Mohave County miner., 1897-09-18
|set ReII00ship PreoaiI

In solid common sense, meaty
 speech delivered in the senate of the
 United States some years since, Mon
 tana senator referred to the "um bilical
 cord'' that untes the east and the west.
 To carry out the simile the baby west
 has attained degree of maturity that
 should protect it from the frequent and
 constantly recurring overdoses of pa
 rental austerity administered by the
 parental east A common bond of pa
 trIotism unites the two sections and unity
 of interests should develop g system of fair play whose machinery will never
 slip cog. It is impolitic. to say the least. for our eastern friends to pursue toward the west llne of action calcu lated in the nature of things to destroy the friendly regard that should exist be- tween the two sections of the country. It would be a grave misfortune for the east and the west to acquire the same bitterness of feeling toward each other as at one time, in antebellum days, characterized the east and the south Every student of history knows that the hatreds engendered between those two sections, long before the slave question entered into the controversy, led the south to very foolishly nurse the idea of social, political and commercial dismem berment. The east abused the political and commercial sovereignty which cir cumstances placed Tn it's hands, and made the south "pay tribute to Caesar" to point that gave birth to foolish and disastrous attempt to destroy the greatest and grandest of republics that ever lent it's energies to the growth of man.
 While the west cannot be provoked in to a display of temper, or Neaned from the emblem of our liberties by designing men, the interests of busine ss-the com merci4l future of the country-should build up a sentiment of fellowship in the eas: that will discourage the tendency to malign the west and it's people. It Was bad enough for the national cam paign to align the eastern press against the west, but the dlatribes and insults and misrepresentations were ascribed to the asperitIes of a hotly contested presi dential tournament and overlooked But the west has right to protest against the warfare of representation that is now urged against it by so many promi- nent representatives of the press and people of the east.
 Not content with rejoicing over the downfall of one of the leading industries of the mining world. and the men thrown out of work by the decline in the value O. silver bullion, prominent men are whirled through the inter mountain states in palace cars to return and report that the silver sentiment is dying out that the people of the west are recon ciled to the destruction of one of the leading branches of the mining industry and stand ready to applaud the men and measures that robbed them of the capl tai they had invested in silver mines to say nothing of the real estate made valneiess in many cities and towns through that act Such mlsrepresenta- tions have become current literature in the east, the latest addition to the li i brary of fraud being the statement of ] MT Wilson, the Iowa peanut who rattes around in the bureau of agriculture, to west of the Mississippi river who want work !"
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