Show THE POOR OV SALT LAKE The Richfield Advocate joins in the cry of some other country papers Why cannot Salt Lake city take care of Its own poor as well as any other burg Tills has reference to the appropriation ap-propriation of 2000 from the territorial funds for work on Capitol hill It should be understood once for all that Salt Lake city is spending thousands thou-sands of dollars in taking care of its poor and the poor that hock into its I domain from other cities and from rural ru-ral districts Also that neither Richfield Rich-field nor any o her distant town is askti for a cent for the poor of Salt Lake The appropriation for work on Capitol hJl it is true was made im mediate so that unemployed men might be put to work at once But it was just as much a public appropriation for a public purpose as if it were for a road or a bridge in Sevier county That is the point to which we desire to direct attention The money was not voted to give to the poor of Salt Lake It Is not a donation It will have a charitable effect but that is incidental The remarks made by those who want to slur Salt Lake are Inappropriate hen they intimate that other parts of the territory are to be taxed for the benefit of this city As well might it be said that an appropriation for the Reform school would be taxing other parts of the territory for the benefit of Ogden or one for the Insane asylum would be tohelp Provo The building of a state house is a public requirement Preparing the foundation for it is a needful preliminary prelimin-ary If In spending some money for < that public work the unemployed poor I will be put to labor and will thus bet be-t able to sustain themselves is not that far better than that they should subsist k sub-sist by charitable gIfts in the way proposed pro-posed by the Advocate People living In Utah country settlements settle-ments are usually supplied with common com-mon necessaries for some time ahead in 0 tt ° u o Ei the winter It Is different in a city of 50000 or COOOO inhabitants A thousand men out of work means four or five thousand people destitute For they have no supplies of flour potatoes bacon and firewood for the winter but live so nearly from hand to mouth that a week or two In idleness means want and penury And that means a tremendous load for other folks to carry Tramps come into this city in shoals They have to be fed when they are starving as well as the resident poor Altogether the benevolent have constant calls upon their bounty and the aid societies are kept busily at work helping to keep the wolf from hundreds of doors While such a splendid work is being done in charity in this city for pitys sake let people and papers afar off who know nothing of the suffering and of the relief that has been daily afforded here for months cease to sneer at the condition here and throw cold water on any legitimate means of its amelioration |