Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-22
"A Fine Speech !"

Mr.. John James Ingalls,, the only
citizen of Kansas, we believe, who
boasts that he is New England
Brahmin of the highest caste, has
made another very pretty speech in
the Senate-at last. Last year for
months, almost daily, this newspaper
and other Western newspapers called
upon him to break silence and voice
the indignation of free people on
whom money lords and factory lords
were riveting stronger shackles of ty-
rants law. But he sat dumb, without
one word, or only one, and that one
"aye" when the roll was called on the
Mckinley bill and the Bullion Swim
dle-two measures of the most infa-
nous legislation that the American
Senate ever sent for approval to a tool
of monopoly in the White House.
And this is the history of his whole
career. The people of Kansas have
been patient with him. Year after
year they have paid him his salary as
farm mortgages, and waited. Always
he has given them fine words, fair
words, elegant quotations from Mas
sillon; touchingly appropriate extracts
from the Gospels; classical quotations
from Horace, Juvenal, Virgil, and all
the other poets, whose finest thoughts
are collated in the "Dictionary of
Classical Quotations" which any SEN
ator may buy for 81 % and consult
under the proper letter. And always
while they waited, his votes have
buttered the parsnips of the Wall
street spectators; of the Brahim
Mortgage Kings of Beacon Hill; of
the factory lords of Fall River With
what monotonous unbroken regular
ity has he given his vote of "aye" for
every scheme of spoliation under
which Kansas has waxed lean until
its ribs may be counted; until the
Boston Brahmins of Beacon Hill usury
have waxed so fat that their dewlaps
hang in the plethora of the adiposity
they have absorbed from the West.
Now when the people Of Kansas,
the people whom all Brahmins despise
as ignorant, unsophisticated "grays,"
with "hayseed in their hair know
ing nothing of the Brahminical sub
tleties of practical politics, have risen
and got this arch Brahmin down fiat of
his political back: when they have in
serted a rude and uncultured thumb
in his eye; when they are gouging
him in their unskilled way; when
they are shaking the unclean hayseed,
which are an abomination to Brah-
Minis, over his sacred person, how he
does talk, to be sure! How eloquent
he is! How he feels for them!
Doubtless he feels himself reform
ed man But is he? Would he abate
one per cent. of his usury on farm
mortgages? A farmer was evicted
the other day, down in Kingman coun-
ty, by the Southern Mortgage Com
Of hinh ha IL, 1ooIincr
Would he restore him his farm; re-
fund one cent of the money wrung
from his necessity? Would he give
up a penny that is now in his strong
box; make restitution of single
dime of the dollars earned for him,
not by labor but by the usurious
earning power which dollars have to
wiring from labor its sweat, and to
take from the mouths of it's children
the bread it has earned? Would he
recall one vote of the hundreds of
"ayes" he has given that the Brah-
min caste might reach it's present
enormous wealth and pride of Pluto
cratic power, through the shameful
laws for which during fifteen years,
while the people of Kansas tolerated
him, he has given his vote against
them?
"Oulu lie uo 1t. L OF all the Scrip
ture that trips so light upon his
tongue, is honesty any less "an irides
cent dream in his politics now than
1t has been for so many years? Does
he send the despised "Hayseed" to
Scripture-he knows hew the Hay
seed" loves the Scripture and is.mov
ed by it even more than by Massillon
does he send the Kansas A lliance
to Holy Writ for an answer and an
amen? If so, it will find there the
parable of the Brahmin fig tree, sap
ping the soil for years and burgeoning
in its own pride, to produce-nothing
but leaves-fine words, soft words,
fruitleSs always against the "ayen
vote of the Brahmin for the Brahmin
casteI
A fine speech truly and worthy of
the passing of Ingalls,. Worthy of
the ''cOme back" after the failure of
the Turner letter; worthy of Brahmin-
zeal politics; but absolutely ineffec-
tive, futile. For John James ingalls,,
Senator, Brahmin and money-lender,
is a Dead Duck.-Republic.