People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Ingersoll on the Situation, [ARTICLE]

Ingersoll on the Situation,

“I regard the world as a ship making a voyage through this mysterious ether, and upon that ship there N are a few cabin passengers and a great many steerage, and I believe when the steerage is out of food by reason of stress or storm that the cabin ought to divide, and I believe that if the cabin will not divide the steerage should make it divide. lam not in favor of taking the property of the rich and giving it to others. But let me see. We are invited to-day to this banquet. There should have been a chair and a, plate,for each, and there was. Suppose when we arrived here we found that to a certain nobleman and vmillionaire they bad given fifty seats and forty-nine gentlemen were compelled to stand. The forty-nine gentlemen would pass a law of eminent domain. Nature Is my mother; I was invited to this great feast of life, and I do not propose to stand while there is a seat in the world that another fellow is not occupying.” Bob is evidently a howling socialist and anarchist, and if he is not more particular in his remarks will be laid away for safe keeping. ■ • The People’s party has advanced to the dignity of being either the first or second party in exactly one-half the states In the union, and the youngster is shown greater deference than ban formerly characterized its enemies.