Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-07-11
INGALLS, TRIBUTE
HE LECTURES AT GLEN ECHO ON
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE AN
GLE SAXON RACE. A RACE THAT
EVER CONQUERs AND NEVER SUB
MITS.
An Able Address.

A slender symphony IN grey was ex
Senator Ingalls, as he stepped upon the
platform OF the immense stone amphi-
theatre OF the National Chautauqua In
Glen Echo this afternoon to discuss prob
lens OF our second century. He wore {
Prince Albert suit, evidently brand
new, OF soft gray material, while the
necktie, which formed q background
for the flashing OF brilliant diamond
was also gray. His neat galter tops
matched his costume; there was silver
gray CLINT in his golden eyeglasses
and his hair and mustache have, a
every one knows, been gray for many
years. AS he appeared upon the plat
form the large audience, which had
gone out from the city TO hear him
applauded for several minutes, o com
pliment which the ex-senator acknow
lodged by q jerky little bow OF his
angular body. He began his lecture
with glowing tribute to Washington
eulogizing its many advantages as q
residence city, and referring TO its lack
OF popular suffrage and predicting that
the time would never come when IL
would not be the capital. Even If the
capitol should be taken, stone by stone,
to be planted in the stately prairies OF
the west, or the Washington monument
be erected on the Hottest peak OF the
Rocky mountains, the spirit, the sig
nificance and the history OF those
structures would linger here for all
time.
There is growing sentiment" said
Senator Ingalls, as he entered upon the
topic he had selected for IS ak. sin
favor of paternalism in this country-of
the government doing everything and
the people doing nothing. This, he
added. sis Numerically opposed to the
idea OF individualism upon which this
government has been built and to the
good Anglo-Saxon doctrine Of root hog
or die. 1t has always happened in ev-
cry community that the weak are more
numerous than thes trong, that the num-
Der OF those who failed out-numbered
those who succeeded, and that the wise,
the intelligent and the thoughtful were
in the minority. We have now & new
school OF political philosophy that is re-
pudiatlng the Declaration OF Independ-
ence, and is endeavoring to overthrow
the maxims OF democracy and to 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 be as wise as the learned; that
debts shall be paid by acts OF congress
Applause and laughterl; that money
shall be made as plenty as the autumn
forests renewed laughter]; that taxa
ton shall be abolished by acts OF state
legislature, and that property shall De
forcibly distributed equally among all
men"
RACE THAT WON'T MINGLE.
Dwelling for a few moments on the
progress OF the Anglo-Saxon race Sena-
tor Ingalls, then paid noble and elo-
quent tribute to the people from whom
the American Nation has sprung.
"Among Them" he said, ''were no nj
hllists or socialists" The Anglo-Saxon
characteristics of individualism, right
OF personal liberty, freedom OF con-
science, and the development OF the
faculties OF every man was forcibly en-
phasized. 1t was a race, he said that
would not iutermingle with other
races. The Chinese have some taste OF
this. The negro has had some melan-
choly experiences, and the anarchists
and socialists. he added amid applause,
will have q still more significant exper-
fence before the Anglo-Saxon race is
through with them.
From 1860 to 1890, despite the most
do that
upon this planet and the emancipation
of four million slaves, this country had
grown richer at the rate OF $3.50, 900 for
every day and hour for those thirty
years. There had been accumulated
during this time one hundred thousand
million dollars, enough TO give every
man woman and child beneath the flag
a competence, enough to secure every
family comfortable home; to educate
and keep the wolf from the door OF
every household, ard to guard against
every misfortune, extremity and ca
lamity. "And yet," he continued, with
. dramatic uplifting Of his hand, there
are 10000, 900 people in this country
out of 65, 900, 900 that never get enough
to eat from one years end to another.
i uev LtAlk dUOub ONCTpEOuuCbtOu' 10 IL
the reason why 30 many people are
tarefooted is because there are too
many shoes In the world. This Is not
right. In our system Of civilization,
great as 1t has been, gigantic as have
been its achievements, 1t Is not right
that amid pleptitude there should be
hungry one man who Is equal to every
one else before the law and who Is will
ling TO toll for his daily bread"
HOPELESS LABOR.
A strong contrast was presented OF
he laborer working necessarily, only to
rad bis years in helpless mendicancy,
and the 81 900 people who hold more
thea one-half OF the acquired earnings
II the republic for the last 100 years.
This is not right" he exclaimed, land
~ the defender Of Anglo-Saxon civiliza-
don, as the upholder Of its standard
against all corners, I am here to say that
the most modern agitations have some |
foundation for their complaints against 4