| Show < HOW HE WAS BRIBED Y A Chicago Editor Scores the Saltid Lake BasMBazouk THE IGNORANT ASSES OF THE EAST fho Anarchist Societies In Chicago Mrs Parsons anti Her LodgeA Pen Picture of Her I I CHICAGO Feb 13Special correspondence correspond-ence of THE HmtALDI hazard the suggestion sug-gestion that no man ever spoke justly of Utah and heraffairs but what the Salt Lake Tribune accused him of being bribed by the Mormons So basely sordid is the Liberal mind that it never can conceive of other minds being actuated by honor and a love justice No official who ever manifested a disposition to season justice with mercy ever escaped their abuse JSo official ever ucted on the principle that a Mormon had some rights which even liberal American gentlemen must respect but what he was roundly taken to task for his temerity Y Apropos these reflections I met with in editor J edi-tor ot one of Chicagos leading dailIes re ceully and talking of the then pending election and Utah affairs generally he remarked re-marked that be had been In Salt Lake once und stayed two days I did not meet with any prominent Mormon people out there he said I had no acquaintance among them but I met with some Tribnno people the proprietor and the editor I think they were and their manner impressed me as being insincere They didnt care what Mormons believed or practiced It was a question of dollars of place of controling the city and territory with them and not a question of morals returned to Chicago he contiuued and wrote up my impressions impres-sions and at once the Salt Lake Tribune sharged me with being bribed with Mormon Mor-mon money I had sold myself to the church and all such damned rot as that and yet so far as I know I never spoke to Mormon while in that country Thats 15 good sample of Mormon bribery a la TrW + nc It was the cut of the jib and the hypocritical hypo-critical smirk of a few Liberal faces together to-gether with cracked husky voices trying to whine piously that gave the Liberals dead away to this rather close observer of human nature and the influences that govern gov-ern it It is a good thing though rather unfortunate unfortu-nate for our Liberal friends in the above Instance it is a good thing that the manner of a mans life is stamped on his front where it may be seen and read of all men That it is so Is indisputable True the open innocent countenance is not transformed trans-formed at once A single act of sbame while it may injure the frankness of the eyes does not destroy all the innocence of the face but continuance in evil doing soon will and it is as inevitable as death Itself Liberals should remember this and they should further remember that some men are so skilled in reading what is written writ-ten in the face that all the honeyed lies of the tongue cannot deceive them and their dishonesty selfishness hypocrisy ahd besotted lust are only the more disgusting Than the tongue seeks in vain to hide what the face proclaims to all the world Ah what lessons there are in the faces of men There are written stories so grim appeals so moving warnings so terrible and pathos so pitiful that even a Shakespeares or a Dickens words cannot paint them much less my poor halting pen So the great municipal battle in Salt Lake has been fought and lost to the Peoples Peo-ples party and shameless Fraud sits enthroned en-throned in his triumphal chair smiling at his own success and the discomfiture of his sturdy opponent Honesty It cannot be denied either that the country at largp anplauds the success of Fraud Isy means as dishonest as those employed to win the election Fraud succeeded in making mak-ing thecountrv believe that in some way or other the late election involved the question ques-tion of polygamy and the fate of Mormonism Mormon-ism and today the press of the country is clapping its hands over the supposed destruction de-struction of the Mormon church The same thing happened when Mormons robbed rob-bed and plundered were driven from Missouri Mis-souri it was the same storythe death of the Mormon churchwhen its founder was murdered in this state and his followers driven into the wilderness Butinstead of their Missouri experience destroying their religion when the truth came to be known it brought to the Mormons the sympathy of the whole country and in a few short years E they were stronger than ever Instead of 1 i the church going to pieces by being do 1 Pried of its leaders and driven into the f mountains its members had an opportunity of demonstrating that they possessed in the highest degree the capacity for self government and founded a commonwealth and created the city whose government has just been wrested from their hands by fraud That event the ignorant asses of the press say forever fixes the doom of the Mormon church and the country blindly believes themPhilip the country is drunk just now he reels and staggers in the street he is drunk but not with wine it is misrepresentation that has intoxicated him By and by Philip will be sober he will discover that Mormonism was not at the polls on the 10th day of February in tho year of grace 1S90 and that in spite of the Salt Lake election tho Mormon church lives In that day we can appeal from < luPhilip drunk to Philip sober and he will then discover how he was made to adore leprous fraud how he while drunk approved the placing of thieves and gave them title knee and appropriation with L senators and the bench In that day honesty hon-esty will be vindicated In the mean time let him not be cast down the future is bright before him Fraud may be a good I horse for a short race but he lacks bottom bot-tom and our race is a long one Turning from Salt Lake to Chicago one is struck with the infinite variety of socia listic societies in existence here I counted five kinds of socialist or semisocialist meetings held last Sunday and how many more there were I do not dnow I took in a meeting of anarchists in the afternoon and in order to see anarchism at its worst I attended the Parsons Ledge of that institution where Mrs Parsons sometimes holds forth She was in attendance but bad nothing to say on the present occasion She Is a mulatto of medium height and rather slight build eyes large and sorrow 4 ful giving l to the face a rather melancholy I l appearance the rest of her features are Vuot remarkable they arc of the usual African Afri-can type lips thick and nose inclined to flatness She was well dressed for a person per-son of her surroundings and appeared de lighted with the notoriety she had obtained through her connection with the anarch ists The only time she appeared to take special interest in the rather dull proceed ings was when a young German in badly broken English advocated the plan of wresting by force from the hands of capi talists the means of oppressing the laborer Sho clapped her hands vigorously in sup port of the suggestion and muttered fiercely Thats what I say her eyes instantly filling fil-ling with a wild halfinsane light I could see the tigress there then but it was only for a moment That there is much to be desired in the ijream of the socialist is true and that there is much to be deplored in the present btate of society is also true Where the difficulty comes in is here how to bring to pass the ideal society of which the better class of socialists dream If society us now organized and with human nature as it is were able to produce at will peace benevolence and universal prosperity the wretchedness in which portions of the people peo-ple are immersed would be its shame and condemnation But society possesses no such power Socialists do not claim that it does hence arises their idea of abolish ing it Their plan is to obliterate It not to reform it Their i < lans of amelioration start with utter revolution The socialist works on society with the design of improving im-proving the individual In that he begins t the wrong side of the question the truo S solution to all the problems that now perplex f per-plex mankind will be found by ivorking with the individual and through that means f reform society Let it be the businessof this generation to make men what they should be the nest will make society all j a c I iii a that philanthropists have dreamed it ought to do But before their dream of universal univer-sal justice of < < universal prosperety of universal uni-versal happiness can come to pass human selfishness must be subdued and many other weaknesses that man is heir to worked out of his disposition Before Platos Utopia can be realized or Bellamys ideal community established men must be changed and side by side with the changes made in men will be changes in government anne d in society that shall be fitting to the an-ne w conditions that individual reformation will place men in Reform men and they will reform society and although the universal uni-versal reformation of mankind seems 3 hopeless task it is the only means by which universal good can be brought to pass Meantime the laborers in that cause may take this Nattering unction to their souls God will labor with them and in his own good time will establish the millenium of which prophets have spoken poets sung about and the poor prayed HOUATIO |
