First. Aftercriminal delay, resulting
in the passage of an inadequate and
undemocratic tariff law, why did not a
Democratic Congress, as pledged by
the platform and promised by the rep
resentatives of the party, still further
reduce the tariff during the short ses
sion of Congress?
2nd. Why did not a Democratic
Congress pass a free coinage bill as
promised by the platform of 1892?
3rd. Why did a Democratic Presi
dent veto the Bland seinorage bill,
which would have put in circulation
about $52,000,000 in silver?
rtf.h. Why did the Democratic Con
gress fail to repeal the 10 per cent tax
on State banks to which the party was
pledged?
5th. Why did Democratic Chief
Justice Fuller, of the Federal Supreme
court, and Democratic Associate Jus
tice Field vote Against the income tax
law, when either of their votes would
have saved it?
How do you justify the spectacle of
the Democratic Chief Justice writing
ttie opinion that
NULLIFIED THE INCOME TAX LAW,
while Republican Associate Justice
Harlan voted in its favor and declared
that he feared that the nullification of
said law would prove the "first step
towards the submergence of the liber
ties of the people in a sordid depotism
of wealth, that the decision of thecourt
in this great case is fraught with im
measurable danger to the future of the
country, and approaches the propor
tions of a national calamity;" and
while Republican Associate Justice
Brown voted for the law and said :
"This decision may well excite the gravest
apprehension. It strikes at the very founda
tion of national authority in that it denies
to the general government a power which
is or may at some time, in a great emer
gency such as that of war, become vital to
the existence and preservation of the
Union."
Said another great authority :
"This decision is another victory of greed
over need. Great and rich corporations by
hiring the ablest lawyers in the land, have
secured the exemption of wealth from pay
ing its just share towards the support oi the
government that protects it. The people
will not
ACCEPT THIS LAW AS JUSTICE."
"No decision can make wrong right. It
is not right that the entire cost of the Fed
eral government shall rest upon the masses.
