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Show THE OLD TWADDLE. The New York Star, while aiming to be au organ of the working classes, makes violent efforts at fast journalism, which yield results that would suggest " the epithet "flash" for "fast." Like ascertain class of newspapers that make up for a knowledge of a subject by ignorant assumptions, whenever it has touched upon Utah and her people it has drawn, heavily upon imagination and its stock of disparaging adjectives. In its issue of the 1 1.th inst., it has an article headed "How About Utah?" which treats of the proposition to admit ad-mit Utah as a State. Embodied in the usual style of twaddle about this Territory, is the following sentence: "If we take UtaK it must be without ! her polygamy and barbarous slavery of women." Now, it is useless to reason with the man who in this year oEgrace of 1S71, being editot of a New York newspaper, cou'.d talk, about the "barbamus slavery of women" in Utah. It doesn't seem possible that he could understand reasoning on the subject. He does not even seem to be aware of the fist, kmrca to all the nation besides, and widely published in the Xew York papers, that the victims of t'us "birbarous slavery' enjoy en-joy the right of friQ:hise, and hence their "slavery" must be of a most peculiar pe-culiar kind; nor that the only parties who have raised a voice against their exerci.-e of that right, are the very individuals in-dividuals who some short time ago were proclaiming themselves the champions cham-pions of women who despise them and their ways. These are facts well-known to the press and the nation, but the New York Slar hasn't yet learned them. This same sheet talks r.bout Utah being "an absorbing tumor or cancer ous, eating ulcer," when its own columns, col-umns, in any. single issue, contain more filthy detail of criminal proceedings pro-ceedings in New York than Utah-can show in a couple of yeats. But it is ju.-t such contemptible specimens of disreputable journalism that delight in the u.-e of this kind of language. They have a certain patronage among the slums of cities and the lowest and most degraded of the nation, and they try, by pouring foul abuse on others at a distance, to reconcile their routers with the corruption, licentiousness and shame in which they exi.-t. One consolation con-solation remains to those attacked by a paper of this class : no decent person per-son would long continue to read it, so that its influence for evil is limited to those who are already contaminated and degraded. |