The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-18

! IL IN size when the aggrleved party ap-
peared. l excused myself for moment,
and resumed the whiting. See here!
said my antagonist, what the devil is
Lamar doing? They told him. He
came up, and to my great relief offered
his hand, and said: I'll be if I'll
fight with.a man who whites his bullets
to make them fit my bodyr That was
the last of that. We all took an AMIGA
bic drink and went home"
Lamar paused.
Atkins laughed and agreed to wait.
lie Is waiting yet
In some respects ingalls, is almost as
bad a man as Plumb. When he is on
the floor, l mean.
There are two Ingallses," said Dem
ocrat to me. HE is a hornet on the
floor and bird of paradise in the chair.
! The speaker had felt his sting
Those who see the most Of the senior
| senator from Kansas can, without going
into orthodoxy, agree that the Ingalls,
| in the chair might not deductively be in
ferred from the Ingalls, on the floor.
Mr.. Ingalls, is the best presiding officer
the senate has had for twenty years
since Colfax's ti1ne-perhaps the best it
has ever had. He is deemed absolutely
impartial. When in the chair he knows
no difference between a Democrat and a
Republican, as both sides are willing to
attest. AS a ready and correct parlia-
mentarian he has no superior in either
house, probably no equal except Carlisle.
He is supremacy calm, unbiased, impas-
sive, conservative, deliberate.
Out of the chair it is not necessary TO
characterize him. He is the only man
who fills the senate chamber full, floor
and galleries, to overlooking, democrat
iZing Speaker Reeds optical quorum,
and decimating the departments, when
ever it is known that he will make a set
speech. Neither Webster, nor Calhoun,
nor Clay did it. The correspondents in
Washington would elect him president
if they could. because he always talks to
them freely, and always says something
worth printing.
| asked him the other day how he
would edit a newspaper.
He meditated a moment and said: 81
will answer your question in word. l
would edit a newspaper as nearly as
possible as the New York Sun is edited.
do not mean that | would adopt the
same policies that the Sun adopts, or put
the same things in; but that would try
to follow the same general editorial
method. Take it altogether, l regard
the Sun, as a model, the best newspaper
in the world"
SIS it not Cynical?' ! asked.
"All who recognize the downward ten
denotes of average human nature are
called cynics," said Mr.. Ingalls,. The
conclusion of Darwin and Huxley are
not all confirmed TO the students of So
GEOLOGY. AS a matter of fact the highest
types do not persist. They disappear
and expire. 1t is only in the lower and
more brutal types that the persistency
and fecundity of nature appear in the
multiplication OF species. The lowest
and coarsest examples transmit their
likeness, while the highest and finest
came fitfuliy into existence merely TO
perish. II is only by the continued and
strenuOue efforts of the higher types of
men and women that human society Is
prevented shooting Niagara and relaps-
ing into barbarous degradation.
Abolish for a week the slender pow
ers which make from enlightenment and
see where the world would be. If we
were to intermit for a short time the
machinery of schools. libraries, churches
and courts, and kindred means of cul-
ture, we should drop like plum
met, and almost instantaneously into
the darkness of the Middle
Ages a thousand years ago. If the pas
sions and impulses of those for whose
regulation this elaborate machinery was
constructed were allowed full sway, of
course the machinery would be at once
abandoned
What l asked the senator, "can be
done with those newspaper readers who
demand sensational chronicles Of immor-
rality"
There is no help except in the eleva-
ton of the species, he said. The vast
multitude great majority of all read
ers-lOve to peruse the records of the
shocking and putrescent. The average
mind Is morbid and prurient. and this is
why newspapers feel bound by their con-
tract with readers to print so much that
is bestial. The reading public is chiefly
to blame.
1t Is prepOsterOus to teach the sur
vival of the tittcst. if by the 'tittest'
we mean hose who ought to
survive. All nature is against
it. The titteSt perish; the I'M
fittest survive. The impulse and incen-
tive of the forces by which we perceive
ourselves to be surrounded in this world
are apparently malevolent. 1t is hard to
reconcile death. disease, and sin. and the
continual recurrence of cyclones,
droughts, earthquakes, and disaster of
all kinds with infinite tenderness and
goodness. \ human being who should
create only to torment and destroy: peo-
pie space with universcS filled with intel
LICENCES doomed TO perpetual destruction
as science teaches Us Is the law of matter
and force-such being would be unpop-
ular"
Like commanding statesmen of all
lands and times. 1t Is in questions of cas-
uistry and metaphysical problems that
Mr.. Ingalls, takes the deepest interest.
CROFFUT.