The Globe-republican., 1893-12-22
INGALLS, TALKS.
The Ex-senator Speaks to the
People Of Kansas City.
4 Characteristic Speech That VIII b
Found lnteresting-His Views Ex-
pressed on q Number Of Time.
~ Subjects.

Found lnteresting-His Views Ex-
pressed on q Number Of Time.
ly Subjects
Ex-senator Ingalls, lectured recently
at Kansas City to a large audience of
ladies and gentlemen on the topics of
the times The matters of general in
terest touched upon by the orator are
given below. The ex-senator, after re-
ferring to local matters, had this to
:ay:
Woman Suffrage
No government, ladies and gentlemen can
aissipate the resources or degrade he fran
:hises Of thoughtful, patriotic and intelligent
oeople. devoted to the discharge OF their politi-
al duties and there is no possibility 4 griev-
Jus naladministrati ton, corruption or abuse II
power unless the people are Indifferent and de-
hnQuent in the discharge Of their political
Guties am here to preach the gospel Of poll
tics to the men and women Of America in all
their capacities and functions
said while ago that every woman ought to
be a politician, and am glad to manv
ladies' gracing this audience tonight by their
presence Woman, SO long the toy, thu pay
thing or the slave of man. is at last his equal in
everything, except politically, and regret to
say that l believe that she will soon
be his equal there daughter / know
Of no reason why the participation
Of intelligent and thoughtful women would not
oe to the distinct advantage of American poll
hes Yet il the question were left to tine
women themselves III any community in the
great United States it would be rejected by an
overwhelming vote. / said to Miss Anthony,
The ab!est and most efficient advocate Of this
reform that believed the ultimate success Of
1he movement would find its final obstacle not
N the hostility Of the men but the indifference
Of the women If he women want 10 vote and
don't vote, il will be the first instance that has
ever come under my observation where q
woman didn't get what she wanted Laugh
Ter
II ne women of the country wanted suffrage.
the men of the countrT would trample on each
other TO give II to them.
No, only should the men and women OF
America be politicians but they should be par
.isan politicians This may seem strong advice
from one who was never suspected of being q
partisan Laughter there is 70 govern
ment in this country except IN I chosen as the
instrument of part. We have no dynasty,
ruling family, privileged class. men
with the hereditary right to rule. nothing ex
cept the expressed will Of q majo ity OF the
people
Government and Railroads.
There is kind of an idea that there is some
-
people There is an idea that the cure for the
evils OF government is in the government: that
to secure an eQull distribution OF wealth, en-
ploymeut for the unemployed to forbid ex
action and eXtortion, the government should
take possession Of the rail roads and telegraph
lines and telephone corporations and all public
Affairs What IS the government: What is
this new political entity under this new poll.
teal dispensation which is TO take charge Of
Affairs and cure all the evils hf the BODY pol
itic:
There is the presdent-Mr Grover C.eve-
and, believe. How did he ge. there: 1 want
gou 10 understand ne got there through no help
81 mire, but he got ere By majority vote of
he American people-cer;ihed b: the proper
officials What else il there: Here is the con-
yress of the United Sta and the supreme
SQUIRT OF the United States. These three and
nothing more II there be anywhere anybody,
any person or power. except those which
'pring from these three. hope some advocate
this new doctrine will tell me
rhere it is TO be found. What does this
lew doctrine mean? 1t means that
hese men. the agents, Representatives and
servants Of the Poop e, chosen for q specified
time 10 exercise certain function, are to exer-
Use the functions of Uonarchs by taking pos
IessiCn OF thu affairs OF the people: that the
non who have not built the railroads should
take them by force from those who did build
!hem; that those who have fallen down in the
ace of life sh III take possession OF the affairs
If those who have succeeded that those who
have failed. either from infirmity or inferiority
who had an equal chance, shall be held q ali
led to take charge Of the afIirS OF everybody
This is new theory for the Anglo Saxon to
consider: new theory that the government
his mysterious political entity, is 10 rectify
al wrongs SO 1 say that every man and
woman should be a partisan, belong to
some purity and stand by it would naturally
prefer III - they belong to the republican party,
but will not insist on that Tnere is no place
Z r the man who belongs 10 a party little and
snce in a while there is no place for the man
who is better than ali parties and who flocks BY
limself. who stands on the street enlargiug the
bands of his phylacteries and thanking the
Lord he is not as other men are, and especially
as these republicans are The way to make
politics pure is for pure men TO discharge their
duties preach no gospel of bigo,ry and the
gospel of no party.
The Pioneers of the Country.
When the Macauley OF the future shall write
the history OF the republican party of the nine
teenih century he will doubtless record some
bad republicans-out not great many Of them
Laughter And the same impartial chronicler
will record some good democrats-butn not many
81 them Gt.sughterl 1t is entirely possible
to be politician ana partisan without being
bigoI
The men who first came to this country came
here r definite and specified purpose but
shey brought ideas OF iuconceivable power
whose benefits we enjoy and whose disadvan
:agcs We must bear. Like Hannibal and Ma
poleon. they changed human destiny and the
lace OF human events The idea they brought
with them across the seas was the idea OF in
aivicuzhsm, the right of man to Q full and
tree enjoyment of his own faculties, unre.
strained by power or ownership
They came not TO teach that all men were
equal That is a great mistake God Himself
has not done that and what the Supreme Being
has not done all political institutions must fail
TO do. There is no assumption Of physical or
Intellectual equality. AL that is intended is
that every man. the lettered and the ignorant
the black and the white. the rich and the poor.
the weak and the strong, shall have exactly the
same rights as every other man Our fore
fathers were not not ed for the de,icacy of their
dealings with others.
One OF the wittiest of the descendants has
said that the first thing they did when they
landed was to fall upon their knees and then
they fell upon the aoorigines might add that
they next fell upon the Chinese. [Lauehterl ~
they viii do upon every nation which stands in
the way Of their imperious desires. They Law
In wait for the human race. From the begin.
ming they have ID other nationalities do their
work for them, and they have not always paid
them Just and equitable wages