The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-07
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The City VS.. Country.

Farm. Field and Fireside: How many
must learn through bitter experience that
the old homestead should not lightly he
exchanged for venture upon the m
tried seas of a city's commercial life. II
is with bitter regrets that they look back
upon the time when they left to embark
upon great city's treacherous waters
with its sunken reefs and shoals and
edying whirlpools.
\ very few, after tumultuous voyage
. ride in TO the calm OF an assured com
petence. even princely fortune. but a host
no man can number go down never to
rise again and to be cast ashore as so
much human driftwood.
A single issue of a Chicago daily re-
Gently described in. detail six murders
several suicides. the Indictment of one
banker one grain inspector and the ar
rest of several other petty criminals
Two thousand paupers are in Chicago's
poor house and hospital. Ten thousand
burglaries are reported for last year.
Ninety thousand arrests. one hundred
and fifty thousand persons are receiving
pauper relief.
IN view of these things. who is there
who dares to say ii is a light matter for
the bright boys and girls OF our farm
homes the country over, innocent and
pure. to cast their lot in with such a
seething mass of iniquity and distress,
gambling on the chance of riding upon
its crest to fOrtune2
To some of US who, for some good and
sufficient reason. or because actuated by
some lofty motive are spending the
working hours of our life's day in cities
it's an unspeakable comfort to think of
the millions OF sheltered lives in country
homes all over our broad land. Veritable
GASES in a desert healthful honest. happy
lives. free from care. Independent, cour-
ageous, strong.
Philanthropists have of late invoked
share in these blessings for the mccoy ones
of congested eenters. tempest tossed.
struggling. weak. weary and wandering
in body and mind.
For them no money is asked by the city
from the country. but openings, oppor-
tunities in a better environment No re-
quest is made for support in idleneSs and
dependence but for help to seif-help in
the more healthy atmosphere OF the tiiler
of the soil bracing. physically and moral
" In most cases they are the country 5
own boys and girls grown to men and
women. fathers and mothers. Sadder and
wiser because of their experience. that
are transDlanted back again 10 their
former soil.
Such ''transplanting TO country homes
is assumed at its distinctive work by the
bureau of labor and transportation. the
national headquarters and central Office
of which are at room 1876 Dearborn
street, Chicago. Its work is described in
detail in the handbook of charities which
recognizes it as among the leading and
most hopeful philanthropic efforts of
America II reports hundreds OF in
stances where such transplanting has
been a boon TO both city and country
Juvenile labor a curse in the city. crowd
ing out the head of the family. is trans
formed into blessing in the country.
The widowed mother. with her child by
a like process OF transDlanting. ii con-
verts from a burden TO a blessing as she
becomes the housekeeper or much needed
help in some farm home. The worried.
over-burdened head of a household with
his wife and children, without oDpor-
tunity 10 earn their daily bread, is like
wise taken out of his dingy tenement
a SOlidlV the rock OF SELF
support.
Let any one DESTROYS of entering. into
the joy of well-doing offer openings
and thus cooperate with the bureau