The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-25
THE n1PuDENcE OF IT.

The rotten-borough condition of the
senate is one that will cure itself as
the states of the farthest west grow
in population and become truly rep
resntative American communities.
That remark is from the New York
Mail and Express Had one reading
it not known what paper it was from
he still would have known that it was
a voice from New York, the most am
glicized. and hence least TYPICAL Ameri-
can city in all the United States. For
such sheet as the Mail and Express
published in such am unrepresentative
American city as New York to pirate
about Representative American COM
munities," borders upon the very
height of absurdity. OF its two mil
lions of population there is a great
err per centage of foreigners than in
any other large city in the United
States. But what is worse yet there
is more foreign sentiment; more SYM
pathy with old world ideas; more ca
tering to foreign sentiment; more ap-
ing of foreign customs and fashions, in
dress and gait; greater love for old
world aristocratic foolery. The people
of New York are furthest removed
from the old American doctrine that
all men are created free and equal
They would foster the idea that man
kind naturally divide themselves into
two classes-the many and the few
the former made up of the masses
ignorant and turbulent; the latter
composed of the rich and well born. 1t
is New York only that can boast of
its ariStocratic four hundred. Its
misses lisp and nickname Gods crea-
lures in English accent. Its dudes
wear English eye glasses and turn up
their trousers whenever it is reported
to be raining in London. Its matrons
spend their time in negotiating the
sale of their daughters for foreign IL
ties. In its business, commerce, inter
ests. sympathies, and the very web and
wool Of it's society it is more English
than American. And then the Mail
and Express. this New York journal,
will prate ito the west about repre-
sentative American communities!'
OF what class of people does the
Mail and Express think the popuia-
ton of the west is made up? We
undertake to say that it is more dis
tinctively American than any popula-
ton the Mail and Express writer ever
saw. Our western population is made
up Of the most daring and enterpris-
ing young Americans who a genera
ton ago had the nerve to leave THE
leading strings of eastern fathers and
mothers, and undertake the task of
subduing the wilderness, and building
their own fortunes in a new land.
Their number has been increased from
time to time mainly by people of the
same sturdy character; and they and
their descendants constitute the dis
tinctively American population of the
west. They are the peopIeewho have
converted the desert and wilderness
into fruitful fields, and founded com
monwealths out OF barren wastes.
From the bear hElsides of the Rocky
mountains they have turned into the
worn channels of trade and commerce
the white and yellow streams that
made trade and commerce possible.
From the heights of the great Rocky
mountain west they breathe better
American air than ever filled the lungs
Of a denizen of New York. and their
heart pulsations send through their
veins purer American blood than is to
be found in the more than half mon
grel foreigners that inhabit New York.
And the Mail and Express win pirate
to the west about Representative
American communities. If the Mail
and Express writer could only be sent
out west he might for the first time
in his life come in contact with