The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-01-27
Sp seoh of Congressman Camp

The speech of Hon. p. p. Camp
bell on the occasion of he presen-
tation of the statue Of John In
gals to the nation by the State of
Kansas, which we give below Is
very beautiful and appropriate trib-
d e to the memory f tie illustrious
Kansan.
"rhe consideration of appropri-
atoms, revisions, rates and rebates
is laid aside while we reflect upon
death, and attempt, IN the only way
we caa, to give Immortality to life.
The ceremonies of this hour deal
with the fact of death and the ques-
tion of Immortality.
Everywhere, in field and mart
and capital, from the cradle to the
grave, life is at war with death. 1t
is an unequal encounter. The mil
lions who have come involuntarily
TO the cradle have gone involuntar
lily to the grave. The strong are as
impotent in the struggle as the weak.
Thrones and empires are not
citadels Of defense for kings and
empires. The hovel and the shack
furnish no refuge for the poor and
helpless. Soon or late, all lie down
together in the democracy of the
grave.
"Senator ingalls, has tried the
life and solved the mystery of death
While busy with care, anxiety, hate,
love, ambition, he often paused to
ask with the sages, philosophers and
prophets of the ages, if man die,
shall he live again"
There has been, and is, much
consolation in the fact that the
question of the souls Immortality is
not left for answer to the wise,
whose bodies rest in abbeYs of re
noun, and whose statues adorn hall:
of fame. more than to the simple
who come and go without the notice
of the passing crowd. To the in
Vulnerable throng, rhe heavens
declare the glory of God, and the
armament showeth his >handiwork'
to the great Multitude, succeeding
days are eloquent with speech and
night unto night are resplendant
with knowledge Tho there is no
voice or language, Immortality is
written everywhere upon the earth
and in the heavens.
"May we not hope that all the
countless dead now know that truth
declared by Jesus of Nazareth, that
the soul shall never die. If it were
not so, why this effort to perpetu-
ate, in MARBLE, an effigy of dust?
Why did he, to whose image we give
fame, devote so much of time and
draw upon so much talent, to rear
himself monument that shall re-
main when the marble we unveil
shall be yelled again with the dust
and ashes of the ages.
"The drapery of night is hung
from the horizon with star.
"I had no personal acquaintance
with Senator ingalls,, and saw him
only few times; but l have always
been proud of the fact that he was a
Kansan and loved Kansas.
"It has been said of him that
during his eighteen years service in
the Senate, he did not frame or
secure the passage of an important
measure. However that may be
he did enough; enough, at once for
his own fame and for the glory o.
his State. Salts, Satis est, quod
vixit, vel ad actatem, vel ad glor-
iam.'
"He excelled in everything he
did. There was nothing to be said
when he was done with eulogy,
nothing could be added when he
finished Invective. He was master
of English, whether speaking or
writing. His friends listened with
pleasure and his foes with admiration
when he addressed the Senate. His
words were so fashioned into