Show VIA Man Without a Thomas Weir is a Parallel of Edward Everett Hale's Expatriated Hero Thomas Weir- made the statement in a public speech before the so-called party that when he went away from home that he was ashamed to register that he was from Salt Lake Philip the principal character in Edward Everett Hale's celebrated Man a excl aimed in a fit of United States I wish I may never hear of the United States Nolan got his Tie was sentenced for his traitorous statement to sail the seas the remainder of his days and never to see the United States or read or hear any reference to Uncle Sam's Philip Nolan was ashamed of the United States and a fit of anger he expressed his Thomas Weir did not say that he was ashamed of Utah in a fit of but he said it in a carefully prepared speech that he knew would please the Kearns Thomas Weir said when 1 am away from home I am ashamed to register that I am from Salt Lake and he was cheered by the Kearns Americans for his ungracious With his great wealth to live in a city that he is ashamed of makes Thomas Weir a Philip and the fact that he is ashamed of Salt Lake will be stamped upon Thomas Weir's as it he remains in our as long as beautiful The Sutherland referred to this Salt Lake man without a country in his excellent speech in the Salt Lake theater Saturday he also excoriated the Tribune for stirring up hatred here in the following language sometimes wonder whether the leaders of the American party have ever paused iong enough to ask themselves what good has been accomplished by the flood of bitterness which they have poured into our local polities during last four They tell us that their whole effort has been to the and yet they have spread broadcast all over this country advertisements of the entire unfitness of the city and of the state as an abiding place for any self-respecting Just how they may reasonably expect to increase the population and the wealth by the wholesale publications of statements if constitute every reason why nobody should come here at and why nobody should invest a dollar at is beyond my so they may boast of the growth of the city and claim the credit for it until their tongues are but anyone with sufficient intelligence to eat when he is hungry or drink when he is knows that the campaign of vilification which this party has carried on for the last four years in the very nature of have prevented the coming of thousands of people and the investment of millions of dollars in both the city and the Insult to Salt is not so very long ago that certain members of this party caused to be published far and wide that when they were visiting in any eastern city they were ashamed to register at hotel as coming from Salt presume that they thought that that kind of statement was calculated to encourage Thank God there are not many people in the state of Utah who are in that humiliating frame of I am proud of the city of Salt and I am always glad to claim it as my I am proud of the state of and I am always glad to claim it as the state which I in part represent in the Senate of the United am proud of the people of Utah and I am always to claim them as my constituents with but one exception I am ashamed of any man who is ashamed of Salt I am ashamed of any man who is ashamed of any city or state which he calls his and which he is still willing to remain If he feels way about in Common decency he ought to move elsewhere so that his opinion may be expressed as the opinion of a stranger and not as the apparently reluctant confession of a member of the |