The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-06
HE RISES TO REMARK.
Does the Western Editor, and His
Language Is Plain.

Language As x1A1u.
or the forty million people who live
east of the line drawn from north to
south through the center of Indiana,
Hhirty-nine million of them behave that
thirty nine million of the forty million
who live west of that line are j coarse,
unlettered, une0mhed and unwashed
people, who feed on hog, hominy and
prairie hay, live in clapboard houses and
on dirt floors, sleep on straw beds, eat
in the kitchen with their fingers, have
cookie burrs in their hair, go to the horse
races on Sundays and shoot each other
on sight. They believe all this, and
more, because they themselves are I'M
travelled and ignorant; because they are
marrow, prejudiced and provincial to
che thirty-third degree; and because
they have been taught from the begin
ming that everything coarse, common
and vulgar finds willing worshpers IN
the brutal, uncivilized West.
Eastern newspapers teach and preach
It; Eastern magazines, whose pages are
usually filled with the insipid drivel Of
the @. Milsop Podgeizer, the Jane Spin
dleshank Soapsuds class of writer's,
Hevel in picturing everything from the
West as cranky. sensual and unworthy
Of any sort of notice except beastly cari-
cature, and yet, taking one mile square
right under the noses of those skim
milk writers, there is more crime, more
debauchery, more drunkenness, more of
oil that is vile and brutal, than can be
found in all the vast area lying west OF
the Indiana line.
The Eastern Holsters who are forever
reviling the West and who have no
more knowledge of this country than
has 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
triotsm, more love Of country and of the
flag, more real manhood and woman
hood, 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 MOTH
ing and accepts no google eyed chimpan-
zee's declaration as it's standard OF bust
ness or social ethics; nor does it fall on
its stomach and sing paeans when it's
snobocracy passes down the street. The
West is law unto itself, and that Its
business and social and political ideas
are placed upon more honorable,
truthful and manly pedestal than those
of any other people goes without saying.
The West knows the East from A to
Izzard-knows all it's washed out, half
baked ideas of what constitutes polite
society, and is charitable enough to for
give it in it's honest regard of the
brotherhood of man, but it doesn't for
get that chattering magpies, who, while
hoisting the black flag. drool their senile
rot throgh all the Eastern publications
in condemnation of everything and
everybody west of the Indiana line.
And we recall that one-half of all this
rancid so-called fine writing is done by
long haired Literary fellers" whose
practical knowledge of the world is as
circumscribed as is the environment in
which they rattle around while stringing
words together at so much per string.
and by short haired grannies. who. If
they could have their way, would not let
@ man live anywhere north of the equa-
tor we feel like hoisting the black flag in
return and keeping it hoisted until the
owners or managers of these Eastern
publications Danish the entire tribe of
-Puritanical warts to the Antipodes.-El
Dorado (Kans.) Republican.