New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-06

RENARKsyoF EASTERN PEOPLE on WESTERN MAN
NERs CULTURE, AND MoRALS-A PROTEST FROM
KANSAS.
TO the Edttor Of The Tribune.
SIR No one likes to hear his mother abused.
She may not be young, beautiful in any way gifted,
and her son may have lost every other instinct of man
ness yet he will willingly hear her lightly spoken
Of much less II she is lovely and he noble as she
fair The West is mother Of many people, and they do
not like to her abused, yet they frequently see all
the rules of hospitality, courtesy and justice dlsfe-
garded by those who have sought her acquaintance.
When people come West 1t because they ex-
pect to be benefited in some way. The two great mo-
lives are improvement OF health and OF pecunary Cir
cumstauces Some disappointed but the majority
are not Many invaids from the East have prolonged
their lives by timely removal to judicously selected
homes in the West while thousands have far bettered
their circumstances to have glded almost imper-
ceptlby from comfort into auenoe. Yet many of these
never cease to complain Of their hardShps and of the
sacrifices they made in abandoning New England or
New-York.
Thirty years ago people could have missionary inten-
tiops in coming TEST, but that is nocommOn now They
generally come for money, and If they are surely
though slowly accommodating that let them cease
lamenting over old ohurn or bed wrench or meal
hin that they had "back East" Many liberal minded
Western people will admit that rosewood wardrobe is
more elegant than papered goods box, that oak
walnut extension table looks better than pine board
fastened to the wall by hinges that wooden rolling
pin is more convenient for making pastry than an
empty wine bottle, but what OF it Tho endless
reeountne OF conyenences possessed becomes In
time monotonOus to those who hear the story from
hundreds Of people. A lady recently spent almost
entire evening with one OF the most eminent In
Kansas in describing her mothers eight bureaus In New
York Finally lie said. Madam, my father had
less than twenty-five bureaus-and cotins both
and small for undertaken well cabinet
maker" Perhaps she does not know what chance
her silly egOtism threw away. In that time she could
struggles here for her auditor who understood
their Ike philosopher and took part in them
like q man.
The criticisms OF Eastern people not always made
with sufficient regard for circumstances They some
times complain that there bearing orchards on
the and wheat covered plain which recent
maps were marked the Great American Desert !"
that there not oheeye factories aud diaries where
only last Fall myrads OF buffalo sur ing and
plunging; that their houses small and frail when
the foundations had not been laid when they took the
To and occupy them Tue Public Library
OF Boston Is inclculabe blessing ~ tho people OF
that city. but 1t Is scarcely reasonable To complain
because the libraries OF Topeka, Lawrence, and
LeayenwOrth aFo not equal to IT, Many Western born
people know that, next TO Religion Art satisfies the
most profound wants Of the heart but they believe that ia
products gathered only I'M few favored IN the
world, and they but smile at The signs over want
OF opportunity for art culture in the West" You wound
suppose that they did not themselves own the Venus
LlOcOOn, and Apollo such works at least stood In their
village park. Opportunities Tor the cultivation of t4ste
are scarcely wanting when the west door OF eysry
house m Kansas Will glvo it's owner an unequaIsI
picture 40 no gaLes upVl VIC uowegs aud Ca"