Show I 1 SOCIAL HE IN the th ago aall nl stern ent the tendency of f the Tir oliue eris EDS in a former article aclei wo we alluded to tho the metropolitan aspect of our oar population embracing As it does representatives from almost t every country toil ana class aloia in m christendom the majority of course courie are members or the bo mormon church and the e coheir co heiT power of 0 A corn com una nim irita in ia connection with a rigid surveillance that with sleepless vigil area reaches a large number dumber whose fears 1 cirii are stronger tr thin their faith unites otherwise discord ailt material in ia a scorning if not real unity to a garefal soil od unprejudiced ob it would appear that tho the young men of tho the mormon gersna defor are poorly fitted to tho the place of groy boaras I dignitaries of the church who in tho the ordinary oci of 0 rat kattire tire must mul BOOB awn pass from tho the sago t aga of action at riki rare intervals some yott lilal aspirant ks tor for leadership is between older speakers in the publio soralee eme of 0 tho the taber nado or ward meeting houses lint but the contrast between the milk and nil water platitudes of the abo juve j n bilg orator and nd tho the rude eloquence of the elder or is il painfully apparent the influential majority of the met mormon loiters leaders were veto originally nall 17 wor liall members in the various clieta scots melt of anil and are re antha deally if not fanatically sincere in their beldor and earnest in their efforts to propagate the wn new gospel as 11 given by joseph smith is THE guldi and foro abil culture tho the exception among the rising gonerd onor aion t tion of 0 mormon Mor moon a with the establishment lish ment ol of freo free schools a disruption of 0 the ha unnatural union of 0 church and ni state sad ad the growing influence ol of 1 h ristian households and bd resulting independence ol of thought and expires bion there will bo be evolved a higher plino plate of social and intellectual life tho the acknowledged virtues of morality industry and contentment which t abo fogrest great massof mif of mormon morman people furnish a basis upon which to engraft this higher social slid and intellectual lik life and warrants the th belief that the abo people of utah will eventually compare favorably lavor ably with that of say any section of 0 his favored land with regard to tho the interior household wo life of tho the mormon people but low few if say gentiles are q qualified by intimate acqua with it to furnish a just jost estimate ot of its lights and sha shadows dowis whilo while there is 18 pleasant neighborly relations existing bo be tween contiguous mormon and aca win tilo families calliea fla and tho the children ol of each aro are bail follows well me met in their childish sports there la IS a folt felt diversity of feeling and sentiment mounting amounting to which effectually pro prevents the enjoyment of int intimate imato social relations THE GENTILE klyur ST enterprising and migratory has hai its varied its brig bright b t s nil d d dark ar k sides sat lut few fair of tho the gentiles intend to make maka utah a permanent homo home with the exception of a small class of business men who have hato broken away from tho the mormon church they rarely rarely own tho iho homes they occupy they lease poorly tenement 8 t high rent irom from thrifty mormon landlords who loyy lovy ton toll upon the inter interloping loping baby I 1 with an adroitness e cdail ol to that of tho the ancient israelites ia 01 avilea they spoiled the iho egypt aiau tiis ono elms clan of 0 gentile clety around tho the various religions organization episcopal oatho cattail lio lie methodist Motho Moth diat odist presbyterian nod congregational each of which aro are ably bly represented horo hero by learned and eloquent diVIn divinci dit inca CS although the worthy members of these thesa souls are arc really animated by groat great ho held in ia trade and no fe fealty ai t to on ono ai aad tho the simo divino divine L d r thra is I 1 yet wanting 1 ting tho the outward ot I 1 is real unity of thought and nd notion action other for docial and business busi acsa purposes exist exio t and flourish among the gentiles but thero there is ia a manifest want of SOCIAL lira LIFE a anil ad the abundant material for an organized gani galli zed zoil and cultured cullor cd society which eouts abts here is is iorg largely oly wasted in tho the narrow and provincial channels chinn clr in is isolation and estrangement estranged estran geI at la the of BO amablo ad an influence tho the fast element over ever present ia an all mining and epee alatore communities comes aromi 1 I to 10 the abo sur surface raco and the theater atar th the c race course and the ho baloon 10 at aro patronized liter bt cr than the church charch the lecture room and the library wo we lavo bavo macy wealthy race men but ant they thoa aro are too often so in tent upon the fine eno feast of cent per der cent aad so tattle to the well worn sheep walks over which some self clocked bellwether bell wether of society leals leali hu his complaisant flook that neither their ears or purses are open to the crying want of tho the oily city for libraries ariot reading art ait galleries parks and the homes of the tha east send fend as their dearest treasures in the shape of stalwart young men mca who open our mines and contribute to out our material success what orovil ion his has this wealthy city mado for their comfort and recreation where are the iha well warmed and lighted coffee houses and reading rooms room with all the ol of innocent amusement sustained OS as in ia other cities by tho the benefactions bene factions of and spirited epi citizens the fathers and mothers of those young men rightfully demand of us that wo we exert ours ourselves elies to protect pretext them irom from tho the glided gilded devia who would luro lure them to perdition wo we have hardly barely alluded to somo some of the salient nolats ol of our oar social lilo 1110 nature has h marled marked out the site ito of a a city and stamped upon it tho t 0 insignia of material materia I 1 success it remains mains for citizens to dc aide whether its ila social and intellectual lifo life abala correspond with natures loa tures perfected work os ON ALT LAKE taly july lo 10 1875 |