The advocate., 1892-01-06

the honor. In fact, if true, few but
Lincoln could have said it. And that It
is true, every man who has opened his
eyes to the condition of things as they
exist in the United States to day, must
admit. Indeed, am willing to rest
their part Of their case on the testimony
of Mr.. Ingalls, himself.
On February Is, 1878, Senator Ingalls,
stated the case as follows:
The people are arrsylng themselves on
one side or the other of poFtentious con-
test. On one side is capital, formidably in
trenched in privilege, arrogant from con-
tinued triumph, conservative, tenacious of
old theories, demanding new concessions,
enriched by domestic levy and foreign COM
merOe and struggling to adjust all values to
its own standard. On the other is labor
asking for employment, striving to develop
domestic industries, battling with the forces
of nature, and subduing the Wilderness;
labor, starving and sullen in the cities, resO-
lutely determined to overthrow system
under which the rich are growing richer and
the poor are growing poorer; a system
which gives TO Vanderbilt the possession
of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice,
and condemns the poor to poverty which
has no refuge from starvation but the prison
or the grave.
After Senator ingalls, made that state
ment he was elected to the United States
Senate twice by the Republicans of Kan
sas, and the Republicans In the United
States Senate made him their presiding
officer. Thirteen years later, January
IA, 1891, he repeated In the United States
Senate the same words, and added:
So it happens, Mr.. President, that our 30
ciety is becoming rapidly stratiAed, almost
hopelessly stratiRed, into q condition of
superhuOusly rich and helplessly poor. We
are accustomed to speak of this as the land
of the free and the home of the brave. II
will soon be the home of the rich and the
land of the slave.
In view Of testimony like that, estRb-
fishing the truthfulness of the Lincoln
prediction, it must require an uncommon
amount of gall for the ex-senator to try
to pluck one Of the brightest gems from
the glorious crown of our great OK. Pres
ident The man who could steal the
language and the sentiments Of dead
priest to ornament his own over-pralsed
vocabulary, will scarcely stop short Of
trying to tarnish the splendor Of dead
Presidents fame, II, by so doing, he
thinks 1t may tend to advertise his own
cheap astuteness.
We had q case much like this some
years ago. A famous gentleman Of the
same political faith Of Mr.. Ingalls, called
In question the authenticity the we'll
known and truthful Hazard circular, and
Its companion piece, known as the Buel
bank circular. The name of this politl-
cal leader Of the Ingalls, faith and cali
Der, was John W. Ady. In a spirit of
bravado he offered 300 in gold for proof
of the authenticity of the Hazard and
Buel circulars. / discussed the matter
at the time, briefly, as follows:
Mr.. Ady turns black and blue in the face
and awears himself blind on the subject Of
the Hazard and Buel circulars, which have
passed unchallenged in the newspapers for
eight or ten years. He is in congenial COM
pany. The old slave holders turned the
same color and swore the same way over
Mrs. Stoves "Uncle Toms Cabin" Mr..
Ady offers 800 in gold for proof Of the
genuineness of those circulars. In this
matter the money power party is far below