The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-29

dwellings are rude and uncomfortable, and
yet we venture the assertion that COM
munity of that kind is the most contented,
and doubtless also the most sociable and the
most happy. And again we ask, why. 1t
can only be accounted for by the fact that
each individual sees in his hard lot the lot
of all; and man is SO constituted by nature
that he can dwell in log cabin with dirt
roof, and SO badly constructed that the
winds may whistle through it, and be con-
tent, if only no contiguous palace rears its
head to mock its meanness. This hard,
coarse fare is palatable enough TO him SO
long as no neighbor is feasting on dain ties.
1t is the difference in the circumstances of
men that breeds discomfort on the part of
the masses and apprehension on the
part of the wealthy. The poor arti-
san and the laboring farmer toll
long and hard every day, and return weary
enough to a home which is but scantily
supplied after all with those comforts and
conveniences which modern wealth and
thought have produced. Their food, if
plentiful, Is coarse and uninviting. They
see their children pretty surely doomed to
walk in their footsteps. Their employer
on the contrary lives in a palatial residence,
with more splendor about it than kings
could display in the generations that are
past. Every land under the sun yields its
dainties for his table, luxury and ease do
their utmost to give him happiness. His
children threaten TO form an aristocracy
from which the children of the working
men will be ruthlessly barred.
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to tell the toiling masses that their condi-
ton is much better than that of the same
class three hundred years ago. They fail
utterly to draw any comfort from that con-
sideration. They are living in the pres
ent, and Judge of their condition in the
light of modern facts and ideas, and es-
pecially do they view their condition in the
light of modern ideas in respect to the
standard of comfort in living. In view of
all this is it any wonder that the ''phenom-
enon of our times and one of the chief
dangers to law and order is the growth of
the school of despair" Every year the
rich grow richer, and the masses see their
condition not proportionately i'm
proved, and herce apparently growing
worse and worse. They will say some
thing is wrong either in our political or
industrial system, perhaps in both, that
makes these conditions possible, and the
masses once imbued with that idea will
make an effort in some direction
or other to remedy the defect, so that one
may say that the elements of a mightler
revolution than this world has ever yet
seen are collecting and threaten to burst in
q hn
movement may not be philosophical one
the people may strike wide of the true
mark, but it is pretty certain that they
will strike. The French people of the
eighteenth century were not logical in their
deductions, but their terrible vengeance
much of which was wreaked upon imagi.
nary, as well as real, causes of their woes
did clear the way for better state Of
things. So it may be with the revolution
with which the modern world is threatened
But may not that terrible revolution be
. averted? We do not know. 1t is a problem
+ belonging TO and involving the fate of the
entire race of men and the race must settle
. the question. More properly speaking, i
, is world that in some way or other ha.
strayed away; it will require God to pu
it right. Meantime, however, if mer
a gifted with the faculty for amassin,
Q wealth, and talented with the wisdom O
: directing great enterprises were ambitious
e to benefit mankind within the circle O
their influence, rather than DESTROYS o
8 pursuing personal ends, and absorbing al
q the results of their GoG-given power
+ themselves, it would go very far toward
s curing the evils growing out of the unequa
distribution of the joint products of labo
O and capital If coupled with this tn
q masses could be made to understand tina
g the aggregation of wealth within tn
v hands of a few seems almost necessary t
! the prosecution of great enterprises, an
Il that after all our capitalists as a rul
Y work extremely hard for their board an
q clothes, albeit they get pretty good boar
n and clothes, it might help to reduce tn
a bittt rness somewhat that enters into thi
J. problem, simplify matters not little, an
e reduce the dangers to law and orde
n that arise from the increase of the schoC
e of despair.