| Show A reasonable REQUEST the petition presented at the last list se session S of the city connell made a serious and reasonable request that public works be continued through this trying season BO so that honest may hare h aye an opportunity to earn bread tor for their families bach sach a thing as excess of paternalism in government ia is not to be ba feared in ogdon and the welfare of all should bo be the ward of men holding for or a little time the position of true trustees toes for the people an appeal from the laboring classes should always receive a patient attention and a more friendly consideration cin than a petition from any other class because the wealthy have power to remedy their own afflictions and redress their own wrongs which the toiling millions do not always the right to work la Is an inherent antons one it ft is aa as certain and definite def laite aa as the divinely commanded necessity for toil toll and when a man has asserted 1 I am willing to labor he baa his declared not only bis his manliness but he has said aa as much as though these words were added and I 1 must have some share in the vast work of the world so that I 1 and mine may live while the council cannot in a day sot not on foot any considerable plan of extension of the bublie works and while with the limited revenues at command it cannot give work to all the unemployed it may and it should go as far aa as the finances of the city will permit in affording labor for laboring men and food and clothing tor for their wives and little onea ones |
