The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-26
CONVENTION OPENED
- BY EX-G0V. WELLS
Continued from Page /.

upon its banners the motto ''See Europe
II you will but See America First was
conceived in 10 sOrdid spirit OF local sell
advertisement, Its object is not to eX-
plot the special resources and attractions
OF salt Lake CaJy or of Utah or OF the
Rocky Mountains or even the western
America. Indeed the gTeateSt care has
been exercised in al our propaganda TO
have Il well understood that It's object
was bigger and gTa1der than any nero
locality, but that II was conceived in the
interests and fer the benefit OF all Amer
toa- No thought or word or suggestion
has ever emanattd from the committee
who summoned YOU here that these dele
gates were to be assembled for any less
purpose than TO devise a plan to divert
at least a portion OF the travel Of Amer
leans which now. goes to Europe and
other foreign countries, TO their own
country first. That is the aim Of this
conference and il is its only aim. When
that cbJect Is accomplished we VINO dWe!l
In these mountains will be content with
such prOpOriOnate benefits as may accrue
TO our city and our state, the same as
you who represent the other parts or
.AmeFiG@
Knows America Himself.
Speaking personally, I have never been
60 Europe But / have bathed IN the
bGoyant, waters of both the Atlantic and
the Pacific, have gaZed through southern
mists out upon the Gulf Of Mexico and
have traverSed the great lakes and the
Thousand Islands Of the st. Lawrence.
I have heard the great Niagara roar and
rave stood spel-bOUnd upon the brink OF
the Grand canyon of the Colorado amid
that@death-lilIe stiffness of nature de-
scribed by Mark Twain as so still YOU
can hear the microbes knaw." I have
stalked- elk in IacksOn's hole and caught
fish In the Yellowstone river and boiled
them hard by in geyser without tax
ing them off the hook I have flOated
in the brinE surface OF the Great Salt
Heights. I have lOoped the loop on Co
ney island and breathed the fragrant
signs OF orange groves in southern Cali
foFnia- l have Dersplred in the humid at
mcSphere of the Mississippi valley, and
thrown snOWballs at the attitudes OF
Pixies peak. I have gazed in rapt won
der ct the mighty Missouri rolling down
to the sea and have visited the great
nOrthWeSt whore rolls the Oregon Short
Line. Yet / am not ready for Europe I
admit that Paris offers It's allurennents.
but have not yet beheld the natural
bridges of San Juan county, Utah and
so Abe Champs Elysee will have to wait
Upon a trip TO New York some years
age@I became acquainted with a man
from Albany young druggist-who had
acquired a competency and was setting
off on a vacation. I asked him where he
was going, ana wreathed in ecstatIc
smiles he blurted the one word Europe -
asked him if he had ever visited a Mace
called Niagara Falls. which lay a hun
0red or two miles TO the west OF him
and he said: IT'S nothing but a lot of
water"
Now. gentlemen, 7 submit that that is
the type Of fellow we are after II we
can but spread the gospel Of ''See Amer
lea FIRST so that some of these eastern
ers-who now spend their good American
money at Monte Carlo can be induced TO
come up and take higher ground and visit
some of the suburbs of their home towns
] feel that our mission will not have been
b vain.
Patriots Have Long Advocated 1t.
It's promoters admit that this is no
new conception. For years patriotic
American newspapers and magazines and
eloquent American speakers have sought
20 stem the tide of foreign travel and
figures have been compiled and quoted
showing the enOrmity Of the volume of
money our citizens have been pouring into