| Show ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE TIMES W have several times alluded to the criminal statistics and prison investigations of this country by which it has been established that education as the term is generally used is no antidote for crime that is a knowledge of things commonly taught in schools schee Is toes does not deter people from wrongdoing but on the contrary the wider the information possessed by a criminal the greater are his criminal crim iaal abilities this the educated scoundrel is the greater rogue something more than mere training of the intellect is necessary to proper instruction the moral and abd religious faculties must be aroused and informed and brought into healthy action or the education of the individual will be incomplete A recent el into the affairs in the chicago prison of toilet joliet has disclosed that of 1491 1494 convicts there only could be called illiterate but were unable to write althou although h they could read 1087 had bad a tair fair egi education cation and were college graduates the public school system ot of the united states is not favorable to that moral and religious instruction which appear to us essential to proper culture there was one feature of this examination however which developed an important fact that we think will be viewed by even irreligious persons as significant and worthy of attention ioa seventy seven per cent of those criminals were entirely ignorant of any trade whereby they might earn an honest livelihood only seven per cent were ever apprenticed and the remaining sixteen per cent had bad picked up a trade by casually working at it but had not been trained to any regular labor or business that idleness is a the devils workshop will be generally conceded As a rule when people can find reaumer active employment tor for which they are adapted crime is not likely to be rampant this is something tor for political economists to consider work ton for the boys and girls young men and young woman growing up in the territory is absolutely necessary if we wish to have a proper condition of society it is useless to talk of manual training and an apprentice system unless there are openings for labor when trades are learned utah needs manu factories and workshops even more than schools there are many of the latter in which much improvement is needed no doubt and but few of the former schools of industry are to be commended and advised the training of the hand and the eye and all the physical powers as well as the head and the heart the mind and the spirit is needed here and elsewhere the public interest is being turned in tuat direction and the once ridiculed precepts of president brigham Brig hara young on that subject are now becoming quite popular but unless we have work lor for trained hands to do the training will avail but little where are the wise who will create avenues for labor where are the wealthy who will invest in something besides merchandise and commerce the idle labor tor for the coming multitudes by natural increase and the other kinds of orations grat ions are the pressing needs of the times ob bh for the exercise of the powers of the bishopric to plan for the interests of the poor by making it possible for them all to labor all the great centres bentres of pop ile atio in the land are crowded with ade unemployed this lack of labor largely contributes to the flood of crime something for every person to do uy which to live and thus be measurably independent training in useful branches ot of industry and in works of art moral and spiritual development in connection with intellectual culture these will keep crime at a minimum and aad help to make a healthy and happy social condition here and in any other place upon the face of the globe |
