Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — Abusing Western People. [ARTICLE]

Abusing Western People.

The New York Tribune, edited by Jay Gould’s hired popinjay and snob, “Little Breeches” Hay, has been disturbed by the presence of some Western people in tnat city, and regardless of the fact that the Tribune receives a large share of its patronage from the neople of the West, assails them in a tirade of pot-house abuse. Let Western people read the following, and then say whether it deserves any more of their support: “Many visitors from the West have been seen in the streets of late. Their jaiment and their manners have marked them as not of the people of New York. They can be daily seen flattening their noses against store windows,writing letters oh hotel paper in the reading rooms of the various hotels, admiring the animals in Central Park, button-holing the police to learn the ‘sights’ of the city, and gazing in open-mouth wonderment at the Coney Island cows. Generally speaking, the male of the species is characterized by a railway guide, clothes that have been slept in, and a shockingly bad hat. “The female is given to linen dusters, lunch baskets and guide books of New York. Thus equipped, they are to be seen on the cars and boats in and around the city, from a very early hour in the morning until other fowls have long gone to roost. Of late they have become übiquitous. They have swarmed like the seven-year locusts, which they resettable in voracity and noise. Famine and tobacco juice mark their path. ■ The hordes that appear daily on Broadway have caused redoubled vigilance on the part of shop keepers and policeman. Who and what the were was at first a mystery. “But it was noticed that their number began to increase rapidly after passenger rates were cut. An investigation of hotel registers and careful study ot the subject disclosed the fact that these eager pilgrims are the unsophisticated children of the West. The Chicagoese, whose diamonds flash in the eyes of dazzled and bewildered New Yorkers, have invaded the city. Likewise the solemn citizens of 8L Louis are here, each clinging to the garb and ideas of his grandfather, together with the sleek pork packers of Cincinnati, and ague-smitten, whisky-drinking sight-seers from the river bottoms of various Western States. Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Kansas City, and Texas send delegations which swell the vagrant multitude.