The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-28
SAYINGS BY BOB INGERsoLL.
He Makes an Evening Il Chicasring
Hall highly Entertaining to
His Audience.

Co. Robert G. IngersoH talked
hoarsely and Interestingly TO about 8
thousand welI-d.essed men and women
at ChIckering Hall Tor about an hour
last night. The laughter and applause
were pretty nearly continuous. Among
other things ne said were these:
Ifnobody has too much every body
will have enough.
would like to see this world 50 that
a man could die and not feel that he had
left his wife and children prey 10 tn
greed or aTarIce or necessities Of man
kind.
mere is something wrong IN the sys-
tenn when id'eness is burdened vi h
wealth and industry with famine
Get out OF your minds that old non
sense about mans free moral agency \
man is no more responsible for his
character than for his height, or for bis
acts than his dreams. Then you Will
have charity for the whole human race
Wealth is not a crime nor is poverty
virtue, although virtue has generally
been poor.
There is only one good-human nap
piness.
To do right is the bud, blossom and
fruit of wisdom.
No perfectly civilized man could he
happy while there was an unhappy be-
log in the universe that he knew.
The poor imagine that the rich live in
Paradise. know that the most OF them
live in a gilded hell.
No man has the genius or the brains
to own 100000. The money owns him.
He IS the key to safe. Yet these men
men go on accommodating. II is q SOFT
of insanity. Imagine 2 mana good
intelligent man-with two million coats
(laughter,) five or eight million hats
(cheers,) q billion neckties daughter and
cheers.) Then imagine him getting up
az 4 80 o'clock in the morning and
working hard al day to get another
neckiie. prolonged applause.)
Great wealth is the mother Of crime.
The gulf Is gro wing wide between La
zarus and Dives, only the two have
changed places. Dives is in Abraham's
bosom.
The rich have scorn and contemptfor
the poor; the poor envy and hatred for
the rich. There must be some way for
the loving poor and the sympathetic
rich TO get acquainted. II there is any
thing that should bring mankind to-
gether il is q common belief, bat in this
Christian country there is no welcome
in the velvet for the rags. would
think much of any religion that would
allow the rich aud the poor to clasp
hands, if only for one instant once q
week.
All men are not capable of getting a
living now. Some are not cunning
enough, not strong enough, not stingy
enough.
Millions of machines have been in
vented to save labor, but the laborer
does not own the machine the machine
owns the lsborer.
No man should be allowed TO own
any land thst he does not use; but
would not take an inch of land from any
one without paying for it.
If IL were possible TO bottle the air
there would be q Great American-Air
Bottling Association before shutdown to-
morrow, and millions would be allowed
to die for want of breath IL they were
unable to pay the monthly air bills.
would not only see homes made free
from attachment for debt, but free from
taxation also. Theu we would have a
nstiOn OF hresides and a nation of pat
riots.
- dDOuN bIAk
dries up the affections. ] suppose that
one reason of IL is that the moment a
man gets any money there are so many
trying to get it away from him that he
thinks the whole race are his enemies.
| don't b,ame the rich. mind you
they are the natural products OF the
system. Blame the system.
The first great remedy is in the ballot.
The poor are in the majority. If the
Jaw opposes them il is their fault. They
have followed the fife and drum of some
party. No man should 90 with a party
unless it is going his way.
A civilized man will never want to sell
a thing for more than it is worth, nor
will he want to buy anything for less
than what il is worth.
Look at the children Of the rich. NV
God what punishment for being rich
am not afraid of monopolies. The
people will stand oppression to q GER
tain point. and then the end will come.