The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-08-11
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE AGAIN
KANSAS EDITOR on LAWSON
AND JEROME
a PIug-Hatted Mob in FrOck Coats
as the Force Which Would
Reform Things.

@ManitOU, Colo, Aug William
Allen White Of Kansas, in giving his
impressions OF Thomas W. Lawson
and William Travers Jerome, says:
IF there was ever an apparent case
Of carrying Goals 20 Newcastle it was
when William Travers jerome and
Thomas W Lawson Of the east came
to teach the west about the iniquity
Of the money power. Yet it was only
apparent The case was not real. for
the west has less than its quota Of
discomfort Newcastle is running out
Of Goals and today the feeding place
for the culture Of social and financial
unrest is the east
II the present system of industry
and economics should be OverthrOwn
soon, which is Of course unlikely, the
mob that would batter down the bas-
tile. established by the wicked -ag-
grandizement Of capital, would be a
plug-hatted mob in frOck coats and
white vests, headed by such eminent
eastern dignitaries as Hamilton W
Mabie Of the Outlook, Samuel S. Nc
CIure, William D. HOwells. Lyman
Abbott Theodore Roosevelt Jacob
Riiss William Taft, Charles J. Bona
parte, Senator Murray Crane, Nor
man HapgOOd and Thomas Went
fOrth HigginsOn.
When Mr.. Lawson came west he
proposed as a remedy for the en-
crOaching power OF organized capital
that the people give the Wall street
crowd a dose Of its own medicine He
asked the people TO begin selling their
stocks and securities and let the
system buy them and force the mar
ket down and then rebuy their Sc
curities and squeeze the water out Of
the manipulatOrs. That was a stock
brokers' remedy 1t could not appeal
to the west First it was impossible
to the west, because western proper
~ is not held in stocks and bonds;
and second, the west recognized the
moral wrong Of it.
The East and the West.
There is this difference between the
east and the west The east regards
the provincialist Of the west as rep
rehensibIe; the west is immensely
tolerant Of the prOvinCiaIism Of the
east II d westerneT had gone east
with a proposition To cure the ills Of
the flesh 50 impossible to the east as
the proposed remedy OF Lawson was
impossible to the west, the east would
have set him down as a villain The
west. however, smiled at LawsOn's re-
medy and took the man himself for
what he was worth on the face
The story Of JerOme's visit to the
west IS entirely different from the
story OF the crusade OF Lawson.
Jerome bore no great message, came
on no pilgrimage, had no country to
save and no cause To justify. The
western people know Jerome for
what he has done, for the west knows
the east better than the east knows
the west Though Governor Folk Of
Missouri has done and is doing great
things for his country, it is not like
" that 5000 persons in New York
City know him well enough to pay 25
cents to hear him speak But the
west knows and admires Jerome for
what he has done, and it did not care
much what he said
He made the Kansans and Mis-
sOurians mad by saying that the IL
quOr laws could not be enforced, and
then the governors OF the two states
met on the platform where Jerome
had stood and drew him over the
Goals for his well known statement
that there should be two statute
books, one to contain statutes to be
enforced, the other to contain the
moral yearnings Of rural commune
ties. As a matter Of fact, the states
OF Missouri and Kansas, being for the
most part rural states, get their moral
yearnings enforced in the statutes,
but naturally Jerome could not know
this. and what was apt enough in
New York was not happily received
in Kansas and Missouri The Sunday
closing law is enforced inst Louis and
Kansas City, the two cities Of Mis-
souri,, and the anti-bOOkmaking law
is enforced in St Louis county. And
in Kansas there is no trouble about
enforcing the prOhibitOry law when
the local officers care to enforce it"