Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-07
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not think that there will be much op-
position to him In 1892. Harrison
has a genius for making appropriate
speeches to chance crowds. He dem
Onstrated that during the campaign,
and his speeches during his present
trip have been admirable. When the
trip was first discussed it was every
where met with adverse criticism and
rldicule; but MIR. Harrison has by the
neatness and appropriateness of the
speeches he has made, forced their
publication in Democratic and mug
wump as well as Republican papers,
and gained for himself favorable
comment in all parts of the country.
He has rehabilitated himself as a
Presidential possibility. As I say, if
the convention were held tomorrow
his name alone would be mentioned.
$50 Senator Vest thinks that East
ern politicians do not realize the im-
pOrtance of the new movement in the
west. New York men, that is city of
New York men, are not eastern men,
nor western men, nor southern men.
They are cosmopolitan. In the east
we hear a great deal of the west as
the future home of Presidents, be-
cause, they say, it is so big. We hear
that the future political policy of the
nation will be dictated by the west
because it is so big But acres do
not control or govern nations. That
requires brain. I do not say that
there Is not just as much brain to the
acre in the west as there is in the east,
but it will be her brain and not her
acres that will be felt politically.
There is growing, as this country
grows, a national pride, a pride not
of the west or of the east or of the
south, but a pride in the United
States as the greatest nation of the
earth. A man who talks sectionalism
is small, and more, the people recog-
nize that he is a small man.
''The east has given the west It's
capital, 1t has built railroads, open
ed up farming lands, built cities, es-
tablished manufactures, and the wesI
under the present condition of things
has been increasing in wealth at the
rate of about 1 million dollars pei
minute.
THE Farmers Alliance" said be
in answer to to a question, SIS ar
honest organization of honest men
On account of bad crops It's members
have not been prosperous for several
years, and now they are endeavoring
to better their condition by legisla
ton.
Speaking of crops, I never knew a
time when there was a promise of as
large a one as this year. It has beer
the same story every place in the west
where we have been This will cause
a cry of over production, will, it not
did you ask? Well there is nothing
small about us. The Lord tells us tc
ask, and while what we ask may moi
seem quite the proper thing to Him
still He has told US to ask, and He
cannot blame us for asking. JUS
now we are asking that the crop il
Europe be small, and from reports il
would seem that this particular re
quest would be granted"
Talking of railroads, he explained
that the object of the party in the
west was not in any way to circum
vent Jay Gould. According to Mr.
Depew, a most friendly feeling ex
lists between the Vanderbilt anc
Gould interests, the business agree
ment between them is perfectly salts
factory to both and the Vanderbilt
party has no intention of parallelllng
any of the Gould lines. He insists
that for the interest of the shipper
it is important that the agreemen
remain unbroken.
''The shippers in the east" said he
shave come to realize that what the,
want is established and well know
rates. In the west there is still tn,
mistaken idea that the shipper i
benefited by competition and cuts
1t is always the large shipper VIII,
get the advantage of the secret cut
and competition in railroad rates al
ways tends to cripple the small ship
per, and Will eventually drive hir
from business. Ifthere was discrim
nation of a general character al
over the country, each business woul
fall into the hands of four or five meE
and the rest would be their agents
The western legislator by his tinker
ing with railroad rates does not hel
his constituent, the small farme
He only demoralizes rates and help
the big shipper. Railroad rate
should be as well known as post,
tolls, so that every man may kno'
that he can use the nations high
ways upon the payment of certai
toll, and that all other men pay th
same toll"
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REMARKABLE REScUE.