Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER the utah question is once more coming to the front the preachers and editors are becoming fearfully excited over mormonism the churches are empty newspapers contain not nothing ng but u divorce vorce re reports As and suicide details something th ng sensational to is wanted to v vary ary the monotonous recital of morbid narratives respecting demented infidels and the salacious stories of female here is an editorial from the chicago tribune on utah five mormon missionaries who have been preaching the gospel of joe smith and brigham Brig haro young in in northern alabama were taken yn in hand by some of the citizens of dale county the other day stripped hickories hiek hick oried tarred and feathered and warned that il if they did not leave that section something thin worse would befall them they had teen been making numerous converts and were about to lead a colony 1 of I their dupes to utah the mormons cormons are having great success of late in alabama georgia and the adjoining states the illiterate whites poor ang and without hope of betterment have lis bened eagerly to their fancy stories about the jordan land of milkana milk and honey 11 dependent women have been caught by wes tales of a land where there were husbands fr all and sensual men have been pleased with the idea of lots of wives these converts are so ignorant they do not know that while the united states does not care what jumble of ancient jewish and creeds the mormons cormons preach yet it will not tolerate their polygamous lyga lyga imitation of the patriarchs nor will it allow a church to usurp in utah or elsewhere the functions of civil govern government mem and tithe men by force of law forthe for the support of a bogus and lecherous priesthood yet while these rascally missionaries are teaching such false doati ine and unlawful practices it may be doubted whether flogging and feathering is the best way to deal with them they will sneak around among the illiterate poor whites of other communities show their striped backs and tell that they have suffered ered thus on earth but that in the skies above they shall have have the white robe and the palm aud and that they will be winged angels while their persecutors will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the worm dieth not and the flames are not quenched the best beat way to head off these false prophets is to educate the people so they can think and reason and protect themselves from being dupes the mormon missionaries do not infest those parts of the united states where the people are intelligent 01 so glaring is the falsehood in this article that the writer of it must either have lost the critical faculty altogether or else he must consider his readers as absolute numbskulls numb skulls prepared to swallow any kind of mormon missionaries aries do not dwell on physical geography while abroad nor do they chant praises of climatic splendor or topographical magnificence and well the knows this but it is so steeped in vili villainy alny falsehood and indecency that it cannot possibly teu tel truth it cannot reproduce one fancy story about the jordan land of milk and honey told b by y any mormon missionary while abroad but in its own columns there appeared a glowing description of utah last spring when the utah exposition car visited this city this car was sent through the country at an expense of many of dollars pamphlets after hovering awhile around the edge of the cesspool cess pool which furnishes mrs carters cause of complaint mr walker made a dive into it dragging the witness with him and for awhile there was in the room the oppressive atmosphere of phallic rites and other bestialities emerging from this into the keener atmosphere of other branches of the case mrs carter state stated that in 1882 her home was on dearborn alenne 11 six of the ablest lawyers in chicago are engaged in this case an army of witnesses and detectives axe are on hand to prove all manner of were distributed broadcast telling what an earthly paradise utah was only a few weeks ago a letter appeared in the tribune signed 0 J T hollister it was bothin nothing mo more re tb than SM an exhortation to the people of chicago to go and live in utah the millionaire and pauper the athlete and paralytic the sewer digger and typewriter type writer were all invited to the jordan land of milk and honey by the bentli enthusiastic usi hollister and hollister and the chicago tribune and the exposition car are the only missionaries who have preached fancy 8 tories stories about utah it is probable that these agents are helping mormonism providence sometimes works in a mysterious way the very dregs of humanity the very offid offal of civilization can be utilized tf if so be it is the will of the most high look at the miserable wretch pigott what a helping hand he be was the means of giving to gladstone and parnell nothing meaner inhuman human in form could be produced than this same pigott unless it to Is joe medell of chicago and 0 J hollister of utah As to the slander on the white people people of the south it is petty perjured ju ed and nd forged as if written by editor piggott the white people of the south are not entirely illiterate the men of the south are not se sensual sti nor are the women old maids neither axe are they prostitute hirelings in stores and sho shops as the rev bev mr r barbour says ta the e girls of chicago are the white people of the south outside of the preachers and the bogus religionists are 8 good people comparatively they aro free from the great social vices of the north divorce is not RU an institution homana is not characteristic of southern romeu abortion is not a profession 7 I 1 must admit that the preachers 01 of the south are a miserable gang they are bigoted ignorant that is why they are losing their hold on the people that is why Christia christianity is moribund among them the preachers see their pews unoccupied and get low into a rage against mormonism i then thell come the bloody shirt papers of the north to tell about the illiteracy of the poor white trash of the south in the same issue of the avy which cout contains aiDs the above edita rial to is a ten column report of a divorce case now going on in one of vw chicago courts the principals w in this case are of the son bon ton of chi cha cago and new york society W tz leslie carter is a pillar in episcopal episcope Episco pw charch circles mrs leslie carter cart is a graduate of an E Episcopal 0 seminary of new york anity city dood prid friday ay is a day sacred among EP copa lians on this day mr carter and mrs carter are seeking to DC be divorced from baah other it would seem that there might be no trouble where both