Show A WRITER OX ON THE MOR mon MONS AMONG the tho many who interviewed president young last summer was a person named justin mccartney formerly on the editorial staff of the london morning star the february number of the galaxy contains an article headed brigham brigham young over the signature of this gentleman which purports to give the impressions resulting from his visit to salt lake prejudice towards the people of utah Is visible in every line but the article as a whole is the strangest mixture we have ever pursued per sued its ilas lias done his best to create a feeling against the mormons cormons Mor mons but in some respects he has launched out on a different tack to any of his predecessors A copy of the lecture entitled whited sepulchers most likely inspired him when talking about the ladies here for his remarks are but an exaggerated re petion of the statements contained therein but are more soulless soul less and spiritless and dabid edly more senseless than any ever penned by the authoress of that foolish production mccartney takes up considerable space in saying little about his interview with president young much that he says is slangy flippant and worthy of a circus buffoon his conclusions being that president young believes himself a heaven inspired jeader but be mccartney of course believes to the contrary his idea of mormonism in the abstract is that it is really regarded by its vot votaries aries arles as a religion and that the men even agrenot are noot toot held to it by polygamy for ho he thinks thinka that everywhere in christendom there are abundant opportunities tuni ties for the gratification of libidinous desires at less expense than polygamy emong among the mormons cormons Mor mons mona polygamy of course receives a full fall bhare share of this worthya wor thys abuse but butt unlike his predecessors he asserts the belief that it is worse than prostitution and that there is more hope for society with the latter than with the former strange enough one of this mans chief objections to that much misunderstood system is based professedly on physiological si ground Si st this is something new to us among all the objections objection s raised against polygamy we have never heard this urged before those most opposed to its practice on social and moral grou grounds andr have never to our kno know w ledge objected to it physiologically but then there are many philosophic truths yet unknown to professed scientists and it may be that McCartney McCart ls visit to SaIt Balt Lake will be the means of developing e ve loping one of these truths and instead of having to depend wholly for fame b by pandering to a vitiated public taste by by writing sensation magazine articles by he 0 may yet take rank among quack scientists in perusing his article one cannot help being persuaded that he is a prince among egotists this is a specially apparent in that portion of it devoted devoted lake city and the theatre scores of men of the same profession as mccartney have visited salt lake city they have come filled with prejudice in the great majority of cases a and with t rare exceptions have had n no 0 higher I 1 e object in view than he nna nan namely m ea to make money by writing sensation articles about utah and its people whether true or false was of like consequence to them without exception we think no matter what their prejudices have been his have given it as their unanimous opinion that salt lake city was a beautiful city an oasis in the desert and furnished an overwhelming wh elming proof of the grit and industry of the cormons mormons Mor mons the theatre too when the difficulties that had bad to be encountered in ita its erection were considered si when the whole people were a thousand miles from civilization has been pronounced a marvel and compared by men who knew and have seen as much as this mccartney with leading theatres theartres the atres in this country and great britain but this new light in magazin edom would persuade his readers that his predecessors knew nothing and have all been mistaken that salt lake city and the theatre are diametrically opposite to what they have been represented and that no people save they had been digger indians would have done less here than the mor mons 11 now the opinions of any man or people concerning the people of utah or their works give us no concern whatever and especially when the expression of such opinions evinces so much ignorance of their situation and is BO so completely free from common sense as that of MCI mccartney artney but we wish to assure them all that the credit the people here deserve and that public opinion h has awarded them cannot be taken away by their ridiculous misrepresentations there may be a few among the readers of this galaxy article who will endorse it but to the thinking portion who know the least about the difficulties that the people of utah had to labor under in founding the first and still the most flourishing colony in the rocky mountains that article will be regarded simply as an expose of the consummate ignorance and egotism of its author we jve saw it stated the other day we think in the letter of an eastern correspondent to one of our exchanges that this man was considered by some as the most valuable recent addition to the magazine writers of the country he may be so considered but we are der def decidedly of the opinion that id iri venality the augmentation to the craft will be imm immense emse edse but in honor very slight indeed |