French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-07
THE WEST MILITANT.

The Herald holds no special brief
for the west. But it does for our COM
mon country. 1t abhoTs secsionaIism.
That is a snake darling it's poisonous
fangs at the heart OF the nation. The
Herald therefore considers it a duty
to a united people to raise it's voice
in protest against a seditious attempt
to light the fires of internal jealousy.
The Herald Insists. that the vote of
California is entitled to the same re-
gard as the vote of New York. 1t re-
fuses to differentiate between the peo-
pie of Oregon, who stood by Mr..
Hughes and the people of Washing
ton, who stood by Mr.. Wilson. 1t as
serts that the people Of the Rocky
Mountain states are as gallant, as
courageous. as any class OF citizens in
the east, and more gallant. more
courageous than the effetc snohs who
find senile pleasure in bizarre func-
tions in Newport and Bar Harbor.
To say the west is yellow" is to
utter a lie so grotesque that it carries
REPUTATION on it's face. Only a mind
STEPPED in ignorance and gnarled by
prejudice could conceive anything of
the kind. The men and women who
are descendants of the homemakers,
who themselves have Xatered the arid
desert and made it a Garden of Eden;
the men and women who struggle and
labOred to make a blossom Of the Pa
cific coast-these are citizens Oh
whom the nation well may be and is
lIiord.
If it be suggested that the west is
not progressive, consider that it has
inaugurated administrative and legis-
lative reforms many Of which have
been approved and copied by the east.
If it is to be said manevolently it has
been said by the worlds most con-
ceited newspaper that the west is too
proud to fight" what about the volun-
teers who fought SO bravely in the
civil war. and, in our own time, in
Cuba and the Philippines What
about the guardsmen who. patrolling
the Rio Grande, are ready, eager, to
assert American rights in Mexico, to
protect the south from invasion and
New York from suffering. and to keep
unstained the flag that waves above
them? Shall aspersions upon the
memories of the men of the past, up
OA S1O COu1o SO VI " "SA VI IAO pAN0
ent, be allowed to pass un~challenged?
Shall the people of Chicago and Illi-
nois accept as &, description of their at
titude the utterance of a paper whose
disappointment finds only vent in
spleen?
The Herald says no.
The Herald holds that the men and
women of the west are as sturdy, as
fearless, as their ancestors, the pio-
neers who settled the country. The
Herald holds that the popular maya
zine in depicting strong, red blooded
characters in their fiction approx
mate the west as it is. Those who are
acquainted with Governor Johnson Of
California recall his twO-iisted fighr
against one of the most corrupt insti-
tons of our times-the Southern Pa
ciic railroad machine. California is
free today, free from the crushing
+ coils -of4the anaconda because OF what
Johnson did In the Golden Gate state.
Johnson would fight and has foughts
at "the drop of a hat" He would
fight for a seat in a street a If he
believed it his. just as he would fight
for the nation if his services were re-
quired. He glories in combat. That
his people are with him that they
are of the same forceful caliber and
want vigorous representation in the
national capital. is shown by the fact
that they elected Johnson to h Unit
ed States senate by a tremendous ma
jority even while rejecting the repub-
lican candidate for the presidency,
whose name was at the head OF the
ticket.
Hughes was beaten because the peo-
pie of California and other states of
the west believed him. unjustly. to be
a puppet of the "Old Guard"
Did the worlds most conceited
newspaper say that California was
:, yellow" when it gave it's electoral
vote to Roosevelt il 1912? Were the
men and women of the west, Roose-
velt's west, yellow in voting for
Roosevelt in 1912? Was it not those
same men and women who voted for
Z Wilson and gave him the presidency
in 1916.
Moreover, and this is a persistent
thought, is not Ohio, is not New
Hampshire as yellow as California
in the same expressed by the Expon-
ent of Conceit? Is not, The Herald
repeats, Oregon as yellow" as Kan
sas. as Nebraska as Idaho and other
States in the Wilson galaxy
The west militant-that is the
proper title for the states which have
been so m~aliciously maligned.
The nation one and indivisible-
that is the inspiring doctrine for pa
triOts to preach.
Anything else is treason!-Chicago
/. Herald. ,