Mohave County miner., 1897-02-13
Political SeetionGLism.

When, at the Chicago convention, Sen- ator Tillman declared that in spite of the denials, national affairs in this country had narrowed down to a sectionalism is sue, he may have been indiscreet, but he spoke dIsagreeable truth.
 After roundly condemning the dele gate from South Carolina for his utter ances, which, possibly, may have been more severe than a cool, sound judgment, could justify; after having painted him in the flaming colors of an anarchist and denounciug him as fool and a knave, says the Fresno Expositor, the eastern journals, now that the heat and preju- dices of political campaign have given place to a calm, reflective judgment, con- fess the lamentable fact that the east has drifted away from the south and west. through it's policy of sel6shness and greed, and that, commercially at least, there is nothing in common between them.
 Such men as Henry Watterson and Charles A. Dana admit it. None of our ablest publcities deny it. That such a condition is fraught with great danger to our common country is evident to every careful student of public affairs.
 The charge is an old one that the cap- italists of the east have prospered at the expense of the producers of the west This is natural but it is ominous The eastern capitalist has had the advantage over the western producer-having him absolutely at hls mercy, in short-so long that the former has become arro- gant and extortinate, while the latter hat become dissatisfied and impoverished This condition cannot much longer con- tinue without intensifyng the spirit that has already been famed into a fame in the southern and western breast and deepening the lines, which it has been admitted, divide this continent into two distinct sections, in a commercial sense.
 A distinguished American, who, by the way, once secuted the idea of there bei Ba spirit ot sectionaism abroad in this country, said the other day.
 "The east has had the benefit which pIoximmity to the seat of government and quick intercourse with foreign lands give to people capable of using to the best advantage all advantages. Yet it is true that the region immediately west and south of the AlIeghanies is very nearly terra lncognita to the average customer, who in every political move ment the last thirty years has been last to grasp the trend of public opinion west and south, and, by timely action, to lead the better element of political so cIeiy. In a word, in political affairs, the and this is because it has been too bent on making money to closely follow the course of thought in the country at large, and to discriminate between the vagaries of the demagogue and the dreams of the philosopher in public transactions.
 "I want to "awaken it from it's golden sleep and to warn it of it's danger" If the rich and the great in France had listened in time to the voice of sages whom they despised, there would have been no Reign of Terror. They scorned all counsels, and then came the deluge If the slave holders of the south had watched with half an eye the contem- poraneous progress of the world, the secession movement would have ap- peared in the beginning what it proved to be in the end-a war of annihilation Are wealth and power always to close their eyes and ears to the simple admon. itions of common sense?'
 The capitalists of the east might do we'll to look out for the rocks ahead. Their wealth and it's ostentatious display make the target for the dIsaffected every where. Their doctrine of exorbitant pro. tection upon products which the south and west require has bred spirit of deep dissatisfaction. Did the west and south feel that they were receiving fair and proper treatment at the hands of the east this talk of sectionalsm would never have arose. Whatever bitterness of feeling may have been engendered is due to the indifference of the east-Inde- pendent
 History of the Black Death.