| Show j r W 4 K 7 I 1 cu atil i T v epst 1 sin nou boar and aad others know latas of I Us it people or senator hoar of hag baa one great weakness which Is common to men eu of ills his location cation loi and habits of life ilfe his horizon Is bounded by the allegheny MOUntS mountains IDL he has never beau west of chicago chicag and has seldom strayed as tar far away from home as buffalo or pittsburg he knows no more of western life and methods and progress than th nn it if he be lived in the center of england and whenever western people differ from him in sentiment he charitably believes it ft Is because they have not had his advantages of association with the faculty of harvard college ll 11 and other h wise and learned men in boston if all the people of the earth could enjoy moral and intellectual contact with the better sentiment of massachusetts that has been his birthright mr hoar would be very thankful but having been deprived of that blessed privilege they cannot differ from him in opinion without being entirely wrong mr hoar inherited this feeling from charles sumner it may surprise the readers of the record to learn that so good a man as the secretary of the navy and so good a man as the secretary of the interior have never been in the west mr bliss went w ent to omaha with the president last october and learned a great many things secretary long has not even had that advantage and d had never been south of the potomac river until he accompanied the president on his recent journey to georgia it would be to the public welfare if congress should make an appropriation to send mr hoar and other new england statesmen on a tour of observation through the central and western states it would add immensely to their usefulness and modify many of their views chicago record |
