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Show SEE AMERICA FIRST. H Tho Commercial club of Salt Lako H City has tho honor of originating tho H "See America First" Idea, and of put- H ting tho machinery in motion which H has caused tho movo to attain very H largo proportions within a fow months. H It Is a question In which tho cntlro H United States Is Interested and par- H tlcularly tho mlddlo and Western H states for It Is there that tho things H are to bo scon which nro best worth H seeing. It Is in tho west thnt naturo H Is seen, In her grandest and most H Inspiring mood. Tho writer has seen tho loveliest scenery In tho British H Isles, on tho Rhino, Dor Douchon H Rhino, tho glories of Franco nnd other H European countries; seen them not as H tho tourist who rushes to tho show H places, and covers as much ground as H posslblo in tho least tlmo possible sees H them, but as a resident or a lingerer. H Ho has also seen considerable of H western America, including tho Co- H lumbla river, tho northwest, and tho H northeast, and nothing ho has seen In H Europe is so grand, grand Is tho H word, as this North American con- H tinent contains. Its grandeur and H magnificence needs only to bo known H to turn a great many people of tho H eastern states west, who now go to H Europe. Tho actual money which H those peoplo spend In their travels Is H enormous, but that, largo as It Is, would bo tho least consideration In H the caso of the western states, be- H cause peoplo who can afford to travel H havo means. If they camo west thoy H would sco tho great possibilities of tho H country. They would soo tho oppor- H tunltlcs nnd would turn their capital H in that direction. H This "Seo America" proposition, n H carried along, will prove ono of thd H greatest factors in developing tho lat- H ent resources of tho west. H The interest taken In it so far au- H gurs woll. Tho convention which has H just ended hero was all that could bo H desired, for a movement only two or H three months old. It shows that tho H western states aro joining' hands and if thoy all pull together, great things H will bo accomplished. Tho Commcr- H cial club of Salt Lako and it's enter- H prising secrotnry, Fisher Harris, for H wo believed he was tho real originator H of tho scheme, and certainly ho has H dono moro than any other single In- H dividual towards its furtherance, do- H servo great credit for what thoy havo H accomplished and what, from all ap- pcarances, will bo accomplished to- H wards tho dovelopmont of tho golden H west. H |