The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-06-03
THE VEST WARNED.
An Eastern Man, Who Knows the In.
fernal Shylocks, Warns Them to
Beware of Day of Reckoning.

1ue tOIiONiuS StditIluS tiutiic9H "''''
delivered by Herbert n Casscn IN
the Lynn Labor Church, OF Boston,
on MAY II, on the subject Beware
of the Vest iir CassoD Introduced
his lecture by poincus to two large
maps Of America that hung N from;
OF the pulpit, one representing the
Western states as they We're fifty
years aso-uninhabited ard nasI-
plored. lie said:
In ten years we may nave ,.l:ra
map, on which tie NYestera states
will appear as III independent repo3-
lie, having al industrial and t;"ancial
policy of its Own. We can no longer
consider the Western states is wastc:
and lawless territories; for u ! lc~
decades they have developed all the
symptoms Of Eastern or European
civilization. Western meu eau -
member when land was &C., w!c1
money was weighed by the 2oun@,
when all were equal in opportunities,
and when labor was tie only key that
opened every door.
''The West was settled largely by
the best and bravest young nlen o.
tie East. Thousands Of Union sd.
diers went there and took up land
after the war, and we cannot afford
to sneer at or belittle the opinions
of such men.
"It is momentous and alarming
fact that in thousands Of pamphlets,
papers and books the West is now
asserting itself to be wronged and
robbed by tie East, and that q feel
ing of bitterness, hatred and enmity
to New England has arisen beyond
the Mississippi. 1t points to the
fact that from 1850 to 1890 Mass
achusetts alone gained more wealth
than Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama.
Georgia, and North Carolina, that
have seven times the population and
iity eight times the land. Single in
dividuals in New York city can buy
iup entire States in the West.
I'm 1889 the farm mortgages OF the
West amounted to nearly $3,500,000-
1000 and during the last thirteen
years, in Minnesota alone, 3o,453
farmers were sold out. These farmers
have not been idle or shiftless; they
have every year planted and reaped
an enormous crop, but prices have
been too low to cover expenses. Late
Ily, in Western city potatoes were
sold at SO cents ton, and every year
Immense quantities OF grain are des-
|troyed or fed to the hogs. The farm
ers cannot manage their farms with
out hiring help, and they have no
money to hire with. In the South,
the truck system is making money
a museum curiosity to the planters,
and all kinds of crude labor ex-
changes are being formed to manu-
facture and circulate money.
"What England is to Ireland, what
Spain is to Cuba, the East is to the
West. Massachusetts has tocome
the American gypsy moth, feeding
on the fruitage of the West.
in some parts of the West it is
not safe to say that you came from
Massachusetts,. Commerci:ai .ca"el-
Ilers inform US that many Western
merchants will not even look at East.
ern goods. Before long they will be
throwing Eastern tea overheard into
the Pacific They assert that he
thirteen colonies have become tinan.
cially annexed to England, and That
nothing now remairs cf the Ameri.
can republic but the Western States
Much Of this accusation is tyne. ia<
star OF empire 120 years ago crossed
the Atlantic, and now it has crossed
the continent. Il:e black soul ot
George III. is marching on to-day
in Boston and New York.
"IDstead of Hessians, we have law.
yers; instead of loyalists, we have
Republicans; instead of Benedict
Arnold, we have John Sherman; in.
stead of Bunker Hill, we have tie
Chicago strike; instead of Washing
ton, we have men like 1illman, Debs
and Pingree.
"Lincoln's prophesy has been ful'
filed; and the East las become the
home of industrial and financial des.
pots. Ore hundred and twenty
years after Christ, Jerusalem was in.
habited only by wolves and jackals
and one hundred and twenty years
after Samuel Adams, Boston is inhab,
tied By the bulls and baars and othv-
wild beasts of trade.
''The shadow of Bunker Hill mon
ument falls on d;ngy tenements, where
the hungry fever burns; Faneuil Hall
is besieged by bowling hucksters,
scrambling for beggarly existence;
opposite to where the first blood OF
the Revolution was shed there are
bankers and brokers, squeezing the
life, blood out of their fellcw. men;
the Old South Church is surrounded
by throngs of ragged newsboys,
robbed of education ard childhood;
and Boston's sacred Common is pock-
marked with policemen, to make
the weary unemployed keep off the
grass.
Boston the Great is fallen and be-
come an industrial Babylon. Its
money kings have only two plenks
in stheir platform-'There's nothing
to arbitrate,' and 'The public be
ID.
"It is time for US to know that the
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