Show OUR CHICAGO lettell LETTER OUR olun connestro corr corn correspondent EsrO espo REVIEWS criticizes DE DENOUNCES AND recommends WITH HIS USUAL discrimination THE prospective conventions CHICAGO feb I 1 1884 editor deseret wems mems chicago the future capital of the nation is theory thatis that is heard on every side we are going to have two conventions in one on evear year and we have room for a dozen the manufacturers of cincinnati are drowned out and we have invited them to chicago where they will have oceans of water but not for drowning purposes the politicians of washington complain of malaria let them come here and bring the capital along andee and we will guarantee them immunity from malaria we have a mayor that knows no race distinction no sectarian prejudice re judice no geobra geographical cical politics AH races creeds and colors colors he invites to share all ali alike ke with him the privileges of god and nature he has even colored men in his departments and no man can say a word to them his prospect of heaven is disturbed by no pros prospect act of religious supremacy this mayor mayon is carter H harrison a f follower of jefferson in politics and it is such a man that ought to bein be in washington atthe at the head of the nation it may be said that because he is a native of kentucky he could not be all this nonsense kentucky is the richest soil in the union and the richest soils always produce the rankest weeds we have the wheat you have the weeds THE democratic PARTY the two great parties are to meet here and publish to the nation their respective platforms and their choice of candidates to the political student a review of these parties would be interesting te on one hand is tile the democratic party with its stores of traditions and its long record of great statesmen and brilliant orators its watchword the people not the agno bile or ane the pro fanum of the ancient roman koman nor the swinish multitude of edmund burke but the people the rational and thinking people how else could it survive if there was not some inherent virtue in it that swayed the people despite of mendacious pulpits and meretricious journalism the people may sometimes be moved by emotional oratory or swayed by casuistry i but their heart is always right and when the coolness of reason and aud the clearness of understanding resume their functions emotion ali ati and casuistry are thrown to the winds south youth carolina to day will not grant divorces for any causes new york state only for one in massa chu and neighboring states marriage ariage is but a petty trade like buying a shirt rt collar and the foundling asylum an institution from which vacant fire sides can be made merry by the innocent prattle of the children of unnatural parents THE republican PARTY on the other hand the republican party grown rown town bulky by its corruptions corrupt ions and feil feit festering ering ening with the cancers that are devouring devour ing ins it appealing to a public that Is conscious of its derelictions derelict ions and misdeeds it Is still powerful it has a press monopoly and all its campaign literature can be so handled as to catch the unwary it has preachers weak minded and women strong minded howling through the country on issues that reduce statesmanship to mere maudlin sentiment it is using the national exchequer to manufacture evidence in louisana to hoodwink northern 0 opinion anlon if the ills exist in the song south to the republicans belon belong the cause they will send down some iun run hungry officeholders office holders who want to man manipulate ill lii illiterate I 1 aerate colored men as if the they y were swine who want to instill irit into 0 their minds that the white men who gave them a living hying are their natural enemies who want to foster an implacable hatred not alone between races but between alabama and illinois this is a party made up of church oligarchies oligarch ies officeholders office holders and subsidized newspapers if they think they can make political capital by 41 ringing the changes on dead issues they are woefully mistaken Ms mistaken taken if the 1 democrats em act wisely they will treat with studied silence all topics which are introduced trod in the legislature on a political capital basis the public will see the sense of this and at once decide on it mormonism as well as the bloody shirt will come under this here is mr evarts howling now for a mormon scalp and when he had the to in his own hand he did not use it lie he wanted to save the scalp for a future day the day has arrived and a sensation issue is needed and mr evarts gives his war whoop if the democrats act wisely when questions of this kind arc introduced they chev will keep silent and passive if need be let tiie tile republicans public ans if they really want to start el inious elig ious lous warfare and intermeddling in the domestic arrangements of every tire side let them do ro so at their own peril the hasty action of a few politicians in the past involved the democrats in endless trouble and gave the sensationalists a pr prominence omi nence they never anticipated give gise the republicans I 1 rope enough and their mormon bills ule uke their civil rights bills will recoil requal on themselves they aney will force the bloody hirt shirt ime isue so far that the country will wili d amaud the phe disfranchisement OL the