Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER during the past few weeks evena have been transpiring in child a detailed account of which wo wow 4 have been interesting to citizens 01 utah unfortunately an aa ube gudex l pecked change in my af faire abw imps imposed d 0 on n me duties en entirely f tor eign to 1 literary L te r y work of any K lid precluded t the he possibility of iny at tending to what was go going ing on amad aroud me in the religious political aa and social spheres I 1 regret exceeding that I 1 missed such a good opportune ity of treating chicago matters w 80 compared with those of utah we have had a municipal election which has resulted in thelow the total e unction of john A roche and his n machine tonight mr acrel re 1 or will be inaugurated mayor or of IL bl dr cago his plurality was fully IZ on the 2nd and of april last the unique feature about tb t b A chicago election is that it was 1 ly fought on religious issues fiad I 1 old contest between protestant protestants 0 catholic was once more revived all its intensity of ill feeling appears that john A roche is son soil of roman catholic parents who wo were natives of cork county land in his boyhood john roche offic officiated as altar boy the roman boag n church n he to manhood he affiliated bi lagrew self w with ith the unitarians and aoa alved 1 a secret society known as the avs order of deputies this organ 12 to t u 03 tion was founded expressly elude members of the bona church from all profitable em I 1 ment both industrial and poa Is his family and friends look looked U wis john A roche as aa one dead JB name was never mentioned ce t with tears this was why g knew so ln general public about him two tw 0 years ago buta But 0 dif A roche the machinist machinis i wasa ferent ft rent person from john A awe the mayor of chicago and why every incident in the WOO BA genealogy is is now published v I 1 efterp john is not of the stuff which ent into the constitution of heroes a martys hence he was a poor manist and a worse protes when he found that ia WO with the deputies would ruin fl ba politically if known he be ff I 1 got name erased from their f i w anita the deputies did not like Ws this out the secret first fl rot leaked g through them john was in ID a a fix both sides repudiated T the machine worked hard bard professional Bomani romanists ste ts we re well to 8 speak for john but they SO as john ohn were swamped vou my f oconnor comisky qulin pe erty and others are very woo rt ticiano today and what is west w g they are looked upon as very kneed romanists Romanis ts abo speaking of the election evening journal says the most 1 feature of the campaign ow closed was the attempt of a portion of the partisan press to exa cite religious or sectarian prejudices WIS against dinst the respective candidates his is a free country civil free dova OBI and religious freedom are alike alart bart of its institutions no ques witt wan of a mans religion or his see rian affinities ought ever to be teed in the nomination of candi artes ws for office nor in discussing their fitness for boffl office ce the right of nescience should not be placed in arll gem by mixing 0 religion 0 with politics r the chicago tribune and inter denounced religious strife uch more vehemently than did the he journal ro but the inconsistency of these papers manifests itself very og ly when they refer to utah ture bere they urge on a religious war ca on tle the government to con emte oate church property to place political disabilities on citizens be ause of conscience oh besl this 18 a free country where a few old deep in utah are gobbled up ubbe be fause a priest owns them yes SCience is respected here and tc the ne chicago tribune calls on 11 si dent Ident harrison to remove gen from the utah com ua sion because he is suspected of having ving a leaning towards rights of to civil freedom and re ious liberty president harrison has better nse than to heed the ravings of eddu nixon and the chicago deputies john A roche boche took joseph ph medill for a tutor and now poor johns name is dennis medill as 48 the first to pronounce against last tune june it was the 1 chicago tribune printed the harri record 11 in chinese matters and the labor questions when the found that it could not lead 5 na P y followed from free trade t changed hinged to protection from gres hm ani and ingersoll tol to Harrison and ir moody the evangelist has arned to chicago after a pro apted tour in the west he has what he calls a bible in chicago an analysis of th this institution I 1 shows that mr sy gave close attention to borm 0 cism 11 while in the west is the bible institute is wida mere nor less than anat an at teba adopt the discipline and of the church of the latterly di ay saints of utah mr moody learned that christianity is not ched cubed today he says the ri roa chers are too far removed from ha tt th people aud and that virtually S is 8 no priesthood in his rol IL 01 he has instituted what a calls lay missionaries a to of prea priests ts corresponding correspond tee T and deacons in the jitter ker day saints church the bytof of these missionaries is to wt the homes of the people con aft ae with the heads of families 04 in fact ac do 0 everything that a er in th the e mormon church is rod to do on ha d ha hoped that I 1 could get an ftc 0 unity to attend mr moodys moods