Show SENSELESS amusements WE BELIEVE in the necessity and benefits of recreation we rejoice when working people take a holiday legal holidays are not any too toe frequent we would not limit them a day but would rather add to the list amusement can not always be highly intellectual or greatly instructive relaxation of mind or body or both is the object in view in taking a holiday therefore anything any thing that necessitates great exertion mental or physical does not accomplish the end intended A little fun and nonsense is beneficial to the ordinary man as well as the child but it is not tile the beall be all and endall end all of existence and when carried to extremes is injurious to ohp individual and to society the spirit of the age is one 0 of f folly and pleasure seeking it seems as though many people look upon amusement as the chief object of existence and young folks are drinking in of this spirit in copious draughts lovers loverson of pleasure more than lovers of god was one of the apostolic descriptions of the people of the latter days it 11 was true to the letter A check ought to be put upon immoderate indulgence the wise will exert themselves in this direction and when recreation is needed it ought to be of such a character that after it is over there will not be a feeling that the time has been wasted or worse than wasted this carnival that basset has set all northern utah agog for a week can tiny anybody body see any sense or benefit in it why someone some one will say ts fa it not a big advertisement for utah and for ogden in particular we reply if that is so it is a very expensive advertisement and one aare li lite exhibit the territory i altory 1 in the 1011 of folly than aching else we have yet to hear from a single individual an expression of satisfaction faction either in the ehe thing itself or in i tares u it it was foolery from beginning to and the tournament was but a sorry burlesque on the name it was more mere childs play and not even the shadow of the real tiling thing that pleased the people of the old world centuries ago the mock titles too had bad not even the merit of aitor wit or of humor they w were ere only sound signifying nothing or soft soap for aft pates they were sickening to common sense especially at at a tims ru 3 when the nation was commemorating its entire relief from the thralldom of al and aristocratic domination and all the evils and oppressions oppress ions of the feudal system noise dust confusion crowding of masses without order or pleasure or intelligence or genuine amusement drinking carousing hurly burly burly and recklessness with a few accidents fatal and otherwise and a suicide or so thrown in make up the sum of the senseless carnival who are benefited except the proprietors of drinking places and low and vile resorts will it tend to elevate the masses beautify the town impart any useful information give new energy to those who wasted time a and n d m money oney I 1 in n tra traveling vel I 1 ing to see it and be jammed together in the hot and noisy streets if any other than we have named are satisfied and can shoy show the good this so called carnival has effected we would like to know it as we do not wish to be too censorious and will not wilfully misrepresent anything of course it will be said we are behind the times or that we are prejudiced or that thai we wish to prevent amusement but at the risk of being unpopular with a certain class we simply tell the truth and though some will be angry because of this in their hearts the thousands who have pronounced the whole business ou siness a fizzle and a fraud will echo our sentiments and endorse every word we have said let us have by all means in their proper time and season season and let them be as frequent as is consistent with wath graver matters but let them be at least rational and orderly derly ar and really and do not let us encourage the wildest amly and absurdity with no possible good results for our sakes and the sake of our children let us put some restraint upon this increasing creasi tig rush on the wide road of senseless amusements falsely called pleasure and relaxation |