Show 0 ILLOGICAL misrepresentation SOME of the expressions of local bitterness against the majority of the population of utah are so childish and pusillanimous as to be beneath contempt when there happens to be a large influx of visitors to this city occasion is taken to draw invidious comparisons between them and the residents hyperbolically in favor of the former in matters of intellectual seeming what good Is to be attained by this method of insulting and slurring the resident population and deallo dealing g out comparative taffy to strangers is difficult to understand indeed there can be no intelligent or w worthy orthy object associated with it it is simply a splenetic absurdity that ought to sicken strangers whose vanity it is sought to flatter with the fulsome nonsense its effect upon the more prejudiced among them who be led to believe the falsehoods perpetrated in this line would naturally be to deter them from entertaining any thought of coming to this city or territory to settle as they would not wish to reside a so low in the scale of intelligence as the majority here are represented by scurrilous scribblers scribble rs to be to our certain knowledge however large numbers of the brighter and more independent thinking visitors are filled with disgust at the base misstatements made concerning the intelligence and general status of the here the evidence of their own eyes convinces them that the people upon whom the foundationless reflections are cast are in appearance and deportment not a whit behind other folks they see on every hand what has been accomplished by them labors which have produced results that could only be attained by the operations of a high grade of intelligence they learn from fair minded non cormons mormons Mor mons that the people who settled this region and laid the foundation of a great commonwealth in the rocky mountains and their core co re who have appeared on the scene since are not excelled in point of sterling honesty by any community on the globe and that they possess other virtues worthy of respect and emulation the result is that a great many of the better and brighter visitors exclaim on learning the truth as it is 18 1 I 1 am most agreeably surprised to find such an intelligent capable industrious and kindly disposed people as are here the very insults and disparage ments flung at the people lead the observing and thinking visitors to investigate more closely than they otherwise would and the result is that they learn to consider in its true light the source from which the slanders spring some of those from whom the comparative insults emanate are in many re pacts among the scrubbiest scrub biest blest human specimens to be met with in a days journey urney but of course they probably cannot hep help that and are therefore not to blame for their status which would not even be alluded to except for the fact that they make it a great reat part of their business to g a decry C cry a people who are in many re pacts much in advance of themselves the matter treated in the foregoing has been illustrated during the last lad few days |