Omaha daily bee., 1886-11-21
SAYINGS BY BOB lNesRsoLL.
Extracts From an Address Made by
Him I'm New York Sunday EVENING.

New York sun, November Is; Colonel
Robert e.. lngerSoll talked hoarsely and
interestingly to about thousand we'll.
dressed men and women at Chickcring
hall for about an hour last night Tho
laughter and applause were pretty nearly
continuous. Among other things he said
were these.
If nobody has too much everybody will
have enough.
would like to see this world so that n
man could die and not feel that he had
left his wife and children prey to the
greed or avarice or necessities of man
kind.
There is something wrong in the sys.
TEN when idlencsS is burdencd with
wealth and industry with famine.
Get out of your M inds that old non
sense about mans free moral agency. \
man is no more responsible for his char
aCtcr than for his height or for his acts
than for his dreams. Then you will have
charity for the whole human race.
Wealth is not II crime, nor is poverty n
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 being
Ill lHt UniVBTSc tilul tlc htltW
The poor imagine that the rich live III
paradise. know that the most of them
live in gilded hell
No man has the genius or the brain to
own So, 0O0, 600. The money owns him.
lie is the key to the safe. Yet these men
go on accumulating. 1t is Il sort of in
sanity. Imagine a mana good, intelli-
gent man-wth 1900, 900 coats Ilaughterl,
5000, 900 or s 1000, 900 hats chcersl, bill
Then imagine him getting up at 4:3O
o'clock in the morning and working hard
all day to get another nccktie. Pro.
longed applause.
Great wealth is another crime.
The gulf is growing wide between
Lazarus and Dives, only the two have
changed places-Dives is in Abraham $
bosom.
The rich have scorn and contempt for
the poor, the poor envy aud 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 1t is
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
the poor to clasp hands, II only Tor one
instant once week.
All men are not capable of gcttiug 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 laborcr does
not own the machine. The machine
owns the laborer.
Noman should be allowed to own any
land that he does not use; but would
not take IN inch of land from any one
without paving for 1t.
If it were possible to bottle the air
there would be II great American Air
Bottling association before sundown to-
morrow, and millions would be allowed
to die for the want of q breath if 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 n
nation of llresides and nation of pat
riots.
There is something about money that
dries up the affections. | suppose that
one reason of it is that the moment n
man gets any money there are so many
trying to get it away from him that he
thinks the whole race are his enemies.
l don't blame the rich, mind you; they
are the natural products of the system
| Blame the system.
The first great remedy is the ballot
The poor are in the majority. If the law
nnnresses them it is their fault. They
have followed the fife and drum of some
party. No man should go with party
unless it is going his way.
A civilized man will never want 10
sell thing for more than 1t is worth, nor
will he want to buy anything for less
| than it is worth
Look at the children of the rich. My
| God, what a punishment for being rich
/ am afraid of monopolies. The peopl,
will stand oppression to Il CERTAIN point
and then the end will come.