Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-20

contontci people ON earth. within Oh,
last .ix years there has been q poacou
revolution wrought in England aud the
conditions that existed six years ago arc
rapidly disappearing under Intelligent
management OF municipal affairs. The
municipal governments not only Of Lon
don but Of the other largo citiog uro solv
Ing tho problem OF providing labor ipl
tho unemployed aud teaching the po0pll
10 provide for thomielves.
Its hardly possible that Mr.. Burns
had such an enlarged idea " his hear.
ers' oredullty as 10 fancy they believed
every bic OF that speech. PcrhapN
he never thought that some Of them
might have read or even heard bis
speeches in London less than four
years ago, when Thousands were being
fed at the souphouses OF the metropolis,
when tens OF thousands Ia single
county, Yorkshire, were dependent on
public charity, when the official reports
showed that hundreds had uiod from
lack Of food, and when the government
records point out that one in ton Of the
population In Great Britain had rv.
ceivsI assistance from the benovolently
inclined.
There will be no question that
there Is dos,ilutlon ia New York,
Chicago ami hll the large cities, per.
haps equal 10 any other place on the
globe. There IL also much Of comfort
aud oontoniinent among the laboring
people In Britain; those Of this class
who are Ia steady employment fare
reasonably we'll. But Mt. Burus's
assertion Of his two weolJ experience
In this country IL a plain misstats.
mont IL is directly at valance with
his own declarations, frequently re-
pehiod In England as 10 what he had
seen there. No matter what poverty,
dirt Indebtedness and misery he has
looked At on this side OF tho water, no
can behold lis equal any week Ia the
great oentefs Of Britain. Lot him return
TO 5tepnoy Green and whileohapel In
London, 20 10 the Salimurkot In Glas-
gov, the Old,own Of Cardiii, or 10
Scotland ward IN Liverpool, and he
can witness scenes Of the character
described that even the worst haunts
OF New York aud Chicago cannot sur.
paes, aud In their extent cannot par.
allcL Evidently the NJ. T.. IL getting
bit homesiok, 20 remembers naught
OF hia native land but what Ia pleasant,
and even that no has magnifled 20 n
wonderful extent.
IL trouble never comes TO Afr. Burma
I'LL Americans emigrate to England
because that nation has the model gov.
eminent VI Iho world, his path through
life Will be smooth Indeed. The claims
hemakes ofsolutionott the labor problem
are ohimerlcal. So also are his ideas
OF the remedy for Industrial lille. His
panaoea Ia absorption VI the unem.
ployod by the reduction Of hours"-
thus keeping the measure Of idlsnrss
~ 10 Its full standard when the april.
cation Ia carried beyond the eight.hour
,yslem.
The solution OF industrial and kin
ired problems 10 the extent that they
Will result In the establishment Of a
model government on this earth is
liked by destiny to 10 worked gu, on
American soil. For centuries the "star |
n empire" has wendell its way |
westward until It's power has
,oen demonstrated In tho govern |
nent Of free people on this continent. !
Here It will DO worked out 10 It's perfect |
And when the Eng.
ish Nj. =. makes tho suggestion Of he
model government being established In |
he country he halls from ho Ii merely |
gratifying an inordinale national |
vanity, and his utteranoes have about |
~ much weight as do his ovtrdrawu
'nd Inaccurate comparisons.