| Show OUR CHICAGO ler ner lerrer berrer reb republican MODERN AND MONO MONOPOLY rily dis DIG SENSION SOWERS CHICAGO dec 1883 1683 editor deceres desere nemy mews the r selection of ohio chic chicago ngo igo for the rolling of the national Republic republican au convention has a kind of gambling air about it thet thy superstition of the player when ing in his hla last chip Is id proverb proverbial lali he efe remembers the time and place nna anu circumstance when where and how luck juck favored him previously so it appears to be with the great republican party that party is now playing its last chip and it plays with the cautious idolatry of the despairing gambler wis wib possible foa poa bible as some papers abbert aegert that it may have some secret intrigue of its own in prospect and that chicago may be favorable as cincinnati for cutthroat cut throat proceedings the desperation of the party to is also apparent in its pursuit of some sensa senna dional issue its organs take buch such dep deep Jn interest terest in the success of the democrats democrat that they are actually tearing their hair because M carlisle tempers his reform principles with a mild conservatism first they gloat over the prospect of ft split between mr dana and mr watterson and now when thee these chieftains begin tu to coAl coalesce asce they claim a sacrifice of principle on some som eside side bide itis llis strange how this party delights in destruction they want an esaue that will bear appealing to the emotions and prcy prejudices of the people rather than one capable of calm and rational treatment of course the most urgent issue can be treated calmly but they wont have that way sensationalism is their food without it they expire of inanition seu beu with wb what at resolve they try to maintain the structure of sectionalism and the solid south houth bugaboo see bee how they ring the clauges on free trade and prohibition see how persistently and industriously they are trying to make maae a question of all this agitation agi lation tation all al thle this indignant outcry aboul about constructive iniquity all tah thid i imaginary interviewing ter are nothing more than a deep laid pin pian plan ot of the preachers prea cherb chera and of this party to gull the public before the public could get a chance to be ba educated on the mormon question but the general public and the calm rational people should consider this mauter malter and nut liot allow themselves themi theme elves to be hood hoodwinked winked by buncomb bijo or preventing polygamy first then thun ibin ibi n will come comb jg ig norance nolance and spiritual control aljy any impartial observer c buot fall to bee ele that behind polygamy they have other hobbles when ono one of these theae awful moralists mora mor lists alista la Js met with E olad argument ment went en the martl marti martlage ade age topia then he be retreats ro and under cover of other themes to keep up hs h s fire nire he will bay say hlavek to a pries fries thoo thao church and such nonh fuell afie great J johnson one oneo onca a emd baid tue man who balaoas loewy now nor would hallba bre bro in t e deluge bio eso it la Is with aiice tileo miserable rau ran bauters who try to keti keel alive or ra her to revive the spirit of the century the would voul ci actually cry fire lire la in the deluge As if any religion or any form or 01 delict or 0 uno ellel would dei deft troy stroy modern civilization i or make mankind more wretch wretched td or immoral the goths goehs and vandals that ore are to dearoy destroy modern civilization are already among us and nd it behaves behoves us to glaid well weli them shyster politicians an scrub preachers and females thirst thiral ng mg for noto no are the evila to be looked after oi D a truo true tion seems beems to be their watchword even when a number of them congregate gre geste gesto to pray they end in dog tig nig bing hing it if it Is not a preacher who is on trial for looking hoohing softly on some aged spinster or visiting bome some pious matron it Is oso ono of theme themselves eltes elves who aneed a or 9 swallowed wallo wed surreptitious will wh shy isSy thias thus thes they ibey go on ces les tro troy ying lug ing there theta are observers or properly 15 peaking speaking pessimist pessimists who Js is a law of human natured natilie natu natii rei ie they will show how bow monks obliterated classic parchments parch ments to be used for or scriptural incantations they will shuy turned the cholko sculpture of another religion over to stonemasons to be muti muli abed it isa isra Is a movement pr a bud bod body or the we wearing aling ahing of a certain gar gur garment merit that cauton ous oud ire to breall break out cut they bry bay so ron yon will they the foibles ana h ef human itys ityl to prove the total depravity theory anere need be a pessimism atour these thebe matters we can oan buy for 25 ants o ants a history of all these warring sects and jf if after a careful perusal of it we are not wiser and more mort competent to touch similar matters today to day then indeed is education a failure history a myth and intelli antell gence a ray of moone moon hine bine wo we nave have in chicago today to day a case cue which will aptly illustrate the tergiversation and of the public educator A Anew new bew corporation 1 is endeavoring to get a charter for a railroad into we the cly A rival cor po horation por ration atlon already running into the city tries to stop this the very papers which are harping on pacific syndicates and monopolies take the part of the old firm the common council are abused as aa only pick pockets can be abused for daring to entertain any idea of favoring the new corporation one paper claims that the council receives from the new while as aa if to cover it self with wilh sublime absurdly in the same breath states that are ready to be turned over by the old to keep the new out such logic logie as this may guli guil the publio public for a 8 time timea but iut in the end the most obtuse mind must bee see the petty party spirit must nave something to do with this but it la Is poor policy it used to be taid hald that all was fair in love and war but that theory to ia exploded war and love both have their code and any infraction oz 01 this thin code generally recoils in the breaker so 80 it la is with party party is coeval with representative government and the assertion of parliamentary powers without it popular govern ment went would become an executive absolu absolutism thin or chaotic anarchy faction strife and individual ambition would soon boon call for a dictator the clamorous adventurer and chereck the reckless intriguer come coma to the surface when party demoralizes to this condition has the republican press brought its party today to day it seeks rather to BOW sow dissension among its opponents than to educate its ad ner enis enus it ic beeks to quibble and distort an wan iesue rather than boldly avow it or arguien lively impeach it christianity seems in no happier condition than politics we read of the salv StAv tion llon army being stoned in the eastern cities we read that the troubles doubles in egypt betwee between ii mus bius iani lini christians are caused by amerio Americ hn it is astrande tb that at people cant be religious without being blood thirsty and militant if there is any road that common humanity hain haic anity ought to harmonize on oil it surely bunt to be the road to heaven yet this is the road where we are 0 interested in our neighbor that we actually slay the body muy to asaye thew thel the old puritans used to 10 kill the beare bears to put down cruelty to animals in bear boar wehl well there was boyto in this thi though it was rather grim preel president Pre delit eident arthur hurls a missie missle at mormonism though his father would have boeg rode 0 on n a ra rail rall 11 out of etts a century ago A baptist preacher was tho the mo most moat st un ceru cean c en aulman a puritan couii could look on lu in ibe ire dim dilu past ivest J JUNIUS |
