The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-27
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ern GsreedIness Continues Unabatsd.
In a recent interview at Boston with
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.
THE republicans of New England -
he said, may paste this in their hats:
IF the next republican convention nom
mates monOpolist and the platform
contains declaration against free coin
age, unless some remarkable change oe-
ours in public opinion, 1 doubt if they
will carry two states west of the Ale
gheny mountains
1.-The very pressure of economic ques-
tons has forced a com bination between
the western states and those of the Mis-
ssissippi and Missouri valleys, those OF
the Gulf and the southeastern Atlantic
states; between the great grain and cot
ton producers, as against the Inanufact-
IIring and commercial interests of the
east. This combination has been forced
by the greed and grasping characterize
les of the eastern capitalists.
The New England people do not I'M
derstand 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 it's
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 a line OF
separation between the east and the
west will be drawn, and it will be pre-
cipitated unless there is a modification
of the proscriptive and intolerant criti-
cism which prevails against western
men and measures. The consequences
of such a crisis cannot be predicted, bat
they viii 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
Of 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, a 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-
Ply. 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-
snands, but they will submit no longer.
This new political movement in the
west is misunderstood by 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 so, 600 members and prom
Uses to have $50, 600 by the next election,
Is equaIed 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-au instruction but
eNasperates 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 are
not equally as good scholars in a wider
school and are not engaged in an honest
effort to solve the great problem that
-confrOnts us in accordance with the
principles of sound financial basis and
in keeping with good government,
How the tide is running in the west
Kansas tells. In my state Harrison re-
-ceived s., 600 majority-the largest rela-
tive majority given by any state in the
country. This majority has disappeared.
AS in night the republican sentiment
OF Kansas underwent q change, and the
party of Senator elect PETER and Jerry
Simpson took its place.
''But the state OF Kansas did not stand