The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-06-08
Mr.. ingalls, Address.

When Senator ingalls, delivered the
address before the law department of
the Kansas state university at Law
renee last Tuesday, the associated
press briefly reported 1t TO the world
as a somewhat pessimistic production.
The Kansas newspapers bring its full
text. 1t is fine specimen of ingalls,
bright and fascinating rhetoric. 1t is
a pretentious effort, the speaker en-
deavoring 10 sum up what he conceives
TO be the social crises OF the day. To
his mind they are very serious indeed.
He believes that 'the serene and res
olute genius OF the Anglo-Saxon race
will prove equal TO the emergency, al
though just how he has no very clear
conception. To Mr.. Ingalls, things at
present are in a pretty bay way. After
reviewing the worlds struggles for
liberty, he says:
The dream of the centuries has at
last been realized. From the brutal
and bloody tumult of history, man has
at last emerged lord OF himself. But
the perpleXing enigmas of fate remain.
Men are equal, but there is no eouali-
~. Suffrage is universal. but political
power is eNeT'ted by few; poverty has
not been abolished. The burdens and
privileges OF society are uneoually
borne: Some have wealth beyond the
capacity or extravaganza 10 suuander.
and others pray in vain for dailv
bread. Baffied and thwarted by these
1ncongruities, exasperated II NAV be
by suffering and want, disappointed in
the effects OF political liberty upon in
dividual happiness and prosperity.
many have yielded TO a disquietude
so searching and profound as to indi-
cate the necessity for the active coali-
uon OF the conservative forces in our
society.
In the evolutionary movement. upon
which society OF the United States ba $
centered, there are no precedents in
history, because the conditions arc
anomalous, and a scientific solution is
therefore impossible. While the ron
dftion OF the masses Of the people has
peen enormously improved BY social
progress, the application of science 10
INDUSTRY and the inventions of ma
chinery, II cannot be doubted that
poverty Is more hostile TO society
more dangerous TO the institutions Of
sef-goYernment and TO the nersonaI
liberty that has been gained after So
many centuries Of conflict than ever
AAN iNdrous are obvious The
laborer is free; he is voter. his soft
respect is increased; his sensibiIitv has
become acute; his wants have heen
multiplied more rapidly than the
means OF qualification: education has
elevated him above the Conditions ~
mental toll. The daily newspaner has
familiarized him with the ADVANTAGES
that wealth gives its possessors lie
has been taught that an men have
been created equal and he believes
that while rights are eaualed annor-
tunities are not. Modern science nos
armed him with formidable weanons
and when hunger comes nothing a. 50
sacred as the necessities OF wife and
children.
In looking for the remedies for all
these evils and defects Of society Mr.
ingalls, virtually confesses. that he Is
all al sea. That the grievances can he
redressed by a change Of political insti-
buttons he considers a proposition fun
damentally erroneous, because ..it
rests upon the fallacy that material
prosperity is result Of freedom. the
truth being that political liberty IS the