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Show IN LOVK Willi IT A II. A lormtr Visiter lueefall Heaads lirr Trades. Toronto, February 3rd, iHj. To tlia I'd .inn Dear Sir. Although I have not written writ-ten you for some time, I have, thanks to your courtesy, been in receipt of your Sum 1, and thus have been kept posted pretty well on Utah matters. Vour brother 1-rank is now Senator; and J congratulate not only yourself and him, but also the last Star of the Union, which lor wisdom, wealth, wise laws, clean politics, poetry and the tine arts, will shine more brightlv and morn for cibly and euYctively, than any of her sister luminaries, whose active brilliancy has attracted scions from all nations to sail on and invest bruin and hrawn in building un another nation, whose Mai spangled llanner lloats over thouianili of schools, whose buildings and metbuda of teachiug not only can, but do hold their own with any in the wide, wide world. The people of the United Sutra, it has olten been remarked, are eminently practical, and so much so that poetry and art are but in embryo 111 their midst. One important feature among other nutters that forcibly impressed iiell up on me during my first week in Utah was, how beautifully and harmoniously the practical and the psychical blrndcd. I picked tip the local papers and conned 1 them. Their columns K-emc-d with the practical, embracing Irrigation, reclama- 1 liun of barren waates, hug raising, silk culture, mining and other solid niatu-rs of supreme importance to an inland , community, who were not born with silver sil-ver spoons in their mouths. As t read, : I thiougu my nuud Hashed, 'The people ot the United States are eminently prac ticsl," and mentally I said to myself, 'True; but the people of Utah are pre eminently practical. Still conning and turning over pane alter page, to mv delight de-light the soul-stirring strains ot a native ! born Utonian, the outburst of a soul that was the re ipient of the divine alllatus, amungU all tins practical wis-dom, wis-dom, shone out like the Star ol Dethle-hem. Dethle-hem. Chatting with the folks on matters mat-ters histrionic, we soon learned tnat the memory ol Sftakepeare was not obliterated oblit-erated 1 y the practical; and sitting one Sabbath afternoon in tti.it wondcrtu ly constructed Tabernacle, two or three hundred sweet voices in the choir, be-tr.iyi-d the devotees ol huberpe and Fulyhvmma. In the Chamber, at the State conven t on, while debating the State common place, evi-ry-day lii'mlr urn, conttitu-tioual conttitu-tioual sui ji'Cts, men brainy and mtneu-larly mtneu-larly weil-developed, couched their thoughts with the precision and Ian guage of a Macon or a Webster, and with Kb-antic earnestness and eloquence ol a Demosthenes, poured volley alter volley of graae-!thot and canister into the midst ot the opposing forces, 'I he very building in which ihcy spoke was a I solid witness of the pre-eminent practicability prac-ticability blended with the artistic ol the citurns. City and county had loined hands; ha 1 amalgamated; and witn their joint resources, had erected a magnificent magnifi-cent structure, practically solid, and both inside and outside ertistically beautiful beau-tiful and ornate. Kven amid he hum and din of the chy it-elt the prarticni and the artiiiic st od Imj dly out. 1 he practical was demonstrated directly the cit) map was studied. All the streets at ntfhl-annlrs and the Temple, the star from winch to take the bearings; while, as you sUmm! on the curb-stone, watching electric i cart speeding along, the musical waters traveling in crystallite brightness along on both axles uf the streets sang sweet I ly ol the blending of the practical and 1 the poetical, I l or such a splendid effect there must nor was it long before the gigantic, pic. tu res pie snow-clad mountains, 'neat It whose tM-autiliil wings the city of Salt Lake nestles, heraldnl forth in thm siu 1endous grati'leur lint they were the ! 'arnasaa nl Amcric.i, that tilled the souls of the ciliictis with a love ol niu.ic, poetry and art, and relieved the mono tony ol the intensely practical. In the IhiwcIb of the mountains, where the miners delve for riches that are but as grans is the practical; but above them all, towering towards that ever beauti fully blue sky, is the poetical and artistic. artis-tic. The miner, with his pick, strikes the auriferous rock a ti lling blow and the sound thereof travels aioug .hroogh space until it hnds a resting pUce among the mountain flora, where in silent sweetness it remains until a dis ciple of Krato sir.-, that w.iy, and capturing the pritc, transforms it into sweet, ligut musical verse, wfrnh reach es even the soul of the hornyhanded miner, who is ignorant that the first sweet strains were Usliioued by his blow. It is because of the harmonious Mend. Ing of the practical, the poetic and the artistic, of brawn and brain, that Utah will prove herself the most beautifully and tusct nating ly brnhant uf all her sis ter states. 1 had not intended tripping alung at such a pace, but Utah is my pet State. Yours taithlully, Char lk, St- Mounts |
