Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-02-09

Jefferson. This opposition was most
forcibly expressed. perhaps, by josiah
Quincy, destined to be president OF
Harvard college, in his famous speech
on the floor of the house. threatening
the secession of the New England
states because of the purchase. AS the
of Massachusetts conserva-
tism he protested against the posSibll-
ity that the control of the union should
ever pass out of the power of the orig
inal states. Said Quincy:
This is not so much a question con-
corning the exercise OF sovereignty as it
is who shall be sovereign; whether the
proprietors CT the good old United
States shall manage their own affairs
in their own way, or whether they and
their constitution and their political
rights shall be trampled under foot by
foreigners introduced through 4 breach
OF the constitution. Suppose the popu-
latiCn of the whole world beyond the
Mississippi were to be brought in to
form our laws. control our rights, de-
eide our destiny. Can it be pretended
that the trainers of the constitution
would have listened to it? They were
grees at the hospital of idiocy. Why
sir. l have alreauy heard CT six states,
and some say there will be, at no great
distance of time, more. 1 have also
heard that the mouth of the Ohio will
be far to the east of the contemplated
empire You have no authority to
throw the rights and liberties and
property of this people into a hotch-
tc1, of tba Wi
nor with the mixed, though more re-
spectacle. race of Anglo Hispano- Gallo
Americans who bask on the sands in
the mouth of the Mississippi. TIL,
whole extent CT Louisiana is to be cut
up into independent states to counter
balance and to paralyze whatever there
is of influence in other quarters of the
union. The gentlemen from Missis-
sippi spoke the other day of the Mis-
sissippi as a high road between-good
heavens. between what, Mr.. Speaker?
Why. the eastern and western states.
So that all the countries once the eX-
treme western boundary of our union
are hereafter to be denominated east
ern states
As DR.. Pritchett pointed out. since
the days of Josiah Quincy. the public
ton of the Adamses, have underesti-
mated the Importance of the trans Mis-
sissippi territory. They have regarded
the west as useful in certain ways. TO
be sure. 1t furnishes corn and wheat
and beef and things to the east. De-
casionally it Grams a president down
the eastern throat. But in general it
is to be treated with disdain. They say
in Paris that a dog run over on the
Champs Elysees is of more interest
than an earthquake outside of France
And Boston has still very much the
Partisan attitude toward the west.
Has Missouri two senators? ?" in
quired the Boston commercial traveller
in Jefferson City a few days ago. why
I don't believe Massachusetts has MOI g
than that
The provincialism of New England is
of precious little concern to the states
in the trans Mississippi region. 1t is
irritating ct times. but it is also anus
ing. Those whom it chiefly affects are
the New Englanders themselves. Pro-
vincialism may exist with Q high state
of culture. as it does in Paris. But it is
Il decided handicap to a community. y
comparatively small populat ton shut off
from the world, ignoring the vast
movements going on beyond its bor-
ders. is apt to vegetate. The whole
country is none too wide a sphere from
which to learn. Ideas are apt to get
into ruts unless they are reinforced
by notions from other points of view.
Much Of the modern New England lit
erature suffers from it's restricted hori-
ION. Prof Munsterberg of Harvard
university, in the preface to his Amer
lean Traits" says that ne has some
times been accused of looking at
America through German colored
glasses with Harvard astigmatism.
Many New England writers are affiict-
ed with the astigmatic defect. This has
already allowed the literary capital 81
! America to be moved from Boston tc
New York.
But the literary danger is not the
only one from provincialism. A re-
stricted community is apt to lose touch
With great political movements 1t was
the backwoodsmen along the Missis-
: sippi who forced the acquisition of Lou
| isiana. 1t was the western spokesman
Henry Clay, who did most to bring on
| the war of 1912 for commercial indie
| pendence. 1t was the westerner, An
! drew Jackson, whose victory at New
Orleans and whose administration as
president helped powerfully to develop
the sentiment of nationality. It was
another westerner, Abraham Lincoln
who became the prophet of union and
emancipation. President Pritchett
himself foreigner introduced through
a breach of the constitution as Quincy
would have said, gave good counsel in
saying: To my thinking the political
mistake which New England needs con-
stantly to guard against is the gradual
loss OF sympathy with other sections
of the union, the failure to keep in
touch with the great central and south
ern and western groups of states, an
Increasing isolat ton of sentiment and OF
sympathy. kansas City Star.
Bores in Public PJsoes