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Show SEE AMERICA FIRST. A NATIONAL assemblage is just announced which will havo no politics in it, a rare omission for any important gathering held in a presidential year. The Republicans, the Democrats, the Progressives, and the Prohibitionists have had their national na-tional conventions, have put up their tickets, and havo made their appeal to the people. In several particulars, particu-lars, however, tho assemblage which is to be spoken about here will differ from any of thosa just mentioned. There will bo neither a steam roller nor a boss in it. Every delegate who can say anything worth saying on any of the subjects to be discussed will be permitted to talk, and will bo listened list-ened to respectfully. Men of all parties par-ties and of no party at all will bo active participants in this gathering, and all of them will feel at home in jit. Nobody will be proscribed for anything which he says or does In the political field, for politics will bo barred in the proceedings. The assemblage as-semblage referred to is that of the Transmississippi congress, which is to meet at Salt Lake City on August 27-30. Let nobody suppose that the questions ques-tions which aTe to be dealt with In this convention are of interest to tho people west of the Mississippi solely. Tho topics will have as much concern con-cern for the residents of tho twenty-six twenty-six states on the sunrise side of the great river as they will for those of the twenty-two between that stream and tho Pacific. At the head of tho list of subjects to be discussed is that which is co'mprised under the popular slogan, "See America First." That subject is underlined, and any-bod any-bod ho can Bay aything to lllu-minwee lllu-minwee it will find attentive listenors. It is a national subject, which has neither a partisan nor a sectional side. The other topics to be discussed comprise good roads, a parcels post, the world's peace, immigration, land reclamation by rail or water, and inland in-land waterways. These questions will be discussed in their na- M tional aspect. They have an interest for the residents for the Atlantic soa Jfl board, the Pacific coast, and the Mis- sissippi valley alike. I As a slogan, "See America First", I originated in tho far west. Put into II these words it was given out by a II commercial club in Salt Lako City II several years ago. As a concise ex- M pression of an idea which had sense H as well as public spirit behind it, vM it at onco became popular. The duty II of every American who does any V traveling is to do the first of it in H his own country. Some of the sights H here Niagara, the Hudson, the Mis- H sissippi, tho Great Lakes, tho vast H prairies, tho Rocky and the Sierra M Nevada mountains, Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon, the Garden of tho II Gods, Glacier Park, Yosemite, and H 'many other spectacles are as im- H pressive as anything to bo seen in H the physical world on any other con- H tinent. Many of the scenes, too, havo H a long story behind them. They as- H sociato themselves with tales of en- H terprise and daring dating back to H the days of De Soto, Coronado, Ponco de Leon, Miles Standlsh, and Cham- H plain. The American while visiting H these scenes will have several cen- H turies of history looking down upon H him. After visiting them ho will know H very much more about his own coun- try than do most of his compatriots I who make European tours, and who, in answer to queries put to them by I Europeans, can tell nothing about I their own country beyond the boun- I daries of the spot in which they re- I side. The sights In America which I bring thousands of Europeans over I here every year are good for Amer- I leans also to seo. St. Louis Globe- I Democrat. I |
