The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-07-03
srCTtoNhGIsM AND POLITICAL IS.
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In am editorial on the gold standard
tho New York World recently said;
There is one character, no ever,
whom all good Americans hate, II pos
sible, worse than quitter, and that is
a scctionalst From the foundation oI
our government I've instinct OF national
self-preservation has taught Us that
the one danger always 20 be guarded
againsJ is he danger Of IN appeal to
the sel6snness OF sectional interests.
As protection against this danger
we have been accustomed 20 rely ON
| The broad-minded patriotism OF the
great states OF the west. With their
vast and growing populations re-
cruited from every quarter OF the
older territory, they were fortunately
exempt alike from any inherited local
preiudiccs or selfish narrowness. II
| sectionalism was q threat anywhere II
/ was not in the west.
/ Bat sometimes this "broad-minded
patriotism" has been put to severe
tests when the east insists upon do
/ ing all the legislating for the country,
and assumes a monopoly on all the
brains of the country, not to speak
about all the money OF the country,
our "broad-minded patriotism" re-
quires considerable bracing mp. The
New York Commercial Advertiser, Of
Tuesday, June 20, said
The fact is, and the sooner intelli-
gent people realize il the better that
/ large section Of the country, lying
chiefly south Of Mason and DiXon's
/ line and west of the Mississippi river
| is peopied bv men who are untitled in
many respects, or at least ia some re-
| spects, 10 exercise the full franchise Of
citizenship Of the United States
Did this emanate from sectionalist
or a broad minded patrot?' THE
! LEADER has received from a former
Oklahoman marked copy OF the
"Boston Beacon" highly-cultured
publication that savors Of beans and
bluster This Beacon, in it's issue Of
June q, refers to the western cham-
pions OF free silver and says
They should be dealt with as iguor.
ant people should always be dealt
with--and that is with an appeal 10
reason and common sense. II they are
proof against this, sterner measures
must be resorted TO. They must be
given to understand by the intelligent
and responsible people OF the east and
north that they cannot expect any
sympathy in this quarter, aud that
persistence in their misguided opin-
| ions will deprive them Of any share Of
the national policy Of government.
Was this the product Of a "broad-
minded patriot The trouble with
some Of the eastern people is that they
are not big enough to see across the
top OF the Allegheny mountains. They
want the people OF the east to stand
mp for the interests Of the east, aud
they insist that the people Of the west
shall-stard up TOR the interests Of
the effete east also. Whel a western
or southern Republican refuses to i'm
dorse the single gold standard he is
charged with being a sectionalist But
/ when Whitney and others Of his kind
announce that the Democrats OF Ne W
| York and New Jersey will not support
the free coinage OF silver, they are
credited with being patriots. All dan
ger OF sectionalism in this country will
be wiped out whenever the monopo-
lists Of the North Atlantic states will
cease TO regard the people Of the mid
de, southern and western states as
mere camper out and hangers on, &"
who c uty IL is TO toll and produce,
i'm order that the millions Of the Van
derbilts and Whitneys may multiply
and become exceeding plutocratic.