The age-herald., 1900-08-27
SOME EPICRAMS
 OF SENATOR INGALLS,

the New York World saysi
 His epigrams, with which he was prodigal both in speaking and writing, will doubt less outive all his other utteranees. Per haps the most famous of these was one in an interview with a World reporter, printed in the World in 1888. It was this:
 The purifcation of politics is an rides cent dream
 Other epigrams and picturesque utter ances of Mir Ingalls, follow.
 The Golden Rule and the Decalogue have no place in an American political cam paign.
 Nothing Is so fatal to eminence as the testers cap and bells
 In every community there are more intel lgent, industrious, upright and patriotic men than rogues and scoundrels. If there were not, society would disintegrate.
 The man who cannot take care of his own affairs has no right to take care of the affairs of others. The pauper ought not to decide the rate of taxation upon in- comes and property.
 Suffrage is not a right, but a privilege conferred by law, and it's qualification of denial Is the prerogative of the State.
 The prescription for greatness has not been written. The laboratory in which gen. ius Is compounded has not been disclosed
 No man is well who thinks he is ill., He may have no organic or fatal ailment, but something is the matter with him. The African came here as a captive pris- oner of war and has been the helpless vic- tim of unspeakable cruelty and avarice. Whether capable of high mental develop ment of not, he is susceptible of loyalty, affection and fidelity Ills instincts are friendly to civilization.
 Government is force. Politics is battle for supremacy. Parties are the army. The object Is success.
 Kansas can promise more in June and pay less in August, and promise less in August and pay more in October, than any other State in the Union. I am hero in Kansas because I want to be. I think if I were not a Kansas man I would be born again and become one.
 The injustice of society and the inequali- ty of conditions have given an enormous impulse to the idea of nationalism, the control of all economic agencies by the direct interposition of the Government This Is the logical reaction from individ- ua1isrn, which on our system was founded The hope that political equality would result in the destruction of poverty and in social fraternity has not been realized.
 No one is compelled to dedicate himself to the public service. 1t is voluntary and if the conditions are unsatisfactory there Is no obstacle to retirement While it would be agreeable to receive more, my impression is that if salaries were doubled expenses would be doubled.
 There was a profound truth in the dec- laration of voltaire that if there were no God it would be necessary for man to invent one. This was fiippant and irrev- erent, perhaps, but true. God is indispen- sable. Man perceives this. and the higher his development the more distinct is his perception.
 Legislation is not an ocult science and does not require unusual facilities ex- traordfnary attainments. The ordinary business of Congress can be successfully conducted by the average merchant or lawyer.
 Manhood suffrage is the thing. There are plenty of men who are illiterate, yet good citizens, and lots of fellows who have money and can speak seven or eight lan- guases who are scoundrels.
 What Jesus would do were He in Kan sas today can best be determined by con- sidering what He did when He was in Nazareth and Caperanum nineteen hun dred years ago. He attended strictly to His own business.
 The Government is always the worst served of all employers. est
 It is an error to suppose that to become politician the citizen must cease to be a scholar or a gentleman.
 Job was a millionaire. Whether that iri- comparable production bearing his name is a parable a biography, it is of profound interest, because it shows that the pa- triarch was occupied with the same ques- tions that disturb us now. He describes, like Populist, those who take the ass of the orphan and the OK of the widow, re- move the landmarks, reap the fields and gather the vintage of the poor, whom they deprive of their garments and leave naked to the showers of the mountains and the shelter of the rocks.
 The desire for money is the most con- stant and universal passion among men.
 It would be far easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the richest man in the country today to be- come President today. He may occasion- ally buy Legislature or purchase a con- vention, but he never escapes detection, although he may evade punishment
 LARGEST DAM IN THE WORLD From Harpers Weekly.
 The new Croton dam at the Cornell site is built in approximately north and