The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-26

the lap Of the old world. But the warn
ing voice of these watchmen on the tow
ers Of our land have gone UNDECIDED and
year by year in ever increasing hordes
our countrymen have swarmed to Europe
and come back again in the fall smelling
Of eau de cologne, with their pants rolled
UP and large monocle in their right eye.
Sc that while experience has seemed
to demonstrate that the protest we voice
at this conference is but as a cry in the
wilderness, IL has today this added sig
nificanee that it has taken root-that the
loud reVeille sounded from so many
mountain tops has been heard in the val
leys and east and west and north and
south have answered hack the call until
a band OF intrepid spirits not constructed
on the European plan has assembled be-
meath this roof who win proclaim to their
neighbOrs throughout America that we
have some scenery at home and that
100000 n year cannot be taken out OF
our peoples hands and put into hands
across the sea without at least a good
vigorous American kick.
II is for you, delegates of this confer
ence, to put this protest into plain Eng
lish so that he who runs to the continent
every year may read. 1t may not be nee
essary to frame new declaration Of In
dependence, although we do hold those
truths to be self-eyident-that when in
the course of human events if becomes
necessary for one portion of our people
TO dissolve a perniciOus practice which
cOmpels them to pay tribute to another, a
decent respect to the opinions of man
kind requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to see Fisher
Harris first. And for this We are met.
Speech by Governor Cutler.
After the applause had subsidized
Chairman Wells introduced Governor
Cutler as the "staunch and loyal friend
of the movement from its inception"
Governor Cutler welcomed the guests
on behalf of the state in the following
words:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Conference: ] wish first of all to con-
graduate the Commercial club on its IN
auguratiOn of the 'Shee America First"
movement. / congratulate the members
Of the club and all of you on the popu-
laI1ty the movement has gained and IS
gaining in the country at large. 1t bids
fair to become one of the most sue
cessful movements instituted in America
IN recent years. The wOrthtness and
value Of the Caug- we advocate are seen
at q glance by Il .riotic Americans, and
that Is the chief reason for its rapidly
increasing popularity. 1t should be every
mans ambition to see and know as much
as possible of his own country, and to
learn, by knowing II. to love it, 1t is
fitting that a conference for the promo
ton of this worthy object should be held
in one or the most notable regions for
sightseeing in our wonderful land.
There are before me representative
gentlemen from various parts of our
great country. I am sure that each of
YOU GIL refer Win Dfluo 10 some Cd
tect Of interest in your own state which
the Old World can hardly match. Many
of you are doubtless residents of sections
Of our country made famous by such
scenic attractions as the Yosemite val
lev. the Columbia River Dalles, the yell
lCwStOne park, the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado, the gOrges Of the Rocky noun
tains, the Great Lakes, the Niagara
falls, the Mammoth cave, the great Mis-
sissippi system, the picturesque Ale
ghenies, the cliff and Pueblo ruins, the
passes of the Sielras, the falls of the
Snake, the MariDOsa grove, the Great
Salt lake, and other objects of universal
interest. None Of you would acknowledge
in words that Europe has points of in
terest superior TO those I have named.
Then why should Americans confess the
superiority Of European scenes by going
sightseeing in the Old World before Wis
iting their own country? To turn the
tide Of travel westward from the Atlantic
.seaboard is the first purpose of this as
sociatiOn.
I welcome. to this conference you whose
patriotism and zeal for the promotion of