The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-28
ISGERsoLL's MISTAKES.

Colonel r. G. Ingersoll has indeed
given utterance TO many thoughts
which are at the same time strong and
strikingly beautiful, and in no speech
Of his can be found more of thesa
striking expressions crowded together
than in the remarks he made IN New
York on Sunday evening, the 18th of
the present month. His remarks were
evidently fashioned to some extent BY
the events connected with the recent
discussion of the labor question in that
city, which has been given prominence
there by the candidacy of Henry
George for the mayorship of the
metropolis. We quote some of the ex-
pressions to which he gave utterance on
the occasion We refer to-:
If nobody has too much everybody will
have enough.
l would like to see this world 80 that
man could die, and not feel that he had lefi
his wife and children prey 70 the greed
or avarice or necessities OF mankind.
Wealth is not a crime, nor is poverty "A
virtue, although virtue has generally been
The poor imagine that the rich I've in
Paradise. / know that the most OF them
live In 8 gilded hell.
Great wealth is he mother OF crime.
There is only one gOOd-humsn happi-
ness. No perfectly civil lied man can be
hsppy while there Is an unhappy being in
the uniyerse that he knows.
The rich have scorn and contempt for the
poor; the poor envy and hatred for the rich.
There must be some way for the low ng poor
and the sympathetic rich TO get acquainted.
AZ there IS anything that should bring man
kind together IL Is a common belief, but in
this Christian country there is no welcome
in the velvet for e rags. ! would think
much of any religion that would allow the
rich and the poor 10 clasp hands. IL only 70
one instant once q week.
To do tight is the bud, blossom and fruit
OF wisdom"
II the Colonel had stopped when he
had given expression to these senti-
ments, his whole discourse could have
been applauded TO the echo. But these
sentences are but the gold of the
Colonel's speech, and they were badly
mixed with the dross. 1t seems almost
strange at times. that in this world of
ours virtue should be so mixed up with
vice, and vice with virtue; that the
beautiful should stand side by side with
the hideous; the sweet rose, the queen
of flowers, should be found growing
BY thorns. But such is the
case; and it often happens that wisdom
and folly are uttered by the same
tongue. conceived By the same brain.
This is the case with Colonel Ingersoll,
on theoccasion Of his speech-msking in
New York, Among other unwise
things which he said was this:
Get out OF your minds that old nonsense
about m,n's free moral agency A man is
no more responsible for his character than
for his height, or for his acts than for his
dreams Then you will have charity for
the whole human race.
This is a monster thought, and ought
to have been too hideous for utterance.
Suppose the world should ADOPT the
theory. Should get out of its mind the
idea of mans free moral agency, and
should really conclude that q man was
no more responsible for his acts than
for his dreams, for his character than
Tor ms height, what thenF Why, men
would then be considered Villains by
fools by heavenly compul-
sion; knaves. thieves and PREACHERS, by
something like spherical predominance.
p ,rhaps; drunksrds, liars and adul-
ierers, and all that man Is evil in by q
sort OF divine thrusting on" What an |
scheme is this to escape the
of mans wicked actions
u it De accepted, then it would do away