The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-31
INGALLS, On TRUSTS
He Admits That the Consumer
Buys Cheaper
BUT WOE To THE PRODUCER
No Remedy But the Sharp
Medicine Of Taxation.
BUT WOE To THE PRODUCER

New York, May 3O.-The Journal pub
fishes the following from ingalls,: The
tools to him who can use them" said Ma
poleon.
Them as has. gfts." says the Arkansas
man.
EVERY one for himself, and the devil
take the hindmost," says the nineteenth
century.
Root, hog, or die" says nature.
TO him that hath shall be given, and
from him that hath not shall be taken
away even that which he seemeth TO
have" says God.
"AH men are created equal says the
! Declaration of Indep ndence. But they are
/ not, any more than horses are. The hip
! shOtten, sway-backed, lop-eared street car
| steed was not created equal to Ormand,
| the king of the turf, who cannot be bought
! for a quarter Of million. Nor Richard
| Croker to Daniel Webster; nor Alfred
Austin to William Shakespeare.
Since Adam left Eden, if he did, this has
! been a tough world for the most of its in
habitants. Not one came into it of his
own accord, and few would have come at
all had they been consulted. Fewer still
would remain were they sure of anything
/ better somewhere else. All being endowed
with aspirations for happiness, multitudes
find wretchedneSs poverty and disease
their only inheritance. Our credentials
! bear the same sign and SEAL but some are
born to honor and some TO dishonor. Some
: = 1Hyat
while others equally deserving shjver in
rags and sleep in doorways, and stain
flnty paths with bloody feet. All desire to
succeed, but few reach the goal.
There is too much whining and squeling
in these degenerate days. Brave men take
their medicine without either, and endure
adversely with fOrtitude. It would be sar-
d5nic to suppose that thereds TO be no re-
paration for the elaborate insults of fate,
sometime and somewhere. Otherwise. life
would be an unintellgible, practical joke,
played by a being capable only of malig-
nant laughter at his victims.
Whatever our errand or mission on this
planet, it has long been evident to the i'm
partial critic that we are not here for rec
reation, and that the brotherhood of man
up to this time, as applied to human af-
airs, is like a phrase drawn out of a hat.
Carnage and pillage continue popular and
while in theory our government has for its
avowed object the greatest good of the
greatest number. with most of US the great
est number continues to be number one
Equality Of condition, of endowment, Of
possession. has never existed, and the div
ergences now are wider than ever before.
- s,,,r
than diminish seems likely, and We must
face the consequences
L is apparent also that whatever pro-
gress has been made hitherto IS due wholly
to the effort Of individuals. States make
no inventions. Nations write no poems or
dramas. Society is rich or strong or pure
only as the individuals of which it IS COM
posed ara wealthy and powerful and virtu-
Gus Battles are won or lost as the indi-
vidual soldiers are intrepid or tinid. The
Decalogue, that statute enacted in the
parlfmert Of the skies and promulgated
amid the thunders Of Sinai, has no effect
upon the race except as its precepts are
o5eyed by the individuals to whom they
are addressed.
So our social and political system rests
on indlvidualism; the highest development
of the individual as the unit of the State;
and, as the correlative of this, the equality
of all men before equal laws and equality
of opportunity, so that all shall have an
equal chance in this harum-scarum. helter-
slle.ter scrmmage which we call life. No
man can ask more than this. Every
arena must be open. Any citizen can enter
the ring If he wishes. If he is put to sleep
r. h. 70
ton for which he is better qualified. The
legislature can pass no law making him
equal to Fitzsimmons. That would be IN
just to Bob, who IS as much entitled to fair
play a the weakest mannikin of them all.
Aware Of the incompatibiity of feudal-
SIN ana liberty of the dangers Of unre-
stricted accumulation of wealth, not only
TO the individual but to society. and of
hereditary limitation of property. our polit-
icaI ancestors abolished primogeniture and
entail. supposing that in this way they
had provided for the destruction Of great
estates and for the free distribution Of cap
5taI in each generation.
They did not foreSee the invention Of
corporations and trusts, fictitious Great
ures. without souls and yet endowed with
earthly immortality-,ega monsters incap-
able of crime. but that can rob the citizen
Of his birthriGat and deprive poste-ity Of
its heritage.
In the early part Of the century, my
Grandfather ingalls,, of Middleton. Mass.
was a blacksmith. as ironworkars were
called in those days.
on the hearth in my library in Atchfson.
as the most valued Of my ancestral heir
looms. stands the old anvil upon which he