The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-03
Early Visions of Ship Life
Dlspelled.
OLD AND NEW WORLD PAPERS.
Comparisons of Journalism in Great
Britain with American News
paper Making.
CRAwFoRDsBURN.
COUNTY Down, IRELAND.
April 18th, 1885.

waste, anu JueI1 tllo uliu OubllilCo "
distant mountains. An ocean voyage
teaches a fellow one thing: that the
beauties of the mighty deep" never
become apparent until land is in sight
I searched long and industrioasly fol
the shaggy MAN," for the white caps
the soothing lullaby of the never rest
wave, for the buoyancy of spirit, and
for the variety of desirable sensations
which every poetry-loving soul seeks
and for which all yearn. but l searched
for nine consecutive days in vain, unit
land was in sight and then all l
heard, read and sung foated swiftly
upon me, as the fullness of emotion
floods DER the repentant sinner,
and 1 knew there was an hides
scribable beauty about the ocean-and
it all simmered down to the Joy of see
ing land. The nautical term, LAND lub-
Der, instead OF being an appellation Of
contempt in my eyes, is now an express
sion of fond endearment. The sailor of
my childhood is thing of the pasta
shattered idol-a hollow and knocking
dream. Instead of the sand papered
and powdered deck, resembling the
whiteness of the cheek OF a Salt Lake
beauty, l discovered plain greasy
boards; in place of the spotless trous
ers of the ever-hornpipe-dancing tar;
there WIS., substituted lop-sided. swag-
gering, dirty creatures, dressed in greasy
trousers, greasier Cardigan jackets, and
superlatively greasiest caps. from be-
meath which were not to be seen the
glistening, well-kempt locks, but shaggy
punches of brindle hair. My heart
aches yet with disappointment;
and I brood over the victual money
paid out for the privilege of hearing a
dinner bell three times day, to which
my soul did not respond as to the song
of siren, but to which my internal ap-
pBratus did revolt IN manner which
the Imagination of the reader, given the
fullest scope, can fail to do justice. D
experienced thou art a terrible icOno-
clastl More, far more terrible than
the British custom house officer, when
he gazes upon flask of AA whisky
which ne has discovered hidden in the
leg of stocking, and which was con-
tributed by party by the name of
Neels in New York.
Early teaching and more recent ex-
perience had taught me to look upon
the expression "gall" as having meaning
can, but another disappointment has
overtaken the fancy of youth and laid
it low in the dust; for in some respects
the Simon-pure Johnny Bull purloins
the commissarY department. The ease
with which the average Englishman
disposes of America and American in
situations should be accounted among
the wonders OF modern times. 1t is
strange, but true, that, sound as the
Engiishman is on many subjects-in
fact, on most things-the proverbial
stupidity ofthe jaekass, and the headi-
ness Of the pig, pale into nothing
ness when he touches AnAeri- |
can institutions and American
politics. This does not apply to
those subjects of Britain who have be-
come naturalized Americans. for, boast |
as politicians may of the activity of the |
Irish and of the excellent and admira- |
BILE qualities of the German race when |
Americanized, investigation, am con.
WINGED will prove that there are no |
better American citizens than natural
lied Englishmen, as there are no better
citizens of any government in the world
than English are in there native land;
but the willful ignorance of an Eng
llshman of America and his willingness
to discuss the country without knowing
anything about it, are in such marked
contrast with his customary spirit of
inquiry and fair investigation, as to
cad one TO believe he still inherits
hatred of a government whose founders
lad the temerity to buck against the
parent and give the father a deserved
hrashing. They boast about the in
ititutions CT their own country-and ]
lot without much just pride, it must be
refer to America and
Ter features with a contempt that is
'itiable because of its ignorance. On
'ur vessel there were three Englishmen $
the captain, the purser, and young {
elbow who is employed in America. If G
t hadn't been foi America the captain '
have been getting EGO per @
month; the purser would have been v
ustling for victuals in quarter that I
you'd have required more labor and Il
There the food would have been hardly S
S desirable, while the young English
nan might have been CLARK" to n t
instead of being in position Il
1suring comparative aff1uence. None a
the three had ever been outside of L
lew York, yet they new more about
ne "blarsted' country than all the wise b
aen OF the universe put together. n
The English are a solid people, and b
hey show it in everything. 1t is first
} be seen in their docks; then in their
uildings; then in their Institutions;
hen in their endless manufactures
len in their roads and fields; then in
lie stalky Englishmen himself, and O
lstly, but by no means leastly, in their Il
ewspapers. Solid, is the word. If G
yer you see an attempt at display head Z
mes to an article, it is done in such a ii
ay that you are convinced the attempt fC
viewed with a degree of shame by fl
lose resorting to it. The most impor- h
mt items are showed in the most out p
the way places. Like the makers of
'oks containing select readings, Won T
i've to take the worthless to get that F
hich is desirable, and by this means ii
e adroit publisher forces you to read
e whole, lest you should miss NOR
you desire; but if the idea of solidity
conveyed in the arrangement of the NJ
per and IN its make up, how much 81
ore is it so in reading-the very essence rR
stone-walledness yiaductness is dis to
iyed in the matter An English re- ne
rter would be the profoundest OF M
nerican editors; and an English edi- AL
-ial reads like a scientific treatise on sis
ubject as foreign to an average reader re-