The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-13

enabled to give the readers of THE SUNDAY
HERALD some very interesting extracts from an
interview with Senator Ingalls,, which is to be
printed in the World to-day and illustrated
with two or three dozen pictures made from in
stantaneous photographs of the Senator taken
in the course of the interview. On account of
the interesting character of the Senator's say
ings, as well as the curiosity that must attach
to such an unusual set of pictures, this prom
ises to be one of the most remarkable news
paper interviews ever printed.
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"Our destiny is continental,n ~ says the Senator.
''The Monroe Doctrine is written on every map
of the United States. The tendency to absorp-
tion is irresistible, The process will be peace
full, but our northern boundary must be the
Arctic circle and our southern the Isthmus
Canal"
What's the matter with Harrison's admins
tration? Here's how the brilliant Senator from
Kansas answers the questions:
"Harrison's administration has been much
more successful thus far than Cleveland's was
at the end of his first year. Cleveland satisfied
nobody, and was openly and unsparingly de-
nounced by his party organs 1t is great mis-
take for President to suppose that by neglect
ing his friends he can propitiate his enemies
Cleveland got no support from the Republican
party by allowing Republicans to remain in Of
flee and he aleuated many Democrats. The
most formidable error of Harrison is in regard
ing himself as bound to follow pernicious pre-
cedent. Cleveland saw his blunder year too
late to enable him to recover. Most men are
human and prefer that reform should be tried
on their enemies rather than on themselves,
and If President Harrison acts on this line he
will have no trouble. 1t is too early to predict
what the verdict will be. The statistics do not
exist. Two years hence will be soon enough.
He has had rocky time so far, but has ac-
quilted himself with dignity, courage, and pru-
dence. His temperament is dispassionate. and
he is not sympathetic nor responsive, but his
ideals are high, and l am confident that he will
grow constantly in public estimation and ap-
proval."
What will the reformers say when they read
Senator Ingalls's emphatic declaration that in
his opinion politicians will never reform? Here
is how he puts it:
"With the possible exception Of the two terms
of Washington there has not been an absolutely
fair, free, and impartial expression of the de-
liberate will Of the people in any Presidential
election since the foundation of the Govern
ment. l doubt if there ever will be. Patron
age will allure the ambitions, force will coerce
the timid, demagogism will gull the credulous
fraud will rob the weak, money will buy the
mercenary. The publication Of politics is an
irridescent dream. Government is force. Poll
tics is a battle for supremacy. Parties are the
armies. The decalogue and the golden rule
have no place in political campaign. The
object is success. To defeat the antagonist and
expel the party in power is the purpose. The
Republicans and Democrats are as rreconcila-
bly, opposed to each other as were Grant and
Lee in the Wilderness. They use ballots in
stead of guns, but the struggles as unrelenting
and desperate, and the result sought for the
same. In war it is lawful to deceive the ad-
versary, to hire Hessians, to purchase mercen-
aries, to mutilate, to kill, to destroy. The
tivity of his moral nature would be the derision
and Jest Of history. This modern cant about
the corruption of politics is fatiguing in the
extreme.'
But it is some consolation to know that while
the politicians are utterly depraved the rest Of
us are good, and addicted to nothing more than
religion. Says the Senator:
"The age is essentially devout and religious.
The mind has been largely emancipated from
superstition and from creeds, and has entered
upon an excursion that cannot be foretold but
that is certain to be momentous. The authority
of the Church has undoubtedly been greatly
weakened and impaired, but this does not i'm
ply that religion is retrograding. AS the race
advances it Clothes God With higher attributes
and dignifies him with more lofty functions,
because 1t is capable of nobler conceptions.
The gloomy and memorable God of the Puritans
has disappeared. He has been succeeded by a
Supreme Being Of infinite mercy, tenderness,
and goodness; ruler, w-maker, legisla-
| tor, subject to limitations and restraints i'm
| posed by his own perfections."
"There was profound truth in the declara-
| tion Of Voltaire that if there were no God it
would be necessary for man to invent one This
was flippant and irreverent, perhaps but true.
| God is Indispensable. Man perceives this, and
the higher his development the more distinct is
| his isperception. The popularity of Ingersoll and
his school is not an indication of inlfdelity, but
is rather the strongest evidence of the religious
spirit of the time, its receptivity, It's eagernc css
| for instruction. Its hunger and thirst for knowl-
| edge about what can never be known. No age
has ever been so profoundly moved by the con-
sderation of the problems of the hereafter as
this, and have no doubt that in response to
! the search for eternal truth another Christ will
come and another revelation be made"
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We often hear it remarked that Congressman
are very poorly paid. Senator Iagalls is oil
opinion that 5000 year is about as much as
the average Congressman is worth.
sit is impossible for the Government" he
says, ''to compete with private employers In
! compensation for special services. Legislation
! is not an occult science, and does not require
unusual faculties nor extraordinary attainments
! The ordinary business of Congress can be sue
lawyer. 1t affords opportunity for the exercise
of the highest powers, but good solid common
sense and industry are the essentials. The
! Government should only pay what is necessary
| to secure such services as are requisite for the
! performance of its work. Salaries should be
sufficient for decent support. Politics has been
! the faYorite pursuit for men of ambition and
| in all and will DrOhahlV pOntinna