Show alas bow this world is giving to ly iiii 11 ig jaaj fu I 1 s I 1 aff we ire are not much surprised that a good many people have of late been considerably over the imaginative m writings bitin gs of a couple of individuals who within the te past butth in search of year acar have strolled through tits and tiling thing 9 we denominate wonderful ond erful lit cub rations imaginative as a rather more polite and equally express expressive ve mode of describing r what sonic some folks call lying or of course we ive refer to fitz filz hugh ludlow professional I 1 opium eater and practical i whisky bisky imbiber imbi and an erratic sort of cu cuss 3 E 11 IL 11 agent of artenius ward eq E q and show master general we have alicade paid our respects or at least ic expressed an opinion of some of the designedly phi planny inny writings of ludlow is ho bo has certainly won for himself the ironical title or of truthful fitz and have only to say that the correspondence of II ingston to the aeta yolk atlas which is going the rounds of the press to tho the infinite delectation of folks who that style of writing and the huge disgust or of sonic some of the saints 13 13 still more inore reprehensible than that of ludlow him belf hilf what we ive desire now to say bay is that kingston ingston If has hag taken the most unwarrantable table liberties with the truth and with tile the undoubted ind and acknowledged hospitalities of great salt lake city mildly kindly extended to him and his how t piece the iho redoubtable artemus ii when hen they came here strangers in ill a strange land in fact his hia letter to the atlas alias esing to detail what lie he siw saw and heard beard at the salt lake theater on the occasion of wards faist hiistand and duly lecture I 1 ye yc gods forgive us its for calling it that 1 is a tissue of bild rated faced tent made out of the whole cloth there is b ardly a single fact truthfully stated and in an hila imaginative cuss cus E 11 IL if livars baron hamen but slips up amazingly when ulion lie to imitate too joe miller wo suppose the aholo i bolo tiling thing wis nv ia intended as asa a huge joke johe but as wo we have heroic had bocc leoil li oIl to intini intimate ate tacie is no alt in ling 11 even letter hiiter can stick to iho frozen buith in utah and lind find anong enon gli li hea he bt a en knows to mike it spicy read ible and inter interesting eiting letter ilow how cicat pi cat 01 ti is 13 his hig folly nay crime who to rn even lor for fun but we did not intend either cither to review the writings of these two passing individuals or moralize on oil the enormity and lin policy of ain ling we ive simply wished io 10 protest mildly against it ainest that system of reasoning ru or espies bion which holds lit an entile class clas or people community or world responsible for tile the weak silly or N wicked acts of ono one or tu two a individuals divi duals we protest that ludlow and E P II 11 are not representatives of either cither amedean or english gentlemen much less lesi of the whole laco lace of gentiles ungodly as 13 w n c may be yet we find that tant sonic some folks tire lire disposed to condemn all Geli gentiles tiles who my may come hither as bolo belonging ng ing to tile the class clasa of ludlow and E P 11 II because those these two ridiculous lidi culous young nien men old enough as they are to know better and to lime hao betterman better man berb havo hare and abused the confidence put in them by sonic gomo folks of cb charitable ar natures nature why forsooth they are taken us types or of nil lit mankind outside of utah now this is neither ica acason son nor right though 1111 its ita plausibility may capture the minds of some people it is ot of that same line of policy N which bibb I 1 in un nn indian country who when ni horse borse is is stolen solids sends out forthwith tho the loser imer and ill bis S friends fril ads to kill hill and butcher every savage sav age in tile the I 1 icil lity or if a man mans 9 house is robbed by a daring bui lar autho authorizes lizes the condemnation of the whole community comm community unit y as a a gang of outlaws and throats aab now we 1 C abild all others object to having our cor corn n measured out thus this in other folks bushel baskets heaven allo knows that individually or collectively we jc all h ve enough to answer ansi cr for in this world without being damned for some other blodys iniquities tile the very people nv who ho are arc the loudest C at in condemnation of tile the whole aholo gentile for the words of the fitz lud li id loii lows s ct ld olinc genus would wo we be bc come exceedingly rampant should tile the same i measure be meted out ont to them which are arc so obras brash has as to mete outto out to others suppose some villainous chap who to was taking his airings airing gs outside the penitentiary walls as they to do should steal our cow and then suppose nc MC should affect to believe and so state that the whole mormon people wei ocic c cattle thieves eq which they are not liot u would you yon not at least entertain a very small notion of our justice or the caliber of our we think so and yet we would but be folloni following im that line of ar argument gumont which they pur pursue who become enraged at the entire outside world because ludlow and E P 11 II and a few other penny liner liners a have abused the hospitality of this people these things in the end right themselves misrepresentation lies lin unfounded founded abuse liker like young chickens eventually come home to roost and while they may forn for a time excite our just ire they should not lead us to the other verge of wrong or mistake these are a few of the thoughts which have occurred to us ns as we read the productions mentioned and the commentaries thereon which we have heard and road read in G S L city |