The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-31
INGALLS, AT PAOLA.
rhe Ex-Kansas Senator Delivers q Caus-
tic Memorial Day Grafton.

tic Memorial Day Grafton.
PAoLA, Kan, May 51.-s'My first
visit to your city more than thirty
years ago was as a prisoner of war; it
was in the heat of a political cam
paign, and upon arriving near the
( town limits was arrested as a sus-
picious character and brought in
under guard" With these words ex-
Senator Ingalls, commenced one of the
most mastery orations ever delivered
in 'Paola, but in CHASING it as masterly
both the day and occasion must be
borne in mind for there were many
sentences which were evidence that
the caustic tongue which SO long held
sway in the United States senate had
whole, however, the address was
fairly conservative Mr.. ingalls, was
in fine condition and faced the largest
audience that ever gathered IN PaOIa
on like occasion
He dwelt upon the war, the attempt
at pension retrenchment and the
great industrial revolution now
threatening the country He said the
scattering of flowers, the professions
and OratiOnS were mere Sentlmen tai
ism and could neither add to nor take
from the lustre of departed heroes;
that every man enters life under
sentence of death and that their deeds
and not their death stamp the real
worth He believed the South was to-
day as firmly welded to the principles
for which they fought as they were in
81 Why was the late war? What
was its cause and object? 1.-The OBJ
ject, my friends, was constitutional
self-government, and l say to you to-
day that the object of the great con-
f1ict from '61 to '65 has not yet been
determined. - He honored the South
for its loyalty, because ideas are i'm
FOL n his
opinion by being whipped Had they
succeeded instead of the North he
would have called his children around
him like Hannibal and have sworn
them to eternal hostility to the gov
eminent.
Touching on pensions, Mr.. Ingalls,
was especially caustic in comparing
tn e pittance dOled out to the old sol
der as compared with the princely
salaries paid ambassadors. senators
and other government officials and de-
clared that there were a great many
who opposed pensions in any amount,
and that this of itself was reason
enough for perpetuating Memorial
day.
Referring to existing industrial dis
quie tude, he was particularly severe
on compulsory strikes, which he
classed as the worst form of tyranny,
and that those causing such were as
great rebels to free government and
equal rights as were those who fired
on Fort Sumter When a governor,
be he in Illinois, Kansas or Colorado,
sympathizes with and uphOlds the
efforts to override these principles,
esta blished by our declaration of indie
pendence, he is as much a traitor as
was the man who hauled down the
American flag at New Orleans, and de-
serves the same fate.
He admitted the unequ1L diStribu-
ton of wealth. that there are too
many mi1lionaires, but his chief re-
greet was that he was not of them
The future was his own, for all men
have equal chance. 1.-THE question we
must soon meet is whether this shall
be a government of law or of men
only My earnest hope and last in
junction to vou is that it be and for
ever remain a government of law, and
not of men,