Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-18
Peace May Not be Achieved
Among Men Except by
Nobler Manhood.
OPTIMISM HAS BEEN SHAKEN.
Graphic Portrayal Of Poverty stricken
Conditions Which Drive Men
10 Thc,ery and Crime.
special Correspondence.

readers OF the News" and now as |
am westward bound and turning my
back on the great eastern cities l
thought few impressions and thoughts
gained by experience and Investigation
in actual life for over two years, might
be OF interest. My every hour has been
occupied mainly in defending the poo-
pie Of my state and telling the EASTERN
ers the beauties OF our mountain home,
our resources, our advantages for home
and business. II gives one commng-
ling OF peculiar thoughts ON human
life TO see II AS | have seen 1t lived
IN the east / nave read the splendid
editorials IN the News ON Peace
and War" 1.-THE Criminal Wave Till
mans Speech" and many other articles
bearing on the question of peace on
earth" and of turning swords into prun-
ing hooks. etc.
/ have sat Ill Mr.. Carncgie's peace
congress and listened to the aristoerat-
&C. orators of the day as to the fruit OF
The tree being bettered by pruning me
top branches or huzzing around the
roots. Perhaps IL can be done ! nope
40. But child is not man untlI de-
veloped.
am stin an optomist, but my opinion
has been little shaken. Many people
do not wish TO see or near ahytnlils
that Jars the equilibrium OF their pleas
alive, TO keep an eye open ana I, lister.
ing ear 10 the noises and rumblings OF
horror all about us
Many people are like the selfish tel
low who sat on The upper deck OF q
shin smoking cigar and when ms
brother came running to him in anguish
from the lower hold eNclaiming, isaac,
Isaac the machinery OF the steamer 10
broken. the ship is sinking, sinking
ansewred, carelessly after another pun
lat oil
belong to U.S. l want TO say that the
machinery of our life boat is out OF or
der and | want 10 eNclaim thal the
ship does belong 10 MS, as one great
Brotherhood and each of us-mah OF
woman should do their part towards
Fighting H.
THESE ARE ACTUAL CONDITIONS.
am not writing on the slurns OF our
great cities, but on the conditions that
exist In the very heart of our every
day life Reason has given me the
light TO see many sad and many pathe-
tic pictures pertaining 10 this physician
existence confess the pathetic SIDE
Is uppermost in my mind today for
have heard the groans of the starving
and the walls OF the oucast ana untor-
tunats.
No man can be truly happy while
surrounded by scenes OF horror, suffer
ing ard poverty and feel as the poet
felt when he said III the spirits In hea-
ven can see the ruin and wretchedness
here below" they too are unhappy.
have gazed at the grandeur ana at
the awfulness OF our present day ctVli-
ization and have asked what is 1t all
about? / have reached one conciu-
sion namely, that the present status is
at very low ebb and that IL STANDS
for concealment, rather than for hu-
name achievements Not wrong do
ing, but being found out, people shun'
and this II is that causes pain, ana win
those who infiict the punishment there
seems to be no higher purpose than get
ting the dollar. CO., ~.
whole for fully realize that all across
the ages had it not been for the few
the ship would have sunk long ago
POVERTY is APPALLING.
The poverty and inequality in the
east is appalling, and honesty is not a
recommend. Thousands OF people are
pleading for work and hundreds wont
work at all. At given times at nlsht
thousands stand in line waiting Tor
cup of coffee and a biscuit, me en-
ployer Is IA monarch, the toiler plead
er, a suppliant waiting for CRUST
from a masters table.
In PHILADELPHIA they have society
known as the Sunday Breakfast asso-
citation. Here can be seen from l,2OJ 10
1000 men and women In line, lighting
for their place 10 get cup OF coffee and
a little food with d side dish of religion
thrown in. They arc OF all nationalities,
all types but with manhood and wom-
anhood gone; beggars, receiving aims
from their fellows, with no thought OF
helping themselves, nor with anyone 10
point the way. There is barely teach
e,. of a nobler manhood in the field, and
thus humanity drifts like helmless
vessel.
Those who work are overworked.
worked to death, and In the main they
work Just for their board. When mis-
fortune overtakes them they are SIM
ply outcasts and fall into the wretched
line for coffee and bread.
MANY of our well known writers con-
tinually write and urge the poor dew
lis TO work. work, land she sang the
song Of the shirt" Don't look al the
clock for quitting tinae, but work
work, work" And so the toiler tolls
and Inc master rides and smiles. Tho
writer's travel and are healthy ana
happy, but the curse of Intense anxiety
is plainly visible on the Impoverished
faces OF the toilers.
NICKEL AND PENNY BASIS,
There is a class of people after the
dollar. business and money MAD, put
the majority are after the nickel
and penny. Every phase of life is ne-
llred from a penny basis up to the MIC
KEEL. There Is no confidence between
man and man: life is cold and harsh
Trust no one" is the motto. The In
stallment man says ia glazing ads
Your credit Is good but MS lie,
That Is simply bait to allure the poor
toIler into the snares OF debt Dishon.
esty stalks throughout the lard aud
men have lost their reason. IN New
York city every door mat is chained 70
Its place for safe keeping. Nothing "
safe beyond the care OF watchiul eye
Placards are hung in all the resthu-
rants, Watch your oveTcoat and bat
many have been stolen" and even then
tho thief gets 'em. The genips Of an.
other class Is taxed 10 invent locks and
racks for coats and hats, FhlpYely
seems 10 permeate tho air. People IN
street cars are held up In the busiest
parts of the city
The street railway company has hung
In every car giving a warning To pas
sengers thar no transfer viii be given
unless asked for tho moment the fare
IL paid.
I saw on Thlrly-fonrth street car
an old lady pay her fare IA the uni
formed machine man" mi the old
soul WIS hardly quick enough 10 ASK