Show PRESIDENT SMITH EXTOLS LABOR at a 0 of the mutual ina im ment associations of the four salt lake city stakes F smith made tile the following excellent remarks upon the value and of lalor labor young people should le be taught nat bat it is honorable to toil toi 1 and that 11 honorable babor labor Is 3 noble and ele cie c ie abing every person in a community should contribute something to the welfare of tile people either cither the product of 0 their minds or what is just as necessary and probably more neglected neg cc the product of the hands there ire are some P people ople in this world who seem to be anxious to abold obeying the itie decree that man shall earn his oread by the sweat of his bis brow there seems lo 10 0 o be a feeling among students tude tits that any sort of labor requiring physical exertion exert lon Is menial and deneath the dignity of an educated person erson I 1 want to 1 siy I 7 that this Is L rong arong the fact is that any legiel le iti chiate manual labor is honorable and iery ciery c youth should bo be taught to con sider it as such the idler should not rie oe allowed to eat cat the bread of the worker aud the time will come when tt it will not bo be permitted every class Is dependent ou on the aberer armies and navies would perish from the earth but for the filler filer of the soil the great ions of the world could have no ex ab anee nee it it were not for the man who abers with his hands there are arc so i mi n people today looking for easy 3 w nations and modes of living that t e in that the pursuit of agri at are ti i lu to the lew few who will per 01 in al thi th to mankind the most anal ni ial nd there alk foi the most hon hen iralli 0 ill all men lien cannot live nor olied tn exist without agri liture iv to oung men get homesteads is i i ie it efful fill possession po session of tile the sell rt ou iou can produce everything ou need for yourself and at the same title fine contribute to the support of 0 the world it u ih easily done although it eguires equi rea res industry perseverance aud and it atlon A roan t r rr for with i gin farm if lie he does not at end to it personally it requires the artict attention and the best efforts ol at tile the karmi ameo vo lmae e A al s land pio bluee to its capacity or as nature in ili ended it should produce for the benefit of the human race the man mail who will produce wheat and potatoes on oil which to teed feed Us his fel is worth more than a score of those who thrive on an the contentions ot of mankind but hese bese professional men live more easily and with less effort than do the farmers and I 1 suppose that is why the bouth are desirous of emulating thorn them when gold was discovered d in ili california some of the members of the church vent there and endeavored to persuade president brigham young to lend lead the people there to settle saying that they would stand a better chance f r acquiring wealth and becoming powerful president young would not listen to them and declared that i those who staged here and tilled the oil would be better off in tile the long run than those who went after the gold of CallI oriTia lus llis prediction came true for many of the gold seekers came back p nr those thos who ob bcd his counsel acquired more wealth and power than those who sought the phantom of gold and neglected the service to humanity that comes from tilling the soil young men settle your own state ct 0 utah itah instead of going outside to build up op other localities the advice today Is ii just as rood good and just as efel 11 niclous callous us as it was when hen uttered butteri d by president brigham young stay here among tb the valleys of tte be mountains mountain and help to develop the great amour ces of our own state and do not let I 1 the opportunities go to those not r ot or our faith true we welcome thoai to our midst and have baie neter placed a barrier in their way but we ilo do not want to step aside and see them gather up nil all the opportunities and that is what they will do if we do not take adrat tate ol of the th it before as u fx ex |