| Show YOUNG MEN TAKE HEED I 1 conditions now existing in this thia city and other large towns tons of the ter are exceedingly dangerous to young men the liquor traffic tra falc especially ally ju in salt lake is practically allowed to run loose the restraint of regulation being an invisible quantity sunday is no exception to the rule in this respect the practice of introducing in connection with social occasions is becoming more and more common As a result the youth have innumerable opportunities and object lessons lemons that are liable to lead them onto and along the swift catl that leads to moral mental and physical ruin YOU young man who have not yet been placed in the way of temptation to drink will yet ke be confronted by it associates will urge butge you to swallow the stuff that steals mens brains A robbery of that kind includes ever every yen thing associated with manhood wh when the occasion comes what will you do if you have sense enough to understand der stand the danger involved in taking the first step and are a manly young man you will say no none of that stuff for me thank you j you may be jeered by companions who urge you to drink they may call you a for for refraining but your resolute position gives the lie to the asperS aspersion IOD it shows you to be the possessor of moral courage even they will learn to respect you the more for your exemplary and consistent conduct if however you are cowardly enough to be afraid of their jeers and insinuations and yield to the tempter you take the first step that leads to cuir which must necessarily result if this thia beginning be followed up then you will have a muddled head and a surly spirit you feel you have hav done wrong yet you will try to apologize within yourself for your course you will probably keep on apologizing as you progress toward the ditch of complete demoralization unless you take a sharp turn and make up your mind and keep it there to go not one step further on the path of the drunkard do not deceive yourself with the idea that you can take strong drink or let jet it alone at your will this is not true the appetite grows with what it feeds upon until it reaches a point when the will becomes subservient to it and you are lost include including ng au all that the word implies being no DO IOD longer 9 er a man bc because ause incapable of taking care of yourself young man you who are tempted to thoughtlessly yield to the demon of drink you owe tilyou r parents who love you a sober and exemplary life and none but bat an unnatural and selfish son would deliberately take tab a course that would cause those who were the instruments of bringing him into existence indescribable anguish when he had bad the awer power to avoid it their hopes have been en fondly centered in you then why should hould you wantonly and cruelly blast them when you could bo be a constant joy to them by simply acting a manly part you owe to your brothers and st bisters aters if you have such relations the example of a blameless and useful life this to is a debt you also owe as a citizen to society at large the thoughtless and senseless bayink in too often used in relation to a man who drinks he is only his bis own enemy sf is an absurdity on its face A drinking man is an enemy to his own household which he robs robe or of the peace contentment and too often the sustenance which properly belongs to it he is an enemy to the commini community ty in which he lives because he increases the sum of evil by his bad example e which others are induced to follow by the object lesson he coustant constantly ly fur fils bes the drinking man has baa no dignity F he has no real happiness he is incapable of being a real success in any noble pursuit he inspires people with distrust because be cannot be relied upon there is no inducement from any standpoint for a young man to take a course so destructive the only safe afe way to avoid it is to refrain entirely rely from the use of intoxicants |
