Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER JUNIUS PUNCTURES THE ANTI antl mor MOR MOK MON MOX BUBBLE V CHICAGO nov 30 1884 editor deseret neus news some of ouri our chicago papers which heretofore were characterized for liberality and progress for the widest possible liati flati latitude tude in political and religious liberty and for a moderation and toleration that bespoke at least a tendency to civilization these sane same papers are arc now turning their their ATTENTION TO MOR N 51 and und dere lere judging from the language they use there la Is blood in their eyes these papers wish to be classed as blinde independent in politics and in truth they are ver very y often offensively so they are a good deal like rays traveling british snob who used to keep perpetually uail y saying 1 I am an englishman and pays ays my way 11 the average american independent independent paper is forever d dinning inning in one ones s ears I 1 this paper kaper is independent ad eident and un trammelled and gol goi soledy er maintained for the public weli fare I 1 in a commercial sense this word independent means a good deal it means that gil isi 1 I am in the market k egand and though I 1 cant publish your views as party doctrine I 1 can as an independent tand fand at advertisement rates I 1 jn in fact this independence busi busl bustness is becoming in a large measure with the press an euphemism for licentiousness and no doubt much of the irresponsibility in our public prints can be traced to this source for the organ the party can be held responsible and this in itself is discipline there are many reasons for this little OUTBREAK OF biliousness in the independent papers relating to mormonism 11 A sarcastic frenchman has been visiting us lately and has said and published some harsh commentaries ment aries on us he has noticed thi offensive independence in individuals as well as in newspapers the builder who blocks the sidewalk for weeks the householder who maintains filth and nastiness mistiness and physical indecency around his bis residence the newspaper which Is perpetually thrusting on the table pig pix sticking statistics and pork packing improvements and alleged christianity in the shape gape of what are called sermons prid blid and articles which commence in a truly philanthropic vein vin but end as an atis these are samples of independence which the frenchman would desire to be free from ile he says our millionaires dine within a few feet of their horses stalls that they chop wood for kindling chife while diamonds and other jewelry glitter on their persons and worse than all that our ladies wear gold rings on unwashed finger linger the society papers among us do not contradict this blit bilt they come out in fierce style against against mormonism they say we well weli 11 I 1 let the frenchman know there are worse places than chicago salt lake city for instance and to grove that we are a superior a moral at an esthetic ghetia people we demand the wc extinction of mormonism horace greely used to say that southern poor used to uphold slavery because it gave themselves a kindol kind of birthright to aristocracy on the same principle yankee humorists and would be wits used to ridicule german and irish emigrants and thus we meet f foreign criticism and console ourselves wita with the thought that we are arc not mormons cormons Mor mons no matter what sir lepel griffin and jean jacques think of us the accumulation of literature relating to mormonism is becoming so go prodigious that it is likely to submerge Terge all other oller themes pooles index to periodical literature shows that some hundreds hundreds of magazine articles have been written about or against it this index only comes down to 1882 and the astl asti mormon literature has increased since so as to be bey beyond ond indexing the dime museum beauty critic ot the chicago interior Is or was lately in utah and in writing to his paper he says the women of utah are positively hideous in feature this is a good hit at the frenchman who talked tailed of our vulgar beauties with their gold rings and dirty fingers during the last few weeks nearly every religious paper in the country from the great metropolitan expositor down to the snivelling sni velling sheet odthe of the village balaam have had something to say on mormonism Monnon ism it is strange that all this nigh HIGH NO MORAL RAL IND indignation IGNATIO T A against mormonism isho uld manifest itself after the pub publication li cation catton of the annual depolt of the new west education commission this report was published in the early part of this month and when it goes to the world under such guidance as that of the rev noble the revs drevs goodwin vin and gilbert and bliss and savage and an d ball and burchard we can easily tell what its fruit will wih be this society exp eap expended ended last year FOR THE BENEFIT OF MORMONISM cism close on the tiar fl ures area are ollo 39 39 for teachers ln in utah 13 were spent and aud for for f or printing traveling and manufacturing public bublic opinion against mormonism the re remaining malDing were spent one eastern lady a mrs stone ston e contributed as much as to this fund a mr nir hammond contributed an equally large sum in fact a half hals dozen wealthy persons have made up this large amount of money at the close of the proceedings a nir air W E hale haie was so worked on by the logies eulogies en of the learned parsons that he sent in his check meek for low lom 1000 the anti mormon crude cru ade is no longer made up of the nickels and dimes and alli silly stories tories of the salt lake mud md mudsling u sling ers it goes in now fer f or thousand and tens of thousands and for high moral effect the christian school is now the fashionable dodge and to carry this out we want money there are a half dozen other societies which are also interested in mormonism I 1 mentioned one some time ago towards which a mr E W V blatchford contributed 1000 1 I have not the published report of that society at handak present but I 1 believe they claim to Rp llave expended ended teaching mor mons mong 11 there may have been cents these religious re I 1 igi 0 us financial reports always give the cents altogether gas ether during last year there here t has been collected and elpe expended ded for ostensibly educating mormons cormons Mor mons but really for foi manufacturing ring public opinion hostile to them the enormous sum of and with the impetus that the anti mormon movement is now manifesting the sum for the next fiscal te year ear car will be a f ull full million so it can be seen how nicely we can get in an advertisement among the leaders in a religious aye even in a secular paper truth is stranger stran 11 than fiction on mark twain in his hovel bovel novel movel gilded A age e makes the president of the goose cg creek ree im improvement ro co say that your religious religious paper imbt is by far the best vehicle for a thing thing of of this kind because lead your our article and put it right in the midst of the reading matter and if its got a few scripture quotations and some temperance platitudes tit udes and a bit of gush here and there about sunday schools and a sentimental snuffle now and then about gods precious ones it works the nation like a charm my dear sir and never a man suspects that it is an advertisement verti mark guilelessly asserted la in his preface that he was embarrassed for want of real living illustrative examples but then mark knew very verv little about the thoi religion of the republic there is a disposition among our high moral anti mormons cormons of a later day da to ignore the old mud crowd of sa salt sait T t lake their bungling LEADS TO MURDER and it will never do to kill the goose that lays the golden eg egg the best salt sait lake secularists can do do now Is to try to ring rin in with the democracy and if there is any very dirty work to be done why their hand Is in |