The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-26
THE EAST AND WEST.
SENATOR WoLcoTT'S PLEA ron A
BETTER UNDE OUTSTANDING.
Asks the East tn Meet the West Half Way.
National Jeremiahs Denouaced-says q
Brighter Day n Cswning and That Mu-
tual Friendship Is Desired.

Senator Wolcott spoLo on 1.-THE East and
the West at he recent annual dinner of
tho Now England society in New York.
He said In part
This Is the season of good cheer, when
kindly thoughts hold sway, and on this
anniversary, as we recall those early New
England days when, with the fear of God
always before them, our fathers gradually
grew from stern, unbending insistcnce to
broad recognition OF the right of indvid
ual judgment, there should be left no
room for rancor. The west Is not deca-
dent Its views are of men virile, indus
trious and genuine and their beliefs are
honest. They would scorn any sort of
evasion of an obligation. They are pa
triotic men. There is in the whole far
west hardly a horihcrner born who was
old enough 10 go To the war whom you
will not see on Decoration day wearing
proudly the badge of his old corps. They
arc Americans-to a proportion greater,
far greater, than in the east native born
Americans. The views they cherish are
held with practical unanimity. The be-
liefs of the clergyman, the lawyer, the
farmer and the storekeeper are alike. You
swell their ranks every year from New
England colleges. The young fellows grad
uate and go west grateful that you have
developed their ability to reason, and they
rapidly assimilate their views with those
of the people among whom they cast their
lot.
$50 universal feeling as that which
pervades the great west cannot be all
wrong. You cannot dispose of n convic-
tion held by millions of intelligent people
by calling it craze, and some day you
may find It worth your while to look for
the truth where it Is usually hidden
somewhere between extremes.
1.-THE continued friction Is largely gen.
Grated both east and west by certain
modern typo of newspaper. The plague
| may have started here, but it has spread
and sprouted like the Canadian thistle un-
| til it is blight In Colorado as 1t Is
curse here and wherever it plants itself.
| Wherever there is n cause to misrepresent,
a hate to be famed, SANDER to utter
| reputation to besmirch, it exhales its foul
breath. 1t knows no party, no honor and
no virtue. 1t stirs only strife and hatred
and appeals only to the low and the base.
| 1t calls itself journalism, but its name is
pandcr and its color is yellow.
| 1.-THE west is doing its share in the
effort TO bring about better understand
ing. We had known only abundance, and
when the lean days came, through what
we believe. to have been mistaken policy,
we turned bitterly in our first unreason
against all who did not share our views.
| The far western press assaulted as scoun-
drcls crybody who venturcd to assert the
belief that the most important free thing
/ In A
the passion of the hour whoever was out
of harmony with the dominant ism was
( denounced us traitor, and IL he lived
near enough was apt To be ostracized as
neighbor The hysteria of the campaign
( In the west developed remarkable national
Jeremiahs The favorite method of APP
peal to the people was by turning yourself
| into waller and lamenter and a pre-
| dictor of calamity unspeakable, and the
I louder you walled and the longer you
| lamented and the greater the intolerance
! you preached the higher was the pedestal
! on which you wero placed. Some of these
bcmoaners are still at it, and call upon us
| to throw stones at everybody who differs
| with us instead of bidding us lift up our
| parched lips gratefully to catch the rain OF
prosperity us it falls and to thank God
for tho blessings of these gracious days.
"For months men frowned until their
brows seemed furrowed in hate, and the
skies wero dark. But n brighter day Is
dawning. The old cries of calamity still
| reverberate in the canyons of our noun
tains, but the notes are fainter and much
of the noise Is echo. Our people are buoy
ant, aggressive and naturally iDtolerant
of opposition, but they arc square and de-
cent and not at all as our newspapers
would have you believe. And / know OF
one state where the sun shines out of u
clear heaven $50 days every year, and tho
other Is you can still see his rays through
the mists Hope abides there, and she Is
oven now emerging from the gloom.
"Our people want your friendship as
you want theirs. They want to stay In
| decent relations with the rest of the world,
and to convince them by reason and not
try to club them into agreement. Many
of them felt their first great thrill OF pat
triotism on the day Of Sumter, or have
heard their fathers tell the story, and they
don't take kindly to incendiary advice
from South Carolina. They don't propose
| to be driven into the ranks of the army OF
discomfort, where q gospel Of hate and de-
spair alone Is preached and thousands Of
1 good men have quit beating their tam
/
lior views of life and duty.
Whatever may be the hostility to pres
ent policies which exists In tho west, our
people haven't as yet contracted the hyper
critical habit which views our institutions
and customs and tendencies uLfavorably
in comparison with those OF other coun-
tries and which sees In our public men
and legislative bodies only that which Is
deteriorated when measured with former
days. 1t is poor fashion, but 1t Is older
than our western states. You remember
that John Adams wrote his wife In l776
TINT there was too much corruption In
public life, that virtue was not In fashion
and vice not infamous, and that he was
ashamed Of the age he lived In. And 30
years after the Second congress Gouver-
neur Morris and John Jay were talking
over old times, when Morris said, jay,
what set Of scoundrels we had In that
Second congressY' Yes, said Jay as he
Knocked the ashes from his pipe, that we
had.
"And yet. then, and from that day to
this, and never moro than now, the mem