The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-15
KEEP AWAY FROM HERE!

YOUNG men and those who are not 50
young, are hereby notified that this is a
bad time to banker after the flesh pots and
other advantages of Salt Lake city.
OF course this has especial, in fact eX-
elusive reference to those who were born
and brought up and have their present
habitations elsewhere in the territory.
Those who were here before the late cleo
ton and had residence local .habitation
and name in the metropolis, need not read
further, as nothing herein contained has
reference to them.
1t is true, there are numerous advantages
here, and the attractions altogether are so
varied and at times so pleasing, that it re-
quires a considerable quantity Of self
control to resist them. But that is nothing.
We are taught by excellent authority that
we never exhibit ourselves ii such excel
lent estate as when overcoming the clamors
of appetite and setting aside the seductive
influences to which the flesh if un-
restrained would give way.
We have occasionally amusements equal
to those which gladden. the heart and cheer
the mind in the old-time haunts of civillza-
tion-the towering genius of a SALvINI or
a BooTH and the high priced warblings of
a PATTI or GERsTER being plentifully in
terspersed with the broad humor of the
minstrel, the unadorned nature of the
varieties and the hoopla of the tented
arena. Our educational facilities are second
to few places, if any, of our size and situa-
ton; the hotels are numerous, commodi-
Gus and so variegated as to please the most
exacting or peculiar fancy; there is every
thing to buy that anybody wants at high or
low prices according to taste or ability to
pay-all of which make our Utonion me-
tropolis a little Athens of old and Paris of
today combined in one excellent visiting
place. '..
And yet if a lurking thought exists in the
brain of any of our country cousins of the
masculine gender over twenty-one years Of
age, and moderately married, to come here
lust now, let him, as he breads the wrath
to be, take a second thought, ponder the
subject carefully and well, and then, if he
must come, relieve THE HERALD of ali re
sponsibility, for we give him fair warning
of what he will encounter, let him know
how crooked and dangerous some things
are here, and generally put him on, so to
speak.
1t boots not that the intending visitor or
sojourner may be on business bent or in
quest of pleasure; it is no matter if he de-
sires to make home, to get employment,
to acquire an education or what not. He
will no sooner have forsaken his seat in the
train which bears him here than he will be
a marked man. The RICHELIEU of Utah,
JESSIE BROWN POWERS, is an ARGUS; one
of his hundred eyes will be sure to light
upon the newcomer, and then-all hail and
good-byel
1t didn't use to be thus, we know. A
great many things didn't use to be that are.
Time was when fellow could come here
as often as circumstances required, stay as
long as inclination prompted and leave
whatsoever the spirit moved That was
before old settlers like JESSIE aforesaid
and his league of oldest inhabitants had
established guard over the ballot box.
Then recent accessions to our population,
who, along with their fathers and mothers,
were born on the soil of Utah or came here
at very early age, were addicted to pol
luting that repository for votes by voting.
Having no other home but this, all their in
terests being conferred here, intending to DE
buried here when life's fitful fever was
ended, and determined to stay with the
country through good and i'll report,
whether fortune or Ill fortune should be