The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-14
THE MAN FROM KANSAS.
SENATOR INGALLS, SPEAKS IN FAVOR
OF FREE COINAGE.
A Mastery Speech to Crowded Galleries
The Rapid Acquisition and Ccntrali-
yation Of Wealth Menace to the
Safety Of the Republic.
SENATE.


card when he rises to make set speech
in the Senate, and to-day he proved no
exception to the rule. The Senate met at
10 o'clock, and five minutes later, when
Mr. ingalls, rose, the galleries had begun
to fill. In half an hour they were crowded
and they remained so during the day.
Nearly every Senator was present In hi
stat, and many members Of the Houj
were also on the floor. The gallery re-
served for the Diplomatic Corps was the
only one of the galleries that was not
crowded. IL contained but one occupant,
Sir Julian Pauncefotc, the British Minis
Ter, who has taken great interest in the
debate on the Financial bill. For several
hours yesterday he occupied seat in the
Diplomatic Gallery.
Mr.. ingalls, said that there were two
Iortentous events which menaccd the
safety, If they did not endanger the OK
istence OF the Republic. The first was
ignorant, debased, degraded, spurious
suffrage festered suffrage suffrage con-
taminated by the feculcnt sewage of de-
cayng nations, suffrage inundated and
suppressed in the South, suffrage impure
and corrupt, opathctic and indifferent in
the great cities of the North; so that IL
was doubtful to his mind whether for
half century there had been Presi-
dental election in this country that ex-
pressed the liberal and intelligent iudg-
mont of the whole body of the American
people:
He then referred to the newspaper in
terview had 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 superlluous to explain thatin that
ntterance he was not intoxicating q doc
trine, but was describing condition.
His statement was statement of fact,
not an announcement of faith. But
many reverend and eminent divines;
manydisintcrestede editors; many ingenious
orators perverted this utterance into
personal advocacy of impurity in politics.
He did not complain. 1t was as the world
went, legitimate political warfare. But il
was an illustration Of the truth that there
ought to be publication in our politics,
and that the golden rule and the decalogue
ought to have place in political CAM
paigns.
''lf the enemy smite thee on one cheek,
turn the other" was q good precept to
follow. But he would observe that until
that precept was more generally observed
than il had been, or was likely to be- il
his political enemy smote him on one
check, instead of turning to HIM the
other, he would smite him under the butt
OF his left ear il he could. laughter
III that be political immortality he must
be included among the unregeneratel.
The Elections bill was intended to deal
with one part of the great evil to which
he had alluded, but it was an imperfect.
u partial and an incomplete remedy.
Violence was bad, but fraud was no bet
ter, and 1t was more dangerous because it
was more insidious.
Burke had said in one of his immortal
Crations, which emptied the House of
Commons but which would be read as
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 no.
bleman was not safe IN his castle ON the
banks of the Thames. That lofty senti-
ment was pregnant with admonition to
us. There could be no safety and no
stable and permanent peace in this couu-
try and under this Government until it
was just as safe FOR the black Republican
to vote in Mississippi as it was for the
white Democrat to vote in Kansas.
The second evil to which he chad adj
verified was the tyranny of combined, con-
centrated, centralized, constituencies 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 at the unequal distribution of
wealth, and at the unequal diffusion of
the burdens, benefits and privileges of
society.
Mr. Ingalls, referred to the prudence of
Washington in money matters and said
that it was within bounds to say that at the
present time there were many scores of
men and corporations in this country
whose annual income exceeded the entire
accumulation of the richest citizen of the
United States at the end of the last cen
fury (Washington). At that time there
was not millionaire, and there was not q
pauper in the country. Labor was the
rule and luxury the exception. Tho
United States had become the wealthiest
nation OH the earth. A considerable part
Of Mr.. Sherman's. speech had, he said
been devoted to the defense Of million
aires, who had been spoken of as the
''froth OH the beer"
mot millionaires, but SPECTATORS in
terrnpted Mr. Sherman.
'"They are nearly the same" said Mr.
ingalls,, "for the milhonaires are not the
producers and the lahorers of the coun-
Try: They are arrayed like Solomon in
do they SPIN Yes, they do spin. These
gigantic accnmulations have not been the
result of industry and economy. There
would be noprotest against them if they
The people, he said, had suddenly
the great bulk of the property of the
country, was passing into the hands of
these whom the Senator from Ohio called
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