| Show WACO LETTER Clilcaso Celebrities Th Worlds Fair Barnnms Idea tie CHICAGO March C ISO Special correspondence of the DESEBET UnvsJ Chicago still continues to be the boss I sensational city or rather son sationproducing city I was here that the famous Utah Commission report was written last fall There was something eminently grand In the performance nf that work Of course it was in harmony with epic morality that such a report should emanate from the ely of Dr Cronin Dr Lorimer and Mn Snell Mc Crca It is true the document was not written over a catchbasin though it smells like Ij nor was I influenced by quinine though I has a Lorimer ring in Ij nor was I dictated by a nigger prcachcrthougb it contains much plantation philoso phy Speaking of Dr Lorimer the jwr man I now in saczciotli ali ashes He is a Baptist preachir and like many others of his brethren breth-ren easily make a fool of himself He came Into notice hero a few years ago by preaching a splendid sermon I was published In full and Issued In pamphlet form Some crank rummaging among religious literature discovered that Lorimert sermon was first preached by Dr Parker of London Both sermons were then published In parallel columns col-umns in a daily paper and dly poor Loriracr was convicted of plagiary His explanation was lint he had real the original sermon by Parker and by a process of unconscious as similation preached It subsequently n his own The explanation explanton was I I received as sufficient An educated negro who read this sermon and its sequelwas charged with stealing a mule His plea was unconscious assimilation he cast eyes on the mule and gazed on It until be It fancied It was his own unt his 1 1 h t I < UYW nv iie went to Jollet el t Dr Lorimer came Into notice a notc second time durinir the Cleveland administration nminlstrnton A postofllce tm ploye who had grown gray in office wa removed not killed by Pried I dent Cleveland A few months after his removal from office this exemploye died Dr Lorimer prexched the funeral sermon In which appealed to henrple thegrand jury to Indict this President for murder mure And would you believe it there were newspapers In Chicago which applauded tho drunken preacher pre1clJe while Cleveland was denounced as a murderer and rebel Yet tl there I are in Chicazo as in RH mis City whose pens are the hooked sticks of the ragpicker whose ink bottle Is the asUbarrel or the blind alley and whoso paper I tho wind Ing sheet effUse corpsestealer body corpteer by snatcher and ghoul prostitute prUtut Dr Lorimer came into notice again a few days ago He went to J ew England on a lecturing tour In one place he was advertised to lecture on Tho French Kevolu tion In due tme be aDIno nr the platform but with flushed f face unsteady gaitauU thickened tongue Ho launched out into a most Inc I herent rigmarole on the Pope and Itomanisu The people were as tounded Gradually thiechurch was emptied Friends took Lorimer home Howas Lrmer coiled was cled on for nn explanation ex-planation He gave it but It was ge It I too thin He said he took a sir grain dose quinine that evening rte probable hodld but h cerng put six Inches Snotch whisky on top oUt Chicago quinine is not a protected commodity nor Is It un f mZ n Y YUVuu JS Lia whyit Is 5 eflective In Sermons lectures and Utah political I documents docu-ments Edmunds cold tea and Lori mer quinine will rank In future as popular tonics a Mrs Snell McCrea the daughter of the man whoso murder made Tascott famous and the Chicago Uce Chicg police Infamous furnished a small sensation By the murder of her father the Inherited In her own right an Immense fortune Her first performance after becoming a millionaire was to obtain a divorce fche then tried to buy a play actor to dope with her but tho morality of Thespis was too exalted for her She led a high and luxuriant life and endeavored to pose as a latterday Cleopatra Finally she rested on a Pew York broker a married man and father of a Cimllr and tvthrr tI tth they went south to be married by a darkey preacher Both are now In London and will prove valuable ac cessions I to the Cleveland Street rowdies and to Lord Arthur Somer sets gang r Carter Mrs Raw Rw son and 1Cr Snell McCrea ought to combine and erect In Chic a magnificent temple to Eros The political world plUcl of Chicago Chlc was astonished this morning by the report that Mrs Mu 11 repor Jr Mulligan was I moved from the pension office hero where she has acted as pension agent her pDlon ment during the last four years Mrs Mulligans husband was killed In kie one ot the early battles of the a He was colonel of an Illinois regi ment and was known a a brave patriotic officer When mortally wounded on the field he perceived > lvc that theflapof hlsregiment a in rebel Turning to those Who surrounded sur-rounded him ho besought them to leave him and save the lag