Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1891-10-20
INGALLS, OF KANSAS
Talks Upon The Problem Of
Our Second Century.
A STALWART REPUBLICAN
He Likts Best, but Next q Red.HOt
Democrat.

BosToY, Oct. 2O.-Tremont Temple was
filled last evening with people bent on
hearing ex-senator ingalls, OF Kansas. At
few minutes past the well known form
Of General Butler was seen mounting the
steps. Directly behind him, and his ply
steal opposite, was John ]. Ingalls, Of Kan
sas, the man who says the decalogue 10 out
OF place In politics.
Nr Ingalls, head Is gray, and so is his
moustache. He wears glasses and stands
straight. He speaks In a heavy, stem
torian voice, and sees to IL that rest
is afforded him at short intervals by the
applause II the audience. For one hour
ard half lie spoke steadily.
General Butler introduced him and he
Immediately launched forth into
The Lecture.
Mr. Ingalls, spoke as follows:
/ should be guilty Of dissinulation and
duplicity, were 1 to pretend to be Indifferent
to the honor OF my Introduction TO you this
evening, by the most distinguished citizen
soldier and tatesman of Massachusetts,. But
yet, must affirm to you, that I-have just
ground for complaint, for he has used Ian
guage of unmerited eulogy; he has raised ex'
pectations that cannot be realized and you are
therefore doomed TO disappointment. / dc
not come to you an alien and a stranger,
but as native coming home TO the friends OF
his early years. Six generations of my ances-
tors after lives of obscure toll, now sleep be-
meath the murinuring pines of Essex, and by
the lamenting waves OF the inconsolable sea.
The speaker briefly traced the progress
of the Anglo-SaXon race during the last
270 years, showing its enormous gains in
population aud power. lie referred tc
Hamlet" aud paradise Lost" saying
that tho latter was tho book which every.
body praised, but which nobody read. Con.
tinuing he said:
There Is good deal OF prevailing discomfort
and desire on the part OF some reformors &c
revert
From IndividualisIn to Paternalism
in government We hear the doctrine an.
nounced that tho state must take charge or the
affairs OF society. What Is the state OF Massa-
chusetts anyway but the people that 1.-Two in II |
Those who are crying for this new dispense.
tion. are simply laying down the proposition
that the men who have succeeded In society are
10 surrender tho result of their acquisitions
and attainments to the men who have failed
II happens that in every community
that tho number Of men who fail
outnumber those who succeed, and that
there are good many more men named Den
mis- than there are named Eli. All men are nc
created free and equal, Thomas jefferson to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
When he wrote in the Declaration of Indc.
pendence that "all men were created free and
equal" presume he did not intend TO be un-
derstood as saying that am the equal physi-
cally OF your distinguished fellow citizen, John
l.. Sullivan, He didn't mean morally that
Jack the Ripper was the equal Of Bishop
Brooks. He didn't mean that the lowest in in.
tellectual life OF your people was the equal to
this giant of intelligence who introduced me
this evening Ii Thomas jefferson did mean
that all have TO say 1. he mistook his voca-
ton. and instead Of writing declarations Of
independence for q living, he ought to have
gone into journalism--he would have found
congenial occupation in writing bulletins
about Blaine's health for New York newspa-
pers. lie meant
Equal Rights Before the Law.
Every man ought to be politician, and every
woman as well, and the only reason why
woman hasn't the suffrage Is because she docs
not want II. Every man ought to be q parti-
san politician. have never learned the art OF
belonging TO party little. III n party is
worth belonging TO at all it is worth belonging
70 good deal and all the time. As for my
self, next TO stalwart Republican, / like q
red-hot Democrat.
The Anglo-Saxon has no use for the neuter
gender in politics or any other capacity. am
not speaking for any intelerant partisanship.
In the days when i WAS n politician myself
never claimed that the Republican party had
monopoly of all the good IL an in the country.
always admitted that there were some bad
men in the party, not many, perhaps, but a
/. few; and that might be absolutely impartial
never denied that there were somo good men
in the Democratic party; not great many, per-
haps, but n few.
The speaker then considered the import.
ance Of the suffrage and the evils that
threaten it, especially dwelling upon the
condition Of affairs at the south. and also
tie evil which results from foreign popu-
la ton in many cases out Of sympathy, as
he believes, with our institutions. A re-
stricted immigr alton is one of the great
demands of the times. The
Unequal Distribution OF Wealth
was the next problem of the second century
which the speaker adverted. Said he:
In 1900 there was no millionaire here. The
richest man In the country At tho time of his
death was George Washington. a largo por-
tion Of his estate was by Inheritance, but the
location OF the national capital, largely by his
own act, within the immediate vicinity Of his
patrimonial possessions, did not diminish their
value. II seems as IL the golden age OF the re-
public had been reached, and the prayer OF
Hagar for neither poverty nor riches had bee II
realized, but today there are in Boston 800 men
each worth million dollars or more.
Jay Gould and are about the same age.
am little "heftier" than he is. We went into
active life at the same time. He went quietly
J,
he cot IL, ard he came very near
Catching tho Earth with It,
/ went west, and after thirty years OF contin-
uous toll. am statesman out Of a job. But
legislation cannot wholly remedy this thing.
would, however, make the man who enters y
trust felon, and would tax the succession
OF largo estates.
la closing, the speaker paid an eloquent
tribute to those BostoDians whose sacrifice
ON land and sea has entitled their names
to place on the soldiers monument.
Their work commentaries the triumph
Of the government OF law Instead Of the
government Of men.
Hsnian's Easy Victory.
VICTORIA, B. c., Oct. 20.-Edward Han
Ian easily defeated Alex Mclean in .
threc-mile race In outraged skifrs here by
goo yards. Hanlan gave Mclean start Of
q rty feet, aud passed him before 100