Show CURATE CLIMATE AND CHARAC not net long since a paper suggested that the special pedal characteristics of western people which eastern papers affected to regard as aa ridiculous or as having a visionary tendency in ca and industrial matters was wai not a temporary craze 00 to be overcome in time by the sentiments sentiment and manners of the east but a permanent condition due in groat great measure to we the climatic influences which prevailed west of the MissI on the groat great blaim in the ricky mountains and on the pacific slope this latter proposition has called forth till still further farther ridicule buttee bat the detroit new trib une takes the kansas assertion up op sod declares there is vo DO joke about it that there to la not a particle oart lole of non etesse la in the theory of climate to so account for the difference of the views view of life people have after they take up op their residence beyond the mississippi it alleges as a solemn well authe agthe ill fact that climatic conditions of the far east and the far west of this country are so BO dif different forent that the he sections aeo tiona must produce widely different tempered people it Is says baya the active acs consciousness of thin tata remarkable climatic effect upon temperament and spirits and views view of life long have been a phenomenon of western life that the feeling of et change to the moo most rr quent topic of remark tar for the he first year or two among people who remove to the dry climate of the sippi regi re gioni ont that no man ever re moved rom the at to spend a year on the dakota plains without ba the aus m that hat the abe air was wae heavily charged with nitrous oxide that he la in as aa cons clout of the active exhilaration as aa he be ecula be with the breathing of any intoxicant and that hat it to 1 simply imply imp amible thab the contact with this environment should work no change upon the organism org aniam it asserts that people neither think not act to tn such a oil cli mate teate aa way they did when they breathed barrels barrel of water dally daily in a changeful climate wat hat mento menta processes sees in the west are more rapid and consequently convictions are forced more rapidly than in the east that the chronic exhilaration of the be west leat is a fact otano and no joke and that it Is must have its permanent influence on thought and character is a fact and no joke thus we have it that the ex hil of western climate in its fidot upon physical and mental conditions places the dwellers in abia part of the continent far ahead ot of what they would have bare been la in the earlier settled portions of the country or in the old world in that which pertains to progressive development ol of the human race arguing from this thin promise premise li it to Is not far to the cono lusto 0 that to in a few generations the ruling power ot of the nation will be to in the west by sheer force of intellect developed under the most favorable climatic condit conditions ionis existing un on this mundane sphere |