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ieal  differences  between  the  Eastern  and  Western 
points  of  view.  The  East  is  conservative  and.  as  a 
section,  rich  and  money-lending.  Six  or  more  gen¬ 
erations  have  given  us  fixed  habits  of  thought,  and 
drilled  us  into  strong  prejudices  and  fear  of  radical 
changes.  We  now  have  a  large  number  of  people 
who  have  never  made  any  profit  through  their  own 
labor,  but  depend  for  most  of  their  living  on  the* 
income  from  inherited  money — most  of  which  is 
invested  with  large  corporations  which  have  been 
greatly  favored  by  special  privilege.  Such  people, 
especially  when  they  come  to  middle  age,  ami  must 
care  for  an  expensive  family,  are  perhaps  the  worst 
political  cowards  that  the  country  can  show. 
Four  years  ago  many  of  this  class  and  others  fol¬ 
lowed  Mr.  Roosevelt  out  of  the  Republican  party,  in 
an  honest  protest  against  what  they  thought  was 
fraud  and  injustice.  At  first  they  thought  they  were 
doing  just  what  the  old  Whigs  did  when  they  found¬ 
ed  tlie  Republican  party,  but  when  they  came  to 
think  it  all  out  they  knew  that  they 
simply  followed  a  favorite  leader, 
~  ■  i— .1  and  did  not  really  want  to  destroy 
^<7^3  the  old  party.  So  when  Roosevelt 
S'  'vent  back  into  the  party  the  old 
/£Z*r\  discipline  prevailed,  and  they  went 
back  with  him.  They  wore  not 
//  vF  A  fully  satisfied,  but  they  went  back 
to  camp.  Not  understanding  the 
Western  point  of  view  they  sup- 
rfSN'*.  posed  that  all  “Progressives"  were 
^  ^  alike. 
The  election  simply  proved  them 
wrong.  The  West  is  not  old  enough 
to  have  taken  on  the  conservative 
jfp'  “*  habits  and  party  discipline  of  the 
East.  It  has  been  a  debtor  section, 
/f])  and  feels  that  it  has  played  into 
the  hands  of  Ihe  manufacturers 
and  money-lenders  of  the  East.  As 
yet  there  are  but.  few  of  the  class 
svf  of  people  who  have  for  one  or  two 
generations  lived  on  the  income  of 
:  >£5»3s.i  money  which  others  worked  for. 
^  The  average  New  Englander  talks 
mostly  of  the  past  and  what  has 
come  out  of  it  for  him.  The  av¬ 
erage  man  of  the  West  lives  in  a 
section  which  has  little  in  its  past 
to  concern  him.  Thus  he  is  con- 
rftgL  /”*\  cerned  more  with  the  future,  and 
^  bis  section  has  not  yet  settled  into 
■  ■  -  hard-shelled  habits  of  thought  or 
action.  The  West  is  willing  to  ex¬ 
periment  in  politics — the  East  is 
the  opening  day  and  about  as  many  the  following  more  of  what  they  call  “safe  and  sane.” 
day.  The  land-owners'  main  consolation  is  that  Now,  it  appears  from  our  letters  from  Western 
the  hunters  as  a  group  are  paying  a  pretty  good  farmers,  when  Mr.  Hughes  was  nominated  the  ITo- 
price  for  shooting  his  wild  live  stock.  c.  n.  f.  gressives  all  understood  that  no  true  nroaressive 
Who  Is  Game  to  Fight  the  Game  Laws? 
What  Redress  Has  a  Farmer  ? 
T~M>R  the  last  few  days  I  have  been  pondering 
CooDB V6-  1  Khovj  i’m  Taking 
erf  UFe  IM  MT  MANP5,  BUT 
I .  MuSi".  Co  Oonmo  <kTo  The 
1  M6AOOVM  AMO  Mas  TmE  COWS 
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“  What  Ailed  the  Western  States” 
“ The  Progressive  Movement” 
No.  3. 
ET  us  say  once  more  that  these 
articles  are 
'  not  written  to  make  any  political  argument,  but 
only  to  give  the  facts  about  a  social  revolution 
which  lias  been  working  out  in  the  States  West 
of  the  Missouri  River.  We  have  seen  how  “pros¬ 
perity  and  the  money  question”  decided  many  votes. 
The  actual  deciding  factor  seems  to  have  been  that 
fierce,  unreasoning  desire  to  be  politically  free 
which  has  come  to  he  known  in  polities  as  “pro¬ 
gressive.”  Apparently  many  Eastern  voters  “pro¬ 
tested”  four  years  ago,  but  at  heart  were  glad  of 
an  excuse  to  get  back  into  their  old  party.  The 
Western  men  were  more  serious.  They  went  out 
into  open  mutiny,  and  simply  refused  to  come  back. 
To  understand  this  we  must  understand  the  rad- 
One  .  town  in  Franklin 
County,  Mass.,  issued  near¬ 
ly  COO  hunters’  licenses  at 
.$1  each.  As  not  more  than 
15  deer  were  ever  bagged 
there  in  a  season,  it  is  plain 
that  not  more  than  one 
hunter  in  40  can  expect  to 
get  anything  besides  the 
exercise,  and  each  deer 
would  represent  about  $40 
paid  by  the  hunters.  It 
might  be  cheaper  to  buy 
venison  at  the  market  price. 
The  whole  State  has  been 
overrun  by  men  and  boys 
Cox’s  Orange  Pippin.  Fig.  598.  See  page  1537 
