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Show CHICAGO LETTER. The Situation or the Salals Sight be Worse. A Tested and Tried People. Mls-ioa of JToi-monlsm. The Truth WHIXet Appear. .'-' Other Cities Faring Worse thin Salt Lake. The Republic In Danger. The Xilure uf the Illinois Central Strike. SrecU) correspondence Duzsn Nkws. I To the majority cf the people ol Utah tb fcuLtooit; politically and religiously, may seem dark aud disheartening. dis-heartening. Certainly there are grounds forforminggloomy pictures. Disfranchisement, persecution and spoliation are not factors to Inspire optimistic anticipations. It is true the penal code constructed for Utah Is assuming quite respectable proportions pro-portions but it Is far from its xenith as vet. The Edmunds' department alone makes quite a Volume. Then there are the Cullom aud Stru ble bills and a number of others. In ths face cf ail these ohe would think that the ordinary or average Latter-day Saint could see nothing bright or cheerful In the horizon. But then the Latter-day Saint dcein't see with ordinary.eyes and that is why perhaps he still holds up his head. Aud yet, maybe, there are Latter-day Saints who pointedly ask how can matters mat-ters be worse for u socially, so-cially, politically and industriallj? They w 111 say, Is not our property taken from us? Is not cur political freedom annihilated? Are we not published to the world as fiends, murderers and cut-throats? Are we not branded as malefactors disloyalists disloy-alists aud rebels? Yes, friends that is all correct, but matters could bo still w orsc. Don't you know that 11 Mr. Edmunds had lived in the days of the former-dB3- Saints he would have It In Ills mwiT ti ! s miiph worse man than he is? He could gratify the intense thirst for oppression oppres-sion much better in the days of Aurellus than in thoc of Harrison. He could then orler the burning of a score of primitive Christians to introduce a noel spectacle iu a World's Fair held in J Joule or Jerusalem. Jeru-salem. Yes there are bad tilings fald of thu Latter-day Saints, but not cue-tenth cue-tenth as bad as was said of Former-day Former-day Saints. All the bad things said of primitive Christians were pruba-bly pruba-bly credited at the time, though the authors of the charges were notoriously notori-ously corrupt men. Do we not see ourselves that tho authors of tho charges against Latter-day Saints are synonyms of corruption? Take the Chicago Tribune forillustration. This paper is known as the Jezebel of journalism. It employs private detectives to trace the career of Mr. Blaine iu his juvenile das 1 1 stole bogus uisjiatc-lies from one of its bruthcr7Viiiir.cs and printed them as original. It advocates tariff reform re-form and denounces Cleveland at the same lime. Butterworth. who spoko against the McKluIcy bill, and then voted for It. the Cnlcazo TWiuiic holds up as a man of honor, honesty and valor. The editor of the Tribune was once mayor of Chicago, and a more wretched one the city never knew. This editor is not an American, nor has he over performed oue intrlotlc American act Even the very name he U are he has not taken legitimately. This man and his paj.ier says the Mormons are aliens, ureinimoRil)aredI$loyal;and people Mieve liim. The art critic of that paivrwasand tierhaus Is a member of .Mr. Alexander Sullivan's family. Mr. Sullivan is the ax of the well-known triangle of Irish-Amer-Ican ioIltic-s. If Senator Edmunds introduced a bill In Congress authorizing author-izing the burning of a score of Mor-mousat Mor-mousat the World's Fair In 1S3.T, the Chicago Tribune would, I believe, be-lieve, endorse It. This paper Is managed by a son-in-law, who would also enuon-e it. The editor and manager are millionaires, but that Is nothing in a city where Mike McDonald, the gambler, is a millionaire, and Mike Crawford, the gm-teiler, Is on the way to bo one. It Is not wonderful that Joseph Jos-eph Muldoon, the editor. Is a millionaire. Tho tests to which Latter-day Saints are at present subjected are severe ones. But they will prove equal to those tests. Outrage and infamyare being heaped ujiouthciii, hopini; they would disavow the American Republic and its Constitution; Consti-tution; hoping that they would jiro-iiouiice jiro-iiouiice George Washington and Thomas Jefferson failures; hoping that they would call lortheestib-lihment lortheestib-lihment of a German or Italian empire on this continent; yes hoping they would do the very things which it i part of their destiny des-tiny not to do. One of the mivdous of Mormouism is tho perpetuation of this Republic and its