The Iola register., 1891-07-10
INGALLS, TRIBUTE
BE 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.

| 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 a
Prince Albert suit, evidently brand
new, of soft gray material, while the
necktie, which formed a background
for the flashing of brilliant diamond,
was also gray. His neat gaiter tops
matched his costume; there was silver
gray CLINT in his golden eyeglasses,
and his hair and mustache have, as
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 . hear him,
applauded fOr several minutes, a COM
pliment which the ex-senator acknow-
lodged by a jerky little bow of his
angular body. He began his lecture
with a glowing tribute to Washington,
eulogizing its many advantages as
.esidence city, and referring 70 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 loftiest peak of the
Rocky mountains. the spirit, the sig
niticance 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 = ak. sin
favor Of paternalism in this country-of
the government doing everything and
the people doing nothing. This, he
added, lis diametrically 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 ey-
cry community that the weak are more
numerous than thes trong, that the num-
ber 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 q new
school OF political philosophy that il re-
pudiatlng the Declaration of lndepend-
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 bv 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 taughterl; that money
shall be made as plenty as the autumn
forests [renewed laughterl; that taxa
tion shall be abolished by acts of state
Legislature, and that property shall be
forcibly distributed equally among all
men,"
4 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
hIliSts or socialists" The Anglo-SaxOn
characteristics of individualism, right
of personal liberty. freedom o. con-
science, and the development of the
faculties of every man was forcibly en-
phasi2ed. 1t was race, he said that
would not intermingle 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 still more significant expert
ienCe before the Anglo-Saxou race is |
through with them.
From 1860 to 1890, despite the most |
destructive war that ever occurred |
upon this planet and the emancipation |
of four million slaves, this country had |
h.. I.D-
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 |
competence, enough to secure every |
family a comfortable home; to educate |
every household, ard to guard against |
every misfortune, extremity and ca
lamity. And yet." he continued. with |
dramatic uplifting of his hand, there
are 100000 people in this country
out OF %, 100000 that never get enough
to eat from one years end to another.
They talk about overproductiou! as if
the reason why so manv people are
barefoOted is because there are too
many shoes in the world. This is rot
great as it has been, gigantic as have
been its achievements, it is not ri iyht
that amid Dleptitude 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 I
the laborer working necessarily. only TO
- in lnln ! (
and the 81 900 people who hold more /
of the republic for the last 100 wears.
'This is not right" he exclaimed. ''and I
as the defender of Auglo-SaXon civiliZa-
against all corners, | am here to say that
the most modern agitations have some
for their complaints against
that they are not without warrant in /
declaring there is cruel inequality in
the distribution of wealth, the benefits
and the privileges of life"
With scathing denunciation Of the Il
extravaganza that expends $4,000 on
flowers for wedding, and repeating 1
that 81, 900 men controlled one-half of
the wealth of the country. Mr.. Ingalls,
strobe to the front of the platform. and.
raising his slender form to its full
height, he thundered: IF 10000 men
can do this, what is to prevent one man
from getting control OF it ALPS
THE doctrine of the devil take the
continued Mr.. Ingalls,, amid
laughter, sis good one, but just now
it seems as if there were more hindmost Il
than foremost. II the present condition
of things were to continue without
being retarded, this land, instead of d;
being the home of the free and the land /;
Of the brave, would be the home of the
rich and the land OF the slave" Then 4:
he referred to the familiar fact that I