Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-16

favor It now.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
THAT platform declared against gov
eminent by injunction. and since the cleo
ton we have had object lessons which
We did not have before. Thomas Jelfer-
son believed In trial by jury, and govern
ment by Injunction is merely a disguised
method by which a man charged with
crime shall be denied the right of trial
| by jury. loud cheers and applause)
That plank is stronger than 1t was be-
| fore.
INCOME-TAX.
1.-THE Chicago platform declared in IA
vor OF the income-tax, and an income-tax
| is stronger now than IL was before. When
/ discuss the income-tax decision | al
ways resort TO quotation, because | have
a reputation for conservatism which 1
must protect. UaughterJ When | want
| to be severe / quote. and when l want
| to criticise the Supreme Court | quote
from a member OF the court. and / am so
cautious that / even prefer to quote from
q Republican member, who cannot posi-
| bly, be an Anarchist, because he is a Re-
! publican. Justice Brown, in his dissent
| ing opinion, used these words: L fear
that in some hours of national peril this
decision will rise up TO paralyze the arm
I.
| many people were so blind that they could
not see, the danger, but the hour Of peril
| came. The war came on. We needed
| more money We could not tax incomes
because the decision rose up 10 paralyze
the arm Of the government. We had to
| resort 10 stamp taxes. We had to hunt
up any old thing to put stamp-tax on.
| daughter and loud applause) One of
the things stamped IS a telegram. When
| ever you want 10 send telegram you
| go TO the telegraph office and you find
| that the Republican party has so made
the law that tho teleste pm company con
| transfer the burden frusn ice shoulders 10
| yours.
DOLLAR ABOVE THE MAN.
'The Republican party, I'm all OF its
| politics. IS putting the dollar above the
man, and IN that is departing from the
| doctrine Of Lincoln. its founder. for in
| 1883 he said: The Republican party be-
| lieves in both the man and the dollar
| but in case Of conflict the man before the
dollar The Republican party is putting
| the dollar above the man i'm all OF its
legislation, and nowhere is it more APP
parent than in matters OF taxation.
The Republican party is not trying to
restore justice in taxation. The war has
shown that when this government deals
with an individual its power is unlimited.
but when it deals with property its power
IS limited. 1t can draft Il citizen, but IL
cannot touch the dollar. In the hour or
perm the nation can take the son from
MS mother and the husband from his
wife and stand them up in front Of an
enemy's gun. but 1t dare not lay its
finger upon the wealth of the rich and
make them contribute their share CTre-
mendous cheersJ
INCOME-TAX on THE POOR.
The income-taX is stronger than It
was. and it is placed upon the shoulders
OF the poor, who have 10 carry the bur
den, but in the Democratic party YOU
can say there Is one man who is willing
TO pay his share. loud applause)
My friends, why should not people be
willing 10 bear their share of the bur
dens Of government? II in time Of war
your country needs you, you are willing
TO give your life's blood. Why deny the
nation its just due in time of peace? II
has been the history Of the world TINT
those who can make much have been
unwilling 10 bear their share of the
burdens 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 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 1 desire TO make mention. The
Republican party and the Gold Demo-
Gratis have been burying the money ques-
ton so often that l feel / ought to apollo
gize for speaking of the dead before so
large an audience. daughter and cheers)
1.-The Democratic platform denounced
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 l6 to l. II the gold standard
was un-American in 1896, il is un-Ameri-
can now. II il 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 I'm 1897, because Mr.. Mckinley
sent three distinguished commissioners
TO Europe 10 get rid Of the gold standard.
and why did they not succeed? 1t was
because they asked Of the financers of
the Old World a favor which they ought
to have known the Old-World fnanciers
would not grant The gold standard has
dollar and lowered the prices of products
10 the laborer.
when the commissioners went abroad
they went TO supplicate from persons who
had prOfted and how absurd TO expect
them TO join in doing away with a thing
out Of which they had made money.
INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM
MY friends, want to suggest to you
that the Republican promise OF interna-
tional bimetallism, coupled with the
pledge that the gold standard would be
maintained until other nations should
come 10 our relief was the most absurd
plank that any party ever put into plat
form. II the Republican party had dele
gated its representatives. 10 represent this
subject TO the financiers Of Europe along
the line of that senseless platform, the
spokesman Of the commission would
have had TO 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 ii and suffered from it, and they
have sent us over here To ask you 10 help
us to get rid OF it. They recognize that
you have made money while they have
lost, and therefore We ask you 10 join
us in restoring the state by which We
won't lose so much, and by which you
won't make so much daughter and
loud APPLAUSE. But then candor would
have compelled the spokesman to have
added another sentence. lie would have
said:
but while We suffered a good deal, We
can suffer more, If necessary While We
have had a hard time, We have not reach
ed the limit OF endurance; and II you peO-