Constitution, Constitu-tion, thu holding forever sacred the names of the fathers of this Henuti. lie, and above all to guard and fight against an alien empire on this continent. con-tinent. Disprove this, f! mallguer of Utah, If you can. No matter what is said truthfully of Utah, it will not be heard today, but the time will come wheu it will tie heard. When YlctorHugo took his first poem to a publisher, the great publisher almost kicked the unknown un-known author into the street. Milton Mil-ton eold his "Paradise Lost" for S2-'j. Lord Byrou was called a silly scribbler nf Mckiyseetiment, but he compelled his critic To Lake it back, and in fact the libel helped to make a great poeL Seo how Christianity was received by the jieople who bowed to Horace, to Virgil and to Cicero. These peoplu were not savages, and Christ was to them what Joseph Smith is to Edmunds, Tucker and Cullom an empiric and mouutelank. There l a syttemand a divinity behind all this. ITie people of Salt I-ake have trials and contentions; but what city is free from them? Yesterday, iu Chicago, over I CM persons were sun-struck, sun-struck, and one-third of these rases were fatal. The day liefnru has a record just as appalling. Today is promising to be just as bad. Writing, Writ-ing, even almost in nature's garb, Is laborious. In many of the small towns through Illinois aud Iowa work had to be suspended. From Teuuessee comes news of a tornado which destroyed aMcthodlstchurcb, burying the congregation while at service yesterday fu Its ruins, a public rcliool was also blown down, and its furniture crushed into kindling kind-ling wood. From West Yirginii come reisjrt.1 of houses blown down and the inmates in-mates crashed, of bridges, trestles and railroad tracks washed away and travel suirended. The Iii;t Kentucky Xormal College, Col-lege, a building worth $It$,(jyo. with all its contents, was literally wined out by lightning. Graduates of the college are jierhaps known in Utah. From Michigan comes a report that Stephen Drum's house was blown to atoms and five of his fimlly entombed en-tombed iu its ruin-. It Is needless to go further into details de-tails to show how much worse off other cities are than is Salt Lake. Salt Lake has to contend only with wolves and canines in humau form, but other cities are visited by an angry God. The wolves will pass away, but God remains forever absolute, ab-solute, lust and great. You may talk about bills and laws, but what are any passed for Utah compared to that under the jater-nity jater-nity of Cabot Lodge, I mean the .National Election bill. Oclyyester-day Oclyyester-day I heard a speaker say that this was merely the prelude to a king. The man was not a pranhet, but somehow- his words sotMded ominous. om-inous. The Chicago Thbune makes light of them, and gives his speech in a few lines. Here is what it say. of him: J "Free-Trade" Clark said: "If this notion of Federal control goes on yoall have a consolidated empire here that will overthrow onr liberties Some morning you'll waka op and find that the republican pam has I placed a king ou the throne durimrl tb night," And yet even in the Tribune report re-port there Is a ring that does not usually come from falsa alarms. It wassupposed that all our labor I troubles were over, and everything was going on smoothly. During the past wceKWohaJ oneof tbeworst labor strikes yet Inaugurated In this country. It was ut a question of wages nor of hours nor of overtime, over-time, but virtually an open attempt on the part of labor to control and conlucate the i-roperly which employs this labor. The strike took place on the Illinois Central R,IC, a system which e tends from Dubuque, Du-buque, la., tdjcfl- Orleans. This road Is oue ol the most conservatively conservative-ly managed in the country. It lias always treated iH employes as part of its system and as humau beings. These employes were so liberally treated that thcy"flnaljy considered themselves the owners and mana-gets. mana-gets. And, strango to say, P. T. Barnum was the innocent cause of all the trouble. Bamum's circus, when In traveling order, consists of ninety Immense cars, tra which are over 1. 