Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-31
POPE BOB TALKS.
The Great Agnostic's Comment
on Current Politics.
INV INGALLS, MISSED CONNECTION.

~. Failed to ''sike Up" the Granper
Movement Correctly Some Remarks
m the Indian Question, with IA Sian
of the MissiOnarIes-State Legislative
Record-IIlinois Solons Pair and Take
sHest-An0ther Investigation for Tau
benecL-Brihery Charges in South Da-
kota-Field Notes
CHICAGO, Jan 3l.-Col Robert G. niger
soil and wife were at the Grand Pacific
Yesterday Mr.. lngersoll is on the vav to
Butte Mont, where he will look aft err the
interests of Mr.. Root in the famous Davis
will case While at dinner the colonel
was interviewed, and talked for half an
hour lie was asked:
Tell me what you think of the defeat of
Senator lngalls?"
Il think that the farmers have made up
their minds that it is time for them TO
present a long list of grievances. As a
class they work hardest and in the end
have little recompense for their labor. A
young man who goes into the business of
farming is liable to find at the end of ten
years that he has lost his health. his labor
and the land he started with. Farmers
have just as much right to the protection
Of the government as the merchants.
manufacturers, and spectators.
Where Ingalls, Made His Mistake.
The government goes to the rescue of
Wall street whenever the stringeucy of
the money market makes speculation dan
GerOus, but the farmers are Obliged TO
keep on paying two or three times as
much Tor the use OF money to develop and
improve their farms as is charged for the
use Of money employed in the sts of
great corporations. Mr.. ingalls, under.
estimated the strength and sincerity of
the Farmers Alliance just as hundreds of
other politicians did, but by this time he
probably realizes that the farmers are in
earnest"
l. This an Insinuat ion?
What do you think of the weight that
Senator ingalls, successor, Judge PETER,
will have in the senate?r
Just as long as he owns himself he will
have the weight of one vote, and that is
enough to enable him to play see saw sue
cessfully with good many senators with
out asking them to give him the long end
of the plank. just as long as he remains
sole proprietor of himself he will BE- all
right, and his presence in the senate will
be an influence for the good of the Farm
ers' Alliance His presence in the senate
Is likely to be the nucleus around which
will form quite a contingent of farmers
Sympathizes with the Granger.
Il am thoroughly in sympathy with the
farmers in their endeavOr to obtain re-
dress for grievances There are good
many things in their new political creed
that do not believe i'll, but, on the whole,
they are in the position which Shake
speare contemplated when he wrote:
Thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel
just | am delighted to see them aroused:
TO see them taking an interest at least in
their own welfare. OF course
they will not do all they set out to do.
But it is a good thing to find out what
you can't do The tillers of the soil are
slaves in the old world, but they can
be sovereigns here, and | hope that rhey
will live up to their privileges. 1 do not
want their votes. / ask no favors, but
know that no country can be great if the
soil is cultivated by ignorance
Also with the Indian.
Il think the Indian is entitled to SYM
pathy at this time. / see by your paper
this morning that Mr.. Short Bull says
that it was claimed that their Messiah
could make money and spring wagons by
a simple twist of his wrist, as it were. For
believing in this they have been held up
to the scorn Of the religious world placed
under surveillance by the military and
treated being of unsound mind If
they had believed their Messiah capable of
performing one hundreth part of the mir
acles that are vouched for in the Bible as
having been performed, l suppose they
would have been burned at the stake
Compliments to the Missionaries.
"The Christianzed Indian is the most
mournful object OF modern humanity. By
forsaking the crude faith of his people he
possesses himself of their everlasting con-
tempt. By adopting the religion of the
broken down failures that are sent west
as missionaries to the Indians to avoid
overcrowding eastern aims houses he be-
comes an outcast from his own people
and an object to be grudgingly tolerated
by the whites. In the end the Christian
lied Indian becomes simply wearer of
old clothes"
Think There's a Chance for InraIIs