| Show AN EXAMPLE FOR CITY WAGE EARNERS president jolin john A widtsoe eoe soe state ag college N for the deseret farmer fanner ml all Iol loneal lesl work is honorable the ol of the world that men must engage lit in many and vailous occupations ile he who carries bricks to the mason is just as sary v to the world orld as the bank president the all important questions lit in judging a mans alue are whether he 1 ie does well tile the work of his daily life ife and whether lie he does it a little better lay day by day however men may easily be classed as those who work for others and those who for themselves the wage earners and the wage papers the consumers on sumers and the producers producer true it Is that all complexity of the world in a sense makes every consumer a L pro producer and every producer a consumer lit in bicad terms however as applied to the lives of the majority of men it Is that we either pay wages aage td id ourselves and others or others pay us its wages lit in every human li heart art links the desire to lie independent to pay ourselves our wage to lie be in some this desire has become a name flame of passion in fit others lak lack of ener energy y has caused it to lo slumber the ress of tile the world rests primarily upon the men lit in whom this desire is s luminous lumi nouh and impelling let it slumber lumber s in the lie hearts of most men anti and alie th e world w or d will w ill pass through the lethargic lark dark ages while we differ in fit our natural powers we have equal rights right to acquire happiness the destie deslie to be independent should bo be given full opportunity port unity of fulfillment and men should seek to strengthen it there wm will always be a sufficient number of men who will be content to be wage earners if there is an any justifiable clasi distinction in ill this world it must lie based upon the distinction between the producer and tho consumer young men should begin early to plan for a career of independence of production ot of wage paying of the professions that give inde ilen dence farming stands among the foremost loic fole most in its possibilities of ease of attainment large returns healthful living intellectual anil and physical labor well blended and direct relations with nature and her ways all this has been written as an introduction tro Iro to the brief story of a i young utah boy who yearned tor for independence and who found it ten years ago lit in 1898 edwin N kearsley of the south end of 0 teton basin was a wage earner in salt lake city ills Int income orue ia wa i s abbout to 10 a month a fair wage for unskilled labor in those lays days at the end of cah month his salary was consumed nothing was left the desire for independence burned strongly within liis his breast and lie he decided to tear himself elf away flout the old ways and to throw himself upon bounteous mother nature in liis its quest he be decided to become a farmer armed with two ponies for which lie he paid S each 0 5 o for the lie first firs t homestead entry fee and a determination to woi as is halt as needs be lie slat stalled led out to find his fortune lie ile homesteader homesteaded homes tended ed 16 ISO 00 lit in teton valley the way was uphill for several years and included frequent trips to mining and lumber camps in fit the he winter timo to earn a little cash with which to buy supplies for the farm llo however weer the way soon became elster elsier today after ten years and while mr kearsley is still a oung man mail he be is a master in fit liis his own home hoine today lie has 40 acres 0 of timothy 20 acres of grain 10 acres of lucern 7 acres in meadow a large II kitchen tchan garden a lower flower garden and trees and the test lest of Ms his homestead to reak break up for cultivation without ir as described elsewhere hc e sides lie he lias his cattle horses shee sheep ind hogs to co consume limme III all lie he raises the vegetation on oil the unbroken ground and more lie he has a well we I 1 built and ami commodious tomm omm odious d dwelling in ellin house granaries cellars sheds ba bains ns machinery and all the other equipment of a well sto stocked cheil fa farm rin farm papers and other up to date reading matter come to his home in addition lie he lias has a wire wife anti and five children who are being brought up in direct contact with the purity of nature the man h a king hing tor for lie owes servitude only to god and love only to his fellow men mr kearsley Kc arsley is only one ot of many of 0 whom such a story might be told but bub there are thousands of 0 3 oung men in utah who now won by the gi armour of the white while collar ant aal the absence of responsibility should follow the example set by air kearsley anti and his kind heres the lie hope hoie that the love of independence anti and the producers and wage papers life may rage it if needs be within the hearts of 0 the he young men of utah and compel them to leave their easy wage earning jobs will always be plenty pleney of men and women to do the work of servitude if our young men will heed this lesson out our beloved state shall be a land of lings I 1 |
