The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-29
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John James Ingalls,.

John James IBgalls.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 A statue of Senator Ingalls, has been dedicated by formal acceptance of each house of Congress for statuary hall. some peculiar speeches were delivered on the occasion.
 This Senator. some years ago, deliv- cred hery oration on the occasion of tne unVelling of monument erected in the State of New York to "Ossa- appealed to Kansas to choose Brown to hll the niche now assigned to the ora tor of that day himself.
 Statuary hall, in its law of existence, expresses with deep import the Ameri- can civic theory. During the war be- tween the Union and the Confeder- acy. as General Oates's new book apt Y phrases the conflict, Senator Justin 5. Morrill, of Vermont introduced a bill that became law, to prepare the old hall of the House with two niches Tor each State, the subjects of honor so o,o, De two from from each State of State Island, Nevada, with a single Represen- tative in Congress had secured to them respectively by the act, the full privi- leges enjoyed by the most populous and richest of the commonwealths.
 By means of this impressive illus tration of the Federal system it Is not a little suggestibe that MT. Ingallss immortality in marble was secured. It Is strange that his marble image should express a sentiment abhorrent to the statecraft which distinguished his career and upon which his fame in life was justified. Few men were able to do so much, none was willing to do more, to extinguish the Fed eral system of the Constitution and erect upon its ruins the arbitrary do- minion of centralized government than the Senator from Kansas.
 MT 1ngalls's opportunity in public life began in Kansas, in 1858, when Convention to assist in framing a State Constitution for Kansas. He at tained to this preferment as an active adherent of the revolutionary, which John Brown. Abraham Lincoln went to Kansas to join in the campaign for the election of Ingal5 ana the delegates Of the filled other political offices in Kansas and in 1S71-2 was sent to the Senate in angry resentment against Edmund Ross, whose vote had saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment. Ross was run out of Kansas, largely by the influence of Ingalls,. Farmers Alliance Peffer displaced Ingalls, and he thereafter survived "a statesman out of a job SyphaX.
 Home Made Supplies n Sure Remedy. Editor The Advertiser:
 learn that the recent Farmers Con- vention held at New Orleans looking to the betterment of conditions among cotton growers, was composed very largely of actual farmers in the South ern States. who were thoroughly i'm pressed with the idea that the declen- sion in cotton prices has beer. caused by an production, q quantity "f cotton having been raised in excess of the needs of the world. It Is not de- nied that speculation and gambling in cotton might have some influence upon the price. but the main thing is the question of demand and supply. This being so, it follows that another great crop of cotton will reduce the price still further. perhaps from to cents per pound. If this were done, it would result in an overthrow equally of a large number of farmers and of 8 large number of bankers The banks of the country having already made for other purposes. This Is not only so, but every interest in the South would suffer. perhaps not so seriously as the farmers and bankers, but seri-
 If, # these pAeposltlons be correct. the avoid such calamity, and if so what is that thing?" The raising of nine or ten million bales of cotton would cure the whole thing Just so soon as 1t shall be established, if it ever is done that there will be a reduction of the area of the lands to be cultivated Tn cotton. just that soon the price of cot ton will 80 up. and if we should raise only reasonable crop, cotton would remain at a reasonably good price. Take for illustration an individual farmer, who says T will raise suffl- cient corn, peas. ground-peas. potatoes suCar-cane, vegetables and the like, to Insure me and my family, employees. ] and my stock, a sufficient supply of | these things, and meat, poultry. butter. eggs. and all things necessary to make q comfortable and plentiful home. and then I will make whatever of cotton l can" Suppose this man should be the only man in the country who would reduce his acreage in cot ton, and that all the balance should make great crop of cotton. as was done last year, then this man would have q large quantity of stuf to sell. ! that those who made an over-p plus of cotton would have to purchase in some way or other. This man would get as much for hlS cotton as any one else. , and have plenty Of everything else and be an independent man. But y.0- pose all the farmers should act as he does. the result would be Q plentiful | known before, and a good prlcc for all the cotton made. That is as much for nine or ten million bales of cotton Hs could possibly be realized for thir- teen million bales. Sv it follows. that the man taking care of himself at home will be safe and independent, no matter how the crop may be made. whether great crop of cotton or small crop,
 1 throw out these hints now for the farmers to think of until the nth .Of