Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-15
INGALLS, BID
For the Vote of the Farmers Alliance
Party In Kansas.

ANGALLS' BID
For the Vote of the Farmers Alliance
Party In Kansas.
WASHINGTON, January l4.-Immedi-
ately after the reading of the journal
to-day senator ingalls, took the floor.
When the speaker rose TO begin his
speech the galleries were well filled,
and half an hour later they were
crowded, and remained so until the
speech was concluded.
Mr.. ingalls, said that there were two
portentiOus evils which menaced the
safety, II they did not endanger the ex-
iStence, of the republic. The first was
| ignorant, debased, degraded, spurious
suffrage-suifrage contaminated by the
sewage Of decayed nations; suffrage in
timidated and suppressed in the South:
suffrage impure and corrupt, apathetic
and Indifferent in the great cities of
the North; SO that il was doubtful TO
his mind whether for half century
there had been a Presidential election
in this country that expressed the de-
liberate and intelligent judgment of the
whole body Of the American people.
The Senator then referred to the
newspaper interview had with him sew
eral months ago, in which he said that
the Golden Rule and the Decalogue had
no place in an American campaign. II
seemed SuperfluOuS to explain that in
that utterance he was not inculcatng
that doctrine, but describing a fact, not
an announcement of faith, but many
reverend and eminent diyineS, many
disinterested editors, many ingenious
orators perverted this utterance into a
personal advocacy of impurity in poll
tics. lie did not complain. 1t was, as
the world went, legitimate political war
| fare. But il was an illustration of the
truth that the Golden Rule and the
| Decalogue ought to have a place in
political campaigRS "If thy enemy
suite 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 Smite him under the butt
Of his left ear If he could. Laughter.
If that be political immortality he
must be included among the unregen-
crate.
The Election bill was intended to
deal with one part of the great evil to
which he had alluded, but it was an
imperfect, a partial and incomplete
remedy. Violence was bad, but fraud
was no better, and it was more danger
Gus because it 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 endured,
that when the laws Of Great Britain
were not strong enough TO protect the
Youngest HindoO on the banks OF the
Ganges, 4 nobleman was not safe in his
castle on the banks of the Thames.
That lofty sentiment was pregnant with
admOntiOn to US. There could be no
safety and no staple and permanent
peace in the country and under this
government, until ii was just as safe for
the black Republican to vote in Miss
issippi as IL was for the white Democrat
TO vote in Kansas.
The second evil to which he had ad-
verted was the tyranny of combined,
concentrated, centralized, conscience
less and incorporated capital; and the
people were considering that great prob
/ lem now The conscience Of the nation
was shocked at the injustice Of modern
society. The moral sentiment Of man
/ kind had been aroused at the unequal
distribution of wealth, and at the un-
equal diffusion of the burdens, benefits
and privileges Of society. At the begin
ming of the second century the American
people had become profoundly convinced
that the ballot was not the panacea for
the evils of society; that it had not
abolished poverty nor diminished JUS
tice. They had discovered that political
equality did not result in social frater-
nifty, that under democracy the con-
centration of greater power in fewer
hands was more possible than under
monarchy.
George Washington, the first Presi-
dent of the republic, had, when he died
in 1899, the largest private forune in
the United States. Much of it had come
by inheritance, but the Father OF His
Country" In addition to his other vir-
tues, had been a very prudent, saga
cious, thrifty and forehanded man, who
knew a good thing when he saw it-a
great way off. As surveyor in his
youth he had obtained knowledge which !
enabled him to make exceedingly valu-
able locations on the public domain.
The establishment of the National Cap |
ital in the immediate vicinity OF his pat
rimonial possessions had not diminished |
their value. All of his belongings |
AT the time of his death reached |
the sum total of between |
$500. 600 and SQOO,0 900. That was
less than century ago, and it was
within bounds TO say that at the present |
time there were many scores OF men |
and OF corporations in this country |
whose annual income land there has
been one man whose monthly revenue) !
exceeded the entire accumulati0ns OF |
the richest citizens of the United States |
at the end of the last century. The |
population OF the Union was then $780,
600 and the estimated wealth of the |
country was between three and four |
thousand million dollars. There was /
not n millionaire and there was /
not tramp or pauper IN
the country. A multitude of |
small farmers contentedly titled the |
soil. and on the coast race OF fishermen /
and sailors. owning the craft which |
they sailed, wrested their subsistence |
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 the growth |
in wealth and numbers in the United
States had had no precedent In the
building Of nations. The people OF the
United States now performed one-third |
OF the worlds mining; one-fourth OF It's |
manufacturing; one-hfth OF its farming,