than it was before
When l discuss the income tax decision
| always resort to quotation because
have Il reputation for conservatism
which | must protect. daughter
When | want to be severe ] quote. and
when | want to criticise Supreme
court. | quote from a member of the
court, and | am SO cautious that | even
prefer to quote from Il Republican mem
Der who cannot possibly be an anarchist
because he is Republican. Justice
Brown, in his dissenting opinion, used
these words:
i fear that i'll some hours of national
peril this decision will rise UP to para
lyze the arm of the Government We
saw in 1896. but many people were 81
blind that they could not see. the danger.
but the hour of peril came. The war
came ON. We needed more money. W.
could not tax incomes. because the dcci-
sion rose up TO paralyze the arm of the
Government. We had to resort TO
stamp taxes. We had to hunt up any
old thing to put Il stamp tax on.
daughter and loud applausel.
One of the things stamped is ii tele-
gram. Whenever you want to send Il
telegram, you go TO the telegraph office
and you find that the Republican party
has SO made the law that the telegraph
company can transfer the burden from
its shoulders to yours.
The Republican party. in all of its
politics, is putting the dollar above the
man.
The war has shown that in the hour
of peril the nation can take the son
from his mother and the husband from
his wife and stand them up in front of
an enemy's guns. but it dare not lay
its finger upon the wealth of the rich
and make them contribute their share.
tremendous cneeripg,.
The income tax is stronger than if
was, and it is placed upon the shoulder
of the poor who have to carry the bur
den, but in the Democratic party you
can say there is one man who is willing
IT, pay his share. tLoud applause).
1T has been the history of the world
that those who can make much have
been unwilling to bear their share of
the burdens Of government and have
sought to use instruments of govern
ment for private gain, to take from
those who can make less than they can.
THE Democratic party is protector
of the rich and the poor, and that party
which makes the rich bear their share
of the burden is better friend of the
rich man than the party that takes his
money and sells exemption. (Applause.)
THE Democratic platform denounced
the gold standard. called it un-Ameri-
can and anti-American and pledged the
party to destroy it at once and substi-
tute in its place independent bimetalism
at the ratio of rs to l. If the gold
standard was un-American in 1896 it j.
un-Anerican now. If ii was anti
American two years ago it is anti
American now, and if the gold standard
was bad in 1896. you were convinced
that it was bad in 1897, because Mr.,
Mckinley sent three distinguished com
missioners TO Europe to get rid of the
gold standard.
And why did they not succeed: II
was because they asked of the tinancier>
of the Old World Il favor that they
ought to have known the financiers
would not grant. Why did they oppose
the gold standard? Because it has
raised the purchasing power of the dol
lar and lowered the price of the pro-
duets of labor. When the commission
ers went abroad they went to suppl
cate from persons who had protited,
and how absurd to expect them to join
in doing away with thing out Of
which they had made money.
My friends, our plan was different.
We would not have sent Il man over T.
beg, because we read in history when
we were children that more than d
hundred years ago our people by their
blood bought the right III the people 10
legislate for themselves. According 10
our plan, when we send Il man over
there it will not be to ask II man 10 help
him. but to announce to them what
we are going TO do. daughter AMI ar.
plause.)