The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-24
DRY UP.
SALT LAKE CITY, April %. 1850.
Editors Herald:

SALT LAKE CRY, April %. 1850.
Editors Herald:
l am sorry you have let down th
bars again to this eternal WraDgl
about nationality. I think sucE
que.tions the leas! interesting OF 81
public matters. How much better i
tee so-cslled true born EDglishmsr
than any other man from Grea
Britain? Certainly he can claim NJ
merit tor being born there. He hac
no control over the matter, and car
not possibly brag about such AL
event. If it is 90 great an honor to
be born in that country it must be
almost a calamity to be born else
where. A native born American
ought to sing small when the great
true born EDglishman comes IN sight.
Much more should the recreant Eng
lishman who forsWesrs all allegiance
10 Queen Victoria. fortunately for
the high-toued true born he surely
cannot have proved recreant to such a
glorious Colntry and given up all
hopes of helping to maintain British
honor either 10 Southern Africa or in
the East Indies by Offering himself as
target 10 the enemies OF Old Eug-
land. On, mol He is too loyal. too
patriotic, for such course.
Now il you have gone back" on
your cherished and ideal country, do
as Sandy" says. give US a rest on the
transcenGant merits OF Old England.
II England is not going down, then.
to accommodate you, | viii say il Is
going up" and if | may credit the
statements of many of my acuuaint-l
ances who have been there since
True Born" l Gm compelled to be-
lieve one or the other. | will allow
True Born to believe that during the
great civil war in America, England |
knew an unparalleled season of pros
perity, and that some of the manu-
featuring localities know a good share |
of activity now but these are only
local and not general. With the
agsinet England, of import
instead of export, it does nCs require
a great mathematician to say that a
country will decay if such a System is
1t will break up Utah
Or any other section as sure as it will
Old England, but it may tsk9 a long
time. Now as to matter of tramps
and unemployed men in America, it
s not difficult to account for the fact
when we look at the great numbers of
rue born Englishmen and other re.
of European nationali-
les who arrive in the eastern seaports
Tally. America cannot take them to
Ter bosom and make millioDaires of
hem III few weeks. This is also
he reason why California is overdone
With surplus population.
Mr.. True Born is well up in the
'oets and 1 take pleasure in quoting
he well known lines from Pope
Honor ard shame from no condition
rise,
Act well your part, there all the honor
lies"
Now in. conclusion I would mildly
az to him, if your condition has
'een bettered By the transition from
he old world 10 the new, do not 20 it
lind when you write about Old !
England, for the man who will stand /
y and see the land of his adoption
aIsely abused is as recreant to sound !
principles Of honor az he who falsely /
buses the land of his birth. Your {
a l., I ~ |
f your adoption is not. II is the
atural thing to do when man finds
country too small for him 20 get out !
( 1t which True Born may possibly J
ave done. If your condition is i'm a
roved by the change, for your own G
redit stand up for this great and {
Iorious country where the only faulty i
hing is man,
YANKEE DOODLE.