nero nera negib sooner than pit I 1 brother against bl brother other and aud state tate against state iowa lowa affords an amusing instance of the moral perversity ot of the so called great religious party des dea moines is both prohibition and republican prohibition hibi hibl tion orators while de scanting on the blessings of temperance or rather teetotalism tee to in the same breath boast that they have the biggest distillery in the world and that thae the laws they are enacting wont interfere with it since the whiskey can be sold in missouri or nebraska to shut down the biggest distillery in the world would be a serious injury to a prohibition agitator who has third or fourth grade corn to sell seli this is on apar a par with that beautiful production emanated recently from the chairman of the national republican committee regarding the dignity of american labor mr sabin is the name of this benign chairman and he is a millionaire three or four times over of course he made his money legitimately by the labor of the younger bros in the minnesota state prison younger and some hundreds of his type are now payi payl paying g to society the return for the ills inflicted py by putting one dollar each clear profit in mr sabins pocket every night mr sabin modestly tells us to help him exalt american labor RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY the developments in the religious world will not attract by the largeness of their cosmopolitanism A mr green of this city who is a good deal more gory than his verdant name would indicate breaks out into ysis of impotent rage because romanists Romanis ts turned out last sunday to receive their bishop mr green calls this a desecration of the sabbath and very curtly tells the people that romanism is not a religion it will be understood from mr greens broadness of thought and charity of feeling that he is a minister yes I 1 he is a presbyterian divine but save the mark markl I 1 there was a procession here last sunday and persons turned out in full fuli regalia to receive their bishop the mayor of the city graced the occasion aitu his presence and made a few timely remarks counseling temperance charity tolerance and cohesion of course it was desecration of the sabbath to tell a man that he douht ought not to get drunk this procession was composed of bohemians Bohem ians poles germans fruch irish italians etc all marching arching in under the stars and ana stripes all american citizens and all interested in the welfare of the country this happy blending of race mr green calls sabbath desecration on the other hand let us see what the ministers of the green stamp are aogi doing doing I 1 they are doing do ing a good deal to 0 prove the correctness of carwins Dar wins monkey theory one of them had a little boy fined tined 2 in a boston police court for playing marbles on sunday A mr fulton of brooklyn lias has something to say about the theatres theartres atres the papers that report mr fulton give him the tribute attribute ut rev perhaps ne lle deserves it hear what he says place me upon a polar iceberg where no verdure greets the eye where naught but the white bears growl can be heard let lel me live where no friend shall cheer kevith me with his smile bar me in prison but do not oh do not com pel pei me to mingle with the ungodly crowd of a theatre if it is not a misnomer to call an idiot of this kind rev I 1 dont know what is if he has really any friend that friend ought to give mr fulton a birching this poor man is thirsting for notoriety and as his own talents will not gain him legitimate recognition he hopes hope b by h having 1 9 a punch at rev henry ward beecher h e r to get talked about such a creature as this would be a second he would destroy the very temple he is preaching in to get a half column of abuse in a newspaper Bratos thenes destroyed the temple of diana of the ephesians to get notoriety this is the fruit of the republican party it has made notoriety king of society aye and of the pulpit as well REFORM VS IN THE MARRIAGE LAWS the thoughtful and conservative portion of the peo people le are begin beginning nim to think that a reform in the marriage laws and also in other social institutions is needed and while acknowledging the necessity of a change they hesitate about making these questions national they favor a convention of states to consider these questions jointly and then the respective states to legislate in accordance with what would be to the national well being A writer named donald murray in the standard of this city take a comprehensive hen sive yet minute view of our fast decaying social system he advocates a con coq consideration of matters of more importance to the country than mormonism he dwells on the folly of preachers barking at each other about trivial matters while such questions demand consideration there is no doubt but that the mind wind naturally inclined to take broad views sensibly contracts in the contemplation of silly affairs the preacher who today to day wastes his time and his rhetoric about a play actor will tomorrow to morrow be advocating a lightning rod for pikes pike these silly cognition coni peo people ae have brought the country to a condition tion of insignificance that it is regarded by bismarck as a laughing laughin stock and by henry irving as a good leid geld neld from which to reap golden harvests JUNIUS |