| Show WHERE W ABE ann YOUR BOYS TONIGHT TO NIGHT there are several dens of depravity in ogden they are traps for the feet of the unwary youth the inmates of these abodes of vice frequent certain portions of the town from the evening hours till late into the night fifth street between main street and the railroad depot is a favorite resort of fallen females around the same quarters numbers of young men and boys stand or walk about in groups at hours hour when they should be safely under the roof of the parental domicile these youths are in the way of temptation one false step is fre all sufficient to plunge a young man precipitately into the ruinous stream that leads to degradation and destruction we advise the young to make it a rule of life to seek that kind of society only that is at least as good and better than thin their own they t should not associate with boys boy that delight in prowling about on the streets late at night they should keep good hours and as they value their manhood and character shun the very localities where vice is practised practiced there is no happiness in the gratification of sensual desires and those who place themselves in the way of temptation are in danger of being led from the path of rectitude it should be a question with every parent whose son is from home at hours when he should be in the parental dwelling where is my boy tonight to night parental sivility lity is much more weighty than some who have assumed it appear to consider the boys and girls should bo be taught not by fierce flaral scolding and angry denunciation for every little remissness but by patient appeals to their better judgment while a judicious degree of restraint is necessary the policy of overbearing force is not educational in its character the aepli application cariol of severe coercive measures is only effective until those upon whom they arc are applied have power to cs as cape from under them As with a dooin room in which darkness prevails illumination is produced by throw ing open the shutters so with the human mind when it lacks understanding der let in the light the process is generally slow requiring patience and long suf suffering fiering but the results are as generally satisfactory the time was within the period of our own residence in the territory when the pathway of youth was comparatively ly free from many of the lower and more debasing forma forms of allurement that now exist there was a coin comparative para tive absence of drinking saloons and houses of ill fame could noa nowhere be found the public sentiment before the advent of the railroads was BO so pronouns pronounced unc ed against such pernicious ousa sinks inks of immorality that they were not stiff buffered ered to exist subsequently ho however weer local legislation gi was so hampered by the united states judges and courts upon this subject that they gained a foothold but yet the sentiment of the great majority is opposed to SI I their the i ig existence e li stence however these abominations have been introduced and fostered by those who had no sympathies in common with the overwhelmingly major portion of the population tion they exist in opposition to the will of the people which because of outside soul ces of pressure bom born of inexcusable prejudice is is measurably unrecognized in utah it is the duty of parents to guard their children against contaminations with ions that are popular elsewhere and with a certain class in this territory unless parents ants are careful in this regard the sins of the children will in some instances be visited upon the heads of the fathers A jf f IT is alleged that the recent hints of odonovan rossa about abou early desperate designs is only a ruse twe preparatory to io another passing around of the hat Is it possible that the deluded dynamite man lias has been taking lessons from the religious anti 11 mormon crusaders |
