The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-01-06
JUDSON HARMON
REVIEWS VISIT
OF WESTERNERS
Criticises Those Who Would Draw
Line Between East and
West
SECTlONALlSM Is GONE
Ohioan Hopes Eastern Executives
Will Some Day Return
Visit

New York, Jan. 6.-Judson Har
mon. Governor of Ohio, addressing a
gathering at the Lotos Club In New
| York tonight. reviewed the recent
tour Of northwestern governors to
the East and voiced the hope that
the governors of the East will re-
turn the visit.
THE line between the North and
the South has long since disappear
ed,' said Governor Harmon, "and
cursed be the mind that conceiyes
and the hand that attempts to draw
line between the East and the
West" Yet there are still some, he
added, who, from selfish motives
would light and fan the flame of
discord between them; but he pre-
dicted that the demagogue of both
regions will fail,
The Governor told how the ex-
penses of the trip had been borne bv
frade ard commercial organizations
in the West, and noted that this
fact, together with the high official
and personal character of the men,
bers of the party took it out of the
class Of junketing expeditions at
public expense" and assured the
governors a hearty welcome every
where. He traced briefly the de-
velopment of the United States ana
continued;
Numerically COMPLETED
Now the Union is numerically
complete. But while this ID an ele-
mant of strength it is also source
of danger. Each of the states man
ages its own affairs according to the
habits, tastes and conditions of its
people. Each of them must ALWAYS
do So. But the more numerous and
distant they are the greater the risk.
of misunderstanding and Disagree
ment about the matters 5f common
concern which they intrust to the
general government, with an equal
voice save In one branch of Con-
eress, II the people of states far
separat ed Ssho ould not know each
other, ,%thes esdanger would be grave.
Quick and easy communication ,of
all kinds is great safeguard. When
we all know and understand each
other our motives will be generous
our differences easy to reconcile or
pass by with mutual forhearance.
vet there are still thosn who from
selfish motives would light and fan
the flames of discord Just now be-
tween the East and the West.
"The line. between North and
South long since disappeared, and
cursed be the mind that conceives
and the hand that attempts to draw
? line between the East and th~
West. These Governors, admit they
could find none as they came or as
they went And when the eastern
Governors return the visit, as we all
hope, they will find none either. No
body who met and heard these typi-
cal specimens of the citizenship of
our newer states can be made to be
lieve that the. innovations and ex-
periments iH government which they
are making there indicate hostility
to American ideals and institutions |
And on the report, our visitors will
make after lthe close view they have
had Of conditions existing lin the
older and less HOMOGENEOUS COM
monwealthseetheir people will not
attribute tito a desire to retain or
restore ACKNOWLEDGED, evils an in
.rlfnation to walt to be shown that
y proposed Innovation would really
be an Improvement. u
Meet Men Of Power
Everywhere they went the Gov
ernors meet the men who do thi,Yes
rather than the men who say
things. y They even ventured into
Wall street and sat at meat with
representatives Of the Money Power.
but one Of them lost nothing but his
voice, he said, and the others not
even that. And they did not find the
Goddess Of Liberty displaced by the
Golden Calf. s3sh n
When we return the visit we
shall meet the men Of earnestness