Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-25
INGALLS GIHEs ApH1oE.
From the New York World:

their hats: If the next republican con
vention dominates monopolist and
the platform contains a declaration
against free coinage, unless some re-
markable change occurs in public opin-
ion, l doubt if they will carry two states
west of the Allegheny Mountains
Again he says: The very pressure
OF economic questions has forced a
combination between the Western
states and those of the Mississippi and
Missouri valleys, those OF the Cult and
the Southeastern Atlantic states; be-
tween the great grain and cotton pro-
ducers. as against the manufacturing
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
understand 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 deter
mined 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 harken to
would be the warnings from the mone-
ed interests of the New England sto+ss
"A crisis is threatened S.,d r. will
take the combined wisd, I'm of the conn.
try to avert 1t. By This crisis line of
separation between the East and the
WeSg will be drawn. and it will be pre-
clpltated unless there is modification of
the proscriptive ndintolerant criticism
which prevails against Western men
and measures. The consequences of
such crisis cannot be predicted. but
they will be momentous. The west and
south want revision and reimbursement
OF the tariff, they want the free coinage
or silver, they want series of economi-
cal measures to protect their agricuI-
tural interests, and every word of deris-
ion sent forth from New England does
not tend to increase their confidence in
their Yankee fellow countrymen.
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
majority of the electoral college.
Where would New England then be?
There would be no need of revolution.
New England could then be Iegislated
to the place 1t desires the west to &C.
cupy. New England wants a gold
basis. The south and west are unani-
nous for free coinage; they want a
large increase in the circulating me-
dunn, and all that New England may
do to the contrary cannot change this
determination. They have long SUBJ
mitted, for the sake of party, to New
England's tariff demands, 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
secret lodges Of the Farmers Alliance.
Its surprising growth in Ohio, which
started with $4,000 members and prom
ises to have $4,000 by the next election,
is equaled in several other states, and
for President Eliot, Of Harvard college,
to tell these people that they are 1gnor-
ant 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
resentment. Because the voters of the
west may lack the culture and scientific
knowledge and technical instruction of
the president and graduates of Harvard
college, 1t does not follow that they are
not equally as good scholars in wider
school and are not engaged in an honest
effort to solve the great problems that
confront US in accordance with the
principles of sound financial basis and
III keeping with good government.
"How the tide is running in the west,
Kansas tells. In my state Harrison
received $1,000 majority-the largest
relative majority given in any state in
the country. This majority has disap-
peared. AS in night the republican
sentiment Of Kansas underwent a
change, and the party of Senator-elect
PETER and Jerry Simpson took its place.
But the state of Kansas did not
stand alone overwhelmed by the earth
quake. Our New England brethren had
their chance success in New Hampshire,
their democratic governors in Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island and their
minority in Connecticut. We from the
west foresaw the catastrophe, and we
appealed TO the representatives from
New England to be more moderate, but
our appeal went with the soup reserved
for western digestion. Your leaders
exhibited disinclination to make even
the slightest concessions upon national
questions. The western judgment on
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 interasts
and a desire for mutual protection
drove all the sectional issues and fac.
tiohal antagonisms out of political use.
, They were not inclined to continue ia
diner with section with which they
intended to form an alliance, and so the