The advocate., 1890-11-05
WHERE, 0 WHERE Is INGALLS, IN HIS
HOUR OF DEFEAT

gals idOlater 40 10 be sufficiently verdant
as 10 give lts readers the celebrated New
York World interview with Ingalls,, 80
well photographed as 70 show his general
lnarmity OF purpose and inhdelity 10
principle as TO fully demonstrate him to
be a being Of remarkable variableness
and Of immense shadows Of turning.
The NeDs, In referring 10 hla late
Hutchinson speech, gives forth the fol
lowing;
Senator ingalls, convinced his hearers that he
WINS their friend, the peoples friend and At all
times would be Che champion OF advanced Ideas,
The most remarkable declaration ho made was
that no believed that the ballot would be extend
ed 10 women.
Now, this man Ingalls, rapidly going
"where the wOodblne twineth;" il Is one
one Of the most idle efforts Of his eastern
masters and Kansas henchmen to declare
that the supporters Of this nearly defunct
senator should gravely attempt 10 state
that he Is "the peoples friend, and at all
times would he be the champion Of ad-
vanced ldeasW
SOME or INGALLS, DECLARATIONS OF 1887.
In 1890 ingalls, believes shat the bal
lot would be extended to women does
he?
Now lot it not be forgotten that in the
first half Of the year Of 1887 this Senator
worked of a maudlin evening address at
Abilene, In which he attempted TO deny,
as well az his poor logic could put il, the
right or privilege of those Of the female
sex 10 the ballot So tickled was he with
his presumed success that he got a mag
azine article into the September Forum
Of that year, in which appear the follow
ing most bright and wonderful things;
n suffrage is a privilege conferred from consld.
eTatiOns OF eXpedlency, and II government rests
primarily and ultimately upon force, then there
II rational and satisfactory explanation OF the
universal exclusion by al nations OF women, chill
dren and other dependent classes from particpA-
ton In legislation and politics. II Is not Ques
tlOn OF intelligence or morals.
SUFFRAGE NOT A NATURAL RIGHT, BUT A
PLIvILEGE.'
Listen to the following from this athe-
istic pagan:
The dogma that suffrage Is natural right has
no support, either In reason or experience. Suf-
frage ls a privilege, conditioned upon age, sex,
birth, property or Intelligence, conferred by the
state upon such citizens as are considered most
likely 10 aid In the accomplishment OF the tunda-
mental objects for which government Is estab-
lished.
Thomas Jefferson the father OF modern dc.
mOCrnCy, had no conception Ot The moral forces
which give "a nation strength, duration and grand
eur. He failed 20 comprehend the supreme Obll-
cation OF law as the bond which united society,"
The doctrine that just governments derive
their powers from the consent OF the governed,
In the JeHersonian phraseology, Is an imperfect
statement OF tact.
In the last analysis All governments the just
and the unjust, rest not upon consent but upon
force,
Politics is the metaphysics Of force.
The north had much greater reason 10 be dis
satisfied with the election OF Cleveland In 1884,
than the south with that OF Lincoln, In 1860,
WOMEN SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE A PoLTT-
ICAL NoN-ENTTTY.
Hear this added statesman thus dis
Course
In her own dominion woman Is inylncbe, but
she abdlCateS and Invites competition with man
upon equal terms, In his own province, she al
ways has been and always will be yanqulshed
II Is impossible TO conceive Of female Black
stone, Webster, Napoleon, Shakespeare, Glad
stone or Bacon Many women may have been
greater and wiser than these, but none have been
able tO do the work that these have performed
WOmenhave made no important contributions to
any OF those great subjects OF thought with which
the science and practice OF government are con-
Cerned; finance, diplomacy, international law,
the tariff, war, the regulation Of commerce. In
ternal improvements. Opportunities and capac
ltY have not been wanting, hut inclination and
disposition have been absent
What knowledge of history this en-
shaved biped to monopoly, plutocracy