The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-03

IA temperament, training and political
ideals, those anxious days of associa.
tlon IN noble work created bond of
sympathy that time nor all the bitter.
ness OF party strife could not destroy.
For some years, however, their paths
iay IN different places: 1t was not I'M
TIL they represented their infant coun-
try at two European courts that they
We're again thrown into close association.
when the Adanses visited Paris in 1885
they were frequently entertained by
JEFFERSON, and the relations between the
Two families were so friendly that Abb
galI Adams wrote: 'fI shall really regret
choice ones Of earth,' Subsequently,.
In describing the difficulties of her hus.
band s position at an unfriendly court,
he said: "Tn Mr.. Jefferson he has a
hrm and faithful friend with whom he
can consult and advise. They have un.
limited confidence in each other.''
An Ungracious King.
The, next year Jefferson crossed over
to London to assist Adams in certain
diplomatic negotiations with an agent
Of the pirate Barbary powers. While
there the author of the Declaration of
independence was introduced to George
Ill by that declaration IS chief defend.
er. The king did not display any great
enthusiasm for two former subjects who
mad been so instrumental in his losing
thirteen of his fairest provinces In
fact, he deliberately turned his back
upon them. They managed to survive
tins evidence of royal disfavor, and
were even able to enjoy some excur-
slons to Oxford, Worcester, Stratford-
on-Avon, and various other places JEFF
feTson records that at Stratford they
PAID shilling for the privilege of in-
spccting Shakespeare house, another
for seeing his tomb, four shillines two
pence for entertainment at the Inn, and
two shillings as fees to the servants,
How like the present!
Before Jefferson left London, Adams
paid an artist named Mather Brown six
guineas to paint a kit kat portrait of
his friend. The portrait is still in the
possession of the Adams family.
Subsequently, when Jefferson 8 moth
erless little daughter Mary, aged s, ar
rived IN England on her way TO her fa.
ther, good Abigail Adams cared for the
forlorn little stranger. "a finer child
OF her age j never saw" she wrote.
grew so fond of her, and she was
so much attached To us, that when Mr..
Jefferson sent for her they were obliged
to force the little creature away. She
clung round me So. that ] could not help
shedding tear at parting with her. -
ouT tWaln were next brought into
close association in the administration
Of ashington-Adams as vice presi
dent and Jefferson as secretary of state
And then began au unfortunate "rift
within the lutte Adams. though of
rather plebeian birth, inclined TO aris
tocracy; he believed that the erich. the
well-born and the able ought to rule.
Shabbily AS he had been treated while
minister at the court Of st. James, he
sympathized with monarchiacl Britain
IN her struggle with republican France
Jefferson, though of aristocratic lineage.
was not an aristocrat. :" Equal rights
to all, special privileges for none "a
longer name for "the square DEAL
was his political creed. Not for the
sake of setting up aristocracies and
monarchs had our forefathers emigrated
to America, subdued the wilderness and
won independence. "Born free and
equal" was phrase that must have
concrete reality. European science and
literature and French cookery we would
adopt, but in political matters we would
follow course of our own. About this
he was terribly in earnest Further.
more, largely because he feared the
abuses TO which il might lead in feder-
alist hands, he disliked too much power
in the central government. Also. he
sympathized with the French because