The advocate., 1890-05-07

The gold or silver thing we call a dollar u
I'm no sense a standard OF "a dollar 10 ia d
representative OF II" Money rs that which
law requires tho creditor tO receive in pay
ment for debts.
JOHN }. INGALLS, SPEECH ON THE BANK
BILL or 1891
In order TO quite fully show Ralph NJ.
Easley, Of the Hutchinson Ne,os, who
seemed TO easily ask with his accustomed
ease THE ADvOoATE this question:
Are there any measures agreed upon by
the republican members OF the Farmers Al
lance Of Kansas, that Senator ingalls, Is not
heartily In favor OF
The following action Of Senator Ingalls,
In the United States senate on June %,
1882, is truly reported as II appeared in
the Congressional record;
Mr.. Ingalls, when Mr.. Plumbs namo was
called, and after having voted In the alilrma-
tive)-My colleague Mr.. Plumb has been
confined 10 his bed with Illness since Friday
last. He sent me word this morning that he
desired 10 DO paired against the passage Of
This bill; and as no arrangement has yet
been made 10 that effect, will withdraw my
vote and announce that | am paired with
him upon the subject.
The friends OF this bank rechartering
measure numbered forty-slX in the sen.
ate, and It's enemies reached twenty-five.
Senator Ingalls, chose to take his rank
with the senators from the New England
states and from New York, and with
Benjamin Harrison, William Malone,
John Sherman and William Window.
How true the scriptural declaration
that "where the treasure Is there will the
heart be also"
THE CoMPANIONsmP or PRESTON u.
PLUMB.
The senators from Missouri, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Nevada and
Oregon, with George II. Pendleton and
Daniel w. Voorhees,, were with our rep
resentative senator from Kansas, Mr..
Plumb. Senator Voorhees,, in his OK
tended remarks, said:
The bill under consideration takes hold
upon the very foundations OF free popular
government. In the closing days OF tho last
congress and the Hayes administration the
banks precipitated an issue upon the people
which ought not TO be forgotten on an occa-
sion like this; an issue 30 full OF danger 10
constitutional liberty that II ought TO be
faithfully remembered, now that they are
asking new and indefinite lease of power.
II Is now twenty years since this government
engaged in building up, fostering and en-
COuraging the vast and Oversh0dOwing sys-
tenn Of national banking.
No favor ever demanded by the banks has
been withheld, no privilege denied, until
now they constitute the most powerful mon
eyed corporation on the face OF the globe.
They have demanded the violation OF legis-
lative contracts with che people, and the de-
mAnd has been granted, where their own
gains and the peoples burdens have been in
creased a thousand fold beyond right and
Justice. They have been fortified In their
stronghOlds OF moneyed caste and privilege
by double lines of unjust laws, supplemented
with here a redOubt and there q ditch, 10
guard them from the correcting hand of
popular Indignation, until now, deeming
themselves impregnable, they bully and de-
fy the government.
WHOM DID INGALLS, REPRESENT IN HIS
voTE2
When John James Ingalls, was secured
a seat in the United States senate for the
second time, after a violent four days
which terminated on January 81,
1870, out Of the SO votes returned for him
GO Of those we're elected to seats In the
Kansas legislature at the general cleo
tion of 1873, and 20 state senator's who
voted for him were chosen in 1879.
Hence, from that election of 1873, Ingalls,
secured the votes Of two out Of the Ave
senator's, who were elected to al vacan-