Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-04


dny,d IN Ogden, Is preparing Tor hex
sunmefing In COoniplh canyon.
As | was coming down tn. street
this morning au old anu CORRESPONDS
ingly iOssiliald man met ms ant after
shaking hands In the vulgar way
peculiar 10 our people beOre the
new era broke upon us, had tuu
icmetity to lay his cRufeo aud heavy
hand upon my shoulder aud bog 10
sny lew words. A. there was uD
reasonable escape | had to ascot and
he tortured me in this manuer
young mau--iOr you arc young
yet, IN some respects very yUung--yuu
need talking 10. don't know
whether or not yol are aware that
your own opinion Of what you DO Is
not like that OF other people, but ps
olc who has no Unmity towards
you allow me to sty that you are max.
ing an aw vi show Oi yourself II nuth-
ing worse. rho departure which you
have sought 10 INTRODUCES through the
punlic press Of giving out tue doiugs
Ia this household, tue events IN tnat,
the manherin which pcople dress on
certain OCcaHiUus, auJ other things
having no real interesttO anybody out.
sidc VI the people spoken OIL, may
appeal 10 their vanity aud thus bo tue
means OF securing you some litIp All
dltional patronage. But DONE you
know, my sou, that patronage gginpd
at tho piice VI dignity ani a departure
rom the rules OF true journalism ~
simply harvesting crop o! dragVns
teeth? Now, your society taxi Ia, 10
Hpoas plainly, 10 much Trash, wnicn
has not even the poor merit VI being
entertaining. dOh't want 10 tell you
now 10 wfite your oOmpOaitionsInUrt the
editor how he ought 10 run his paper,
but as one who has seen much Of this
world aud who has endured and uur
severed irom tho first In order
that truth might be established anu
correct principles maintained, excuse
mo II { protest. The kind Of thing
spoken oi--speaking o. one lady's al.
TIRE, aputher's mode OF dressing her
hair hnO .ho's Jewels, aud 20 On, ~
not oniy, rs said, vapiu stun ut the
hIst but IL has tendency ~ incilu
TO rivalry, 10 cause one to waut 10 out
shine all others Or some other IN somo
particular respect aud too often 70 go
beyond her husbands ability TO pay;
however mis- may be, It breeds siuu
Of enmity or AZ least oppositiou, which
thinIy yeneprod amounts TO social
etiquette, Ia other words rank by
pOcrisy.'
"EKousc me-" said, 81 must"
81 WON'T delain you but u minute
longer" ho said, "anl THE detention
IL Tor your benefit, NOT mine. Now,
what are We here iOI? to use ono OF
your modornisuIs. when | came TO
Utnh n was not IN palace or even an
migrant car but with my little world.
" gUots ia a ricketIy wagOs drawn 10y
. par OF lettering oxen. / loit many OF
The oomiCrls and some OF the luxuries
VI lise 10 lace a desert anu make nome
among fotuiddlng conditions. ~ IL
lau been merely tne matter OF making
4 homo 1 should not have yentureJ
Ofln NJ all. lnerU wah a priucipIu-
10 you understand? IA IrtHuiDio-
ihpelllng me and those VINO came |
wan me. We got hers at last aud |
many OF US are here yet; bat what OF !
ne principle above all other things |
nat brought Us, nnd to what .Niunt |
're you helping us " presoi We II? Just
0Jk NJ us now! Are We ali as united |
Is W.T. once wore, aui at u time when |
Se ought 10 be more 70 than ever /
4 nd wnat Is II that 10 pulling Us alnu? |
{ IA because We have permitted the
anEcr worms Of greed, aud display,
ma seliishurss TO cOme inty our must
We, or rather you anu tuusr who read
our idiocy, talk now o. phbly about
our set aud cur society US though
lnilelIy We had not In tue days mat
fled mems souls and wrung from
heir inmlshed bodies the sweat OF
Hood carved out "a passage 10 the
anu worked aud starved
M c0uttived and endured 10 make
Jmes where there wouiu be no 'seis'
nj, ~ you understand II, no 'soclely.'
We are All or ought 10 be ia one set
1e chilIreu OF common hOussholi,
he offspring OF common Plreni; YET
ou--v
"iou must really excuse neil
roke In with; "what you FAY IN la.
.ruciive and even valuable, butt
81 am nearly done," ne said. al
ont want you to 20 OIL with the idea
! your heau that I am or any eensibls
erson II opposed TO refineme VI In liie,
improved manners or neAtness OF nj.
re; nor yet 10 such changes In our
lode Of life az will best cOmport with
hanged conditions. Not by any
leRus. Nor should We be exclusive.
hold that all who do not look at
lings as we do arc bOpeleagly In the
TOng. That would be az senseiess as
our sOclety dfivei. What We do want
maintain 10 all that We have strlyen
Il that Il right anu useful, AMI what
o would subdue or keep out Is any.
ing and all things that tent
evil, 10 division, TO d.
ri ~ social nFi.tOoracy, 10
co. When Uur young mon Ia mast
,ys fell by the way or yie'dci ior
Oment TO the lempter they fealczpI
fore, during AMI after the act that
10y were doing wrong aud thus wna
eye homethiug In tho nature OF r,.
RANT upon them; but when by yIcIou-
,Oclallons 'hry learn to regard such
ings as eyansoliAiug agencies or nj
isl 80 nuch harmless diversion, You
IEht TO be able ~ understand ,hat
err danger u Increased many fold.
le cOnuil.on iss little DetteE--Or per-
'ps ought to say one IL n good deal
DEse THAI the other, since there IL no
Ouuess IA 1t, viewed trOm Auy stand. 3
I'M. Too nuch sOciety nAs brought /
~ aaout anl II has brought about \
her thiugH Just rs bad. Time VIVA
len all tur people went 10 the sun.
y meetings 10 worship GJd In sim.
city, humility anu uulty, anu moi,
many no nov, 10 engage ia a com.
tluvH eSaniinatlOu as to silks, levels
II uroauuljthh - You see, 20 many !
them want T. gain social
,lBnitlon that for tho ump
least tue recognition which thry
nht 10 nook. 10 hnnn Iur- In nrnnnun