Show TWO T two WO WG VISITOR 5 A gentleman Agent lenan of natures creation among amon whatever class elaas of society found differs as much from an upstart counterfeit as the pure gold differs from the bomus bogus a counterfeit of a gift book lottery the fu formen former riner rinar instinctively a gentleman always a gentleman deeds no foreign 2 aid ald to make him hi m pass for what abat be he is forella forel ln the latter atter is the tb e creation of accident to day made to florrow again in the dayt dust but where ever found always grovelling gro velling never as mba what t be assumes and never can be for as in instinctively as the one is great and noble the other is base bogus a counterfeit they are formed fashioned alike alre but in these alone I 1 is the resemblance they come no nearer in m everything of soul they are the very antipodes of each mothr they are beings of another species tb the e one is the light of life the other ather is 13 the darkness of deaubl death the oae one is iha tha emi oddment of truth and honor the other is a conglomeration of falsehood and perjury per lAry the tha one is a blessing to lo society the other is iti its curse the one ia is an angel of deac pe actie the other is a demon of discord he the one is born to reflect honor on humanity the other is born to dlo dio disgrace it such is the difference between the t h e true and the false in life when we laid the blip slip s ip of paper before us on I 1 which thes chese reflections are traced we had bad no intention of usurping the province cf tbs abe teacher and moralist ve we purposed only to notice bome some public gent lamen irmen who have honored utah with a passing visit and who w ho have since their return to civilization regaled the other world with the delec delectable tabia tabla stories stones of their fevered brains the paragraph however is wt itten and add we let it go ga with be rest and cone cow to oun OUE text two weeks ago we gave our views OB on the tb charge of unsociability against the saints and stated there freely ia in substance that the world abounded in corrupt men and it required some time to discover disc oker the honorable from the dishonorable we stated mildly what we had bad to say for that is our style but had we said sad sa bad d bluntly what was in cu cor our mind we would just have said bald that the world in which abich we live is most bof woefully ully corrupt and few men can be trusted in any society w phout close watching and we have seen so much of that kind of thing where least expected that hat we prefer to hasten slowly and to submit to the charge of unsociability rather than to throw open the doors of our habitations to every grace in the name of a gentleman that comes among us burchenal bur with claims to attentions from the other world of mankind our kindness has been so often abuse abw ednd dand our libe ilbe all ali allty ty and aad courtesy so frequently seri serving ojill to bring our trad trado cers acers better before the public and to clohe alobe them with something like ilke tha the authority of an arac e of inner ilfe life that we really are not particularly partial to the friendship of brnt brut acquaintance acquaint ence but bu t we oid did not then than think that we would so go soon have fresh grounds f for or the he exercise of his ibis caution L as than a year sear ago ago a party of literary iggi figi airmen and artists arlista passed through here f aiom lom the east to the pacific one of the company a professional writer writers an author was wag ar y to be intro introduced ded here and end andiliere there thare and through the influence of friends no he bd came recommended be was made welcome B E erv ery ery cry place u was as q ven veny yen every every atten inn ion be bonu delra destra delre was extended lo 10 him bim b I 1 in ile ho ivas ras bilt but a few days in the city but was long orough enouse when sober to call upon some cf of our principal citizens and havethe have the free intercourse iner course of gentlemen he ile came to the city inebriated was unable to walk assisted unassisted ur to his bis hote hole was probably sober the greater part of the ad of july and may bave bare boen loen teen leen gober sober some other er hours of his sojourn here but he was literally a perfect sot or in the language of more than thail 11 who bg saw hun hue he was drunk when he came he was terribly drunk when be letti ietti lett left tand land and was beastly drunk while hest best he stayed ayd 11 yet this fame christian writer regales he be reading public with the be vilest abuse of the people of utah that a bertan gentile merchant establishment lish ment in whisky street could stuff him with and