Show OF THE EARTH EARTHY for gool good hard sense in grappling with the diall difficulty aulty of 0 bard times low ions of employment and probable hunger if not starvation the palm must be awarded the project of mayor pingree of detroit readers of the NEWS will recall that the same plan was aavo dated by this paper many weeks ago ages when spring was just opening and when this column criticised criticized the tendency of too soo many of our population to stand around idly with their mouths wide open waiting for roasted pigeons to fly in mayor proposed that the owners of idle land in the suburbs of the city add additions irions we would call aoh ouch sections here give their land for the season for the use uee of the unemployed of the municipality he ventured to predict as we did when proposing the same scheme for this local ity that the owners would rather see the land bearing a useful crop than one of weeds and that they would not only give its free use for a year to any industrious applicant but would probably aid cl him to got get the necessary wed seed too the prediction has been amply verified I 1 la a the case of De detroit trotti for at last reports over 2000 acres of arable soil had been offered the various kinds of seed eed were forthcoming and there were prospects prospect of a generous lesponne les tes to the mayors mayorie request for spare plows and otner aa agricultural tools nothing but the W willingness 9 vie of the unemployed men to do their part to is now needed to insure the complete of the scheme and ehst that may be depended upon is evident from the be stern sern tout but honest mandate that abat so far as the poor of detroit are concerned it if a man will not work neither shall he est eat within halt half a days walk of salt lake this as well as on the other side aide of the jordan are enough idle acres to furnish euston sustenance anCo to every family unemployed in this county some gome of these then acres are of course not the choicest but they will raise a crop that will well pay for the labor put upon them hem other parts however are good as lie le outdoors anywhere on the planet and yet with men hungry and idle this land to la allowed to pro duos duce nothing but sweet clover burrs burn sunflowers sun flowers sagebrush and a more or less leaa abundant crop of real estate signs it la is gratifying to observe that in many additions the vacant lots lota are this year producing corn and potatoes but there in ia room for infinitely more gratification flea fi tion of this same sort and until it is ia furnished we shall not as a community have any right to demand that help from providence which cometh with most moat certainty to those who first help themselves once more and this time emboldened by the success mayor pin gree is achieving the NEWS culls calls upon the reputable but unfortunately unemployed members of this thia community to look leok about them and make use of the resources that may be had bad for the asking congregating in idle groups on the street corners to listen to some demagogue disease discuss silver the tariff and other issues on which to raise political excitement cit ement is not half so profitable bo honest or so filling P P as aa to go to work and raise breadstuff out of the earth man camei came into it he be must most return but while be remains on its surface it will be as good to him as he is to it and only waits his invitation to treat him handsomely |