The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-22
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INDUSTRIAL DIVISIONS OF U. s

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/ United States more closely together
the simultaneous development of a
variety of interests has partially offset
and a point has been reached where
the term, a citizen of the United
States, is not a narrow identifica ton.
prises a number of nations, the people
of some of which are as different from
those of others as tho they belonged
to foreign nations.
Industrial development has brought
this about and high railroad rates are
intensifying the tendency
Imagine an enlightened inhabitant
of some other country who~had never
heard of the United States and did
not know that the territory from
coast to coast and from lakes to quit
was all one political domain. Assume
that he travels all over the United
States, talks with the people and be-
comes familiar with their ways of life
and opinions, but by some trick or
conspiracy is prevented from learning
that he has spent his time all under
one flag In all probability he would
tell you that he had visited five ma
lions, some of which showed much
similarity while others were quite
diverse.
Among the five separate countries
which he would be likely to find would
be, first, a territory embracing New
England and the Atlantic coast states
down to Maryland and including New
York and Pennsylvania Next, he
doubtless would discover great coun-
try known as the middle west This
would comprise the great states of
the Ohio and Mississippi basins. The
third nation doubtless would be the
south and would include approximate
ly the One-time Confederacy. For the
fourth country he would discover
strange new land for which he would
be at a loss to find a name. 1t would
be the territory embracing the north
western states such as Minnesota, the
Dakotas, Montana, Idaho and perhaps
Iowa and Nebraska. The fifth coun-
try would be the Pacific coast.
Our imaginary traveller would find
a general similarity of language but
by no means an identical language IN
find that a native of New England
would have no little difficulty in
understan ding the every day colIoquial
language of a North Carolinian. All
nations would write an almost identi-
cal language, but each would have a
distinct spoken tongue which would
confirm the traveller in his belief that
he visited various countries.
Industrial Differences.
The traveller would find that the
fundamental differences which diff
ferentiated the five nations were in
dustrial- a nation is formed by its
interests and comes to think along
lines dictated by its material we'll
being. Its politics invariably are gov
erned by such matters as manufac-
lures and soil.
The most compact and Self-Suffi-
cient of the five nations which the
imaginary traveller would visit would
be the New England and Atlantic
coast nation. Its capital would be
New York and its people Would have
almost wholly industrial Interests. 1t
would be a country of careful man.
ners, of luxurious living, of fashion
able habits 1t would have an air of
arrogance and a pride of tradition
which would be reminiscent of
a country of careful manners, of lux
urious living, of fashionable habits.
1t would have an air of arrogance and
a pride of tradition which would be
reminiscent of Europe.
The next country would have more
the air of the newly rich. The coun-
try called the Middle West would be
a hustling land with everybody tramp
ling on everybody else in business
old-fashioned manners during the So
cial hours. Half the people would
talk about how rich they were and
the other half about how rich they
siderable imitation of the manners
and customs of the New England ma
ton but also a careless contempt OF
eastern effeminacies.
The nation called the South would
be strange land to the Traveller. He
would find a new world in which peo-
pie lived and thought almost as tho
they dwot on another planet. In the
South he would find the greatest dif-
ferences of speech and manner.
There, too. he would find a good deal
Of tradition and old world mannerisV.s
but so thoroly altered by native con-
dltions as to represent neither Europe
nor New England while partaking of
some things of~both. Our ina ginary
traveller would be convinced that the
New England nation has either COM
1uered some territory or established
in a few places in the South.
At Birmingham he would wonder how
northern industry could place such an
Island in the midst OF the Solid South,
and in Louisiana he would wonder
how northern political beliefs con-
such matters as the tariff |
could find so firm a. foothold on
southern soil He might even think |
hat these were still separate and |
additional nations into which he had
strayed.
New Political Ideas in North.
Going north to the Minnesota and /
Dakota country, our traveller would be |
sntirely transplanted. He would find |
new differences of language and much |
altered political ideas. He would find |
l. Nonpartisan League which would |
convince him that this part of the
world had no relation whatever to the |
south.
Taking the long journey across the |
continental divide, the modern Herod- |
,tus would enter a fresh land. Here |
le would find even the ,pretense of |
gone. He would encounter |
he downright statement that he was
n a different country with different |
both foreign and domestic |
lust as in Middle West he had found |
new capital city at Chicago; in the |
South a separate capital city at Rich |
nond-or perhaps he might suspect |
New Orleans of the honor-and in |
he North. a capital city at Minneapo- |
is he would find that San Francisco |