, 1890-07-31
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In THE NEW STATES.
An Illustration of tho Ignorance Pre-
vaiiing In the East.

vaiiins In the East.
Seattle Press.
Eastern papers of democratic per-
suasion are filed with complaints
OF the injustice and lmpolicy of ad-
mitting new states into the Union.
The burden of their quarrel ignores
completely the political quantity of
the new states, and their objection
is directed chiefly against the social
conditions and educational qualifi-
cations of the successful applicants.
Doubts are expressed as to the
proper uses of the state organiza-
tlons, and we are informed with
amusing solemnity that Idaho and
Montana and Washington are not
ripe for the increased obligations of
full-hedged citizenship.
Writers In Eastern papers are
badly afflicted with dense ignorance
as to the farther West. They assume
to not comprehend the social and
business elements of which society
is composed, and M pear to imagine
that the conditions of life are I'm gen.
eral vastly different to those found
on the Atlantic seaboard. 1t will
greatly amuse the citizen of Seattle
when ne Is informed that he does
not know enough to become u safe
member of society; that his ex-
perience Is not wide enough to en-
title him to all the rights and privi-
leges of the citizen of Boston or
Philadelphia. How intelligent men
holding such belief or newspapers
of general circulation TO indorse
them can be found in America is
most astonishing.
The facts are that the material
comprising the great mass of citizen
ship In the newly admitted states
ranks above that of the old Eastern
states. The very qualities, the ad-
venturous and daring spirit that are
necessary to success under the con-
ditions prevailing in a new country,
and prompt self-relianee, are all
drawn from the best and most adj
mirable materials. The men who
succeed In business, those who are
found In our banks, those who carry
forward the development of the
country, number in their ranks the
positive qualities tnat mark the
highest and most useful type of citi-
zenship.
A Boston journal alludes to the
new states as being largely COM
posed of ''immigrants." The state
inent Is unfortunate. The immi-
grants that may any day be found
crowding from the steerage of At
lantic ocean steamships, and filling
the snualid and unspeakably filthy
quarters of New York, are the class
of immigrants that are not wanted.
Their coming Is an outrage. And
the courts of the great cities in con-
ferring upon these odorous and un.
fit creatures the inestimable rights
of the citizen are committing a
deadly crime. The iinmigrantst that
are coming to the far Northwest,
and who have largely given the
territories the right of prop
erty and population that
have made them states, are
the flower and the choice of the
East. 1t was the spirit of Marcus
Whitman and of Fremont; il was a
spirit of honorable adventure, de-
termination and self-reliance that in
earlier time peopled the West; and
the latter ''ilnmigrant" will be
found to possess in very great meas
ure that precise spirit. The bad
blood in this country comes from be-
yond the Atlantic ocean. 1t is not
indigenous. Contact and time alone
will dispei the musty and false ideas
that are still found in many other
wise intelligent portions of the East
concerning the West. These states
erected and but recently added to
the thirty-eight stars of the flag con-
tain perhaps a greater percentage of
the qualities of patriotism, Honorable
thrift and loyal citizenship than can
be easily found among any like
number of people in the United
States.