The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-22
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT
Mr.. |NGERSOLL SAID WELL

brazen forehead of every traitor to Ii:
country and every maligner of hi:
fair reputation. For the republic ar
party to desert that gallant man now
is as though an army should deser,
their general upon the field of battle
James G. Blaine is NV AND
has been for years, the bearer CT the
| sacred standard of the republican
| party. l call it sacred because no nl-
man being can stand beneath it's folds
| without becoming and without re-
| manning free.
Gentlemen of the conventions: In
the name of the great republic, the
| only republic that ever existed upon
| the face of the earth; in the name of
| all OF her defenders and of all her
supporters; in the name of all her SOL
| dlers living: in the name of all her
| soldiers that died upon the field of bat
! tie; and in the name of those that per-
ished in the skeleton clutch of famine
at unreasonable and Libby, whose suf-
| ferings he so wildly remembers-Illi-
| s-Iilinois-nominates for the next
| president of this country that prince
! OF parliamentarians. that leader of
leaders, James G. Blaine"
| from lngersoll's address to the SOL
| olers: Let us drink to those who died
| where llpless famine Knocked at want
| TO all the manned whose scars give
| ihooesty tongue, to all who dared and
gave to chance the care and keenine
OF their lives-to all the living and all
| the dead-to Sherman, to Sheridan and
TO Grant, the foremost soldiers Of the
world; and last, to Lincoln, whose low
ing life, like bow of peace, spans and
arches all the clouds of war"
In the city of Chicago, in February.
1892 lngersoll delivered his celebrates
speech on Lincoln. The concluding
paragraph is:
Nothing discloses real character like
the use of power. 1t is easy for the
weak to be gentle. Most men can bear
adversely. But if you wish to know
what man really is give him power.
lhls is the supreme test. 1t is the glory
OF Lincoln that having almost abso-
lutte power, he never abused 1t excent
on the side of mercy. Wealth could not
purchase, power could not awe. this
divine, this loving man. He knew no
fear except the fear of doing wrong
Hating slavery. plying the master
seeking to conquer, not persons, but
prejudice-he was the embodiment of
the self-denial. the courage, the hone
and the nobility of a nation. He smoke
not to intiame, not to upbraid. but to
convince. He raised his hands, not TO
strike, but in benediction. He loneed
to pardon. He loved to see the pearls
or JOY on the cheeks of wife whose
husband he had rescued from death
Lincoln was the grandest figure of the
fiercest civil war. He is the eentlest
memory of the world"
from Ingersoll on Capital and La
Dor: The extravaganza of wealth
makes IL possible for the poor to save
The rich man who lives according to
his means, who is extravagant in the
best and highest sense is not the enemv
OF labor. The miser who lives in the
novel, wears rags and boards his gold
is perpetual curse. He is like one
who dams a river at it's source,
This getting up so early in the
morning." said Ingersoll in his adj
dress to farmers, lis a relic of bar
barism 1t has made, hundreds of thou
sands of young men curse the business.
There is no need of getting up at or
O'Clock in the winter morning. The
farmer who persists in dragging his
wife and children from their beds ought
to be visited by missionary. 1t is
time enough to rise after the sun has
set the example. For what purpose
do you get up? To feed the cattle?
Why not feed them more the night be-
fore? 1t is waste of life In the old
times they used to get up about 3
o'clock in the morning and go to work
long before the sun had risen with
healing upon his wings and as a just
punishment they all had the ague; and
they ought to have it now. Eight hours
a day is enough for any farmer to work
except in harvest time. If with
all these advantages you cannot get a
living without rising in the middle of
the night, go into some other bust
ness"
In another address, Ingersoll OBJ
served: I'VE must get rid of the idea
that little learning units one for
work. There are hundreds of grad
yates of Yale and Harvard and other
colleges who are agents of sewing
machines, solicitors for insurance,
clerks, copyists, in short performing
a hundred varieties of mental service.
They seem to do anything that is not
regarded as work-anythi that can
be done in a town, in the house, in
an office, but they avoid farming as
they would a leprosy. Nearly every
young man educated in this way Is
simply ruined. Such an education
ought to be called ignorance. 1t is a |
thousand times better to have common
sense without education, than educa-
ton without the sense"
In his Address to Farmers" Inger- |
soil said: 1T is better to dig wheat |
and corn from the soil than gold. Only |
few days ago I was where they |
wrench the precious metals from the |
miserly clutch of the rocks. When I |
saw the mountains, treeless, shrubless. |
fowerless, without even a spire of |
grass, it seemed to me that gold has |
the same effect upon the country that |