The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17

NiOuS saturday many OF the saloons proml-
nently displayed this admonitory legend:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
a WORD TO THE wIsEl
Fill Your FLASK Tonight
This was displayed where the thirsty
man could not fail to see it when he tossed
Oh MS vesperian cup; and yet very few
drank in-that is to say. realiZed-its dread
import But the deep insignificance Of it
Mashed upon them when they called On
sunday morning before going to church
ana found no welcoming side door, nor
even back door, for miles on that awful
sunday morning could be induced to
crook its pregnant hinges that thrift might
follow to the proprietor. The streets
were filled with men wild with thirst
and although they went hither and
tnltner and retraced their steps from
thlther to hither, with short dashes
up alleys, no door could be found to yield
either to the soft and seductive knock
or the plaintive and piteous whistle
IL was then that all remembered the word
TO the wise" and the kindly Saturday ad-
monltlon TO FILL your flask tonight But
memory is no comfort when it comes with
mocKlng laugh. This moral wave did not
extend across the East river, and men who
never went to Brooklyn before iourneyed
over on this parched and arid Sunday, and
blessed the name of Brooklyn. Ana yet,
with all this sudden enforcement of the
excise law there was not hotel or res
taurant In the city that did not sell liquor
TO every human being willing TO sit IN a
chair and nibble q bit of cracker and
cheese. 1t had been held by our courts
that man holding hotel license has a
right to sell refreshments to his guests.
by simply taking q seat at table upon
winch lew vlands are spread the thirsty
man becomes guest. 1t is this hypocriti-
cal pretense and sneaking evasion of the
law that will bring all efforts in the way
OF temperance reform into contempt. The
laborlng man who is deprived of his beer
on Sunday and who knows that better
dressed and more fortunate men are drink-
Ing at will in hotel and restaurant bars all
over the city Is not likely to have much
respect Tor DR.. Parkhurst, the courts, the
police or the solons in Albany
AS THE FOOL DIETH.
The terrible curse of entailed fortune,
when conferred upon young man with no
business habits or incentive to labor was
Illustrated the case of young Mr.. Daniels,
VINO oled the other day at the Brunswick
Motel. Mr.. Daniels was less than thirty
years OF age when his career was ended
He was regarded as one of the fortunate
young men of the period, envied by pretty
much everybody. He had left to him a
magnificent estate and fixed income of
something like $4,000 year. He was
genial, kindly disposed young man, and for
the want OF something to do or the iacen-
i've TO do something, wasted his life in
physical enjoyment. His dissipation was
ali OF quiet and modest kind and the boys
ABOUT town always found him pleasant ana
approachable. He owned the beautiful
steam yacht Norma, which he had Just
placed In commission, and he was about to
take trip to the Bermudas when death
overlook him. A number of young fellows
about town had been invited to take
the trip TO the southern waters and
were INDUCING in great authorizations of
pleasure. pneumonia seized Mr. Daniels
one raw evening in March and In twenty
tours hours thereafter he was a corpse. A
gentleman who lives in the Brunswick
Hotel and who knew the young mau quite
wei told me story Of some of his physi-
Cal lndulgencs which seemed almost in
credible. He said: zone evening, lust
before Mr.. Daniels fatal lines, I was
sitting In cafe when he walked in. He
took seat at one of the tables and in the
space OF less than fifteen minutes ordered
and drank five cocktails. | became inter
ested In his proceedings, and, having moth
Ing TO DO, kept an eye on him. After his
cocktails he drank milk punch, well stiff.
ened with brandy. He read, or pretended
to read, newspaper for little while and
then ordered dozen oysters. With these
he drank pint OF cold champagne Then
came another dozen of oysters and another
bottle OF champagne. After that | saw
him order and drink with his cigars three
more bottles of champagne, making five
pints In all When l lett he was topping
OF the evening with brandy and soda
This was not an unusual thing for him.
have heard the barkeeper say that he has
frequently served Mr.. Daniels five straight
pint bottles of champagne while he
leaned against the bar.n 1t isn't
to be wondered at that this
young mans system, overwrought and
abused as it was, succumbed suddenly
when congestion of the lungs set in. This
young mans father, probably as he toiled
and labored to gather his splendid fortune,
thought with pride of the blessings which
he was TO confer upon his progeny. If he
had received direct communication from
his satanic majesty he probably could nor
have conceived method by which to con-
fera more decided injury upon his son than
when he made him wealthy young man
with nothing to do and no knowledge of
how to do anything. With proper training
and no fortune young Mr.. Daniels might
u
worthy citizen. As a pampered son of for
tune he was merely a self-indulgent
sybarltic youth, whose consequence was
chiefly limited to drinking saloons and
places of pleasure. He literally drank wine
''out Of his fathers skull" And all that is
left Of his memory is the remark of his
cronies. He was good fellow and Pm
awfully sorry for him.
DEMoNIACAL JOURNALISM.
The recent grand jury report. which
called attention to the wicked and corrunt-
ing advertising columns OF some of our.
newspapers, bids fair to repress an evil
which has long been a disgrace to metro
poiitan Journalism. We have here large
class of vicious and depraved people VINO
live by Turing fools to their dens of vice
When permitted, these people set their
snares in the daily newspaper columns.
They advertise as clairvoyants, massage
operators, teachers of languages and
music, etc. la one newspaper which has
cultivated this sort of thing the language
OF the advertisements has recently been
vulgar and outrageously suggestive. A
special rate for This class of advertising
of $3.50 or 5000 a day has been
gathered from the lnfamy. The editor.
who has no social status in New York
has been enabled to live abroad in luxury
mainly from the proceeds of this ue
PRAYED businesses. On the morning be-
fore the grand jury issued its
ansthema the foul and pollnting mass of
advertising, which had for ten years been
Haunted in the faces of the shop girl and
hostler public, suddenly disappeared, and it
has not made its appearance since.
Anthony Comstock's society, which hsd
been repeatedly called upon to take
cognizance of this journalistic dec.
radiation, has claimed all along
that the laws of the state gave it no con.
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