The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

often as effectually trained by doing
and thinking at the same time as by
thinking alone. And so it happens that
/ powers are to be derived from learning
a trade. There are two powerful
| factors of education promoted by
this training that always promote
mans ability TO think. In
| tellectually. then, the trade educates a
mans judgment and enlarges his
power of attention. These two quail
tiles of the mind are among the most
! decisive in the success that comes to
men in after life. From a single point
of view, however. it may be said that
nothing makes a man more industrious
than the habit he acquires when learn
ing trade. Industry is the basis of
all success, individual and national,
and today one of the greatest problems
awaiting the solution o. the people of
the state of Utah is how to substitute
the spirit of work for d spirit Of idle
ness that is manifesting itself too gen.
orally among many of the young
people. Idleness comes to US nat
urally by reason of the habits
of our lives and of our great
irregularity. We labor most as
siduously six months in the year and
some rest almost as assiduously the
other six months. We rest not because
of an inclination to avoid toll, but be-
cause we do not know what to do, and
because if we did know we would not
know how to do it. If mechanism
were more universal in our schools our
state might be within ten years almost
completely transformed. The oppor-
tuities are such today that almost
every farmer might as well become a
carpenter and a blacksmith in connec-
ton with his farm work. Having a
trade he could be as Industrious dur
ing the winter season as during the
summer.
Throughout all the towns of Utah
there is a manifest Task of design and
improvement. Even where new houses
are built they are constructed without
much regard to that taste and design
which almays manifest themselves in
communities where. artisans of skill
are to be found. We can to great adj
vantage introduce more of the artistic
into our lives, and homes artisticaily
built exert refining influence upon |
the entire community. Every good, !
substantial and artistic home in great
measure educates. 1t is public bless
ing. 1t is not too much to say that
where there is today one apprentice |
or one young man or young lady in
manual raining school there ought to /
be ten. Trades always characterize !
the highest forms Of Industrial life, and 1
the measure of a nations progress and /
prosperity is TO be found largely in the 4
quality and character of her artisans. |
The factory, the machine and the work |
shop not only produce national wealth, |
but they are important factors of ma |
tiOnal education. They give quality /
and force and direction to social life, !
and Utah has now arrived at that pc
riod of her existence when the demand
for artisans will increase more rapidly I
in the future than it has increased in
the past. The great majority of her
people have titled the soil. but Utah's
sons are increasing more rapidly than
her farms, and the new industrial life
Of the artisan Will be very marked
within the next 20 years. Those, there
fore, who read the signs of the times
fail to comprehend the great
Importance of a thorough preparation
for this new industrial life
But my plea for professional training
is based not alone upon the financial
that attend it, nor upon
the advantages of the professions
themselves as they are followed by
those who care to make them a iife's
work. Trades have a peculiar advan-
taSe as a preparatory training. for the
constitutes today one of the
best preparations for every kind of
business and profession in life This
lays the foundations of sue
cess; it pre-eminently educates the
Judgment, fixes the attention and Gre
ates spirit of industry, so that the
time given to manual training is not
lost, whatever ones pursuit in after
life may be.
Now that the resources of the great
west are falling more completely under
the control of the aspiring spirit of
American manhood, the advice of Hor-
ace Greeley to go west may be we'll
superseded by the advice to young men
TO get a trade.