The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-10-31
HIS INCONSISTENCY.
views of Colonel Robert G. In
gcrSOll Four Years Ano
New York Journal.


Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, who is
now on the stump for Mark Hanna and
the plntocrats. must have changed his
political principles. At the Tabor Opera
House in Denver May 90, 1892, he said
in public address:
= said | would say one or two words
tonight on such vulgar things as gold
and silver. | am as satisfied as I am
that | live hat the few-the few who
control the debts the currency, the
money of the world-have combined
either consciously or unconscionsly to
make the debtor pay more than the cred
itor has the right to ask.
The tendency has always been in
TINS world to put the burden on those
least able to bear them. In barbarian
countries the women have to do the
work SIMPLY because they are the weak
er; that is all. And the others. being
stronger, do not expend their strength
in working, but expend their strength
IN making the weaker do the work.
This is precisely the same in our
civilized society today. Between the
rich and the poor, if burden is to be
borne in this country, it is borne always
by the poor-always
They are the first to suffer Let the
blast of war blow III this country. Who
goes to the war? The millionaire: Not
one. Who goes? The great presidents of
corporations! The bankers? The men
VINO preside over our great vaults of
gold! Not much. The poor go, because
nine times out of ten the poorer the
man is the more patriotic he seems to
be. The poor bear the burdens Of this
country and of this world.
"Only few years ago our money
was gold and silver--money that had
been the money Of man for thousands
OF years. Our silver was demonetized
and gold made the standard.
There is no man in the United
States with ingenuity enough to account
for the decentralization of silver in 1873.
There is not one. We need altogether
more money than we have.
Il believe that every ounce of silver
that is dug under the American flag
should be coined free under the Amer
lean flag. In my country they are most
ly on the other side. They are with the
bankers-with the rich fellows. They
get together and say we want gold. 4
man makes contract to pay certain
moneys in five years / want q law SO
that he can pay the money when the
contract comes due with the money
that was money when he made the con
tract. | do not think the few should
have the right TO combine 10 increase
the value of what people call money as
against the debtor and in favor of the +
creditor
Il know most people think it requires
much more honesty to be ready to re-
ceive the money than it is to work i'm
rain, SNOW and sleet to earn money. /
They think anybody could do thar. And I
know another thing about money. Ii I
is the most social stnff OH earth. A dol,
lar hates poor mans pocket and will
yet out OF it some way, and it will Just
roll off into a vault with lot of com.
paniops.
1T is the most social thing in the
world. But want the free coinage of
al the gold you can dig out of the
mines and crevices Of the rocks. and
want the free coinage of all the silver
rou can win from the mines of Ameri
"a. And IL there are those who are not
Wiling to take silver we will not trade
With them. 1T would be thousand
lines better for us if we never bought
mother thing from Europe ~