The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-22
FROM UTAH TO NICE.
A Brief Description Of the
. Interesting Trip. a ~.
PLACES OF RENoWN VISITED
Among the Irish, Scotch, English,
French, Germans and Italians
III "A Varied Experience.

/ NICE, April 80 Especial Correspond
ence of The hERALD.l-lt is not
an easy task to summarize in
one letter, our varied experiences since
we left Salt Lake City. nearly two
years ago. The more We have travelled
the fonder has grown our attachment
for our own mountain home, and
stronger becomes the hope of returning
to it, to divide the pleasures of our re-
manning days between memories of all
that we have seen away from it and the
enjoyment of the domestic surround
ings in the land where We were born.
We crossed the broad Atlantic, ex-
periencing, like all landsmen, its
mighty unheavals. and the upheavals
of our stomachs, in the varied days Of
storm and sunshine. suffering and
relief, the latter being most effective
when We landed in Queenstown
Thence we went to Cork; thence to the
beautiful lakes Of Killarney; thence to
Dublin, Londonderry and the Giants
Causeway. Then we skirted the eastern
coast of Ireland in iauniing-ca to
Belfast. ..t a.s-.-t.. 3d.
Wesaw a great deal of Ireland. and
of the Irish people. all of whom live
under the same laws, but all not equally
content. We could not understand the
Irish question. Nobody can under
stand II. But we lock around and see
rich land in the south poor land in the
north. Catholics on the good land,
Protestants on the poor land, those
who are more favored by nature asking
for home rule because they are op-
pressed; those to whom nature is most
unkind, satisfied with their condition
under the crown; the discontinued, the
most ignorant, the contented the best
informed. We have formed an opinion
and you are atliberty to do the same.
at Belfast, We took the steamer TOR
Glasgow; sailed up the once romantic,
the now practical Clyde; passed the
Dumbsrton Rock that was thrown by
the devil after st. Patrick when he
Il, ade his escape into Ireland, and then
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by the music of steam and machinery.
We saw Glasgow and took little coast
steamer to Oban, then by coach to
Inverary, then through the Trossachs
and Loeb KatriDe to Edinboro, then
down through farms and manufactur-
ing towns to London. In English par
lance. we should say ''up to London"
Well, we rather like the English peo-
pie. We ought to like them. We de-
seconded from them. We cameover here
to get liberty, but we left great deal
of liberty behind. England is more
free than America to-day, because trade
is unrestricted. We rebelled against
her because she tax I'd US on tea for the
benefit of her king. and now we tax
ourselves on about 2, 600 articles for the
benefit of some OF our own domestic
tyrants. - A+
We took the steamer to Rotterdam,
and went up the Rhine. Somebody has
already described it. We went to Ham.
burg, Bremen. Lubec. Berlin, Dresden,
and other German cities to Carlsbad,
Kissingen and other watering places.
We did not like Germany over much.
We could not speak the language or
eat the food, and we could not compete
with the people in drinking beer. IL is
double despotism. The Emperor rules
the people with a rod of iron, and Bis
msrcklrules the Emperor with another
rod of iron. They are taxed to death,
and get nothing in return. They are
getting over their love for Fatherland.
they want to emlgrate to the United
States, where they will be taxed all the
same, but will have better opportunities
for labor, because We are not over
r,tf II
come. They make good citizens, and
become thorough Americans. They
want but one country, when they get
here. They are not like tbs Irish, who
want two. and call themselves Ameri-
cans, but are still Irish.
Then we went to Erance-to Paris
that is France. All France centers
there. 1t is the heaven of the French
man. 1t is also his hell. All pleasure
abounds; all misery abounds. Govern
ments are there made and uumade
Revolutions for the whole country re-
volve on its axis. The Quasi republic
holds its own to-day. It Is vastly more
extravagant and corrupt than was the
Second Empire. Lately, Boulanger
fioated to the surface on It's scum. Now
he is under water. Tomorrow, some
other adventurer may be or top. If The
young Prince had not been killed in
Africa. he might now have been Napo-
leon Nv.
Socially. we like the French. They
are not very sincere but they are ex-
ceedingly polite. Politeness goes far,
even If it does not come from the heart.
AS soldiers they are surpassed by the
Germans; as cooks they are unsur.
passed by men of any nation. I have
no use for soldier: have great use
for cook. Therefore, l like the French
man more than the German.
My,wite says. she could never get
dress dscently fitted in ENGLAND or in
Germany, but a French n1odi$te can
make, the dress to fit a woman's form or
she can make the woman's form to fit
the dress, which Is all the same thing.
Therefore. she likes the French woman,
l like the French woman. too. / like to
nave her fit me to gloves. American
ladies prefer to accompany their hus-
bands when they buy gloves.
We ran down to Marseilles, that old
city OF the south built before the Chris.
tian era, passing on our way and
stopping for a day or two at Lyons.
Al