The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-11
Ehe aa1iehta Daily aele aaledesaau zormno, 1895.

tigued already with Democratic delin-
quency and needs no further stimulus
AT this point in our conversation there
was rumbling from the corner where the
steam heater was located in Mr.. Ingalls,
room. He suggested that possibly this
was applause, and that peryading smile
which used TO light up the senate chamber
at Washington few years ago fitted over
his face for a moment. ! ventured the
suggestion that some one was trying TO
take a cathode photograph through the
adjoining wall.
"Is nOs this latest development o. sci
ence amazings" said the senator. 1T
seems as though we were C the verge of
disclosures beside which the discoveries Of
the past would seem trivial-as though
we We're a.1out TO penetrate the profoundest
depths of natures mysteries And yet
these revelations of science leave US as far
from the secrets Of human destiny as ever
leave us still to wonder why we are here
and whittier we go. And, by the way, is
it not a remarkable commentary on the
moral evolution of our race that 1900
years after God performed that greatest of
all sacrifices-by sending his Son to death
on the cross that men might be saved
60, 600 martyrs should be butchered in
Armenia for believing in his name!"
asked Mr.. Ingalls, if he sympathiZed
with those who credited the missionaries,
not alone IN Armenia, but in China and
other "heathen" countries, with stirring
up strife and causing great loss of human
life.
"They would be much better occupied
looking after our own heather, who are
many" said Mr.. Ingalls, earnestly.
''There are the Chinese, whose government
IS wonderful illustration Of national
longevity, for it existed long before Christ,
and it shows no signs of disintegration. II
the Chinese were to send missionaries to
this country TO set up their josshouses and
preach that our religion was sham and
a fraud and our God fiction, TO proselyte
our children, destroy our faith and under
mine our theology, they would find US very
intolerant, as the Mormons did. They
have laws, institutions, literature and
worship under which they have existed for
80 centuries. Their days have been long
In the land, which is the reward promised
for we'll doing, and it seems both arrogant
and superfluous to go abroad so far for OBJ
jects over which our hearts may expand
when there is such an inconceivable ag
gregate OF crime, poverty, ignorance and
misery within our gates"
He ExtoIs Salvationists.
I suggested the Salvation Army as a
missionary force which was working
among the heather of America with good
results, and the senator said he had the
greatest respect Tor that organization and
its work.
Their sermons are not like those of
Phillips Brooks and DIR. Swing" he said,
''but such sermons would go above the
heads of the people Booth is trying to
reach. These methods appeal to class
which cannot be reached in any other way.
The Catholic church is like them in that;
it reaches and controls an element which
cannot be influenced by other denomina-
tons The Catholic church is a great con-
sentative force in society, and that is the
reason why am opposed to the spirit of
religious intolerance"
l asked Mr.. Ingalls, If he believed the A.
P. a. was becoming political factor, and
he answered that it was a conspicuous
force in municipal politics in many cities
of the west. He would not venture TO say
what it might do in the future-whether
it would die ont gradually or become a ma
tional organization. But he said he thought
it was gaining in strength and was based
upon a passion that was always formidable
and had often changed the current of his
tory.
When Mr.. Ingalls, was more conspicuous
ly in the public eye, few years ago, he
was known as an Omnivorous reader. No
question came up for discussion in the sem
ate that did not find him thoroughly in
formed, however recent the literature on
the subject. He still reads great deal,
and, living ON the cars so much, he has
ample time and opportunity to crafty
this taste. He finds little TO praise and
much to condemn in the tone of recent
fiction, and he iaInents the apparent de-
eeneracy of public taste. He says he con-
siders Thomas Hardy's latest novel one OF
the most fragrant illustrations Of the nude
in literature
1T has not even the merit of good artis-
tic workmanship, he said. sit is abso-
lutely wooden. As TO stories with which
many popular writers are flooding the
magazines and newspapers, they are tho
weariest refuse OF the literary junkshop.
A hundred years ago men wrote because
they had something co say; now man
makes name, and on the strength of that
he writes as rapidly as he can as long as
his name will sell his writings. 1t is the
same as If Corot and Meissonier should
put their initials on ChrOmos and sell them
for the genuine products Of their brush"
MIR. Ingalls, is not one Of those literary
men who aspire to be story writers. That
ambition and the desire 10 write play
seem to be the impulse OF almost every
man who sees the product of his pen Oc-
casionally in print. Mr.. Ingalls, is content
to write essays and criticisms. For that
reason ne is better prepared to pass I'M
biased judgment on the fictioDal work OF
Others. Just now Mr.. Ingalls, is confined
to the narrow limits Of single lecture ex-
cept on occasions when be visits a town
for the second time. But he speaks with
out notes. and as he is a student, not alone
Of literature, but Of the changing times, he
manages 70 give that lecture . contempt
rary flavor from day to day through his
knowledge Of current public affairs. He
finds lecturing profitable il not altogether
pleasant, and in that he has the advantage
of many other statesmen.
GRANT HAMILTON.
A Matter of Make Up.
ActoY-Sir. might I ask you for an
advance of 20 pfennigs: