The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-22
sT1RRING rp sEcT1oNALIsM.

! The editor Of the New York World
has anti-silver on the brain so bad
that he is apt at any moment to have
a fatal attack OF paresis. He sees
blood on the moon every time he
thinks of the subject.
IN the World Of Saturday last these
is long, editorial, column and half
in length, on the subject. Towards The
close of the article appears this:
These silver states were the first to
bring reproach upon our federal gov
/ eminent by the Purchase Of seats in
the United STAGES senate. But how
trivial seems even that grave ofense
! beside their present criinei To add a
few millions to the many millions of
their may millionaires they have Gre
ated new and double sectionalisrn. 1t
is geographical sectionalism of the
weso and south against the east. It is
a social sectionalism of the less pros
J porous against the more prosperous,
without regard TO geographical lines
/ employee against employer. citizen
/. against fellow-citiZen of the same state
! or town. neighbor against neighbor. On
! the one side envy and hate: on the
other side suspicion and fear
If these silver states were the first
to bring reproach upon the federal
government by the purchase of seats in
the United States senate, their example
has been seized upon with avidity by
some of the older and more highly
civilized" states
Let all that so, and let US look at the
question of stirring up sectionaIism.
If it has been stirred up, whence did
it originate? Was it in the east or in
the west? Supine and satisfied with
its own stupidity, the east, the staid,
the cultured, the moral and righteous
east, has been but too ready and anx-
ious to jeer and sneer at the west. The
west, animated by that spirit which
conquered independence in 1875, ami
mated by that spirit which started
continent-conquering emigration
through the Cumberland gap; ami
mated by that Notwithstanding spirit of
the Anglo-Saxon race. has been re-
deeming half a continent. peopled with
an honest, Woodworking, peace-loving,
God-fearing people. while the east, the
self-praising, the self-satisfied, the self
proclaiming patriotic east, has been
content to believe, and never cease
proclaiming its belief, that the United
States of America, the hope of man
kind and the pattern for all free gov
ernments, were contained exclusively
in that portion of our common coun-
try which lies east of the AIleghenies
and north of the Potomac. The east
in its dissatisfaction has become
ioI
cial, deemed its little world all the
world. The spirit of the east towards
the west is accurately described by
Lowell in his essay "On a Certain
Condescension in Foreigners" And the
west resents the spirit of condescension
on the part of the east as Lowell re-
sented it on the part of foreigners.
Could anything have been better cal
culated to coEjure up the spirit of sec
tionalism than Mr.. Cleveland's TRADE
against the west. delivered before the
Board of Home Missions of the Presby
terrain church? And Mr.. Cleveland de-
livered his TRADE against the west as
president of the United States. He
had never taken the trouble to visit
the country and make the acquaintance
of the people whom he denounced.
The people of the west are a Chris
tan people, but they have tired of
turning their other cheek to the good
and only patriotic people of the east
to smite and smite again.
The World says that upon the one
side there are envy and hate If there
be hate, it was the east that first sowed
the seed of it. If there is now a whirl-
wind of envy and hate, it was the east
that sowed the wind.
When the present campaign started
there was no name too vile, no epithet
too opprobrious, no curse too terrible for
the eastern press, the "honest money
press, to hurl at those who advocated
the free and independent coinage of
silver. Prociaiming themselves the
only honest people of the land, the
only true patriots of the country, they
denounced the people who differed
from them as anarchists. secessionists,
lepudiators: denounced them as every
thing that is hostile to social order and
good government. And now that same
press is lamenting the spirit of section
alism, which, if it really exists at all,
was conjured up by the east. So far
as we know, the good Mr.. Lauterbaeh,
of New York, sound money man,
is the only man in the country who
says that if the people declare for free
silver, he and his state will not abide
the decision. There are fools in the
west as well as elsewhere, but there
isn't in all the west a big enough fool
to declare that the west will not abide
the decision of the American people.
NoREASE OF ILdITERAcY.