what the pens of pron prof profligate nate tate fedel fedei federal al officers from the days of to Ilard liard ling and ap states could furnish bim him hamall ail ali all of which 0 of course ourse C be he deals out to the greedy crowd as precious morsels of his bis own collating on tle tie atlantic seaboard he be serves his purposes through the atlantic conmy and the lecture I 1 halls hails on the pacific through the columns of the golden era bra a paper owned and edited by a gentleman who ho really prof professes pro festes eELes friend ship tor for or the people of utah I 1 that fitz fit hugh C ludlow has personally any grudge against the latter day saints hit he seek seeks s in this way to gratify we think very q but it is popular with some to abuaf the mormons cormons Mor mons if ti writers told the truth j they would have but bul little to say and have i few readers and as pelf must be mad made e ly by the professional be must mike it as the public taste demands had flad it been a better pay n dg g concern to write us up he would hav bave edone done BO so lie he did diki not know enough to make interesting and his overcoming coming him at the hour he lie should have labored bored by absei observation to discover the truth he hd to draw on the sources we have named and rusbin rushin rushing r impetuously from falsehood to fat fal falsehood be wove his bis web I 1 but a daub of another class and of a more recent date presents himself in the person of E P aston agent of artemus ward a contributor to riold eat cat literature the author of poty Poly poly petticoat orthe Hang mans 1 daughter dau abter 1 we shall till we have reasons for doing otherwise regard Ar artemus artemas lemus lemas as he processed pro essed to be a gentleman the g o a ker exhibited the instincts of 0 a gentleman how ever he may ise them but carried I 1 1 wit with him the undisguised graces of a refined gr noe nee of a the purlie purlieus us of L adon As a manager amerbe be wag was no in the profession and as he claimed clai was waa to artemus the pow r behind the throne while here both were treated with much kindness and the lang ilage and actions of artemus from first to last arfaras ad far as we have learned were contra confra ay iry to his process on we hope bope b ope v we e shall have no occasion to change our go 4 opinion of him I 1 p personal ij but of his agent we hope never to i be again afRic afflic tel tet with the eight sight of him ile he has written for the new jula an account af his visit to the theatre of salt lake during the lecture of jat Jkr Arte kartemus artemur temus mur mua professing protea aln ain of 0 course no relationship with the lecturer I 1 which is such a picture of mi representation and sm overa d ana and interwoven oth nith uth fabrications that we tte believe the very lowest class of our gentiles are ashamed of it that he should seek to keep artemus before the public and I 1 eed teed it with great expectations of an interesting lecture after his return from is all profession professional aly alp and only such as might be expected and to which no DO reasonable exception can be taken but low in eed must be the standard of that mans morality 1 raby who would accept the c ur teales of 0 a 3 beope and the moment that he was away from their Ore fi resides sides present them before the public as the greatest con COD conglomeration of ignorance boo booy elsm ism and mental cental i without brahs brai bral is led by the wave of a chandker chief to mlle mile to cheer and to applaud what the capricious taste of another might indicate and to carry throughout L his story the tle grossest misrepresentation ct f facts that his mind could conce conc eve ve with us lually it has been I 1 a matter of question whether the letter to the written before or after the lec lectie tre I 1 we can hardly credit that a public man however habituated to lying could be so far indifferent to the opinion of even his own kin as to write with such a reckless 8 pen and tell as many lies in so bri f a space it may de be flattering g to mr hingston to hare a reputation a compliment from one of his most intimate acquaintances I 1 q quain aln aih ain here berei he is suld slid on the authority alluded to to be the greatest liar in america ica 31 I 1 I 1 dor for ourselves we are indifferent to nhat I 1 representation representations is made of u us v we care nothing I 1 but while we occupy the anam olous position assigned to us of being in the heart of the world worm yet out olit of it to the rest of manair d the 1 th thinking inking the dispassionate will probably find 1 in the article we hae bare penned the philosophy et c our situation and the of our i first paragraph |