Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-08-31
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 81, 1904
Watson's Cooper Union Speech.

OF acceptance ueIlVereo IN NEW 1Ork
City Aug. Is, 1904:
"Deep down in their hearts the mas
ses of the people feel that the reins Of
power are slipping out of their hands,
"The fact cannot be concealed from
the eyes of the average citizen that the
vast preponderance of all the wealth
produced in this land is transferred
by legalized robbery into the hands
of the few.'
"While both the old political part
les pretend to devote themselves to the
interests of the common people, they
are both dominated by Wall street. y
Every trust, levying its tribute up
on the million homes of the people,
feels secure in the organized power of
the republican party"
why any human being should, in
the year 1904, vote the national demo-
cratic ticket is something that passes
my untutored comprehension. What
does it propose to do for the people,
di fferent from what the republicans
are doing? To what point is it d.
recting it's line of march except to the
republican camp"
"Judge Parker bided his time till
the perils of the two-thirds rule were
past, and when it was too late for the
convention to retrace Its steps-for
even the democratic bosses require
more than fifteen minutes to turn COM
pletely around ir-he cracks the Wall
street whip over the heads of his lead
ers, and with prompt obedience the
great democratic legions were made to
furl their flags and reverse their line
of march,
II do not believe that the six and
One-half million men who foil owed
Bryan with cheers on their lips and
warm convictions in their hearts, can
now be delivered like cattle to the
Clevelandites who knitted the ticket or
bolted in 1885,"
Parker declares that while he
would be glad to see q revision of the
tariff, he knows that he casnot bring
it about. To save any doubt upon
that great subject, he hands in his
capitulation to the republicans before
q single gun is fired.'
"If We presume that Judge Parker
has the courage of his convictions.
his failure to state wherein he would
make any change in the policy which
the republicans are pursuing in the
Philippines, is the most significant
bit of silence in all the various and
interesting bits of silence to be found
in Judge Parker's remarkable speech
of acceptance.
''Judge Parker, while condemning
the laborers for the alleged use of dy-
Mantle, utters not one word of censure
against the INSCRIPTIONS monopolists
who debauched legislature into q
base betrayal of its trust
"Stealing the platform of the peo-
ple's party in 1896; stealing that of
the republicans in 1904, how, can the
democratic leaders now pretend to
lead party based on convictions?"
1.-The corpor alton kings who are f.
nanciDg the Parker campaign are
naturally opposed to the income tax
# has dropped out of sight. BY
whose orders?''
1.-THE farmer must pay his tax
whether his farm be run at q profit or
not. The merchant must pay his tax
regardless of whether the net talance
of trade be for him or against MIN.
The income tax is levied upon profits
only; and there Is not an argument to
be urged against it that does not reek
with the rankest selfshness.
'As An American citizen, seeing
that Australia and Canada successful.
ly deal with this great problem and
operate railroads in the interest of all
the people, feel ashamed of the
backwardness of our own stateman
ship which fears to grapple with that
issue.''
sit seems to me that financial sys,
tenn which is based upon q violation
of fund amental law which all of1icia ais
are sworn to obey, rests upon found.
alton which lacks q good deal of be-
Ing as stable as the rocks"
"We are for the :noney of the con-
stitution, and for the old democratic
doctrine that it is as easy for the gov
ernment to issue its own treasury notes
to pass current as money, as it is to
issue bond upon which the banker
shall base his note, and use it as
money"
"For myself, I do not believe that
the present tyranny of the corporation,
the monopoly and the aristocracy of
wealth can endure forever. Some day
the American people will rise in their
resistless majesty and drive the usurp-
ers from the places they have seized. "
1T may be that this effort of mine
to rally and arouse the real demo
Gratis, the real believers in popular
government may come to naght-but
no matter what befalls, I will accept
this call, which seems to be the call OF
duty" i. Il: ,.,. .@ :=:s4 .- - p
! Another attempt is to be made to re-
store the army canteen, on the ground
that tia colder will FIJI up with i'm
pure liquors from dives II he cannot