The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-12-04
SAYINGS BY BOB INGERSOLL.
He Makes Evening Highly Entertain
ing to His Audience.

He Makes an Evening Highly Entertain
ing to His Audience.
CuloLel Robert q. 1ngersoll talked
hoalse and interestingly to about 1000
well dressed men and women at CHECKER
ing Hall for about an hour last night,
says the New York Sun of November 10
The laughter and applause were pretty
nearly continuous. Among other things
he said were these;
Ii nobody has too much every body will
have enough.
| would like to see this world so that a
man could die and not feel that he had
left his wife and children a prey to the
greed or avarice or necessities of man
kind.
There is something wrong in the sys-
tenn when idleness is burdened with
wealth and industry with famine.
Get out OF your minds that old nom
sense about mans free moral agency. A
man is no more responsible for his char
acter than Tor his h light, or for his acts
than his dreams. Then you will have
charity for the whole human race.
Wealth is not a crime, nor is poverty a
virtue, although virtue has generally
been poor.
There is only one good-human happi-
ness.
To do right is the bud, blossom and
fruit of wisdom.
No perfectly civilized man could be
happy while there was an unhappy man
being in the universe that he knew
The poor Imagine that the rich live in
paradise. know that the most of them
live in gllded hell.
No man has the genius or the brains
to own $1,000, 600 Tue money owns
him. He is the key to IA safe. Yet these
men go on accommodating. 1t is sort of
insanity. Imagine mana good intel
ligeut man-with 1000 900 coats (laugh-
ter). 5000, 600 or s, 900, 600 hats [cheers l.,
1000, 900, 600 neckties laughter and
cheersl. Then imagine him getting up
at l.alt past o'clock in the morning and
working hard ali day to get another neck
tie. Prolonged applause
Great wealth is the mot her of crime.
The gulf is growing wide between
L ,z.rus and Dives. only the two have
changed places. Dives is in Abraham's
bosom.
The rich have scorn and contempt for
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. If there is anything
that should bring mankind together it is
a common belief, but i'll this Christian
country there is no welcome in the velvet
for the rags. | would think much of
any religion that would allow the rich
and the poor to clasp hands, if only for
one instant once 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 laborer.
No man should be allowed to own any
lard that he does not use; but | would
not take an inch OF land from any one
without paying for it.
Ii it were possible to bottle the air
there would be Great American Air
Bottling Association before shutdown to-
to die for want of breath if they we've
unable to pay the monthly air bills.
would not only see homes made free
from attachment tor debt, but free from
taxation also. Then we would have a
nation of nresdes and nation OF pa.
riots.
There is something about money that
dries up the affections. | suppose that
one reason of 1t is that the moment a
man gets any mouey there are SO many
trying to get it away from him that be
thinks the whole race are his enemies.
don't blame 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 law
Expresses them it is their fault. They
have followed the fife aud drum of some
party. No man should go with a party
unless it Is going his way.
A civilized man will never want to sell
a thing Tor more than it is worth, nor
will he want to buy anything for less
than what it is worth.
Look at the children of the rich. My
God. what punishment for being rich!
| am not afraid of monopolles. The
people will stand oppression TO certain
point, AID then the end will come.