Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-31
COMING PROBLEMS
Discussed by Ex-senator ingalls,
at Monona Lake.
ALL PUBLIC MEN ARE EDWARDS. =

Because They Are Afraid to Express
Themselves on Burning Questions
Some Things He Dare Not Talk About
in observation-disclosures Prohibition-The
Anglo-Saxon Habit of Getting There. ;"
Right or Wrong - Accumulation of
+ Wealth-The Ballot as a Weapon.
MADISON, Wis, July Sex Senator
John j. Ingalls, spoke to 5000 people at the
Monona Lake assembly yesterday, on the
problems of our second century He
opened by saying that all men in public
station are towards This included the
speaker himself, when he was in pub ic
life. They are towards, he said, in the
sense of not daring to express themselves
on public questions. In Wisconsin
the speaker would not dare
to say what he thought
about the immigration question, for
fear of offending the foreign vote There
are 100000 foreign-born citizens in the
United States. Many of them would make
very good foreigners, in the lecturers
opinion. What we will do with them is
one of the problems of the century. Some
think that since they are obliged to live
here twenty-one years before voting the
naturalization laws ought TO be modified.
Ingalls, Style of Prohibition.
Another question about which the lee
turer cared to say little in Wisconsin WI
the prohibition question. This was true,
although he came from a prohibition
state and was a Prohibitionist in that he
never took drink unless he wanted it.
Although Kansas has been a prohibition
state since 1880, there is no place
that one can not freely obtain in
toxicating liquors. and in the cities the
bulk of the expenses of municipal govern
ment are pad by taxes on the saloons in
the shape of fines The immigrants of
1920 We're OF the grandest race on the
earth. They were also the most arrogant
and rapacious. They believed in the right
of every man to the exercise of his own
powers and opinions. They fell first on
their knees, then on the aborigines, and
afterward on the Chinese.
THE AnglO-Saxon's Name Is Eli"
They also fell on the African, and their
dealings with that race forms one of the
bloodiest chapters in the history of the
world. The Anglo-SaXon race, he main
tanned, has not always respected the rights
of others, but it has always known what it
wanted 1t has always got there. Its name
has been Eli and in compar-
ison the names of all other
races have been Dennis. After paying
an extended tribute to the marvellous ma
terial prosperity of the country under the
influence of the Anglo-SaXon. the speaker
said that this development made democ-
racy possible. 1t is mistake to suppose,
said he. that material advancement comes
from personal liberty. Freedom implies
not only the right to do thing, but the
power to do 1t.
Is Our Political system a FaiIuree
The greatestfncrease of wealth in the
United States has been in the last thirty
years, and in spite of a great civil war
Notwithstanding this, men today assert
that competition as principle is a fiction.
For the first time some say that we should
have paternalism instead of individual
ism. We are threatened with organized
robbery in the guise of justice The speak
er admitted that all was not right, but it
seemed strange that at the Opening of the
second century of our country's history
we should be met with the assertion that
our political system was a failure.
Great Change in Conditions.
1t was serious question that confronted
US. George Washington, when he died
was the richest man of his time, and his
whole fortune footed up only $500. 600
Now, many men have larger income
than this; one man has larger monthly
income. Social conditions have also
changed. We have 100000 people who
do not lose the sensations of hunger from
one years end to the other There should
be an inquiry as to how these great
wrongs can be rectiied.
The Power of the Ballot.
If 1000 men control half of the wealth
of this country what is to prevent one
man from getting control of all of it.
When used by those who feel a sense of
resentment and injustice, the ballot is the
most formidable weapon ever put in
human hands. There is an awakening to
this fact, and when it fully comes one
chapter of our Dation,s biStorr will b.