The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-22
INGALLS, TALKS.
The Ex-senator Speaks to the
People of Kansas City.
A Characteristic Speech That VIII Be
Found Interesting-His Views Ex-
pressed on a Number of Time
Iy Subjects

Ex-senator Ingalls, lectured recently
at Kansas City to 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
say:
Woman Suffrage.
No government, ladies and gentlemen. can
dissipate the resources or degrade he fran
chises Of thoughtful. patriotic and intelligent
people devoted 10 the discharge of their politi-
cal DUTIES and there is no possibility q griev-
Gus administration, corruption or abuse of
power unless the people are Indifferent and de-
linquent in the discharge of their political
duties. am here to preach the gospel Of poll
tics to the men and women Of America in all
their capacities and functions
said a while ago that every woman ought TO
be politician, and am glad to see so many
ladies grazing this audience tonight By their
presence. Woman, so long the toy. the piaT-
thing or the slave Of man is at last his equal in
everything except politically, and regret to
say that 1 believe that she will soon
be his equal there. Laughter I know
OF no reason why the participation
of intelligent and thoughtful women would not
be to the distinct advantage Of American poll
tics Yet II the question were left to the
women themselves in any community in the
great United States IL would be re ected by an
overwhelming vote. l said 10 Miss Authonv,
the ablest and most efficient advocate of this
reform. that believed the ultimate success OF
the movement would find its final obstacle not
in the hostility of the men but the Indifference
OF the women II he women want 10 vote and
don't vote, il viii oe the first instance that has
ever come under my observation where
woman didn't get what she wanted Laugh
ter
If the women of the country wanted suffrage.
the men of the country would trample on each
other to give it to them
Not only should the men and women OF
America be politicians but they should be par
tisan politicians. This may seem strong advice
from one who was never suspected Of being
partisan Laughter here is no govern
ment in this country except tn chosen as the
instrument of a party We have no dynasty.
no ruling family, no privileged class. no men
with the hereditary right TO rule, nothing ex-
cepl the expressed will Of 4 maio ity Of the
people.
Government and Railroads.
There is kind Of an idea that there is some
political entity apart outside Of and above the
people. There is an idea that the cure for the
evils of government is in the government: that
to secure an equal distribution Of wealth. en-
plovmeut for the unemployed, to forbid ex-
action and extortion. the government should
take possession Of the railroads 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
itics
There is the president-Mr Grover Cleve
land. believe How did he get there: l want
you to understand he go: there through no help
OF mine. but he got taere by a majority vote Of
he American people-certifed b. the proper
officials. What else f. there. Here is the con-
gTess Of the United Sta es and the supreme
court of the United States These three and
nothing more II there be anywhere anybody.
any person or power except those which
spring from these three. 1 hope some advocate
OF this new doctrine will tell me
where il is to be found WHAT does this
new doctrine mean II means that
these men the agents. representatives and
servants Of the poop g. chosen for specified
time to exercise certain function are TO exer
else the functions OF monarehs bv taking pos
session OF the affairs OF the people: that the
men who have not built the railroads should
take them by force from those who did build
them. that those who have fallen down in the
race of life shat take possession OF the affairs
Of those who have succeeded that those who
have failed either from inhrmity or inferiority.
who had an equal chance, shall be held ali
fed to take charge Of the affairs OF every body.
This is a new theory for the Anglo Saxon to
consider a new theory that the government.
this mysterious political entity, is TO rectify
all wrongs. So say that every man and
woman should be a partisan belong 20
some party and stand oy it would naturally
prefer tn u they belong TO the republican party,
but will not insist on that There is no place
the nan VITO belongs 10 party little and
once in nile there Is no place for the man
who Is better than all parties and who hocks by
himself. who stands on the street enlarging the
bands OF his phylacieries and thanking the
Lord be is no: as other men are. aud especially
as these republicans are The way to make
politics pure is for pure men to discharge their
duties preach no gospel OF bigoiry and the
gospel of no party
The Pioneers of the Country.
When the Macauley OF the future shall write
the historv Of the republican party of the nine
teenth century he Will doubtless record some
bad republicsns-but not great many of them
Laughter And the same impartial chronieler
will record some good democrats-butn not many
OF them Laughter 1t Is entirely possible
TO be politician and a partisan without being
bizot
The men who first came to this country came
here definite and specified purpose but
they brought ideas OF inconceivable power.
whose benefits We eniov and VIII sc disadvan
tages we must bear Like Hannibal and Ma
poleon. they changed human DESTINY and the
| face OF human events. The idea they brought
with them across the seas was the idea OF IN
dividualism. the right Of a man to a full and
free enjoyment OF his own faculties, unre-
strained by power or ownership
They came not 10 teach that all men were
equal That is a great mistake. God Himself
has not c that and what the Supreme Being
has not don ali political institutions must fail
| to do There is no assumption OF physical or
Intellectual equalitv. All that is intended Is
that every man, the lette-ed 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 delicacy 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 sborigines l might add that
I they next fell upon the Chinese, lLaughierl as
! they will do upon every nation which stands in
I the way Of their imperious desires Thew lay
IN wait for the human race From the begin
ming they have other nationalities do their
I work for them. and they have not always paid
I them just and equitable wages
But in the main IL is safe for Us, their de-
J sceudants and Inheritors 70 say that they have
| builced well upon the foundation Of liberty,
I equality and fraternity They founded state
without king and church wi bout a bishop
and brought forth the greatest moral and in
: teIlectual results in the hi tory OF the world
1 suppose you all attended the worlds fair
+ II not you ought TO have done so and witnessed
/ the most ma ynifeent aggregation OF beauty
| and splerdor the world has ever seen / was
most poxerfully impressed by this fact that
| The Arzlo-Saxon race has done more thai any
other race on the globe TO Lift the standard Of
I the human race
stood in the presence Of that most interest
I ing Of historical documents. which bore the
/ hand and seal Of Ferdinand and Isabella giving
Columbus the authority 10 sail as the admiral
Of the seas And il was a curious and interest