The evening world., 1891-03-16
With New England has been ,bs. .hs will

Sss Says \, Sfg y, EnssnS has been that 'h' will
with lumber 70 build our corralp, and We
Sr,n TSnt n free lumber and a reduction Of ths
FREQ sugar. but the Maine woods are mot
yet quite exhausted and tho wire works at
Worcester and the maple trees in Vermont
we're refused by the Representatives of New
England sentiment. Not all, for we shall
have, have practically free snGar; but those Yer
Our Western farmers see and know those
things, and neither President Eliot nor
anybody else can, shut their eyes. Our
TO Feel sSea sbe %Ss eS.a "a
last session they saw their Pure Food
bill, their Lard bill and other important
agricultural measures permitted, to die, with
the Shipping Subsidy. bill, which Is for the
interests OF the shipbuilders along the
Maine coast. ltn't H. natural, under these
rise in resentment against the greed and
get-all OF New EnRlandi
Men OF the agricultural REGIONS see tba I
in the large manufacturing and Sommerciai
regions there is an inordinate and inex-
plcable accpmmulation OF wealth. All that
demand ,is either buried in, commit
New Ehnslanders h. for twenty-five year.
their representatives have by long e1peri-
ence aud extended service reached positions
OF influence ana power. They have held the
the House and the Chairmanthips Of all
powerful committees. SO. that New Eng
lands wants would BIZ attended TO. il every
sssSn of The cS%unry yusb suffered hss, as
% As again showing the change Of feeling
in the West. spoke twenty-five times in the
October addressed 100, 900 people. They
manifested interest exolusiv vely In economic
and political topics. Anything else fell fat.
fraSe S In the South. Sou % which had been i ' en-.
crossing questions In 1883, had lost their
power and were regarded with apathetic in
difference, Much OF this indifference was
undoubtedly due to perception, misunder-
stood perhaps. but all-powsrful neverthe-
less, that co-operation between New Eng
land and the West was hopeless. and the
success Of the reform demanded could only
be secured by a coalition between the South
md West. when existing causes of political
enhancement are removed.
ne 1ser to hsr adj on icy os
the genius of New England has been sharp
ened and developed By its environments.
and for Two centuries hsy Eavs laid in val.
money invested in Western enterprises lin
the Atchison, the G. B. and Q. and other
great Undertakings. 1t 10 among the things
that are i'll tue immediate future, that West
ern Legislatures will put upon their statute
books enactments for the establishment of
arbitrary and maximum rates for .passen-
gers and freight upon the railroads; they
will pass usury laws and statutes for stay
OF executions in proceedings for the collec-
tion Of debts. These are some Of the retalia-
tory dangers that will threaten the perma-
nent values Of Eastern Investments in land
and railroads,
AS . New England boy do not de ire to
see the line Of separation drawn. II 1t 10
drawn 1t will be New England greed and ig-
norance 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 Halstead's comment
that the Senator's utterapces in the matter
Of the annual British war scare indicated
that he was in need of . change of climate.
the Senator laughinaly said that while Mr.,
Halstead believed that the Senator should
change his climate, when 1t had been poRsi-
BILE for Mr.. Halstead to have o change in
Berlin he. the Senator, had been one Of those
who had prevented him. Possibly Editor
Halstead was striving to even np accounts.