Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
EASTERN MORALS

A gang of bunko sharps when operat-
 ing Tn frontier village like Deming or
 Benson, and called upon by the exigen- oies of the times 10 play a bold game, are
 denounced in the eastern papers as law | less parties whose very existence should
 be extinguished and their mortal remains
 and biographies consignedto dtothe uitermost
 oblivion. The same clement, in visiting
 Tucson 10 ply their nefarious vocation,
 and ordered by our vigilant Chief of Pc
 lice to disappear before a certain named
 hour comes round, is noted broadcast
 as an invasion of 2ur city by those for
 whom hades has set apar, special de-
 partment of peculiar horrors.
 Yet the silent-winged messenger bears to us the appalling intelligence that the most consummate adepts in the bunko line have recently mulcied even the great and glorious perpetual Presidential-candi- date, Charles Francis Adams out of sums aggregating more than thirty thousand dollars, in the moral city of Boston. The very headquarters of Iniquity were Iocat- cd within three doors ofthe office of the Chef of Police of that city, and their ram ihcations extended over the larger part of the Hub, and involved many men of un- doubted morals and personal rectitude, even carrying the contamination into of- fcial circles heretofore beyond suspicion.
 Our acme of morals arc supposed to originate at the hub Our criminals al- most invariably do. TheIr eye-teeth are cut in the great moral centers of the easl and their field of operations is subsequent ly selected where exists a proper scope for thelr peculiar genius. The nest of corruption must be exceptionally foul to breed such monsters of iniqwty, and when the bud Of crime from the conservatories of the east is sent into the great west to blossom, the odium of production should not rest with us.
 tis fact, however harsh it may grate upon the tympanum of the eastern gentle men of "cul'ure," i" that the best type of American manhood, and that means the manhood of the world, is bred upon the broad-suage mountains and valleys of the west. Among its sons exist an universal iremasonry of practical common sense, and their crude wisdom often moves the world. The very existence upon frontier Is school of honor. The early days of California developed beneath the rough | coats Of the sturdy pioneers a perfection | of personal honor that can never bedwarf- | ed before the dazzling glamour Of the eastern so-called culture, and that same 1 rough homogeneous spirit permeales the l whole frontier people. They themselves | are opposed to wrongs in every form, and | if the great centers of morality will but keep their moral lepers at home, they would find less tn condemn of the infiu- | ence their proselytes exert amongst us.
 Let the moral focuses of the refined | east set at work 10 inculcate better de4 | -fmanhood in their youths than the mere tact of money getting; let them pause long enough in their worship ofmammon and hypocritical devotions upon comfort able cushioned pews to ferre; out their lwn monsters of lawlessness, and there will be less wild cowboys and men like Billy the Kid' committing depredatIons Ipon the frontier for them to make sensa- ional stories of and draw the most ap- 1alling morals from.