These were his last words He was a young man and left behind him a young wife and three children Ever since that dark day this widow struggled anti fought t maintain herself and family without aid or office of-fice until President Cleveland rvccR ulzlng the worth and virtue of the woman as n 1 as the jnliiotim ol her husbaud made a jwnIon agent if her In IbU city 3 < uw comes the news that eho 15 removed to nuke way fora Colonel who took good care let to get killed Of course the name of Mulligan I rather un poetic fur peace times I wonder what that old political I harlot Pat f Ford of the Irish world Hill say to thlt Pot was and ban insaneumitl Cleveland man The fait Is I is a blow to all the Cliuitt Gatls Ford Morrison Kcanlan Devoy FIncrty Alexander Sullivan ana the oilier who Jkelt the IOlOJ aid lj the National Republican Com mute t thcju atrlot The Chicago Tribune I my authority author-ity for the statement I i partly a CbnnaGael organ and I knows what I talks about But the Tnfjune has gone lock on Its own people The other day 1 gave twentyfive lines to the Emmett Em-mett celebration and two columns to the dcg show I dh not notice Brennan of Nebraska at all thouzb he is or was 1 doughty republican party man The most forlorn specimen speci-men of humanity today In Chicago loUse republican Irishman Ho if veritably a political leper The democrat whom he has betrayed scoruat bIO the republicans whom ho has disgraced loalhehlniand the honest IrishAmericans whom he has defiled by hU harlotry abominate abomin-ate him But that I no reason why the poor widow of ttf man who f died under the flag of hb ccuntn should be sacrificed He aid not hnlfmast I nor trail it but died fort for-t and this is his reward rwar Now comes the alarming Intel gence that Chicago will not get the Worlds Fair of 1S32 Heal estate dealers here are In a pickle A few days ago if one wanted to talk to any of the land speculatin aristocracy aristoc-racy I should b done meekly and humbly and with liatln hand The tide his turned and I more humble looking personage than the real estate es-tate dealer cannot be met Ir here today On the strength uf this projected l sle jected t fair all the land between here and St Louis on the one side and Millwaukeu on the other has been portioned out into city lots and the sharks were afraid they could cut ask enough ot buyers Hotelkeepers hstshery tt aid gin mill engineers en-gineers arc also dow nll the mouth over this fair They expected to reap n harvest that would suffice for a lifetime I api > ean > that Chicago assured Congress that provided the fair would b held on the short of Lake Michigan a site and 10000000 I would be furnished I by this citv and no aid whatever asked from the FcJ cash government Now it is charged that Chicago instead of being able t furnish the 10000000 has not the capital necessary to undertake tie preliminary work and wants Congress to furnish IL A delegation delega-tion of Chicago citizens I on the way to Washington to combat these charges and to demonstrate that Chicago hn ample funds to do her part of the work Chicagos triumph In the lfouu a few weeks ago had such an eflet one Use indbag editors Illinois that they made asses of themselves about their superior ability and strategy Xow the reaction sets in and the frobability Is that Congress will show that Chicago is not the United State but a part thereof The intellect a r Inventive genius of the century Is being can vassttl for suggestions a to what would b interesting and novel features tures to introduce as part of thefair Among the many such promulgated perhaps that of 1 T Barnum the famous showman I the most novel Here Is what he says uu n un I I pose Nine I will present the laIr committee with one of ray nn Idea that might brine me in S1000 O In the museum at llk In rpt lIes the mummified corpse of lUtne sea lIthe Pharaoh of tbo Hiodu with Eouo that fn Ills danghlcr lisa savior of Moses anti other less dlstinpifeued of ibe royal Egyptian family of that era I had authorized an agent to offer er EgyptaT government n much a tile i Oto allow me exhibit those EaSer remains JI in will Europe relinqntsh and my tbo risht United of priority of claim In the Idea to tCo fair committee Let them obtain the loan of these mortuary relics from tho Egyptian government and allow the gnmment alow Xhidivo t sent his own soldiers to guard the coffins Think of the siu I pendousncss of the Incongruity Tn exhibit t the people of tho nlnoteeitb century In a conntrr not ilicmmmH nhhi2tXor3Oa0yiasafLerlisdea h the corpse of the king of whom we u ae ueerJet record Consider 10 that that corpse is no iwfectly preserved pre-served after thousands of years lf the lomb that its features are almost h feet so perfect that every man pr 1 prfet oer mI woman wo-man and child who looks upon the mammy may know the countenance of the desnot