The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-03
FROM A MAN IN KANSAS.

Eldorado (Kan.) Republican.
OF the COO people who live east OF
line drawn from north to south through
the center of Indiana, 80, 600 of them
believe that 80, 600 of the 100000 who
live west of that line are a coarse, I'M
lettered, uncombed and unwashed peo-
pie, who feed on hog, hominy and prai-
RE hay, live in clapboard houses ana on
the kitchen, with their fingers, have
cookie ~burrs in their hair, go to horse
races on Sundays, and shoot each other
on sight. They believe all this and much
Travelled and ignorant; because they are
narrow, preiudiced and provincial to the
thirty third degree. and because they
have been taught from the beginning
that everything coarse, common and Vul-
gar finds willing worshipers in the bru-
tai, unciViliZed VEST.
Eastern newspapers teach and preach
it; Eastern magazines, whose pages are
usually filled with the insipid drivel of
the =. Milksop, PodgeiZer. the Jane Spin
dlGshank Soapsuds class of writer's, revel
in plcturipg g, everything from the West
as cranky, sensual and unworthy of any
sort of notice except -beastly caricature
ana yet, taking one mile square right
under the noses of those skim milk
writer's, there is more crime, more de-
hatchery, 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
knowledge,7of this country than has a
Digger Indian of mahogany seat in the
New Jerusalem are AS narrow as a
clothesline and as stupid as they are ig
norant. 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. r. hroetas n ae-,rse
The West apes nothing, parrots Meth
Ing, and accepts no rgoggle-eyed CHM
panzee's declaration as it's standard Of
business or social ethics; nor does il fall
sBobocracy passes down the street. The
West is law unto itself and that it's
business, social and politiyal 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 lizard
knows all its weshed-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 don't forgive the chattering
magpies who, while hosting the black
flag, drool their senile rot through all the
Eastern publications in condemnation of
Indiana line 7'NA $3.50 s'''-
-, And when we, recall that one-half of all
this rancid so-called fine writing is done
by long-haired literary fellers'' whose
practical knowledge or 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 old gfannies who If
they could have their way would not let
a man live anywhere north of the equa-
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.