The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-07-08
POLITICAL PROBLEMS.

A'Seoator lngalls On the Problems Of Our
eecoad CsatuFy-No Abiding Place In
This Country For Anarchists and Social.
asts-A Homentous Crisis Present.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-Ex-Senator
ingalls, addressed large audience at
the National Chatauqua, in Glen Echo.
npon The Problems of Our Second
Century" He began his lecture with a
glowing tribute to Washington, eulogiz-
ing its many advantages as resident
city, referring to its lack of popular
suffrage and predicting that the time
would never come when it would be re.
moved from its present site.
There is a growing sentiment" said
Senator ingalls,, as he entered upon the
topic selected for his talk, I'm favor of
paternalism in this country; of the gov
eminent doing everything and the
people doing nothing. This" he
continued, lis Numerically opposed
to the idea of individualism upon
which this government had been
built and the good Anglo-Saxon
doctrine of root hog or die 1t has al
ways happened in every community that
the weak were more numerous than
the strong; that the number of those
who failed outnum bered those who sue
ceeded and that the wise, the intelli-
gent and the thoughtful were in the
minority. We have now a new school
OF political philosophy that is repudiat-
ing the Declaration of Independence
and is endeavoring to overthrow max
inns of democracy and to insist that
the race shall not be for the swift
nor the battle to the strong;
that the distinction ordained by God
among men shall be an obliterated
statute, SO that idleness shall bring the
same reward as industry and thrift;
that the ignorant shall be as wise as
the learned; that debts shall be paid by
acts of congress; that money shall be
made as plentiful as the autumn leoves
OF the forest; that taxation shall be
abolished by acts Of states legislatures,
and that prosperity shall be forcibly dis
tributed equally among all men,"
Dwelling for few moments on the
progress of the Anglo-Saxon race, Mr..
ingalls, then paid tribute to the people
from whom the American nation
sprung. Among them, he said, "were
no nihilists or socialists. The Anglo
Saxon characteristic of individualism,
right of personal liberty, freedom of
conscience, and the development of the
faculties of every man was forcibly
emphasized. ut was a race" he said,
that would not intermingle with other
races The Chinese have had some
taste of this.
THE negro has had some melancholy
experiences and the anarchists and So
cialists, he added, amid applause, will
have a still more significant experience
before the Anglo-Saxon race is through
with them.
1.-THE doctrine of the devil take the
hindmost," continued Mr.. Ingalls,, amid
laughter. twas a good one, but just now
itseemed as if there were more hindmcst
than foremost If the present condition
of things were to continue without be-
ing retarded this land, instead of being
the home of the free and land of the
brave, would be the home of the rich
and the land of the slave"
In the course of his address Mr..
Ingalls, said that he and Jay Gould were
about the same age, and had started in
active life about the same time. mr..
Could" said the ex-senator, entered
Wall street with patent mouse trap as
his only stock in trade, and setting it,
has nearly succeeded in capturing every
thing in sight. started west with my
gripsack, and now l am a statesman
out of job"
In conclusion Mr.. ingalls, said that he
could not disguise the fact that the
present was momentous crisis, that
the destructive forces of our civilization
are marshaled for the final contest;
upon this continent was to be fought
the battle that meant despotism or vic
tory. This is the last experiment in re-
cure the ills of society by statute would
be as futile as the effort to make the
mercury stand at zero in July and at
boiling point in January"
''This government" he said finally,
lis based upon the New Testament,
upon the teachings of Jesus Christ, who
declared that all men were equal before
the law and that the fatherhood of God
in the brotherhood of man.
This contest will have but one result
I have no doubt that the progress of the
nation will be constantly upward.
In every crisis of history, in all the Bit
ter struggles of humanity through the
desolate tract of wretchedness and pow
erty. still the progress of the race has
been onward and upward. Out Of every
struggle, out Of every contest has
come broader liberty, greater oppor-
tunities for happiness and greater
OF the development Of the
race hereafter, and SO out of this con-
test upon which we have entered will
come absolutely at last triumph of
liberty and social fraternity of the
American people and the continued
progress in the wealth, industry and in
telligence of the entire American re-
public"
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