The Glenwood post., 1915-04-24
TIE WILD AND wooLY WEST

vXlE have heard nnuaion from eastern tourists and
w others against the wild and Woody West they
pleased designate little enjoyment
ability strike back and in
their light Human human wherever found
and where climatic conditions have wrought differ
the the
similar the and another of the
though the sections very widely separated
We occasionally have people tell O the people of the East
different from the people here nmang that
this Rocky Mountain region known the Great West eoped
by 4 inferior class of men and
Sometimes listen this of wadde until almost force
believe that This largely because have
very delightful people from the and
sometimes de ourselves with the notion that they fair
pie of the ctizenry of the community in which they live
And reaching this conclusion lose sight Of the fact that
have blessed the meeting Of the of the
cities while dregs and the r have been brought
notice at all.
The ight. might see
inclined Greater New York below the degrading
and b be found Denver other cities
appalling beyond Again critce lawmakers
and legislative sessions and and newspapers who delve
and feed and roll the ord under their
morse delight to refer and magnify crooked of
legislator politician public official whose conduct all subject
to criticism and before from the shock which follows
the that prominent Cooraoan wrong
long haired refomer from the volunteers
ton that Moral conditions awful slack the
The fact is Mr. Reform Busybody, that the
which you is not altrusic might be- 1t has
monopoly morality and of the most henous of crimes have
been committed the eastern culture
You have been making such proud reference while tng
terrible Conditions to be found in the West
In truth and in fact there is of
Know no country or section that can boast OF freedom from crime
and sin To be there grades in civilization education
but the fact and it,
mat bauchey and political corruption
alone to western soil but thrive and flourish under the domes
eastern institutions of learning and culture and shadows
eastern cathedral spires from whence chimes delight the
Of those who hear the gospel
Even Pun anca New England witch rrde herself her
high Standard of living has furnished of the
foues wch morbdly
New York ard Boston rebng with and daboca deeds
description while the political scandals r Phia
delpha the City of Brothey Love, St Louis Chicago
atng to good citizens all remind that section community
wholly in throwing in the direction neigh
glass house
please Mr. fastener an of these ''wd
and Woy ithes which hurled direction.
And, lust reminder that all of the crime onI corruption
committed Wild and Woody West how about Terre
political scaup in which the
and others l6 in ALL convicted of participation
picy Illegal voting and prison from day
years besides fines
of
nals the product of the 'Wd and Wooy'' which
have been pleased to critcse and beitte
But the operates the East the West to turn
into end criminals such character the
only safe when they have been landed behind prison bars Of the
116 convicted election
saloon Keepers bartenders mostly from underworld
saloons professional gamblers white and colored
styled themselves being reality underworld ha6ues
And thus find that the East well the West the saloons
hand and the big cities of the East than in the
wherever the saloon found political corruption
uray bghts and everything with which
tact.
No wonder then that Judge Anderson the
Haute tried, forced to say:
"My notion is that the saloon will have go. I be-
lieve the time will when the people will rise and
smash the saloon at least have it The evidence