El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-08-15
Slander of NcW Mexico in the
North American RcUicU Caps
Climax for PfOUinciaLSm
can open letter by Charles s. RawIes
OF Santa Fe to the North American

can open letter BY Charles S. Rawle.
OF Santa Fe 10 the North American
Revlew.)
oeveral Years ago an Individual
Named steve Brody jumped off the
brooklyn bridge and risked his life
put gained cheap notoriety throughout
tn %ecountry.
Later some other fool went ovei
Niagara Falls in a barrel and whether
ne lived through the ordeal and what
MS name is | doubt If n man In ten
can tell. He also sought cheap noto-
riety. :.
Neither OF these individuals hurt Or
riskod anyone's life nor reputation ex-
cept his own.
NOW comes a person named Wray
with an article that sounds more like
German propaganda than anything l
have read, and / have read considera-
BILE about this war and about German
propaganda.
IN this article he not only risks him
SELF but he tries to defame a great
state OF the Union and its hundreds
OF thousands of people in an effort to
gain cheap notoriety.
II the article which he wrote and
which appeared in the August issue OF
the North American Review had APP
peared in some paper at a f~our-corners
in Kansas no one would have thought
anything further about it, than that
anther sockless Jerry was helping in
crease the velocity of the winds II
Kansas. But that the article should
have received the attention and been
accepted and published in the North
American Review, sets n to think
ing.
1t does not seem possible in these
days of school histories and rapid
transit, in these days when travel
Is so easy and SO reasonable, both by
and automobile, that any leading
or publisher could possibly
have fallen for the bunk which got by
the editor and into the columns of the
publication in question.
1t seems utterly incomprehensible
how any live wire in the profession,
even in the extreme east, could have
accepted and used such stuff as has
come from the pen of this person from
Several years ago, when the Indians
occasionally went ON the warpath and
The west had still a semblance of a
frontier, ! was in Portland, Me-, and
lpon announcing that l was going
back to Michigan, presumably intelli-
gent people asked me if there were
still log cabins and Indians in the
statei
On the way to Michigan l met Il
ady from Toledo, o., and we were
about tie extreme provincial
SIN of the east. She told me that only
before sic was visiting her Sis
.er in Brooklynk N. Y, and when her
laughter expressed a desire to retire
or the night, her Brooklyn cousin an
that she would go upstairs
md show her how to turn on the gas.
rhe Toledo cousin responded, sweet
y: 'Thank you, but we have natural
in Toledo, and we not only light
'ur homes but we cook and heat them
" gas"
|, myself, was visiting a cousin in
Jew York only some fifteen years
go, who told me, c~onfidentially, that
had never been west of the Allo-
ihanies, and that he would dread go J
ng to Michigan, because they had
UGH cyclones there!
This provincialism was a source of
luch humor a few years ago, but none
I us In the southwest here expected
. see it break out in such %virulent
orm in the year 1918, in the North
.merican Review, and its author turn
ut to be some obscure person from
One of your kind Of p~rovincialists,
Tr. Editor, came out here a few years
go and while travelling over the great