The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-01

spite of the italian, Bohemian and Jew
ish immigrants, it soon becomes clear
/ that a more searching test than the
Mckinley tariff has flung back into
j the Atlantic a deal of ancient history.
The taveler finds that his thoughts
often turn to France, to the vivacious,
/ good-tempered and pleasant people
who take their business and their
amusements gayly; but England he is
a little disposed to forget
AT Washington he sees no Horse
/ Guards; the name would sound ludi-
crous in American ears Uniforms are
out of date; stars and carriers remind
one Of the Seven against Thebes,' or
some other piece of masquerading
iknighthoOd: the judges have thrown off
their absurd wigs, and crippled negro,
carrying a bundle, will walk into the
/ White House and ask President Cleve-
/ land how he has enjoyed his fishing ex-
pedition. In Pennsylvania avenue the
papal legate may be seen waiting
among a crowd of workpeople-bla
white and all shades betWeen-for the
electric car which will take him any
distance on payment of five cents, I'M
less, as is likely, the directors have
given him a free pass. Liberty, in ten
thousand instances, has thus come to
mean equality; and the notable thing
is that everyone likes it.
Where there is no military caste the
divisions of society cannot be stereo-
typed; they are fluid, and melt into one
another. The individual shapes his
own course, takes for granted that he
! is as good as any man that ever won
the prizes of public life, and sets out
with strong resolution to get to the
top. He is member of a peaceful con-
federation which includes forty-four
states and speaks one language from
Maine to Oregon. Wherever he goes he
will feel at home. He is not stranger
at Seattle or Tacoma because he was
raised in Tennessee. Passports, GER
tificates Of domicile. police registration Z?
He can hardly understand how there
should be such things even in Europe,
for to him they have no meaning He
moves to and fro without hindrance;
sets up his business where he pleases !;
mas by law no governors in whose ap-
pointment he does not take a share
and, what is most remarkable, he sup
poses that this utter independence. this
absence of kings and heaven-born
rulers, comes by nature, and is the only
constitution which right reason has
established.
IF he travels in Europe it is with
leelInSS OF dmaZement as we'll as curl
osity; and, though his wife may learn
to be monarchical he seldom does. The
genuine American, dazzled sometimes
by the glittering show of courts, field
days and regimentalS would never find
himself at ease in a military state or
think it other than uncivilized. But
America, not kept in alarm by the
drums and tramplings of a young en-
peror. may afford to go unarmed, neith-
ef conquering nor to be conquered To
sum up in sentence, across the At
lantic the military type has gone out,
the industrial has come in. The SOL
der is extinct. the merchant fiourishes.
A manifest advance, provided always
that the manufacturing, trading and
commercial democracy has discovered
and is willing to obey sound economic
laws. 1t must not be the hell of the
Door. even to be the paradise of the
rich
ITO get rid of the Bourbons was an
excellent thing. But the French revo-
luton halted halfway. 1t crowned the
edifice by endowing the middle class;
and 1T surrendered basely to Napoleon
The French have had to endure nearly
a hundred years of confusion before
laying the ghost of that modern Tanner
lane whose conqueSts are deservedly
satiriZed as 'A1ongolian.' How long will
it take the Americans to understand
that a Napoleon of peace, though he
call himself modestly Jay Gould or
Vanderbilt, is just as much an en-
bodied treason against their free insti-