The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-13
FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIC
The Horoscope Cast by Senator John j.
Ingalls, in the Early Days of October.
The Republic Will Move to the Pole and the
Equator, Absorbing the Canadian DOmin-
ion and the West Indias on Its March.


ed. His utterances are amazingly sharp,
pungent, csustic, and severe at times,
and it has been tho generally ex-
pressed opinion that he prepared his
speeches with great care. fird, however. that
the faculty of force and finish which il so
marked g characteristic of his public talk is the
natural manner Of the man. The President Of
the Senate has been wildly lampooned by the
earicaturists. he il tall, spare, and agile look
ing. A big ''srlash" Of white hair surmounts
his forehead, his eyes are bright, and he speaks
without sfeetation Of any kind. He wore
morning jacket. and strollsd up and down his
library. smoking as he talked. and he talked to
the point. The interview which appears below
was written out and subjected to his revision. 1t
is authorized snd Endorsed:
"Is there" asked, "a strong desire through
out the United States for the peaceful acquisl-
ton OF Canada aud Mexicol Who spoke OK an
ocean-bound Republicl'
stephen A. Douglas. 1 believe" said Senator
Ingalls,, FIRST formulated the phrase, but the
idea 10 40 old as jamestown and Plymouth. it
was the cargo Of the Mayhower. Obedient to
its impulse the column of ArRlo-Saxon migra-
ton has in two centuries marched across the
continent and now pauses upon the coast OF the
Pacific meditating new conquests. 1t has ex-
PEELED tbs Indian, the Freedman, the Spaniard
and the Chinese IL is the conquering race, and
tolerates no element that l: cannot absorb and
assimilate. Having abolished the western from
tier, it will move norrhward and southwark to
the pole and the equator. We have reached the
limit of arabic land In ourSpublic domain. In
ten years the homestead system will be extinct
within the territory now open to settlement.
Since the war with Mexico have ceased to
enlarge our boundaries, not because the instinct
OF acquisition was lost. but because we had
enough. The pressure OF surplus population
will soon be felt, ana the overflow will absorb
Mexico and Canada inevitably, and perhaps
Cuba and the other West Indian islands, which
we need for the tobacco and sugar products in
order to complete our industrial independence.
We have paid duties enough on sugar In the
past thirty years TO nave purchased Cuba from
Spain thrice over. We also need additional ac-
commodations in the torrid zone for the surplus
African population OF this country, which will
require an outlet before the close of the century
The race problem in the South is not yet set
tied. II the whites and blacks cannot assimi-
late, they will eventually probably separate
peacefully, by common consent, the negroes
establishing States in the tropics and accom-
plishing their destiny in their original and ma
tive environment We have now q continuous
line of railway TO Mexico: IL will soon be con-
tnued to the valley of the Amazon. Vestibulsd
trains will run through without change from
New York to Buenos Ayrss. Along this high
way the Anglo-Saxon race will move 70 the DOM
ination of the hemisphere"
In discussion concerning the Canadian
policy OF President Cleveland, the Senator said:
The contemporaneous estimate or the Presi-
dent is higher, probably, than the grade TO
which he will be assigned in history. His de-
feets are those CT temperament and training.
Although / condemn his treatment Of Union
soldiers and his concessions to England, am
not among those who impute to him lack OF
patriotism or love Of injustics. But his horizon
IS narrow. The scope and range OK his facul-
ties are limited No ruler. perhaps. ever came
20 the duties OF exalted station with less nat
ural aptitude or less acquainted with the meth
DDS and subjects OF administration. He has
great capacity for labor. unusual industry,
patient attention TO. petty details, but apprs-
hension of great subjects. De addresses him
self to their consideration with the temerity of
novice, and his view is unIateral. He
CARDS all topics as detached, and not in
their relations to q system. His natUre
is phiegmatic. aud he is not troubled
wish sensibi:lties or emotions. His colos-
sal egotism has been distended even
beyond its nor NAL proportions by the incense
and adulation OF his emasculated idolaters. His
selfcomplacency is excessive, and his practical
usurpatlon OF all governmental functions. legis-
lative and judicial. as well rs executive, is en-
PERTAINING rather than dangerous. 1t 10 egotism
and not despotisLa. How far the country at
large has been impressed by his protestations
of his honesty, integrity, purity, courage, and
devout and holy conservation to the public serv-
ice can be better told on the 9TH OF November
than this evening. Craftsmanship cannot prop
ery be imputed TO the President You might
"a well ask me how hs |il rank as . poet, an
astronomer. or q theogoust He came to the
White House without ever having made a po-
liticsl speech or expressed remembered opin-
ion upon any Of tbs great questions that have
engaged the attention of our people during the
past twenty-five years. It has long been evil
dent that the claim Of his worshipers that this
silence was the result of sagacious
reticencs is an error It would
have been better for his fame, and perhaps for
his success, had his reserve remained
unbroken. His msnifsstoes about a second
term. reform in the civil service. silver coinage,
pensions, our foreign policy, and the tariff have
been unfortunate. But his impassive and i'm
perturbable self esteem does not desert him. and
he is not disconnected by exposure nor en-
barrassed by detection. He disaerees with
diplomatists, political economists, lawyers and
philosophers with complacent composure. He
has the same CLAIM; to the title of statesman
that man crossing on the Desbrosses- street
ferry, from Jersey City to New York. would
have to be called the discovsrer of the Hudson
river. Concerning Lowelps comparison between
Lincoln and Cleveland, think it was violation
of the first commandment Of the Decalogue.'
'Csoada's confidence in the power of Great
Britain to avenge her wrongs and enforce her
rights Is supreme" 1 said. What is your
opinion of the capability Of Great Britain to
force the United States to terms"
The umbilical cord between England and
of the Dominion is complete. The intrusion Of
England in the politics OF this continent is an
intolerable impertinsnce. 1t Is dictated by de-
lIberats hostility to the United States Il is a
studied affront which our people understand
and will ultimately resent. Talk ss we may
about kindred blood, and the language of Milton
and Shakespeare, there is not an American who
does not feel instinctively that England Is the
only enemy we have among the nations, and
sooner or later we shall be compelled by self
respect, II not for self-preservation, to oblt-
crate every vestige of British power from this
hemisphere. There is no alternative. The
guns of Halifax and Vancouver are pointed at
rs. Tho Canadian Pacific railroad, built by
Englands subsidies, makes our northern from
tier more vulnerable than our seacoast- Great
Britain, jealous Of our supremacy, is inexora-
bly, opposed to our territorial expansion toward
the pole add the equator. Her decentralization
Is complete. Her navy stations and fortresses
menace Us from every point Of the compass.
From the close of the revolution till now her
conduct toward has been characterized by
treaehery. duplicity and insult in peace, and by
brutal terocity In war. Left to the operation of
sociai, industrial and commercial forces, Canada
would rresisuoly gravitate into the American
Union: The ultimate coalition is inevitable. Ii
may DO violent and compulsory. If British
Den-of-war continue to haul down the flags OF
American fishermen without protest in waters
OF which England has practically no more iuris-
dicton than the United States have in the Mer.
ssy the Thames, the issue will pass beyond
diplomacy. and our volunteers will march on
Montreal and Quebec, and take possession OF
ths Canadian Pacific and the ST. Lawrence The
chief political obstacle would be found IN the
fact that Canada would naturally be Repuh
lcsn- Wheat was raised last year in the valley
OF Peace river, q thousand miles north of ST
Paul The great arabic plains aud rich inter