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Show eeVERRORS' TRAIN REJlClifSjfiSdO CHICAGO, Nov. 28. Whero does the east end and the west begin? ThiB question arose today with tho arrival In Chicago of governors of seven western states, wno, starting from St Paul, are to make a 4,000-miio 4,000-miio trip on a "campaign of education." educa-tion." Governor Haw ley of Idaho thinks the west begins at Pittsburg, "becauso "be-causo most oi the people east of thoro know more about Europe than they do abou the woctern states." Governor Burke of North Dakota thinks the cast stops at the Mississippi; Missis-sippi; Governor Carey ot Wyommg thinks It extends as far west as Kansas Kan-sas City, and Governor West of Oregon Ore-gon contends that the eastern spirit is lodged as far toward tho Pacific as Denver. "Technically, Kansas City is the dividing line between the east and tho west," declared James H. Brady, former for-mer governor ot Idaho, in charge nt the party. "Commercially and socially, social-ly, I am inclined to think the eaat ends at Pittsburg. It is a doplorablo fact that the people of tho east are less informed about the west than they are about Europe. Patriotically, there is no east and west, for wo are all one great country; but the fact romains that tho commercial interests inter-ests of the east are too much Isolated from the west. This is why. wo are starting on this educational campaign cam-paign to induce easterners to open their eyes to the vast opportunities of the sunset country." Land-hungry city people hoard tho "lure of the west" from the governors : today. From their arrival on a special spe-cial train until their departure lato i tonight for Kalamazoo, Mich., the gov- fffJ ernors were given opportunities to ex- 'J plolt their individual states and ex- ii hlbit the five carloads of products ift which thoj are carrying with them. Rr Escorted to Chicago's annual land ijjf show, whero the reddert apples, the Rj biggest potatoes and the heaviest H wheat on record wore held up as ob B ject lessons, the governors vied with Bj each other in support of the admlnl- Wu tion, "Go west, young "man." . Hj "But one warning I want to give," H said Governor Veasey of South Dako- R ta, speaking at a banquot tonight to H tho governors by the Chicago AesocI- Hi ation of Commerce. "The west is no p place for the lazy man. If you tell a M1 blockhead ho ought to go west and . & make his fortune, you are giving him RH a wrong tip It requires keen wit, a Bl relentless energy and fortitude against iNi many hardships to win success in the 1X1 west. Fortupr- are there in plenty, MB but thej do not lie ready made on the sround. They must be fought for wt an 1 due; for, and tills fighting and dig- 59 glng against odds are what make the X strong, hardy citizens of whom tho ml west Is composed." Wk At the banquet, at which all tho X" governors and other representatives f of states were welcomed by Governor U1 Deneen, form Governor Brady pointed Mi out: , 1ft "The uncqunl distribution of tho ' fc population of the country," ho said, Vjj "show the states represented on this h tour, with on-third of the total ar"i. j Sir have only 5.000 000 population, -while jG the other two-thirds of the countrv ,; Jit has 85 000.000 The governors hoped, , (V; he said, to shift tbp population wst- IJ ward, especially with reference to Ira- ' lai migrants. . gKu |