The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-11-25
THE SERMON OF An ISFlDEI.
fnccrsoll Demands the Land for All the
People. -

The Free Thinkers and Secular Union. u
lists closed their congress rf Tie past. :.
week at Chickering Hall last evening" /.
Colonel Ingersoll was introduced after ;
the Chairman had announced that the
Union had decided upon Keeping up az
regular Sunday evening meeting in.thisISs 4:
city, to open next week at Nos
LAFAYETTE Place. The text of AIr. Inger.
soils talk, as lie described it, WAS in the 9
gran lest prayer ever uttered by man, toi.i
be found in the grandest tragedy ever {.
written, "King Lear" 1t was when the s
demented old King prayed for those out I
in the storm and for those who had not
felt the smile of fortune. There was
something altogether wrong, thought Y
Colonel Iusersoll, when there was So.
much poverty and so much wealth CON-
centrated in separate hands.
"No man can own five millions of
dollars-tbe dollars own him" said the.it
speaker. "He becomes the key to. Ihsis.
safe in which the shining pile is boarded,
He is up in the morning early to see that $
his fortune is safe and he stays up late at 2
night to see that no one gathers it iu..ia:
He loses his friend, his home becomes i
safe deposit vault and lie is miserable ins;s
his surroundings. What would you
think of mar who should gather in a
heap a million coats, and in another !;
warehouse few million hats, and then !
over the way another mountain of :.
dozen million of cravats, and then, how \
ridiculous you would account him if he
got up and worked all day long for an.
other necktie- laughter and yet tb
is Just what our rich men. are doing and
lust what the civilization of near
future will say to them in no uncertain Il
tones Thou shalt not do. We have id 8
each of our cities the West End and the i.
East End, the part where the proud pal.
aces of the rich are reared in ostentation
and the part far away removed where. the :
novels and tenements of the poor ares
huddled together in wretcbedness. This.
is wrong. The poor have to learn that
pity rather than envy is what the rich
need from them, and the rich have to-
learn that true and honest hearts beat
beneath rags. q5sIa
"Anarchism is the protest agatmt.
tyranny, and that is out of place in this
country, where we have, despite all itsSaa
shortcomings, the greatest and grandestgE
government the world has ever seen.ss &
Here the rich and poor can and do meet
on one planet is the bench where rests
The ballot box. There the questions oHa
the future will be answered, !ruthfulfya
and quickly. 1t WI speak in no uncer-
tain tones, saying that the land which 3
God put outdoors is free to every child u
of nature. No man has right to ow1
more land than he can use, and no mar
who wants land to use ought to BE del
prived of it. Why, think if the u
about us could be bottled up we won
have big syndicate forming the grel
American air.bottling association AZ
thousands would die because they ha
not money enough to pay for airyt
breathe. That is what is going on WltHS
the land, and it must stop, but not bys
any rash means. When man breaches
Justice and advocates robbery as way tafS
get it I suspect him. do not blame the
rich for what they have, and would not q
take pennyworth from the richest Of
them except at fair valuation, but i Z;
would take it until every man and wo-
man born into the world had chance to 8
live through his or her days here in
comfort and happiness. :
"Great inventions were never intended J
to pile up great fortunes and curse the
laborer. No, nor will strikes settle any
thing. The first successful strike will be
the last, for the people will rise and show
that the grasp of the laborer tyrant must
be kept from the throat of capital just asl
sure as the grinding heel of moSotr
must not be placed upon thN!
form of toll. I am an individualist, and
the majority has no right to crush my J!
manhood out of me. When we hayea
nation of homes of these centres where
love reigns, where the race is not foa
riches but for happiness, then the goap
will be reached and content prevail. 3
The unfair test of supply and demand
will not be urged when labor is to b$
paid, but the hired man will be given
living compensation and be free man
among freemen, the peer of any of his
fellow citizens" ."-Ncw York World, 10TH 4
inst. >,-'