| Show 0 IV CHICAGO leve leye Z olk olit COMMENTS intelligently TELLI GENTLY OX ON mattens MATTERS A AND IN D THINGS blaim BLAME letter lerten ov acar ta c CHICAGO aul ati 3 editor deseret news nir dir blaines alnes Bl tines aines letter of acceptance is a master piece in its way as a 6 campaign document but as all an exposition 61 political sa sagacity metty or superior political peal leal wisdom R it Is a positive failure the diction is all that tuc tue most rigid philological priest could desire the til logic of it is the A alomal politician may be de delighted I 1 eghte with it but ut a national statesman would be oe dis it is a matter of wonder that I 1 mr hir blaine who has earned quite uit lit M a j distinction by his political and hestor gm should let U letter ietter of this kind marked with superficiality and specious ariment argument go to the thip world in its present b shape to the world such a document t goes lt it will ill lil be translated into other botn languages u ages M and perused by statesmen anfio who have ave to top deal with more abstruse questions than any of those on which mr blaine des cants particular emphasis la Is laid on the industrial late interests rests a and nd on the peculiarly cul culi arly ariy favorable attitude of the republican party to these interests the act of that party after its advent to po power was the enactment of protection laws for american capital and labor this spirit of protection has characterized the party ever since while an opposite spirit has marked the democratic party with the republicans public ans protection is a principle with the democrats a theory and according to mr blaine a theory unsound in conception and inevitably hurtful in practice I 1 mr blaine displays a certain i f SUBTLETY OF THOUGHT which he thinks will deceive the close student of politics ile he says the value 0 of 1 the present revenue system to tiu the alc iye people 0 p ab ot of tile united states is not a matter of theory and I 1 shall submit no argument to sustain it I 1 only invite attention to certain facts of official record which seem beem to constitute a demonstration 11 this is very plausible but let iet us see those certain facts which which nir air blaine will not submit as argame argument and vet let endeavor t to 0 palm paim them thein off as such lie he says that in 1860 the true value of all the property in the states and territories excluding slaves hlaves was this was the a aggregated re abed result of tile the labor an and 4 saving savin of americans americans from 1007 1607 to 1860 in 19 1880 isso 0 the true value of property in tile the states and aad territories was or per cent of an increase A corresponding prosperity is a attributed to religion literature and philanthropy while our national character as a people is accompanied by a elevation on 01 these figures mr blaine uses the rhetorical fleure amplification to good advantage in order to impress the matter lie ile even states the wo monthly n increase but suppose our blue nosed breth brethren ign of t the and aud alk aik themselves whether any increase lias has taken place armon ammon them in ithe value ot of their total imports orts were 13 j six years later late so that in 20 years there ther won would id be a progress ogress ot of over GOO per cent tir the e true value of this property e arty is not access accessible ible ibie to us at present it bu judging from their import impo and export dekort trade it must be equally successful mr blaine can hardly attribute thi this to the supremacy of the republican party in the united states south of df us ug ar are arc d some galvanized americans on account of choin mr blaine acquired considerable notoriety dom pedro might i probably fall agn this letter of acceptance and turn studying his own progress let us take coffee and sugar two of the staple products of brazil and we find that in 1818 the annual export of coffee was po pounds british in 1873 1973 1 it t wl was 13 pounds what is the percentage of increase sugar increased from in 1850 to i ommo in 1873 how candir canair can mr illaine blaine explain this prosperity of his neighbors and these older countries which he thinks of astonishing what about them nvia yby the free trade orators claim eveia even greater increase of wealth for england since free trade was introduced than mr blaine gives the united states by ills his protective policy and principle COMMERCE agriculture AND INTERNAL TRADE are dealt with in an equally specious manner we must admit ane united states have progressed for the last 25 te years ars it would be sad in truth I 1 if th they ey did not john L sullivan the boston celebrity has accomplished more in the last two years than he llo did durings during his whole life before this is natural enough ellough he was attaining his manhood but it would be absurd now if he be attributed all his trainer and denied his parents any share ili in the physical formation which gave save the trainer a basis to build on it is perfectly puerile in mr blaine to adduce such arguments or as lie calls them offic official tai lai facts to support his protection principle the disquisition on labor must read like a buri burl aque t to 0 intelligent working 11 men the republican party alms aims to elevate not degrade labor so 80 says