Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-14


Professor W. T.. Burlmll writes that
tho people thamsolycs, tho common ciu-
sous OF this country aud Oh the people
at. that. ought to take up the study oi
economic science IA applied TO common.
wealths. The great economic questions
Of the day viii never bc solved 10y u tow
rich capitalists who sit aloii throw
work at tho I. pie aud decide wha;
shall be paid to thom, how much ront
they ought to pay and what amount Of
education thoy must receive. Mother
ON the other hand win they over be solved
by bomb throwing, puradiug the street
with rcd flags and making iunammatoy
speeches against mcn with money. The
problems OF capital and labor will be-
-olycd when working people themselves
cit calmly down and use their brains and
leisure iiino In studying economic
SCIENCE. It Is moro fascinating than
chemistry. geology or mathematics, Tor
IS factors arc men aud women. IT, laws
the great rules that undcriic lilo aud tho
productivoucss Of nature. Any one can
understand ".
Whom farmers and mechanics know
the principle that govern the demand
and supply Of money they will know cx-
nctly whom and where FREQ silver coin.
age and moro money win bo useful aud
when not They will know 30 much
that domagogucs cannot hnmboozlo
votes out Of them by promises that 10
the nature of things can mover be- ful.
filled. There ought 10 DO cheap aud
popular text books on economic science
Economic science is better word tor u
than political economy" Tor the word
political has been 20 degraded that the
mention Of It couiures up visions Of
fraud aud injustice aud the cxnct oppo-
site Of everything that economic science
proves 90 DO for tho good % all
Professor Burchill writosi
There is no branch u education beyond tho
mot primary so nccyssarl and suitable Tor
universal study a. political economy % 's
urrrHsnry because Il l. ruin1us tn tho Interests
specialists ID treats OF matters Hh.rh H1DUt
tUilsh intcrclis aud lts slow pruyfcH |u h0
past Is mainly dur 10 tho fnrt iiiht. WHORE its
bases are truu ant its iuteitlgatl1rs ORE GO.
ouratc hnd searching. lt discovers erul'ai that
need redress, aud unjust Institutions watch
tor generations wcro considered just, aud
which antiquity has almost made shCrcdj pTcl.
ulices are aroused, and thr economists. often
startled nt their own conclusions. seek lOiB
radical solutions That sgI,ncc which Often
traces want and misery, enforced lilcucss and
brutaliFiug conditions io monopoly and rrivi.
low d not likoh 10 make progress till lt LI4i
become ropuitrifed. Furthermore. Il o. suite
able 20 general Investigation.
THE phenomena 40 b. 0iuorvrd AFRO within
reach. are lu fhui, continually presented in o.,
and tho result, arrived "a hy drductiyu reason
ihs eau easily be- verified 10y comparison "
/ tho ftats uf actual experience, Introducing
eliminating conditions which may ur may {
| form furiHrs OF ihu Investigations, "iinw
] shall wr bt fsif" "WhercUithll shall we be
uiotho'l'' nfc the questions with which g8I.t..
| cal ccuuomy attempts Go deal, aud since f1,d
I and ginthiug are ur lrat requisites Of u.o,
| political cco11ny b. tho hasla oi aocial HgIvncn
| ~ we'll milht We W. Co build u house without
l laying "a foundation as to vniua,0r % arrive nj
I SUIT conclusions nn questions relating 10 tbs
halter without "a knowledge oi the iurmcr