sides are of the sawel isaiaa mind but in this cue case there is the tal preferred on both sides aro are fearful ones they are una adm aele and their parallels could only bwy be found in lives ejiro of the t twelve Cje sars here is an extra from the tribune of saturday lv is what went on good friday things on both sides mr walker is the leading counsel on mr carters side here is an extract from the we troung report mr walker closed his cross ex ai nation for the forenoon by asking whether carter had ever been successful in his attempts to commit an unnatural crime for a moment the full import of I 1 he TRea question tion did not strike the wit witness nAss then she realized fier dilemma to deny that her husband had attained his ia purpose would be to attribute to hilla n a useful persistence in futile attempts which would be at least improbable to admit that he had committed the offense would be to admit to 10 a certain extent her acquiescence her in the crime this would ave in a measure justified the charges de by her husband against her fier phe dilemma was a fearful one it ats te far worse than the plight of yes tardily ter diLy hen she had only a linger hare 8 sense of shame to overcome now lilure or success vindication or dis onor hung on her reply she evaded and quibbled and pro pre ned not to understand what the law faw yer meant she was seeking time sain and again in different forms the query was put and at last mr walker in the plainest terms asked the question the reply was equino you can answer yest yes or no aid N the judge 1 I dont think I 1 can she said sai dand and i an un undertone she added 1 I will not phi was wag the nearest they could got get her er to a direct answer and they gave it 11 P for the time being I 1 I 1 this extract will give eive a f fair air idea ide of nature of the carter case the th e lamination of witnesses and the wn of interested persons are ouch co that the bums of the five cent k 1 1 houses only talk of it in papers the rush of people to get w count court is such that one day last ok k a man had his arm broken in vw te throng and several women anted from exhaustion in their aggles ggles to galu gaiu admission the is a harvest for newspapers bu only a week ago a chicago tri oune correspondent investigated the 41 oree IOree system in chicago she yd mt agne herself nors nora marks 21 2 1 she bhe ed several prominent lawyers in ast ut of a divorce though she is a kle ae woman but it appears that vorce could be obtained without y trouble provided there was ey to pay for it witnesses re on OIL hand to prove anything deone st re d of the poets of the tribune is tie gw iakow jr in the penitentiary mr beat jas was a prominent lawyer here ae 8 specialty alty was divorce practice 81 had a regular staff of hired wit j besses j 88 his leisure time was jfe whitin poetry for the broune W bordon go ion read some of his verses me away up in canada she ad bred the verses and learned ta joe medill that mr beattie po etwas was also a divorce court awyer ltv y she came to chicago and vorm vo beattie battle she wanted a dl to from gordon but had no pounds jends that aou would id stand invests investigate a kola n chatte beattie assured her that he ats ft fix things he did he witnesses nemes to swear that gordon 81 48 livilla with wit a woman at a given yen add refis in chicago mrs gordon got her divorce and married a man named wilson when gordon found his wife 1 if e gone one he hunted around a little little HE he found that in the records of the chicago courts he was an adulterer a wire wife beater a drunkard a sot and various other things mr wilson was called on to explain much of the swearing was lone done in in her absence from the court and she was as surprised as gordon when she became aware of the true state of things she rounded on beattie the poor poet is now in joli joliet et but joe medill is on the tripod still of course beattie is still laureate of the tribune the penitentiary is no disqualification for work on the wawne oneff one of its principal writers at resent present is recently from joliet bead the following extract A varied stream of socie tys outcasts and unfortunates pour nightly into the police stations for shelter the blighted histories legible in their faces lend color to the belief that some great M t wrong exists in society which a develops v I 1 PH so many homeless wanderers of the twenty four sleepers at the west twelfth street station one rainy night last week two caught the eye of curiosity one with bowed form forin and halting step walked with a cane old age and wounds received in fighting his count rys battles like two great crutches were hurrying himin him into the next world where it is believed there are no battles to fight and where the innocent poor are not compelled to beg shelter with criminals to escape the rigors of rough weather the old n man ian bore patiently hia 75 years of life the most valuable thine on his person doubtless was the 25 cent terra cotta 0 A B button which gave notice that he had fought for fora a country which allows its gallant defenders in war to become its miserable tramps in peace y this is a nice picture of society in ch chicago e contrast this aged person w with afta joe medill and ask which is patriot and which I 1 is pimp imn here is a man who fought for or his country who went to the front who slept in the trenches whose whiskers were singed with burning powder and who is now 75 years of age and who has to seek the soft side of a pine board in a police station for a bed our pension rolls foot up many many millions our pension bureau contains thousands of clerks all patriots who never lost a meal never slept in a trench but the poor old who deserves a pension and a bed is forced to the roadside on the contrary look at joe medill he heinold is old too his whiskers are heavy his hearing is gone but he be owns a house larger than a police station it is next door to a church and in close proximity to two or three others he did not go to the war he did not fight for any country he came here from nova scotia a poor penniless lad with a tough conscience and an irish name he set to work at once and adopted patriotism as a profession lais his tr irish ish name mcdell became medil his pockets were soon filled and his conscience became ossi ossified fled if not petrified his cifes relatives he sent to the war and then posed as one who bled for his country he had a nose for of fal and soon all the murders rapes robberies divorces of the whole country were published by him fl finally na he stole the matthew arnold no 1 d bogus us letter and then went into hi his sTole hole this is a fair type of the anti mormon class the and Le Barons of the united states JUNIUS CHICAGO april 22 |