Show AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM inoue in one of abo the northern counties of this abia state there Is ie a town cholie e in habitant babi tenta approach 2000 Is in number they abey live exclusively by farming fur ming ant and from aeed time after harvest are very busy but from fi the time when snow begins lo 10 fall un til spring open they hava very little to do an intelligent gentlemen gentleman residing in the town ref referred orrea to lately made the explicit de declare deo lara clars tiou that not six persons in if it earned their own living during ova five months of the year one or two store stored clerks the ibe postmaster and one shoo shoe maker have steady employment but these are about all the persons in abe place of whom this can be sald laid during the winter which to la always long counting boys who are old enough ti t work there must be fully men mea 1 in that town who do not earn the j 1 bread they eat during nearly half the 1 year that Is to say eay in that oft one 1 town the wages of men for five months or of such each year are utter ly squandered expressed in dollar dolla that town wastes per day per mouth month of 26 days daye or per year allowing wages at per day the amount the people of that town waste in ID this way would pay day for every dollash dollas lo 8 worth of property in the tow tows towi i in five years I 1 in a other words that tha toom coma throws away every doll dollart it arft worth of property it owns every five years or the equivalent thereto abla to is a startling showing this town Is not singled out for the purpose of making an distinction or casting any reproach upon it its people are as moral and aad industrious as the average ot of the state and they enjoy the creditable distine ol oi atino stine tion of not having in their midst fr single place at which liquor is sold a circumstance all the more creditable and remarkable when th the large elarge amount ot of jolene idleness is 18 considered many neighboring show a record ot of waste per capita fully equal to them th above the simple fact is that the people ot the town above singled on out S and oc 00 cores of others similarly cannot help themselves until a change ball boball be wrought in the conditions that environ them employment must be erected or this waste which is ie appalling when expressed lu iu figures figure must continue the wonder la is not that umes umea are hard in the rural districts of utah but that the people after afier sustaining touch a drain are as aa well off as aa they are just juat here la is a problem of more aerl one moment and of much more direct application to the people of our young state stage than to is the silver question or the tariff or any other issue in national loB we stand and game afar off in ia an effort to rod fiod a solution for the distant latant ll problem but who of us ua is ie try to solve the stupendous one ot of employment for home labor |