Show THE CLOUDS ARE RIFTED it la Is not so very cloudy in the west after all it may not apt be bright and balmy as a few years ago but it be homem bared that spring would be but gloomy weather if we had nothing else but spring in ID the great aud and weal lity city of new york an army of people greater than any that xerxes A lexander alexander hannibal scipio africans Afric anus frederiek frederick the great or napoleon ever looked upon is engaged in a daily struggle some few to increase their already en ed armous possessions a great number to pass pan beyond the condition of being merely comfortable and enter the domain of wealth and perhaps as many as an are contained in the whole of utah territory are in actual want of these a low lew by comparison but a great number considered alone are hungry and destitute dependent upon chance and charity for the means of subsistence from day to day there is no such much thing in existence here except in isolated and unknown oases chicago is nearly as large a city as new york just now in point of ef population it is probably quite as large it also is a wealthy municipality but in spite of the teeming millions of property and money contained within its borders there is in riot not only poverty but want and even squalor so widespread as to be appalling unlike their brethren further sass eat the unfed multitude do not wait for succor to reach them through the cold aad tardy hands bands of charity they take up arms and light fight the prospect to Is that they will continue fighting until a change of circumstances by doe means or another shall take place there was a riot yes erday one the day before probably one today and the authority and power of the city are at a constant tension to maintain even the semblance of law and order happily we are free from this too or anything skin akin to it so far the umas times are somewhat out of joint but less lees so with us than many others the line dividing capital from those who primarily bring it into practical being ip not made less aist distinct inot by reason of appeals to reason and resort to arms but more so the chasm separating the classes from the masses is not narrower but wider and it seems as though the few remaining bridges were being out one after another taken away and destroyed this relates more lore to other sections than to the west wesl where the social plane has not yet won been so acutely tilted that only those on the upper edge can maintain their positions we are airs in most respects a highly favored people our chief misfortune mis mW is that we do not realize the extent to which we are blessed blee sedi and by reason thereof are not as thankful as we ought to be in many cases money to is not dot active whether plentiful or otherwise industries are closing up or running on reduced schedule employment of a general character oter to is hard to obtain and there is a greater percentage than usual in our midst of those who do not want work and prefer to live by their wits or on the labor of others failing in these by crime these or some of them now and then commit a robbery or perpetrate some other dastardly outrage but the number of such occur rOL ces has not yet assumed such much proportions as to make the condition epidemic or anything resembling such a stage this year enough grain was wag raise in utah to eted its population for two years to come at least the staple fruits and vegetables are as usual so go abundant that a large proportion will go to waste there to is plenty of stock of all kinds and bay to feed it with most moat of the people are comfortably housed and close by are the caverns and gorges of the hills abounding in all the fuel needed for a century where then is our danger and wherefore the trepidation and foreboding which oame some few seem to be possessed pow essed ol of it is true that there cannot be much activity no matter what our possessions without a medium of exchange in sufficient volume it is also true that as we cannot subsist upon gold silver dilver or paper if we had to choose between such extreme con dit ionis we would place ourselves exactly where we are having then what we must have in order to live and measurably enjoy living we can much better afford to wait for the transfusion of financial blood which is to make the pulsations of the body politic more regular and more vigorous than if we or a great number of us were hungry and cold the money needed will come along in due season meantime we are not badly oft off at all |