Show A TIMELY REMINDER THE excursion season is approaching we deem it proper to offer a word of advice in relation to that and perhaps some other forms of pleasure seeking it it ie to be hoped for the sake of consistency sis tency tenoy and morality that the excursion fever which assumed the proportions and ugly aspect of a pub x c evil last year will not take a similar hold upon the people during the season now opening we are now speaking solely in reference to professing latter day saints and assert unreservedly that unless the disposition adverted to is checked by the prevalence of wiser ways and better counsels many of them will be in danger of being classified with people who are lovers ot of pleasure more than lovers of god 71 the pleas pleasure ure hunting prevailed to an extent last season in this city cit and ogden and places more immediately contiguous to these two centers it was stated in reference to the latter to town WD that for some time VOW 2000 per week was spent on that form of pleasure seek ing and that two excursions to the luke lake in one day were not buncom mon moil occurrences the masses of the people of ogden were in no do con to stand such a heavy drain upon their resources and who were they who contributed to it the poorly paid clerk the mee mechanic hanle who finds work scarce the laboring man the housewife the servant girl who has only her scanty wages to place between herself and want or perhaps dishonor the school boy all these participated in excursions to the lake or elsewhere or some similar recreation what was true of ogden was a at t least proportionately so in relation to salt lake indeed it may be said that this city has led in such matters at a time when economy should have prevailed unparalleled extravagance was the rife rule and all this in ane midst of uttered complaints of dull times the result of persecution and other causes nowadays now a days a clerk bookkeeper book keeper struggling young merchant or professional fess ional maill man or person of similar station in life is entirely out of fashion if he does not in addition to other expensive mereat recreations ions go on a fl fishing trip or to the mountains tor for a few days or weeks and what does such an indulgence cost enough in some instances perhaps to buy flour coal and vegetables to 10 last a good sized family a whole season or pay for a cottage building site or even go fax far towards tle erect erection Yon of a modest home no young man can succeed in life who permits himself to indulge in such extravagance as this he will flud find himself continually involved in financial embarrassments embarrass ments that will sadly curtail his progress and prevent his success and which no income that he be can earn will be sufficient clent to forestall considerations ofa of a pecuniary character are ample justification for a protest against tae wholesale indulgence in excursions bathing in the lake bake trips to the mountains etc heretofore going on in portions of this territory but there are other reasons more potent than any monetary consideration could possibly be why the latter day saints should exercise restraint in this regard jve je refer to the ladoral phases of the matter and to the peril in which virtue honor and chastity are placed by this ex excessive deSsive spirit of and andul jence gence in pleasure seeking the in bences tuat way may very easily be introduced among a party of young people camping in the mountains and free for the time being and to a certai n extent from the restraints stra ints of life at home may be very hurtful and especially may this be said of the influences that usually attend evening excursions and balls in out of the way places bathing in the lake if not too expensive and arved fr acl from objectionable features would be a healthful indulgence by no means to be condemned but the concomitants usually ally a attending tt ending it ic at all of toe present bathing resorts lender it a matter of a demoralizing lemoral izing tendency t en dency the class of persons whom the respectable must meet the cant decant costumes my lat drinking and the ottie evil associations and influences that are connected with the bathing resorts render them places to be avoided |