The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-27
THE NEW INGALLS,.
Contradictions and Fallacies OF
the Ex-senator.
REVIEWED BY JAMES G. CLARK.
A Moral neutrality-suspicious. Time the
Kansas Statesman IL Shaken He Re-
veals Brilliant Combinations.
The Portland oregonian said recently.

The Portland Oregontdn said recently:
Since Senator Ingalls, has ceased to be senator
by the grace OF the Kansas Farmers Alliance, he
has given utteranee, through the reviews and
upon the lecture platform, to views not only in
consistent with those expressed while playing
the role OF statesman, but W tn each other He
hiss evidently been feeling around to see what is
the most popular, and TO find just where he can
'catch on again to the best advantage.
ingalls, is a moral Kaleidoscope. Every
time the man is shaken up" he reveals
new combinations of brilliant inconsistent
cies. But when in one of his recent
changes he says that he has searched in
vain in the constitution and laws of the
nation and states to find single provision
that does not bear equally upon all citi-
zens, or does not give all an equal chance
to become millionaires," does he mean to
say that he has taken peep into the laws
governing our national banking system?
Our banking institution is the Alpha
and Omega of an influence that has re-
suited in great aggregations, social AFRO
gance and monopolistic despotism on the
one hand, and agricultural Indebtedness
and wage-servitude on the other. That il
has been immensely remunerative to the
fortunate ones engaged in it is clearly
proved by the everywhere present fact
that the finest locations and the most sub
stantial and costly buildings in all our
principal towns and cities are national
bank property. A defender of the system
lately denied that there was any govern
ment discrimination in favor of bankers.
because "a successful farmer, merchant or
mechanic can become one by purchasing a
sufficient amount Of bonds" He, like
Senator ingalls,, did not seem to realize
that this very essential qualification carries
on its face the most unjust and undemo-
cratic legal discrimination possible-dis-
elimination which enables a comparatiyeiv
few successful individuals, who already
have sufficient means-to increase their
wealth TO still greater proportions through
government aid that is refused TO the
great mass of moderately successful men.
simply and solely because they are not
already rich.
If this is not discrimination in favor of
a class who, over all others, are least in
need Of help, will Mr.. ingalls, please define
the term and tell US what is? In saving
this | do not intend to cast blame upon
bankers as men, for it would be uniust
In honor and integrity they are, as a class.
the peers Of any other in the cornmunitv
not excepting editors and gospel ministers.
They are. like the rest of US, doing the
best they can for themselves under a svs-
TEN and government of which we all are
fractions, but which a rapidly increasing
number of US propose to change and reform
through political action.
On this banking or currency issue hangs
the entire weight of the social revolution
which Is now upon Us. II politicians and
corporation kings imagine that this reyo-
luton is going backward, they are imagin-
ing more vain things" than ever the
heather" did.
ingalls, fully understands and appreci-
ates the moral merits of the question. He
has sufficient intelligence and sense of ius-
tice to realize and condemn the evil. but
long, unquestioning service in the latter
degenerate years of a corrupt party, has
rendered him morally incapable of dis
corning the color of lie, and mentally un-
able to successfully wrestle with the
truth, even when he fairly gets hold of it.
The Oregonidn said, concerning one of
his recent articles in Truth, in which he
defends Mormon worship, There are
two OF this man. He did talk nonsense.
Now he talks sense"
Yes, there were two" of "Dr. JekylI ~
but "Mr. Hyde" prevailed at last.
1t was the good Ingalls, that defended the
Kansas farmers against the bankers and
usurers; it was the bad ingalls, that after
wards put to shame his nobler self and bet
ter utterances. Had he been deep and
profound as he is physically long. he
would not, in his article for Truth, have
said: 1T Is strange that the industrial
agitation Is more profound in the United
siates than in Europe" He would have