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Show FOLLY OF SENDING PENNILESS SICK' TO THE WEST. There is room and plenty of it in the intermountain states for people of energy en-ergy who can enter into the upbuilding) of this great country with vim and energy. : Labor is plentiful, and the man who is physically able to labor need not be out of employment a single day. There is opportunity, too, for the man of means who would enter into the industrial indus-trial development of the country. But here as elsewhere labor is labor, and only the man who is capable of it can hope to endure it. There is plenty of room , for the able man. But- this whole country is overrun with people who have-come from all rfarts of the world in. quest of health, with little health and less means, and who are obliged to seek some kind of light employment to keep them from the poorhouse. . No man in poor health who is obliged to work that he may live, should come to this .western country. It is a crime to send pennilesw sick to the West, sick who have no hope but a letter of introduction to some friend, who is powerless to aid them to find genteel employment, the only kind which they are able to do. In this Western country the race is to the strong, and in the competition, wnicn is always keen, people suffering from incipient pulmonary troubles- will find it difficult to survive. Scarcely a day passes but some poor person arrives ar-rives in Denver and Salt Lake City with no place to go and not enough money to pay for sustenance sus-tenance a day in advance. The desire to live is strong, and the hope that the health-giving climate of the West will soon restore the lost energy is paramount, para-mount, but what are all such people to do when they are without means? They Immediately become the objects of solicitude so-licitude of the different charity organizations organ-izations of the community, and public charity is generally heartless and cold. When people in the East send friendp and relatives to the West in quest of health, they should see to it that they are given sufficient means to support them until such time as, health being restored, they can endure hard labor. |