Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-21

the hook. 1t is merely a question OF
catching the voter, and winning tho
Office
Dropped the Income Tax.
A few gears ago they were clamot-
| ing for the income tax. What has be-
| come Of that demand? Who told them
! to drop it? The plain people of Amer
, lea did not The masses of our people
are in favor of such a tax, almost
| unanimously. The corporation kings
| who are financing the Parker cam
paign are naturally opposed to the in
come tax. 1t has dropped out of sight.
By whose orders?
| A few years ago the democratic
party went back to its historic position
uron the question of national banks,
and proclaimed the old doctrine of
Jefferson and Andrew Jackson that the
! government should retain in it's 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
| SAA>S cAS ny w Oil otACCI OdAhC1S, LucS
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 national
banks came to congress in 1902 asking
To be rechartered for term of years
not a single democrat in either house
or senate made all attack upon that
system which Thomas Jefferson SOL
EMMY declared was OF greater hostility
to the spirit Of republican government
than a standing army
Why Dwell on Democracy's Misdeeds?
You may ask why do consume more
time discussing the democrats than in
speaking Of the republicans. My reply
is: It's an easier and quicker Job to
strike an open enemy right between
the eyes than it is to tear off the mask
t1om the face OF pretended friend
and show him to he the hypocrite that
he is.
The great mass CT the people from
whom l have entertained the hope of
support are in no danger of voting the
republican ticket. They know that the
republican party stands for class legis-
lation. They know that it stands for
national banks, corporate wealth and
special privileges.
No Mistaking Republicans.
Hence have no fear that the people
to whom | shall appeal will make any
mistake about the republicans. For I
know they will do as shall do-fght
the republican party will all the power
that is in them. But the national dem
ocratic leaders, pretending to be in ia
vor Of Jeffersonian principles, when at
heart their purpose is the same as that
OF the republicans, hope to mislead
those millions of voters who will al
ways be found voting for Jeffersonian
principles unless they are deceived
Speaks for Populists.
I speak tonight for the populists-a
, people who have been ridiculed, mis-
represented. vilified in every way
, known to political warfare. The art
: list with his picture, editors with their
/ pens, book writers and pamphIeteers.
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 mon
5 strQsities. Our principles have been
burlesqued until they appeared to be
the vagaries of madmen, headed for
chaos.
| Tonight I shall do what | can to
make you understand us better. I do
! not speak for the lordly magnates of
class legislation. l do not speak for
those who for one hundred years have
t stood at the doorways of national leg
| lslatlon begging for special favors
No!
Pleads for the ToIers
The men whose cause I would plead
before the bar of American public
opinion are chiefly those who toll in
the hundred different fields of industry
and who have never lifted their voices
to ask anything of this government
except just laws and honest admins.
tratiOn.
They are the men of the mine, the
mill, the shop and the field They are
the obscure tOilers who in time Of
peace send pulsing through the veins
of commerce the rich blood of pros
perity. They are the men who in time
OF war spring into the battle line at
the tap Of the drum and with patient
feet follow the march and with fear
less heart make the charge upon which
, is based and builded the worldwide
fame of your commanders to whom
you rear monuments in the open places
} of your cities. I am not ashamed of
, these men. You will not find them as
a rule housed amid the luxuries and
. elegances of life, but as rule you will
? find them in the humble walks where
? men are still earning their daily bread
5 in the sweat of the face
You will find them in the shop where
= the anvil rings; in the mill where the
| spindle huns. You will find them in
, the wheat fields of the west, where, as
t far as the eye may reach, runs the yell
low harvest in waves of gold. You will
? find them on the farms OF the south
) the dear, old south!-where the cotton
blossom, white and be-diamoned with
1 the morning dew-drops. bushes and
3. becomes as pink as the rose under the
. kisses OF the midday sun. No, I am
l proud to speak for these men and
l proud to proclaim their creed.
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