Show THE AND WEST the cleavage between the two is perceptible AND MAY BECOME COMPLETE york feb 22 the following article entitled tile the hast east and the west is from the pen of benator jolin john J ingalls mid arid is published the Ite republican publican party is undergoing a process of sea segmentation the cleavage b between twee n the cast and the west is perceptible arid and iii may ty become complete tile the differences beti between een the alic two sections result from environment arid and I 1 fear are fundamental reconciliation is impossible except by concessions which would be equivalent to surrender and this is not to be anticipated I 1 do not regard the movement which under various various names is 0 going 0 on oil in the west and south its as casual sporadic po abic or temporary it is an organization of tile the laboring producing anil and agricultural classes la ases for their own protection tec toe tion it is not yet an array against wealth property corporations or capital so fa far r it is b deafen defensive ive but there are enormous possibilities of mischief derision ridicule arid and denunciation are not wise ll reason eason argument ec conference inference propitiation would be better it i is well to lie ile careful in handling liand ling n dynamite especially ally when it happens to be intelligent tell telli igent 0 ent and lias has a grievance real or imaginary the men of the cast wit who look upon it all with an air of aniu amu ed cd and patronizing patroni ing interest will find they are not guided by their customary penetration politics do not wholly ly nor even largely account for t alie i to marvelous spread til of the movement it must bo be described as the sudden appreciation of tile power pos possessed essed by every atom in our complex arid and extraordinary tra social fabric men have passed from a hazy lazy understanding stati standing dino LI of the ri right 0 lit of the individual to to vote to a realization of the resistless power of their votes when combined the dynamics of the western movement are not understood der stood arid and appreciated cast of the alle Alleg C hanics there is a disposition poi tio I 1 to scoff sneer all and d disparage which i it impolitic and unfortunate this will intensify the imitation and a aggravate bravate the tendency to separation they have learned carried the lesson of the supremacy of nun numbers ibers the power of coni combination they have anwer discovered that they are in alie ma jobity alie movement is spreading 0 with extraordinary rapidity organization is irot proceeding ceding in iowa illinois indiana minnesota michigan i igan an and iacoi ib coi sin in ohio 30 far farmers are arc already organized organised sed and it is expected eliat there will be 0 before the close of the year tile demand is for more inore circulating medium lower taxation tariff reduction and the restriction of corporate powers the a agitation ita arid and di discontent content have been 0 reinforced in by ball bad crops unpropitious sea seaon on debts arid and low prices an element that cannot be oer overlooked looked is the dull brutal and vulgar inid in olence arid and oili ostentation of the millionaires lion aires they are vulnerable they have not I 1 been peen as sagacious I 1 in ii tile hie use of wealth is as they have in its acquisition on this particular phare of tile the question much might 0 be said for it NN would be id idle le to deny delly that a fool with a million dollars is more harmful than a fool with bothin nothing but poverty to back up tip his folly when the day dav of ri rigid id reckoning comes it will lie seen the alie existing existing g elique clique of sordid and ambitious millionaires is suggestively ot close to the s so cemers ra and tricksters trick who arc playing upon the passions of the poor 1 I thought at one time it a coalition of the alie west all and south was inevitable CVita bIC but this does not seoul seem likely to occur file race question arid and ita incidents insure the solidity of the south and its identity alie democracy as lon long aith as li e arc present policy of the rojo republican lalli fill party continues it is to a dimand unacknowledged perception of this perhaps thet t the apathy and indifference of tile the western constituencies luen cies to the election bill is attributable A 1 readjustment of our ioli political forces will affect the democrats as well as the republicans both parties will lie be compelled to rectify their frontiers in ireland Germa germany riv and russia similar ii nilar agitation exists but the menace is not so appalling society ia in satisfied there there are arc monarchs mon arche dynasties standing armies hereditary establishments and avocations affording a infinite and formidable obstacles arid and barriers 0 disorder hut but here every individual is alert and mobile and ana armed with nith the lie ballot a terrible projectile if there are behind it impelling forces of hunger poverty aner auger 0 and desperation it id ib difficult fic alt for the alic ave average rage well to do mail to the lie envy which possess the western settler who watches a magnificently equipped arid and gorgeous Orge ous team as it rolls by his mortgaged laud land jie he is without the means to feed his fair family tily a and lid i lie ho is crushed to earth hy by poverty the railroad passes over his land and jakc money front his fellow farmers it is the emblem of prosperity arid and wealth lie ile realizes that tie lie is a factor in in the wealth of the road yet he is periodically starving for bread real ile he lias has discovered that the declaration of independence yankee doodle the fourth of july ie 1 the constitution constitute n of the united stat states s arid and ucher universal al guffra suffrage e have not classified poverty nor resulted in social fraternity and an all equal diffusion of wealth and the burdens benefits arid and privileges of society among the farmers 0 men of extensive views ire arc of course to be found there are sonie some who openly advocate the repudiation of debt and private fraternalism in government and a forcible redistribution of pr property but the number is small yet thou though 11 increasing rather than decreasing le cremin i and of course there are arc knaves ind and rogues rogue Scap ins robert macaites Ma caires jeremy Didd lers anil and among them many of alie schemes and projects are arc grotesque symmetrical gimcracks gim gini cracks but in the main the they are arc the serious ell efforts or t or of si sincere honest arid and patriotic patriot to men often without education or dis vip i pline linc misled sometimes by sinis ier and incendiary appe appeals alsto to solve the social arid and political problems of the nineteenth century the agricultural 0 war warehouse chouse sub treasury scheme and tile lie loaning illo of irredeemable fiat money on real estate security have fc few adherents thus far anion among the masses of the people even arong among those who have been unfortunate andare and are in distress perceiving tile lie accelerating cele ecle rating 0 tendency of political power to concentrate in a few hands and the enormous of wealth by individuals Is su so that inequalities aru are gi licater cater in a democratic government than in a de despotism they are considering I 1 the questions in committee of the whole they may report progress and ask leave to consider it again or i they may inay rise riso ando ider tl the 1 previous question if there is any filibustering the result cannot be bc foretold tile problem is as old as humanity but it has never arisen under the same hame conditions before so 0 o there abc no precedents they hall cho similar lilar trouble in sparta a good ool many centuries R ro ago o and lycurgus gathered up all the real estate estat cand and parcelled parcell par celled edit it ou out tamon among the citizens the patricians pat ricans and cattle came out abbad but there are no precedents in history which is i said aid to repeat itself that apply here this is the first time the experiment of popular self elf government the sovereign ity of alie people basteen lias been tried chain I 1 am nota nola pessimist or ringer 0 ciofan of an alarm bell at inid midnight night but there are many indications of the approach of structural if not or organic anic changes 0 in ill our system that they hey will be accomplished I 1 by v fatal catastrophes is unlikely these tire are unnecessary when the supreme court declared declare 4 taxation need not bo be for raising revenue arid and the power to tax was under the constitution the power to destroy they place in the hands of lazarus a weapon against which dives lias neither aci nci ther shield nor armor |