Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-23
souTHERNERs AND OTHERS.

Says the Jacksonville Times Union:
 "Ths south needs men. Why
 should the southerners who live in
 other states assume to be the
 wisest southerners living and prof
 fer their advice as if 1t were
 pearls? Sometimes the wisdom of
 the heart is better than the wis
 dom of the head-let these philoso-
 phers come back home and help us
 go as we should. They can neither
 profit by our wisdom, nor suffer by
 our mistakes-we are hoeing our
 own row and shouting for our peo-
 pie these days
 We do not pretend to speak with ul- timate authority on the subject herein suggested, but We have our ideas about 1t, and if they are interesting to our estimable contemporary, it is welcome to them.
 Primarily, We were not aware that 'southerners who live in other states assume to be the wisest southerns hv- ing, and proffer their advice as if it were pearls" There are a great many southerns in Washington, and inter course with them has never led IS to anything like such conclusion. Ger tainly We are yet to meet one to the manner born who did not love his na- tive heath with an affection the ardency of which has never failed to challenge our profound admiration The fervent even passionate, regard of these people for their own Dixie" is nothing less than beautiful to see.
 At the same time, however, we have known southerners to 90 to Washing ton, where the national point of view, perhaps, controls as it does nowhere else in the country, and learn, in time, to entertain opinions on problems in general far removed from their con- clusions in the days of their earlier residence. So, also, have we met south erners dwelling in other states than those of the south whose ideas on things had undergone changes and readjust- ments quite marked. And these facts are to their credit, very much so, we think, rather than a reasonable basis for adverse criticism.
 To put the shoe on the other foot: We have known northerners to take up residence in the south and become warm advocates of many typical southern points of view that are more or less shocking to many of their old friends in the north; and yet we have felt, time and again, that they were right. Resi- dence in the south brought them face to face with conditions rather than the ories; hence their "advice'' to their northern friends may have been ''pearls," and pearls of great price, at that.
 It is only through communion of thought and comparisons of ideas that We are enabled to get at the truth of all propositions in this world; and 1t is quite within the range of the possible that southerners living away from the south may be of inestimable service in analyzing grave questions affecting that section, and causing the light of truth to shine brightly and clearly through the clouds of doubt.
 ''The south needs men," says the Times Union. Aye, so it does! And, by the self-same token, so does the north, and east, and the west. The na- tion needs men, in short. Not section. alists, who ace o2ly through one glass and with one eye.
 For the southerners who puts him. self in the attitude of a know-it-all, and who undertakes to "preach" to or lecture" his hold home, who "as- sumes," as our contemporary states it, to be the "wisest'' of his kind, we have, to be sure, scant respect. It is merely that We have escaped, in the main, the acquaintance of such south erners; and for this deliverance We con graduate ourselves. And we should be sadly disappointed in the south if we thought it rejected the honestly proffer- ed hints of its temporarily exiled-we never knew a southerners who did not expect to Ego back home some day. merely because of that condition.
 The Times Union should cheer up. We fear 1t inclines to pessimisml
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