The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-01-25


Lincoln at one end. and Hanna at the
other. What a toboggan slide IT makes
Compare Hannaism with Lincolnism
Cloud laughter.) Haven't | the right to
compare Hannaism with Lncolnisrn
(Renewed laughter.) If you find that
Hannaism isn't better than Lincolnism'
shouldn't you change it to make-it gov
ernment of the people, by the people, FOR
the people? (Cheers.)
Now to show you that the Republican
party has fallen from its high state, I
want ITO remind you that Mr. Hanna came
1 back from London last summer and was
/ interviewed / read dt in a Republican
paper. A reporter asked him what he
thought of the English system. FIe said
it was a great system, Their system OF
government is as good as ours and per-
haps better l only quote his words to-
| night to say to the Republicans present
that there was a time when the Repup-
Ncan party would not have at the head
of it's national organization man VINO
thought that the English Government was
as good as ours and perhaps better.
st only repeat his words The moment
when you raise the dollar above the man
that moment is dangerous to the doctrines
of the republic. eCheers.) The Repulb-
licans have said so many bad things I've
only to quote, and have to be too
severe either Look at what Lincoln said
when he warned his countrymen against
the approval of monopoly If l did SO
! the Republican papers would call me a
uemagogue; yet Lincoln said so. The at
tempt to put money above man is so
plain that it scarcely needs any evidence.
import duties taxes on liquor and to-
bacco fall more heavily on the poor than
on the rich A man worth 100000 can't
! eat a hundred times more than the man
with $1,000 The poor man in fact eats
the most, and while the rich man is hunt
/ ing around for a stomach into which to
put his food the poor man is hunting for
! food to put int his stomach. Gaughter)
| When you place burdens on the people
should you tax them on what they want
or what they have? When you collected
the taxes before the war you made the
:, poor pay more than his share. If man
wants tax direct he is a socialist; If
! he wants it indirect. he is statesman
! and a financier. Gaughter)
Now we favor an income tax and am
| nroud of the part I took in making that
law. When the bill was before Congress
Eastern Democrats said that if the
Democratic party favored that law the
rich Democrats would leave the party. i
said that no rich Democrat would leave
the party to avoid a just law. I did not
know the rich Democrats as well then as
do now. Iaughter) 1 thought that
the poor Republicans would come in to
take their places, but I didn't know the
poor Republicans as I do now. Naughter.)
1 thought the poor Republicans were like
| the Irisbman in buggy. whose horse
was kicking and trying to back into the
carriage. He shouted, All right, when
you get in I'll get OUT cloud laughter.)
Republican speakers are so contradictory
| on this and other points that you have
only to listen and you will hear them
state a proposition and answer it them
/ selves. They remind one of man walk
| ing across a mountain. The patch was so
| crooked that he met himself coming
I back. 0laughter.) I am surprised that
more didn't understand the income tax
! law of '96. I am willing to forgive them
| if they do now.
'1Only the other day, for the benevolent
association of the telephone and telegraph
companies-(La Government
fixed it that the companies could shift
their tax on the man who sent the tele-
| gram. Now I have to pay the regular
| price for telegram and one cent more
| for the benevolent assimilation of the
FfIpinos. Why? Because the Republican
party so made it. Why did it make it so?
Because it listened to the telegraph COM
pany, not the people. Under Republican
administration money is more precious
than human blood, for the Government
can take the citizen, but the pocketbook
! is sacred
Thus does the Republican party put
capital above labor and humanity in the
structure of their government That's
only one question, and ask you are you
on the inside? You may look on it with
complacency. If not, don't you want to
see the Jeffersonian maxim in force,
Equal rights to ALI? (Cheers.)
Now, there's another question. "a
voice, Free silver and cheers) The Re
publicans say that the money ques-
ton is a dead issue. In 1892 my oppon-
ent for Congress said we would never
hear of a money question after that cleo
| ton, but it was up again in 1898, and
the President had called Congress to-
bury it again; and, when the Sherman law
was buried, they said that settled it, But
| it was up again in 1894, and had to be
buried again; and was up again in 1895,
and had to be buried again. and even the
Republicans remember it was up again in
1896
.'But they said they buried it then for
good. The next day after the election the
Republican papers said that that question
was now settled forever, but 1t was up in
1897, and had to be buried again, and then
it was up in 1888, and had to be buried
again and it was up last fall
and they went through with the usual OBJ
sequies. But I have examined the So
called corpse, and it is my candid opinion
that 1t has life enough left to last an
other year. Qaughter.) The American
people never adopted the gold standard
In 1896. 6,5oO,oOo voters demanded bimetal-
ism.
II am asked why don't drop the money
question, If were I to drop it it might
break 1t would have no effect on the
money question If / did drop it. 1t is in
the keeping of no man, and it would not
make any difference whther I adhere to
it or disregard it..
81 am not willing that handful of
English bankers shall control 10000, 900
American people. The gold system is not
a ca1111d Sysferu TT fs a 1ja that If iS q !,