The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-16
THOUSANDS OF DEMOCRATS.
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tion. Democrats then stood pom 1t, and
they favor it now. That plato I'm declared
against government by injunction. and
since the election We have had objective
lessons which we did not have before.
Thomas jefferson believed IN trial by
Jury and government by injunction is
merely a disguised method by .'hich man
charged with crime shall be denied the
right OF trial by jury. cloud cheers aud APP
plause)
The IncOrbe Tax.
THAT plank is stronger than it was be-
fore. The Chicago platform declared In
favor of the income tax, and an income
tax is stronger now than il was before.
When / discuss the income tax decision /
always resort to quotation. because ! have
a reputation for conser atism which 1
must protect. Laughter) When l want
10 be severe l quote, and w5.en want to
criticise a Supreme Court, I quote from
a member of the court, and ! am SO cau-
tious that I even prefer TO quote from a
Republican member, who cannot posi-
bly, be an anarchist because he is a Re
publican. Justice Brown, in mis- dissent
ing opinion. used these words: 1 fear
that in some hours of national peril this
decision will rise up to paralyze the arm
of the government He saw in 1895, bat
many people were so blind that they could
not see the danger, but the hour of peru
came The war came on We needed
more money. We could not tax incomes,
because the decision rose up to paralyze
the arm of she government. We had 20
resort to stamp taxes. We had to huns
up any old thing to put
stamp tax ON. daughter and loud
applause) one of the things stamp
ed Is a telegram. Whenever you
want TO send telegram you go to the
telegra oh office and you find that the Re-
public.nh party has so made the law that
the telegraph company can transfer the
burden from its shoulders to yours.
noIInr Above the Man.
1.-THE Re. publican party, in all Of its pol
itcs, is put ting the dollar above the man.
and In THAI is departing from the doc
trine of Linz ,oln. it founder, for in 1859,
he said the Republican party believed in
both the man and the dollar, but in cases
of conflict the man before the dollar
THE Republic m party is putting the dol
lar above the ma n in all of its legislation
and nowhere is IL more apparent than in
matters of taxation The Republican party
IS now trying to rest ore justice in taxation.
The war has shown that when this gov
eminent deals with individual its pow
er is unlimited, but that when il deals
with property its powe~ is limited II can
draft citizens, but il car not touch the dol
lar. In the hour of per- the nation can
take the son from his mother and the hus-
band from his wife and stu nd them up in
front of an enemys guns. tut 1t dare not
lay its finger upon the wealth OF the rich
and make them contribute their share.
TREMENDOUS eheering)
The income tax is stronger than 1t was,
and il is placed upon the shoulders of the
poor. who have 90 carry the burden. but
in the Democratic party you can say there
IS one man who is willing to pay his
share. loud applauser
All Should share Burdens.
My friends, why should not people be
willing to bear their share of the burdens
of government? If in time of war your
country needs you, you are willing to give
your life's blood, why deny the nation IT'S ]
just due in time of peace?
1t has been the history of the world
that those who can make much have been
unwilling TO bear their share of the bur
dens of government, and have sought to
use the instruments of government for
private gain, to take from those who can
make less than they can.
The Democratic party is a protector of
the rich and the poor. and that party
which makes the rich bear their share of
the burden Is a better friend of the rich
man than the party that takes his money
and sells exemption. (Applause)
The Money Question.
There is another plank In the platform,
of which l desire to make mention The
Republican party and the gold Democrats
have been burying the money question so
often that l feel 1 ought TO apologize for
speaking of the dead before so large an
audience. daughter and cheers)
the gold standard, called it un-American
and anti-American. and pledged the party
to destroy Il at once and substitute in its
place Independent bimetallism at the ratio
of 10 TO l. If the gold standard was I'M
American in 1896 IL is un-American now.
If IL was anti-American two years ago il
is anti-American now, and If the gold
standard was bad in 1896 you were con-
WINGED that 1t was bad in 1887, because
Mr.. Mckinley sent three distinguished
commissioners to Europe to get rid of the
gold standard
And why did they not succeed? 1t was
because they asked for the financiers Of the
old world favor that they ought to have
known the financiers would not grant Why
did we oppose the gold standard? Because
It has raised the purchasing power of the
dollar and lowered the price Of the pro-
ducts of labor. When our commissioners
went ABROAD they went to supplicate from
persons who had profiited, and how absurd
TO expect them to join in doing away with
a thing out of which they had made mon
ey.
An Absurd Plank.
'My friends, / want to suggest to YOU
that the Republican promises of interna-
tional bimetallism coupled with the pledge
that the gold standard would be maintain
ed until other nations como to our relief,
was the most absurd plank that any party
ever put into a platform. II the Republican
party had delegated its representatives, to
present this subject 20 the financiers OF
Europe along the line of that senseiess
platform, the spokesman of the commission
would have had 10 make a speech about
like this: Gentlemen, we have had the gold
standard for twenty-three years, and do
not like it; the American people have tried
&c and suffered from il. and they have sent
as over here to ask you to help us to get
rid of il; they recognize that you have
made money while they have lost, and
therefore, we ask you to join us in restor-
ing the state by which we wont lose so
much and by which you wont make so
D. n 1.