| Show THE PLEASURE henring WAVE never at any time has the competition for the patronage of the people in behalf of the various local pleasure resorts been so active as it has been 9 during the present summer it is still vigorous and lively and has been continuously success successful fui being at this time probably at its zerith every available inducement has been offered by the interested companies to attract the people to their respective resorts and thus draw the dollars out of their pockets the drain upon which has been enormous A gentleman in our hearing estimated the popular outlay in this direction as not less than 2000 a day or about a month from salt lake city and ogden combined in a large degree the sum involved in this enormous expenditure might as profitably so far as the peaple are coti coa berned be cast nto the deepest par of the salt lake and be there allowed to remain this statement maybe may be estimated by some as altogether too sweeping as the in increased creasea health of the crowds who frequent these resorts ought in their opinion to be viewed in the light ot of an offset a robust physique beide much more valuable than dollars and cents we are afraid however that the health hypothesis would be annihilated by coulter re suits that could be placed in with it it is indeed a question whether the sum ot of effects injurious to health would not nearly equal those that conduce to the increate inc of its quantity the night balls and parties in which excesses and even orgies are arc occasionally carried far beyond seemly hours cannot be claimed to be other thau than detrimental to the constitutions of those who participate in them combine tear these ese ill results of a merely physical character with the moral injury that necessarily ensues and the sum when pitted against the supposed health in crease would be sufficient to overwhelm it and leave the monetary expenditure pend iture viewed as a whole as a useless outlay business men are beginning to feel the tremendous drain from tile the pockets of the people for indulgence in merely passing pleasures As a large proportion of of them expend their means to produce ephemeral effects they are unable to 10 purchase those things thines that are more conducive to permanent comfort Ji hence lence unless indebtedness debt edness is incurred and future perplexity from incumbrance ensues business at the stores is diminished yo so tar far as the companies who are conducting the resorts are concerned no pretensions are made by them as conservators conservatory conserva tors of public morals if they were to pose in that particular line the would produce a public smile their operations are based on cold business their sole object being in to fill their coffers so far as some of the interested parties are concerned it is doubtful whether they would be willing that their own wives and daughters should participate in the right bight festivities and be i brought in contact with the late hour carousals of the pleasure places they conduct they are more than willing however to keep their resorts in full swing at any time no matter how bow uns unseasonable easen for tle the accommodation of any who desire to indulge in the facilities they afford there are people however who have an eye to the public weal and are nut not swallowed up in the pursuit ul ot wealth who deplore the teu tendency deacy to excessive pleasure seeking that bus developed develop edin iu the community oblate u late in view 1 this increasing phase of our social life it involves a question as to whether a portion of tire the people pro lessing better things are not lot traveling gradually toward tuat inai condition that will entitle them to be designated as I 1 lovers of pleasure more than lovers oi 01 god 11 As it is IB we are afraid that that class have already to a considerable extent divided their affe etious between those inose two opposite objects to maintain an exact balance in this regard is impossible toe the preponderance d must musti tail all to 10 one tilde hide or we the other unless a change occurs it is not uni buniea ea to anticipate that not a lew will go over toe the ui viding line and be lost tuese these remarks are not super induced by a prudish disposition we believe in III pleasures at proper seasons and suitable place especially for tile the young we are however unalterably opposed to improper lime among which are the coira 0 ot the night and the sabbath day the r reasons for this opposition need not be adduced here they have atit n been enumerated and must be plain to eveia latter day da v saint without explanation i places where intoxicating liquors are dissented and people of all ages and both sexes are brought into contact with drunkenness drunken nesy profanity and other evils are cut entirely irely unsuitable to take sabbath school dreu to such places is incurring a moral responsibility that we have no dedire debare to participate in others appear to take a different view trow tois this but ours undergoes gots no change on that account |
