| Show americanism 1 IN urah UTAH AU authorities T H agree in declaring that the proportion of births in the eastern middle and some of the western states in families of american descent is much smaller than in families where the parents are of foreign birth the prevailing sentiment in those sections among women of american birth is that children are nuisances which ought not to be borne their production ia is too vulgar and harassing a business for them to attend to and they leave it to the irish german and other women of european birth this unnatural sentiment and the horrid practices connected with it ar making themselves felt in various ways men ien len of american birth and ancestry are fast losing influence and power powen in the land to which their fathers gave liberty and republican institutions and strangers dra drs forn from fornin countries are rapidly gaining the ascendancy let causes continue to operate unchecked and the old stock of men will run out and aliens and str strangers angers angera will nil fill the places which their children should occupy already a great change has been effected in the sentiments of the nation by the influx of foreign blood and the predominance of ideas which are not republican in their origin corruption in politics has spread to an alarming extent and americans in their anxiety x lety to retain power pander to the worst passions of the mentho come in hordes across the atlantic it has been predicted that the elders of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints would yet rescue the constitution ution of the united states from om destruction st and be the means of preserving in purity the republican institutions of the land the prediction has been ridiculed but the causes caddes are now in operation which will bring about its fulfillment fulfilment let any man of experience who is familiar with the condition of the republic thirty forty or fifty years ago compare it with its condition today to day and he will be forced to the conclusion that a wonderful change and not for the better has been effected other elements are being brought into operation they are gaining influence and a different dinnel ent order of things to that established by the revolutionary fathers is the nation but in utah the corrupting influence of poll politics tica ia is unknown there is no truckling or on the part of officeholders office holders jo gain popularity or the votes of the people A love for the old institutions for the t h d old con the p people eople the leading and influential cit citizens I 1 zens of the territory are men of revolutionary descent mainly from NewEn gIand gland I 1 men who can trace their line lineage aget to the emigrants 1 who for the sake bake of liberty left home and friends and crossed to the then bleak and uninviting shares of america and became the founders found drs of states they are proud of their parentage proud of their dra deeds and 0 othe the liberal institutions which chic c they founded and they teach their children to emulate their examples and to cherish liberty as a priceless boon they are not a race which is dying out their stock is thrifty and flourishing and from present appearances the descendants of the pilgrim fathers will ere long be bemore before inore numerous in utah than in all the other states and territories combined foreigners coming here imbibe the fhe sentiments of pure republicanism they have influence but bul butikis it is not stich such a baleful influence a 1 of foreign birth exercise elsewhere in other places we read of foreigners urging men as candidates for office because they assert their nationality Is entitled to more representatives in office th than an they now have in illinois at the present time the election of fi 6 gentleman gentle gentie maii mali of foreign birth to the united states senate is demanded by ly his countrymen and their organ because their number ard and importance entitle them they say to have half the ibe senatorial representation from th the state eState in new york the irish are at least equally clamorous for office because of their number Butin but bat in utah though we have had bad a large foreign emigration no such claims are ever likely to be urged the american stock is not dying out its productiveness is fully equal to that ot of any of the recent importations in this territory american americans women are not ashamed to degradation either elther in the tha thought ar or in the practice the result is that thought Ame american amerlean rican traditions american predominate as much today in thil tha territory as ever in ID fact it increase increases 99 because the children born here speedily assimilate themselves to the prevailing sentiment they are americans in feeling and practice and thoroughly indoctrinated in republicanism and in a love for its ita institutions |
