The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-06-04
INGALLS, IS
QUITE CRITICAL.
Ex-senator Talks About Nc
KinIey's prosperity"
Paints Glowing View of the State
of Affairs Existing UnAer the
Present Administration.
His Forecast For the Future is Anything
But Favorable, and Conditions
Are Growing Worse as the
Days Go BY.

A Washington special to the |
Atlanta Constitution says:
Troubles continue to accumulate |
to the account of the Republican
Administration.
Not only does confidence continue
in it's persistent refusal to return,
but every indication points to a con-
dition of times growing worse in
stead of better, of growing unrest
throughout the country, and of a
rapid accumulation of votes on the
Democratic side of the ledger.
Now comes the brilliant and
erratic ex-senator Ingalls, to bear
testimony to the failure of the Re-
publican promise of prosperity res
toration.
ingalls,, it will be remembered,
was one of the notable converts of
the last campaign. A silver man at
heart, he listened so intently to the
song of dire results which would fol-
low Democratic victory that he
finally cast bis vote with the party
which was going to "Open the mills
instanter, and the minis later on.
The song that was sung in his ears
was that "all this country needs is
confidence, and the election of Nc
Kinley will Immediately restore
confidence" Others listened and
others fell. OF course, if the trouble
was due in any degree to "lack of
confidence" that trouble would have
been cured the minute the definite
news of McKinley's election came.
But
Listen to Mr.. ingalls, on this point.
He has travelled extensively over
this country recently and has made
a close study of business conditions.
He is here and in an interview says:
"Since the election in November I
have been in all parts of the country,
from Montreal to Atlanta, and it is
the concurrent testimony that times
have never been harder nor money
scarcer than now. Every branch of
industry languishes. Rents, in
comes, interest, and profits have
dwindled. Prices of land. farm
products, and general commodities
have sunk lower and lower, till in
many localities the most valuable
improved farms in rich regions are
absolutely unsaleable. Nature has
Dttll DtllGlCtlll, llul NtoNS dbulluulll 1,
there has been the early and the
later rain; the Mississippi Valley
is burdened with cribbed corn; crop
prospects were never better; skilled
and unskilled labor is plenty; the
equipment of machinery is unrival-
ed; we have all the conditions for
good times, but they linger. Possibly
they are coming, but they are not
here. Many will not be able to wait
much longer for their arrival. Null
titudes have already fallen from
affluence to need, and many other
multitudes have sunk from comfort
to penury and want of daily bread"
"What will be the effect of this
condition on the political future Of
the cOuntry?" he was asked.
1.-The people are patient. They
are rational. They don't expect
miracles, but they are tired of adj
versity. They are not looking for
the miraculous draught of fishes,
nor the change of water into wine,
, but they want to see credit and bust
ness raised from the dead. They
would like to have idle men who are
willing to work earning wages. 1t
does not console them to be told
that there is surplus of money in
banks to loan at small interest.
They don't want to borrow money,
but to sell corn. The man who
mortgaged his farm five years ago
for a fourth of its value would like
to have it sell for enough at least to
pay the debt They will give the
Republican party fair chance, as
they have the Democrats for four
years. Should we fail to secure
. public revenue and restore pros
perity they are likely to try some
other experiment. Sometimes a
sick man who has found no relief
5 from the regular physicians buys a
{ bottle of patent medicine, or con-
suits IA faith doctor and gets we'll"
When asked about the effects of
; the Administration toward inter
f national bimetallism he would only
| say:
international bimetallism is a
sonorous phrase, but when it is mem
toned to the average citizen he
stops talking and winks, or smiles,
and asks about the prize fight, or
, Cuba. or the Greek war, or whether
colored shirts and tan shoes are
likely to be worn much this sum
/ mer.n
= The Republican ex-senator doesn't
seem overburdened with respect fol
the tariff methods of the Republi-
can Senators. When asked about
, the sugar schedule, he declared:
! From the Republican point OF
view it would be better that the
tariff bill should fail than that the
! Senate sugar schedule should stand.
: 1t is the most brazen and audaciOus
! hold-up of the century. 1t makes
-, train robbing respectable. 1t has
no excuse except the Unsuitable
e greed aud rapacity Of the mos
-Sl.n,,,nlnss snnnd of nlnndernrs thai