The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-27
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realized that this is the inevitable work.
ing of the yeast deposited in our DecIar-
alton Of Independence. If he and the
class for whom he last spoke, imagine that
the leaven has lost its quickening power
and ceased to work, they are destined
to awaken from their delusion before the
end of the present century. The people
are rapidly learning that there is an IRE
pressible conflict" between the Declaration
of independence and our industrial sys-
tenn. which, through the agency of the
modern trust, Is so manipulated that capt.
tai can be placed in few hands and made
to buy up legislatures and courts, and to
control-through the monopoly Of the cir
cuIating medium--the entire question both
of supply and demand and thus become
the absolute despot of the situation, a
despot that is backed and defended by all
the machinery of the law, and of the state
militia, whose commanding officers, like
Colonel Haines, of Washington state,
boldly assume that they are conducting
the campaign against the other side"
The fight is on. and it is folly to mince
terms. or to any longer try TO disguise the
fact that it is a clearly drawn issue be-
tween Jeffersonianism and the masses on
one hand and Hamiltonism-or a re-
incarnation of old blue Federalism-on
the other. The people must decide by
ballot which they prefer. and they must
decide soon. For if the advocates of CEN
tralism are successful IN the coming presi-
Dental contest their next proposition will
be property clause" to the franchise.
and the accompanying ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF those whose votes they cannot pur-
chase
1t is already in the air. Mr.. Ingalls,
means that-lf he means anything-in
the following extract in his late article in
Truth: "Majorities are powerful. but the
contest between brains and numbers can
have but one conclusion. We
shall not surrender the splendid results of
individualism, liberty and self-governmeut
to the destructive passions of those whose
sole qualifications TO administer the affairs
OF others Is their confessed inability to
take care of their own"
ingalls, is both shallow and contradic-
tory in every labored effort he attempts.
Otherwise he would not be ingalls,.
l. II "majorities" are to give way tn
''brains," as Mr.. ingalls, plainly proposes
in the foregoing. who are supposed to have
monopoly of the brains?
2. Through what peculiar methods do
those who claim the brains propose to con-
troll the majorities?
Perhaps Mr.. Ingalls, might answer these
two questions by saying that the men who
have money enough TO enter the United
States Senate through the systematic pur-
chase of state legislatures, or TO secure the
nomination for governor by buying nm
state conventions, as Minnesota man
did, or by paying $3.50 each for votes at
primaries, as a man further west did. have
secured an option on all the brains in the
country, and that these fortunate parties
propose to preserve the Splendid results
OIL lndlVlduaiism, liberty and self-poyern-
ment," by wise and iudicious control of
'maJorities" through fiattery, deception
money or military and Pinkerton police
force, or through all these agencies COM
bined. If he means anything else or less
than this he certainly gave no hint of il
but that he means just this and nothing
short OF 1t is clearly proved by the whole
trend and influence OF the party he serves.
ingalls, IS evidently back in his old con-
d1tlon once more. and the Organs" praise
him. The Kansas cyclone knocked him
on his senatorial horse, and reminded him
brlehy OF the Golden Rule and of the dec
alogue. and frightened him into asking.
Lord what wilt thou have me do?"
But he was not "true to the heavenly
vision" The scales are still on his eyes
and he is hardening his conscience for ser.
wee IN the next Republican campaign.
which more than any other in the nations
history IS to be campaign of conspiracy
and lies.
Mr.. ingalls, thinks that those who favor
national control the great railway. tele-
graph and other monopolies are .'singu-
larly unfortunate" in their use of the most
Office department as an object lesson
And why2 Simply because that depart
ment has never been successful fnan-
claiIy." He also argues that "the govern
ment Is the worst served of all employers -
because salaries are generally larger aud
hours of labor fewer in government en-
ploy than in work under private monono-
hes. He does not seem to comnrebend
the truth that the mission Of
government when engaged in the
capacity of employer" is not to
WORK It's employees for all it can force out
OF them at the lowest possible wages,
after the manner of our private monopo-
hes, but to give good and satisfactory
service to the public while treating in q