The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-07-23


pared to their big Eastern sisters.
They are but as one to fifty in popu-
lation, they are hardly as n to fifty
in wealth, they are lacking in a thou
sand magnifcences features which
pertain TO the Eastern States, and it
makes the work performed here dur
ing the past thirty years seem small
10 remember that all that work merely
reflects the labor of one year in the
East ; that all our population merely
represents this years increase in the
Eastern States, and yet there is surely
more hope for the West than the East.
Our climate is infinitely better, better
not only in point of healthfulness,
but better TO bring out the capabili-
ties of mOrtals. Then too as we read
backward the history of the past few
days, We are bound to conclude that
there is more fortitude and fairness,
and infinitely less cant aud gush in
the West than in the East. The men
of the West can feel as deeply as any
men, but they are poor hands at SIM
ulation, and as a rule they despise
that spirit which, out of a great pop
ulation of National excitement, would
seek TO carry a point, or reap an adj
vantage. For example, the men of
the three Pacific Coast States are al
most as a unit opposed to Chinese
immigration. They have studied the
effects of the presence of Chinese in
large numbers on our soil, and have
determined that self preservation, for
this and succeeding generations,
demands that a limit shall be placed
upon their coming. To make the
Nation see the natter as they see it
they are patiently and p~ersistently
working, but it was only in the East
forge a letter on this Chinese subject
intended to work upon the passions
OF Western men, aud under the ex-
citeinent OF that passion 10 them
to swerye from their true allegiance.
We have seen plenty of the same
spirit displayed during the past ten
days. The feeling that it engenders
is a greater respect for Western men.
Aside from that, our region is the
best. In the East three bountifdl
haryests have been gathered in sue
c~ession, and the needs of foreign
lands have furnished a swift und luc-
rative market for the mighty yield.
The result is that speculation has run
wild, business is at the double quick,
more railroads are being built than
the business of the country demands,
more houses are being erected than
can be paid for extravaganza is the
order of the day, and by and by, and
sooner than is now expected, there is
going to be a crash. In the West
the soil and climate make it possible
for the tiller of the soil to produce a
greater variety of crops, and all the
time the mines are the ballast of the
Coast. There has been reckless and
ignorant mining, plenty of it, but it
is a business which, as a rule, Amer
leans were ignorant of twenty "a
ago, and it would have been strange
indeed if they had made no mistakes.
But the mining business is, after all,
the salvation of the Coast, and the
leaven of the whole country. We in
the West are, as yet, but a little COL
ony, bat we have the best place on
the continent, the best hopes, and as
full of faults as we are, there are GER
tain contemplate traits which are
prominent in other sections, which,
praise God, do not attach to us as a
people.
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