Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-11-20
SOME SOUND DOCTRINE.
HARD TINES AND THE WAY
OUT"

A oYc6Cu DChVVAON W OVAVSA
Robert G. Ingersoll, at the Music
Hall, in Boston, Massachusetts,,
October 20, 1878.
I'VE begin to-day the publication
of the speech delivered by Colonel
Robert G.. Ingersoll, in Boston,
Mass, about a month ago. 1t is too
lengthy for reproduction in single
issue. 1t will therefore be published
| in instsllments in the three succeed
ing issues.-ED. TINEs.]
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
The lovers Of the human race, the
philanthropists, the dreamers Of
grand dreams, all predicted and all
believed that when man should have
the right to govern himself, when
every human being should be equal
before the law, paupsrism, crime,
and want would exist only In the
history Of the past. They account
for misery in their tlme by the ra-
pacity of kings and the cruelty Of
priests. Here, in the United States,
man 1t last is free. Hero, man
makes the laws, and all have an
equal voice. The rich cannot 0p.
press the poor, because the poor are
In q majority. Tho laboring men,
those who in some way work for
their living, can elect every Con-
gresham and every judge; they can
make and interpret the laws, and il
labor il oppressed in the United
States by capital, labor has simply
itself to blame. The cry Is now
raised that capital In some mysteri-
Gus way Expresses industry; that
the capitalist is the enemy OF the
man who labors.
WHAT Is A CAPITALIST
Every man who has good health;
every man with good sense; every
one who has had his dinner, and
has enough for supper, is, TO that ex-
tent, q capitalist. Every man with
q good character, who has the credit
10 borrow q dollar or to buy q meal,
il . capitalists and nine out of ten OF
the great capitalists OF the United
States are simply successful work
ingmen. There is no conflict, and
can be no conflict, in the United
States between capital and labor;
and the men who endeavor to ex-
cite the envy of the unfortunate and
the malice OF the poor are the
enemies OF law and order.
HOW WEALTH IS ACCUMULATED.
Al rule, wealth is the result Of
industry, economy, attention to
business; and as rule, poverty is
the result Of idleness, extravaganza,
ana inatteption to business, though
to these rules there are thousands of
exceptions. The man who has
wasted his time, who has thrown
away his opportunities, is apt to envy
the man who has not. For instance,
there are six shoemakers working
in a shop. One Of them attends to
his business. You can hear the
music of his hammer late and early.
He Is In love with some girl ON the
next street. He has made up his
mind to be q man, to suoceed; to
make somebody else happy; 10 have
q home; and while he is working, in
his imagination, he can see his own
Preside, with the freight falling
upon the faces of wife and child.
The other five gentlemen work as
little as they can, spend Sunday in
dissipation, have the headache Mon
day, and, - result, never advance.
The industrious one, the one in love,
gains the confidence of his employer,
and IN a little while he cuts out
work for the others. The first thing
you know he has q shop of his own,
the next store; because the man
of reputation, the man Of character,
the man Of known integrity, can
buy all he wishes in the United
States upon q credit. The next
thing you know he Is married, and
has built him a house, and he IL
happy, and his dream has been re-
allied. After awhile the same five
shoemaker, having pursued the
old course, stand on q corner some
Sunday when he rides by. He has
got carriage, his wife sits by mis-
side, her face covered with smiles,
and they have got two children,
their eyes beaming with joy, and
the blue ribbons are f1uttering In
the wind. And thereupon, these
five shoemakers adjourn to some
neighboring saloon and pass . reso.
luton that there Is IN irrepressible
conflict between capital and labor.
There 10, in fact, no such conflict,
and the laboring men OF the United
States have the power to protect
themselves. In the ballot.box the
vote Of Lazarus Is in equality with
the vote Of Dives; the vote of . wan
deriug pAuper counts the same q
that OF millionaire. In q land
where the poor, whore the laborlng
men have the right and have the
power to make the laws, and do, in
fact, make the laws, certainly there
should be no complaint. In oul
country the people hold the power
aud II . corporation Is devourine
the peoples substance the Stat,
has retained the power of eminen
domain, under which it can confis
cate the property and franchise o
any corporation by simply paying t.