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Show suinption, and while they are Income tax, in the sense that ihey must be paid out of the incomes' ,of the people, yet the exactions are proportionate to the income. The taxes upon consuinp-tion consuinp-tion bear heaviest upon the poor and lightest upon the rich, and are, in fact, graded income taxes. The per cent, collected decreasing as the income increases. in-creases. If this nation adheres to the doctrine that guveruuien.s derive their Just poweis from the consent of the governed, gov-erned, and the people have an easy and ready means of collecting theabuses.fhe government will not need to be supported sup-ported by a large permanent amy, tor every citizen will ! ready to defend such a government from attack. The only domesiic use for a large standing army is to suppress by foice the discontent dis-content that should le cured by legislation. To support .1 permanent army of 100.- 000 men requires approximately ova-halt ova-halt as much money us is annually expended ex-pended for education in the United States. How much easier it is to uplift up-lift people by the gentle and peaceful process of intellectual development than to blow them up with powder and dynamite. Imperialism involves a departure from principles wheh were universally universal-ly aocepted in this country until within two years ago. To know that all men are created equal one needs not the wisdom of a sage or the learning of the schools. It to declared to le a self-evident self-evident truth. It was evident to those who pledged their lives to the maintenance mainten-ance of the Declaration of Iudepeud ence, and it is evident still to those who are not blinded by the glamour of wealth and the glittering promises of a colonial system. If all men are created creat-ed equal and endowed with Inalienable rights, it follows as a logical aud necessary nec-essary sequence that the governments were instituted for the welfare of ail and derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. On the preservation pre-servation of this doctrine our hopes depend; de-pend; if it is abandoned there is no hope upon which a government like ours can be constructed. Do not allow al-low yourselves to be deceived by those who question the capacity of this people peo-ple or that people for self-government. 1 When 1 say that those who distrust the capacity of the people for self-government tend directly toward monarchy mon-archy I am only repeating what Lincoln Lin-coln deliberately declared in his first annual message. He said: "Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people. In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to the approach of returning despotism. It , is not needed nor fitting here that a general gen-eral argument should be made in favor of popular Institutions, but there is one point, with its connections not so hackneyed hack-neyed as most others, to which I ask brief attention. It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above labor, in the structure of government. govern-ment. No men living are more to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined ro take or touch aught which they have not honestly hon-estly earned. Let them beware of surrendering sur-rendering a political power which they I already possess, and which, if surren-I surren-I dered, will surely be used to close the . door of advancement against such as 1 thev. and to fix new disabilities ana burdens opoir-Tlinr litt ni iJty-- shall be lost." The warning is even more needed now than it was forty years ago. The Army aud Navy Journal is already justifying jus-tifying the colonial idea, and declaring that fate has decreed for us a destiny in which an liiqierial executive, free from restraints of a written constitution, constitu-tion, will govern subjects according to his own pleasure. , But why quote from newspapers as to what may be done hereafter in the presence of' a law already enacted which makes subjects of the Porto Kicans, withdraws from them the guarantees guar-antees of the constitution and asserts the power of the President and Congress Con-gress t govern them without their consent and tax them without representationa repre-sentationa power as unlimited and tyrannical as was ever asserted or exercised ex-ercised by any ruler in nil the history of the human race. This doctrine has not yet been approved by the people; it furnishes the supreme question of the present campaign. In the presence of these perils the laboring man has a responsibility commensurate with his opportunity. Without a large percentage percent-age of the laboring vote no party can win an election in the United States. The men who work for wages can by throwing their votes on the one side or the other determine the policy of this BRYAN AT CHICAGO. TRIES TO SCARE LABORING MEN j WITH IMPERIALIST BOGEY, j I Invited to Deliver a non-Partisan Ad- j dress, He Makes a Campaign Speech Full of Partisan Misrepresentations ' Partial Text of Speech. Direct Legislation. ' " The