The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-11
EVERYBeBY'S BOY.

My son, drop that dime novel OF
fash paper and let's have a little
chat.
Yes, Indian and detective storie:
are thrilling, but don't go too fast,
The chances are that you will never
see live Indian outside of a circus
or a street parade, and as for killing
'em-don't.
No doubt you could strap a bowie
knife and revolver around your waist,
and take loaf of bread under one
arm and the pamphlet life of Buffalo
Bill under the other. and go west
and slay Indians by the cord, but
don't think OF it.
An Indian has feelings, the same
as q white man, and as few of them
have laid by any bonds or mortgages,
or invested to any great extent in
life insurance, you must realize that
the widows and orphans of your vic.
TINS would be left in a sad plight.
As for detective stories, 90 and
talk with real detective or a county
sheriff. Ask 'em about sold Sleuth q"
DISCUSSES and exploits and magic
luck and then listen carefully while
they tell you what a fool you are
making of,yourselfby:griniing the end
OF yoar nose against pages of such
trashy fiction. We want you to
read, but for the lands cake look
about tor something different!
THERE ARE GOOD BoY-BooKs,
your father takes the daily papers.
aad if you should read a page or two
of history now and then you Wculdn:t
waste your time.
That crowd OF New York PUBLISH
ers who are flooding the country with
flash. papers and dime novels are
your worst enemies. No matter to
them whether you grow up a respec-
table man or murderer 80 long al
they get your money. Their stories
are the basest lies. too silly even for
q boy 10 years old to believe.
Now, then. look about you and see
how many men in our stores and
factories and Offices and upon the
streets are getting grsy..snd W. inkled
and old. Twenty years from now
not one out OF ten of US whom you
see in business to day will be able to
put our shoulders to the wheel. Even
q decade will retire tens OF thousands.
What thenl Why, my son. this is a
world which knows no stop. This ia
a life which knows no rest until old
age compels it.
When the men of to-day are laid
up in dry-dock the boys will be the
fresh set OF hands called on deck to
work the ship. They will be the
merchants, farmers, manufacturer
and
PROFESSIONAL MEN OF THE FUTURE.
You will have to bear the burdens
and an1ieties of keeping this county
on the track Of peace and prosperity +,
end your voices will sound from the
halls of Congress and your pens write
words to burn in the memory of fu.
ture generations.
Come, now, begin right. Don't
get it into your head tina. an Indian-
killed is about four pegs above
State Senator. Don't imagine that q
detective wouldn't trade places with
q lawyer very quickly il he had his
say about it. Don't you believe an
embezzler. burglar or murderer is q
hero, and that men admire him.
Drop your novels and fash papers as
q starter. The boy who feeds on
such trash gets false impressions of
the world, and is more certain 70
bring up in state prison than in re-
spectacle employment. II you have
q pistol fling it aside. The man who
carries one about the the streets is a
coward, and men mark him as such.
II you have bowie knife on hand
turned il over to your mother for a
meat or bread knife. II you have q
sand-elub lying around loose shy it
into the ditch before anybody finds
out how empty your head has been.
That pair of brassaknuckles foam be
tossed into river; "Old Sleuth" and
Buffalo Bill" will make a good
bonfire, and then you are ready to
begin life and to ask yourself what
trsde or profession shall be yours
when done in the school, Detroit
Free Press.