Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1901-09-27
AS SEEN BY 4 KNSsAS MAN.

or the io,00u,U0O people who live
east OF Ii li:e drawn from north tu
south through the center o; Indiana,
:D.fo0,OOO Of them believe that 49,
uOI.OOO nf the 40. 0u.OJU who live west
Uf tlHt ine are Il coarse, unleltered.
uncombed and unwas leI people.
who feed on hog. ho nIuy and prairie
hay, live III ClapbOari houses and Oh
dirt II 'ors. sleep on straw bed-, eat III
the kit IN III wlth their ting rs. have
cookie burrs III their hair, TO To-
horse races un san lays and shoot
each other on sight. The! believe all
this and much more because they
themselves are untraveicd aud isnor
ant; becaI ~ they are narrow. preju
dicel aud prov'u:itl to ;he thirty.
third degree. and because they have
been tau Ght f'on the beginning that
every thing coarse, common and vul
gar Tin Is will ng wOrJliipcrs III tie
brutal, tan :lvInz ii Nest.
Eastern ne ySpapcrs teach md
preach it; r. lstern mH games, whose
pages are Usually filed with the in
s'pid drivci OF the q. Milk-op Pod.
GieZeT. the Jane Som i,r=lIank Soap.
sud- class 81 writer. rcvel III pictur.
! my ever. tn ny ffom the West Hs
c 'auky, sensual rDd I'm worthy Of any
sort uf notice except be lsrly carica
tur-, and yet taking on. mite SOU irr
right unlcf the no SO. uf tn ,sc SKI IL
milk writers there is more crime.
more debIuchcry. more druutcn u.
more uf all nat IL viic and brutal
than can be- fOnnd III all the vast
area lying west Of the Indiana line
The Eastern Ion itcrs who are Tor
ever revll'ug ,hc N,-st ,,nh who have
uo more knowledge ~ this country
than has "a Digger Iuiir IN of u mahog
any 1eHt III The NcH Jrru-alen. are
us NARROW as a clnthcsline aud IA stu
pl as they are iLuOraut. There is
more pat ri 'tism, more love Of cOuniry
Nh' VI 'hS ihs' nloIt fcHb lnHDuO
aud wo manhood. more love Uf me
beautiful and true. III any one Vest.
crn State than can tie found ~ an
entire strmg of states al IN: the Al
lautic coast.
Ine West apes nothing, parrots
nothing, aud accept no guggIc.cyrd
chimpIuzcr's declarations is it,
1T ttndird nf business or so, i'll rthc>;
nor does it TALL uu it, stomach nnd
sing pacans when it, snon nucrac,
| pas Ses down the st pret. Tho West is
! II law unto ITSELF aud that it, bust
ness. social aud Political ideas are
| placed upon "a murn lao 10 able, truth.
ful and maUly pc lest Il IN IN those Of
! any other people goes wi houi sIymg.
| rhs West kno Hs the Enst from To
| iZzIrI-lino 50 all its wns Is l.nut,
! half baked idcas of what cuusli flutes
| polite suci'ty and is ch .ritublc
enough to forgive 1t in it honest re-.
! gnrd II the BROTHERHOOD ~ mWE; but
It dpcsn't forgive the Ch .t'crug mng.
uics vino, while hosting the black
II ~. drOll heir senIlc rot thruu. IN all
the + stern publications III condem.
nation ~ everything aud cvcryho y
west uf the Indiana line.
Aud when wo recall tliai onc.half
Of all this rancid SO called fine writ
rug IL done 10y long haired -liicrar'
frllcra," whose practical knowledge
of the world is as Circ cJuscrucd us Ii
the environment III winch they rat,It
aruuud winlc strmgiug words Il"
gcfhrr at mu1h per strIug aud D..
short .hHirrd old grnnuics who IL th",
could have tlr ir way wouId not let Il
man live anywhere north ot tn,
rqu uor. wo feel like hosting tie
'lark Il hig ~ return ana keeping II
Iloisted until the owucrs or manI : crs
~ the a. T. lstcrn puhiirariuns blnish
the entire tribe ~ purit ruiinl wnris
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