The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-28

will pitch his trade to the devil and
adopt some commercial pursuit. such
as peddlinS, where the profits are his
own, no matter how small those profits
may be. At least he can live without
begging, even if he lives like China
man. He never saw a Chinese beggar.
Better days are bound to come to
this country. but there is one thing the
wage-earner can depend on-the high
wages of the past will never be re-
stored. No political sophistry will
overcome the logic of demand and
supply. aggravated by the rapid in
vention and increased use of labor
saving machinery. Where are the
thousands of coopers who built bar
relS by hand years ago? Where are
the thousands of shoemakers? Go into
the factory of the z. c. NJ. I. and how
many will you find who can build a
shoe from the last up? Men employed
in barrel factories nowadays are not
coopers; neither are those people shoe
makers employed in shoe factories
The cooper and the shoemaker of the
past were wise in their generation
when they went on the land and today
may consume their own wheat, even
If they refuse to sell at 40 cents a
bushel
Sweet are the uses of adversely
writes an erstwhile Herald printer who
VlVal of the fitteSt when linotype ma
chimes were introduced in Salt Lake.
Sweet indeed are the uses of adversely
which forced him to abandon the print
ing business. but set him up as the
leaser of a chicken ranch in ogden
canyon.
The panic of '9S, which still abides
with us. will be a blessing to such as
take its lessons to heart and resolve
henceforth to work for no man but
himself. There is a farm in Utah for
every such man-not q ranch, but a
farm capable Of maintaining a prVi-
dent, Industrious family in comfort.
Not one of the men who left with the
Utah Industrial army; not one of the
men who fed at the soup house a
year ago; not one of the men who to-
day are clamoring for work in the gray
ity sewer, but what had better adj
vantages and larger opportunities for
possessing a home and maintaining
family than the Swedish emigrant
who owns his farm in Minnesota or
Sanpete county. Not one of them has
endured or will ever live to endure
the deprivaItions and hardships which
the pioneers of this territory met but
subdued in the settlement of Utah.
Not to speak of the Uintah reserva-
lions which will be opened up on the
prises in this territory today are hold
ing out offers to Industrious men to
come and reclaim the lands in ex-
change for nominal water rent per
acre. There is the Bear River in the
north, the Beaver and the Snake Val
ley in the south, for instance, and all
that is required to own farm is to
take up a desert or homestead entry
and comply with the United States
land laws.
The promoters of these irrigation
enterprises are business men, and set
Element of arid land means an in
crease Of capital to them. The manu-
facturers Of agricultural implements
are business men and an increased de-
mand means increased profits to
them. AS business proposition they
stand ready to cooperate with any
enterprise which may be set on foot
by organizations of Wage-earnerS
who are ready to take up and culti-
waite land Have discontented wage
earners the backbone to set on foot
plans for their ultimate ownership of
land?
Much as we applaud the diffusion
of knowledge among working men in
it's application ito single tax, trans
portation and bilettalism, the time
for such discussion should not be Sc
lected when men are gathered
through excitement and are more in
clined to listen to the harangues of
blatherslites. These questions are too
profound in their conclusions TO be
associated with demands for work on
the gravity sewer. Meetings which
have for their object some such plan