Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-02

All wealth is the product OF labor,
which when unemployed is so much
positive loss to any community
1t is said that every man is capable OF
adding six hundred dollars annually 10
the geneial wealth.
Experience has demonstrated that the
majority Of men cannot employ them
selves,
This dependence nerves the patriot
and the phlanthropist to devise plans
for the meeting Of these circumstances.
The man who creates opportunities is
as much beneiactor as he who makes
two blades OF grass grow, where only
one had grown before. Selfish men
have taken advantage OF this excess OF
labor and employed it-mainlY for their
own aggrandizement:
Capitalists, have instituted trusts,
combinations and monopolies, and have
taken the lions share oil profits, leaving
only a moiety for the producer.
A new departure is surely needed, or
society will speedily consist Of but two
classics, masters and slaves.
The Latter-day Saints are the evan
gels-the pioneers OF the better era, for
said their leader, 'Ye are all brelhren.'
Nevertheless they have not yet
emerged from the traditions and habits
of the fathers, and brotherly interest
has been more OF a theory than an &C.
complished tact.
The towns and villages of her gath
ering place, have quite a proportion OF
anxious unemployed, because no man
hath hired them"
Organized effort is almost stranger
among the people and yet none are so
well prepared Tor actual experiment and
SO certain to succeed as they.
The greatest drawback is believed to
be lack oil seli-reliance, and conse'
quent appeals for aid to the outside
world.
These appeals are for interest bearing
capital, which is today far from being an
unmixed blessing, for financial slavery
is begotten thereby and thus the destiny
OF the people is long deferred.
The promises made OF old TO Israel
were, that they should lend and not
borrow" that they SHOULD be the mead
and not the tail" See Deut. 18th and
23th chapters.
These promises will remain unrealized
and uniulfiled, so long as we remain in
the ruts of the Gentle world, and ignore
the means OF deliverance already in our
possession.
The condition is determined Tor US,
our great average OF unemployed as al.
ready expressed, and the certainty is
that without systematic action this pro-
portion will largely increase as conse.
quence OF our turning population.
There is not a town, village, hamlet
or personal home, that approXimates
perfection, or If so they are in the cities;
in all other localities this is beyond con.
troversy, Sand all that is needed is |
method and enterprise, with the inter |
change OF one form oil lsbor or its pro-
ducts for another. The founders or
leading men need that ambition which .
aims at making their locality town or |
vilage) superior TO all others, all honest |
progressive newcomers should not
only be urged to improve, but should
be aided in their efforts until by their
labor they could return that aid which
they had received and enjoyed. Security
and nominal charge or senla would
be admissible, yet always to be avoided
save as last resort, all notes taken
for balance OF Indebtedness should form
collateral for the issuance OF scrip
and such scrip should be received for
produce, labor, or material in any need
ed and disable form.
BY material is understood, rock, lime,
gravel, brick, adobies, local lumber
lath, pickets, logs, fire wood &c; by
produce is meant, wheat, flour, grains,
butter, eggs, fowls, horned stock, sheep,
pigs, dead or alive. To preserve and
distribute to those who possessed
credit or accepted scrip, promises and
efficient men imbued with the spirit
thereof, and workers Tor its success
should be employed tat stated periods
in this needed position.
Every man and family occupying and
enjoying such home, would become
fixture, animated by decided seli.respect
and importance in and TO the commun.
ity; his surroundings would be an ever.
present advertisement, and a stimulus TO
the individual pride OF every neighbor.
All homes should be built under the
supervision OF one familiar with all the
refining conveniences OF modern houses,
and some architectural features oissimple
beauty should make all such dwellings
models for each other and for the imita
tive family OF adjoining builders.
Agriculture being the basic industry oil
most places in Utah, the spirit OF order,
cleanliness, convenience, should reach
out to all outbulldngs, barns, stables,
sheds, poultry houses, piggeries and
other needed auxilaries, with corrals,
fences and these should all be under
and subject to the surveillance OF the
local leaders, just as much as the
homes OF the community,
Meeting houses and school houses
could not fail OF representing the popu
lar conception OF education; the religion
OF the people being OF the best, the
place or places in which that was taught
and enforced, should represent Its high.
est and brightest thought, all its appoint
ments and surroundings, should almost
speak to those looking on or entering
therein, ,"Put oil the shoes from off thy
feet, for the plan thou standest on is
holy ground"
Spiritual life thus ministered to " ould
be highly appreciative OF secular educa-
ton; faculty would suggest cultivation,
this would enlarge the thought and res
possibility Of citizenship; business tact
and mental system would be deemed as
imperative qualities for success even IN
the humblest farms OF labor, to say
nothing OF those which include the
appropriation OF all progressive ideas
and their location in an expanding civili-
cation.
The forces in close approximation TO
most settlements wouli suqpest the