ool personally so as to be able to define it accurately but anfor tuna tely I 1 have not leisure at pres prea ent the papers do not give full ful reports of his work but I 1 know enough of it to see that it is ii plainly a plagiarism from the church in utah the social condition of chicago is still under discussion by the ministers of religion they have talked over abortion divorce murder suicide and now they are on sexual licentiousness here are some clippings from a local paper they speak for themselves the rev el H barbour of the beldon avenue baptist church preached a sensational sermon last evening on the seventh commandment he drew a sombre picture of the homes and shops of chicago declaring that many a married couple kiss each other only to hasten basten to keep an unholy appointment and that respectable merchants offer their female clerks wages insufficient to pay their board jom pointing ting out to them how they can make more money by belling their vii vitue tue some of the ministers of the city were interviewed as to the moral effect of such a sermon following is what they said the rev percy webber traveling evangelist III 1 I think there is a good deal of fact in what mr barbour says I 1 preach against child murder and the sins of the flesh myself about employers debauching debau ching their help well PI id d oetter better not noi say anything about it no id better not sin is growing a long along that line the bev R 1 I fleming pastor of asbury methodist episcopal church it is a delicate subject to handle yet it is one that must begot be got at some way while a minister must deal it carefully yet there i no excuse for this great evil of the day As to the truth of mr Bar barbouris barbours Barb bours ouro charges I 1 dont feel qualified to speak the baptist mini ministers were m not A di dis ased to discuss the rev mr bar cosed ours aurs sermon you see aw said the rev D early it would be very unprofessional to say anything about it I 1 glanced over the sermon this morning and was struck by its truth but its a sermon I 1 dont care to discuss the rev mr whitten care to discuss it either when the reporter gave a synopsis of what mr barbour had bad said he became interested I 1 it Is estrue true he lamented that the ministers do not say any as much on the subject je t as they should sli chicago is is i a very wicked city and I 1 have no doubt that mr barbours barboura Bar bours picture of depravity infidelity and wickedness Is is true yes I 1 indorse what he said and am pleased at his openness and frankness and I 1 may have something cosay to say about it myself some day this is a pretty picture of a city which maintains four anti mormon societies and sends out missionaries to utah that fierce mormon eater mr cook is here he has changed his tune the following extract will explain his present mission nils sion the rev joseph cook of boston is a man of massive stature and in a meeting the congregational ministers this morning he dealt some powerful blows on the catholic church and romanism he commenced his address with a general review of the temperance outlook in boston the pro prohibitory prohibits za amendment he said W would in all probability be defeated by the stay at home vote just as it was in new hampshire people there were beginning to get alar alarmed at the enormous stay at home vote ano demanded the adoption of the swiss compulsory law the australian scheme now a law in massachusetts is not sufficient then the big man paused his chest heaved and he thundered out the words the jesuits the roman Church have unsheathed their swords against our public school system what are we as ministers going to do a bout about icv it he said the priesthood had been instructing members of their churches how to vote at confessional the catholics were asked as to how they voted and if they refused to obey orders the priests i ests refused to absolve their sins alias vh this I 1 he said was general in canada and was rapidly becoming a menace to this country in massachusetts the protestants exceeded in numbers the catholics but cwi g to church aid the latter laiter cast a mor compact vote hence the caution necessary to prevent them from getting the upper band hand y lillian wh etling writing from boston to the chicago inter inte roce ocean dwells on kate field and on prohibition hibi tion it appears from the whiting correspondence that the massachusetts clergy have all gone into politics here is what she says more and more the idea seems prevailing among the clergy that the priest r lest should be not a man set apart from from secular affairs but a man apan to illustrate i rate the idel idea I 1 relation of a citizen to affairs the rev kev dr philli phillips brooks says what every man shou should d be at all the minister should be supremely pr emely and dr hale makes this principle the basis of his whole life of fa faithful rith ful noble elevating work the more a person investigates the affairs of the outside world and then contrasts it with utah the more con conspicuously does the superiority 0 rit of utah institutions present itse itself tf utah leads not only in church discipline in priestly organization a niza tion but also in theology and an fn in politics she needs only to hew to the line laid out with patience pe perseverance energy and faith to come out on top jumus CHICAGO april 15 1889 |