OUR CHICAGO LETTER the past week has been an eventful one for chicago its great auditorium rn has been consecrated to music rud and oratory under the auspices of a president vice president and hlf balf a dozen governors of states patti pati the italian singer was queen of the ceremony Chi cagos four hundred were ware out in all their resplendency earths animal mineral and vegetable treasures were called into requisition to furnish ornaments embellishments and luxuries for th the e occasion furs from the frozen zone flowers from the tropics gold from the medicos cos and tailors from paris pans made the event a gorgeous glittering pageant I 1 yonder onder belle in costume staggers beneath the weight of the products of three continents and on her person glitters in gold though her mother chewed snuff smoked a corn ob bob pipe and kept boarders but to 10 the citizens of utah something else more important than vot grand at ad openings have bove been going on not alone adoue irl chicago but in all our large and small eastern towns newspapers secular and religious are industriously engaged in I 1 n malign tag misrepresenting and calumniate ing the people of utah politicians and preachers catch basin heroes ILD ani I 1 kentucky colonels italian princes and puritan cobblers all S ilke silke have something to say about mormonism from a collection of over fifty articles and editorials one is here submitted ir in full as being more or less typical of the whole it is from the chicago tribune ot of a recent date fhe name of f the author is given who furnishes the information on which the editorial is based it is with him we have to deal the tribune Iri tribune bune is now at var with the catholic conw with the la news and with penn nixon su so we must let I 1 it pass pas 8 this time here is the article IN ARIZONA there is a general impression th that at the evil of mormonism is 18 confined to utah butah and thus far congress has evidently shared the same opinion as its legislation gl has been restricted to that territory lern tory it ic is apparent however that the time is not far distant when toe tho government will have to leei legislate slate for v other territories to check the schemes of that subtle and insidious church the arizona papers contain numer ous protests against the invasion of that dav territory by the latter day saints fad it the hold they are securing upon politics and educational system 11 the immediate and di i auspices ft faint int lion of their church the r aesque 14 M citizen of a 79 A r 5 date contains a letter latter from son boll 1101 91 written bitten by robert E morri of albert bert L morrison who is well 11 1 cnown in in this city which con firms the reports of the rapid spread of mormonism throughout the terri tory today arizona is practically in the hands of the mormons cormons Mor mons and politically they control the balance of power mr morrison f furnishes ur the following illustration in the county of apache at the lie election in the fall of 1888 out of votes the mormons cormons cast and every one of them voted for the democratic ticket under positive instructions from the church this will apply with like force to the other counties of the territory where the saints live they hold the balance of power and it is thrown into either political camp as the church dictates and thus in every instance the candidates of the cherch are elected A still worse feature of mormonism in arizona is its hold upon the public school system in apache county the church controls conti it the superintendent of schools is a Morin mormon nn likewise two or throe members of the elamm elamin ing board and this board issues teachers certificates during the year says mr morrison certify tifa oates cates have been issued to mor I 1 mons only many of whom are u utterly tte I 1 devoid of the qualifications a te teacher arzi er should possess assess in every district Ni mormon school district strict a mormon to icher is is found and gentile teachers are unable to obtain positions f polygamy is openly practiced first wives too old for 1191 ore sie bundled off to utah and their hua bands are living with amous wives w ives in in defiance aced ce 1 w law because they control it and these women vote at school elections putting themselves on record as unmarried the testimony recently taken in the salt lake cases convicted ane mormons cormons upon their own admissions of being disloyal to the government of the united states this disloyalty is not confined to utah in a recent sermon delivered at snowflake in arizona john henry smith one of the apostles uttered the most treasonable sentiments and defied the of the government at springerville Spring erville and othur places the national flag has been hoisted upside down and othera so ise insulted As the linnave lines nave been drawn tig tighter ahter in utah the church has quietly sent out its colonies into arizona an and new mi mexico rhese colonists have carried with them the dogmas and practices of the church and put them into force as soon son as they are strong enough slowly but surly surely they are spreading the pestiferous doctrines doctrine of polygamy and disloyalty throughout these territories controlling politics and dominating education evidently it is folly to temporize any longer heroic measures must be adopted congress must grapple with the evil the testimony in the salt