The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-08-25

kings who are financing the Parker
campaign are naturally opposed to
the income tax. 1t has dropped out
of sight. BY whose orders?
A few years ago the democratic
party went back to its historic posi-
ton upon the question of national
banks, and proclaimed the old doc
trine of Jefferson and Andrew Jackson
that the government should retain in
its own hands the sovereign power to
create money.
What has become of that doctrine?
What did they mean when they re-
proclaimed it in 1896? Controlled as
they are by Wall street bankers, they
meant in 1896, when they made the
declaration, just what they mean at
the present time when they do not
make it. They mean to uphold the
powers and the privileges and the
profits of the national bankers, over
whelming proof of which is to be
found in the fact that when the ma
tional banks came to congress in 1902
asking to be rechartered for term
of years not single democrat in
either house or senate made an at
| tack upon that system which Thomas
Jefferson solemnly declared was of
| greater hostility to the spirit OF re-
publican government than standing
army.
| You may ask why do I consume
more time discussing the democrats
than in speaking of the republicans.
| My reply is: It's an easier and quick
er job to strike an open enemy right
between the eyes than it is to tear
off the mask from the face of pre-
tended friend and show him to lie the
hypocrite that he is.
The great mass of the people from
whom I have entertained the hope
of support are in no danger of voting
the republican ticket. They know that
the republican party stands for class
Legislation. They know that it stands
for national banks, corporate wealth
and special privilege.
/ Hence | have no fear that the peo-
pie to whom I shall appeal will make
any mistake about the republicans.
For I know they will do as I shall
do-fght the republican party with all
the power that is in them. But the
national democratic leaders, pretend
ing to be in favor Of Jeffersonian prin-
ciples, when at heart their purpose is
the same as that of the republicans
hope to mislead those millions of yot-
ers who will always be found voting
for Jeffersonian principles unless they
are deceived
/ speak tonight for the populists-
a people who have been ridiculed, mis-.
known to political warfare The ar
, fist with his picture, editors with theiI
pens, book writer's and pamphleteers
I have pursued us with persistent
cruelty which has not been known In
this land since the passions Of the
, civil war died down. Our leaders
have been caricatured until they
: seem to be monstrosities. Our pFin
! ciples have been burlesqued until they
. appeared to be the yagaries OF mad
} men, headed for chaos.
II Tonight l shall do what | can tt
! make you understand us better de
MT opcdh lOl Iuc lOiuly ludSudJto u
class legislation. I do not speak FOL
. those who for one hundred years have
, stood at the doorways of national leg
) islation begging for special favors
r No.
, The men whose cause would piea(
before the bar of American public
. opinion are chiefly those who toll il
+ the hundred different fields of indus
try and who have never lifted thei
? voices to ask anything Of this govern
! ment except just laws and honest ad
: ministration.
4 They are the men of the mine, thu
: mill, the shop and the field. They ar
n the obscure toilers who in time o
\ peace send pulsing through the vein
3 of commerce the rich blood of pros
perity. They are the men who il
d time of war spring into the battl
o line at the tap of the drum and witt
patient feet follow the march AN,
: with fearless heart make the Charg
s upon which is based and builded tn
f worldwide fame of your commander
r to whom you rear monuments in tn
; open places Of your cities | am no