Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-08
UNCOMED AND
The Effete East and the Woody
West.

east of the line drawn from north to
south through the center of Indiana
80, 900, 900 of them believe that 80
OOO, 900 of the 10000, 900 who live
west OF that line are a coarse, unletter-
ed, uncombed 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, 60 to horse
races on Sundays and shoot each other
on sight. They believe all this and
much more because they themselves
are untravled and ignorant; because
they are narrow, prejudiced and pro-
vincial.in the thirty-third degree. and
because they have been taughht from
the beginning that everything coarse.
common and vulgar finds willing wor-
shippers in the brutal. uncivillzed.
West,
Eastern newspapers teach and preach
it; Eastern magazines, whose pages
are unusually filled with the insipid
drivel of the !. Milksop Soapspuds
class Of writer's, revel in picturing
everything from the West was crazy.
sensual and unworthy Of any sort Of a
notice except beastly caricatures, and
yet taking n mile square right under
the noses of those skimmilk writer's
there is more crime. more debauchery,
more drunkenness, more Of all that Is
vile and brutal, than can be found in
all Of the vast area lying west Of the
Indiana line.
The Eastern Holsters who are for
ever revlling the West and who have
no more knowledge Of this country
than a Digger Indian Of a mahogany
seat in the New jerusalem; are as mar
row as a clothesline and as stupid as
ignorant. There is more patriotism,
more love Of country. and Of the flag,
more real manhood and womanhood,
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
nothing and accepts no g~oggle.eyed
chimpanzee's declarations as its stand
ard Of business or social ethics; nor
does IT fall upon its stomach and sing
paeans when its snopocracy passes
down the street. The West is a law
unto itself; and that its business, social
and political ideas are placed upon a
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
about its wash-out half baked ideas Of
what constitutes polite society, and is
charitable enough to forgive it in its
honest regard of the brotherhood Of
man; but it doesn't forgive the chat
tering magpies who. while hosting the
black flag, ,droll their senile rot through
all the Eastern publications in con-
demnation Of everything and everybody
west Of the Indiana line.
And when we recall that one-hal. of
all this rancid so called fine writing is
done by ~long-haired Literary fellers"
whose practical knowledge OF the world
in which they rattle around stringing
words together at so much per string,
and BY short-halred old grannies who
If the could have their way would not
let a man live anywhere north oil the
equator. we feel IKE hoisting the black
flag In return and keeping II holsted
until the owners or managers Of thess
Eastern publications Danish the entire
tribe Of puritanical warts TO the anti
podes.-Eldorado Republican.
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