The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-31

nave WetCn0o tn6 COURSE VI oNouto nsy
become interesting. 90 showing the in
genuity Of che human mind and Its
ability 70 argue pleusibly in all direo-
tions, but 1T the same time We should
not be misled when we remember the
fsllibilisy of human Judgment and the
proneness OF all to be biased by preju-
dice or deceiv d by false and specious
reasoning.
THE TIMES has lately published some
remarkable prophecies and predictions,
and this morning gives space to start
ling address delivered by Herbert N.
Casson in the lynn Labor Church OF
Boston on May IL on the subj ct, "Be.
ware OF the West" While NOS endors-
ing these views, they are given as an II
lussration OF the mental forces at work
In this country. He said:
In ten years we may have q third
map. on which the Western s stes will
appear as an independent republic, hav-
ing an industrial and financial policy OF
its own. We can no longer consider
the Western States as waste and lawless
territories; fer in q few decades they
have developed sill the symptoms OF
Eastern or European civilization.
Western men can remember when land
WAS free, when money was weighed by
the pound, when all were equal in OBJ
portunities, and when labor was the
only key that opened every door.
The West WAS settled largely by the
best and bravest young men of the
East. Thousands OF Union soldiers
went there and took up land after the
war, and we cannot afford TO sneer at or
belittle the opinions Of such men.
1T is \ momentous and alarming facs
that in thousands OF pamphlets, papers
and books the West 10 now asserting It.
self to be wronged and robbed by the
East, and that q feeling OF bitterness,
hatred and enmity to New Eng and has
arisen beyond the Mississippi 1t points
to the fact that from 1880 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 fifty
eight times the land. Single individuals
in New York city can buy up entire
States in the West
I'm 1889 the farm mortgages of the
West amounted to nearly SO 500. 900, 600
and during the last thirteen years, in
Minnesota alone, 33,453 farmers were
sold out. These farmers have moi en-
idle or sbiftless; they have e~ery year
planted and reaped an enormous crop,
but prices have been TOO low 10 C ,ver
expenses Lately, in Western CITY
potatoes were sold st SO cent. ION.
and every year immense Quantities of
grain are destroyed or fed - ,he hogs
Inc farmers c-nuot manage their farms
without hi:' Il help, and they have no
money to hire with In the South, the
truck system Is making money
all kinds OF crude labor exchanges are
being formed to manufacture and circu
late money.
What England Ia to Ireland, what
Spain is to Cuba, the East Ia to the West.
Msssach usetts has become the American
gypsy moth, feeding on the fruitsge of
the West.
"In some parts OF the West it is not
safe to say that you came from Massa-
chusetts Commercial travellers inform
us that many western merchants will
not even look at Eastern gods. Before
long they will be throwing Eastern Tea
overheard into the Pacific They assert
'ha. the thirteen colonies have become
financially annexed to England, and
hat nothing now rem sins of the Aueri-
can repubiic but the Western Sta'es.
Mucn of this accusation is true. The
star Of empire lsO years ago crossed the
Atlantic and now IL ha, crossed the
continent. The black soul OF George III
u marching on to-day in Boston and
New York.
''Instesd of Hessians, we have law
yers; instead OF loyalisss wa have Re-
publicans; instead Of Benedict Arnold.
We have -ohn Sherman; instead OF
Bunker Hill, we have the Chicago
strike; instead OF Warrington we have
men like Tillmsn, Debs and Pingree
"Liucoln's prophecy mas been fulfilled;
and the East has become the home If
Industrial and financial despots One
hundred and twenty years after Christ