The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-03-25
INGALLS, GIVES ADVICE.

The West Is Concentrating Its Strength
and Will Make Vigorous Use of 1t II East
ern Greediness Continues Undated.
In a recent interview at Boston with
u correspondent of the New York
World ex-senator Ingalls, spoke freely
concerning New England's policy to-
wards the west and south in the most
'caustic terms.
1.-THE republicans of New England"
he said, may paste this in their hats:
IF the next republican convention NOM
mates a monopolist and the platform
contains declaration against free coin
age, unless some remarkable change oc-
ours in public opinion, doubt If they
will carry two states west OF the Allie
gheny mountains
''The very pressure of economic ques-
tons has forced com bination between
the western states and those of the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri valleys, those OF
the Gulf and the southeastern Atlantic
states; between the great grain and cot
ton producers, as against the manufact-
uring and commercial interests of the
east. This com animation has been forced
by the greed and grasping characterize
-1CS Oh LUc edSUeTH Capitalists.
"The New England people do not I'M
0derstand either the disposition or the
temper of the western people, and have
not understood them from the begin
ming. The Yankee idea seems to be to
treat the demands of the west with de-
rision and contempt. The people there
have become tired of being ridiculed
and of having their favorite measures
of legislation overridden, and are de-
termed to. secure for themselves the
privileges which it has been the custom
of the east to set aside for itself. This
Is the backbone of the alliance move
ment, and among the last things its
leaders would be likely to hearken to
would be the warnings from the mon
eyed interests of the New England
states.
"A crisis is threatened and it will
take the combined wisdom of the coun-
try to avert it BY this crisis line of
separation between the east and the
west will be drawn, and it will be pre-
-cipitated unless there is modification
of the proscriptive and intolerant criti-
,cism which prevails against western
men and measures. The consequences
of such a crisis cannot be predicted, but
thay will be momentous. The west
and south want a revision and readjust-
ment of the tariff; they want the free
coinage of silver; they want a series of
economical measures to protect their
agricultural interests, and every word
of derision sent forth from New En-
gland does not tend to increase their
confidence in their Yankee fellow-coun-
trymen.
The west and south know their
power. They know, by the adjustment
CT the political forces of the country
according to the eleventh census, that
the seat of power has been transferred
to them. They know that if they unite,
as they are likely to do, that they can
elect majority Of the senate, major
ity of the house of representatives and
a majority of the electoral college.
Where would New England then be?
There would be no need of revolution.
New England could then be legislated
TO the place it desires the west to occu-
ypy. New England wants a gold basis.
The west and south are unanimous for
free coinage; they want a large increase
in the circulating medium, and all that
New England may do to the contrary
cannot change this determination.
They have long submitted, for the sake
of party, to New England's tariff de-
mands, but they will submit no longer.
This new political movement in the
west is misunderstood 10y the east-pur-
posely misunderstood, it would seem.
There are but few of the western states
that are not within the grasp of the Sc
.cret lodges of the Farmers Alliance.
Its surprising growth in Ohio, which
started with 80, 600 members and prom
Uses to have $50, 900 by the next election,
is equaled in several other states, and
for President Eliot, of Harvard college,
to tell these people that they are igno'
rant and do not know what they are do
ing is not likely to modify their opin-
ion of eastern instruction. AS matter
of fact, such know-it- all instruction but
-exasperates them and arouses their re-
sentiment Because the voters of the
west may lack the culture and scientific
knowledge and technical instruction OF
the president and graduates of Harvard
college, it does not follow that they arc
not equally as good scholars in wider
school and are not engaged in an honest
effort to solve the great problem that
confronts us in accordance with thu
principles of sound financial basis anC
in keeping with good government
How the tide is running in the wes
Kansas tells. In my state Harrison re
ceived So 200 majority-the largest rela
tive majority given by any state in thu
country. This majority has disappeared
As in a night the republican sentiment
of Kansas underwent change. and thu
party of Senator-elect PETER and Jerr.
Simpson took its place.
But the state of Kansas did not stan,
alone overwhelmed by the earthquake
Our New England brethren had thei
chance success in New Hampshire, thei
democratic governors in Massachusetts
and Rhode Island and their minorit,,
in Connecticut We from the ives
foresaw the catastrophe and az
pealed to the representatives from