Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1886-12-10
Miscellameons.
INGERsoLLIAN PROBLEMS.

&. lngersoll, at Chickering Hall, New
York, short time ago, among other
sayings of that talented gentlemen were
the following:
lfnobody has too much everybody will
have enough.
would like to see this world so that
man could die and not feel that he had
left bis wife and children a prey to the
greed or avarice or necessities Of man-
kind.
There is something wrong in the sys.
TEN when idleness is burdened with
wealth, and industry with famine
Get out Of your mind that old non
sense about mans free moral agency.
A man is no more responsible for his
character than for his height, or his acts
than for his height, or for his acts than
for his dreams. Then you have charity
for the whole human race.
Wealth is not crime, nor is poverty
virtue, although virtue has generally
been poor.
There is only one good-human hap
piness.
TO do right is the bud blossom and
fruit of wisdom.
No perfectly civilized man could be
happy while there was an unhappy be-
ing in the universe that he knew.
The poor imagine that the rich live
in Paradise. | know that most Of them
live in gilded hell
No man has the genius or the brains
to own five million dollars. The money
owns him. He is the key to the safe.
Yet these men go on accumulating
II is sort of insanity. Imagine a
man--a good, intelligent man-with two
million coats laughter, six or eight
million hats cheers, billion neckties
laughter and cheers. Then imagine
him getting up at 4:3O o'clock in the
morning and working hard all day to
get another nccktie. Prolonged ap-
plause.
Great wealth is the mother of crime
The gulf is growing wide between
Lazarus 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. II there is any
thing that should bring mankind to-
gether il is n common belief, but 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 and poor to clasp hands, il only
for one instant, once week
All men are not capable Of getting u
living now. Some are not cunning
enough, not strong enough, no stingy
enough
Millions of machines have been in
vented to save labor, bu. the labor does
not own the machine. The machine
owns the labor.
No man should be allowed to own any
Ia nd 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-
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. Then we would have u
nation Of fircsides and nation Of pa
triots.
There is something about money that
dries up the affections. suppose that
one reason Of it 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 blame the rich, mind you
they arc the natural products of the sys-
tenn. Blame the system.
The first great remedy is in the bal.
lot The poor are in the majority. II
tho law Expresses them it is their fault.
They have followed the fife and drum Of
some party. No man should go with a
party unless it is going his way.
A civilized man will never want tC
sell thing for more than it is worth,
nor will he want to buy anything fol
less than what il is worth.
Look at the children of the rich. My
God, what punishment for being rich
am not afraid of monopolies. The
people will stand oppression to a certain
point, and then the end will come.