The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-09

thar Kingdoms is Chicago. They arc the
representative Americans of to-day. More
over, / believe they are the blufest, hearth
est, frankest men on earth. They carry their
hearts in their hands-their souls In their
ewes. You jostle against them in the street,
and by that contact have made their intimate
acquaintance. If they like you, they lpt3ou /
know Il; If they don't like you, they do not
conceal it by any Of the little frauds Of an
manly politeness. What Eastern man trAv.
cling in the West has not noticed the differ
ence in temperament between the two Sec
hons LS$9 Young 1man, who NJ oeeh
brought upi ia Boston, live one year in Chiea.
90. On revisiting Boston, he will suddenly
ind that the hand shaking Of . stay -at.Aome
New Enrisnder Is formal and impressive -
compared with the grip and pinch Of Western
az think the beauty of the New England
character il not seen at its best till It ripens
awhile in the West Take the born and bred
New Engianders whom you see in any
of a dozen representative western towns
s.v for instance, Akron, Chic; Adrian,
M,chiean;o Quincy, Ilhois: Mount Pleasant. lows
and | am free to say that OF equal size,
standipe ON the mother soil of New England,
are not equal to those Western rivals 10 the
impression which they make for THRIFT, ener-
py, growth and civil progress.
" ssTrne there is more wealth, more culture,
more social refinement in the Eastern towns,
Init in the Western there is more OF that IN
da6nsbIe quality which for want OF q better
namel we call character. That is to say,
there is more individuality, more freedom
from con ventional restraint, more lndepen-
ldence in manner and opinions, more mayor
of native originality. To state the case IN a
different way, | believe that when a son OF
New England comes. as ayoung man, 70 seek
his fortune in the West, there is something
in Western life, Western activity, and Vest
: ern ambition which in the end will make
l him more of a man than if he had remained
E on his ancestral acres, and lived and died IN
: the old homestead in New Hampshire.
"Cultivated people at the West feel the lack
, of many privileges enjoyed q, the East. !
J know Of many instances in which this feel
t ing reaches the point of signing and heart
INDEPENDENTLY among Eastern womer
/ Who are fresh residents in the West. They
yearn tor New England. and weep IN seere
: at their separation from 1t. But these sam'
Eastern women, aS soon as they beeom'
Westernized, partake of the same pride il
: the West which animates Western men
Certain fashionable people, who prefer to b.
called ladies rather than women, and VIII
o flourish in the large Western cities, regard
"A A commitment to be told that no one woul'
ever suspect for a moment that they had no
lived all their lives at the East. But whel
> Won see a Western Yankee girl who, atte
u 6ye or ten years residence in Illinois, canno
IS be told from an Eastern woman, she may b
excellent and admirable, but she is OF tn
! best that the West can produce. | say thu
with downright positiveness. The tru
Western woman, though perhaps born at II
81 East. would not give Il sixpenee to be though
a fresh from Beacon street Boston. or Eft
- Avenue. New FORK. Moreover, ! ventur
the prediction that the first State in tn
e Union TO acknowledge the political equslit
re Of men md women. us citizens entitled eac
n alike to the citizen S franchise. is a State wes
of the Mississippi. mean Iowa. Let III
: golden day speed swihIy-for | want TsylC
hf Lewis to see it before be dies.
"A mans Eastern reputation counts Il
in precious little in the West. He must be re
~ weighed IN Chicago and ST. Louis. lfhe
here found wanting, 1t is Of no consequence
~ what his rank may be in New York or Boz
ld ton. Family names count for n good deal
d Massachusetts. but they are lighter than
., feather in Illinois. have seen more aris
tocracy in Boston. and less in Chicago than
y any other great cities Of this country. I
J. course. ] mean only Northern cities; 10
al with the first families of Richmond and Ne
"a Orleans. who among US, East, or West, ca
- compare
; "fhere is more hilarity among Wester
al than among Eastern people. Work Is MOI
H. Of a PLAY here than at home, More than ha
MT the laughter done by the American Peep
:, falls from the mouths Of Western men.