The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-26
NOVEMBER M

thirty-nine million of them believe tha
 thirty-nine million of the forty million who live west of that line are a coarse
 unlettered, uncombed and unwashet
 people, who feed on hog, hominy and
 prairie hay, live in clapboard houses
 and on dirt floods, sleep on straw beds
 eat in the kitchen with their fingers 1 have cookie burrs in their hair, go tc | the horse races on Sundays and shoot each other on sight They believe all this, and much more, because they themselves are untravelled and ignor- ant; because they are marrow, prejudice
 ed and provincial to the thirty third degree, and because they have been taught from the beginning that every
 thing coarse, common and vulgar finds
 willing worshippers in the brutal, un-
 civilized west.
 Eastern newspapers teach and preach it; eastern magazines, whose pages are usually filled with the insipid drivel of the Q. Milsop Podge'zer, the Jane Spin dleshank Soapsuds class of writers, revel in picturing everything from the west as cranky, sensual and unworthy of any sort of notice except beastly caricature, and yet, taking one mile square right under the noses of those skimmilk writers, there is more crime, more debauchery, more drunkenness, more of all 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 ly 1oa pf ', he, n Digger Indian of mahogany seat in the New Jerusalem, are as narrow as clotheslina and as stupid as they are ignorant They 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 At lantic coast.
 The west apes nothing, parrots noth- ing and accepts no goggle eyed chimpanzees declarations as its stand ard of business or social ethics: nor does it fall on its stomach and sing paens when it's snobocracy passes down the street. The west is law unto it. self, and that it's 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 forgive it in it's honest regard of the brotherhood of man; but it doesn't forget the chatter ing magpies, who, while hoisting the black flag, drool the'r senile rot through all the eastern publications in condem nation of everything and everybody west of the Indiana line
 And we recall that one-half of all this rancid so-caled fine writing is done by long haired literary felers" whose practical knowledge of the world is as as is the environment in which they rattle around while string ing words together at so much per string and by short haired grannies, who, if they could have their way, would not let a man live anywhere north of the Equator, we feel like hoist ing the black flag in return and keep ing it hoisted until the owners or man. agers of these eastern publications ban ish the entire tribe of Puritanical warts to the Antipodes.-The Fl Dorado (Kan.) Republican.