000 human bclmr?. and a large number of animals. This circus cir-cus was tS In jrayed to Chicago Chica-go lu three trains of "vcliom on special time. It Is well known that BafnUm 13 Etit'ect to disasters by road as well as fire. JUmta wis killed in a wreck. The men ap-lointed ap-lointed by the trainmaster to take the conduct of Itanium's trains were not considered by Mr. Ruell, the road superintendent M competent compe-tent for the occasion. He countermanded counter-manded the trainmaster's order, and appointed men on whom more reliability re-liability could be placed. The trainmaster train-master got offended and resigned, the trainmen demanded Mr. Bus-sellS Bus-sellS discharirei This would not bo granted and they (truck. In the strike, switchmen, roienger conductors con-ductors and ethers Joined, mid the road came to a rLnuiUtlll. The general manager rojlitsttd his men to formulate the charges they had against Unwell, and that he would Inviftlgnte. One of these charges was "general obnoXious-ness," obnoXious-ness," which was interpreted by the striken as being uncivil and rude in manners and discourteous- in action ac-tion The departments of railroading railroad-ing are orgauized for labor purposes each within Itself, and each witii Its dn "gt-levance committee." The grievance comniitU-e of the trainmen's department stated thai Mr. Russell always received them and theirgrievanrescoldly.loo much so for a polite gentleman. It appears that Mr. Ru'scli did not keep a big bottle aud A box of cigars, and a prairie of plug tobacco fur visitors, and the trainmen considered Ibis a grievance and wanted him discharged dis-charged Instanter. Another charge was that Mr. Russcil Used to go out on the mad, see the men at work, pay fare lo conductors, con-ductors, anil see thnl men mi dutv did not spend half their time in saloons. This was called "spyirg'" and was not the business of the man who w as resnible lor the work. Mr. Russell showed that ILe fares he paid never apjie-areil on the trip report, "or did tho cah materialize Iu the treasury of the road. He showed that he discharged men who were incompetent and negligent, negli-gent, and unlit to be entrusted Willi the safety of life and properly. On the whole, when the charges and counter-charges v,ere published, it was found that the strikers were in a fair way to bring all labor onran- izatlous into disrepute, and the better class of the strikers wanted to get down lightly. Ihe obnoxious Russell was not discharged, but his obnoxlousness has cost the road just 3100,000 Thousands of dollars wurtii of bananas, cocoa nuts, fruit and vegetables vege-tables perihcd, completely thrown away. When the whole matter is fairly and Imiartially considered it will be found that these strikers were guilty of anarchy a hundredfold hundred-fold more hideous than that for which Parsons was hanged. Iu fact thse strikers were guilty of public outrage. It Ls well knowu that a large percentage of railway disasters are preventive. It is known that they are largely due to drunkenness and neglect ou the iartor train hands. In this city a short time ago It was shown that an engineer was drunk whlleon duty, aud through his drunkenness, a number of lives were sacrificed. The engineer was indicted by a grand jury, but nothing came of IL If a superintendent went around aud saw this man drunk, and discharged dis-charged him, it would be made a subject for the "grievance commit tee," ami the engineer would be reinstated, w Idle the superintendent woulj I cautioned ordlscharged. This strike pits a go d way to show on what llimsy foundations our industrialism rests. When three persons who constitute themselves them-selves a "grlevane- comniittee.'Vaii i-usjiend the working of an Immense system embracing several thousand employes, and wreck its organization organiza-tion thc-e jierson-s. too, the moil rabid and unreasoning of Ihe onler, for geuerally it is such men who are appointed, uutbeground that thev aremen of pluck when such iief-sonscan iief-sonscan do all this, then It Is time for sensible iicople to think. The anarchy of Parsons aud Most is respectable re-spectable compared to this. And, strange to say, the newspaiiers half endorsed the strikers some counseling counsel-ing the discliargeof Russell. The Chicago TnAunc railed Stuv-vesant Stuv-vesant Fish, president of the road, au Auglo-niauiac, a dude, and so on. The fact is Mr. Fish represents one of the most historic his-toric ol American families aud ii himself a thorough American. It was he who sit nu Ward McAllister a few years ago. Then it was charged that English money built this road. Ye.itdid, and l.iiglaud sent money here at a time when one hundred dollars could not lie found west of the Allegheny Mountains. It was this road gave a start to Chicago Chi-cago aud helped to make its millionaires. million-aires. This road piy seven twr cent, of Its gross e-ariiings itliin the State to the treasury of the Stale of Illinois. Yet this rond and its management are abused to curry favor fa-vor w ith a lot of drunken rioters and anarchists. Junius. CmoAiJO, June sotli, Isw. |