Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-02
NO CHARITY FOR INGALLS,.
A Statesman Who Dodges Living Issues to
Revive Those Long Since Dead.


Revive Those Long Since Dead.
The Republican goes to the tariff sched-
ule. Over four thousand articles are taxed.
The average on every thing, free and duti-
able, Is p per cent; the average on the
dutiablc is a per cent. The surplus taxa
ton in February, 1883, according to the Chi
cago Herald, was Sj66.OO0 day-two-thIrds
of million. The Republican cogltates.
" My party must do something to help the
President" the Republican says, cor / will
not vote with it next fall" Then Mckinley
makes his minority report against tax re-
drction, following the speeches of Sherman,
Blaine, Allison, Reed, Hale, Platt and Nor
rill. 1t is clear as day that the Republican
not a tax eater must have leave party so
thoroughly immoral. The Republican is a
man OF influence and years. In the war he
suffered and sacrificed for tho country he
still loves. If he vote for lower taxes many
other Republicans viii 60 with him. He
settles to the conviction that the Herald is
sincere, and is telling the truth.
Just then rises this John J. ingalls,,
screaming with al tho anger of partisan
OF 1858: "The war is not over. The States
that seeded are not back in the Union, and,
thank God, they never shall come while
birds of Ingalls, feather may flock together.
" Is tho Republican reader of the Herald
dog" cries this dog of an Ingalls,, that the
son buried at AndersonviIle should be so
soon forgottenl Can this weak-kneed and
stingy taxpayer deny that Cleveland hired
a substitutei" Was it no. all of life to live
in the civil war, for the civil war, after
the civil war, and to keep the civil war
going forever particularly its cxpcnsei
And while this base statesman profits by
the survival Of wicked hatreds, engendered
by war, that concatenation of all crimes,
the poor Republican, listening to baleful
"reminiscences, loses all sightof the present,
throws down his paper of to-day and lives
once moro as Ingalls, desires he should 1.-Two
in bloody, hateful, past, inglorious, cor
rupt era of American history, that lover
OF man might wish TO see blotted from his
tory, as Camp Douglas has disappeared
from Chicago. Is any man the happier
from visiting the hundred National ceme-
teriesi Is that a decent statesman who,
standing in yard with 1900 graves, be-
holds all but thirty marked Unknown"
and then turns to our Republican with evil
exultation, crying: "Noao will you vote for
less than sixty-threc per cent on your
blanketsl'
This bad statesman poses, the chief obsta-
Gle to lower taxes next winter after the
electoral verdict shall have como in. Because
he has been sternly lashed by well-meaning
and well-doing fellow-citizens he makes a
loud complaint. He AYERS that Lincoln,
Grant, johnson, Hayes, Garfield and Ar
thur were called harsh names. Why may
he not speak of Cleveland, as q man of
Ingalls, kidney must always speak or think
of his bcttersl Such is his latest defense.
1t is immateriaL What Ingalls, said of
Cleveland is little to the point. Yet even
Brick Pomcroy did not attack Lincoln in a
manner so deliberately base as the manner
in which ingalls, spoke Of Cleveland, and
Brick Pomcroy was only an obscure blath-
erskite editor, not President Of the Senate,
the most powerful council in the world.
To pursue, reveal and humiliate this
vailed prophet of Khorassin is duty the
reformer owes TO better government. That
ingalls, should be mean enough to traduce
Hancock and to insult the President is in
cidentally fortunate. 1t uncloaks a villain
who otherwise, though equally unpatriotic,
might have escaped exposure and wreaked
greater ills upon the country-half of which,
and over half of whose citizens, he hates
with the grievance of defeated enemy
and the tenacious remembrance of con-
tempuble nature. Because his cruel lance
can cut open the healing wounds of a
cursed war, which made camp p-followers of
patriots, it is the duty of every friend of
Jeffersonian government to have no mercy
on him-to do with with him as the Herald
has donc-to prove that he is liar, and
to contend that he is a public enemy.