The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-31

advertisement. Cy. Warman is the poet
and p. DOnan the prOser. There may be-
more than one P. Donan, but there is only
one Col. P. Donan and this. in the intro.
ductory. can be no others song:
But they 1.-THE newspapers are probably
not far wrong in their every season estimate
that hundred thousand Americans annu-
ally make the tour of Europe at an average
expense of at least Thousand dollars each.
That is total of a hundred million dollars.
a year expended by new world people in
familariZing themselves with Old-wOrld
scenes, while, as general thing. they are
wholly unacqua1nted with the infinitely
grander scenes ON their own side of the At
Iantic ferry. In single day of the recent
season eight huge ocean steamers left New
York. bearing nearly three thousand first
cabin passengers for a European summer
tour. Every steamship that sails during
the fashionable outing months goes crowded
with these too often ignorant and snObO-
cratic American vOyagers to foreign lands.
for recreation and pleasure, that could be-
far more easily and cheaply found at home.
How many of them have ever seen the
glories and grardeurs. the beauties and
sublimites of their own matchless land?
them have ever dreamt, that their own
our OWNS incOmparably the grandest
continent on all the globe?
There is urgent need of a constitutional
amendment prohibiting any untutOred
American citizen or citizeness, redOlent Of
pork corners. wheat gOuges, stock swindleS,
and lust struck rich. dirt" inesses. from
going abroad to paralyze the cab drivers
and coffee house walters of effete monarch
les with gllded republican airs until he or
she has seen and learned something of
America. 1t was Byron who. meet
ing one of these typical American tourists
in Florence, eagerly exclaimed: Tell me
of Niagara Falls! Describe your great
shamefacedly confessed he had never seen
the cataractlc wonder of the world, the
poet abruptly turned on his heel and left
him. denouncing as "a ID fOOp' any
man who, without having seen Niagara,
would come from America to Europe to.
sham ecstacy over pigmy mountains and
lakes and rivers. And the lame author of
"Childe Harold" was not too severe.
The more one sees of our majestic half
world-Our continental American republic
the less patience he must have with those
absurd creatures who. every year, flock by
tens of thousands to other lands, while they
nave seen nOtnlng ana Know nOInlng OF
their own. Earth has no other land like
ours. Among all the nationalities and
realms of the globe. columbia. the Gem
of the Ocean," IS peerless. unrivaled and
unavailable, unapproached and unapprOach.
able. We show them half hemi-
sphere, with soils and climates as varied as
the tastes of men. and with capacities for
production as bOundless as the needs Of
men; yielding everything. cereal. vegetable,
animal. textile and mineral, agricultural,
horticultural. geological. geological. pOmO-
logical, piscatorial. and pathological.
Ovine. bovine. capricOrnine and equine,
that all the wants of all the races, tribes,
kindreds and tongues of earth can ever re-
quire. The sun in heaven in all his grand
rounds since 1.-THE evening and the morning
were the first day." never looked down on
more magnificent dOmain-a fresh and
glorious half world, grand in all its proper
lions. and endlessly diversified. rich and
gorgeous in all its adornments. resting like
a vast emerald breastpin upon the bosom of
four great oceans. 1t is the broadcast land
ever given to any people. the grandest and
most beautiful. the most varied in its pro-
auctions, and the most unlimited in it's
capabilities, and its future. Other lands,
surpass it only in age and ruins.