The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-27
AN EYE OPENER.
Ex-senator Ingalls, Gives the
New Workers One
On the Silver Sentiment in the
West.
HATRED OF BAD TIMES
As Strong in the West as in the
East.
People Wont Endure Them Any
Longer for a Theory.

New York, April 27.-In an interview
with a staff correspondent of the Mail
and Express published here, ex-Sena-
tor J. j. ingalls, said: 1.-The people Of
the west viii not follow New York on
the money question I believe I can
say that definitely. I am not speaking
without knowledge when I say that you
will find if you investigate it, that the
silver feeling in the west is deeper,
more widespread and profound than
the east realizes. The platform of the
New York Republicans would not be
acceptable to the west and it will not
in my opinion be reflected in the de-
claration to be made by the party at
st. Louis. I look for a conservative
expression of sentiment in the national
platform and doubt very much whether
any Wild, incoherent, rapid or ferOc-
ious views viii be tolerated there. A
declaration for gold monometallism
would complIcate the issues for us here
in the west. There viii be found some
common ground upon which all Re
publicans can stand. Every body knows
that these great struggles end in com
promises. Each side comedies a little
that leads up to a satisfactory adjust
ment of the matter
I am inclined to the belief that times
are as hard today as at any period
since the decline began. There has
never been a season in Kansas when
farm products were so low, land so lit
tie sought after, and the sales and ex-
changes Of trade so few. Rents have
declined, incomes have diminished and
wages remain unsatisfactory and mad
equate to the masses Every thing in
fact has shrunk except debts and tax
es. They alone have a tendency to
higher figures. Nobody is thriving now
except the dealers in mOney-the syn
dICateS and men who deal in Securi-
ties and other evidences of debt. Nor
do perceive ahead of us any well de-
fined or radical change for the better
If confined TO this country alone, it
might be susceptible of explanation on
a political basis, but an epoch of de-
preston, dependency and failing in
duStr1es appears to prevail in all parts
Of the CIVILIZED world. The Contraction
of the circulating medium of all the
great nations by the destruction of the
money functions of silver is to my
mind, the chief cause. ] can see no 9TH
er explanation Of it, though I do not
offer that as a solution" "
Talking of Cleveland. Mr. ingalls,
| said; His policies are destructive He
has no constructive capacity at all He
has not attempted to replace the sys-
TENS he has endeavOred to destroy He
OverthreW the tariff and DESTROYED our
revenues He cOerced a reluctant con
gTess into the stOppage of the coinage
of silver and he has left our indus
tries paralyzed and our monetary sys-
tenn in chaos His only method for
supplying revenue and carrying on the
government is by the sale of the obli-
cations of the country Tt requires no
unusual talent or ability to borrow
money when you have the collateral
Yet we have never before been com
PEELED to resort to that method for
raising revenue in times of peace, ex-
cept when Buchanan. another Demo-
cratic president, did it, just before the
rebellion