Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-05-01
DEMANDS OF THE FARMERS
ALLIANCE.
Equal Rights to all, special Privileges
to None.
Ingalls, VS. Lincoln.

To the Editor OF THE REFLECTOR:
Senator ingalls, in his celebrated
Forum article repeated the ideas of his
Abilene speech wherein he said that it
was fallacy that "all just powers are
derived from the consent of the gov
erned, and that suffrage is not a nat
ural light, but is conferred by the
/ state''-the state" consisting of the
rich and educated people, who have the
right TO let poor folks toy with the
ballot so long as they do no harm to
the special privileges of the rich, but
no longer.
lie re-affirms that all government
rests upon force, which is identically
the doctrine of the anarchist. He
thinks ThOs. Jefferson and Abraham
Lincoln ''dreamers," unsDund thinkers,
the declaration of Independence untrue
aud popular government humbug.
And yet this monarch-loving jackass is
the highest official representative of
Kansas republicanism. Oh shame
where is thy blush? He calls tue dec
laration of independence "fallacious
rhetoric" exactly as King George III
did. What a splendid and worthless
tory he would have made during the
times "that tried mems SOULS" and
what a fine rebel in 1876, if he had
only possessed courage. The rebels of
the southwest went into rebellion with
the defiance of the Jeffersonian doctrine
on their life. They called the dec
laration of independence ''glittering
generalities" and "self evident lies"
as Mr.. ingalls, does. The Richmond
Enquirer, a leading rebel journal said:
1.-The declaration of Independence is
exuberantly false and arfOrescently
fallacious." Mr.. ingalls, sneers at JEFF
ferson and the declaration of independ- |
ence, as the rebel shareholders did, but |
the thinkers, scholars, statesmen and
philantrophists of the world are united |
in pronouncing Jefferson the greatest |
statesman of the world, the founder |
and apoftle of free government and the
declaration of independence, the great |
charter of human rights and of modern
liberty. Abraham Lincoln once repre-
scented republican sentiment as ingalls,
does now AID on April IL, 1859, he
wrote in reply to an invitation to at
tend celebration by the republicans
of Boston in honor of Jefferson's birth
day letter from which we make the
following extract.
''All honor to Jefferson-the man
who in the concrete pressure of
for national independence by
q single people, had the GOODNESS, fore
cast and capacity to introduce into a
merely revolutionary document an abb
stract truth applicable to all men and
all times, and so to embalm it there
that today and in all coming days it
shall be a rebuke and a stumbling
block to the harbingers of reappearing
tyranny and oppression"
That is the recorded opinion and just
tribute of the writer of the emancipa-
ion proclamation, freely and rever-
,ntly bestowed on the composer
If the declaration of independence.
Glorious menl As worthy of deiica- /,
ion as any statesmen, sages or heroes !
# all the ages. Opposed to them stand
he crowned heads of Europe, the tories
# the American revolution, the old !
rebels of the south and
senator John James ingalls, Uf Kansas. :
yot long ago Mr.. T. V. Powderly was Q
ngaged in conversation on the labor /"
question with a groups of four or five q
nen, one Of whom in his ignorance be-