Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-22
MIR. INGALLS, SPEECH.
The Kansas Senator's Great Speech
For Free Coinage.
Tho Tyranny of Combined. Conscienceless
and Incorporated CapitalEFree Coinage
One Remedy-A Crisis That May Be
come Catastrophe.

In the Senate of the United States on
eae 14th, pending consideration of the
financial bill, the question being upon
Senator Stewards free silver coinage
amendment, Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas,
addressed the Senate in favor of free
coiEage. He spoke as follows:
AR. President: Two portentous perils
threaten the safety, if they do not endanger
the existence, of the Republic. The first of
olese is ignorant, debased, degraded. spuri-
0us and sophisticated suffrage; suffrage con-
taminated by the sewage of decayng ma
Eons; suffrage intimidated and suppressed
On the South; suffrage impure and corrupt,
apathetic and Indifferent in the great cities
OF the North; SO that it is doubtful whether
vherc has been for half century a Presi-
GENITAL election in this country that ex-
pressed the deliberate and intelligent judg
ment of the whole body of the American
people.
In q newspaper interview a few months
<sso in which commented upon these con-
9itions, and alluded to the efforts of the ba-
cili doctors of politics, the bacteriOlogists of
SYSTEM who endeavor to cure the ills
der which we suffer by their hypodermic in
aections of the lymph of independents non
partisanship and the Brown Sequard elixir
Of ct,il service reform, said that 1.-THE puri
6catOn of politics by such methods as this
was an iTIdescent d1eam." Remembering
The cipher dispatches of 1871 and the at
tempted purchase of the electoral votes of
4hany Southern states in that campaign; the
forgeuy OF the MOrey letter in 1871, by which
skarfiel~ lost the yotes of three States in the
North, and the characterization and pOr
zraiture ef Blaine and Cleveland and Har-
@ison by their political adversares, added
CHAT "the golden rule and the decalOgue had
10 place in american political campaigns."
1t seems spperfluouS to explain, Mr.. Presi-
91erk<. CHAT in those utterances / was not in
cuicating doctrine, but describing condi-
feDn- My statement was a statement of facts
asc understood them and not the announce
NJ \ IN Rnt ROY ar-
end and eminent divines, many disinterested
editors. many ingenious orators, perverted
2lose uttafances irf9O personal advocacy of
0npurty in politics.
Hdu not complain, Mr.. President. 1t was,
- the s1orld goes legitpate political war
1hro; 1ut - was an illustration of the truth
ehet there ought to be publication in our
politics, and that the golden rule and the
1ecalogue ought to have place in political
2Qmpaigns. "Do unto others as we would
9hat otners should do unto vou'' is the
3neuce injunction, obligatory upon all. eff
Ghine enemy smte thee upon one cheek turn
Ain the other" is a sublime and lofty pre-
sept But take this occasion to observe
chat until it is more generally regarded than
d hat been or appears likely to be in the
immediate future, if my political enemy
smites me upon one cheek, instead OF turn
inse 90 him the other shall smite him under
tho butt end of his Left ear if 1 can. Laugh
9erl. If this be political immortality, 1 am to
1e included among the unregenerated.
FRAUD WORSE THAN VIOLENCE.
me election bill that was under consider
2fiODa Few days ago was intended to deal
with one part of the great evil to which
dave alluded, bat it was an imperfect,
partial, and an incomplete remedy. ViO-
hence is bad but fraud is no better, and it
as more dangerous, because it is more insid-
fOUs. Burke said, in one of those Immortal
-oratons that empted the House of Com
MONS but which will be read with admira-
zion SO long as the English tongue shall
endure, that when the laws of Great Britain
acre not strong enough to prOtec. the hum
Slest HinduD upon the shores of the Ganges,
the nObleman was not safe in his castle upon
the banks of the Thames Sir, that lofty
sen ence is pregnant with admonition for
as There can be no repOSe, there can be no
stable and permanent peace in this country
and under this Government until it is just
safe for black Republican to vote in Mis-
siSsippi as II he were white Democrat in
Kansas.
THE TYRANNY on COMBINED CAPITAL
The evil, Mr.. President, the second to which
q adve<ted as threatening the safety if it
does not endanger the existence of the Re-
public, is the tyranny of combined, concen-
fratcd, centralized and Incorporated capital.
And She people are considering this great
problem now. The conscience of the Nation
US shocked at the injustice OF modern society
Ehe moral sentiment of mankind has be en-
aroused at the unequal distribution of
wealth at the unequal diffusion Of burdens,
Che benefits and the privileges of society. At
che beginning of our second century the
american people have become profoundly
conscious that the ballot Is not the panacea
Dor all the evils that afflict humanity, that it
3as not abolished poverty nor prevented in.
snstices They have discovered that political
equality does nee result in social fraternity
shat under democracy the concentration
Of greater pOsisical power in fewer hands,
GAc accumulation and aggregation of greater
amounts of wsalth in individuals is more
possible than under monarchy, and that
Ghere is a tyranny which is more fatal than
che tyranny of kings.
General Washington, the first President of
Che Republic, at the close of HE life in 1893
had the largest private fortune in the United
states of America. Much of this came by in
heritance, but the Father of his Country, in
addition to his other vrtueo shining and u
0ustrious, was q very prudent, sagaciOus
yhrifty and fOrehanded man. He knew q
good thing when he saw it, a great way off
He had a Keen eye for the main chance. AS
&surveyor in his youth he obtained knowl-
ddge that enabled him to know exceedingly
Well the value put upon she public domain
sEhc establishment of the National capital in
Go9 Immediate vicinity of his patrimonas
Dos sessions did not diminish their value
DE vac jusS debtor, but he was an exact, il
G0n oXactiNr. creditor. And 80 ie came tC
yrnss that wher he died he was, 60 use fht
Expressive phraseoaogy o4the day the riches
o99N ia the country.
O GREAT CONTRAST.
% this time, ninety years afterward, it II
got without interest to know that the entire
ag grcgate and sum of his earthly possess ION:
his estate, personal end mixed, Mount Yer
AON and his lands along the kanawha anC
tsHc Ohio slaves, securities, all of his belong
ong@reached the sum total of between S. o,
co or So 0,00O This was less than a centur,
GgS. and it is within bounds to say that a
CHS Gime there are many scores of men, O
esststees and of corporations in this countr,
fhOse annual income exceeds, and there ha
Deem one man whose monthly revenue sine,
0hat period exceeded the entire accumula
Uons OF the wealthiest citizen of the Unite,
2tates at the end of the last century. At tina
period tho social condition of the Unite,
States was one Of practical equality. Tn
STrAttstics of the census of 1900 are incomplete
and partial, but the population of the Uniol
was abouc 5,sO0,OC0, and the estimates
Tealth OF She country was between s., 900,
oUo,0O0 and "a OOO, 100000 There not
millionaire, and there was not a tramp
Pauper, so far . BE know, in the country
except those who had been made so by il,
dirmity or disease or inevitable calamity. 4
multitude of small farmers cOntentedly tile
the soil Upon the coast a race of fisher
men and sailors, owning the crafts that the
sailed wrested their subsistence from tn
stormy sea. Labor was the rule and luxur
tho exception. The great mass of the pee
pie lived upon the products of the farm,
that they cultivated They spun wove an
manufactured their clothing from flax an
wool. Commerce and handicrafts afforde
honorable competence. The prayer of Agu
WINS aDparently realized. There was neithe