Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-25 | Page 12 | Give the Unemployed Work!

GIVE THE UNEMPLOYED WORK The general tone tOile of the thc eastern tern press i is that business business busi busi- ness is About to resume a normal condition except that the he resumption on of great industrial enterprises cs is going to be he either cither slow or 01 a as a- aall an all engineer engineer would say mr at nt half stroke And right there it seems to us its is where the government should step iiI in It has hill some Rome mighty enter enterprises rises to carry throe through h h it seems scents to us the time time dine to inaugurate and press their work is just when so m 0 man many idle men need employment for enforced enforced enforced en en- forced idleness idlene s on the part of men who want work is a double menace Their families suffer which is i in itself tel an incent incentive e to crime an and the they grow bitter as the they reflect upon the H abundance seen and that among such abundance no work can be provided through which the they con can earn carll a living f for r themselves and for fOl those dependent upon them theme And it is just as clear that in providing plO and paying paying pay pay- ing for fob this work there l be bc no resort to the usual md method ho l of floating interest bearing bonds to raise the money If greenbacks 1 with 4 in ingold gold golI old behind them were ere good when the time population of f this countr country r was but rund the property y values alues of the country countr y aggregated not Jot more than then r O in greenbacks in iii li addition would not be too much with the population more C than doubled and the property increased per cent And the law authorizing the issue issue can ean provide pro for its retirement at the rate rute of per annum beginning twenty five years cars hence when hen the needed construction work shall have been completed com com-