Show SEE AMERICA FIRST harpers weekly speaks in the following appreciative view of the patriotic efforts of the commercial club of salt lake the commercial club ot salt lake city thinks that part of the spent annually by american tourists in europe ought to be spent by them in inspecting tho western halt of their own country it thinks that the americans who now crowd foreign capitals and pleasure resorts ought to travel more at home it suspects too that the money that trickled out of their pockets as they went along would have had a fertilizing and refreshing influence upon the west it thinks that too many americans rave about the trossachs sachs the alps and the rhine who have no conception of tha rocky mountains and the columbia river by way of promoting this better distribution of american tourists the commercial club has been stirring up the business men of the western states and of mexico and reports the progress of arrangements tor a conference on january 18 1906 ot gov erners of states railroad officials and representative a of commercial organizations whereat a plan of procedure will be offered we wish the club good in this work at present it Is very easy to go to europe and rather difficult to travel in our own west going to europe involves nothing harder than getting together some money and let ipg go europe will do all the rest one gets aboard a steamer and has a week in which to make the next plan and if he makes no plan he can go ashore at liverpool or southampton and do the next thing it is pretty sure to be a pleasant thing to do going west in hla own country tho average easterner feels the need of a more definite plan and a more resolute purpose it he is a boston man going out to inspect town lots in seattle it is easy he must get to seattle and incidentally be will look aboud him going and coming and learn what ho can about the country on the edge of which his home Is but it ho has no town lots in seattle nor any railroad or mining properties to inspect what then it is not so easy lie can go and hunt bears somewhere he can go to san francieco Franc teco and up and down the west coast and see the big trees and big universities and and the orange groves and sound and he can go in the season to the yellowstone park but all these trips are costly and take strength of purpose the intending traveller can bo sure he will like london but be cant bo sure he will like butt 0 he can go to to on business but could he go to those places for pleasure would he bo edl fled would ha get anything to cat it would be an awful thing to bo bored on a pleasure trip A great many eastern arc solemnly conscious that they need to see a great deal more ot their own land and that they will not be fully capable of realizing the american idea and comprehending tho american spirit until they have traversed th great prairies and seen the great mountains the great rivers the great midwestern mid western and far western towns and tho western ocean so too and more they feel the need of better acquaintance with the southwest and the south it it 13 possible to make easier and less expensive and more certainly entertaining for them to travel at home an effort in that direction is well worth making europe has differences associations meins of com u which ara valuable and instructive as well as amusing to us we are bound to go to europe in shoals and on the whole it alfor us nut we would travel moro at homo it it was made eadler for us to do it our rich people do it nor and do it for rail poorer people think they get more for their money as yet by crossing tho atlantic |