| Show ilow HOW TO CURE cune THE PLAGUE the following which is from tb thie christian union U ill on will do w well weli el I 1 tok tor people in utah to read react and ponder over and make a local application of we discussed la t week with some fullness the injuries inflicted upon public morality by a depraved journalism which tramples under foot our inalienable rights of privacy and debauches the minds of men by filing filling them with inane and unwholesome matters and ministers to vice and I 1 immorality m by spreading abroad the details of all the vile and abominable events that take place in the community of the evils that asali asail a assail sall sali our hoines hotnes and threaten the lite of society thi this thib is Js by no do means the least what is the cure for this curse obviously i it is not dot to be found in le isolation not noi nol in any methods of organized reform the true remedy is much simpler and more effective than any begalor legal or social nos arums that the wit of man could devise it consists in the refusal an on the part of good citizens to patronize those journals which thus array themselves them selve against public morality every very buyer of a newspaper news paper which ahl ch is addicted to suh practices is the aider alder and abettor of this iniquity A firm and indignant refusal to permit these vile sheets upon his premises prem ibes or to have lave any kind of dealings with them is the plain duty of 0 every decent man marr A contribution of two or three cents a day toward the corruption of the public ab morals is not much it is true but if there are enough contributors the work can be successfully prosecuted respectable spec table tabie a e christian I 1 ri I 1 men are contributing millions illions of dollars annually for this purpose durpos they thes hey hes ought to stop it at once let et them say to the purveyors of filth and scandal I 1 you wish to make inake your paper acceptable to the criminal an and vicious classes vp very well get your patronage from those thos classes make alake your ded in the gutter and lie in it do not come to us soe foe countenance gr or support neither as subscribers nor as advertisers will we give our money to aid in scattering the so seeds eds ef of impunity impurity and mischief mii millions for intelligence hut but not one cent for scandal in almost every community some newspaper can be found thatis that is fairly decent let decent people give to such newsy newspapers apers their patronage if none buch such such exist in the immediate neighborhood the mail will bring one from some other place the local news is sometimes worth knowing but it it is by no means indispensable when we are absent for days or weeks at a time we lose the reading of tue local news and do not feel that we have suffered any serious loss im lorrant facts are sure to come to our i knowledge now ledge whether we wel road read the local column ii or not and with respect to the great mass of the unimportant facts ignorance is bliss the possession of a local daily is not essential to the intelligence or welfare of ny in dividu al or any aby family if it is edited with judgment and conscience suca such a paper may be desirable but when it becomes the sluiceway through which the brime crime of the nation and the filth of the corn community mii mil discharged itself into your home I 1 the talk about its being indispensable is preposterous the tile slight advantage that is gained by the acquaintance which it furnishes you with the small smail matters that are happening around town is not to be considered in view of the contamination that it is spreading lie ile who has the misfortune to reside in a community in which theress there as no dally journal that keeps its columns clean may therefore obtain all the real news of the day all that it is necessary for him tot to know by subscribing for a decent daily newspaper published in some neighboring place his intelli intelligence gende may be a few fcc hours old when he gets it bul bui what of that it IL will undoubtedly be regarded by many goad good americans as a great reat iier lief heresy esy but we ive shall nevertheless make bold to affirm thad thac a happy useful and anil intelligent life may be lived without reading any daily dally newspaper whatever algood A good secular weekly that condenses and summarizes carefully the news of the week will acquaint any man with the facts that he needs to know he ile who gets his information of the worlds dings dinge from such a source and devotes to the reading of good books the hours that he is wont to spend upon the spun out details of the interminable and e everlasting ver ser lasting reporter will not suffer lwe any great detriment we do not however wl wish I 1 sh to disparage the value of good daliy daify news pa papers judiciously edited by man who gers 0 have some worthy conception of what news is worth prin printis tim they are of service to the most thoughtful ul men our own impression is that the dail dall dally daily newspaper future will be a mu much less portentous sheet than those which are now daily offered us in our chief cities that the news will be greatly sifted and anti condensed that the tte reporter will vill cease to expatiate a and d learn to five give gire us the simple facts tiit that that we shall shail not be obliged to wade through columns of unreadable type to get information that could be compressed into a paragraph by and by it will be begin in to daw dawn n upon us that life is too short for the daily perusal of these blanket sheets and we shall call for an intelli intelligent ent editing of the news of the dav but whatever form the tha journal of nnie future may take it is clear that those journals that are propagating vice are arc not fit to survive and the sooner they are killed the better if 11 this judgment J were enforced there would be a great slaughter among our daily newspapers but the nation would wo ald aid be rid of some of its worst enemies these enemies can be conquered most s speedily by cutting off their supplies this is the plainest of bf duties the man mail who buys or advertises in tainted journals becomes the accomplice of its managers the consciences of Christi christian men need much quicken quickening ingin in this regard it is because of their silence in complicity that the evil has grown to its present magnitude when they withdraw their support from the venders benders of scandal the business may not be destroyed but it will be greatly restricted there is one other remedy rather more heroic that may be found effectual if the tainted newspaper is turned out of our houses its editor and manager lusht not to be made at home in them theme the man who gets his living by peddling vile and scandalous news new s is not dot a gentleman he ile ought not to be recognized anywhere as a gentleman I 1 tl IC decent society ought to i shut u it its doors a against ainest him as it does against the saloon keeper and the gambler the edem enem enemies les ies of society deserve social ostracism there are few worse enemies of society than the responsible manager of a u newspaper who wilo tills fills the columns column S of his journal with the details of crime and the disgusting miniature of domes tic gossip wd and social scandal there is money to be made by it of course but the people who get their money in this way ought to find their company among those to whose low tastes they pander |
