Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-15
y GOOD MOVEMENT.

Some time during the month of
May business men of st. Louis issued
| an appeal to merchants. manufacturers
bankers, and other business men, to
employ more men, commencing on n
given day, and TO accord preference to
old and satisfactory employees who had
been laid off during the business de-
| preston. 1T" the circular said,
you are Manufactures, we ask that
you make a few more goods with this
labor, as we feel sure you Will need
| them in August or September at lat
est when fall trade will again become
| active. II a Merchant. take back Il
few of your old employes--we are
| confident YOU will need them, because
| business is getting better every day. II
you are a Banker. and have in the
past six months reduced your force.
and those you let out are still unem-
pIoyed, take them back If possible, or
at least some of them.''
The result of this movement for the
restoration or prosperity is said to
have been exceedingly gratifying. The
ST. Louis Republic states that the
executive committee of the National
Prosperity Association has information
to the effect that 1880 idle men
found employment on the LIST of June
in st. Louis, and that orders aggre-
eating $1,000, 900 were sent out from
that city to manufacturers scattered
throughout the country.
The efforts of the association are
not confined to St. Louis 1t is ma
tional organization, and the Chairman
of the executive committee calls upon
employers of labor everywhere to CO.
operate for the restoration of prosper
ity. In a circular just issued ne says:
Fundamentally. everything is all
| right-the basis of our prosperity
| comes from the soil, and the products
of the soil have never had greater val
ne than at present. The outlook for
crops Is marvelously promising. To
illustrate: The Winter Wheat crop,
which Is the first one of importance
that comes to our notice. is better than
ever before in the history of this coun-
try. Kansas reports condition OF
los on Winter Wheat-something
heretofore unknown. When the lum-
Der interests shut down and the rail-
roads laid off lot of their employees,
large proportion Of them went i'm
mediately To the farmers or planters,
so that these tillers of the soil have.
for the first time in many years. had
enough labor to put in full or large
crop, perhaps larger crop than ever
before. and the planting is still going
on, With n larger planting than
has ever gone into the ground. and
| with favorable weather, IL seems
reasonable to suppose that we may
have most excellent crops this year
1t looks exceedingly probable. There
| fore, everything which is the base Of
| our prosperity Is right-all that Il
necessary now is to restore confidence
so that the wheels Of commerce be-
| gin to move again with the same RAJ
| pidity that they did n year or two ago.
| when we We're at the height of our
prosperity, and from which we went.
in wonderfully short time, to a very
low stage of depression and hard
times"
This, II seems to us. is a splendid
undertaking, II is time to stop the
senseless agitation that destroys con-
fidence, and to make a united effort
to make the wheels of industry move
without a Jar. We need united CO.
operation for prosperity In this City.
II anywhere Through the ill-consid-
cred support and influence, strife
breeders have obtained, by foul means
and fair. but mostly foul, the city is
now in a pcrllous position. It takes
united effort TO put down strife and
to rescue the city from the conse-
quences OF dishonest management,
which are IN evidence everywhere.
This done, salt Lake city win pros
per as no other city In the inter-moun-
tain region. But without unity of ef-
fort with tho flames Of hatred kept
hurnlng. thero oan be no real progross.