The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-17
WEST TEACHES THE EAST
NEITHER NEED QUARREL WITH
THE OTHER.
Editor of Brooklyn Eagle Says West Is
Going to Show the Rest of the
Country How to Do 1t.

Chicago, May 16-The Eastern mem
hers Of the associated press arrived in
Chicago from New York o-ntght in a
special train over the Baltimore & Ohio
road. The trip was made considerably
under schedule time. In many in
stances miles were made as low as 56
seconds. They will attend the regular
annual meeting of the associated press
to be held tomorrow in the Auditorium
and In the evening will be present at
the annual banquet to be given in the
Auditorium banquet hall The mem
bers will return East over the Balti-
more & Ohio Thursday.
st. Clair McKelway, editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, was among the party.
In an interview he said: Every time
| come to Chicago, or go farther West,
l am impressed with the need the East
and the West have for one another and
with the senselessness of misunder-
standings between them. The East is
the curb rein and the West is the spur,
Both are necessary. Neither need
quarrel with the other. AS progress is
the rule of nations's life. the spur has
more to do with the pace of the IA
tional nag and Uncle Sam among the
riders has never failed of purse or place
in the worlds sweepstakes.
Missouri born, New York-raised.
newspaper-trained. frankly admit
that the heart, history and future Of
this republic depends on questions that
are going to be settled by the great
West. The West is going to teach the
rest of the country how to solve the
problem of squaring political econ
omy with the rights of humanity. The
East sees little but hard and fast doc
trines. The West mixes sentiment with
them result
in both parties, but moneyhood and
manhood will soon find they must
agree and that manhood must come to
the top.
THE destiny of expansion was
stamped on this country when East
ern adventures opened up the Western
reserve and when Southern adventurers
pushed beyond the Mississippi Both
spread over the territory till they gath
cred strength, cause and purpose to
break a trail through and over the
Rocky mountains to the Pacific. And
the like spirit has planted our flag in
the Philippines-there to stay. 1t was
not accidental, it was the prophecy
that Lincoln, Grant and Mckinley.
Westerners all, have wrought out the
greatest issues of the century. The
first abolished domestic slavery: the
second saved the union: the third
brought to an end European oppres
sion on American SOIL ana started TINS
nation on a nations role in the world
of nations Who sees not Western pri-
macy in this can see nothing Alright.
THE two great sections really differ
less than they are aware. Prosperity
has settled the silver question. Ineyit-
able expansion is involved in the open
door that settles protection for the sake
of protection Our worldwide duties
will soemnize us all, and solidify us all
ha 3,rhi
Great Britain learned from the colonies,
not the colonies from Great Britain
We will have our ring scandals and our
local labor troubles. but they will yield
to local treatment. Eastern precision
and Western push will respectively
steady and propei the united nation on
the path of a noble destiny, and the
center Of power will remain where the
center of purpose and of population is
in the West