The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-25
1HE SALT LAKE HERALD SUNDAY SEPTEMBER %. 1898

selves up to excuses and pleasures
without rejecting that in the houses
| of their neighbor night may come
without there being light to dispel
! the darkness: those who hear, with the
most profound disdain, the clamors OF
science against evil hygienic conditions
in which live the producers. and which
are the causes of so many premature
deaths; and, last, those who, in place of
consulting their conscience and search
ing for a solution of the social problem,
in harmony with equity and justice,
only think of resorting to force to stifie
the just demands of the multitude
these have no right to lament the f1or-
rors and brutality of the bombs, for,
before all and above all, it is their
work"
THE LAZY ANDALUSIANS.
The word Andalusia is derived from
the Arabic, and signifies western coun-
try. 1t is the name given by the Sara
Gems to all of Spain and agrees with
that of Hesperia by which it was
known to the Greeks. Today the word
in Spain embraces only the provinces
of Sevilla, Cordoba, Jaen, Malaga,
Granada and Ameria.
In the works of many poets and nov
elists the term HIS been a synonym of
tropical warmth and loneliness. Among
the Industrious inhabitants of North
ern Spain it is a synonym of laziness.
Poets and novelists can defend them
selves by pointing to olive, fig and or
ange, myrtle, lex, vineyards and balmy
skies, and the hard working GaIIego
of the north will find no difficulty in
proving that he, too, uses the term
Alright. Incidence is nowhere more ap-
parent than in this land of sunshine.
In the winter months hundreds of men,
nod
seen standing in rows against walls
vacantly gazing into space. In the
summer they are seen doing in door
ways, in park seats, and not unfre-
quently prone upon the sidewalk fast
asleep.
NO INCENTIVE TO LABOR.
In the absence OF all incentive to
action. their minds grow stagnant and
are confined to the wretched sphere of
mere existence. They are without
worthy ambition and aspire to nothing
more energetic than their present leth-
argic state. Like the tramp of Amer
lea, had they thought of working they
would give it up, for they have come
to believe that no advantage comes
from labor. In proof of this they point
to the burden bearing Gallego's hard
lot
They will tell you that intrigue and
chance are the weapons of success and
that talk about the reward of merit is
"musica celestial" They say that gov
eminent appointments are secured by
assigning half of salary to ell jefe
who secures them. They also tell you
that meritorious officials are quickly
displaced if they fail to pay regularly
and promptly the stipulated percent
age; that men who do nothing but
draw their salary continue in service so
long as they pay their assessment; that
experience counts for nothing; that ii
tied dignitaries, too proud to sell mer-
chandise, are not too proud to sell gov
eminent appointments to the highest
bidder; that. work being so degrading,
begging secures of a right the dignity
of a profession.
This must not, however be thought
true of all the people, for it is not.
There are in Andalusia as high minded
people as there are on earth but they
are living in advance by few centu-
ries of the age that there obtains
DECADENCE OF MARRIAGE.
In nearly all of Spain homes are an
expensive luxury, but it is especially