Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-07
LAW AGAINST IDLENEss,

Rev. Dr. S. d. Mcconnell writing
from Easton, Md. to a Brooklyn paper
suggests that negroes be compelled TO
work, If they have nothing to do for
themselves,
lie argues that they are but children
IN many things, and need looking after
lie says they have the careless in
difference and lack Of forethought, that
dislike Of sustained and continuous la
Dor those feeble and tickle moral ideals,
which 1t has taken ourselves thousands
OF years to outgrow" lie thinks 1t
would be just as right to compel negro
TO work in the field, or the shop, as II
Is to compel a child TO go TO school.
And he argues in this manner
Within sight, as | sit here, are the
cabins Of dozens Ut negroes II Is har-
vest The farmers are unable 10 secure
laborers to save their grain, The road
master cannot get men TO repair the
highways. The housekeeper can get no
help In her kitchen Here, also. are
idle colored men and women sitting
about the doors Of their cabins or lying
in the sun. Next winter, as last, they
viii be begging and offering Why
should not truant officer for grown
children have the power 70 send this
stalwart young negro whom / see saun-
tering about TO Mr. Blank, who wants
man In the wheat field, fix the terms OF
labor and payment and see to 1t that
they are kept? Why should he not send
this strapping colored girl to work In
Mrs, Blanks kitchen upon the terms
that she be paid a certain wage which
he shall fix, and that she be taught TO
cook?
Are We drifting back to slavery times
again? 1t is certain that the negroes
are denied the right Of citizenship in
many places, They are ostracised, So
cially They are denied the right Of
trial by the courts. And now We hear
voices for the re-estabishment OF In
voluntary seryitude. Are we going back
to ante-bellum conditions? No such Jaw
should be enacted, unless 1t could be-
made TO cover all cases OF idleness, both
white and black But what would then
become Of the thousands with plenty Of
money but no desire for honest work?
II would go hard on them? ldenesS
Is root Of much evl and any success
ful measure for the suppression OF that
vice, would be a boon 70 the country
hut It should be made Of universal APP
plication,
The more liquidation the less water
In stocks
Is Professor Langley.s airship mere.
ly am airy nothing
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Whitaker Wright seems to be the
Wright man in the right place
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The stock markets stomach has
turned against the undgested secure |
ties
Pennsylvania can sympathise with |
China In her efforts to suppress those
Shanghai editors
Two of the escaped Folsom coUvcts
have been captured. The others are
sum delegates at large.
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Canada favora compulsory voting /
That is O. form Of compulsory education
Boz The duties OF good citizenship.
SO one seems TO know just vino @
was that turned on thc ug That lot
Doe water out OF so many stocks
Senator Hepburn Of Idaho wll wed o.
quaker lass This shows chat Oh. |
senator Is anxious 90 lead a quiet lila /
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There is 20 be 900 International cone |
l-ss oi weather prophets win % ue
sir or foul weather dW.ug ls a.tncs.
10 H proposed TO erect % monument |
-o Tho memory of Emile Zoll. OF /
.o.rs. Do wW be built upon La Terra
Wa. PAu augs she receives
twar-mm touaa .ud four cents d
word Surely ae aish notes are bank
ro,e-
Cub. m.s.lls t very good treasury
rfor. aol ,he condition Of TIE treas-
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