laboring man favors direct legislation legis-lation wherever practicable for the same reason that he favors the election of senators by popular vote. Direct legislation brings the government govern-ment nearer to the voter. There is more virtue in the people than ever finds expression through their representative. repre-sentative. To hold that a representative representa-tive can act for the people better than they can act for themselves, is to assert as-sert that he is as much interested in the people as they are in themselves, and that his wisdom is greater than the combined wisdom off the majority of the people. Neither proposition is sound. Most, if not all of the evils complained of in government, are traceable trace-able to the fact that the representatives of the people has personal interests at variance with the interests of his constituency. con-stituency. Corruption in municipal, state and federal governments is due to the misrepresentations of the people by public servants, who use their positions posi-tions for private advantage. The people peo-ple should have an opportunity to vote on public questions when those questions ques-tions can be submitted, without to great inconvenience and expense. But the laboring man is even interested in the proposition to establish a labor bureau bu-reau with a Cabinet officer at its head. sucn a uureau wuuiu rgt tive in constant touch with the wage-earners wage-earners of the country, and open the way to the redress of their present and future grievances. If labor is given a place in the President's official household, house-hold, the man selected will necessarily oe a worthy and trusted representative of the people for whom he speaks, and his presence at Cabinet meetings will give to those who toil for their daily bread assurance that their interests will be properly guided. Mr. Gompers, the chief executive of the Federation of Labor, has, in his correspondence with the secretary of the treasury, so ably presented the laboring la-boring men's reasons for opposing the gold standard and a national bank currency cur-rency that it is not necessary to discuss dis-cuss those questions at this time. The friboriug man has abundant reason rea-son to fear the trusts. Mr. Charles R. Flint, in a speech, delivered in Boston more than a year ago, in defense of the trusts, frankly asserts that one of the advantages of these combinations is that "in case of local strikes or fires the work goes on elsewhere, thus preventing pre-venting serious loss." Is it possible country. They need not march in parades; par-ades; they need not adorn themselves with'the insignia of any party, but on election dav their sileut ballots can shape the destiny of this nation and either bring the government back .to Its ancient landmark or turn it into the -pathway followed by empires In the old world. One of the pleasing prospects held out by Mr. Bryan is free trade, which would afford a particularly pleasing prospect to the commercial traveler, for all the drummers of England, Germany Ger-many and any other old country might profitably be turned loose among us under such a policy. Foreign drummers drum-mers have been here before. The Hon. .Ge-rge S. BontwelL most prominent of all antl-lmperialists. so-called, so-called, thinks that the financial panic due to the common dread of Bryan's election would only be a short one. We also recall the case of the dear Old Hoss that died of the diet of ten-penny nails just as he was getting used to them. Tbe domination of Mr. Bryan has placed the leadership of the Democratic Democrat-ic party in the hands of the Hon. John P Altgeld. the Hon. Geo. Fred Williams Will-iams the Hon. William Sulzer, the Hon John J. Lentz. the Hon. Joseph W Bailey and the Hon. Webster Da- ' vis Is it any wonder the party is experiencing ex-periencing a weakness in its following department? The Democratic party is consistent in opposing the growth of the country, for it is on record as favoring the division di-vision of the country. It urged the government to let the South go. and declared de-clared the war n failure, just as it la urging the g vernrneiit to let the PhUip-plnes PhUip-plnes go. ami declaring that 'he war out there is a failure. that any wage earner can fan to see how completely the trusts place the employe at the mercy of the employer.' The Laborer and Imperialism. The resolutions adopted by various labor organizations in condemnation of militarism and imperialism, justify me. in making a brief reference to those questions. No class contributes more than the laboring class, in proportion to its numbers, to the rank and file of the army; no class contributes more in proportions to the expense of the army, and no class is more menaced by the existance of a large army. Most of the countries of Europe which maintain main-tain large military establishments collect col-lect an income tax which adjusts the burden of the government to the Income In-come of the citizen. Here our federal taxes are largely collected upon con- |