| Show CHRISTIAN CHICAGO indications point to the tile f fact let that the well known woman of the ap drunken drunker with tho the wine of vice is preparing herself to set up as a teacher of virtue and a reformer of morals the garden city by the banks of lake michigan is being aroused from center to circumference in self righteous indignation dig nation against the people of utah about whom the mot most absurd slam deis aro are eagerly circulated ted by knaves and aa as ear gerly swallowed by the thought thoughtless it used to be a common trick by autocratic monarchical lien ever the interior affairs of their administration became so rotten as to become a stench in the factories ol of the nation and to arouse them to dissatisfaction t to divert public attention from the domestic disorder by inaugurating an all international imbroglio and waging war abroad both napoleons cons have been prominent by the practice of this policy k now it appears to us that tho the ministers wk of tho tile various sects and dc denominations startled by the dc do crease of religious faith and I increase of moral depravity among their folds aro are attempting to cover the rottenness i in their cengr ega mationg and the slums of vice in the very shadows of their church spires by raising clouds of dust and hurricanes picanes of denunciation against an inoff inoffensive on sive out of the way people which for fifty years lias has seen almost every mens hand raised against itself by the side of those clor clergymen gamell crusaders we find worn out political shacks hacks like schuyler ex colfax and others who want to ma make l e the nation forget records over their stentorian huc flue and cry against against the mormon Mor mons shipwrecked po politicians itic ians grasp at the anti mormon plank as a means of rescue from drowning in the angry waves of popular disfavor an instance of the religious s side of the auti anti 11 mormon for nion crusade is furnished by the tile cli chicago f icaco news of the lilt tilt which gives the tile fol r lowing account of a clergy mens conference held tho tile day previous at tho the grand pacific hotel the rev mr lorimer addressed the meeting on the mormon question ue inferred from the speech of mr colfax that this question was rather one of politics ilian than of conscience to this conclusion unprejudiced people have come long before this there is no conscience about those would be reformers of utah its ies all politics and that of the inferior sort called bunc buncombe oinbe the report coat iun v whatever is to bo be done lie thought ht should be done speedily and vigorously instead of desiring legislation he advocated the enforcement of the existing laws iio lie predicted that in tho event of continual inaction the people in the surround ing territory would w take the matter in hand liand and suppress the treasonable spirit such an act would bring brin us into civil war before v we e knew it the admission of mr cannon be lie thought would bo be hostile to the effort of suppression he ile believes that the churches should unite in memorializing memorial izing congress in view of the end desired beautiful christian spirit only comparable to the consistency of the argument whose fault Ls is it if the existing laws have not been enforced the whole judiciary power in in the territory haa has for long years been exclusively in the hands and 11 control jofs men sent to utah with 00 nt the h distinct expectation of suppressing C mormonism by tho tile application of laws framed for this very purpose but not enough with this congress is to be intimidated into something what doeg does not clearly appear by tho the covert threat of a civil war it seems some of the these thele le presumed preachers of the gospel of peace arc are moro more like alic muflih of mohammedanism flourishing tho the scriptures in the left and brandishing the sword in tho the right to give more importance to the meeting a guest was introduced to parade his virtue and tho the vices vice s of the mormons cormons Mor mons tho kev rev mr hr mckenzie a baptist missionary in S salt tit lake city s spoke P A c his remarks showed him to bo be a man of energy zeal and coura courage ge it is hia his desire to raise to bo be used in the equipment of certain necessary rooms etc in connection with hia his work I in the above city mr mcken zio is working alone and has bis been very successful he ile said it was said of him that ha ho had bad dono done more for tho territory than any man who over went into it ho ile sa lathat sald that ho the gentiles of tho tile territory w were ere generous roua air lf sacrificing aracri dicing people and hat that all reports to iio tile contrary arc false lie he wished able bodied men to assist him in his work for the rap cause on the tile coast is languishing and is marked by apat h y and indi indifference 11 creore indeed must bo ii a wonderful man if in defense ofa of a languishing cause ho lie lias has done more for the territory than any other man who ever went there thi s must bo be great news to the sturdy pien pioneers ceri who opened the wilderness of the ore great at salt lake lak C laid outfits cities citie and sand the sale bridged their rivers and brought the str streams atins from the mountains but the latter were ab able i c bodi bodied edmen men just the article which rev mck is in ir great need and f for or which purpose ho be wants to raise how many men aliis amount is expected to fetch wo we are not told we sur surmise inise it will bo be figured by the favorite republican system of addi addition division and silence if space would permit wi ya would also refer more at tit len lant e arti i tj ta the or to make the anti mormon sentiments national in its character which consists conis ts in the appointment of a man mail pleaded y headed committee of chicago citizens to send circular letters to evera state of tile union ad advising n I the holding of mass meetings denouncing 11 mormonism and nd arousing C a feeling Z of indignation and hatred against the mormons cormons Mor mons to cap the tile climax of absurdity the of february has lias been a appointed P for these demonstrations of popular prejudices and animosity goaded all and nourished by ical reverends and cintr intriguing i fruin L or ables and such a movement with alleged motives of public purity an and d virtue emanates from froin a city whose record of vice that of sodom and whose moral status one of its own journals characterizes acte thus so also is there retrogression in the universal reign of crime time which is now everywhere running riot the ball and chain and v hipping post t the ae gillory ri pillory llory and tho tile toil enforced by t tho basli ash may inay be lie severe and terrible t but they can con not riot bo more cpr r biblo blo aban than tho the submission bub mission of respectability and decency to a reign af pf of sen sell quality and such as ns is is now boasting g that it lias has got tho the upper hand well ordered charity begins at homeard home and so should the purifying process inaugurate il by mhd high highly Y christian gentlemen of chicago As astronomical MICAL vEns arc are still paying a great deal of attention to the largo red spot on ou alfo planet jupiter this spot is 13 of an all elliptic cal for form with tapering end sand covering a vast area being miles lo 10 long ng and broad the mysterious was fil first a observed veI more than arce three years ago sinco ellico which time its form seems not to have materially altered although the ordinarily ordin aril Y dark bands crossing Ju disc are in a state stat of constant c 01 change clia nrc speculations as to the nature of the red spot have heave been numerous but not very satisfactory the dark lines across the planet atre arc to bo be due to the atmospheric I na ments and the suu su I ou that the red spot L a vt portion of the planet 16 it icv lias in some unknown way become visible through the atmospheric envelope seems as plausible as any tiny cherid |
