The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-02
SUBSTITUTE FOR nouNTY SYSTEM.


LGXlIln1le A4HRStA net.
Let every county official and every
man employed by the county, contribute
one tenth of their regular salary to-.
ward fund which may be called the
County Industrial fund. which should
be under the immediate charge and
supervision of the probate judge. When
said fund shall have accumulated to the
amount of $4,000 let it be invested. under
the direction of the county court, in
some profitable industry in that particu-
lar county Let the money especially
be applied to the starting ana puIiolng
m OF some new industry which may be
| especially adapted 70 the peculiar
locality and run with assured profit to
its stockholders. This may seem 8
small amount to start an industry with
But. let it start on a small scale put
/ solid basis, and as the cooperative plan
deyelones, the industry will naturally
! develop.
Eor instance. to Illustrate; suppose
| any one county, having oft1cials ana
i EMPLOYEES in the aggregate, say Oh one
/ hundred taken as an average, or q
i each per month, a round tenth or their
/ earnings one month would amount 10
the considerable sum of $1,000. Hence
l in one year from an average or one
hundred men, at 800 each per month,
$4,000. Now suppose the $4,000 on hand
! be used to build a starch factory tor
| some other factory of whatsoever kind
and while the factory is slowly being
built. another year will probably nearly
have gone by and, consequently, N
! other $4,000 on hand, Wherew1th to NJ
up and start the factory. All those Wno
| thus continuously contribute one TENN
of their earnings will be the joint-stock
holders and should carry certlncateS 10
this effect No one person should De
allowed to hold more than twenty
shares. each share amounting to one
twentieth of twenty monthly assess
ments on mans wages or, one-tentn
of his monthly salary. Should man
not be employed regularly, let him give
COR the county deduc) one tenth. OF ms
earnings when he has worked a 1ull
month or, when his wages shall reac1
the limit of 81. Then let him ga tner anC
keep his certificates of deposit anc
carry them as permanent snares o.
stock.
All the stockholders should constitute
the company or corporation proper, ano
elect directors, ETC.. and such member
should be entitled to his pro rata snare
of dividends when ever SUCH are de-
clared After the industry is flnishec
and starred and the company thus falr'
" on foot, the county court SnouIu nave
no more connection with said industry
but should devote thereafter the stu
accommodating fund to other enterprises
1t should be part of the duty OF sucE
county court to plan, locate, build ane
start such enterprises as will most ike
" thrive within it's respective borders
In advocacy of the above theory, 1t ma!
be said, it would certainly tend Il
greatly stimulate industrial enterprise
1t would bring to the poor labor1ni
classes long looked for boon and tn
. in the end tend to elevate them to tn
common plane of equality SO mucl
boosted OF in this broad country. l
would serve as a stimulus TO genera
thrift and lead the way by example
for capital IN other directions.
No man, be he ever 50 poor. Woul'
regret or shrink from the task of payin
one-tenth of his labor into such fund
under a county courts supervision
l when he knows and realizes the fac
: that he will become a stock owner in
l permanent and paying business. ma
t may work on the roads or elsewher
/ for the county and at the expiration O
: two years say, hold twenty certificate
or shares of stock with a company in
substantial enterprise, and then go
work for the factory or industry o