Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-01-23
INGALLS, ON SILVER.
The Kansas Senator Speaks In
Favor of Free Coinage.
A Few Personal Explanations-COrrupt
of Parties and Tyranny OF Capital De
nounced-Cause of DepressaOa In
the Country.

Of Parties and Tyranny OF Capital De
nomenclature of Depressioa In
the Country.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator In
gals to-day made a notable speech on
the financial bill He said that there
were two portentious evils which men,
aced the safety, if they did not cndanger
the existence, of the Republic. The
first was ignorant, debased, degraded,
spurious suffrage-suffrage contami-
mated by the sewage of decaycd ma
tions; suffrage intimidated and sup
pressed in the South; suffrage impure
and corrupt, apathetic and Indifferent,
in the great cities of the North, SO that
it was doubtful to his mind whether for
half a century there had been a Presi-
Dental election in this country that ex-
pressed the deliberate and intelligent
Judgment of the whole body of the
American people.
He then referred to the newspaper
with him several months ago,
in which he had said that the golden
rule and the decalogue had no place in
an American campaign 1t seemed SUI
perfuous to explain that. In that utter
ancc he was not intoxicating doctrine,
but describing a condition. His state
ment was a statement of fact, not an
of faith. But many rev.
erend and eminent divines, many disin-
terested editors, many ingenious orators
perverted this utterance into personal
advocacy of impurity in politics. He
did not complain. It was, as the world
went, legitimate political warfare.
But it was an illustration of the truth
that the golden rule and the decalOgue
ought to have a place in the political
campaigns. IF the enemy smite thee
on one cheek, turn the other" was a
good precept to follow But he would
observe that, until that prccept was
more generally observed that it had
been or was likely to be, if his political
enemy smote him on one check, in
stead of turning to him the other, he
would smite him under the butt end of
his left ear, if he could. Laughter.
If that be political immortality, he
must be included among the unregen-
Grated.
The elections bill was intended to deal
with one part of the great evil to which
he had alluded, but it was an imperfect,
n partial and an incompetent remedy.
Violence was bad, but fraud was no
better, and it was more dangerous be-
cause it was more insidious. Burke had
said in one of his immortal orations
which emptied the House of Commons,
but which would be read rs long as the
English tongue could endure, that when
the laws of Great Britain were not
strong enough to protect the youngest
Hindoo on the banks of the Ganges, a
nobleman was not safe in his castle on
the banks OF the Thames. That lofty
sentiment was pregnant with admoni-
ton to us. There could be no safety
and no stable and permanent peace in
this country and under this Government
until it was Just as safe for the black
Republican to vote in the South as it
was in Kansas.
The second evil to which he had adj
verted was the tyranny of combined,
concentrated, centralized, conscience
less and Incorporated capital; and the
people were considering that great
problem now. The conscience of the
Nation was shocked at the injustice of
modern society. The moral sentiment
of mankind had been aroused ut the
unequal distribution of wealth and at
the unequal diffusion of the burdens,
benefits and privileges of society. He
had read in the morning papers Mr..
Sherman's speech, a considerable part
of which had been devoted to the de-
Tense of millionaires, who had been
spoken of as 1.-THE froth on the beer"
Mr.. Sherman interrupted-Not mil
lionaires, but spectators.
Mr.. Ingalls, continued-They are
nearly the same, for the millionaires
are not the producers and laborers of
the country. They are arrayed like
Solomon in all his glory but they toll
not, neither do they spin These gi-
gantic accumulations have not been the
result of industry and economy. There
would be no protest against them if
they were.
The people, continued the speaker,
had suddenly awakened to the concep-
ton of the fact that the great bulk of
the property of the country was pass
ing into the hands of those whom the
Senator from Ohio called the specu-
lators of the country. They were not
of this country alone; they infested the
financial and social system of every
country. They were men of no poll
tics, of all nationalities and of no ma
tionality. They had no politics but
plumber, and no principle but the spOlia-
ton of the human race.
One man in this country, the Midas of
the century, at whose touch every thing
turned to gold, had, in lifetime, ac-
quired. out of the aggregate of a nations
wealth, earned by the labor of all, a
sum that exceeded the assessed value of
four Of the smaller States, and which
was many times more than the entire
wealth of the Republic when it was
founded.
The means by which these fortunes
were acquired were euphemistically de-
nominated bookkeeping - financial
speculation. This process was going
on with constantly and frightfully ac-
celebrating rapidity, by means of combi-
nations We were accustomed to speak
of this as the land of the free and a
home of he brave, but it would be the
home of the rich and a home of the
slave. It was no wonder that the la
boring and agricultural classes of this
country had at last awakened and the
spectators must take warning.
Referring to the late election, the
speaker said that it was neither Re
publican defeat nor a Democratic
victory. It was great uprising, indie
pendent and superior to both political
parties. It was q crisis that might
become a catastrophe. It was peace
full revolution.
He attributed the depression in the
country in a great measure to the
demonstration act of 1873. He did not
claim that that act had been passed
fraudulently. His only explanation of
its passage was that both houses of
Congress and the President had been
hynotized by the money power. He had
not the slightest doubt that q great ma
jority of the people, irrespective of par
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