The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-03-05
The Treat So.thvest.

The Treat Southwest.
From the time that settlers frst began
to seek homes in .'the west" thar conn.
try 10 whatever country it CHANGED to he
located. has attracted attention. What
was nrst designated as 1.-THE far west''
has now Of course become the far east,
out the country has never been allowed
oy any combination of circumstances to
lose sight of the fact that the west. while
1t may lack in some of the essentials nee
essary to the comfort aud we'll being Of
physical aud mental man, yet it is the
very best country that Is to b. found, and
indeed the only place where one may
advance in wealth or fame without pass
ing through all the preliminaries that are
regarded AS essential In the older couu-
tries aud states.
1t Is perhaps this idea that has led 20
many to seek homes In 1.-THE west.'' and
has brought to it the energy, the brain
and the Drawn Of the whole nation. For
it cannot be denied that all Of these are
to be found In the west in quantity and
quality unequaled in any other section.
1t is the energetic, restless, ambitious
spirit Of American progress that has
made the west what it is, and that will
keep 1t up to u high standard until there
is no longer west to which those who
find their surroundings can go. The
east is inclined to laugh at this spirit of
energy and progress, and is pleased to
term those who are capable of express
ing the thoughts and the ideas that have
their source in the active brains that have
developed in this great section of the
nation. representatives of the ''rowdy
west" But it may be observed that
even while the people of the east fling
these gibes at the west, which are in the
most part sent in good natured badinage,
the persons sending them have the great
est respect for the people and for the
section of country derided.
as one Of reproach, but as one that makes
clear the dividing line. if there be one.
The west has but little time for the forms
and ceremonies practiced by our friends
in the east. While the representatives
of the west are in nearly all cases men OF
whom we have no reason to be ashamed.
yet they are more deeply. impressed with
the necessity Of active. energetic work
than our friends of the east. What the
eastern states have done in a century or
two the west has accomplished in few
years. Those who represent the west
recognize this fact, and know what is
expected of them by their constituents.
1t is their ambition to do all that IS re-
quired, and in doing that he has little
time to spend in preliminaries. and when
they want anything they go after it in II
manner that usually astOnishes the man
who thinks he has whole term in con-
gress to accomplish that which western
man thinks should be done in a day.
Aud 1t is not his rudeDess of manner
or roughness of speech that has caused
the appellatiOn of ''rOwdy''t to be applied
to the western man. 1t is because he
gets what he wants and gets it quickly
or causes trouble to those who oppose
him that has led the wgOing inhab-
itants of the east to apply this term.
And even the persons applying it have
come to regard it more as compliment
than as q reproach.
As long as the west keeps its present
reputation for energy and progressive
ness it can afford to endure the term and
be called the ''rowdy west'' by those
who have been outstripped in the race
for supremacy.-Kansas City Globe.