Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-21

" your unions, and OF students of poll
teal economy everywhere. For a mum.
per OF years Just past, carpenters and
other tradesmen have been receiving
splendid wages. should except, Of
course the last year. which was mar
rcd by certain ones, who tried to con
struct n panic, and almost succeeded.
In way they were slsilful trndesmen,
but not members of your Brotherhood
and they had the panic pretty well
framed UP. But an architect and
builder a great dea1 pester and greater
and stronger, Theodore Roosevelt with
his associates, spoiled their well-laid
plans and brought their "hand-made"
panic ttimblng about their ears.
WILLINGNESS TO WORK.
In view of the steady work and good
wages you have had, there appears to
be no good reason outside of actual
misfortune, why YOU should not have
saved enough to provide yourselves
and families with homes and a little
balance in the bank. l am acquainted
With a number of men of your trade
who have built their homes after reg
ular work No man will succeed III
any line who confines his labors to 4
certain limited number of hours perE
day. An cight-hour law is a good
thing, to limit the time that must be
given to others. But there need be and
y
work for yourselves. Speaking for
nyselfI am pleased to say that in my
early business career put In from
II to 10 hours day steadily And
because 1t was to my interest to do so.
| never had any complaint to make
about working over time. IF I have
achieved any success, Il attribute it to
my Willingness to work or5myself out
side of regular hours. &
There is no doubt that men who own
their homes, free from encumbrance,
and who are Industrious and frugal,
with nice little balances to their cred
it in savings banks, make much more
| desirable citizens than drifting. thrift
less men. 1t has been said that when
| Il man gets Il bank account it takes
| him out of the socialist class. So with.
| 1.-the laboring man. Whenever he has
| saved enough to be able TO own his
home, he looks at things from an en-
tirely different light than the man
| who. though he earns good wages,
spends his money in drinking and Ca
Irousing. The latter class are likely to
think, and to declare openly. that the
world owes them a living, whereas the
world owes no man living only as
! he earns IT.
RIGHT WAY TO HIRE.
The main thing is to teach the work
| ing man independence. He should
| scorn any. help that does not come to
hiim5entirely by his own deserving, And
| each week or month, as he receives his
| pay, he should regard It as "a means
OF independence to himself and family,
4 The means by which he preserves his
ltlov6d ones from want and himself from
:l3pauperism. And with q little laid aside
/ each pay day, he Is sa fe from the time
| which must come to every one when by
/ tsickness or death or age or idleness he
l to iYotr n i1&- y,-c
| With daily. wages.
These are the lessons Of experience.
| They are impressed upon us every day
| by most striking examples. And yet
have noticed frequently in Utah, and
j suppose it is the case elsewhere, that
working men spend for tobacco and
whisky and beer the very sustenance
of themselves and their wives and chill
| dren il days of idleness or sickness.
| 1t is like taking the bread out of the
mouths and the shoes off the feet of
their helpless little ones and pawning
| them for money to spend in riotous
| living. For when days of depression
come, these little ones will cry for
| bread and their feet will be bare on
| the ground. for want of the money
their fathers have passed over the bar
and the gaming table in times of
5plenty. 1t is a disgrace for working
Imam who has not saved enough to pro-
1 vide a home for his family or any
/ other man, to spend his wages for to-
! bacco and whisky, instead of giving
them to his wife and family.
HOW MONEY GOES.
In some respects I believe it is a good
| thing for the tradesman to have his
Saturday afternoon at liberty He
works Very hard during the week. and
a half holiday is not, on that account,
| at all out of place. But there is a
| decided disadvantage in the strong
temptation to spend Il large portion of
I his weeks wages for drink. II works
somewhat in this way: He gets his check
| for the week a few minutes after the
banks close on Saturday afternoon,
i The 5saloon-keepers are only too willing
to cash the checks, in return for which
/ accommodations the man feels that
he ought To spend a little money there.
1 He secs a few friends at the bar. and
Treating" commences. Almost before
| he knows 1t, the man has spent half
/ his wages, when he knows that every
dollar is OF vital necessity to his loved
/ ones, who. are anxiOusly awaiting his
homecoming. And he has disgraced
himself and impoverished those whom
i he ought to protect.
/ use the word disgrace advisedly.
1t is a disgrace for any man to bring
! on his family this double less. In the
first place. he looses his time. which
might be spent in providing for the
q
squanderS for that which kills his man
hood and brings want and disgrace on
his family, the money that should have
! been USED for their comfort Then
when his attention is called to what he
], has done, he swaggers and says. Its
/ nobody's business what do with my
! money" And this cry of "nobody's
/ business" has been at the root of every
/ crime since the murder of Abel.
have the utmost contempt for men
| who spend their time and money So,
/ and then hide. behind the false and
/ cowardly plea OF ''nobody's business.
-THEIR MONEY. NOT HIS.
1t is somebody's business. 1t is the
! business of the wife and children. 1t is
/ their money. not his. And heaven
/. knows 1t isn't the saloon-keeper's mon
4 ey IT'S The business of the commun,s.
j on whose hands the helpless women
] and children VIII be thrown in their
/ time of poverty and despair. 1t is the
i business of the juvenile court officials,
] be fc re- whom the homeless children are
i brought every day. 1t Is the business
! of the courts and the jailers, who are
/ charged with the keeping of criminals
4 such men produce themselves and
! others. It's the business of the tax
payers. who are robbed of the fruits of
i their thrift in orderito punish the GRIM
4 mails aud support the victims of their
crime II is the business of all public