The copper era., 1909-11-25

to drive to the harm, but he ran int
a rut and the load toppled over, but
he got off and put it back OH and die
not say a word, but the rain was com.
ing fast and he started his team on a
trot, but again he run into a rut and
the load fell off, but he loaded it
back on the second time without say
ing a word and again started for the
house. He got to the gate of the
barnyard and the rain began to fall
and he started the team on a run,
but he missed the bridge and the
wagon turned over and the hay
fell against the side of the barn. His
wife saw that something was wrong
and started out to investigate, but
when the man saw the rain falling
on his hay and his wife coming to-
wards the barn, he yelled to her:
Sarah, Sarah, go back, am about
to express myself"
On the subject of imperialism, our
party has taken the position of the
average man. My, friends, Imperial
ism cannot be of any benefit to the
masses. 1t will be just q case of a
few getting positions in the army and
navy and the burden of taxation will
be paid by the mass of the people. In
the last ii years we have expended
over $500, 000, 900 on the army and
navy. Just think of what can be
done with that amount of money.
Not long ago 1 visited the Roosevelt
dam near Phoenix, and they told me
that when completed 1t would cost
something like 100000 and yet
in the last IL years We have spent
enough on imperialism to build 100
dams like the Roosevelt, with the
immense amount of fertile country it
will reclaim, but with this expendi-
ture instead of giving a greater agri-
cultural acreage, we have burdened
the mass of the people with the main
tenance of q larger army and navy
than we need, and they offer us no
relief. Twenty years ago our nation
was at peace with all thesvorld, and
there was no talk of war with any
nation, but now they tell US that we
must have a larger army and a larger
navy to preserve our proper place.
They talk as if this nation had never
been brave before and as if it was
Just beginning to be a world power,
when for more than a century this
nation has been the greatest power
in the world. l would not trade the
glory of this republic for the glory of
the empires that have risen and fall
en- since time began.
On the tariff question also the dem
ocratic party represents the mass of
the people. And, my friends, have
been rejoicing during the last few
months to find that the income tax
was receiving consideration. How |
little we can tell of the future; had
anyone told me a year ago that ] |
would see this cherished policy of
knI- he hi
party, with the object of bringing it
believed them. And yet, within a |
year from the time of the defeat of
the democratic party, we find the re-
publican party taking this plank out |
IF our platform and bringing it be- |
fore the United States Congress. In |
the vote cast on that question when |
brought before the senate only IA |
votes were registered and
)nly two of these west of the Ale
yhany mountains. Of that we have
! right to be proud. 1 quoted Lin
,oln as saying that the democratic
party believed in the dollar and the
nan, but in case of conflict, the man
before the dollar. But with the con-
'truotion plsced upon our constitu
ion heretofore, the dollar has been
above the man. In time of war this
nation can by statute draft an army,
iaking the husband from the wife,
he brother from the sister, and the
put in the hour of danger it cannot
ay it's hands on the pocket-book of a :
private citizen. BY this income tax
we are lifting the
burden off the men and placing it on
he dollar, and the amendment will
make it impossible for a supreme
,ourt to put the burden of the gov
,rnment entirely on the backs of the
poor by declaring the in
,ome tax Unconstitutional. rejoice
hat the democratic party has been
eading in this hight for better things.
You have your Democratic Club in
clifton, and 7 am glad of it, for the
,lubs are important. In the recent
election out of 900 leading newspapers
Il the United States l had about
ixty and in the contest of the states
t is safe to say that the republican
,arty had about ten times as many
IS the democratic. So we must rely
argely on the democratic clubs to
perfect the organization of the par
les. 1 want to encourage you and to
emind you that we have been lead
ng the republican party and COM
,elling them to adopt democratic
IDEAS. All of the good things that
lave come into the republican party
or the last three years have come as
result of the demand of the dem
cratic party. Whenever Mr.. Roose-
-elt endorsed q democratic idea, it
made him popular.
But Mr.. Roosevelt endorsed the
hip subsidy bill and Mr.. Taft has
him. 1 believe that the
hip subsidy bill will be defeated. 1t
My means a system of double tax
tion, one offsetting the other, and
hey say that they want to increase
ur trade by it. If they want to in
rease our trade 1 will suggest
Ian. Let them take off the tariff
hat they themselves put on and our
rade will be increased, and it will
mean more dollars and cents to the
american people; or another way,
ct the ships of other nations come in
o our ports for free trade. But, my
riends, the trouble is that our
1ealthy manufacturers can't afford
o 60 out and compete with the
Yorld. The ship subsidy bill does
ot represent the common people
nd the common people are going to
ght it.
Also, am not in favor of central
ank and the people do not want
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