The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-14
THE EAST AND THE WEST.

There is no Disgusting the fact mat
there is growing up between the peo-
pie of the east and the west feeling
of bitterness and hatred. When mis-
fortune befalls the people of one sec
ton the people of the other are begin
ming to feel very little sympathy for
them; and from a lack of sympathy it
is not far to a feeling of exultation.
All this is very deplorable and every
citizen who loves his country must
wish to see it cease, and will frown
down everything that tends to encour-
age the estrangement of the west
from the east. But there are some who
delight to encourage its growth. The
New York Times seems to be a paper
with such an ambition.
Mr.. w. J. Bryan has been agitating
to some extent the propriety of the
government buying Monticello, the
home and burial place of Thomas JEFF
ferson, and maintaining it as a national
reservation. If congress refused to
make the necessary appropriation it
was his purpose to appeal to the Demo-
Gratis of the country to raise the neces-
sary funds. That is the very head and
front of his offending, no more, but it
calls out this embittered editorial from
the Times:
Mr.. Jefferson NJ. Levy, the owner of
Monticello, declines to sell, but Mr..
Bryan ought not to mind him. The
accident of ownership and possession
confers no rights which he is accus-
toned to respect. There are only 740
acres in Monticello, anyway baga-
telle compared with the 100000 square
miles Of which Bryan tried to diminish
or destroy the value last summer by
running for president.
The plan to buy the home of Jeffer-
son and maintain it as a Mecca for
J. K. Jones, Ben Tillman, George G..
Vest. Thomas Z. Watson, William
Sulzer, b. B. Smalley. Henry George
and w. j. Bryan is so felicitous and fit
that it is sure TO be widely initiated.
1t is probable that the clear and we'll
understood relation of the principles of
MI. Bryan to the principles of the IA
Their of the Democratic party. will de-
termine the organizers of all similar
projects in their choice of the hero they
propose to honor.
The Amalgamated Association of
Card Sharps and Thimble Riggers win
Bunco Steerers union will buy the
Hermitage and make it the favorite
resort of the gentry who get their liv-
ing by their wits But they will want
to keep away from the place on the
nights when Andrew Jackson's shade
is in the habit of walking. Lincoln's
tomb at Springfield win become the
property of the Sons of the Peace-at-
Any-Price men, while the Descendants
of the Blue Light Federalists viii bid
high for the resting place of James
Monroe at Richmond.
1t is a kind of Dissertation to con-
tinue the list. We cannot think of John
Most in this relation to q project con-
Mount Vernon without an I'M
feeling. But Bryan's de-
signs upon Monticello still the indigna-
ton almost as deeply.
Where are the Democrats who have
not forfeited their honest inheritance
from Jefferson? Have they no swift
words Of rebuke for this moGntebank
apostle of fraud and disorder who has
lately begun to set himself UP as lord
Of the fee of Jefferson's political es-
tale? We wonder if Jefferson'S birth |
day viii pass without other observance !
than the Bryanite banquet?
That is all very fine writing and all
that, but it shows a wonderful lack of !