Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-09
POLITICAL PROBLEMS.

POLITICAL PROBLEMS.
Ex-senator ingalls, on the Problems of Our
Second Century-No Abiding Place In
This Country For Anarchists and Social
ists-A Momentous Crisis Present
WASHINGTON, July 1.-EN-Senatof
Ingalls, addressed large audience at
the National Chatauqua- in Glen Echo.
npon 1.-The Problems of Our Second
Century" He began his lecture with
glowing tribute to Washington, eulogiz-
ing its many advantages as resident
city, referring to its lack OF pop1isr
suffrage and predicting that the time
would never come when it would be re-
moved from its present site
There is a growing sentiment said
Senator Ingalls,. as he entered upon the
topic selected for his talk, in favor of
paternalism in this country; of the gov
eminent doing everything and the
people doing nothing. This" he
continued, lis Numerically opposed
to the idea of individualism upon
which this government had been
built and the good Anglo-Saxon
doctrine of root hog or die. 1t has al
ways happened in every community that
the weak were more numerous than
the strong; that the number of those
who failed outnum bered those who sue
ceeded and that the wise, the intelli-
gent and the thoughtful Were in the
minority. We have now a new school
of political philosophy that is repudiat-
! ing the Declaration of Independence
and is endeavoring to overthrow max
inns of democracy and to insist that
the race shall not be for the swift
nor the battle to the strong,
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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; that money shall be
made as plentiful as the autumn leaves
of the forest; that taxation shall be
abolished by acts of states legislatures,
and that prosperity shall be forcibly dis
tributed equally among all men"
Dwelling for few moments on the
progress of the Anglo-Saxoh race, Mr..
Ingalls, then paid tribute to the people
| from whom the American nation
sprung. Among Them" he said, ''were
no nihilists or socialists" The Anglo
Saxon characteristic of individualism,
right of personal liberty, freedom of
conscience, and the development of the
faculties of every man was forcibly
emphasized. 1T was race" he said,
that would not intermingle with other
races The Chinese have had some
taste of this
THE negro has had some melancholy
experiences and the anarchists and So
cialists," he added. amid applause, will
have still more significant experience
before the Anglo-Saxon race is through
with them
1.-The doctrine of the devil take the
hindmost," continued Mr.. Ingalls,, amid
laughter, twas good one, but just now
it seemed as if there were more hindmost
than foremost If the present condition
of things were to continue without bes
ing retarded this land, instead of being
the home of the free and land of the
brave, would be the home of the rich
and the land of the slave"
In the course of his address Mr..
Ingalls, said that he and Jay Gould wera
about the same age, and had started in
active life about the same time Mr..
Could" said the ex-senator, entered
Wall street with patent mouse trap as
his only stock in trade, and setting 1t.
has nearly succeeded in capturing every
thing in sight / started west with my
gripsack, and now / am a statesman
out of a job"
In conclusion Mr.. Ingalls, said that he
could not disguise the fact that the
present was a momentous crisis, that
the destructive forces of our civilization
are marshaled for the final contest;
upon this continent was to be fought
the battle that meant deSpotism or vic
tory. This is the last experiment in re-
| publican institutions but the attempt to
| lille Of naiatx- hxvS t--1 70 Il
| be as futile as the effort to make the
. mercury stand at zero in July and at
, boiling point in January"
This government" he said finally,
sis based upon the New Testament,
upon the teachings of Jesus Christ, who
declared that all men were equal before
the law and that the fatherhood of God
, resulted in the brotherhood of man
This contest will have but one result
have no doubt that the progress of the
t nation will be constantly upward
In every crisis of history, in all the bit
ter struggles of humanity through the
desolate tract of wretchedness and pow
erty, still the progress of the race has
been onward and upward. Out of every
struggle, out of every contest, has
: come broader liberty. greater oppor-
, tunities for happiness and greater
prophecies of the development of the
race hereafter, and so out of this con-
{ test upon which we have entered will
come absolutely at last triumph OF
, liberty and social fraternity of the
American people and the continued
progress in the wealth, industry and in
telligence of the entire American re-
| public"
Missouri Military Commissions
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, July THE
following military commissions were is
sued by Gov. Francis yesterday: c. o.
I Harrington and r NJ Hockaday, cap
tain and aid-de-camp on the staff of
Brighten. Milton Moore; G :. Hunt