Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-11-02
1 ISLANDER on NEW ENGLAND
Don VI. Dickinson, Mr. CIeveIand''
POsImasIer General,

SAYS SHE "wENT INTo THE WAR To MAKE
MONEY" AND NEVER DREW a GENEROUS
OR PATRIOTIC BREATH
From an Interview with Mr. Dickinson. reported
sept - in the Chicago Herald. Dem.
New England has always grown rich off
the rest of the country. The West pays
tribute and tax to New England and gets
nothing in return for it They don't buy
a pound Of Western products. They buy
neither our -four nor our provisions. Talk
about the manufacturing states atfOrding a
"home market ~ They buy nothing from
the West, but only sell their products to US.
rhe South buys from US, and takes our
flour and provisions. The surplus we sell
to England at her prices.
New England controls and has controlled
for wears the legislation Of this country
and has always protected her own selfish
interests at the expense of the remainder of
the states Twelve senators represent in
the United States senate a population not
AS great as the state of New York, aud in
extent of territory not SO great the
state of Illinois And they talk to us in
the great West of the duty of patriotism,
and how We must 90 in for "A high protec-
tive tariff for the sake of the workingman
and to build up the country. They are
glib with their appeals to our generosity
and our patriotism, and yet that political
party that controls New England and has
twelve senators in the United States Con
gress never drew generous or patriotic
breath This country was never engaged
in foreign war that the Old Federal and
Wing parties did not oppose. and the pres
ent Republican party in New England is
the lnpal descendant of those parties The
Republicans of New England went into the
war for the Union, not from motives of
patriotism. but because they thought they
could make money aud injure the South.
The state of Missouri sent more troops to
the Union armies than all of New England,
/ outside of Massachusetts, And Vet they
talk about patriotism and try 10 induce our
Western farmers from whom they never
/ buy pound of anything, to keep ON vot-
/ ing riches into their pockets. They have
the money, and have waXed fat and rich
off the toll of the West, and the Western
farmers are growing poorer all the time.
In 1850 the farming lands and products of
the West, the farms, the horses, cattle,
sheep and products we're not worth as much
/ by millions of dollars as they We're in 1870,
ten years before. Ten years of the highest
protection this country has known has made
/ the Western farmer poorer than he was
before. And yet he Is asked to vote again
for this enormous tariff taxation in order
that the Eastern manufacturer may receive
more tribute and grow still richer. 1t as
touishes me, it dumfounds me, To think our
/ people can he SO blind.
The empire of this country belongs to
the West, where there is IA great, generous
and patriotic people If our people choose
| they can throw off this tribute to New Eng
land that has been demanded from them
so long But they cannot do 50 as long a,
they support all the monstrous features OF
| the present tariff. Low taxation and tar
iff reform will free the entire Western
country, and bring about time of pros
perity such as we have meyer known be
fore