The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-07
INGALLS, SPEECH.
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outrage and said no matter what the
women of Greenwood county might
think about it it was one OF the great
noIiticaI DrobIems of the future.
He saw no reason why the influence of
women would not be an excellent thing
for politics, he doubted very much II
politics would be a good thing Tor
women. Colorado had tried it with GOOD
success. and it would be remembered,
he said, that we had something to do
with il in this state last fall.
"Kansas is a state" he continued, "ln
which every experiment, religious, poll
tical, moral and meteorological has Deen
tried with various degrees of success. II
has been said that if a man starts out
for ever SO short a trip he should take
with him fan, an overcoat, lightning
rod. and an umbrella. The vicissitudes
OF its climate are only equaled by the Vi
cissitudes of its politics l speak teeI-
inpIv for l remem Ter being hurled into
the atmosphere higher than any record
ed instance since the COW jumped over
the moon. In fact l have sometimes
been in doubt as to whether l have land
ed yet
"ff the women do not get suf.
frage it will be because OF
their Indifference. The women
IN whom I am most interested, and who
are most interested in me, did not ex-
press an opinion about it the whole time
the question was under discussion and II
there was any other subject within the
range of human thought and activity
which they didn't speak about 1t doe
not now occur to my recollection. II
women want suffrage the men will tram
pie on one another's heels to give It to
them. If they want it and don't get it
it will be the first time they didn't get
what they wanted since the little Incl
dent in the garden of Eden with Adam
and Eve and the snake and the apple.
Believes in Partisanship.
Mr.. Ingalls, said be believed in parti-
sanship in politics 1t was the fashion
he said, of a certain class of men, for
the most part graduates of New England
colleges to hold forth that one could not
engage in partisan politics without con-
taminatiOn. He characterized them
as "men who stand on the
corners of the street wearing
Their phylacteries, and thanking God
they are not as other men are, even these
Republicans. They are the followers of
English barmaids and French grisettes,
and have the morals of Robert Macaire
and the spirit of Uriah Heep.
Whenever a man is too good to asso-
ciste with the great majority of his fell
lows in the fields Of partizan political
activity, the best that can be said of him
is that he will bear careful scrutiny. He
Is great deal like an egg. Whenever
it becomes necessary to enter into an ex-
tended argument to prove that an egg
is good, it is doubtful, and a doubtful
egg is bad.
Gas I have said before, history may re-
cord that there were some bad Repub-
licAns, not q great many, but now and
then one With equal impartiality il
may find some good Democrats, not a
great many, now and then one.
Focal Idea of Nations.
when we study the histories of the
great peoples of the world we
find that there was one great fundamen-
tai focal idea" said Mr. Ingalls, proceed
ing to another theme. "What has been
fhis purpose in our Anglo Saxon civiliza-
ton? What is the possession that the
people of Kansas value more today than
houses aud farms.
"The history of the arrogant and rapa-
cious race to which we belong has been
the record of incessant and bloody strug-
giles for personal liberty. Wars have
been waged, dynasties overthrown and
monarchs beheaded, not for conquest, for
am bitiOn, for glory. but that man might
be free Privilege and prerogative have
stubbornly and reluctantly yielded to the
indOmitable passion for individual
liberty"
Dir. ingalls, said we were confronted in
this country now with an anomalous and
serious social condition, and asked what
is the solution. He said he had asked a
man on the train what was the matter
with the country, and he had answered
"overproductOn."
This would present the curious and
ton 4 ,,,aIo - Z
men going barefoot because there are too
many shoes. that thousands of men who
went hungry and uttered in vain the
prayer give US this day our daily bread, >
because there is too much wheat pro-
duced on the broad fertile prairies of the
west, that men shivered with cold be-
cause there is too much wool to feed the
looms"
Another said it was lack of conf
dence in the circulating medium, but
business was always good, Mr. Ingalls,
in the circulating medium.
Whenever you get quarter in which
you have a lack of confidence. which
looks a little slippery, that hasn't the
right ring on the counter, what do you do
with 1t? Do you put it away in a strong
box? Do you bury it under the corner
stone of your house? Do you not. on the
other hand, stop as you go home at the
little fruit stand on the corner and buy
some bananas for baby, or if it happens
he Saturday night do you not drop it
GU stly into the contribution box on Sun
L~y? No; lack of confidence has moth
ing to do with it
"Too much population is the cause
assigned by others. Yet every one OF
the entire population of the United
States could be comfortably placed
in Kansas, and have enough real estate
left for public Improvements. If you
shall say that there is too great a popu-
lation of men who would make good
strangers, l would be inclined to agree
with you"
Lessons of the Strike.
"Last summer l CHANGED to make 8
trip from the east to Chicago by way OF
West Virginia and Ohio. 1t was like 8
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