The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-10-23
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, d. G., Oct. 20, 1896.


pigmy soul OF Col. Robert @. lnger-
soil, Satan's American minister:
"There is no slavery but ignorance.
Liberty is the child OF intelligence"
Yet this self-appointed advocate-gen-
eral Of intellectual freedom Is to-day
rowing over the country preaching bis
soul.damning doctrine Of infidelity,
carrying q supply of go~ld-standard
speeches as a "side line" 1.-THE his
tory of mar is simply the history Of
slavery, Of injustice and brutality.
The man who does not do his own
thinking is a slave, and a traitor tn
himself and his fellow.man. Every
man should stand under the blue and
the stars, under the infinite flag OF
nature, the peer Of every other man."
is one OF the positive declarations Of
his Satanic Malesty's American agent;
yet this same expounder Of inidelity
and the gold-standard doctrine to-day
%elOquently pleads for the toiling mil
lions OF u country to fasten upon
themselves the golden letters OF slav-
cry and OF oppression 10 this world,
by supporting the gold-standard lnan-
cial policy, and to fasten upon their
souls the crimson chains Of eternal
slavery 10 the world to come, by ad.
herring to his hell-populating doctrine
against the Bible and its beautiful
teachings Of Christianity.
This is a sample OF some of the peo'
pie who are sc intensely interested in
the preservation of our "natiOnal
honor" But here is another evidence
of Mr.. Ingersoll's characteristic in
consistency. An extract from Il speecl
made by him 4 few years ago anG
printed In pamphlet form:
"For my part l do not ask any interference
IN the part Of the government except to undt
the wrong it has done. do not ask that tn,
money be made out Of nothing. | do not asl
WI 'uc p'bsPc'tf O'iu papCit uue . Wv "si
for the reconciliation Of silver. Silver wa!
demonetized BY fraud. 1t was an imposition
upon every solvent man, a fraud upon ever,
honest debtor in the United States. II assas
sinates labor. 1t was done in the interest o
~avarice and greed and should be nndone b
honest men. The farmers should vote Onl,
for such men as are able and willing to guar,
and Advance the interests of labor"
Mr.. Bryan places Ingersoll, Mura
Halstead, ex. President Harrison, Sec
rotary Carlisle, Secretary Herbert
Secretary Morton, David b. Hill, RIOS
well P. Flower, Cochran and other o
the present gold-standard advocates
whose views have recently undergon
a change by the instantaneous Pre-
cess, in the same category and com
pares them TO S%tevcns0n's JekyIl an,
Hyde. Here we leave them for his
tory-if it thinks OF sufficient in
portancc-tO write them down a
tickle, shameless ~ingrates.
Postmaster General VIM. l.. Wilso
has returned to his West Virgini
home, after a visit Of several month
to Europe, where lie imbibed prett
freely of the English idea of finance
and where he received some substar
tial advice as to how u government
should be run on the "Europea
plan" His first traitorous speech az
vocating the surrender OF America
y principles and American institution
! into the hands of our foreign enemie!
whom we have had to squelch O
more than one occasion, was made til
other day at Charleston, W. Va, hi
!, home town, when, according to til
dispatches. he had ga large audienC
composed chiefly of Republicans, gOlt
Democrats (?) ladies and negroes (apo
ogies to the ladies'. Mr.. Wilson, wit
q his English e%loquencc, denounced tn
Chicago platform as undemOcrati'
9 and Mr.. Bryan as a Populist an
y anarchist. At the mention Of M
q Bryan's name a few loyal DcmOcra,
in the rear OF the hall had to be SUI
pressed by the police before the ager
Of the Lombard street syndicate coul
proceed. Mr.. Wilson, full of jealous.
envy and foreign ideas, says that M
e Bryan is too young to be made pres
dent, in which statement he prove
himself either willfully malicious, {
densely ignorant Of history, who's
pages are filled with the doings {
some Of the worlds greatest men, VII
q had reached the zenith Of their gloT
before they had attained Mr.. Bryan
age. Mr.. Wilson should read up, {
q some one should remind him of I'll
G young heroes of the past and preser
generations, who have carved the
!. names high on the monument Of fam
In peace, in war, in the sciences an
the arts, religious, literature an
politics.
X Mr.. Bryan is in his 37th year. Ii
! US direct Mr.. Wilson's attention to
few OF the wonderful achievements
some Of the great captains Of histol
before reaching that age. We, al
told that Alexander the Great ha
conquered the world before he was 3
that Napoleon Bonaparte was brig
der Of artillery at Is, and Emperor
France at IS; George Washington W;
colonel, and covered the famous !
Il treat Of Braddock at %, and was IL
n foremost figure in American affai
4 before 81; our own beloved Jefferso
n Davis was lieutenant in the U.
army and 10 command OF Fort Wi
nebago at 20, 10 Congress at 80, al
r colonel in the Mexican war where
q won great military distinction at 9
C~tououal1 uoc % whoo killn