Show DENIS KEARNEY t The M < ives in Salt Lake And is Tackled by a i Herald Reporter Mr Denis Kearney the celebrated agitator arrived in Salt Lake yesterday yes-terday and during the aftemoon was called on at his hotel by a HERALD reporter who opened the interview proper by asking the gentleman gen-tleman where he was bound for Kearney I am on my way to Chicago in company with Stephen Maybdi We were elected delegates dele-gates to the AijtiMonopoly Couveu tion that will meet there July 4th I have been very anxious to pee you people I have heard you abused have read abuses or you and so 11 J thought would eee for myself We started a few dayu anead m I order that we might pay you a visit which would enable us to treat you fairly and intelligently when questioned ques-tioned as to the truth or ialsenood of the reports and stories that are being circulated abaut you It seems to be customary for a Jie to travel while the truth stands still I have been lied about and slandered so much that I have made up my mind in future to believe only that which I see with my own eyes Although not long in your city I must confess what little prejudice I had entertained against you has in a measure disappeared I disap-peared These once barren wastes and alkali deserts have been turned into fields of wheat gardens of potatoes and beds of posies The hands of the husbandman and housewife are visible here everywhere every-where Surely you must be an industrious people to do what has already been done If this is polygamy polyg-amy I mean so far as I have seen we need a great deal more of the kind of polygamists that you people are Beporter What is your opinion of Congress attempting to suppress the religion of the Mormons l Kearney The dudes who through bribery perjury fraud and corrup tion manage to go to Washington to make law for the people must have considerable gall to condemn the honest and mdustrious people of this Territory on the grounds of polygamy when it is a notorious fact that the average congressional bummer divides his time between hightoned corporation lobby clubrooms club-rooms and fashionable dens of pros titution General Sherman said the other day that Washington was the most immoral citv in the world ReporterYou havent much faith in the morality of the average congressman 11 KearneyNo I hava not If they want to abolish anything on the ground of immorality surely hey ought to begin by abolishing themselves It doesnt look consistent consis-tent for destroyers of virtue and deserters de-serters of the wreck bawdyhouse supporters whose transient wives are as numerous as Solomons mar lages to howl about the depravity of the Mormons It is a wellknown fact that before the coming of the Federal knapsacking brigade doors were left open all night and pad locks were as scarce in Salt Lake as virtue in Washington Reporter What do you think of Senator Edmunds and his bill to suppress the Mormons KearneyEdmunds I consider apolitical a-political wart or corttupon the public toe He dances his antipolygamy jig in the national dive merely to ulease those who love to hear ftvprv body and everything abused To show up his hypocricy he formed a law intended to suppress Mor monism because as he says of the plurality of wives yet be supported the immigration of a people the Chinese to our shores who instead of marrying a number of wives buy and sell them for concubinage and the vilest kind of social relationship If Edmunds was honest or consistent consis-tent he could have found plenty of room for his jug handled morality in helping to suppress Chinese immigration im-migration Reporter What news do you bring from the Golden State KearneyLots of good news Our state is now undergoing a degree of prosperity never before known in its history Times began to mend shortly after the adoption of the new constitution Then the passing of a law excluding the Chinese started things to booming a little faster all kinds of business is now booming but mining stocks and Mr Flood will not allow them to boom on jaw bone He is hunting for ore If he discovers a bonanza lookout look-out for a boom in stocks but not before although every wildcat sneculator in the state is cussin r E > him because he doesnt give them a market ReporterWhat about the anti railroad agitation in your state Kearney Attempts have been made to get up an antirailroad agitation but the individuals and papers who are straining every nerve to stir up a feeling against the railroads are more hated than the railroads In fact nobody but a lunatic or crank hates a railroad It is the abuses growing out of the system sys-tem that our people are opposed to and find fault with As I was say ing the individuals and papers who are trying to get up a howl against the railroads could not command a following of 100 persons Their meetings thus far have been sublime sub-lime fizzles To tell you the truth ninetenths of our people arc making faces and laughing at them Why shouldnt they The look at the monopolists who for selfish gains as temporarily posing aa antimonopolists Is sufficient suf-ficient Let me classify these screeching reformers for you First comes the land monopolists who employ Chinamen the year round and white labor only about four mouths in the I year or during harvest time second the profit mongers mong-ers or gamblers in coal iron grain and general merchandise etc third a scheming and blade mail press which is simply barking for the sake of having their silence purchased A mining monopolist who has more money than brains and one of a trio ot notorious schemers bought the old evening Examiner and started it as a de ujcciatiu morning paper for the purpose of having himself elected governor of the 3tate The convention con-vention refused to nominate him notwithstanding the fact that he had sung about S16qJ0l > in the paper carrying primaries etc Up to this time the paper had not one word to say against monopolies quite the reverse it was sounding their praises But i he day after old Hearsts defeat for the nomination for governor his paper came out against the railroad companysayiug they were the means of defeating Hearst The old fellow ielt sore over his defeat both in mind and pocket and thought to get rid of his whi e elephant by bulldozing the railroad company by taking it off his hands lii this be also failed He now thinks he would make a splendid United States senator although he knews as much about the duties of a senatcr as a hen knows about heaven AS for the Chronicle it will turn a somersault twenty times a day for coin it will advocate any scheme no matter how villainous for money It is looked upon as the joint organ of the captain of the detective de-tective force and au old mining sharp We consider DeYoucg as a sort of a figure head a kind of a dummy kept where he is because he know something of the duties of business manager his business being to bring money no matter bow obtained Ninetenths of the people of our state got it into thfir heads that he was sent to New York by the powers that be some time ago to sell the Chronicles columns to the bear ring who were org tnizlng a raid upon the stock of this corporation cor-poration and that he succeeded in getting ID suosiQizea unere are not three persons in the entire state that care a pin about what it says or does The people long ago made up their minds to go againstanything it advocates We are all in favor of controlling the railroads but it must oe done by labor not the employers of labor Mr Kearney explained some of his points in language that was forcible for-cible if not elegant generally seeming seem-ing to prefer to be understood rather than embellish his sentences He is a much larger man than we expected ex-pected to see being about five feet eight inches in height and weighing 150 pounds He promises us a speech on hid return from Chicago |