lake cases shows that existing legislation falls fails to get at the root of the evil either therefore some new and drastic measures must be devised or congress must confess itself powerless to overcome over coma the disloyalty of the mormon church and compel obedience to law note the name of I 1 robert E who furnishes the arizona sensation he is the son of albert L morrison well known in chicago yes in truth mr morrison edior 0 1 is well known know n here and per flips 8 a sketch of his life may not be out of peace in connection with the above editorial force of circumstances has bas made him an american citizen or perhaps it might be more proper to say that the irish famine of 1846 47 did so in those sad years from that unfortunate cou mr morrison was taken from a county workhouse and lauded landed in new york he came to chicago some years after and worked as a cooper but making whisky barrels was too a trade for the aspiring victim of blighted potatoes and he soon developed into a polive police court lawyer known here as the shyster ster 52 in connection with his bis law practice he followed the pursuit of irish patriot and professional 11 aitho lic understand not a catholic because this latter belongs only to the mere mere irish the Cawtho lic 1 1 claims to be of norman or part saxon stock and looks upon himself as of a superior grade this class george francis train characterized as the anglo roman party A Bu esell cullen and moriarty si orrison was a member of several societies of the clan na gael type and his bis closest and most intimate friends here are now the principal actors in the catch basin melodrama mr morrison was at first a democrat in politics lut the other party in those days had the loaves and fishes aud and he wisely westover wen went tover over he soon became a judge that is a kind of squire whose principal ess ss was to marry negroes dispossess is possess luckless te tenement a who fell behind in rent payas ing asa a patriot the late general logan loga n took morrison under his wing but morrison for rison became such a persistent office seeker and also such a bore to thrust friends in office that logan glogau got president arthur to send morrison Morri soB as marshal of the united states to new mexico when parties in england englan d want to rid themselves of a thoroughly unscrupulous politician clau they send him to ireland in like manner here when parties got tired of an office seeker here they sent him to the territories and that was the last of him very rarely any of them come back when president harrison came into pov po er morrison was a strong candidate for governor of new mexico but the american population of that province protested bec because ausla morrison was a roman catholic and a kind of lay jesuit whose only ambition was personal aggrandizement and roman supremacy he was not made governor but had to get some kind of office there in order to shut his mouth it was lucky for nt harrison that morrison was not made governor that combined with the pat egan and AIe alexander xander sullivan business would for ever cover his administration with shame and ridicule Iti it is true morrison stumped along with sullivan scanlan and all the other members of camp 20 for harrison and morton but it was not known at that time what infamous scoundrels these fellows were it was not till poor dr cronin was dragged mutilated naked and decomposing from the sewer that the chiefs of the republican republiC all party became aware of the character of their irish allies it is the son of this morrison tbt furnishes information about mormonism and calls on the united states congress to wipe its ita adherents off the i arth it is probable nay certain that oneff one of these attended the baltimore catholic congress and gave vent to his servile whine about the outrage toleo XII 1 I and ad in the same snarl advocated irons tor for wilford woodruff these miserable crawling canting selfish unprincipled ragamuffins raga muffins cry down with mormonism and yet one of their own bishops is kicked and beaten in toronto an and d they raise a how hawl of indignation at it rhey talk about dis disloyalty loyalty and yet dom pedro and his family are hunted from brazil because isabella is said to be a female jesuit aud and that she swept out a church in order to get children at the congress daniel dougherty said that an irish catholic had bad no chad zhuan f advancement in this country daniel is a splendid orator a man of intellect and geidus and we cannot help saying what a pity that he is a romanist Roma did mr dougherty ask hirris himself elf what rome ever did for ireland or to elevate irishmen nothing but sell it every time as it would in the present year for a university bill from balfour only for davitt and parnell the men who made a character for ireland a anu nu I 1 birj L rish were not romans edt edmund mu nd henry grattan Ur attan edward fi ettz t z dean swift lucas aa mo ol 01 ay it plunkett kett goldsmith Alling allingham bam and a hundred hu adred others were outside of rome borne but they were all true irishmen there was robert emmet king of them all he was no roman catholic nor is parnell but your miserable morrisons Morri sons who disgrace ireland and who pose as petty tyra tyrants ilits and patriotic amer americans are and if disloyalty exists at all it exists on OB their side JUNIUS CHICAGO december 1889