The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-24
TEMPERANCE.
BY MISS @. s. BURNETT.
Our Boys.

Our boys. how can We save them
from the evils of intemperance This
is the problem that is now before US,
and its answer will demonstrate that
every force brought to bear on the
future OF the boys must be consecrated
to the great work of developing him
into good and sober citizen. First in
importance is the influence of home
Here the seeds of character are sown.
Home should be to them the most
pleasant spot on earth. The boy 8
room shorld be the best room. There
should be found the books and play
things suited to his years. Work,
study and play should be equally en-
joyed. The boy should not feel that he
is of no Importance or that he is in the
way anywhere. The parlor should not
be too good for him or his company.
Suitable companions should be selected
for him, and be always welcomed as the
mother welcomes her own friends. If
you do not choose companions for your
son do not wonder when you see him in
the company of the vicious? The boy
must have friends, and he is not capa-
BILE of discerning the true character of
many who wear the garb of gentlemen
or gentlemen's sons; they will ask your
boy to smoke and drink. l say, be
come acquainted with your sons play
fellows. Our parents are too careless
here. A mother recently said to me
Il never even dreamed that Charlie
could become a drunkard. l never
talked to him about it, or thought much
about where he speut his evenings, for,
of course, my boy would be a good
boy"
Oh mother, do not take it for granted
that your boy will be good just because
you want him to be. More of our boys
are on the road to ruin than are ambi.
tious to reach the highest and best in
life. While the first work must be
done in the home, the church must sup.
plement and continue the work, and, in
many instances, to it must we look for
all the instruction the boy will receive
| The church must see that all the young
who come within her influence are in
structed, not only in the cardinal
principles of the gospel, but in the
great rital truths that underlie this COS.
pei Of temperance.
Special instruction is needed where
special temptations are liable to be met.
The church has not half done her
duty. Our boys are stepping right
from Sunday school and Christian
| homes into the very laws of hell. y
The saloon is swallowing up its victims
| by the thousands, and the church has
been looking quietly on ana voting to
perpetuate the cause of this wholesale
slaughter of husband, brother and SON
Again, our boys should be protected by
the strong arm of the law. Everything
else seems to be protected. Oul
domestic animals are protected from
cruelty; the birds in the air, The fish il
| our streams; the game IN our wood;
are protected by law, and shall our 10y!
be left to the merciless clutches of the
rum powers? In all our fair State. mol
one boy is safe. To be sure there is on oul
statute books the semblance of a law
intention that it should never be ex-
ecuted. Consequently, provisions were
attached which makes it's execution
practically impossible. If the law for
! bidding the sale of liquor to minors
/ was SO framed that it could be as easily
executed as other laws, against murder
or theft, intemperance would practl-
cally cease. You will know that oul
boys became Incorporate before they
reached the, age of 81. Show me the
| boy who has lived a clean, pure life IN
til that age, and l am not afraid to
veuch for his future. Our parents see
their boys sinking daily deeper and
deeper into vice, and they are power
less to prevent it, or punish their de-
stroyers. If there ever was q curse to
this fair land of ours, it is Our loose laws
upon this subject.
Every boy has right to demand pro.
lection as well as instruction. Greece
became a powerful nation by caring
for The physical, mental and moral
training of her youth. No nation can
became great in any other way. If we
would fulfill the evident destiny as
signed to US by the God of nations. We
must guard our boys from this evil OF
intemperance, which is the cause of all
other evils and crimes. Remove that
which is dragging them down, and soon
new type of manhood will appear on
our streets. Debauched faces will dis
appear and purpose to be and to do
will take place of the vacant stare and
aimless life. Our boys are worth saw
ing. To them soon the interest of the
nation will be committed. Let us save
them and save them now. Esis