Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-11-28
Compliments to the East.
A Kansas Editor Puts Them
IN Vigorous Style.
= dora. Kansas Republican.


OF the 10 600 0o0 people who hive east
of the hue drawn nuIth aud SOU, h
throu. h the cetter of lnGisna, ~. ONO
OD ut tncni believe tha 39.0AsttJ ot tn
4OU,WOoO whom i've West ut that i.ns,
are u Coarse, unlettered, uncumu ed anu
unWaShed people. who teed on hog,
homny aud prairie hay, live i'll ap-
board houses aud on DIRT nrOrs. sleer
On straw he,is, eat III the Kitchen Wnh
their tingels have cackelhnrrS III their
anr, gn. =" hnrss races al Suut.vs aud
sh"n' each othar IN sigh, They he
lteve all this and much m re, because.
they themselves are uatrave,ed and
ignorant. hec, nSe they are narrow
pr. luiiced aud pravinc,al to the ,hutN
third degree. ami hecAnSe they have
ht en- Taught from The beginning tina.
everything coarse. camnnn and
vulgar fluids Willing wor>hipyers in the
hru,al nrclvls'2ed west
Eastern neMs;apels teach and preach
n: eastern mag. z ,,eS. whose pages AM
usually hlleu vi h tte inSspeu I'll. wei III
he Y. Mlsop Pmig-'z-r. m. lam.
>mn0lesha, >rars,si class af writings
'ev-l Ill Wc,arlne everything from the
%,S MS crnnHv, SENSUAL aud unworthy
of any Sert al no,,ce except beastiy
clrlca.ure, aud Vet taking one mile
81 lara right under the hoses of those
>kim-mliS wruer>. there is more of all
ht, Is vile aud brutal, more crime
hllesn b. found III all the vast area
.lng west If the Indiana line.
TIE p.S,c,n HOLSTERS who are forever
rev,hnp the wesr ard who have ne
H.. sNf
has n u g~sr IL dian of y MAHOGANY
s-at III lie New Jerusalem. are as mar
row AS "a c.",hsine and as stupid as
hey are 10, GRANT. There is :aole
oatr,"Nsm. mare love of country ard
# tn tl.p. more real Hltnhncd aud ws,-
n+uhm d more love If the beautiful
and true in one western state than car
'e found IN an entire string of states
along the Allan ic coast.
The west apes nothing parrots MOTH
ing and accepts no gcgele-eyed Chin
pahZae's declaration AS to its standard
"f bush eSs CT Soclai ethics; nor does l,
fail on is stomach and sing paeans
when its snOb-ocraey pass down the
street The west is law unto itself,
nj that its business. social and pnllti
al ideas are placed down more hon
orable, truthful aud manly pedesta
than those of any other people goes
without saying The west knows thu
east from A 10 lizard knows all its
wash-out, nalf- baked ideas of wha'
constitutes polite society. and is chart
sahle enough tn forgive it in its h"nes'
egard nf the brotherhood of man; bu,
II dosen't forgive the chatterlrg mag
pies who, while hosting the black Il ,g
irool their senile rot through all tn.
EASTERN publications in condemnation
II every thing and avery body west Of
| he Indiana lime.
And when we recall that Une-half al
III this rancid sn-catled tire writing is
tnna by long shared "literarv fellows
Nhcsa practical knowledge of the worlG
AS circnmscrihed AS is the environ
nent in which they rattle around Will,
s,ringing words together at SO mucl
ger s'ring. aud by short haired gran
nies who. if they could have their way
would not let man live anywhere
north of the equator, we feel like hOis
| ing the black lag in return and keel
LIT hoisted until the owners or mana
gers of these eastern publications ban
ish the entire tribe of puritanical wart
to the antlpodes.