who crcrtnl in nm > r n influence upon the history of the world And It might b a useful thought to this generation proud uf Itt scientific and mechanical triumphs tobcarin mind that b the a that em balmed the body of Ramose bo iwr fecily U low with a great many others ty that were known lu remote antiqul Who would think that Barnum had s much poetry sentiment nod solemnity In his njoneyniaMui soul This is certainly the grandest t scheme ever promulgated by any American The orlhodcx Mormon lorol nuehtto receive it with tlwnkssiv I Ins The Monnonalsoof therco pie on this continent at the present time is the only one who can claim kinship with the distant and misty past ills Book of Mormon orIginally orIgin-ally written in Egyptian and peed bly in the very dialect which Rameses spoke for at this time the language of Egypt underwent Egpt underent several sev-eral organic changes and became what we call rcformeJ or revised rele Egyptian gives him the Mormon historic interest in thu ancient I mummy mnt This book was written also LL has made the story u < of the Pharaohs e Interesting to us This volume also Interwoven with the Christ and formerday Christians held In a Mormons hands ut the sldo of Pharaohs mummy in an American Ameri-can city makes that Mormon Mor-mon the legitimate heir of all the accumulated knowledge of the ancent and modern world AnJ If the Mormon Illlad should be written Hamescs and JIoscs Xero and Christ Van Buren and Joseph Smith must become the principal characters principl Sneakim of Mnrmnulcm hn < an edltornl from the Evening Aetci U of this city Issued March 6 mOO which Salt Lake citizens will co well to peruse closely SALT laces msoa JHXUT Salt Lake City I beginning the boom that was promised by the victors In I the recent election I bft has been charged that the liberal party was far more animated by a speculat ice fever than by the firm of patriot ism during the rcinatkablo pro which ended in the overthrow of Ibo Saints in their own city and subsequent subse-quent events lend color t the Mormon view of the raw I baa been the bn policy of the Utter rather toenooura o land using than land speculation and It is Stated at a fact that the poorest Saint picked up In the slum of Europe Eur-ope and rot down tf tie land of tho honeybee nt fl soon become an Indepnc IIOUM to lJn and with largo bless hugs hi basket and i > lcb tao even been affirmed that thero Is bn amre ththerl not a pauper In all M rmondom but that perhaps Is a exaggeration although recent visitors to Salt Lake City declare that nearly etery Saint In that place Is the owner of hU own home If this be I Ihl i t tree now It will not remain true very long after the boom te lonl bm gets to cunnIng In good shape gl rnning g been said that when Dickens are highpriced hlghprc the people who raise ebfekens do not eat el And so when speculators run a boom in real estate the people who nse real ejlatado not own It They find it Tey fnd cheaper 10 rent and they also find I ao fd onr South Water street commission men are finding that the premium they must pay in this form for an op portunity to lire and do bnsme op steadily upward to the point of absorb ing both earnings and capital abrb I bursts through the withdrawal of population and capital from the scene It Is at this point when the phenomena pUt na of hard tiroesVnluilnate perhaps in a krd certainly In industrial stagnation stag-nation and then we witnrs tbo slow process of recovery worked by a gradual rof confl deuce followed by a revival of trade and more buoyant market mar-ket Production and consumption meet each other and the phenomena of pool times are seen and then comes another boom Indianapolis i uai run this disastrous round atil l M has Wichita Los Angeles 1 dis dead I unurr us onrucn 01 sprculauro ucorts and Omaha Denver Kansas City and JStO anl it were nut easy 10 say how many other cities are suffering or have so l fered in I like manner A boom I always hurtful I novcr has been I sign cf prosperity bat the reverse I Li always I iiyinp tom of disease and its effects Invariably Invari-ably exhibit themselves in wreck and ruin I is worse than a tire or a flood and no matter Hbere it may manifestlt Its fatal influences varyingly felt in every corner of the land Is not Uils a sensible wellwritten srlc1 I present the Utah of today to-day or rather of February IS9 without a Mormon criminal or lao ice wellgoverned peaceful prosperous perous ana contented Will It be to on February 10 1S01 Yes it will provided go Mormons do ttj I duty hold togethcrreason together and work together The faLse Loom urea not aiiect them Let a Mormon Mor-mon keep his nits together his mind cool his heart calm and above all have no mortgage business busi-ness then his day will come again and speculators will find themselves I like the immortal McGiuly n tho r bottom of tlio s J U Js |
