Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-29

form one-third of the worlds mining, one
quarter of its manufacturing, one-fifth Of
its farming, and we possess one'sixth part
of its entire accumulated wealth.
THE ANaLo-sAxoN.
The Anglo-Saxon, Mr.. President, is moi
by nature or instinct an anarchist, so.
cialist, a nihilist, or a communist. HI
does not desire the Reputation Of debts, pub
lie or private, and he does not favor the
Jorcible redistribution of property. He came
to this continent, as he has gone every
where else on the face of the earth, with a
purpose. The 10000 English colonists
who came to this country between 1920
and 1850 formed the most significant, the
most formidable migration that has ever
occurred upon this globe since time began.
They brought with them social and politi-
cal ideas novel in their application, of in
conceivable energy and power: the home,
the family, the state, individualism, the
right of personal effort, freedom of con-
science, an indomitable love of liberty
and justice, genius for government,
an unrivaled capacity for conquest, but
preferring charters to the sword, and they
have been memorable and relentless in the
accomplishment of their designs. They
we're fatigued with caste and privilege
and prerogative. They we're tired of
monarchs, and SO, upon the bleak and
inhospitable shores of New England, they
decreed the sovereignty of the people, and
there they builded "a church without a
bishop and state without king" The
result of that experiment, Mr.. President,
has been ostensibly successful. Under the
operation of these great forces, after 270
years, this country exhibits peaceful tri-
umph over many subdued nationalities
through q Government automatic in its
functions and sustained by no power but
the invisible majesty of law. With swift
and constant communication by lines of
steam transportation, by land, and lake,
and sea, with telegraphs extending their
nervous reticulations from State TO State,
the remotest members of this gigantic
republic are animated by vitality as
vigorous as that which throbs at its
mighty heart, and it is through the quick
ened intelligence that has been communi-
Gated by those ideas that these conditions,
which have been fatal to other nations,
have become the pillars of our strength
and bulwarks of our safety.
powERLEss TO ENsLAvE.
We have become, Mr. President, the
wealthiest nation upon the face of this
earth, and the greater part of these enor-
nous accumulations has been piled up dur
ing the past 20 years from 1860 to 1880
Notwithstanding the losses incurred by
the most destructive war of modern times,
the emancipation of four billions of slave
property the expense of feeding the best
fed, of clothing the best clothed, and of
sheltering the best sheltered people in the
world - Notwithstanding all the losses by
fire and flood. During that period of 20
years the wealth of the country increased
at the rate of $250,000 for every hour.
Every time that the clock licked above the
portal of this chamber the aggregated
accumulated, permanent wealth of this
country increased more than So Sir, il
rivals, it exceeds the fictions of the Ara.
bian Nights. There is nothing in the
story of the lamp of Aladdin that sur.
passes it. 1t is without parallel or prece-
dent; and the national ledger now shows
a balance to our credit, after all that has
been wasted, and squandered, and ex-
pended, and lost, and thrown away, of be-
tween sixty and seventy thousand million
dollars. believe, myself, that upon fair
cash market valuation the aggregate wealth
of this country to-day is not less than one
hundred thousand millions of dollars. This
is enough, Mr. President, to make every man
and every woman and every child beneath
the flag comfortable, to keep the wolf away
from the door; it is enough to give to every
family competence. And yet we are
told that there are thousands of people
who never have enough to eat in any one
day in the year. We are told by the stat
isticians of the Department of Labor of
the United States that, Notwithstanding
this stupendous aggregation, there are a
million American citizens, able bodied and
willing to work, who tramp the streets of
our cities and the country highways and
byways in search of labor with which to
buy their daily bread in vain,
Mr.. President, is it any wonder that this
condition of things can exist without ex-
citing profound apprehension? l heard,
or saw, rather, for l did not hear it i saw
in the morning papers that in his speech
yesterday the Senator from Ohio Mr..
SHERMAN devoted considerable part of
his remarks to the defense of millionaires;
that he declared that they were the froth
of the beer of our political system.
Mr.. SHERMAN. said spectators.
Mr.. INGALLS,. Spectators? They
are very nearly the same, for the million
aires of this country, Mr.. President, are
not the producers and the laborers. They
are arrayed like Solomon in all his glory
but "they toll not, neither do they spin"
yes, they do spin. This class, Mr.. Presi-
dent, am. glad to say, is not confined to
this country alone. These gigantic ac-
cumulations have not been the result of
industry and economy. There would be
no protest against them if they were.
The people are beginning to inquire
whether, under ga government of the
people, by the people, and for the people,"
under a system in which the bounty of
nature is supplemented by the labor of
all, any citizen can show a moral-yes, or
a legal-title to $200,000,000.
Some have the temerity to ask whether
or not any man can show clear title to
$10O,OO0,OO0. There have been men rash
enough to doubt whether, under system
so constituted, by speculation or other
wise, any citizen can show a fair title to
$10,O00,000, when the distribution per
capita would be less than $1,000. If l
we're put upon my roir dire, | should hest
tate before admitting that, in the sense of
giving just compen sation aud equivalent,
any man in this country or any other
country ever absolutely earned million
dollars. l do not believe he ever did