| Show A CONDITION AND A CURE CUBE referring to an editorial in this paper a few days davs ago touching the problem of the unemployed during the winter now drawing near a correspondent dent who writes from the stand of a member of the mormon church needing employment for himself and for the support of a family makes make a dugges sion ion which the cordially a approves I 1 a and nd 0 urges upon the atten tion of ibm whom it may concern this la Is to the effect that a committee commit teW of practical and energetic men be so ae leoter to inquire into the actual oar cum curn stances of the unemployed latter day saints and help furnish employ ment for them anti and thus thua mitigate no aa far as aa possible the unhallowed condition of enforced idleness idlene ia in thin thi locality the letter from which this thia extract to taken points out that many of thosa who find and themselves cut of work have in the past performed effective service in the interests inte reata of the church at home and abroad also that many more have of recent years come here its as emigrants emigrant from foreign lands landa and have had little or no opportunity of obtaining bomeal or ot of making provision for future exigencies igen cies the onerous burdena ot of rental bondage are feelingly dwelt upon an aa la is also alao the perplexity therein to loan an honest man who finds finda himself quite unable to meet hla his engage mento to hla his landlord it to la hinted that on the part of those who area are able bleto to give employment there la Is indifference to the request for labor an and d that the tendency and spirit of the times to la to dishonor the toller toiler and permit the poor and helpless to drift to a condition of despair and ruin sy gloomy as la Is the vis view w thus taken of the conditions surrounding us ua we feel fee called upon to say there to la too much truth in it to an industrious man nothing can be more withering and barie baneful ful in its ita effects than enforced idleness nothing more quickly destroy his bia usefulness as aa a member of the community or sooner robs roba him of the self golf respect that should belong to anabe characteristic of man created in the image of his bia maker humiliation and hopelessness swiftly come to him whose appeal for employment excites no more thought or sympathy than the wail of the mendicant men may button up their pockets and pass swiftly by the person who makes begging his business but they hey can never be justified least of all in this thia community in turning a deaf ear to the petitions peti tiona of those who having the inalienable right to live ask aak only to be put in the way of earning that which to la necessary nece seary to life oo on the part of immig immigrants however we believe there has been altogether too much of an inclination to crowd into this and other cities instead of getting out into the smaller settlements settle menta where the cultivation of the earth la 4 the pursuit of most moat of the people the tendency Is unfortunate and as a has been frequently shown in the these columns a grave mistake if it had been adopted from the beginning utah would never have won the proud reputation she holds today as aa a eom coma mon wealth of homes and of independence pen dence there should be no change in the policy that has baa produced good results in the past the borders of zion still should be extended extend eds her cords lengthened her stakes strengthened in seconding therefore the motion for a committee to inquire into the condition that confronts us today and to devise means for its ita correction we trust this phase of the subject will receive consideration and that the soil aois with its powers of sustenance and its invitation to independence be placed in advance of temporary ape oat oper offer d t ewt Aft ottay no P am of the ever jelt of |
