| Show I 1 A WORD OP RESTRAINT WB wag can call attention td what has assumed th edWi of a serious public we ibor to the extraordinary disposition that has been manifested fey by the people of this kiy city ogden and 1 other her places in th the tik territory irli tory during toe present summer to indulge iia ia ieK expensive pensive pleas pleasures urea r such as excursions etc we jell feel called i uva upon teeb 6 utter a word of warn i lagand upon this subject Jor the reason that the mabes kapses of the people ace not ia a pecuniary condition conditi 00 to agard these luxuries and that efin fulge fooce oice in them is continued there bulbe be felt as a pai dicu ticu barly daring the h winter months that I 1 aigars arrive before the poor are prepared for them a considerable amount afrant of want and suffering ilig I 1 to we mo strate the tb e statement is made that for some same tune ta q past the people of ogden baue haue baye spent an average ol of 2000 per week eek in excursions to the like lake and that two excursions in one day from that city to the beach ar are not x unusual occurrences I 1 the masses of the opeo people of ogden are in loo condition to oear for any length of 0 time sucha such a heavy drain as a thi this a remember this is not pAya payable blip in trade proUt tee or those tafts which alch the people can create with their I 1 catoor t is a ta 1 payable only in lAid cash a who pays it everybody to it the poorly paid alk 1 the mechanic who finds work armce i the laboring man whose chil diren ww won soon be crying for shoes oboes the whose grocers blu bill is oot not paid the girl who has only her scanty wages to place between herself and want or perhaps dishonor 1 the schoolboy who is but poorly provided with school ischook books all these participate in frequent excursions cur our sious to the lake or elsewhere or some similar recreation what to Is true of ogden is at least proportionately true of this city indeed it if is questionable if salt lakers do not lead in the matter of indulgence to in pleasure seeking of the kind referred to and yet in this city times have bave not lor for years been as stringent among the laboring classes as they tare are this summer labor is scarce wages are low and the heavy cloud cload that hangs over our afflicted territory casts a dark shadow over the immediate tin financial ancial future at a time when ep economy onomy f frugality lity and thrift ought to characterize our people peoli e a powe powerful it 11 influence seems to have delzi seized upon them leading them to manifest the opposite traits in these days of heavy persecution and consequent stagnation of business and home enterprises when one would expect to see the peo pie ele of utah judging from their past history carefully husbanding hus banding all their financial resources they are seen to be indulging in pleasure luxury and extravagance trava gance to a degree that has probably never before been equalled equal led dinall in all their past history nowadays now a days a clerk bookkeeper book keeper struggling young merchant or professional fess fes ional man or dr person of slut similar ilar sta station tion in life Is is entirely out it if he does not in addition to other ex pensive recreations go on r rip or to the mountains for a few days or weeks and what does such an indulgence dul gence cot co t enough in some instances perhaps to bu buy V ilour flour coal and vegetables to last a good sized family a whole season or pay for a cottage building site or even go far towards the erection of a modest home no young man can succeed in life w who h 0 permits himself to indulge in such extravagance as this hewitt he will nod continually involved in ia financial embarrassments embarrass ments that will sadly curtail hi his s progress and prevent his success and which no income that he can earn will be sufficient to forestall considerations of a pecuniary character actor are ample justification for a protest against the who wholesale jessle indulgence in excursions bathing in the lake trips to the mountains etc now going 0 on n in portions ot of this territory but bat there are ar eother ather reasons more potent than any monetary consideration sider adaD could possibly be why the latter day saints should exercise a restraint in this regard we refer to the moral phases ot of the matter and to the peril ip io virtue honor and placed I 1 by this excessive spirit of and indulgence in pleasure seeking the tha influences that may v very ery easily be introduced among a party ot of young people camping iu in the mona mountains bains and tree for the time being bein ff and to a certain extent from the restraints stra ints of life at home way may be very hurtful and especially may this be said aid of influences the that usually attend evening excursions and balls ini in out of the th way ew places bathing in the lake if net hot too expensive dve and freed from objectionable features Q a e would be a healthful indulgence neep b by y no means to ta be condemned but at tai the h e co concomitants I 1 n co mutants usually attending it t at all of ie 0 present bathing besoria r render ender it ft a matter of a doral izing tendency the class of persons whom the respectable must meet tha caul costumes the drinking and ana the other and influences that are connected connect pd with the 06 bachini resorts render them herg places to be avoided no people ever became strong stroad or powerful pe PO who were devoted to pleas ure seeking and aad when any nation has ham attained to a position of power and supremacy in the earth and then re troga ded its decadence has begun simultaneously with ith the cevelo development ofa disposition on ta the part of its iti people to devote themselves to plea pleasure surg and luxury on the other hand any nation of even mediocre intellectual capacity has adopted a code of laws customs and morals that enforced self denial simplicity of life and age social ha habits and ana r arjad cha chastity that nation has without chalita lity f faa rapi rapidly y advanced in ia everything that goei goes to make a people great so often has history repeated these truths that among historians they are proverbial ver bial again sacred history recounts numerous iB stances in which god has had a chosen people upon the earth who attained a high degree of divine favor and consequent prosperity but nearly always such communities have ultimately fallen into transgression and always among the main causes of their fall appears a love of pleasure which is ever so inz inseparably connected with the spiritually fatal vice ot of pride the lessons of all time warn wain the oe lat ferday fer ter day saints against encouraging and indulging in this spirit of pleasure seeking it luxury ry ang and extravagance it is a spirit wh which I 1 agencies opposed to them both la ia and out of the flesh would to see spread rapidly among and gaiu gain great power over them but it is a spirit that will enervate them destroy their courage and zeal for righteousness unfit them for the mighty destiny that otherwise awa awaits them and it will ultimately it if yielded to estrange them from god let those of the saints who have departed from them return to and maintain their former habits of thrift and aad economy tb haye aag made 09 them famous |
