The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-12
A TALK WITH INGERSOLL.
HIS VIEWS ON CURRENT TOPICS
GIVEN IN SHORT ORDER.
President and Bsnafe-what the Republic
Metallism - The Toilers' Demands =

can Party Must Do-significance of BIZ
Metallism - The Toilers' Demands -
Hunger q COMMUNICATIONS
CHICAGO, Feb 12-CoL Robert G.. Inger
soil is in the city on legal business, and was
asked by a reporter:
What have you to say with reference to
the respective attitudes of the the president
and senatef"
Il don't think there Is any doubt, he re-
piled, las to the right of the senate to call
on the president for information. OF course
that means for what information he has
got. When duty devolves upon two per-
sons, one of them has no right to withhold
any facts calculated to throw any light on
the question that both are to decide"
Asked fer his views OF the presidential
probabilities in 1885 he said: That is good
| ways off. think the people can hardly be
rou.ei to enthusiasm by the old names. Our
party must take another step forward We
can not live on what We have done; we
must seek power for the sake, not of power,
but for the accomplishment of purpose
We must reform the tariff We must settle
the question of silver. We must have
sense enough to know what the
county needs, and courage enough to
tell it. By reforming the tariff, | mean
protect that and that only that needs pro-
| tection-laws for the country and not for
| tho few We want honest money; We
want a dollars worth of gold in silver
dollar, and dollars worth of silver in
a gold dollar We want to make them of
equal value Bimetalism does not moan
| that so cents in silver is worth 100 in gold
l believe that if this country stand, firm all
the nations of Europe will adopt the double
standard
"rhe Repul lican party must get bacl; its
conscience and be guided by it in deci ling
the questions that ari-e. Great questions
are pres. ing for solution Thou ,ands of
woraing people are in want Business is
pressed The future is filled with cloud :.
What does the Republican party proposei
Must we wait for mobs to inaugurate re.
form; Must We depend on police or stat, s.
men. Should we wait and crush by brute
force or should we prevent The
toilers demand that eight hours ehal
constitute a days work Upon this
question what does our party say
labor-saving machines ought to tighten the
burdens of the laborers 1t will not do to
say over production and keep on inventine
machines and refuse to shorten the hours
What does our party say The rich can
take care of themselves if the mob will lei
them alone, ami there will he no mob if Their,
is no widespread want Hunger is a com
munist The next candidate of the Repub
lican party must be big enough and courag
GUS enough to answer these questions II
we find that kind of candidate we snail
succeed-if we do not, we ought not
What do you think of Bismark's Polisl
policy|
Il think that Bismarck is beast. If som,
poor Polish woman, driven from her homt
in Posen, driven to misery and want, hold
ing, it may be, dying child to her break
ing heart, should pray God to take tn,
chancellor home to Himself, and God should
answer her prayer, | should feel almost like
changing my religion. Bismarck belongs II
the dark ages. He was loved by Germany
simply because he Inundated France Ger
many gave her liberty for revenge