Excerpt from Utah: A Peep Into a Mountain-Walled Treasury of the Gods

Of at least a thousand dollars each. That is a total Of a hundred million dollars a year expended by new-world people in familiarizing themselves with Old-world scenes, while, as a general thing, they are wholly unac quainted with the infinitely grander scenes on their own side of the Atlantic ferry. In a single day of the recent season eight huge ocean steamers left New York, bearing nearly three thousand first-cabin passengers for a Euro pean summer tour. Every steamship that sails during the fashionable outing months goes crowded with these too Often ignorant and snobocratic American voyagers to foreign lands for recreation and pleasure, that could be far more easily and cheaply found at home. How many of them have ever seen the glories and grandeurs, the beauties and sublimities Of their own matchless land? How many Of them know, how many Of them have ever dreamt, that their own - our own - is incomparably the grandest continent on all the globe?

There is urgent need Of a constitutional amendment prohibiting any untutored American citizen or citizeness, redolent Of pork corners, wheat gouges, stock swindles, and just-struck-rich-dirt-inesses, from going abroad to paralyze the cab-drivers and coffee-house waiters of effete monarchies with gilded republican airs until he or she has seen and learned something Of America. It should require, as an inexorable condition precedent for permission to squander American gold and silver in London haberdashers' establishments and Parisian milliners' shops, and to go intocheap raptures - after careful consultation of the guide-books - over Italian skies and mole-hills, duck-ponds and dilapidated macaroni hash eries i certificate from the president and general manager of some such great system of American railway as the Rio (irande Western, Denver Rio Grande. And Colorado Midland, that the would-be foreign voyager had visited all the wondrous and glorious scenes along their lines. It would be an admirable educational measure. It would give tens of thousands of semi-bogus Americans - native-l)orn aliens - some idea of the grandeur of their own country, and prevent them from making the lavish displays of ignorance and stupidity with which they now amuse or disgust the tirst intelligent man or woman they meet after setting foot on European soil.

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