The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10

y SENATOR DUBOIS d
against the Republican ticket in 1895
and if you had one reason for leaving
the Republican party in 1896, you have
sixteen reasons for not going back t.
it now. Why did you leave the Re.
publican party? 1t was because you
believed the Republican party to be
wrong on great public question. Utah
had been Republican state, but the
Republicans of Utah placed devotion
to principle above devotion to party
You left the Republican party because
that party, in your judgment, was
wrong. The party has not changed its
position since you left it.
Party Has Grown Worse.
IF the Republican party was SO bad
that the silver Republicans could not
reform it, what is the condition of the
party since the reform element went
out? But bad as it was when the re-
form element left it, when the gold
Democrats went into the Republican
party they made it worse still Since
the Republicans of Utah left their
party it has been going down hill, and
want to show you why you cannot
| return to that party without confessing
| - We W. otiS III 1850, ana the
Republican party right l assert that
the Republican party is placing the
dollar above the man; that it is en-
thronlng money and debasing mankind
L assert that the dollar mark is plain
! ly visible upon every Republican pol
icy, and that no policy is genuinely Re-
publican today unless the dollar mark
! is blown in the bottle.
Income Tax Plank.
'In 1896 we advocated income tax:
the silver Republicans believed with us
that an income tax is right. The war
mas made an income tax more neces-
! sary. and the incidents of the war have
brought out into bold relief the inius-
tlce of the Republican plan of collect
ing taxes. How do we collect taxes to
support the federal government
Largely from import duties and inter
nal revenue tax. both systems bearing
heaviest upon the poor and lightest
upon the rich. When we. as a party.
wanted to secure the passage of an in
come tax law, Democrat in New York
said to us that the rich Democrats
would leave the party if the Democratic
party favored an income tax, and de-
tended the rich Democrats and said
they would not do it, but I did not know
the rich Democrats then as well as I
NAN oiSSA " aus, Oul l. Sdlu, SUPPOSE
they do leave, won't the poor Repub-
licans come in to take their places?'
thought they would, but didn't know
the poor Republicans then as well as
L did afterwards. But if the poor Re-
publicanS did not understand the i'm
portance of the income tax in 1896 thew
understand it now. Justice Brown.
republican member of the supreme
court of the United States, in his dis
mi
fear that in some hour of national peril
this decision will rise up to paralyze
the arm of the government
Taste of Stamp Taxes.
Many people did not see the peril.
but when war came on, then that
prophecy was verified. We wanted
more revenue. We could not get it from
incomes. Why? Because of that de-
clslon, and then we had TO look around
for any old thing to put a stamp on.
and now you are getting a taste of
stamp taxes. Who pays it? Who pays
the tax when you send telegram?
Not the telegraph company. Why? Be
cause the telegraph company has more
influence with the Republican party
than all the poor men who vote that
ticket. 1t is because aggregated wealth
mas more influence than the plain peo-
pie of this country.
Il believe the reform forces that
fought together in 1896 will fight again
in 1900 and we shall secure an amend
ment to the constitution that will spe-
officially provide an income tax.
Death of Silver Issue.
Let me speak of another question.
You nave been told that the money
question is dead. Do not worry; the
money question has been buried so
often that a funeral is of no conse-
quence. I remember in 1892 someone
said that the money question would
never be heard of after election. and
next year Mr.. Cleveland called congress
together to repeal the Sherman law and
bury the question again; and then they
said that settled it, but it was UP in
1894 and had to be buried again, and
then in 1895 they buried it again, and
some Of you may remember it was UP
in 1896. Well, they say they did bury
1t then. l remember myself reading so
in the headlines of the papers,; but
they had to bury ii again in 1897 and
then in 1898, and if you will read the
papers you win find the obseQuies are
still going on.
But 1, have examined the so-called |
corpse and my candid Judgment is that
it win have to be buried again in 1900 |
.
Because they do not bury it well any
time.
And why dc. not they bury it? Be
cause no tomb was ever made SO |
strong that it could imprison right /
eous cause, and our cause is>righteous. /
If anybody had any. doubt that the gold |
standard was buried in 1896, all doubt |
was removed when Mr.. Mckinley sent
a commission to Europe to get rid of it.
Gold Standard Curse.
THE fact is that the first thing the
president did was to send three distin-
guished men to Europe to ask the ma
lions of Europe to help us get rid of
the gold standard. You cannot Law it
all on the president, for congress ap-
propriated 100000 to pay the expenses
Of the commission. When the commits
sion got TO England the laboring men
joined in petitions to help restore. BIZ
metallism. They wanted it because the
gold standard has been a curse to them.
and while that commission was there
an agricultural commission reported,
and ten out of the fourteen declared
that the gold standard was the chief