Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-07
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4 SENSATION OF mingled annoy
ance and disgust Permeated Tn,
business section OF Salt Lake City
this morning The cause Of ths
irritation i that, under covel
Of night, persons employed by the
Ogden Carnival committee had
plastered the walls and doors Of a
large number OF prominent business
buildings with flaming posters. The
walls ami gates enclosing the Tenn
pie Block were similarly defaeed,
while announcements in red paint
were daubed on the new pavement on
South Temple street. This piece Of
lawless impertinence was also per
petrated upon the bill boards Of
Anderson Brothers, the paper which
the latter had placed on them
according to contracts they
had made with different par
ties for bill posting being in
many instances covered by
the carnival sheets. They are thus
subjected TO injury by an act dis
honest on its face, the boards being
their private property. Their work
and the rights Of their pat- have
been inteTferei with.
These ara some OF the advance
fruits Of 4 coming exhibition Of
bois.eTCUs and seuseIess frivolity
connected with which there can be
no symptom of the mental strength,
Judgment or genuine manhood.
II would be a stretch OF absurdity
in which We would not care to in
dulge to presume that such a raI-
Pable piece Of lRwlessness was done
in ignorance, unless it Is upon the
theory that all things are possible in
that line from the class Of people
who engage in such parodies on
common sense rs clrnivals neces-
ssTily are, being relics Of old ROM l
ish semi-barbarism.
It has been stated 70 US that the |
object Of thus PIastering prominent ,
buildings and def4cing private prop
erty with pictorial paper was for the /
purpose Of exciting journalistic I
comment and thus procure advertis-
ing for the carnival. We have not 1
heretofore no ICED The coming ex-
hibitiOn, but seeing it has been
practically forced upon u, it has the
appearance ola public duty that we
give some attention 10 the subject.
Webster's definition Of the word
carnival is, ga festival celebrated
with merrimenl and reveIry., To
make The nature Of the affair more
clear it is neeifuI to deiine the word /
''revel," which signifies U TO
feast in a riOtous AMI lawless man
ner; to carOuse; to act the Ra.cba-
nalian." e. To move pIlyfuIly
without regularity Ia other
words, according u the nc
cerJed understanding Of such
exhibits, the one which Is % occur
at Ogden is 20 be IN the nature Of a
noisy, bois;erous, Irregular mob.
showing the tendency OF Glasses OF d
men anu women 70 degenerate to-
war; the frivolous in place OF de-
veioping mental solidity and pru- {
dence. To such an atlair Is this the {
exclamation Of the poet
little nonsense nov and .scu
l. relIshed by the wiscst men '
has no applicability. lisa whole :
Of uuintelligent nonsense I
mixed with n gooi deal that takes 8
on an aspect more vile than mere l
butfoonery. According to the nc
copied understanding If the nature q
Of carnival it includes carousing C
and drinking, and these conditions /
are almost inseparable from other r
debasing induISeuces. t
The only plausible plea for the {
Coming carnival that we have :
heard offered Is that the influx of O
visitors to the localities where they {
are held brings business activity {
anu lots Of money. To our thinking I
this Is a low basis upon which TO f
suage subject Of this character. =
1t Is laudable to make money when L
he process is honest. When this |
'esult is sought at the expense Of o
sense ami public morality
I Is placing matters ofincalculable T
intrinsic value below the status Of
hings that perish with the hand
ing" n
The student Of history need not "a
X told that it has, from the BEGIN II
ling, illustrated one potent fact D,
hat tendency IN men and nations :;
oward the frivolous has invariably lit
.roved to be a symptom Of mental IA
ecidenee, while 4 disposition to- ID
Tard the serious has been an indica- cd
ion Of the growth Of intelligence. Ia
There is one consideration from co
Which We draw some conlfort-tba, co
3, that the carnival is not to be as
ED in this city, where it would or
ro5ahly be productive Of much nc
ne9ter harm than would result in \ M
'wn Of smaller dimensions. m
thought to Je needless 70 state TO IA
he Latter-day Saints that n carnival e
Necessarily ut direct variance with
lie spirit Of the Gospel, which IN Ri
ilcates order and serenity. We lei
ave deemed it proper to say this ere
ueh upon the subject, that it might Of
1t ee truthfuIly said at any future th,
ne that there was no protest isl
'ainsta matter that, In its very no.
'ture, can have no bene1cent the
iects, viewed from 2 mor,I and pri
hgtous standpoint. we