The evening world., 1894-02-01
HIS DEFENSE OF CH|CAGO.'
Publisher Scott Says 1t Is Not a
Bottomless Ship.
More Money and Ambition and Fewer
Poor than New York.

why will you OF the East ever look
upon Chicago as the centre of storm and
passion in a world of its " making;
as the bloated baby Of imaginary great
ness. or the idolized elephant of a vast
forest of semi-civillzed humans. whose
ethereal dreams have carried them be-
You'd the power of proper thought. and
led them beyond themselves into horrid
ignorance of the ways of progressive
mankind?
All, me! but 1t Is a grand mistake, and
one that teaches us of the great declin-
ing West to look with rivalry upon the
fortunes of the diminutive but fast-rising
East"
With a bland smile GROWING his
broad n fine = looking countenance.
James w. Scott. the widely known pub
Usher OF the Chicago Herald, dropped
these remarks to an mEVenins M oHn
House this morning: He had finished
breakfast and was about to prepare for
a journey to Europe on the Fuerst Bis
e @aesN' we Me'G dead da't to iSHnAf for the time
being, and he felt disposed to talk.
And this is how he told his story Of
Chicago and the West:
the memories Of Its magnificent success
are with us still. They belong to Chi
cago, o m which the eyes OF every ma;
ton turned last year, with wonder and
period belong to us.
And now we are back again In tnat
normal atmosphere where ready reaction
as a rule brings temporary need to the
masses. The wheels OF every coun.fys
industries, after flying around for months,
have stopped and disappeared. w
For this the East looks over US with
pity and wonders how we are to live for
all time to come.
IT really pity the existence Of a line
between New York AND Ghieaso, az.
repent Of its foolish feeling. Chicago Is
neither dead MOI dying. nor preparing
for burial, temporary or otherwise' De-
1T is not the vast whirling kaleido-
scope of misfortune, scattering In Its
course the desert sands Of hunger, and
endless chaos. that you OF New torx oe.
ship, whose sinking only is prevented
by the want of wa.er in the mighty
river Of the Western Metropolis, that
some unkind persons OF the East aiiese
Above all, IL is not the home or hot
bed Of thieves and criminals which II IS
represented here as being, and which.
only needs a little more good society
and plenty of water to make 1t popular
with the people.
mo. indeed. Chicago is now, as IT
MIL ever Ne, III kIdlu u VI a Sttot
country, from which commerce and a
nations food spring up and weigh
with their millions Of tons upon the un-
even scales of your Eastern markets. -,
ever was, for, don't YOU know. we are a
progressive people. We are so placed as
to be able to do without the products OF
New England. while New England can
why, even when times were really
hard in Chicago, IS they, were in '7S, we
y Msrs e 1 i6nse to ,ime' tS San G asus eIo'nes 90 US
Now, your position is this alone
We can do without your clothes, but you
cannot exist without the food raised and
I'VE have more hotels and public
braries and other institutions OF art also.
The so-called sky-scraping shells put up
fer the accommodation OF Exposition
guests have almost every one been turned
Into beautiful apart lighthouses.
YOUR n banks and in Wall street as there
is OF your own. We furnish you with
the great means of speculation. stocks.
and We also give you the stun to s Ie ~
for a Columbian Museum. as well as
providing for all of our unemployed and
suffering as no other city provided for
theirs.
for the public benefit. We have rade
Chicago the most beautiful city in Amer
lea. / care not who says 10 the contrary.
We may not have much rolling country
to our credit. but we have more hand
some property. more charming parks
and finer boulevards than any city In
the world. We have every modern con-
v~enience and we want. for nothing.
Depression in trade, M so forth,
taken into account, our banks are
stronger and we have less want and
fewer unemployed than New York. And
everything is improving with, us. The
civic pride OF ~Chicagoans for their town
cannot be shaken.
NAV, young man. let The Evening
World tell its readers. among whom we
have many friends, that not only is
finest rudder to steer her to the summit
of her citizens ambition.
Tell them that we ask nothing from
the East but to be let alone. We will go
our own Way. and II may be that New
York will some day badly need our as
siefa nca"