Show THE LAWLESS EAST It has been 1 a favorite topic of Eastern writers to pretend great horror of the lawless and the rowdy West and all the changes of denunciation and scorn have been rung on that theme And there have been occasions and events In the West which gave opportunIties opportu-nIties for hat kind of talk there have been times when some people and some localities have in a way lived up to their reputation But ao a rule therq has been excuse more or less feeble for what was done it has been easy to Bee why the thing was done In the East however horrors come upon communities by tho display of the awless spirit that have no apparent ex Cuss much less Justlficatlpn Take the celebration of the late Fourth Of July for Instance In the West there Was the nuisance of noise and there was whiskydrinking tome fights and some i people hurt Yn private quarrels But nowhere that wo have heard of was i there wanton destruction of valuable private property In order to how the popular Joy at the anniversary of the establishment of a new Nation whose cornerutone was the liberty of man and the preservation and enforcement of 1 personal rights Nowhere was a town made unsafe tP life because of the zeal of reckless people who rejoiced that men i had been declared to have the right to lire liberty and the pursuit of happiness i happi-ness Nowhere was tho safety of a whole community put in Jeopardy In honor pf the proposition that the public safety must be Jealously guarded But In Western Massachusetts as we learn from a late number of the Springfield Spring-field Republican till these things happened hap-pened At Palmer an old business block and four barns were burned In the exuberance ex-uberance of patriotic fervor At Worcester the Telegram quoted Sher mans War Is hell as a fit description of the night before the Fourth 6f July In Worcester The rough clement had everything Its own way and as the light advancgd matters vent from bad to worse when the effects of liquor made some of the ringleaders entirely oblivious of the rights of everybody as well as of safety of property says the Worcester paper there wore no retraining re-training Influences of any description And It declares that a persons life was lot safe on Main street and It is great good fortune more serious and fatal accidents ac-cidents were not recorded The utter abandon with which firearms and pow rful explosives of all descriptions were used was enough to make anybody familiar fa-miliar with such things shudder It Is a horror of reckless and perilous din and peril that the paper presents one which would not for a moment be tolerated In my fairly wellgoverned city of the West It causes one naturally to inquire in-quire whether or not there was any mu ilclpal l government In Worcester and If so whore were the police The Eastern public must have become enamored of the fancy pictures drawn by ignorant Eastern writers on lawless rant and riot In the West and set out to outdo the vildest times ever written about |