Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-22
MR.. INGALLS, SPEECH.
The Kansas Senator'S Great Speech
For Free Coinage.
The Tyranny OF Combined. CODscienceless
and Incorporated CaPItal-Free Coinage
One Rernedy-A Crisis That May Be
come = Catastrophe.

Senator Stewards free silver coinage
amendment Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas,
addressed the Senate in favor Of free
eoinage. He spoke as follows:
NJ President: Two pOrtentous perils
threaten the safety, u they do not endanger
the existence, of the Republic. The first OF
these Is ignorant, debased, degraded, spuri-
ous and sophisticated suffrage; suffrage con-
taminAted by the sewage of decaying ma
tfons; suffrage intimldated and suppressed
n the South: suffrage Impure and corrupt,
apathetlc and Indifferent, In the great cities
Of the North: so that it Is doubtful whether
there has betR for half century a Presi-
Dental election In this country that ex-
pressed the deliberate and intelligent iudg-
ment Of the whole body Of the American
people
In q newspaper interview O few months
aRo IN which commented upon these con-
dltIonG, and alluded to the efforts OF the ba-
ell doctors OF politics, the bactcriologlsts OF
our system who endeavor to cure the ills un-
Ger which We suffer by their hypodermic In
feotions OF Ihe lymph Of independent non
partIsanshIp and the Brown -Srquard elixir
Of civil service rrfornl. / said that "the puri-
Asation of politics by such methods as this
was an iridescent dream" Remembering
she cipher dispatches OF 1871, and the at
tempted purchase Of the electoral votes OF
many Southern States in that campaign; the
forgery OF the Morcy letter In 1871, by which
GaYneld lost the votes of three States in the
Eorth, and the characterization and por-
araiture OF Blaine and Cleveland and Har-
rison by their political adversarieS, added
that "the golden rule and the decalOgue had
no place in American political campaigns"
It seems supEhuous to explain, Mr.. Presi'
0ent that in those uttcrances was not in
eulcating doctrine. but describing a condi-
ton My statement was a statement of facts
Is I understood them and not the announce
nent OF an article of faith. But many reVer-
end and eminent divines, many disinterested
editors many ingenious orators, perverted
Chose utterances into personal advocacy oi
impurlty in politics.
lido not complain. Mr.. President - was,
Is the world goes legitimate political war
fare; but it was an illustration of the truth
that there ought to be purifiration in our
politics, and that the golden rule and the
decalogue ought to have place in political
campaigns. "DO unto others as ye would
that others should do unto YOU" Is the su-
preme injunction, obligatory upon all. 'lf
thine enemy smite thee upon one cheek turn
hIm the other" is a sublime and lofty pre-
cept But take this occasion to observe
that until II Is more generally regarded than
Il has been OF appears likely TO be In the
immediate future, if my political enemy
emItes inc upon one cheek, Instead of turn
tnS to him the Oth,r shall smite him under
che butt end OF his left ear II can. Laugh
teri II this be- poi teal immortality, am to
be Included among the unregenerated.
FRAUD WORSE THAN VIOLENCE.
The election hill that was under consider
alton a few DAYS ago was intended to deal
with one part 81 the great evil 10 which L
have alluded, but Il was an imperfect,
partial, and an incomplete remedy. Vio-
ience Is bad, but frtui il no better. and It
IS more dang rouS, because il is more insd-
Eous Burk.. ~ Il. in one of those immortal
OrlttIons TINT empticd the House of Com
mons but which will be read y ith admira-
tIon 50 long the English tongue shall
endure that when ihr laws OF Great Britain
were not strong enough to protect the hum
blest Hindoo upon the shores of the Gang=s,
eie noblcman WAS not safe in his castle upon
the banks of the Thames. Sir. that lofty
sen enec Is pregnant with admonition for
US. There can be no repOsc, there can be no
stable and permanent peace in this country
and under this Government until II Is just as
safe for a black Republican to vote in Mis-
sissippI as il hc were white Democrat in
Knnsas.
THE TYRANNY I.F COMBINED CAPITAL
The evil, Mr President, the second to which
] advcrted as threatening the safety il It
does not cndanger the existence OF the Re-
public, Is the tyranny of ombined, concen-
trated, central Zcd and Incorporated capital.
And the people are consider ng this great
is shocked at the Injustice of modern society
The moral sentiment of mankind has ben
aroused at the unequal distribution OF
wealth. at the unequal diffusion of burdens,
tho benefits and the privileges OF society. At
the beginning of our second century the
American people have become profoundly
conscious th1t the ball'S is not the panacea
for all the evils that afhict humanity, that It
has not abolished poverty nor prevented in
Justice. They have discovered that political
equality docs net result In social fraternity; /;
that under a democracy the concentration
OF greater political power in fewer hands,
the accumulation and aggregation of greater
amounts OF wealth in individuals Is more
possible than under monarchy, and that
there is a tyranny which is more fatal than
the tyranny OF kings.
General Washington, the first President of
the Republic, at the close OF his life in 1873
had the largest PRIV It for unc in the United
States Of America Mach of this came by in
heritance, but the Father OF his Country, in
addition to his 9th V rturs, shining and H.
lustrious, was Il very prudent, sagacious,
thrifty and fOrrh .ndcd man. He knew a
good thing wh-n he saw il, great way on.
He had a keen eye for the main chance. As
O surveyor in his youth he obtained knowl-
edge that enable him to know exceedingly
we'll the yaIuc put upon the public domain.
The establishment OF the National capital in
ahe immediate vicinity of his patrimonial
possessions did not diminish their value.
he was just debtor, but he was an exact, IL
not exactfng, creditor. And so it came to
pass that when he died he was. to use the
expressive phraseOlogy OF the day the richest
man In the country.
GREAT CONTRAST.
At this time, ninety years afterward, 1t is
not without interest to know that the entire
aggregate and sum OF his earthly possessions
Ibis estate, personal and mixed Mount Yer
non and his lands along the kanawha and
the Ohio, slaves, securities, all of his belong
ings-rcached the sum total of between $780,
900 OF 50 O,OO This was less than a century
ago, and it Is within bounds to say that at
shis time there arc many scores OF men, OF
estates and of corporations in this country
whose annual income exceeds, and there has
been one man whose monthly revenue since
that period exceeded the entire accumula-
tIons Of the wealthIest citizen OF the United
States at the end OF the last century. At that
period the social condition OF the United
States was one OF practical equality. The
statistics Of the census of 1900 are incomplete
and partial, but the population of the Union
was about 5,sO0,OCO, and the estimated
wealth OF the country was between $780,
ooo,OoO and $1,000, 10000. There was not q
millionaire and there was not tramp or 8
pauper, so far as we know, in the country,
sxcept those who had been made so by in
drmIty or disease or inevitable calamity. 4
multitude OF small farmers contentedly titled
the soil Upon the coast a race Of fisher
men and sailors, owning the crafts that they
sailed, wrested their subsistence from the
stormy sea Labor was the rule and luxury
She exception. The great mass Of the peo-
pie lived upon the products of the farms
that they cultivated. They spun, wove and
manufactured their clothing from hax and
gool. Commerce and handicrafts afforded
honorable competence. The prayer OF Agur
was apparently realized. There was neither r
nnHertE nor rIches Wealth Mas nnIfnrmIz