Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-11-10 | Page 4 | Europe is All Right, but See America First

EUROPE IS ALL RIGHT BUT SEE AMERICA FIRST the commercial of salt lake has inaugurated a campaign in opposition to that yearly exodus ot americans who are anxious to tread tho historic soil of europe the season of 1904 5 has seen bays ibe commercial club the vast sum of taken out of this country by tourists to england and the european continent this money which Is largely eastern money says tha comi club would be just as useful to u in the west aa to the native tribes of europe in thorf ve agree a ad as the only way to set that cash out west is to how the easterners where a western vacation has advantages over a european ono we will enCo avor to do so hoping that western readers will repeat our to their eastern friends and so help BOW the bood seed the average easterner who goes to Is absolutely ignorant of the west A vacation pent out here bouli i therefore be of equal educational ad vantage to him as would one spent in europe it would certainly toe aa interesting te jn europe he sees the most ubiquitous poverty in world he is mulched mulcted day and without a let up driven to despair by the slowness 0 servants who know not his waya nor speak his tongue he cannot improve the situation by admonition for even the choicest and most carefully phrased falls on uncomprehending ears he who have ananias beaten a anilo he maybe Is arrested loseff his baggage in the customs or on the train is duped by a take italian nobleman returns to america a fit subject for a battle creek sanitarium now suppose your eastern tourist comes west he is among his country men and he sees mountains that rival the alps skies that surpass the azure ot sunny italy vegetation that is unique in beauty and utility rushing water and towering cliff sunny fertile plains and awe inspiring desert and withal he sees no poverty to dispel his pleasure or shake his faith in life the further west ho comes the more he Is enthused he can hardly believe that the bracing air he breathes has no more oxygen in it than has the atmosphere of his eastern home while no business cares are thrust upon him be can yet see many an opportunity port unity to invest that is lost him iu europe but he finds no gold schemes out here no iniquitous hotels can hold him up for he is an american among americans now it every westerner would din these considerations constantly into the ears of his eastern friends we might get a chance at some of that