The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10

BEWARE OF THE WEST!
An Interesting Massachusetts, Ser.
mon Exposing the Exist
ing Regime.
The West Will Break the Despotism
Which the East Has Thrown
Over Us.

~ 49,, AsAoIo., 4Ady IT, IA oCdl llAuS du-
dress was delivered by Herbert N. Casson
in the Lynn Labor Church at noon today,
on the subject, Beware of the West" A
novel feature of the meeting was the serv-
ing of free lemonade to the large and
thirsty audience, an example for the other
churches during the hot summer months.
After announcing that Charlotte Perkins
Stetson, the noted poetess and lecturer,
would speak the following Sunday, Mr..
Casson began his address. He introduced
hislectures 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-uninhabited and un-
explored He said:
In ten years we may have third map,
on which the western states will appear as
an Independent republic, having an indus
trial and financil policy of its own. We
can no longer consider the western states
as waste and lawess territories, for in a
few decades they have developed all the
symptoms Of eastern or European civiliza-
ton. Western men can remember when
land was free, when money was weighed
by the pound, when all were equal in op-
pCI IIuulllcS, dIu WuCU WdS L1C OILY
key that opened every door.
The west was settled largely by the
bravest and best young man 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
srch men.
ut is momertous and alarming fact
that in thousands of pamphlets papers and
yoctf fc 10
robbed by the east, and that a feeling of
the bitterest hatred and enmity to New
Ebgland has aris. s4heyopd the Mississ ppi.
It 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.
"1n 1889 the farm mortgages of the west
amounted to nearly SO, 500, ,OOO OOO and dur
ing the last thirteen years, in Minnesota
alone, 33 453 farmers were sold out These
farmers have not been IDLE or shiftless
they have every year planted and raised an
enormous crop, but prices have been too
low to cover expenses. Lately, in a west
ern city, potatoes were sold at 83 cents a
ton, and every year immense quantities of
grain are destroyed or fed to hogs The
farmers 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 manufacture
and circulate money.
What England is to Ireland what Spain
IS to Cuba, the east is to the west Massa-
chusettS has become 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.
Commercial travellers inform 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 colo
nies have become financially annexed to
England, and that nothing now remains OF
the American republic but the western
states. Much Of this accusation is true.
The star of empire crossed the Atlantic 100
years ago, and now it has crossed the con-
tnent. The black soul of George ILL., is
marching on today in Boston and New
York.
Instead of Hessians, we have lawyers
instead of Loyalists we have Republicans
instead of Benedict Arnold we have John
Sherman; instead of Bunker H:ll, we have
the Chicago strike; instead Of Washington
we have men like Tillman, Debs and Ping
rec.
Lincoln's prophecy has been fulfilled, and
the east has become the home of industrial
and financial despots. One hundred and
twenty years after Christ, Jerusalem was
inhabited only by wolves and jackals; and
12O years after Samuel Adams, Boston Ii
inhabited by the bulls and bears and other
wild beasts Of trade.
"The shadow of Bunker Hill monument
falls on dingy tenements, where the hunger
fever burns; Faneuil hall is besieged by
bowling hucksters, scrambling for beg
carly existence; opposite to where the first
blood of the revolution was shed there are
brokers and bankers, squeezing the life's
blood out of their fellow men; the old
South Church is surrounded by throngs OF
ragged newsboys robbed of education and
childhood; and Boston's sacred Common is
pock-marked with policemen to make the
weary unemployed keep off the grass
Boston the great has fallen and become
an industrial Babylon. It's money kings
have only two planks in their platform
There's nothing to arbitrate,' and The
public be ID
"It is time for us to know that the west
Will never submit to New England presi-
dent, on gold and monopoly platform, and
| warn these blind financiers that If they
continue in their blind course for five years
more, they will never receive either princ-
pal Or interest.
''The west cannot be coerced. It Is not
afraid of our tenderfoot militia. Forty
years ago the south insisted upon the fugi-
tive slave law, and the result was an up
rising and an emancipation; and similar
result will occur if the eastern Shylock in
s:sts upon cutting off the pound of flesh.
If the east is merciless today, the west will
be merciless tomorrow. The western giant,
like Guliver, IS only bound with threads,
and he IS every day becoming more awak-
eDed and dangerous.
LET us remember that the interests Of all