Arizona republican., 1901-11-01
sLANDERERs OF THE WEST.
They Receive a Vigorous Castigation
 From a Kansas Editor.

Of the C,OO0, eco people who live east of the line drawn from north to south through the center of Indiana, S9. .oO0,0O9 of them believe that 39.0o0,Oo0 of the 4O COG. .OoO who live west of that line are a coarse, unlettered, uncombed and un- washed people. who feed on hog. holn- iay and prairie hay, live in clapboard houses and on dirt floors, sleep cn straw beds, eat in the Kitchen with their fingers. have cocklepurrs in their hair. go to horse races on Sundays and shoot each other on sight. They believe all this and much more. because they themselves are untraveled and ig- norant. because they are narrow, prei- udiced and provincial to the thirty third degree. and because they have been taught from the beginning that everything coarse, common and vulgar finds willing wcrshipers in the brutal uncivilized west
 Eastern newspapers teach and preach it; eastern magazines, whose pages are usually filed with the insipid drivel of the c. Milksop Rodgeizer. the Jane Spindleshank Soapsuds class of writ CTS. revel in picturing everything from the west as cranky. sensual and un- worthy of any sort of notice except beastly oarica ture and yet. taking one H those skim milk writers, there is more crime, more debauchery, more drunk enness, more of all that is vile and brutel than can be found in all the vast area lying west of the Indiana line
 The eastern iobsters who are forever revilinS The west, and who have no more knowledge of this country than has q Digger Indian of a mahogany seat in the New Jerusalem, are as mar row as a clothesline and as stupid as they are ignorant There is more pa triotisIn, more love of country and of 1he flag. more real manhood and wo- manhood, more love of the beautiful and true in any one western state than can be found in an entire string of states along the Atlantic coast.
 The west apes nothing, parrots noth- ing ard accepts no goggie-eyed chim- panezee's declaration as it's standard of business or social ethics; nor does it fall on it's stomach and sing peans when it's snobocracy passes down the street. The west is law unto itself. and that it's business, social and po- 1itical ideas are placed upon a more, honorable. truthful and manly pedestal than those of any other people goes without SaJing. The west knows the east from A to iz:zard-knows all it's wasbed-out, half baked ideas of wha ] constitutes polite society. and is e'iarit- able enough to forgive it in it's honest regard of the brotherhood of man; but it doesn't forgive the chattering mag pies who. while hoisting the black flag. drool their senile rot through all the eastern publications in condemnation of everything and everybody west If the. Indiana line.
 And when we recall that one-half of all this rancid so-called fine writing is done by lonS-haired literary feilers' whose practical knowledge of the world is as circumscriped as is the environ meat in which they rattle around while stringing words together at so much Fer string, and by short-haired gran nies who if they could have their way would not let q man live anywhere north of the equator, we feel like hoist ing the black flag in return and keep ing it hCisted until the owners or man. aEers of these eastern publications banisn the entire tribe of puritanical warts to the antipodes.-Eldoradl
 CHan.) Republican.