The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-22
PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT.
SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH.

1t must be apparent to all that there is 1
great influx of people to Salt Lake. The
streets are full of strange faces. A little
while ago everybody knew everybody else
To-day old inhabitants, when they go on
the principal business streets and see the
crowds feel almost like strangers, so few
are the faces they see with which they are
familiar The new corners are not all tour
lists Many of them have come here to stay,
having been attracted by the reports of the
beauty, the climate and the prosperity of
Salt Lake, and the opportunities here pre-
scented for the operations Of all classes of
people. We also fear that some have come
with the idea that d boom is on, and they
want TO be in the rush. The inference is
that what is now seen is only the advance
guard of a mighty army marching in this
direction. Wise ones are predicting that
we are experiencing merely the sprinkling
before the breaking of the storm; that
whereas people are coming in small
squads on every train, in a little
while they will be pouring in by regi-
ments OF course this is merely guessing,
and there may be nothing in it. The influx
may cease as suddenly as it set in, and
there may be a return to the old and steady
growth which has characterized the ad
vance of the city from the first.
But let US suppose that the guessing is
not wide of the mark, let us admit that the
predictions will be only partially verified,
and then let us ask what all these people
are going to do for IA living. Some of them
arc bringing money with them and by the
judicious use of that and their wits they
will get along But Il good many are arriy
ing without capital, save the wealth of bone
and muscle, They are coming here because
taey have been led to believe that work can
be had and wages are fair. So far they
have not been disappointed, as there has
been employment for all who desired to
work. But it will not take much more to
overdo the thing and bring Il glut in the
Labor market, and then what is to become
OF the surplus Is provision being made
for a great influx of the laboring classes!
We fear not The papers do not tell of the
building of factories. We hear
nothing Of the inauguration of
Industries which promise employment
TO workingmen. Nobody is erecting
I.llllS WHICH VIII tlulIG ldOOIClS- -NODOhN
is establishing industries which will dis
tribute money in the fern Of day wages.
ii is suggested that it would be quite as
wise to arrange to keep people here as it is
enterprising to induce them to come, and
the way to retain them is to give them
something to do. They cannot earn a living
by walking the streets, and very few of
them can gain livelihood by specializing
IN real estate. THE HERALD is pleased to
note the rapid growth of population, and it
heartily welcomes all honest, industrious
and enterprising people who come to cast
their lot with is but it would be more re
assuring if there were greater preparations
for holding these good people in the only
way they can be held, namely: by provid
ing profitable employment for them. You
rich men and property owners, who are
interested in the stability and welfare of
Salt Lake city, think this matter ever,
and ask yourselves if there is not danger
from an influx of strangers for whom there
is no work