The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-12
A VISION OF THE FUTURE"
WHAT COL. INeERsoLL FAILED TO SEE
Did His Prophetic Eye Catch a Glimpse
of the Result of LegaliEed Rob-
bery?-Did He See Any Beg
gars or Trampsf

Denlnu TIE WoTuSs
vision Of the future arises see our country
filed with happy home, with hresides Of content
the foremost land OF all the earth. see world
where thrones have crumbled and where the kings
are dust Tbe aristOcracy Of idleness has persisted
from the earth. | see world without slave. Man
At last i Ire Natures i9ress have by science been
and fame and all the secret, subtle powers OF the
earth and air the tireless tolers for the human
see a world al peace adorned with every art with
musics myriad voices thrilled, while lips are rich
With words Of love and truth world In which no
worth 20 hand in hand where the poor girl trying
70 win bread with the needle, the needle that has
been called 'the asp i0r the breast OF The poor, Is
driven To the desperate choice OF crime DEATH
OF suicide or shame see world without the beg
CARS outstretched PALM the misers hearless, stony
stare the niteous vail OF want the lyld lips OF les
The cruel s eyes q seorn see race without dis
harmony Of form and function. As ! look life
lengthens JOY deepens, love oan0pies the earth aud
above all in the great dome shines the eternal star
To THE EDTToR-Sir: Here we find
Pagan Bob talking millennium for all be
is worth He can see it a-corlin', or, as
the colored orator said: He looks back
ward into the dark future, and takes in
the whole situation at glance"
Our "Brainy Bob" would fain be a
prophet in this enlightened nineteenth
century Any graduate or school boy ac-
ouainted with history can see that the
world has been progressing; that truth Is
gaining ground. and that error is fast re-
ceding. Truth is mighty and will prevail
1t requires no great learning 10 see this
after il has all happened. 1t is the same
old 81 told you so" Ii Col. Ingersoll will
take that "book of books" which he so
often ridicules, he will find that the
prophets and seers of old prophesied Just
this condition OF things thousands OF years
ago, and at a time when the world was
practically at a standstill, wrapped in the
darkness OF SIN, and yet these inspired,
holy men OF the past could see through
the clouds and gloom the dawning OF a
better day for the human race.
Hear what Micah says in the fourth
chapter, verses 3-5:
And lie shall judge among many people and
rebuke strong nations alar OF; and they shall
beat their swords into pow-shares and their
spears ilto prunnIng-hOoks; nation shall not
lit ND a SWORD against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more But they shall sit
every man under his vine and under his fig
tree; and none shall make them afraid For
the mouth of the Lord OF hosts hath spoken It
Now as the dr. Rev. Bob agrees with
the bible for once, let US see what he
would do TO bring aSout this perfect
world" as he depicts. In the first place,
Robert believes, heart and soul p, in the
republican party; it is his idol, and, &C
cording to his late eulogy, it is all perfec-
ton itself. The platform suits him ex-
sctly; why should ii not? Let the repub-
hcan party have their lngersoll; they will
need him as badly as he was needed by
the star-routers II will take eli the
brains, all the eloquence with which he is
gifted TO speak the praises OF the z. o. p,
70 keeping before the people the good
work accomplished by it in the
It's present proposed wickedness.
The republican party having had this
country under its protection" for a
quarter of century, let US see what
progress the people, as a whole, have
made. l speak only of the protection
policy, as it is proposed by Mr.. Ingersoll' s
party, to still further continue IL.
The great infidel should cast mis- pro-
phetic eyes backward for twenty-five
years and ask himself few questions.
In this country, where kings are never
born Therefore never have an opportunity
20 perish). do we find it filled with happy
homes, OF contented peopleg
Does he see no beggars, no tramps?
Do work and worth go hand in hand?
Is the poor girl who is trying to earn
her bread with a needle not driven to
shame or suicide?
Is the aristocracy Of idleness perishing
at any great rate, or at all?
Have we no slaves, 1Chite or black?
Has slavery been abolished?
Were it not better Tor many OF our
people TO-DAY were they the property OF
others and well provided for, than to be
forced to hunt work at starvation wages
At this rate how long, oh Lord. how
long viii IL be before man is free at last %
II any OF natures forces have by science
been enslaved, what good has it done the
masses OF the people?
Is it not still battle for bread, worse,
If anything, and more terrible than
twenty-five years ago?
Are We not the same tiTeless toilers?
Is disease Of flesh and brain becoming
less or is it on the increase?
In short, are we progressing at all in
the direction OF that "vision OF the
future2'
How many more years of protection
must We be blessed with before we may
be able to get a glimpse of the dawn of
that better day." or before we have a
reign OF peace, OF JOY, Of plenty2
Mr.. Ingersoll claims TO be an honest
man and he can give but one answer:
We have made very little, If any,
proeressl
He knows that the condition of the
masses OF the American people to-day,
the wage-workers (proper name, wealth
producers, is not such as II would be if
"work and worth went hand in hand.
He knows full well that labor, which is
the creator OF all wealth, even of capital
itself, is to-day the slave OF capital and
monopoly.
Our modern infidel believes in the doc
trine Of the survival OF the fittest; !" how
does he account for the present condition
of the bread-winner. If all things are
created by labor and capital, capital being
perfectly helpless without labor, why is
not labor uppermost at present, or at least
the equal OF capital?
is this condition IN which we find labor
to-day the result OF justice, OF which we
hear Ingersoll pirate so much?
Or have we protected" capital alone
from foreign competition and allowed
Gree trade" in labor?
Have we practiced the doctrine Of equal
rights to all, or have we taxed protected I?
the many for the benefit OF a few?
Have we on the one hand given men
the blessed liberty to compete with and
against one another for their daily bread
and on the other hand compelled them Il
buy highly protected taxed necessitie:
OF life?
Ii we had been without the wonderful
gift from heaven this blessed tariff, fol
the last twenty-five years, we might lay
the present condition Of the masses al
the door of the horrible, horrid, terrible