The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-16

election, and that is the word thev
viii send broadcast throughout the
country that Indiana has repudiated
President Wilson; Indiana has repudi-
ated democracy and has been re-
claimed by the republicans. I want 70
call your attention to an editorial
appearing in The indianapolis Star.
under date Of September 30
me writer says in this editorial
that II IS not President Wilson that
IS IN this campaign lie says IL is not
what President Wilson ha done. but
what Kern, Shiyely and the demo
cratic congressman of Indiana have
done that is the issue. The nan that
wrote that knew he was trying 10
deceive you. He knew better, but hc
hoped that you would not, and now ii
ne wants TO know what they have
done | am here to tell you.
Not a. One-Man Government.
This is not a one-man government.
No executive action can be taken ~
the president Of this country unless
II IL ratified by the house and the
senate. Now, what have Shively and
the congressmen Of Indiana done?
They have remained firm in their sup
port Of the President; they have up
held his hands and when the Presi-
deut asked for anything there were
the votes Of Kern and shively in the
senate and the other Indiana con-
Pressmen in the house supporting
him. That is what they have done
and want to ask you If there is
any reason why the splendid state
ticket you now have before YOU
should be defeated because the candi-
dates are going up and down this
state making the fight and using all
the influence there is possible to con-
tinue democracy. TO return % the sup
port Of the President the men who
have been supporting him. No. the
republicans know better than that OF
which they are speaking now.
Wilson Set a Nation Free
ave now have a low tariff. II is
good tariff law, better than / believed
We could put through. / have been
taking part in campaigns for thirty
four years. That Is seventeen con- /
grossional campaigns and during all .
that time ] can never remember the .
time that the people of this country
endeavor 20 frighten them with the
thoughts Of a panic every time the
democrats mentioned the tariff. But
the republicans say they could have
given this COUNTRY a low tariff And
if you ask the Roosevelt republicans
why Taft did not We this country a
low tariff, they will say he was not
progressive, and yet Roosevelt had
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he did just abou' as well.
"But we now have a low tariff law,
the best tariff law we have had since
the war. We had a good tariff law in
'93, but conditions have changed and
we now have a better one. When
President Wilson signed that tariff
law he did one thing for this country
that viii live for a decade at least
and that is he set a nation free and
tomorrow you can go to the polls to
cast your vote as you desire.
"He declared that President Wilson
is the first chief executive who has
had the courage to strike the ak
at the root Of the tree" and that the I,
did not strike at the
root "because they We're leaning
AGAINST the tree and could not have
Ii tau on them
"But when President Wilson signed
The low tariff bin and the next norm
ing the sun arose as usual, the
fertility Of the soil was not decreased
and the panic did not come, the peo-
pie began 10 realize there never had
been combination between the
Almightv and the Republican party.
Banks Freed From Wall Street.
Leaving the tariff question, Mr..
Bryan took up the income tax passed !
~ the present Democratic Congress. ,
He explained the operation of the
aw. saying that not one man in ten J
-ill be affected by it for the reason q
at II applies only to those having
'endid incomes.
after praising the passage and the
provisions Of the income tax law, Mr.. =
'~van took up the currency act.
Since its enactment the center of |
inancps in this country has been in 9
and not in Wall Street,
where it had been while the repub-
leans were in Office. he asserted. He
eclared the Wilson administration. 4
through the President and Secretary :,
Ic Adoo. has forced Wall Street out :
f the control Of the money market. g
"'Under the currency law the v
nancial center has been moved from
Vail Street to Washington Secre- Q
airy Bryan said. Washington is only
o miles from New York--so close
hat a lobbyist can get on train at
iidnight in New York and reach
Washington in time to talk to the n
nators before the opening Of the
cnate. And yet, while Washington '
, so close to New York. it has taken II
orty years to drag the financial CEN =
er from there TO Washington. =
Republicans Against Income Tax.
"Along with the tariff we have an
lcome tax law. | suppose that a
ave been called more hard names q
trough my agitation for an income =,
* law than for any other reason. "
hey have ranged all the way from
istributer Of the peace to anarchist
nd demagogue was a way station. 10
ut now as look back over the days .
hen ! fought for 2 per cent. in =.
,me tax law and now look at the nj
Nv making assessments of from | TO Inc
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