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Show BIQ MAILS FROM THE WEST. Members or CoiigrM rroin Itojrontl Ilia Mltslolppl Get the Moil Latter. It Is Interesting to note tho striking differences In amount nnd degree that characterize tho correspondence of representatives from different sections of tho country, says tho Washington Star. The mall of representatives from tho New England and South Atlantic At-lantic states Is comparatively light, that of representatives from the middle states Is moderate, or "from fair to middling," nnd that of the western, northwestern and southwestern states Is exceedingly heavy, In other words, it cccms that thu pcoplo of the older states, particularly of tho thirteen original states, which had their existence exist-ence before tha union was established, loan but lightly upon tho federal government gov-ernment und hnvo but fovv wants to exprcEn In correspondence to their representatives nt Washington, while residents of the newer states, whose stuto governments wero erected simultaneously with their admission Into thu union, nre npt to look to Wnshington for nearly everything they want. In tho old states along the Atlantic seaboard tho people by Instinct In-stinct nnd tradition rely upon thorn-helves thorn-helves and upon their ctutc jrovcrn-incuts, jrovcrn-incuts, whilo in tho lator admitted stnt's, cspjclally thoso beyond Illinois t. 11 north, south nnd vew.t, ns for ex-uiiplo ex-uiiplo Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri, tho people nppcur by custom to bo moro dependent upon tho general government. Particularly Is this tho enso In states where conditions of acute unrest and dissatisfaction prevail pre-vail from industrial or financial causes. There tho pcoplo hnvo become habitually clamorous in their demands upon congressmen to procure them pensions, rustcnanec nnd situations, to remedy nnd redress their wrongs, real or Imagined, to ilfrliteii their bunions, to mltl;atc their woes nnd to do othor things by legislation and influence at Washington which can only bo douo by tho exertion of Individual effort and independence. Again, on the other hand, tho southern people in the main bother their congressman very little by writing letters. |