The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-25

ernacIe.
Inspired by the sentiment, ''See
Europe if You VIII, but See America
First" delegates from commercial
bodies in many western states viii as
semble at 10 o'clock this morning to
hold the lone projected See America
First" conference. Tt will be held IN
the armOry of the Utah National
Guard, In the Commercial club build
ing. ana viii continue for two days.
Promptly at 10 O'Clock Ex-Governor
Heber NJ Wells, chairman Of the Com
meTcial clubs See America First
committee, will call the convention TO
order. He will Introduce Governor
John c. Cutler. who will welcome the
visiting delegates on behalf of the
state of Utah. Following Governor
Cutler, Judge 0. W. Powers. as the
personal representative of Mayor Ezra
Thompson, will welcome the delegates
on behalf of the municipality of Salt
Lake.
Response BY Oregon Governor.
Governor George E. Chamberlain Of
Oregon Will then be introduced as the
temporary presiding officer of the con-
vention. He viii respond to the ad-
dresses of Governor Cutler and Judge
Powers, and VIII make the address
formally opening the conference.
Governor Chamberlain and the Oregon
delegation will arrive in Salt Lake
over the Oregon Short Line this morn
ing.
From the time of Governor Cham
berlain's address until the close of the
conference the programme will be
in the hands of the conference itself
It is probable that the first thing in
.
pointment of a committee on Gre
dentials, and the report of that COM
mittee viii be submitted at the after
noon session.
VIII Submit Plan.
Owing to the fact that the See
America First scheme originated in
Salt Lake, and that the conference
was called by the Commercial club of
this city, the local committee has
taken the initiative in preparing a
plan for the carrying out Of the See
America First movement. The de-
tails Of that plan have not yet been
disclosed, but they will be today, and
a di-cussion OF them will probably
consume the entire business session of
the convention today and tomorrow.
There is so-le divergence of opin-
ion among the delegates already on
the ground as to what the scope which
the Seeing America First movement
should be; but it was evident yester-
day afternoon and evening that the
trend of sentiment thus far is in favor
of an organization which will be con-
trolled by western territory
Major s. K Hooper, general passen-
ger agent of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad. Douglas White of the passen-
ger department of the San Pedro, Los
Angeles & Salt Lake road, and other
delegates on the ground, in conversa-
ton with their fellow delegates point
ed out that the division between the
asst and the west is re ognized bv rail-
road interests as BENZ on a line drawn
from Minneal oils through Chicago TO
St. Louis. Everything west of that
line is regarded by the railroads as
western territory
Fear Eastern Opposition.
Those who favor a distinctively
western oTganization-and they seem
TO be In a majority of those now on
the ground-point out thR the mana
gers Of summer resorts on the eastern
coast and business men allied with
them cannot, in the very nature of
things, be expected to cooperate in
sending travel west when it is to their
personal interest to have travel come
east.
The same. II is urged, ia true of the |
railroads. The roads east of the i'm !
aginary line already referred TO, |
II is commended, are seeking constantly /
to secure business from the west east. |
It is TO lneir interest TO divert western |
travel east. On the other hand the |
interest Of the roads lying west of the |
line IS to divert eastern business west. /
and these lines, and they alone. il is |
claimed, can be depended upon. to CO.
operate in the See America. First /
East Mission Field.
The advocates Of the plan Of confn-
ing the control of the organiza-
ton TO the west argue furthermore
that the east must necessarily be a /
mission field for the See America
First movement. As one man put II
yesterday, there is more Ignorance of
the west in New York than there is
In London"
To invite a section of the country
which knows little, speaking broadly.
Of the resources and conditions Of the
west, TO cooperate in a movement to
divert travel to the west, it is con-
tended, would not only make the
movement top-heavy, but would inject
INTO the organization an element not
only ignorant largely of western con-