Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-02-06

with n part OF the great evil to which
he had alluded, but 1t was an imperfect, a
partial and an incomplete remedy.
Violence was bad. but fraud was no bet
ter, and 1t was more dangerous because
1t was more insidious. Burke had said
in one of his immortal oratiOns, which
EN- ptied 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 thu youngest Hindoo
on the bank Of the Ganges a nobIeman
was not safe In his castle on the banks
OF the Tha The lofty sentiment was
pregnant with admOnitiOn to us. There
could DO no safety and 10 stable and
permanent peace in this country and UNI
der this government until it was just as
safe for the black Republican to vote in
Mississippi as in Kansas.
The second evil to which he mad adj
verified was the tyranny Of combined,
concentrated, centra lied, constituencies
and incorporated capital, and the people
were considering that great problem
now. Tho conscience OF the nation was
shocked at the injustice of modern soci-
ETY.. The moral sentiment of mankind
had been arous d at the unequal distri-
button of wealth and at the unequal
diffusion OF the burdens, benefits and
privileges of society. q
Spectators, IL not millionaires, are
nearly the same for the miliiOnaires are
not the producers and laborers of the
country. They are arrayed like "Solo-
mon in all his glory" but -they toll not,
neither do they spn." Yes, they do
spin. These gigantic accumulations
Ia $40 ,NNt hmm thu vaanlf nf {n1r.ctry n,l
economy. There would be no protest
against them if they were. The people
had suddenly awoke to the conception Of
the fact that the great bulk Of the prop
nrty of the country was passing into the
hands OF those whom the Senator from
Ohio called, by euphemisn I, the specula.
tors OF the country. They were not of
this county alone. They infested the
financial and social system of every
country. They were men OF no pc itics,
of all nationalities, and OF no nat .onal-
ity. They had no politics but plumber
and no pr neiple but the spoliation of
the human race.
Ono man In this country-the Midas OF
the ccntury-at who Q touch everything
turned to gold, had In q ! fetime &C.
GU red, out OF the aggregate OF the ma
tons wea tn. earned by the labor OF al,
q su n that exceeded the assessed value
of four Of the smaiter Sta es, and which
was many times more than the ent re
wealth OF the Republic when founded.
i his was the most terrible commentary
ever recorded in the book OF time. And
Nero iidiI,d while Rome burned. The
means by which these fortunes were &C.
!, uircd were euphemistica ~ denominated
bookkeeping, financial speculation.
This process was going on with constant
ly and frightfuily a,celsrating rapidity,
by means OF combinations. We were ac-
cuStomcd to speak of this as the land Of
the free and home OF the brave; and it
would scon be the home OF the rich and
the land of the slave. IT was no wonder
that the laboring and agricultural masses
Of this cout4try had ut last awakened,
aud the spectators must take warning.
Refer ing to the ate Gle ton, he said
1t was neither a Republican defeat nor
a Democratic victory. 1t was a great
uprising, independent OF, and superior
to. both political parties. 1t was a crisis
that might become a catastrophe. 1t
was a peaceful reyo ution.
Mr.. Ingalls, attributed the depression
OF the country in u great measure to tie
decentralization at OF 1873. he did not
claim that act had been passed fraudu-
lently. His only explanation Of its
passage was that both houses Of Con-
| gress and the President had been hypno-
tied by the money power. He had not
the slightest double that a great majority
OF the people, irrespective OF party,
were in favor OF the free COMA 20
Of silver, and hal Teen for the past
fifteen years They had been paltered
with In a double sense, and their
will had been thwartcd, deficd. and
| contnmeIiously troiden under foot.
Warnings and ~admonitions had been
| plenty in this debate, but he would say
to those who were arrayin2 themselves
against the deliberately expressed jndg-
ment of the American people-he would
say to the Senate. to the House and to
| the Executive--that there would come a
time when the people would not be
! trifled with on this subject. Some time
| the people would elect a House of Rep
| resentatives, n senate and a President
who would carry nj party pledges and
| execute the popular will. The political
power Of the nation had been trans
| ferrcd from the circumference to the
center, and the people OF that center
were unanimously demanding free coin-
Ags OF silver. II vas for that reason