The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-19
POET COMPARES
EAST AND WEST
Highest PuIse-Beat of Human
ity Is on the Pacific
Slope.
GODS SEEK THRONES
ON WESTERN SUBMITS
East Cares More for Boiled
LObsters Than for
Books.

Clarence E. Eddy, the western ''poet'
prospector,' and his wife have Just re-
turned from an extensive tour Of the
United States. Leaving here FOR San
Francisco in the SHOWS OF January, they
return from New York in the heat OF
June. The prospector said:
"This is the only place we have seen
any summer, for we were too early IN
San Francisco. Los Angeles and New
Orleans We did find warm day IN
Washington in March, which, some sa!d,
was due to the comet, and others 20 IN
surgency in congress. .
''In New York for two months IL
rained even more than in Portland, Or,
and recently in st. Louis there were
lowering skies and torrents of ram.
Only when we came on the nplands near
Denver did we encounter summer. WIN
the exception of many smoky cities the
United States is now solid green field
from the Atlantic breakers to the Rocky
mountains. Only in the west. owing to
the deserts and forests, is there room
for more farms, and the tide of life IS
everywhere going from the cities out to
the soil. Humanity is becoming con
tented with wheat and whIskers. The
west is the hope of hundreds of thou
sands hunting land. and the more ! SEQ
this big, broad, free west. There is the
breath of freedom here. You find Il
broader spirit from Denver clear
through.
Congressman VS.. Other People,
"I had never been in the south or
east before, and l expected big and in
spring things; great art, music, oratory,
and great men. But with all due honor
to the east, in this 1T does not equal the
west. | sat for days in the galleries Of
the senate and house TO catch thrill
Of oratory. 1t only came when Bailey of
Texas tackled the railroads, or Hepburn
Of Idaho took full out of the forestry
system. The far westerners were the
best fighters and speakers. But it is a
fact that the usual sessions Of the sen.
ate and house do not develop as much
human interest nor draw us big crowd
as the average criminal court. / did
see some great things, though, The
congressional library is certainly grand.
The naval gun factory is a Demogor-
gon g dream. They make cannons back
there as big as our western saw-logs.
81 have been accustomed to go many
miles to hear United States senators,
but in Washington the average speech
does not attract as much attention as
a dog fight, for, of course, it is like the
proverbial whoop in hades,
Routine Is Dull.
FFThe routine of legislation neces-
sarily is dull and technical. but at
Cooper Union in New York ] went TO
hear some famous speakers, and actually
onefourth their audience was asleep ]
could not havc believed them to be
famous orators except for what l had
read, Most newspaper men can get
up q far better speech than some of the
famous speakers. But Manhattan is
mostly interested in eating. sleeping and
money getting, 1t cares more for boiled
Holsters than for books. This. may be
because it produces so many of them
New York ships tons of books
and magazines out west to be read,
but does not read them itself For a
month tried to get Thomas Lawson IS
.Frenzied Finance but they had never
heard of it. | tired for writings of Am
brose Bierce, but they said, sWho is
he7 Ism t he dead9i
AS for pictures, / did not see anv-
where such wondrous, beautiful scenes
as are portrayed in profusion by Cul-
mer of Utah. He certainly merits recog-
milton as the greatest living landscape
artist.
From the east the gods are gone to
seek their thrones on western SUBMITS.
The eastern skies are dark with smoke
of crowded cities. The west is radiant
with new hope and sweet with the pure
breath of freedom. The highest pulse.
beat of humanity is on the Pacific
slope.'