Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-11-04 | Page 12 | Local News

In conversation while here Mr J Hayes Hammond said Any American Ameri-can who does not think that the United I Ioes States is the best country in the world ought to go abroad and my belief is that any American who does go abroad fortwo or three years and it does not matter to what country he may please I r to go will before six months feel like an exile and if permitted to return I I will over after hold ki sovereign contempt I con-tempt any American who thinks there I is any other land or government to I t compare wifh ours Several Democrats ought to try the experiment after Tuesday of finding happiness in a foreign country In ISGii a great many tried I They went to England to France to Mexico to South America They went away with I I their hearts filled with bitterness toward to-ward this country and Its Government but if we are not mistaken with the single exception of Judah P Benjamin every one In from one to seven years gravitated back and with grateful hearts landed filled with the thought that of all the world no other land holds hale the hopes for Individuals or c for the world that this land does <