| Show NOT A SENSATION of mingled an annoyance noy and disgust permeated the business section of salt lake city on june ath the cause of the irritation is that under cover of night dight persons employed by the ogden carnival committee had plastered the walls and aad doors of a large number of prominent business buildings with naming flaming posters the walls and gates enclosing the temple tempie block were similarly defauw defao td while announcements in red paint were daubed ou on the new pavement on south street this piece of lawless impertinence was also perpetrated pet rated upon the bill boards of anderson andersen brothers the paper which the latter had placed on them accordi according Dg to contracts they had made with different parties for bill po posting Fiting being in many instances covered by the carnival sheets they are thus subjected to injury by an act dishonest on od its face the boards being their private property their work and the rights of their patrons have been interfered with these are some of the advance fruits of a coming exhibition of boisterous and senseless frivolity connected with which there can be no symptom of the cantal strength judgment or genuine manhood it would be a stretch of erdity absurdity in which we would doi not care to tc indulge to presume that such a palpable piece of lawlessness was done in ignorance unless it Is upon the theory that all things are possible in that line aba of people who engage bugage tn in such parodies on comi common non sense as carnivals necessarily are being relies of old semi barbarism it has been stated to us that the object of thus plastering prominent buildings and defacing private property with pictorial paper was for the purpose of exciting journalistic comment and thus procure advertising for the carnival we have not heretofore no iced the coming exhibition hibi tion but seeing it has been practically forced upon us it has the appearance of a public duty that we give some attention to the subject websters definition of the word carnival is A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry to make the nature of the affair mora more clear it is needful to define the word 16 revel which signifies alro i ro fe feast as t in a riotous s a and nd I 1 law aw less m manner an to carouse to act the bacchanalian 11 2 to move playfully without reg regularity 11 in other words according to the accepted understanding of such exhibits the one which is to occur at ogden is to be in the nature of a noisy boisterous irregular mob showing the tendency of classes classe of men and women to degenerate to wari the frivolous in place of de ve loping mental solidity and prudence to such an affair as this the exclamation of the poet A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men has no do applicability it is a a whole mountain of unintelligent nonsense mixed with a good deal that takes ou on an aspect more vile than mere buffoonery according to the accepted u understanding tf of the nature of a carnival it includes carousing and drinking and these conditions are almost inseparable fro from other debasing indulgences the plausible plea for the coming carnival that we have heard beard of offered flared iq 1 that the influx of visitors to the localities where they are held brings business activity and lots iota of money to our thinking this is a low basis upon which to guage a subject of this character it is laudable to make money when the process is honest when this result is sought at the expense of common sense and public morality it is placing matters of incalculable intrinsic value helow the status of wings things that perish with the handling the stu student defit of history need not i be told that it itras h from the beginning a one potent fact tha fa tendency in men and nations toward the frivolous has invariably proved to be a symptom of mental decadence while a disposition toward the serious has been an indication ad acs ics of the growth of intelligence there is on one consideration erm which we draw some comfort that is ie that the ibe carnival is not to be held in this city where it would probably be productive of much greater harm than would result in a town of smaller dimensions it ought to be needless to state to the latter day saints that a carnival is necessarily at direct variance with the spirit of the gospel which inculcates cul cates order and serenity we have deemed it proper to say this much upon the subject thatis might not be truthfully said at any future time that there was no do protest against a matter that in its ito very nature can have no ne beneficent effects viewed from a moral oral and religious standpoint |
