Show COUNTRY VS CITY from week to week the salt lake daily papers record cutting shoot in ing and clubbing scrapes and quite T frequently murders of a cold blooded nature eare are written up in the most sensational way every everyday day also those same papers tell us that salt lake city is ia the banner city of the intermountain west beautiful progressive and wealthy the people are the best in the land according to them and have friendship and good feeling for everyone we know that the people of salt lake as a whole are as good as the average in any other city but we also know that are bad citizens among them and that so long as people live there bad and good people will live there but what we would like to call attention to is the fact that evidently the strenuous st renous life of the city people especially those of salt lake city take many of them from the path of virtue and cause them to do things that the majority of people living in the rural communities are shacked to read and hear of A certain element in a large city always seem to defy the law and as a consequence cutting affrays and murders are frequent as is shown by the newspaper reports day by day this is not the case in a country town the people as a rule are united warm hearted and like to see the people live clean and upright lives they are not troubled with the saloon the gambling hell the brothel nor the opium joints consequently their characters are not degraded by vices such as hundreds and thousands thousand are sare in a city fortunate indeed is the country man or woman who live lives of comparative compari tive purity far removed from the things that corrupt and still more fortunate are the parents of the country towns to be able to rear their children in safety away from the ments of a large city it will be well therefore for all parents and the young people as well to be contented with their surroundings roun dings in the country to feel they are blessed at being privileged to live in comparative comfort and freedom far removed from the wiles of those who take enjoyment only in seeing our young men and women dragged down the forbidden path and scoff at their efforts to regain lost character our young men and women especially should be thankful that their lives are lived among the god fearing people of the rocky moun bains and have every protection against the depravities that s so a many of our city friends have to contend with w ith be thankful young men and women that you are living here where the air is pure where the P people eople are pure where the social activities are elevating and not degrading and where you can grow arid and expand without contamination tami nation with people whose very souls are soaked with skepticism and ungodly morals the young people middle aged and old who live in iron county are re blessed a thousand fold if they but knew it and should be happy in the thought that they are not obliged to live in the city known as zipping zion or other large city of the country |