The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-19

tour hundred-ape English manners. we
nave only to refer to the very issue of
the Mail and Express containing this
very editorial asserting the American
/ ism of New York's society to prove our
contention In that issue, March the
l1th, the Mail and Express publishes
an account of the Princess of Wales
flrst drawing room reception, in be-
half Of the queen, at Buckingham
! palace. The account reports the names.
style of dress and the flowers worn by
number of American ladies, and so
Jumbles them up with the names of the
/ lords and dukes and earls of England
as to make their American sisters
with English hearts on this side of the
Atlantic green with envy. In addition
to this the English correspondent ac-
companies his report with a large four
column-wide print of a group of nine
titled ladies that were present at the
reception, in Dublin castle, with the
names and titles of each given. Clos
ing the account, the correspondent
says:
Il also send you group of ladies of
title who were present at the recent
| drawing room at Dublin castle In a
prominent position you will notice that
very handsome American lady who is
known as the Countess of Essex but
who will be remembered in New York
society as Miss Beech Grant"
Will the Mail and Express tell us out
here in the west, who are plain Amer
lean citizens and thoroughly weaned
from the delicate milk of the mother
country what this ~tom-foolery means,
If it does not mean that New Yorks
four hundreds love the tinsel and
titled nonsense of English aristocracy?
Ii there was no taste in New Yorks
society for this kind of stuff, would the
Mail and Express publish it? And what
can be thought of the Americanism of
that community that with feverish
eagerness thirsts after such adulation
OF a titled aristocracy as the New York
papers give evidence of? How much
room is there in their minds for the
doctrine that all men are created
equal? What room in their convic-
tons for the scorn and contempt in
which their American forefathers held
all titles of nobility and aristocratic
distinctions? 1t is not there; the SEN
timents of the Gothamites are soften
ing towards the arstocratic notions to
which men in state of leisure and
wealth seem naturally to incline.
1t may be, as the Mail and Express
says, that the ancestors of the leaders
of New York's best society proved their
Ainerlcanlsm when Utah was a howl
ing wilderness, but how that can be
twisted to make defense of the
Anglo-mania Of New York's society
now is not quite clear We agree that
the ancestry of the modern New
Yorker was noble and thoroughly
American; that is why there is all the
more shame in the degeneracy of the
Americanism of their posterity. Utah
was wilderness when the forefathers
of the present leaders of New York's
society proved their Americanjsm: but
Utah has been redeemed from it's Wild
erness and even desert condition. bv
people inspired by that spirit of Amer
lcanlsm that once characterized the
people OF Gotham. and the same class
OF people have redeemed the wilderness
IN other sections of the west; and the
conditions in the midst of which they
nave lived have preserved the true
spirit of Americanism for which the
fathers of the great republic were
noted, and when scribblers in New
YORK, where the people have lived in
the midst of conditions unfavorable to
the fostering of that Americanism of
the fathers-when the degenerate sons
OF worthy sires prate in patronizing
tones to US about Representative
American communities" it ifs but ma
tural that we of the west should re-
sent it.