The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-03-19
TIE 1MPnNpfNa CRISIS.

Elk Senator Ingalls, has embraced his
first leisure to revisit his old Massachu-
setts home, where he found he had out
grown his Jacket and that his ideas of
manly measurement have undergone
radical change, after twenty-five years
on the big Kansas prairies.
While in Boston he submitted to a
lengthy interview, in which he express.
ed the opinion that If the Hoars and
Lodges of New England took no
heed to the warnings given by
the West, in the last November
campaign, they would see greater po-
litcal upheaval than any which has
come upon the country. In the new
order of things IT will not be North and
South, but East and West. The
West and South want revision and
readjustment of the tariff, they want
the free coinage of silver, they want a
series of economical measures to pro-
tect their agricultural interests, and
every word of derision sent forth from
New England does not tend to increase
their confidence in their Yankee follow
countrymen.
The Farmers Alliance movement,
which wiped out with single blast the
$1,000 Republican majority given Har-
rison, ingalls, predicts, is to extend, aud
asserts that in Ohio, where it started
with $4,000, it will reach $4,000 by next
fall. The ingalls, interview bearing
upon the Mckinley bill and Force bill,
affords food for reflection, as showing
the trend of Republican legislation in
the hands of the great money power
and monopolists of the East;
"The great prairies do not furnish us
with lumber to build our corrals, and we
want free lumber aud a reduction of the
duty on fence wire. Then, too, wanted
free sugar, but the Maine woods are not
yet quite exhausted and the wire works at
Worcester and the maple trees in Yer
mont all had their champions; SO our de-
mands were refused 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.
reasons to feel incensed. During the close
of the last season they saw their Pure
Food bill, their Lard bill and other impor-
tant 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 shipbulders
along the Maine coast. Isn't it natural,
under the circumstances. that the produc-
crs should rise in resentment against the
greed and get-all of New England?
"Nen of the agricultural regions see that
yearly they labor but to grow poorer,
while in the large manufacturing and
commercial regions there is an inordinate
and ineXplicable accumulation of
wealth. All that these wealthy commuu-
tiles desire in legislation is granted, while
all the farmers demand is either buried
i'll committee or laughed out of sight. The
New Euglanders for twenty-five years
have been able to do this because their
representatives have by long experience
and extended service reached positions of
influence and power. They have held the
Secretaryship of State, the Speakership
Of the House and the Chairmanships of
all powerful committees, so that New
Engiand's wants would be attended to, If
every other section of the country suffered
as consC quence. But they laugh best
who laugh last
LAS again showing the change of feeling
in the West, | spoke twenty five times in
Tue ldSt campaign, anu uufl!B ne ulOutu
of October addressed 10000 people. They
manifested interest exclusively in ecouo-
mic aud political topics. Anything else
fell fat. The Election bill and the ques-
ton of suffrage ia tue South, which had
been engrosspg questions in 1888, had lost
their power and were regarded with apa-
thetiC indifference. Much Of this ndiTer-
ence was undoubtedly due 10 a perception
misunderstood perhaps, but alLpowerful
nevertheless, that cooperation between
New England and the West was hope.
less, and the success of the reform dcman-
Ied could only be secured by a coalition
between the South and West, when exist
removed