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Show WHAT A MAN IN UTAH CAN DO. B Kvrry one knows C. C. Goodwin, editor of the Salt Lake Telegram. He H Ik a most gifted writer, but one of pronounced prejudices. He demands lhar every man shall measure up to him In life's work and In doing 90 he overlooks the fac that he has been more richly endowed by nature rhn i H Ik the average man Of this we are I reminded by the following reproduced I from .Monday's Telegram: "The Ogden Standard does not like what The Telegram said recently in condemnation of those agitators who would dull the poor man's faith in him I self and lead him to believe that he Is being wronged by the rich, and that there should be a way to obtain som-thing som-thing for nothing It says ' ' Ic Is all well enough for an editor who loves his work to drop into ec BtaSfee over honest toll, but put that " name editor in the gutter with a pick and shovel and send him home at Bight to a rented hovel and his paeru of praise for the dollar ai above th j man will cease ' If we may bo pardoned for a moment mo-ment we will say that editor has tried the pick and shovel, not In the gut J ter, but where men work much hard ex in the mines, he has slopt in B I very rude cabin that he built himself j (fl. rmrl Decn his own cook, but he never I envied any one because of his mor. ' ey, ahd every morning when he awoke! and every night when dead tired, he sank to Bleep, he believed that his own hands nnd brains were sufficient j capital for him, and further, while I bragging a bit, he will add that he had ; er since worked harder than he did then, and that his rewards have not j hr-.-n such as would lead him to look ! down upon honest toll, or cause him to worship the dollar, or to hate thosu S a !io possess It I At present a healthy man can by his toil in two years lay up enough in I'tah to enable him to possess more capital than the lathers had on an average who built up the east lrom the Atlantic to the Mississippi; hence when wf hear a strong health" B man trying to blast the courage of W the working man and to cause him to stop work and begin to chase the Ignis fatuns light which the agitator holds up, we rate him as a public enemy. "The Standard is shocked at what e said of the Idle and inefficient girls that walk the streets of Salt Lake. "Wo suspoct that .".00 of the same 1 lass can be found In Ogde.n, for man fBr mothers are foolish in their affection and have falpe ideas; others are not situated so that they can do what they would desire to do. Realizing this, we would have the II State arid a year to the schooling of young misses and devote that year to domestic science, to teach them to be thorough housekeepers nnd to instruct them In things they ought to know be lore they become wives nnd mother I and assume the cares of presiding over homes." To the closing paragraph the Stand ard says. Amen; to the other state j mcnts. we offer an explanation Judge Goodwin, as a young man, was drawn to California by the gold; excitement and later he participate.! Ill the Nevada stampedes When he, was working in the mines, he dreamed of wealth untold and those fanciful thoughts were a balm to sore hands His spirits were buoyed by an un dying hope. Later he discovered hie ability to frame his thoughts in richest rich-est words, and out of hlB mind poured a wealth of knowledge. He won distinction dis-tinction among his fellow men and fell removed from uncertainty as to his own wants or those of his nearest j and dearest. A man .o blessed and mentallv constituted has an Incentive to work. But blast his hopes, destroy his dreams of success, crush hla spir its, send him out in the embrace of adversity, place him at some monotonous mo-notonous task such as the ordinary day laborer Is given and. If you do nor produce an agitator, then on closer examination you will discover a hulk of a man whose soul has fled. Work Is pleasing, satisfying, if 1; fits into one's bent of mind, and holds out an ample reward. The statement that a healthy man In Utah can by his toil in two years possess more capital than the men had on an average who built up the east from the Atlantic to the Missis slppi either means that the former builders had little or nothing or that the healthy man of today is capable of winning a small fortune. The men who fasbloued the empire of that great region east of were impelled onward principally by homesteads, any one of which prospectively was worth more than a strong, vigorous workmen today possibly can earn In two years A laborer can make of himself a Dago and by stinting himself of every luxury and many necessities and living liv-ing 60 as to be ostracised, accumulate $000 in two years, but at the end of that time he will be unfit to emerge from his squalor and mingle with his fellow men as an equal. And then, furthermore, as the average aver-age man's necessities determine the scale of compensation. If all men were to become peons ajid coolies In habits, I It would not be long before they would be paid the wages of those downtrod den creatures and then life Indeed would be a blank |
