Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-14
FOR FREE COINAGE,
Senator Ingalls, Advocates the Adop.
tion Of the Stewart Amendment,
THE HOAR-LODGE ELECTIONS BILL
Is Also Strongly Urged by Him tc
Be Necessary.
THE ARMY APPROPRIATIONS.
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
According to the arrangements made yester-
day the Senate proceeded to the consideration
of the financial bill immediately after the read
ing Of the journal
Mr. rSoAlLs' SPEECH.
Mr.. ingalls, took the the floor and said there
were two portentous evils which menaced the
safety, if they did not endanger the existence,
Of the republic.
The first was ignorant debased, degraded,
spurious suffrage, festered suffrage, suffrage
contaminated by the feculent sewage of de-
csyed nations, suffrage intimidated and sup
pressed in the south, suffrage impure and cor
rupt, apathetic and Indifferent in the great
cities OF the north; 80 that it was doubtful to
his mind whether for half century there had
been presidential election in this country
that expressed the deliberate and intelligent
Judgment Of the whole body Of the American
people.
He then referred to the Newspaper interview
had with him several months ago, in which he
had said that the golden rule and the decalogue
had no place in an American campaign. II
seemed superfuous to explain that in
that utterance he was not inculcating q
doctrine, but describing a condition. His
statement was statement Of fact, not
an announcement Of faith. But many
reverend and eminent divines; many disinter-
ested editors; many ingenious orators per-
verted this utterance into a personal advocacy
OF impurity in politics. He did not complain.
1t was, as the world went, legiti-
mate -, political warfare. But it was
the golden rule, and the decalogue ought to
have place in political campaigns. If thy
enemy smite thee on one cheek turn the
other, was good precept to follow. But he
would observe that until that precept was more
generally observed than it had been or was
likely to be, if his political::enemy smote him
on one cheek. instead Of turning to him the
other, he would shaise him unaer the butt end
OF his left ear If he could. [Laughter.l II
that be political immortality, he must be in
cluded among the unregenerated.
AN INCOMPLETE REMEDY.
The election bill was intended to deal with
one part Of the great evil to which he had al
luded, but it was an imperfect, partial and in
complete remedy. Violence was bad, but
fraud was no better. and it was more danger
Gus, because 1t was more insidious. Burke
had said in one Of his immortal orations. which
emptied the house Of commons, but which
would be read as long as the English tongue
could endure, that when the laws Of Great
Britain were not strong enough to pro-
tect the youngest Hindoo on the banks of the
Ganges q nobleman was not safe in his castle
on the banks Of the Thames. That lofty senti-
ment was pregnant with admonition to us
There could be no safety and no stable and per-
manent peace N this country and under this
government until it was just as safe for the
black republican to vote in Mississippi as it was
Tor the white democrat to vote in Kansas. The
second evil to which he had adverted
was the tyranny of combined. concentrated,
centralized, conscienceless and incorporated
capital and the people were considering this
great problem now. The conscience Of the
nation was shocked at the injustice of modern
society. The moral sentiment of mankind
had been aroused at the unequal distri-
button Of wealth and at the unequal
diffusion Of the burdens, benefits and
privileges of society. At the beginning of the
second century the American people had be-
come profoundly convinced that the ballot war
not the panacea for the evils of society; that is
had not abolished poverty nor diminished in
justice. They had discovered that political
equality did not result in social paternity; that
under democracy the concentration Of greatet
power In fewer hands was more possible than
under a monarch.
GEORGE wAsHrNarox's FORTUNE
George Washington, the first President of
the republic, had, when he died in 1899, the
largest private fortune in the United States.
Much Of it had come by inheritance, but the
father OF his country, in addition to his other
virtues, had been q very prudent sagacious.
thrifty and forehanded man, who knew q good
had had an eye to the main chance. As a
surveyor In his youth he had obtained knowl-
edge which enabled him to make exceedingly
valuable locations on the public domain. The
establishment OF the national capitol in the i'm
mediate vicinity Of his patrimonial possessions
had not diminished their value. All Of his be-
longings, at the time Of his death, reached the
sum total Of between SS00.0OO and $500 0OO
That was less than q century ago; and it was
within bounds to say that at the present time
there were many scores of men and Of corpora
tions in this country whose annual income (and
there had been one man whose monthlv rev.
enue) exceeded the entire accumuiations Of the
richest citizen Of the United States at the end
of the last century. The population Of the
Union was then $500, 600 and the estimated
four thousand million dollars. There was not
millionaire and there was not
tramp or pauper in the country. A
multitude Of small farmers content
edly titled the soil, and on the
coast race of fishermen and sailors, owning
the craft which they sailed, wrested their SUBJ
sistence from the stormy sea. labor was the
rule and luxury the exception. The prayer Of
Agar was then absolutely realized. There was
''neither poverty nor riches" Since that time
United States had had no precedent in the
building Of nations.
OUR WONDERFUL PRoaREsA
The people Of the United States nov per
formed one-third Of the worlds mining, one
fourth Of its manufacturing, one-ffth Of its
farming and possessed one-sixth of its sccu-
muiated wealth. The United States had be-
come the wealthiest nation ON the face Of the
earth. Is progress exceeded the fictions Of the
Arabian Nights. There was nothing In the
story Of Aladdin that rivaled il. It was With
out parallel or precedent. The national ledger
would show q balance to its credit Of
between sixty and seventy million dollars
enough to make every man, woman and child
under the flag comfortable. He0had read in the
morning papers Che had not heard I'D Mr.. Sher-
mans speech, . considerable part Of which had
been devoted TO the defense of millionaire.
who had been spoken Of a. the ''froth on the
beer"
Mr.. sherman-Not millionaires, but spscu-
lators.
Mr.. Ingails-They are nearly the ssme. for
the millionaires are not the producers and
laborers Of the country. They are arrayed Ike
Solomon In all his glory; bat "they toll not,
neither do they spin" Yes-thsy do spin.
These gigantic accumulations have mot been
the result Of industry and economy. There
would be NO protest against them Il they were.
AaANsT TIE HuxIoxAI1xs.
Mr.. ingalls, related the anecdote Of the man
who gave the barkesper . receipt for selling
moro beer, which was 10 give isss froth, and
applied II to the case Of miliionairss. There
had been men rash enough, he aid, TO quss-
tton whether any man could show . fair and
leg.l title 70 e9o0 900 900 or 70 elo0 900 900 OF
e Sa0,0p.00, he were put on his yoir
dire hs would hesitats before admitting
that. n The sense Of giving tn:s
country or any other country hsd ever sbso-
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