The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-06-12
Al EFER WIDENING CLASH.
The East and West Getting Further Apart
Says Herbert CassOn.
What England is to ireland, What Spain
Is TO Cuba, The East Is to ths
Western State.

not long ago in church at Lynn,
Mass, by Herbert. N. Casson-remark-
able not only for the locality in which
il vas delivered, the very hotbed of
goldbugs, bat for the way in which he
boldly deals with the relative existing
conditions Of the east and the vest.
The address is as follows:
ain 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
lswless territories, for in few decades
they have developed all the symptoms
of eastern or European civilization.
Western men can remember when land
was free, when money was weighed by
the pound, when all we're equal in op-
portunites and when labor was the only
key that opened every door.
"The west was settled largely by the
best and braYest 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.
st 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
terest hatred and enmity to New Eng
land has risen beyond the Mississippi.
It points to the fact that from 1886 to
1890 Massachusetts alone gained more
wealth than Indiana, Iowa, Illinois,
Nebraska, Louisiana. Mississippi, Ala
bsms, Georgia and North Carolina,
that have seven times the population
and 50 times the land. Single indivi-
duals in New York city can buy up en-
tire states in the west.
sin 1889 the farm mortgages of the
west amounted to nearly s3,5OO,GOOOOO
and during the last Is years in Min
nesota alone 33,453 farmers we're sold
out. These Minnesota farmers have
not been idle or shiftless; they have
every year planted and reaped an en-
Ormous crop, but prices have been too
low to cover expenses. Lately in a
western city potatoes were sold at So
cents a ton and every year immense
quantities Of grain are destroyed CT
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 museum curiosity to
the planters and all kinds of crude Ia
Dor exchanges are being formed to
manufacture 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.
"In some parts of the west, it is not
safe to say that you came from Massa-
ehusetts. Commercial travellers inform
Us that many western merchants will
not even look at eastern goods. Be-
fore long they will be throwing eastern
tea overheard into the Pacific. They
assert that the Is colonies have be-
come 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 the empire 40 years ago
crossed the Atlantic and now it has
crossed the continent. The black soul
of George III is marching on to-day in
Boston and New York.
"Instead of Hessians, we have law
yeTs; instead Of loyalists, we have re-
publioans; instead of Benedict Arnold, |
We have John Sherman; instead of
Bunker Hill, we have the Chicago
strike.
"Lincoln's prophecy has been full
filled and the east has become the
home Of industrial and financial de-
spots. One hundred and twenty years
after Christ Jerusalem was inhabited
only by wolves and iacksls; and 40
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, Faneuil Hall
is besieged by bowling hucksters,
sCramblihg for beggarly existence;
opposite to where the first blood Of the
revolution was she'd there are bankers
and brokers, squeezing the life blood
out Of their fellow men; the Old South
church is surrounded By throngs of
ragged neWsboys. robbed Of edueation
and childhood; and Boston's sacred
aommon is poek, marked with police
msn, 70 make the weary unemployed
sesp'of the grass