Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-02
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY.

leans who now crowd foreign capt.
tails and pleasure resorts" ought to
travel more at home. IL suspects. too,
that the money that trlckled out of
their pockets as they went along would
have a fertllizing and refreshing lnfiu-
ence upon the west. Ii thinks that too
many Americans rave about the Tros-
sachs. the Alps, and the Rhine who
have no conception OF the Rocky Noun
tains and the Columbia river. BY way
of promoting this better distribution of
American tourists, the Commercial club
has been stirring up the business men
of the western states and of Mexico,
and reports the progress OF arrange
ments FOR conference, on Jan. p, 1906,
of governors of states raiload officials
and representatives. Of commercial or
CARNATIONS whereat a plan of proce-
dure will be offered.
We wish the club good speed IN this
work. AT present IL Is very easy to 20
to Europe, and rather difficult to trav-
el In our own west, Going 10 Europe
involves nothing harder than getting
together some money and letting CO.
Europe will do all the rest. one gets
aboard steamer and has a week in
winch to make the next plan, and If he
makes no plan he can go ashore at
next thing. 1t is pretty sure to be a
pleasant thing to do. Going west in
his own country the average fastener
feels the need Of more definite plan
ana a more resolute purpose. If he Is a
Boston man going out to inspect town
lots In Seattle. II Is easy. He must get
to Seattle, and. incidentally, he will
look about him going and coming, and
learn what he can about the country on
the edge Of which his home Is. But IL
he has no town lots in Seattle, nor any
railroad or mining properties to inspect.
what then? 1t is not so easy. He can
go and hunt bears somewhere. He can
go TO san Francisco. and up and down
the west coast, and see the big trees
and big universities, and Yosemite and
the orange groves, and Puget Sound.
And he can go In the season to the Yell
iowstone park. But all these trips are
costly and take strength of purpose.
The intending traveller can be sure he
Will like London. but he can't be sure
he VIII like Butte. He can go to Butte
or To Spokane on business, but could
he go to those places for pleasure?
Would he be edited? Would he get
anything TO eat? 1t would be an awful
thing to be bored on a pleasure trip.
"A great many eastern people are SOL
Nh'i'! NNhSNiVuS kudl litl lttd 10 see
a great deal more OF their own land,
and that they Will not be fully capable
OF realizing the American idea and
comprehendlng the American spirit un-
I'll they have travcrsed the great prairie
and seen the great mountains; the
great rivers. the great mid western and
farwestern towns, and the western
ocean. SO, too, more and more, they
feel the need OF better acquaintance
with the southwest and the south. II
IL Is possible to make 1t easier and
less expensive. and more certainly en-
PERTAINING for them to travel at home
an effort In that direction Is well worth
making Europe has differences, asso-
Citations, means OF comparison. which
are exceedingly valuable and instruc-
tive, as well as amusing. to us. We
are bound to go to Europe In shoals.
and on the whole II Is good for us. But
we would travel more at home If IL WAS
made easier for us to do II. our rich
people do II now. and do II for fun.
Poorer people think they get more fo-
their money as yet by crossing the At
lantic,"