The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-27


| political use They were not inclined
to continue to differ with a section with
| which they intended TO form an ALI
/ ance, and SO the elections bill had but
/ little consideration from them.
/ THAT is what New England is doing
! New England is dependent for the
means TO maintain her Misunderstanding
and commercial supremacy upon the
producing regions OF the country, for
| your farmers do not raise enough to fur
nish our population with q breakfast
three months in the 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
''The great prairies do not furnish US
with lum Der to build our cOrrals, and
we want free lumber and reduction
of the duty on fence wire. Then, too,
we wanted free sugar, but the Maine
woods are not yet quite exhausted and
the wire works at Worcester and the
maple trees in Vermont all had their
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 en-
riched by bounties. Our western
farmers see and knew these things,
and neither President Eliot nor
anybody else can shut their
eyes. Our western farmers have even
more reasons to feel incensed. 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 ship
ping subsidy bill, which is for the in
terest of the shiP-bui1ders along the
Maine coast. Isn't it natural, under
these circumstances, that the producers
should rise in resentment against the
greed and get-au OF New England?
''AIen of the agricultural regions see
that yearly they labor but to grow
poorer, while in the large manufacture
ing and commercial regions there is an
inOrdinate and inexp1icable accumula-
ton of wealth. All that these wealthy
communities desire in legislation is
granted, while all the farmers desire is
either buried in committee or laughed
out of sight. The New Englanders 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 secretary
ship of state, the spealership of the
house and the craftsmanship of all pow
erfuI committees, so that New Englands
wants would be attended to if every
other section of the country suffered as
a consequence. But they laugh best
who laugh last
''As again showing the change of
feeling in the west, I spoke twenty-five
times in the last campaign, and during
the month of October addressed 100, 900
people. They manifested interest exc
clusively in economic and political top
les. Anything else fell fat. The cleo
tions bill and the question of suffrage
in the south, which had been engrossing
questions in 1883, had lost their power
and were regarded with apathetic in
difference. Much of this indifference
was undoubtedly due to a perception,
misunderstood perhaps, but all-pOwer-
full, nevertheless, that cooperation be
tween New England and the west was
hopeless, and the success of the reform
demanded could only be secured by
coalition between the south and the
west, when existing causes of political
infringement 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
pr1SeS-1n the Atch1SOn, IN the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy and other great
undertakings. It is among the things
that are in the immediate future that
western legislatures viii put upon their
statute books enactments for the estab-
lishment of arbitrary and maximum
rates for passengers and freight upon
the railroads; they viii pass usury laws
and statutes for stay OF executions in
proceedings for the collection of debts.
These are some of the retaliatOF-yv dan
gers that viii threaten the permanent
values of eastern investments in land
and railroads
''As a New England boy do not de-
sire to see the line of separation drawn.
II it is drawn it viii be New England
greed and ignorance of the needs Of the
western people that Will do it The
west viii play tail to the eastern kite
no longer
In reference to Nfurat Halstead's COM
ment that the senator's utterances in
the matter of the annual British war