Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-09

West" Mr.. CassOn introduced his lee
ture by pointing to two large maps
of America that hung in front of the
pulpit, one representing the western
states as they were fifty years ago
uninhabitated and unexplored. He
said:
I'm ten years we may have a third
map, on which the western states will
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 in few de-
cades they have developed all the
symptoms of eastern or European civ
ilization. Western men can remember
when land was free, when money was
weighed by the pound, when all were
equal in opportunities, 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 bellttle the opinions of such men.
1T is a mOmentOus and alarming
fact that in thousands of pamphlets,
papers and books the west is now as
serting itself to be wronged and robbed
by the east, and that feeling Of Bit
terness, hatred and enmity to New
England has arisen beyond the Miss
issippi. 1t points to the fact that from
1880 to 1890 Massachusetts, 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 $780, 100000,
and during the last thirteen years in
Minnesota alone, 33,453 farmers were
sold out. The 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. Lately, in western city,
potatoes were sold at SO cents ton,
and every year immense quantities CT
grain are destroyed or fed to the hogs.
The farmers cannot manage their
farms without 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
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.
I'm some parts of the west it is not
safe to say that you came from Mass
achusetts. Commercial travellers in
form us that many western merchants
will not even look at eastern goods
Before long they will be throwing
eastern tea overheard into the Pacific.
They assert that the thirteen colonies
have become financially annexed to
England, and that nothing now re-
mains of the American republic but
the western states. Much Of this
accusation is true. The star of empire
12O years ago crossed the Atlantic, and
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black soul Of George III is marching
on today in Boston and New York.
Instead of Hessians, we have law
yers; instead of royallsts, we have re-
publicans; instead of Benedict Arnold,
we have John Sherman; instead Of
Bunker Hill, we have the Chicago
strike; instead of Washington, we
have men like Tillman, Debs and Pin
gree.
"Lincolns prophecy has been full
filled; and the east has become the
home of industrial and financial des-
pots. One hundred and twenty years
after Christ, Jerusalem was inhabited
only by wolves and jackals; and one
hundred and twenty years after Sam
uel Adams, Boston is inhabited by
bulls and bears and other wild beasts
of trade.
THE shadow of Bunker Hill monu.
ment falls on the dingy tenements
where the hungry fever burns; Faneui
hall is besieged by bowling hucksters
scrambling for a beggerly existence
iopposite to where the first blood Of the
revolution was shed there are bankers
and brokers, squeezing the life-blooC
out Of their fellow men, the Old Soutt
church is surrounded by throngs o.
ragged newsboys, robbed of education
and childhood; and Boston's sacred
Common is pock-marked with police
men, to keep off the grass.
Boston the Great is fallen, and De-
come an industrial Babylon. Tt
money kings have only two planks il
their platform-There' nothing to ar
bitrate' and The public be ID
1T is time for us to know that tht
west will never submit to New Eng
land president, or Il gold and mOnop
oily platform, and warn those blint
financiers that # they continue il
their present course for five year.
more, they will never receive eitheI
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