Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-22

States more closely together, the sim
Infamous development of q variety Of
interests has partially offset and q
point has been reached where the term,
O citizen of the United States, is not
a narrow identification. The fact is
that the United States comprises a
number OF nations. the people of some
OF which are as different from those
OF others as though they belonged to
foreign nations.
Industrial development has brought
this about and high railroad rates are
lntenslfylng 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 10 gulf was all
one political domain. Assume that he
travels all over the United States,
talks with the people and becomes ia
miliar with their ways of life and
opinions, but by some trick or con-
spiracy is prevented from learning
that he has spent his time all under
Ii flag. In all probability he would
tell you that he had visited five ma
tions, some OF which showed much
similarity while others were quite di-
verse.
Among the five separate countries
which he would 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 a 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 approximately the
one-time confederacy. For the fourth
country he would discover a strange
new land for which he would be at a
loss to find a name. It would be the
territory embracing the northwestern
states such as Minnesota. the Dako-
tas. Montana, Idaho and perhaps Iowa
and Nebraska. The fifth country
would be the Pacific coast.
Our imaginary traveller would find a
general similarity of language but by
no means an identical language in
these five nations. Indeed. he might
find that a native of New England
would have no little difficulty in IN
~derstanding the every day colloqnlal
language Of q North Carolinian. All
nations would write an almost identical
language. but each would have a dis
tinct spoken tongue which would con-
firm the traveller in his belief that he
visited various countries.
Industrial Differences
The traveller would find that the
fundamental differences which differ
entiated the five nations were indus
trial. 4 nation is formed by its inter
ests and comes 10 think along lines
dictated by its material well-being. Its
politics invariably are governed by
such matters as manufacturers and
soft
The most compact and self-suffic-
lent of the five nations which the
imaginary traveller would visit would
be the New England and Atlantic
Coast nation. It's capital would be
New York and it's people would have
almost wholly industrial interests. It
would be a country Of careful man
ners. of luxurious living. Of fashiona-
BILE habits. It would have III 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 III business
hours. but with rather homely and old
fashioned manners during the social
hours. Half the people would talk
about how rich they were and the
other half about how rich they were
going to be. There would be consid-
cradle imitation of the manners and
customs Of the New England nation
but also a careless contempt of east
ern e~ffetninacies.
The nation called the South would
be a strange land to the traveller.
He would find q new world in which
people lived and thought almost as
though they dwelt on another planet.
In the South he would find the great
est differences of speech and manne
There. TOO. he would find a good deal
of tradition and old world mannerisms,
but so thoroughly altered by native
conditions as to represent neither
Europe nor New England while par
taking of some things of both Our
imaginary traveller would be convinced
that the New England nation has
either conquered ONE territory or es-
tablished colonies in Il 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 po-
iLlcdf DtiIplS tbIiCtt IlIs SAEH lIidLLsLS
ms the tariff could find so firm a foot
hold on southern soil. lie might ever
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 entirely transplanted. He would
find new differences Of language and
much altered political ideas. He would
find a 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-
otus would enter a fresh land. Here
he would find even the p%retense of
solidarity gone. He would encounter
the downright statement that he was
in Il different country with different
policies both foreign and domestic. Just
lis in Middle West he had found n new
capital city at Chicago; III the South
u separate capital city at Richmond
or perhaps he might suspect New
Orleans of the honor-and in the
North. Il capital city At Minneapolis.
he would find that San Francisco was
the capital Of the Pacific coast. Not
in his entire wanderings would he find
that Washington was capital of amy Of
the five nations. That. he would dis
cover. merely was the headquarters of
the American league of nations.
In New England he would find Il