Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1891-07-10
POLITICAL


tsts-A Masaentaa. Ctlsi. Present.
WAsmSerox. Iuly l-Ex-ScnAtor
Ingalls, addressed a large audience II
the National ChatAuqaA. in Glen Echa
upon The Problems Of Cur Second
Century" lie began his lecture with q
glowing tribute 10 Washington. eulogik-
ing IL many advantages a. 4 resident
city. referring 20 it, lack Of popular
suffrage and predicting that the time
would never come when It would be ~
moved from is present site.
There i u growing sentiment said
senator Ingalls,. as he entered upon the
topic selected for his talk. in favor u
paternalism Ia this country; Of the gov-
ernment doing everything and the
people doing nothing This" he
continued. lis Numerically opposed
To the idea of individualism upon
which this government had been
built and the good Anglo-Saxon
doctrine of root hog or die II has al
ways happened In every community that
the weak were more numerous han
the strong; that the number of those
who failed outnumb ered those who sue
eeeded and that the wise, the intelli-
gent and the thoughtful were In the
minority. We have now a new school
Of political philosophy that Is repudiat-
ing the Declaration of Independence
and Is e~ndeavoring 10 overthrow max
inns of democracy aud 10 insist That
the race shall not be for the swift
nor the battle to the strong;
that the distinction ordained by God
among men shall be an obliterated
statute, so that idleness shall bring the
same reward as industry and thrift;
that the ignorant shall he as wise as
the learned; that debts shall be paid by
acts of congress; that money shall be
made as plentiful as the autumn leaves
of the forest; that taxation shall be
abolished by acts OF states legislatures,
and that prosperity shall be forcibly dis
tributed equally among all men,"
Dwelling for a few moments on the
progress of the An~glo-Saxon race. Mr..
Ingalls, then paid tribute to the people
from whom the American nation
sprung. Among them, he said, "were
no nihilists or socialists" The Anglo
Saxon characteristic Of individualism,
right of personal liberty, freedom of
conscience, and the development of the
faculties OF every man was forcibly
emphasized. 1T was a race, he said.
that would not intermingle with other
races. The Chinese have had some
taste of this.
''The negro has had some melancholy
experiences and the anarchists and So
c~ialists, he added, amid applause, will
have a still more significant experience
before the Angio-saxon race is through
with them.
''rhe doctrine of the devil take the
hindmost," continued Mr.. Ingalls,, amid
laughter, twas Il good one, but Just now
itseemed as II there were more hindmost
than foremost II the present condition
of things were to continue without be-
ing retarded this land, instead Of being
the home OF the free and land of tn,
brave, would be the home of the rich
and the land of the slave"
In the course of his address Mr..
Ingalls, said that he and Jay Gould were
about the same age, and had started in
/ . abohA Att1 oaAAAt INIT W.T.
Gould" said the ex-senator, entered
Wall street with n patent mouse trap as
his only stock in trade, and setting it,
has nearly succeeded in capturing every
thing in sight. | started west with my
gripsack. and now / am a statesman
out of a job"
In conclusion Mr.. ingalls, said that he
could not disguise the fact hat the
present was a momentous crisis, that
the destructive forces of our civilization
are marshaled for the final contest:
upon this continent was to be fought
the battle that meant despotism or vic
tory. This is the last experiment in re-
publican institutions, but the attempt to
cure the ills of society by statute would
be rs futile as the effort 10 make the
mercury stand at zero in July and ut
boiling point in January"
This government" he said finally,
lis based upon the New Testament,
upon the teachings of Jesus Christ, who
declared that all men were equal before
the law and that the fatherhood of God
resulted In the brotherhood of man.
This contest will have but one result.
| have no doubt that the progress of the
nation will be constantly upward.
In every crisis of history, in all the Bit
ter struggles of humanity through the
desolate tract OF wretchedness and pow
erty, still the progress of the rae has
been onward and upward. Out of every
struggle, out of every contest, has
come broader liberty, greater oppor-
tunities for happiness and greater
prophecies OF the development of the
race hereafter, and so out of this con
test u.pon which we Lave entered will
come absolutely at last a triumph of