The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12): Dresden Edition—PoliticalIngersoll, Robert Green
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The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12): Dresden Edition—Political
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Free thought
Capital and Labor--What is a Capitalist?--The Idle and the Industrious
Artisans--No Conflict between Capital and Labor--A Period of Inflation
and Speculation--Life and Fire Insurance Agents--Business done on
Credit--The Crash, Failure, and Bankruptcy--Fall in the Price of Real
Estate a Form of Resumption--Coming back to Reality--Definitions of
Money Examined--Not Gold and Silver but Intelligent Labor the Measure
of Value--Government cannot by Law Create Wealth--A Bill of Fare not
a Dinner--Fiat Money--American Honor Pledged to the Maintenance of the
Greenbacks--The Cry against Holders of Bonds--Criminals and Vagabonds to
be supported--Duty of Government to Facilitate Enterprise--More Men must
Cultivate the Soil--Government Aid for the Overcoming of Obstacles too
Great for Individual Enterprise--The Palace Builders the Friends of
Labor--Extravagance the best Form of Charity--Useless to Boost a Man
who is not Climbing--The Reasonable Price for Labor--The Vagrant and his
strange and winding Path--What to tell the Working Men.
SUFFRAGE ADDRESS.
(1880.)
The Right to Vote--All Women who desire the Suffrage should have
It--Shall the People of the District of Columbia Manage their Own
Affairs--Their Right to a Representative in Congress and an Electoral
Vote--Anomalous State of Affairs at the Capital of the Republic--Not the
Wealthy and Educated alone should Govern--The Poor as Trustworthy as the
Rich--Strict Registration Laws Needed.
WALL STREET SPEECH.
(1880.)
Obligation of New York to Protect the Best Interests of the
Country--Treason and Forgery of the Democratic Party in its Appeal to
Sword and Pen--The One Republican in the Penitentiary of Maine--The
Doctrine of State Sovereignty--Protection for American Brain and
Muscle--Hancock on the Tariff--A Forgery (the Morey letter) Committed
and upheld--The Character of James A. Garfield.
BROOKLYN SPEECH.
(1880.)
Introduced by Henry Ward Beecher (note)--Some Patriotic
Democrats--Freedom of Speech North and South--An Honest Ballot--
AN ADDRESS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.
* An address delivered to the colored people at Galesburg,
Illinois, 1867.
FELLOW-CITIZENS--Slavery has in a thousand forms existed in all ages,
and among all people. It is as old as theft and robbery.
Every nation has enslaved its own people, and sold its own flesh and
blood. Most of the white race are in slavery to-day. It has often been
said that any man who ought to be free, will be. The men who say this
should remember that their own ancestors were once cringing, frightened,
helpless slaves.
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