Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER CARTER HARRISON JUBILANT controversy HARPING ON EFFECTS OF TIM THE INFLUX or eu aw it THINKERS CHICAGO NOV 10 1883 E editor deseret Deseree neus news the november elections passed over with ac me arcely a perceptible rip p pio pie on tho the surface of cook county politics the overwhelming defeat of 0 the republican candidates occasions a little surprise among disinterested politicians but the mayor of chicago on whom presa and pulpit alike heaped wholesale abuse is as aa jubilant as aa a schoolboy at holiday time the methodists begin to think thinh they have hurt tho the temperance came cause by their too earnest endeavors to torain rain gain a point poin t it ia foolish to think that thai principles of sobriety and moderation con be inculcated in tho the citizens of chicago by wanton and uncalled for fon abuse of any official or individual at all events eventa the tho mayor la is in the majority at present and no matter what mr arnold amold bays baks about minorities carter harrison Is ia convinced that the majority is right this thib time we are in the midst of a serious beligio political controversy at present A mgr capel of england is lecturing on romanism and so far he has hag the whip band hand ot of the methodists they tell him that spiritual supremacy as aa exemplified in his church cannot be ba otherwise than destructive of political freedom and religious toleration but tho tha shrewd and learned romanist botanist Bo manist retaliates by characterizing aa an aa aggregation gatlon gation of petty potty popes without elther either learning religion or tolerance 0 o he must have been reading the proceedings 0 ce of the recent conference e and he must have laughed in his is sleeve bleeve at the hog led divines ot of cm oln cannati deliberating in solemn co conr conf clavo clave on what constitutes a rell reli glon gion pope popo rast rust of cincinnati if he will read the writings writ ingia and aud huar hmar the lectures of mgr capel capol may profit a little and may loarn learn to build instead of to destroy the editorial page of to days chicago tribune wears a dreadfully bilious aspect the first article to la devoted to the roman cape capel and of course means to prove that his religion has not only retarded civilization liza tion but almost destroyed it the second article Is ig devoted to pension sharks the third is ii on mormonism niam which Is ia headed about the tho bame same as aa romanism he does not say bay which religion tho the pension shark shaik la Is a product of but bat I 1 am of the opinion the shark is the product of methodism this third ar tlde ticie Is ia based on the ravings of some tramp who is ia the correspondent 0 ot a bait balt lako lake sheet in borno sumo little town on the frontier this correspondent avera avers that polygamy Is rampant in his vicinity and forthwith invokes the tha thunders of methodism any person conversant with frontier life knows how little reliance can be placed on reports from the tb a average frontier man who has al a ways an iron or two in the fired fire B along tha rio klo grando grande the greaser is ia in the way ho he Is ia lazy shiftless devoid of morals or public spirit in california tho chinaman is ia the bane in tho the north west territories tho the indian must go and in utah the mormon in ia the obnoxious being this is what the tho frontier correspondent dent always harpa harps upon I 1 was waa in the tho black hills in 1876 and I 1 have seen men shoot bullets through their wagons and then point out the holes as markh marka of the red bed devil davil I 1 havo have seen correspondents publish accounts of thesa theba awful raida ralda I 1 was down along the line of santa fe railroad a few years ago and the samo bamo cry was wat raised about the gremer grewer and I 1 now seu seo iseo ibea feu F eu eastern journals publishing articles on mormonism on the reports of these samo bamo lying correspondents there Is on an article on mahone or mahoney of virginia and the tribune is fairly wild over the fate of that chieftain in that unfortunate country a war of races has commenced and the methodist as aa usual does his best beat to keep it up where moderation and tolerance ought to be preached the wildest ery cry Is ia practiced the basest of mans mana passions is appealed to and the poor ignorant african Is ia made to believe that the white man in his hh vicinity to is his sworn enemy As usual the correspondents dont help matters by the biassey accounts they give though bad the greaser Is race prejudice he Is ia free from and all through the spanish republic the black man Is ia on an equality with the white man mans and common seme sense and religion are their only civil rights statutes the ventilation of the utah quee question Is at present plezent most opportune bp both for this nation and the people of the territory tho the great influx ol of Europ european gan san thinkers to this country cannot fall fail to take cognizance of passing events it Is true mr arnold Is here for money and mgr ca pel for converts lord coleridge came for information and study hyacinth for sympathy and money oscar oacar wilde to sow his puerile ana anci cereal the condl condi tion of american society Is ripe for great changes twenty thousand divorces last list years yeary and foundling asylums prospering like churches religion in a state of chaos teeming with scandals church enquiries and scepticism in this state of things arnold knows he will be heard and of 0 course he makes money capel knows this thib and sees the moment momen nipe tripe to catch a jedof few of the heavy we gats of this country coleridge ees fees E in it a good time to study society in a transition state hyacinth hopes perhaps to found a name here and oscar scar though last not the least comes for the greatest work of all to build hib his mind to practice aa 89 it were in a lyceum and when he writes his impression of this country look for something no amerlean american can cau produce one ono thing thiel g is ia certain that out of all this no methodist can disgrace the statute books of the US with laws jaws about mor monism or romanism or any jtb other er iams lams and if they constitute themselves inquisitors inqui of religion they evoke not the approbation but the ridicule and contempt of not alone americana Ameri amerl cane but the whole of modern modem D J B |