The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09
A Startling Address Made at
Lynn, Mass.
IN COLDS HOT-BED.
Is There an Irrepressible Con-
hict Now
AS There Was Between the
States lin 1861.

NOT lONZ ago III q En4ALl ~ 10y -AAAr
Mass. by Herbert N Casson-remark-
able not only for the locality in which
it was delivered, the very hotbed of
gold bugs. but for the way in which ne
boldly deals with the relative existing
conditions of the east and the west
The address is as follows:
In ten years we may have third
map. on which the western states' viii
appear as an independent republic,
having an Industrial and financial pol
icy OF its own We can no longer con-
slider the western states as waste and
laWless territories, for fin g. few decades i
they have developed an the symptoms
OF eastern or European CIVILIZATION
Western men can remember when land
was free. when money was weighed py
the pound. when all were equal In OPP
portunities and when labor was the
only key that opened every door
''The west was settled largely by the
best and bravest men of the east.
Thousands of Union soldiers went there
and took up land after the war and
we cannot afford to sheer at or BELT
tie the opinions of such men.
LIT is a momentous and alarming
fact that in thousands of pamphlets,
papers and books the west is now as
sorting itself to be Wronged and robbed
by the east. and that a feeling Of bit
terest hatred and enmity to New Eng
land has arisen beyond the Mississippi.
Tit points to the fact that from 1880 to
1880 Massachusetts alone gained more
wealth than Indiana, Iowa, Illinois,
Nebraska. Louisiana, Mississippi Ala
bama, Georgia and North Carolina,
that have seven times the population
and fifty eight times the land Single
individuals in New York city can buy
up entire states in the west
On 1889 the farm mortgages of the
west amounted to nearly S., $500 600 600
and during the last thirteen years in
Minnesota alone 33 453 farmers were
sold out. These Minnesota farmers
have not been idle or shiftless; they
have every year planted and reaped an
enormous crop, but prices have been
TOO low 10 cover expenses Lalely IN
western city potatoes were sold at
SO cents a ton and every year immense
quantities OF grain are destroyed or fed
10 the hogs. The farmers cannot man
age their farms without hiring help,
and they have no money to hire with
Tn the south the truck system is MAX
ing money museum curiosity to the
planters and all kinds of crude labor
exchanges 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 become the
American gypsy moth, feeding on the
fruitage of the west
YIN some parts Of the west it is not
safe TO say that YOU came from Massa-
Chusetts. Comemrcial travellers inform
us that many western merchants viii
not even look at eastern goods Be
fore long they viii be throwing eastern
tea overheard into the Pacific They
assert that the thirteen colonies have
and that nothing now remains of the
American republic but the western
states Much of this accusation is true.
The star of the empire 100 years ago
crossed the Atlantic and now 1T has
crossed the continent The black soul
of George III is marching on today in
Boston and New York.
Instead of Hessians we have law
yers- instead of L0yalists. we have Re
publicanss instead of Benedict Arnold,
we have John Sherman. instead of
Bunker h4ftf have fNhfnp
strike.
'Lincoln's prophecy has been fulfilled
and the east has become the home of
industrial and financial deSDOts. One
hundred and twenty years after Christ
Jerusalem was Inhabited only by
wolves and jackals: and 120 years after
Samuel Adams. Boston is inhabited by
the bulls and bears and other wild
beasts of trade.
THE shadow Of Bunker Hill monu-
ment falls on dingy tenements. where
the hunger fever burns; Faneuu Hall is
besieged by bowling hucksters, scramb-
ling for beggarly existence opposite
TO where the first blood Of the revOlu-
ton was shed there are bankers and
brokers. squeezing the life blood out Of
their Fellow nen- the OLD South church
IS surrounded by thronEs of ragged
childhood; and Boston sacred common
is pock-marked with policemen. to
make the weary unemployed keep off
Boston. the great is fallen and be-
come an industrial Babylon Its money
kings have only two planks in their
platform There's nothing to arbitrate, o
and The public be ID
ut is time for us to know that the
west viii never submit to New Eng
A4nd president on a. gold and monopoly
platform, and warn these blind 6nan-
ciers that If they continue i'm their
present course for five years more. they
VIII never receive either principal or
interest
The west cannot he coerced. Tt is
not afraid of our tenderfoot militia
Forty years ago the south insisted upon
the Fugitive slave law and the result
was an uprising and an emancipation.
and similar result win occur IL the
eastern shylock insists upon cutting off
his pound of flesh IF the east IS Tner-
CHESS today the west viii be merciless
tonorroW The western giant like
GuluVer. is only bound with threads
and he is every day becoming more
awakened and dangerous.
Let US remember that the interests
whether in the east or west are the
same Let the mechanic and the farm
SIT cooperate and stretch hands across
tne Alsslsslppi- Let us take the pitch
FORK and the hammer as our ernblens
ana form political party Of our own.
ror the sake Of the Union and the
men who died to save it, for the sake
q social peace and patriotism. we must
SPEAK lla strongest words. in spite OF
prejudice and self-conceft If there had
peen an abolition church in Richmond
4n 1858 Its warnings had been heard
when 1T cried beware of the north. par-
haps the civil war might have been
4verted."