The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-25

] up and accumulate strength for the
next weeks work. but they don't clean
up. and instead of resting they make
love TO the flask. The result is disas-
trous both to themselves and to us
| for nothing viii break men down more
quickly than dirt and drunkenness
/ combined. We have tried the plan of
keeping our white laborers busy
/ throughout the entire week. seven days
at a stretch, without giving them any
/ time to get drunk. hoping in that way
to preserve their health. but they can't
stand the strain. Many of them be-
come tramps. dirty, disreputable and
/ lazy living from hand to mouth, NOV
| ing about from place to place, steal
/ ing railroad rides whenever they get
an opportunity. and frequently losing
/ their lives under the wheels or between
the cars. There isn't a week in A
| year that some of them are not killed
on our lines, through no ones fault
but their own. With the Japs it is
different. When Sunday comes they
make things clean and take their rest
! like sensible fellows. Perhaps they
can't do as much work, man for man.
as the whites, and so a larger force
may be required. but they are always
cheerful. always healthy, always
ready to work. They never become
tramps.
Is There Work For All?
There is much talk that men can
not get work to do in this country 1t
is not so. Every healthy man who is
idle in the United States today is so
from choice. l do not say that every
carpenter can get carpenter work to
do. or that every plumber can find a
job at his trade, but if he will take
;,lIa -,
country can go to work as soon as he is
ready to- At this moment there are
jobs ranging in pay from $1.25 to So and
81 a day for 100000 men in the north
west. There are no doubt, enough idle
men in this region to fill all these jobs.
but they are men who have dropped
out of healthy. active life into the life
of the loafer in the manner | have de-
scribed. In a sense this condition of
things is enough to make an observ-
ant man pessimistic. but a broad view
throws 4 different light upon it. To
offset the army of idle. vicious men
for idleness breeds viciousness-there
is a great body of busy, prosperous
farmers, business men. professional
men and employees in Minnesota, in
the Dakotas in Montana and away out
to the coast.
1T may be true that the wilfuIly
might be taken for disquieting sign
by the faint-hearted. But there is a
remedy. and it is self-acting; the doc
trine of the survival of the fittest is
eternally true. and those who will not
work cannot eat.
Words to Young Men.
Were 1 asked to give definite adj
vice to a young man of intelligence and
health. but without capital or the
training of the schools. / should say,
first of all. that he must remember
that opportunity has much TO do with
success in any place, and in any cir
cumstances, in other words, there is
something in luck. At the same time
luck and laziness don't go together.
and opportunities will not hunt him
up. He must look for them and work
for them and. after all. the measure of
success depends good deal upon the
man. Such a young man as you sug-
gest could not win if he were bent ON
living as if he had an income of thou
sands. while his income were not
more than from $500 to $500 a year But
let him work steadily live prudently
and give signs of intelligence and en-
terprise, and help will eventually come
to him. In truth, help for such young
men is constantly looking for them to
take it: help to buy farms. help to take
charge of enterprises, small at first,
but in this period of rapid evolution,
sure TO grow into something we'll worth
while: help of greatly diversified sorts
No one who reflects a bit can fail to
see the falsity of the notion that the
day of rapid development of big enter
prises has past 1t is true, for instance,