Show written for this thi paper WE ALSO HAVE THE POOR the population question is one of those knotty topics which come up now and again with ever changing aspect and la is one meeting treatment serious ioui or jocular as the mood or mind may anay determine statistics in regard to births death and marriages are religiously collected by the advanced nations and many things are predicted upon the facts of decadence increase or a condition of quo some governments made marriage compulsory in ancient times or im posed a tax on bachelors warlike nations have been anxious for soldiery and nd increase has to them been a matter of concern particularly since the bar baric policy of extermination became obsolete and in modern times where war has depleted a nation france for instance and marriage has fallen to a low bow ebb the standard of height once thought indispensable for its legions has baa had bad to be red reduce uce dand enlisted men are now acceptable from one tu to two inches less jess in stature than formerly in fact the ratio of births to deaths in hat country to is really in favor of the latter or there to Is at least no increase yet nt na n t many decades ago this drift was and premiums were awarded to parents of large families as aft in exceptional cases say triplets and quartets yet are in england royalty so 0 o it is said tendering a gift in money in such calep probably however more from some ome antiquated custom than from consideration of national i nerease nc rease the natural fecundity of the english race face is somewhat remarkable mar biages and increase respond quickly to what are called good times when work Is abundant in her great manufacture rg eg een enten term statistics tell their unerring tory story of increase and as with minor this thin has been the status for balf a century her population has warmed swarmed from the parent hive into all her colonies around the globe yet spite of this marvelous nar dispersion the home population still increases how without these outlets her people might have bared would form quite a study farms farmis now untilled might have smiled with verdure land now easy of acquisition might have been beyond reach and ove over overcrowded cities might have buys be colne subject to pillage and spoliation because of the of operatives in those werning teeming centers the poor yo ye have always with you yon ay iy is an old and authoritative Veol and we may not be surprised that where density Js is as marked me it is in in the mother country poverty will be an ever present element of society ety part of this to is preventable amt surely much Is in due to detective defective bu maulty which no DO legislation would there are those naturally in disposed to work they take chances endure hardships are indifferent and without rit hout effort from an artisans standpoint settled steady employment aa 3 foreign to them they are cadgers hadgers cad gers they drift into or follow menial occupations they want no restraint seek no boss boas ask no favors content are they with a little with luck and then poverty and misery is qualified quail fled by hereditary proclivities and preferences their ambition in limited they have no envy they are born and diel alel no contrast can be made between this his class and those who would work if they had the chance many of the latter are victims of a conservative condition which is in the greater liberty of the west in old countries a person learns a trade and works at it and it is rare that this rule Is broken indeed employers want and employ only competent hands hence recommends are ex pec tedor from froin juniors their indentures that it may be seen that they have served and learned their trade to do other save in crude or common labor would be a waste of time for it i one to la incompetent twenty others watt wait for his hie if one should perchance be tried and found wanting then there is the poverty of sickness sick neos misfortune old age and indigence ai arising rising from the fact that all the resources of toil have been spent as earned to save was almost an im imo ossi Dossi ability how to put by something eom ething for a rainy day however devoutly wished was as unsolvable as the riddle of the sphinx this honorable poverty is provided for by law rates bates are levied lor or the maintenance of this deserving class and when surrounded by tests these are in the interest of the relieved so that the ineligible or thoun the undeserving may be excluded land and the ones relieved may not feel in ID any ADY way as the recipients of charity but as ae partaking of a right provided for them by society at large it might be thought that all these problems of a crowded civilization would be unknown amid the matchless resources of this wonderful laud land but poverty is beleas here as a fact of human nature land is in abundant and reachable yet our cities are becoming as unwieldy aud and as diseased asare as are cities of the old world which are the growth of ages there to Is complexity growing out of things thing presumed to be the essentials of elberty liberty and as the individual claims this as the sine qua non of existence he be becomes at liberty to live or diel there Ther elsan is an ap apparent dread of paternalism or interference with this liberty even wore were it h demon demonstrated str a ted that by its exercise the condition of men families and overcrowded cities could be relieved and yet municipalities the th state and the national government all realize that these great cities are wens upon the body politic they are the centers of discontent disease and anarchy the very same element native or foreign would if scattered be a source of strength wealth and progress both moral and industrial we boast of our large cities we point to them as among the marvels of our times timer chicago is cited for emulation as an springing from the status of an indian trading post to that of rivalry with any city of this really wonderful country within the very brief period of one man mans manis Is life but are such snob cities either healt byor desirable with the unlimited grandeur of our national domain why should we crowd until there la Is created a veritable hotbed of 1 evil such as an demands statesmanship or mayhap in a while force to restrain within any reasonable bound that the old nations have large cities to is no precedent for this they are limited lands abd their cities are the growth of ages of repression and conservatism colonization is only a modern idea an outlet made possible by the genius of commerce and coming in the last days as the fisit fiat of destiny for purposes fore shadowed for ages IQ in the past As a consequence these ranger of the earth follow in their methods the antiquated the experienced or observed duplicating overgrowth in centers when rail steam electricity and possibilities ol of rapid movement say out make your factories and foundries I 1 in n intelligently selected localities and u distribute your population where they have room to breaths breathe to plant a tree to cultivate a flower to have a bobby outside of toll toil say a garden a cow a pony a few chickens rabbits and greenery in proximity to rest refit the eye and glorify the dwelling places of those who live jive by muscle and I 1 labor as much as the combined resources J of such location will admit 1 1 we are continually urged to build u up p this city to make it attractive for strangers to compel a population and civilization but why shall we run our hotels and public buildings into the heavens when we have room enough on terra firms firma what is there to prevent j our industrial institutions from reaching ogden oa the north and provo on the bouth and then extend ing or expanding so as to cover the face of the land 12 as the scriptures have it II this city though nothing comparatively to ie following the old lines think of the price of real e estate think thine of the difficulty even the industrious man feels in getting a home of his own today think of the numbers cumbers out of employ of the winter staring them in the fact I 1 think of the needed and being made by philanthropists and religionists to meet the situation to relieve the pressure of consequent poverty and destitution every bishop of the mormon church is urging the people to donate to make sacrifice to fast as well as pray and to exercise sympathy for the distressed but Bu after tafter all this is but expediency not statesmanship it is relief not the providing of labor and the fostering of independence it is easy to call on the ladies relief society it if they have a anything i easy to call on the tithing office if it to is overflowing easy to sign an order or give a dollar but what of tomorrow next week a month from now in the spring we should be the last to fall back on the saying the poor ye have always with you 9 it might have done for that age for the gentile world it to is the mission of the people here acte te establish zion on the carthand eart hand and if pre Is ig valuable there was once lino no poor in all her bor borders derall but it needs a conclave of bishops PI and lu hi thin view all the latter day clay saints salinas may be deemed Bli bishops shops to devise to plan and reach out so that the labors of hundreds hundred of missionaries may not be thrown away or wanted waited every newcomer needs a home every now new family needs need direction we must provide for our own not on the lukewarm lines of charity but on the broad and generous gene roua lines linea of gospel duty and privilege on the lines of revelation and inspiration aiming with all our hearts for the introduction of the order of enoch the destruction of poverty the elevation of humanity and the creation of zion the joy and pride of all the barthl |