mr iridine blaine ne and yet it was durins tile the palmy days af this tills party that the leprous cootie and blandish bm uriz andish dago slay slav ery cry flouris nourished lieA millions cot tot acre of laud land were given to rall rali railroads roM andyes an nd dyet yet an aa american laborer could not get em ern pl 0 it hel ua 0 roads ri af io t earo earn kei a h homestead 0 me ad dose tio by y their I 1 quad rile foreign policy 11 the southern states and the civil service allare are arc topics on which mr blaine dlaine writes beautifully iu in facto fact biblically aud and it must be admitted that ills his record in iii these questions is entitled to just commendation men dation and these are questions in which the head of the republic should have pronounced views whatever may b bi urged for or dr against air fr blaine there is no denying ills ilis ability and capacity to deal with these questions justly honorably and patriotically mr blaine WN 0 tilt MORMON aiO rmon KMON QUESTION aut so briefly that it is difficult to divine his real views ou on this topic lie ile echoes sonke some of the platitudes that have been hawked about in pulpits and police courts but oil on the whole he admits the constitutional bar to interfere with religion this mormon question may appear simple and n men e n 0 of prominence in the community lit lri may ay say bay wipe it out that is fol foi folly y european observers observers are arc always dwelling liing on the fact that our statesmen have no social or economic question to deal with however it is in the treatment of such a quest question ionas lonas as mori mormonism monism that statesmanship is exhibited to the british statesman who has polygamists isis parsecs suttees sut tees roman ests salv salvation atlon arl ari armies and a thousand other sects our our bur reat great concern and so oz I 1 may appear ludicrous but in our consideration of it as a religion we must naturally review the history of religious development in other ages polygamy as the world accepts the term is a source of terrible apprehension it is strange that in this age of divorce and mock marriage of sexual insanity and venereal virulence we should dread the subversion of family sacredness by a religious polygamy at all events this tenet can be no more obnoxious to us than tha to those which caused persons to suffer death in holland and friesland for Ani anabaptist baptist errors than that which caused the death of persons of whom were burned during 18 years of dias dials ministry twenty thousand jews in andalusia alone were burned or mutilated if wet wel we ollow follow the wars of europe which for years were I 1 MAINLY CAUSED DY BY RELIGION ire lre LIGION and which have caused rivers of blood to flow we will see how hov futile it is and how senseless at this latter day to inaugurate a religious persecution persecution we will see that with a alf this bloodshed bloods lied and misery and tyranny no sect nor uon I 1 religious development Ms lihs ever eve been beed suppressed let us fallo follow sir bir walt wait walter waiter er scott scottt 14 his bis flis fils historical romances and ask 0 ourselves what after all ali did claver house achieve let us follow the scar faced oliver through ireland and ask ourselves did he suppress kuish celtic romanism N so nd d but he anahis followers have kindled a fire that thap instill hurning hur pur ning andas and as matters mattery gland stand at aj pre pry lit likely ato td hurn burn and alid perhaps affect the progress of modern civilization As to polygamy jit is an institution peculiar to mormonism and cannot affect 0 other 0 c ta sects jt it the purity orjin orlin or impunity impurity ur ltv of 0 any people outside of of those believing in lt it abia abba and consequently can call be regulated to suit themselves it may be said it is a retrogressive lymp om so lutich the jhb better bettar th then en we have tile tiie evidence of all history that a progressive people never adopted a retrogressive reli rell religion ibn therefore we as americans are safe it maybe may be said romma Koroa nisin A Js s retrogressive and that america is beqo bego becoming ming koman at a very perceptible rate there are romanists Romanis ts south of the mormons cormons Mor mons 3 north of them cast of of them and 0 west of them Is mormonism going to absorb all these scattered around indi indiscriminately are some ten million infidels and twenty million christians these latter divided up into little packs of coyotes yelping and at going to swallow all ali these loroman Is romanism retrogressive or stationary no nod t at all she is the first to recognize buckles theory that religion Is the effect not the cause of civilization it is for this pope leo XIII recently ordered his clergy to study the physical sciences it is for this that mgr alar capel attends a teachers convention at madison and professes to know more about teaching than the drufes sors he tackles journalists in chicago and silences them ile he encounters politicians at washington and brings brines off one as a trophy col bliss bie gge he captures ile he has a tilt with men of science in new york and shows how science aud and religion can call be harmonized the roman romanism ism ot tod today to d day ay is not that of the time of james of england or