Bisbee daily review., 1904-12-22
FOR A UNITED WEST.

FOR A UNITED WEST.
 Considerable interest is taken, in the East as well as in the West. in a sug- gestiOn which the St. Louis Republic made some days ago that the manufac- tuners and merchants of the entire West should take systematic steps to oppose the provincialism of cities and States Of the East The idea. based on the strong truth of fact, has been received with great approbation. A high official in Washington has written a letter which is indicative of the judg- ment which the West is putting upon the Rast's experiment.. He says:
 The Eastern colleges are crowded with thousands and thousands of young men who think that there is nothing west of the Atlantic seaboard. and, as soon as they get little money. if they haven't already got it, crowd off to Eu- rope. and you never hear them talk about anything when they get back from Europe except what they have seen in Europe. Not one of them has probably been further west than Pitts burg. They have no more idea of what this country contains than a Zulu. They talk about the grand, majestic peak of Mont Blanc, without knowing that Pikes Peak is as high. and in addition has railroad to it's summit. They have got an idea that the people west of the Mississippi are of different blood ana nationality
 r -E. ,--I truth; but not the whole truth; t is merely hint of the Eastern attitude toward the West. The people of the East have their hands on Western money and their eyes on Europe; they consider the West good enough for picking and proft-making, but not worthy of helping or admiring. The West, as the official says, is not, from the Eastern business mans standpoint part of the United States proper, and the Western man is not a man of theI same heart and profession, but an alien.
 The Republics suggestion contem- plated a movement in the West for pro tecting and advancing the interests of the whole West. of the boundless ter rito-y lying near and beyond the Mis- sissippi River. The proposed move meut would promote business relations among the manufacturers and mer- chants of the West and friendliness among the States and cities of the West. The purpose would be for thei West to give itself it's due from itself and 10 impress upon the East the ca pacity, the importance and the culture Of the West.
 The East, in looking toward trans atlantic countries and in depreciating The value Of the West, is relinquishing a precious opportunity. The West is the country of the present and of tte future. of brains and ambition, of men and achievement. Though, compara- lively, the West has but started to prosper. it already has demonstrated is endiessness Of intensive develop n.ent
 The most striking illustration of this feeling agsinsc the West is the intro duction in Congress of the Joint State hoo& Bill, having for it's primary pur- pose the curtailing of future representa- ton in ;he Senate from four Western territories by joining them together and making two states. This bill has the support of almost every Eastern Senator. It is a direct blow at the best interests of the West, and every commercial organization and every leg isiatuTe which convenes in a Western state sbculd enter their vigorous pro test. The West is entitled to the same trea. .ment as the East in form ing of new states. There is no prece- dent for the proposed action of the East in the joint statehood matter.
 That the East fails to value the West is cbvio1s in many ways. As the Washington official says. the youth of the East are educated to ignore the West. The people Of the West, on the o1her hand, are prone to overesti- mate the EasJ, or, at least, 70 admit too much. If the East will not recip- rocate, and will persist in neglect and oondescension. the West will assert itself 4 society of the West would represent Western sentiment and spir- 1t.