New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20

v,-biskev You cannot fool Scotch-lrlshmah
with any of those things which william A"eh'
~ Ohio once described as I'D barren iueai-
ties"
Now there never has been chance Tor the re-
currence Of the Shays Rebellion in MASSACHUSETTS,
or of the Whiskey Rebellion in pennsylvania
The institutions of those States which were only
in the making century ago nave become su'ii
that important changes in population take pace
without threatening their stad conservatism
Even frjshtful disorders are put down ana the
state goes on as If nothing had happened II one
wishes TO know what the stages OF evolution VIII
he in the West for the New-Engiand ana SCOTCH
1r,sb stocks the true criterion is to be found in
the older States and in the transatlantic nome oi
these stocks The conditions which they have
met before they will meet again In practcais
the same way. If device that has been sug
eested TO them over and over again has always
been rejected it will continue to be reJec'eu' "'
matter what region they may inhaplt.
Tho hewiderment shown sometimes by the
East when IL contemplates the West Is que 10
,ool,ng nersistently at the things which DO not
really signify IL there had been bystahder
when the universe was created, he would prop
ably have been overwhelmed by the gloom OF the
unlIehted void and would hardly nave ho''O0"
the evolution of cosmic order, point by pom"
But 1t is not chaos that signifies; the tmhe tn"'
has meaning is the minute spot Wbere eN'iu'''''
has begun. The significant things TOT the lu'u'e
Of the West are not those In which II uiiiei'
from older communities but those IN WHICH 1t
resembles them. 1t Is the latter mat sno"
where men have suhdued their ehVrohihen''
The others are as evanescent as they are novel
In q few years the cabins. the eartn-coVereu
dwellings, the shanty-town and the ike VIII All
be things Of the past. The agtatiohs anu
anxjetes the unrest Of the early struggle VIII
be a memory only. There will remain the hs''-
tutions which have already gone so iar to"aru
perfection, a population which reads the SAINT
hoobe and thinks the same thoughts as the older
populations which 1t has left behind IL VIII
manifest the same traits that its component
races have always manifested but on broader
etaae than they have ever had before. The pity
- &c that those who are mystihed by the CON
fusion incident to the growth Of new societies
oanrot he alive century hence to see how
oI.verIv all their melancholy puzzles VIII have
been solved.
rrbers 10 another way 10 test the West on the
,oirt NJ real conservatism. Go over the Ilst OF
mon who have won not merely temporary no
,or,etv but lifelong leadership and enduring
fame and see how many Of them can be caiied
radicals in the bad sense OF the term Inc great
States OF the Middle West VIII not su'er ny
comparison on this point Win any cUilli,ul,i''va
ancient or modern. They like a brilliant ue'',a
gogue occasionally. a great many people , uu
But for names To cherish In the memory s tnsiS
have always sought those that meant soou luz
and devotion to ideals that all men "PPi =,
Tbe men who bore those names did not rise py
accident; they impersonated the wish OF .nS
neople When those men cease 10 De hunoiSu .
and when they ceape 10 have any su. ,s ,h
'"nr,bv Of them II will be time to THINK that lne
forces of anarchy and dlsintegrauon nav
changed the nature Of the western his"ry o. the
made them an anomaly In the history VI '"e
races to which they belong.