charles of spain mr mcblaine blaine says suppose fiji islanders came among us with their RELIGIOUS cannibalism we must never suppose as to what is c oming coming in a religious way we have a very considerable sector sect of fijians already reada if the murder statistics a are re conk cons consulted bulted it will be seen that very verv few of those who practice it for pleas pleasure or for devilment get punished if the fijian sacrifices a well fed brotherto brother to the deity and then dines off the corporal part of him that is his own business and his own religion reli rell ulon clon and his own political economy if one of us shoots a fellow citizen we perhaps dont cat i the body directly butas lawyers and judges we eat pat it indirectly or if the skin is osgood of good quality we beean can utilize it alwo adwa done in boston a short time a ago 0 As s to individual and social rights age they vary with the clime and age in the owner of a circulating library in england could be adjudged the keeper of a disorderly house lycurgus the spartan made it lawf lawful ul for a man to lend his eife to a neighbor and vet yet it was ad said the spartans spartano Spar tans had no word f for or a adulte d I 1 ter y tor for 20 11 years in chicago it a man moan strikes his door mat at noonday against a lamp post th throwing rowin dust in the eyes of a hundred persona persons and his rights are arc not questioned if mr blaine should devote a little time to the consideration of polygamy individual and social rights and kindred theresi themes lie he will not hasten into religious leg legislation I 1 station for popular clamor THE remse persecuting buting SPIRIT is not always generated by bad intents or pro prompted apted py oy an inherent loveon love iove of exercising authority antho contrary some of the characters ili in history whose names name cause the tiie blood to shiver on oil account of the persecution and in tolerance they wre guilty of were men of tho the purest ani anc dest best intentions intention and indeed ot of 1 irreproachable moral character in some cases for instance marcus aurealus Au rellus was a man ioan of acknowledged moral superiority and of unquestioned honesty as well as of llie tile kindest and best i intentions yet he was tile the most hav savage uge barbarous and uncompromising prom isi n of the early christian persecutors while on the other ot berhand hand the historians moyle Mo mosheim and milman ullman claim that b Comi oni nodus modus and helio abacus two of the most infamous an and d most odious of mortals were peculiarly tolerant and favorably disposed towards the early christians in fact moyle says that Com modus first checked the penal legisla legislation legislate tl on in against the disciples of christ chrisi the mho rh c church historian neander gudex says that the best emperors empe rora opposed christian ity while tile the bad ones were indifferent to its encroachments encroach ments menta the history of the spanish inquisition causes a in the bosoms of many if not allsta all ali students and nd we have no evidence but that tha they cy were actuated by the kindest intentions townsend Town senda a church of england clergyman in one af his works on spain saig says of the inquisitors inqui it is however universally acknowledged for the credit of the corps at barcelona that a all ali 11 it its S me members in bers ar are C men of wo worth rt h endmost and most of them distinguished for humanity 11 townsend wrote in 1786 and at that time the feeling ot of horror prevalent in england 11 at the inquisition inq aisi must have been more acute than it is today to day abid li deven eab n aday td day it souil sounds ds a good deal deai like ilke a joke to cell us that quemada torquemada Ter was wag humane and onest honest li yet we have the evidence of llorente Lloren tu collado and others that 9 such u eh was isas the v ditc use itc YG we do not go back into the du duma ty past to find parallels for hoar edmunds and und their fol foi following lowin but to show ghow that good intentions do not always justify whatever is under taken and subsequently executed the hist history olry of RELIGIOUS persecution has been treated more inore or less by every writer of prominence during the last century and a half and all attribute the spirit than to any ady natural evil intent persecutors mav may may have been the best intentioned men but they have been woefully I 1 ignorant borant and it seems as if they were c llo ilo no more eli ell lightened enlightened today to day than they were in the thu days of marcus marcua aurelius aureliu alls aus S it would be hardly fair to deny even ithe it he ignoramus murray a certain amount of good intention though he stopped the tile supplies of a nineteenth century educational establishment la in the noboa of the tile great merican american republic oh shades of gou gon gon gou luther and gustavus adolphus be not disturbed in your celestial abodes it at the atrocities perpetrated today to day dav in the name of liberty and religion rest peacefully the spirit of i progress which you sou ou have begotten is still abroad ani ana and though the henchman of the president of 00 of has vetoed the appropriation bills lor a university destined for or the improve men meu and education of less than one |
