Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-25

champions; so our demands were re.
fused by the representatives of New
England sentiment. Not all, for we
shall have practically free sugar: but
those Vermont trees had to be enriched
by bOunties. Our western farmers see
and know these things, and neither
PRESIDENT Eliot nor anybody else can
shut their eyes. Our western farmers
have even more reasons to feel fncensed.
During the close of the last session
they saw their pure food bill, their lard
bill and other important agricultural
measures permitted to die with the
session, so that way might be made for
the shipping subsidy bill, which is for
the interests of the shipbullders along
the Maine coast. Isn't it natural, un-
der these circumstances, that the pro-
ducers should rise in resentment against
the greed and get-all of New England?
MEN of the agricultural regions see
that yearly they labor but to grow poor
er, while in the large manufacturing
and commercial regions there is an in
ordinate and inexplicable accumulation
of wealth. All that these wealthy COM
munitles desire in legislation is grant
ed, while all the farmers desire is eth
er buried In committee or laughed out
of sight. The New Englanders f..
twenty-five years have been able n do
this because their representa-, ves have
by long experience and extended ser
vice reached p0Sitio', % of influence and
power. They bc..ve held the secretary
snip VI stat' the speakership of the
housc Ind the chairmabships of all
eO" erful committees so that New
England's wants would be attended to,
if every other section of the country
suffered as consequence. But they
laugh best who laugh last
AS again showing the change of
feeling in the west, l spoke twenty five
times in the last campaign, and during
the month of October addressed 1OO, 900
people. They manifested interest ex-
clusively in economic and political top
les. Anything else fell fiat. The cleo
tions bill and the question of suffrage
in the south, which had been engross-
ing questions in 1888, had lost their
power and were regarded with apathet-
lc indifference. Much of this indiffer-
ence was undoubtedly due to percep-
ton, misunderstood perhaps, but all
powerful, nevertheless, that co-opera-
tiOn between New England and the
west was hopeless, and the success of
the reform demanded could only be Sc
cured by coalition between the south
and west, when existing causes of po-
litical estrangement are removed.
but after all, the New Englanders
are true to their traditional character,
for the genius of New England has been
sharpened by its environments, and for
two centuries they have laid in wait
for the human race. New England has
her money invested in western enter
prises-in the Atchison, in the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy and other
great undertakings. 1t is among the
things that are in the immediate future
that western legislatures will put upon
their statute books enactments for the
establishment of arbitrary and maxi
mum rates for passengers and freight
upon the railroads; they will pass usu-
ry laws and statutes for stay of execu-
tions in proceedings for the collection
of debts. These are some of the retail
atory dangers that will threaten the
permanent values of eastern invest
ments in land and railroads.
AS New England boy 1 do not de-
sire to see the line of separation drawn.
1t it is drawn it will be New England
greed and ignorance of the needs of the
western people that will do it. The
west will play tail to the eastern kite no
longer"
In reference to Murat Halsted's COM
ment that the senator's utterances in
the matter of the annual British war
scare indicated that he was IN need of a
change of climate, the senator laugh
ingly said that while Mr.. Halstead be-
lieved that the senator. should change
his climate, when it had been possible
for Mr.. Halstead to have a change in
Berlin he, the senator, had been one of
those who had prevented him. Posi-
bly, Editor Halstead was trying 10 even
up accounts.