The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-26

| reverend A. ID. Mayo, OF Boston, IN
sermon delivered at All Saints Church
during the past winter, held that Wash
ington City, with its manifold educa
tional advantages, was in itself ma
tional university. Despite these Cd
great statesmen, of oratorical flights. OF
! the ready and the keen debate, of the
interchange of ideas and sentiments
from all parts of great nation, how
few are more than average in learning
The standard of intelligence has by nc
means, the appearance of being above
that of cities nothing like as favored
1t all tends to convince one of the fact
that there is not only poetry but deep
truth contained in the couplet:
The lovely toy so fercely sought
Hath lost its charm,by being caught.
Deprive these people of the rare ad-
vantages they possess, take from them
these things which they do not appreci-
ate enough to think of now, and they
life itself depended upon their restOra-
ton, yet possessing, the people rarely
use them. Were it not for strangers,
the probabilities are that these places of
such marvellous interest, SO wonderfully
suggestive, would find visitors about as
plentiful as chicken teeth. Were a
tremendous volcano to bury this city
and it should be lost for ages, to be dis
covered by great future race, that race
would, doubtless, enthuse on the gen.
eral and great intelligence and learning
of the people by whom these places had
been established and sustained. and
what powerful lot of blithering idiots
this future race would be to entertain
such a notion. The finding of these
places, if the truth were known, would
prove that big government paid out
immense sums of money for the estab-
lishment and maintenance of these
superb institutions, about which neither
the Senators norR representatives., nor
the people. nor any save few green
bottle-spectacled specialists, knew,
ever expected to know, or ever expected
their children to know an internal
thing.
/ have often heard it asserted upon
historical authority, that the lower
races partake of the intelligence of
those more intelligent races among
whom they mingle, or associate with
more or less. The evidences here do
not seem to Justify the assertion. The
negroes still keep on acting and talking
and feeling just like niggers, notwith-
standing their association with the ma
tional solons-some one has called them
"perambulating saloons" = and the
more refined and intelligent white
trash generally. The reverse of this
rule seems to be the more reasonable.
ALI persons must have seen, often, de-
cidede tendncy on the part of whites,
where they come in contact with ne
groes, to adopt the negro idioms, modes
of expression, manners OF pronounelng,
and even mannerisms, while there is
rarely to be noted corresponding yield
ing on the part of the blacks to the ways
and approved and patented methods of
the whites.
From early morn till darkness sets ia,
the streets are filled with carts, wagons,
and men crying in dreary and heart
rending tones "co-o-o-alI'' mice bn-a-a-
as" (bananas); "aplsen orgs!" (apples
and oranges;) "ra-a-as!' (rags;)
"brels su men!" umbrellas to mend;)
"oyst," (oysters), etc., etc. The tones
of the hawkers or fakirs are clear and
resonant and they fill the daily air with
fullness of sound thatwould make B.
B. Young envious. Men with suspend
pencils, pocket books; red handker-
chiefs, toy balloons, and there's your
fine gold watch and chain, only 10
centsm assault you on every corner.
Negroes loudly and miserably dressed,
negro boys cutting up levee antics,
bicyclists and tri-cyclists floating in all
directions. Washington is the paradise
of the lover of the brand the tri-cycle),
make an ever-changing and not unpleas-
ing picture. Anegro with hand cart
represents the 'Swiss Laundry" The
streets are ever filled with people. Penn
sylvania (the) avenue, is to Washing
ton what Broadway is to New York, and
Baltimore to the city of the same name.
Yet Washington is beautiful city.
Its broad, well-paved streets, the in
Vulnerable churches, the magnificent
public buildings, its fine avenues, its
fountains, parks, statues, the moss
springing up under the trees, houses
completely buried beneath a profusion
of creeping vines, parks filled with
wealth of many hued and radiant
flowers, roses blooming in December
and fading and dying before they can
wither, moss growing fresh and green
in the chinks between the brick pave
ments, the evidences of the permanent
prosperity of a young, yet powerful
nation. all tend, despite the discourag-
ing reflections that force themselves
occasionally upon one, to fill the mind
with pleasant thoughts and form a
picture, sweet and radiant, which none
but fools would seek to destroy.
WANDERER.