Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
IDEAS OF ]. INGALLS,.
He Says the Republicans Must Ac-
cept Silver or BE Paralyzed by
A COALITION OF WEST AND SOUTH
Demands of the Farmers Alliance Not
Understood in the East.
VIGOROUS ADVICE FOR NEW ENGLAND

sailed last night from this port on board the
coast steamer Dorchester Or Baltimore,
after having made brief visit to the scenes
of his childhood and to his parents, who re-
side in West Roxbury.
Before leaving he spoke freely to re-
porter concerning New England's policy
toward 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 nominates a
monopolist and the platform contains
declaration against free coinage, unless
some remarkable change occurs in public
opinion, 1 doubt if they will carry two States
west OF the Alleg heny Mountains
Combination of West and South.
Again he says: ''The very pressure of
economic questions has forced combina-
tion between the Western States and those
those of the Gulf and the Southeastern At
lantic States; between the great grain and
cotton producers, as against the manufac-
turing and commercial interests of the East
This combination has been forced by the
greed and grasping characteristics of the
Eastern capitalists.
''The New England people do not under
stand either the disposition or the temper of
the Western people, and have not under
stood them from the beginning. The
Yankee idea seems to be to treat the demands
of the West with derision and contempt.
The people there have become tired of being
ridiculed and of having their favorite
measures of legislation overriden, and are
determined to secure for themselves the
privileges which it has been the custom of
the East to set aside for itself This is the
back bone of the Alliance movement. and
among the last things its leaders would be
likely to harken to would be the warnings
from the moneyed interests of the New
England States.
A Crisis Requiring Wisdom.
"a crisis is threatened and it will take
the combined wisdom of the country to avert
it. By this crisis line of separation be-
tween the East and the West will be drawn,
and it will be precipitated unless there is
modification of the proscriptive and intol-
Grant criticism which prevails against West
ern men and measures. The consequences
of such crisis cannot he predicted, but
they will be momentous. The West and
South want a revision and readjustment of
the tariff they want the free coinage of sill
yer, they want series OF economical meas
ures TO protect their agricultural interests,
and every word of derision sent forth from
New England does not tend to increase their
confidence in their Yankee sfellow-country-
men.
'The West and South know their power.
They know. by the adjustment of the politi
cal 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,
maiority of the House of Representatives,
and 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 occupy. New
England wants a gold basis. The West and
South are unanimous for free coinage; they
want a large increase in the circulating me-
dium, and all thar New England may do to
the contrary cannot change this determine
ton. They have long submitted, for the
sake of party. to New England's tariff de-
mands, but they will submit no longer.
The Farmers Alliance Misunderstood.
'This new political movement in the
West is misunderstood by the East-pur-
posely misunderstood, it would seem. There
are but few o! the Western States that are
not within the grasp of the secret lodges of
the Farmers Alliance. Its surprising growth
in Ohio, which started with $4,000 men,
bers and promises to have $780, 900 by the
next election, is equalled in several other
Suites, and for President Eliot, of Harvard
College, to tell these people that they are
ignorant and do not know what they are
doing is not likely to modify their opinion
of Eastern instruction. AS matter of
fact. such know-it-all instructions but
exasperates them and arouses their resent
ment. 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 en-
gagged in an honest effort to solve the great
problems that confront us in accordance
with tine 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 81, 900 majority-the largest relative
majority given by any State in the country.
This majority has disappeared. As in
night the Republican sentiment of Kansas
underwent a change, and the party Of Sena-
tor-eect PETER and Jerry Simpson took its
place.
Kansas Is BY No Means Alone.
"But the State of Kansas did not stand
alone overwhelmed by the earthquake. Our
New England brethren had their chance
success in New Hampshire, their Demo-
cratic Governors in Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island and their minority in Con-
necticut. We from the West ioresaw the
catastrophe. and we appealed to the repre-
sentatives from New England to be more
moderate, but our appeal went with the
soup reserved for Western digestion. Your
leaders exhibited q disinclination 10 make
even the slightest concessions upon
national questions. The Western Judgment
of such an exhibition was that future CO.
operation for their benefit with the East
would be barren in results. and so they
looked to the South. Business interests
and desire for mutual protection drove all
sectional Issues and factional antagonisms
out of political use. They were not inclined
to continue to differ with section with
which they intended to form an alliance,
and so the elections bill had but little con-
sideration from them.
'That is what New England is doing.
New England is dependent for the means
TO maintain her manufacturing and COM
mercial premacy.upon the producing re-
gions of the country, for your farmers do
not raise enough to furnish your population
with a break asst three months in a year.
There are innumerable reasons why the
relations between the two sections should
be friendly and harmonious. With reason
able concessions. the present differences
could be SO adjusted as to secure har-
monious cooperation. To bring this to
pass compromises must be made. But our
experience with New England has been
that she will have all or nothing.
Demands of the Prairie Statesman.
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