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Show JXTERVIEWI.VG A SALT LAKER. It is a pity leading papers have men connected with them who seem to imagine im-agine that falsifjiug is wit, or necessary to make a good reporter. Yet it is unfortunately too frequently the ease. A reporter of the 2Se.w York Herald has been ''interviewing" Hon. Joseph A. Young, of this city, in New York. How far the main portion of the column col-umn and a half of nonpareil devoted to the interview 13 correct, we are not prepared to say ; but without reflecting upou the flippancy of the style, some parts we are satisfied are gros3 caricatures carica-tures and exaggerations, and even worse. He speaks of Mr. Hooper, our Delegate, as anathematizing "Mr. Grant," and the United States officials in Utah, sneering at Gentiles, and altogether alto-gether behaving in a manner the very opposite to that of Mr. Hooper's. Vie have no hesitation in denouncing the brief report of 31 r. Hooper as flagrantly fla-grantly false. Following is the most interesting part of the Herald article, and of iu correctness cor-rectness our readers can judge for themselves. We may premise, tbouqli, that it is the most correct part, we believe, be-lieve, of the "interviewer's" report. Mr. Young is supposed to be speaking: You say here in the East that we are hostile to the government, but deprive us of an opportunity of proving to the contrary. With a very tew exceptions, there is not an officer of tho government govern-ment in Utah who is not our open and declared enemy. Grant sends judges there to decide against us, and the press of the States men to misrepresent misrepre-sent our actions. And why is tnis? Becaase our religion assorts the right of man to a plurality of wives. Reporter. Oh, yes ! polyramy. What are your views on that sutject? St. Jeseoh A Ih'y are easily stated. sta-ted. I am in favor of it, and always wa-, and, more than that, I practice it. But don't you b'-lievo that we ciing to it. If the Almighty would relieve us of the charge we would be glad to jct rid of tho rc-ponsibilitici iu; practice ' incurs. Look here, if it takes a man five hours' work a day to support one wife and one family, it must ccriainly take him ten hours' work u day to support sup-port two wives and two famiiie.-. See it? Of course, it's a mere mathematical mathemat-ical calculation. But don't suppose wc practice polygamy for the fun of the tiling. It. is not a funny allair by any means". There is hard work and plenty of responsibility in Utah. Certainly you camiot ezpect to raise families without having to work hard lor t heir support. But W'-d work hard, raise, children, educate -hem, "replenish the earth," and are, eery one of us, valuable valu-able to tho Territory. We have no "social eTil" no iufanticide ; don't require foundling hospitals in consequence, conse-quence, have no paupers, and are "heahhv. wealthy A wise." How is that? We are increasing our numbers num-bers every year and adding to the productive pro-ductive wealth of the country. "Am 1 i out recruiting?" you ask. Well, sup- j pose 1 am, what of it? My motto- m . ' Reporter Bring 'cm young '. St. Joseph A., (severely) My motu , is progress, sir. If there are iu this city those who desire to join us in Utah I shall not do anything to balk ' their purpose. There is room enough for all. There is nothing, believe me, in our laws which compels a man to have more than one wife, letters to the Xew York papers to the contrary notwithstanding. not-withstanding. And here let me say that there is no good reason why the people of the United States should back up the miserable creatures who are striving to obtain possession of our land and property. We only want to be let alone. What has the fact of our having more wives than one to do with our rights under the Constitution ? Every European country having colonies colo-nies sanctions polygamy, and notably England in India and France in Algeria. Al-geria. In India the right of the people peo-ple to the practice of polygamy is acknowledged by the missionaries of all the Churches there, and by none more so than by those of the Koman Catholic Catho-lic faith. |