The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-07
Mr.. INGALLS, AoAlF9.

ne Delivers a Lecture 60 New Workers
What he Thinks OF Prohibition 1sns Other
H1atters-Ths Present Crisis.
NEW YORK, Aug FIX Senator John
= Ingalls,, of Kansas, lectured at the
National Prohibition park on Staten
Island Saturday afternoon to about
179OO people, who applauded him fire.
quently and laughed at his quaint
phrases
I'VE have had in Kansas, - he said,
statutory and organic prohibition for
ten years I may add that am a pro-
hibitiOnist myself in practice. That is
to say, 1 never take a drink except
when want it. I am alive to the evils
that grow out of the abuse OF intoEi-
eating liquors In Kansas, though pro-
hibitiOn has been the order for ten
years, there IS not a town where a man
cannot get all he wants to drink There
is not a public institution that does not
draw for its support from the taxes on
the saloons. In the town of Atchison,
where live, all the municipal expendi-
lures are paid by a fine or tax or license
from those who are selling liquor con-
trary to the constitution and the laws -
shame" cried out two or three
women in the audience.
''Sure enough, shame" said Mr.. In
gals, but it is no worse in Kansas
than in Iowa, which is also a prohibit
ton state. took occasion to inquire
at Council Bluffs, and / learned from
competent authority that there are
more than 500 places there where
liquor is sold, and the expenses OF the
municipal corporation are paid by the
fines imposed on 100 of the men who
keep them"
Mr.. Ingalls, then discussed the funda-
mental objects of a republican form of
government, saying that they were the
universal diffusion of personal and civil
rights, the security of property and the
preservation of liberty. There is no
solid ground why woman is not as
much entitled to the ballot as man.
But the reason why female suffrage
does not prevail is because the women
mothers wanted the ballot it would
be granted in twenty-four hours by
the watch. The obstacles to female
suffrage are not the hostility of men,
buG the Indifference of women. AS a
rule those who discuss this question
put the cart before the horse Mr..
Ingalls, stated as the great problem to
be solved on the beginning of the sec
Ond century of the republic: How to
improve the social conditions of the
masses He believed that every man
should not only be a politician mot in
the narrow and ignOble sense of being
an Office seeker, but in the noble sense
OF participating in public affairs), but a
partisan politician. Every man should
think his wife, his children, his city, his
state, his flag, a little better than
any other, and the man who
did not was not worthy to have a cOun-
try or a flag. He was not intending he
said, to make a political speech. He
was bipartisan for this occasion, but
on ordinary occasions every man, be he
rePu blican or democrat, should be q
parties in these words; II have no
patience with those men who stand on
the street corners blowing horn and
thanking God that they are not as other
men, nor even as these republicans or
democrats "
Mr. Ingalls, then worked off that old
witticism to the effect that the Pilgrim
Fathers first fell on their knees, then
on the abOrigines, and after on their
descendants, the Chinese. The name
of the AnglO-SaxOn is Eli he said,
''fOr he gets there. The name of all
the other races is Dennis, for they all
get left. "
Il am not an alarrnist I do not
stand at midnight and ring the alarm
BELLS" says Mr.. Ingalls, but in my
opinion in our second century we shall
pass through a period OF violence, dis
tress and disorder compared with
which the dangers of our civil war were
puerile. Between 1860 and 1890 wealth
accumulated in this country at the rate
of $3.50, 600 an hour, Sundays not ex-
Cepted. Every time a mans watch
ticks the accumulated permanent
wealth Of the country has in
creased more than $40. We are iusti-
fed in saying that as a financial enter
prise this AnglO-SazOn experiment OF
government has been a bowling sue
cess And yet some are not satisfied.
The weak always Outnum Der the strong.
Those who fail are more than those
who succeed Few men are named Eli.
The great majority are named Dennis
and an attempt is being made and a
code formulated whereby Dennis pro
poses to take charge OF the affairs OF
Eli Il is proposed that the men who
nave failed shall take charge of the
things of those who have been success