Show WESTERN TREASURES As the various States will make wi summaries sum-maries this morning of their wealth and of the years Increase It t will read so many bushels of corn at so much per bushel so many bushels of wheat at so much per bushel so many bales of cotton at so much per pound etc and not one in a thousand of the people peo-ple of those States will doubt for a moment that their State Is entitled to all the credit not only for the volume of their products of factory and farm but for their value likewise And yet except for that stream of gold which began to flow from the West fifty years ago and that stream of silver which began its flow forty years ago the East would be vegetating still The people would be raising good crops and they would have fair prices for cotton and wheat because they would be the two articles of export but l the rest would not much more than pay for the raising They would not have had one half the rail roads that they nov have and we suspect that in som of the very proud States of the Middle West they would still be burning corn for fuel We do not discount their greatness great-ness we do not discount their power but we think they should always keep in mind that for the great value of their products they should be thankful to the men who in the barren mountains moun-tains and from under the sere robes of the desert have brought forth the treasure which added to the general fund of the Nation has made a volume which has given their products value Their work Is honest and faithful but what they produce Is transitory Much of It lasts only for a year What the West sends them Is imperishable and could the silver that Abraham paid for the land on which to make a sepulcher for Sarah or the gold with which the great temple at Jerusalem was decked be brought to light today it would be found to be just as lustrous just as pure just as indestructible as It was when It was used by 1 the ancient Israelites Israel-ites The East lives from hand to mouth so to speak The West if It does not lay up treasure in heaven produces a treasure which gives a specific spe-cific value to the products of the East |