The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-08
SCENERY CoNTR tSTED.
Thoughts Suggested ny the Annual
IiNnhms of Americana 10 Emrnnc.

Salt Lake CITY U'ah.-W When ] visit
some OF the wonderful sights Of nature
that arc to lac found on every hand in
thm stare and Colorado, think with
uftv ot the many Thousand Americans
who annually make tour OF Europe to
fouiliarize Themselves with ola world
scenes. while, as a general thing they
are wholly unacauu nted with the infinite
" grander scenes on this side OF the AZ
lantlc
Eek up any of chc big Eastern dailles
and note the numbers who during the
Fashionable outing months cross the
waters. Every steamship is crowded with
those too oilon ignorant aud saobocratic
American voyagers to foreign lands for
,eereaition and pleasure. that could be
far more easily AMI cheaply found Mt
rome. How many of them have over seen
the glorics and gran1ours, the beauties
and sublimitD.s. Of their own match.ess
land How many Of them know, no"
many of them have ever drenmed thd'
their own-our OWLS incompalhhlS the
rrandest continent on all the E!ouc
There is urgent need Of q conSuilF' lolHi
anrsndment prohibiting any uW,uiofeu
American cTizen or citizens h'dy' CIV. 81
pork corners. wheat s2uEes' atn.M G ~
dies and lust struck iach ulrt mes
from going abroad TO pdrdly%e the can
drivers and coffee house walters at e
fee monarches with gilaeu rrpup I'LL
airs until he or she has learned some
thing of America. 1T should require as
an iTt.Norablc condition prccel tent iol
permission to sauander American enia and
skier In London haherdnshers establish
rlents and Partisan millinery shops, ana
to 70 INTO ecs'ases. after careful CONSUL
tatiou of their -bookS-oNer llillin
skies and mOlchills duck ponds ana d.
lapidatod macnroni hasheries' that me
would-be foreiGn voydger has visited an
the wondrous and glorious scenes OF thlH
continent ,
This would be an admirable eiucational
measure. Il would give ihousands of
semi-boeus Amcricansf-native born aliens
some idea of the grandeur of her own
country and prevent them from making
the lavish display OF ignorance and SUI
uilitv with which they now amnse or
salist the hrsi Intelligent man or NO
man they meet after setting 1901 on l+H-
II Was byron who, mcoiing one Of these
tvpiral American tourists in fl i9,r1h,"'
rails! Describe your grand cataract 70
me" When the American shamefuly
confessed he had nev,r seen this catarae-
turned on his heel and left him, de-
nouncing as fool any man who, without
having secn the Niagara, would come
from America to Eurol" to sham ecstasy
over pivmv mountains. lakes and rivers.
And the lame author of "Chllde iarold''
WAS not too severe.
The more one secs OF our Ilhlt9tlC ilhll-
world. our continental American npnhiic,
The less ratonce lie must have with those
Gdsnrb creatuies VINO, every year, Hook
by thousands 70 other lands. while. thty
have s,en nothing OF their own. Earth
has no other land like ours, Among al
the nntlonalires ana realms of the globe,
Columbia. the Gem OF the Ocean" II
peerless unrlValed and nnrivabe, unap-
uroarhed and unapproachabia The grand
est empires OF the old worli Of ancient
or modern times, sink 70 petty provinces
! osscss IONS of Rome, when her golden
eagles spread their wings victorious from
The burning sands OF Africa 10 the mist
clad hills of Caledonia. fell short of the
immensNv of our new world domain.
Russia the vaatest OF modern sovereign
tns. could be losl IN our half;; hemisphere
chrlstendom 10 find her, France, The
land OF NAPOLEON, at the tread of whose
lcgions but threefGunn,crs OF century
ago all Europe tnsmbled as II taken with
a Wabash valley ague. would scarcely
overlap the state of Utah, while Great
Bri;nin. whose morning diiImbeat sounds
1v-spech on the face of Texas or Cali
fornia
DO other lands boast Of their great rl,.
or? We would take up Al their Niles
Rhi'es and beautiful Danubcs by their
little ends and empty them into our ma
jest.c Mtsissspp.s, and. Mlssouris. colum-
swany ana de la Platas without making
them rise enough to lift an Indiana nat
hoal OF a sandbar, DO they brag OF their
akes? We could spill All their caspians
cur mighty Supporters, Mchigans, Hurons
Eries and Ontarios. and scarce produce a
ripple on their pebhled hrlms 10 wash
sauds OF time left by the fairy-like slip
rer of St. Louis. Boston or Chicago
girl: while In any ring, Marauis OF
Great Salt Lake could strip the cham
belt OF mystery and majesty
frcm theft long-famed Soudan-englif.ne,
NC ird Dead Sea-
DO tliey rrafss of their romantic scenery?
We have thousands Of Jewei-like lakes
thaf would make all their yaunted Comos
1anevss end KtilaEnsyu hide theie fAceG