The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-31

who have no other idea of helping suffering
than that of giving, it has become clear
that heroic measures must be taken II
charity is to accomplish anything at all.
Thus General Booths plan for a huge
"City Colony" to contain all manner OF
manufacturing establishments. under su
perintendence by Salvation Army officials;
for EARN Colony somewhere in rural
England; and for an lover the-sea Col
ony," for the receiving of all those who
may be induced to leave their native coun-
try-found ready acceptance as means of
solving the social problem; and the half
million dollars he asked for was quickly
subscribed. So popular indeed with giyers
was this plan that subscriptions were di-
verted from other charitable enterprises,
and even the regular donations to the re-
ligious wing of the Salvation Army fell
off.
But from this solution, all save the
utterly helpless among the masses turn
away. They turn away with a feeling
that something more than the most highly
organized and best managed charity is
needed and is due; with feeling that men
ought to have, without thanks to anyone,
a chance TO
MAKE SOMETHING MORE THAN BARE LIVING
with feeling that an opportunity to enjoy
a little recreation and some of the bright
Twenty years of popular schools, the
cheapening of newspapers and books, ano
! the ceaseless activity of all manner OF
/ political propagandists have begun to bear
/ fruit. And though their thoughts are con
fused, the masses have begun to think fol
themselves. Distrusting familiar political
| leaders and political measures, they
turned once more to trade unionism, and
seized the weapon of the strike tC
apply it on larger scale to wider pur
poses. The new hope of the new trade:
unionism spread among them like fire
through dry grass. Bodies of men were
! quickly banded together who could never
before be gathered into organized bodies
One hundred thousand lockers, 10000 ga:
workers, $1,000 railway men, $4,000 sea
men and fremen, LOCO coal porters, &c, 00(
car men, and $4,000 general laborers-
all, nearly half a million men-were or
ganized in two years. Even that most diff
ficult of ali classes of workers to move, the
farm laborers, started organizing
These unions, moreover, gathered immens;
amounts OF money. The lockers, for eX-
ample, irrespective of the large sum.
gathered during the great strikes, RAISED
100000 during the past year. OF thi
S75, 900 was spent in STRIKES and, although
all of it was not spent for nothing, as Sigh
rises in wages in London, Hull, Southamp
ton and other places will show, it has be
come evident that faith in the efficiency o
strikes as means of establishing a gen
eral and permanent increase in wages has
among the lockers, as am ong the member
of the other unions, been steadily weaken
ing. With this weakening
THE TIDE Is TURNING BACK TOWARD POLITICS
One clear mind quickly observed thi
drift. With that keen insight which ha
made him the most success full of BIRTHS
journalists, William I. Stead, editor @
the Reuiei1 of RerietUs, obtained and pub
4 lished an interview with Sir John Gors,
member of parliament for Chatham AM
under secretary for India in advocacy Q
the appointment of royal commission
examine into the condition of labor Thi
interview was flung into the cabinet wit
the announcement that the Liberals woul
use it on the floor of the commons in sup
port of demand for such commission
and thus make flank movement on tn
Conservatives for the favor of the organ
lied lsboring masses, whose voting powe
will count far more in the coming cleo
ton than ever before. The interview
being the utterance of promlnen
member of their own party filed tn
cabinet with dismay. Action was short
and sharp. They were all afraid to refuse
and at that very sitting it was decided I
have commission, and the announcement
in parliament shortly followed. BIZ
though its members have been appointe
; and the commission is getting to work, th
good that IS to come of it is already gener
, ally discounted. 1t is expected to do g