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Show B PROVINCIAL PREJUDICES. B in the current Review of Reviews are two B most interesting articles from the pen of John A. B Wise, on the late General Longstreet and the lato B General Gordon, who both died last month. In B Wie sketch on General Longstreet the writer B speaks of certain petty prejudices entertained by B Longstreet and says: B "It is difficult to locate the origin of his preju- B dice against what he frequently deprecated as the B 'Virginian influence.' But he had it as distinctly B as did Aaron Burr in the time of Washington. B Possibly it grew out of the old line-and-staff B controversy which existed in the army between B Scott and Taylor, when Scott was charged with B working In the Interest of the Virginians. Pos- B slbly it had its origin further back, In a feeling B which has always existed, to a certain extent, B among a certain class in the South, south of Vlr- B glnla, that the Virginians considered themselves better than anybody else." Well, Virginians are great chaps at sitting on logs, whittling sticks and telling their pedigrees But they are different dif-ferent only in degree from the men of other states. The Boston-bred man has to spend a good many years outside of Massachusetts before he ceases to pity everybody who was not born in Boston. To him there are no other such beans as Boston baked beans, no brown bread like Boston brown bread. Is not the air filled with Emerson and Longfellow and Hawthorne halos? It Is not long since the writer heard a native of Missouri declare that there was no other spot comparable in beauty with Pike county. Is there to a New Yorker any other place that should be mentioned on the same day with New York City? Has anybody ever failed to note the look on a genuine Kentucklan's face when the horses, whisky or women of any other county were spoken of approvingly? It is just as bad with the Texans, while any reference to superior men in any state save South Carolina, will make a South Carolinian want to denounce the statement and to hold himself him-self "personally responsible" for his attitude. The same spirit is alive everywhere, even in New Jersey, Jer-sey, while the genuine Ohio man, no matter how he may seek to conceal the fact, always has the same feeling about Ohio as had Bill Briggs of Missouri when he wagered $160, his last cent, that St. Louis was the biggest city in the world. And then Chicago; but no matter. JDne of these days when transportation is increased and fares are cheaper, men will get over their provincialisms and grow out of their narrowness. The estima- ' tion by Eastern people of the men of the West has a fixed belief in the East, it is an immense joke in the West. Every Eastern boy and girl, the minute they get out of school, should be compelled to spend six months in the West, and be compelled to keep moving until he or she should drop on tj lH the fact that the narrow horizon of childhood L IBI should be broadened. Why, even Grover Cleve- , I fl land is not much ahead; of Nat Goodwin, who H says, "One can live in New York City. When M they leave that city they camp out." fa B The prejudice and provincialisms, we suspect, V. LLU are entirely natural. The same "I am better than thou" trait is often seen in the animals. The stag- B hound by instinct goes out to run down and kill a coyote, and yet the original stock of the wolf B was as good as was that of the hound. ' Has not ' B the cockatoo a contempt which it shows when it meets a bird with only plain colors on? The birds B and beasts can not be educated out of their be- B liefs, but men and women should be, for it all B comes of Ignorance. When the Virginians ar- B rested old Ossawatomle Brown, they execrated' B him as a fiend, one of the scum of the earth. B When his trial came on they took off their hats jH in admiration and awe of a simple soul that looked B down from an infinite distance upon them, with B only pity for their hate, and walked to an ignomin- H ious death with a serenity and calmness which re- B vealed a heroism that neither death nor the grave H could daunt. |