Show JU bBTicE1 OF AN INCOME TAX 4 Bryan Believes That the Court Will Yet Do the Right l S Thing rt9r17r f r NO CRIME TO ASK IT Justice Harlan of the Supreme i Court Quoted Money Question In Sow the One Big Issue and the Plutocrats Knowing Know-ing That to Be the Case Are En dcavorlitR to Lead the Public Blind Awuy from It by Bringing in Various Other 3Iatters The Me 4 Iviiiley of ISJl ana the McKinley of 1SOO CEDAR RAPIDS Ia Oct 8Mr Bryans special train reached Cedar Rapids at 405 this afternoon after a remarKably quick run from Burlington Burling-ton Stops were made at Columbus Junction Nichols and West Liberty short speeches being made at the finst two places His reception at Burlington this morning was attended by about 1000 onstiation however were not not so successful Over 5000 horsemen and 500 cessful Over 5000 horsemen and 500 aady riders had been announced as an escort for the distinguished guest but less than 400 were in line Bryan rode in an open carriage and was greeted by cheers several times during the parade but as a rule the crowd was an undemonstrative one AT THE COLISEUM 7000 people listened to his address and thousands were turned away Bryan later made short speeches to large crowds from the small stands in the park and was liberally applauded I r At the Coliseum Mr Bryan said Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen Gentle-men and Fellow Citizens We are passing through a campaign which means a great deal to the American peopleaye more than that it means a great deal to the people of the world sphere is a crisis in human affairs hvhile every day is of equal length nith every other day yet into some days vast importance is crowded and into the 3rd of November vast importance 4 impor-tance will be crowded Upon that day the American people choose a president presi-dent who shall occupy the White House cries of Bryan Bryan and applause for four years On that day they select a house of representatives and on that day they select legislature which will choose United States senators sena-tors Much depends upon the result of this election For the first time in the history of the United States a party appears which declares that THE GOLD STANDARD S must be maintained in this country S until foreign nations join us or permit us to abandon it Never before has the American people been asked to declare in favor of a gold standard Every step that the gold standard has taken S heretofore has been taken in the dark and without the consent of the American Ameri-can people and now for the first timeS time-S the advocates of gold ask the American v Ameri-can people to endorse the gold standard stand-ard at the ballot box If it is right cries of No no if it is good for t the American people it ought to be endorsed My friends nothing is too good for the American people applause ap-plause and if the gold standard will he good for us we ought to have it If the gold standard will bring blessings bless-ings to our people we ought to maintain main-tain it If it brings cursing we ought to abandon it Great applause This is the question submitted to the American Amer-ican people I stand upon a platform yes I stand upon three platforms which agree on one thing and that is that the gold standard ought to be driven out of the United States great applause and that in its place ought to be substituted the free and unlimited unlim-ited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 great applause without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation Prolonged Pro-longed applause I come today to submit for your con mripmtion some reasons why Republi cans should join with us upon the platform which we have adopted The Populists have already joined with us S I will ray joined with us they may bay we have joined with them but I care not S HOW YOU EXPRESS IT EO we are together now Great applause Hurrah for McKin plause a voice icy applause and hisses Mv BryanMy friends I beg you to refrain from any manifestations of displeasure I dis-pleasure I urn glad to have that man here who 5s in favor Of my opponent I only hcpe tfc1 there are many such S because it is to such persons that I desire de-sire to express my remarks Clh ring and < plause My friend hay declared hs preference for Mr McKinley I want to ask him which McKinley he is for the McKinley of 1890 or the McKinley of 1896 Great applause and ong cheering cheer-ing Mr McKinley said But all agree that we must have a larger volume of money and that the added volume sftall i ue silver or its equivalent based on salver At that time we were putting into circulation 524000000 a year unde the Bland act and Mr McKinley advocated advo-cated the Sherman act on the ground that it would increase the amount of money to be put in circulation among p the people He said We propose to give to this country what the gentlemen I gentle-men upon the other side of the house could not io what they did not dare to is do for four years We propose to give to the country a silver bill that will take all of the silver practically If the United States and make it available for the use of the people Again he said So Mr Speaker this bill is jus2 to the silver producers of the United I States for it does what the present law as administered by every adminis trtion for ten years has not done It i takes every dollar of silver bullion that is purchased in the United Stages ant places it at the disposal of the pe < leas le-as money That was the McKinley of 1S90 Let me read you the McKinley of 189S It is not more money we want What we want is to put all ithe money I we have already at work In 3S90 ivhen he advocated more money we had Uready added 524000003 to the circula ion each year This year we have no such provision We have repealed the I Sherman law and the Bland act Mr McKinley said in 1891 that Mr Cleveland Cleve-land had been discriminating against silver had been trying to degrade i had been trying to contract the currency cur-rency and that by lessening the curt cur-t n < he made money dearer by making i scarcer TV a can support every contention wa make by quoting Republican authorities authori-ties and therefore Republicans who come to us in this campaign do not change their convictions They simply change their party name when their party has abandoned the position it used to occupy anC now demands that you shall surrender the convictions of a lifetime Great cheering and applause ap-plause Just as Mr Bryan was concluding con-cluding his remarks a cry of How about Grover came from the crowd and the candidate smilingly replied We are not talking about him now Since our Republican friends came to the support of the administration we have not found it necessary to say anything about it Laughter and cheers followed this statement To an appreciative audience that filled the grand stani and bleacher at Athletic park William J Bryan made a short speech this afternoon during his stop of nearly two hours in Cedar Rapids Between 6000 and 8000 people were present John M Redmond introduced in-troduced Mr Bryan who said in part The three parties which agreed on my nomination made the money question ques-tion of first importance and our opponents oppo-nents will concede that the settlement of the money question overreaches all I other questions And yet our opponents oppo-nents not satisfied to fight the battle cn the money question have attempted the bringing in of other issues They have even gone so far as to declare that in expressing a desire for an income in-come tax we were NOT SHOWING PROPER RESPECT for the supreme court which declared the last income tax law unconstitutional unconstitu-tional We believe that we have aright a-right to express a desire for an income in-come tax we believe that we have aright a-right to express a hope that a future court will undo what the present court has done and in expressing that desire de-sire we were not subjecting ourselves to any just criticism Let me show what has been said in regard to that decision and then I will tell you the name of the anarchist who said it Here is what someone has said The practical effect of the decision today is to give to certain kinds of property the position of favoritism and advantage advan-tage inconsistent with the fundamental principles of our social organization and to invest them with power and I influence that may be perilous to that portion of the American people upon whom rests the largest part of the burdens of government and who ough not to be subjected to the dominion of aggregate wealth any more than the property of the country should be at the mercy of the lawless What man was it do you suppose who said that the people ought not to be subjected to the dominion of aggregate aggre-gate wealth What anarchist do you suppose that was A Renublican judge of the supreme court and his I name is Harlan Nothin in our platform plat-form is a severe as that The rest of the speech was devoted to a discussion of the money question no new lines being taken up Mr Bryan left Cedar Rapids for Marshalltown la over the Nortbwsr ern at 545 p m His train traveled on a special schedule < |