Show OUR oun CHICAGO LETTER OUR correspondent HITS SEVERAL NAILS SQUARE ON THEIR HEADS WITH HIS USUAL VIGOR BOSTON philosophy RELATING TO THE MORMONS CHICAGO march ad 1884 editor deseret news it is a universally recognized fact that there already exists what is known as boston sentiment boston logic and j judging from recent developments we ar are to have llave boston politics several era paragraphs asagra ph s a are e appearing J in a the daily dally al I 1 papers a ers bearing earm earl a boston bosto n brand an and pro professing ess in g to deal deai eal eai with the enormity ity of 31 mormonism 0 rmon ism mormonism is first defined e ne as a solid cohesive bod body manipulated by one master hand band with mechanical exactitude in the same breath troubles and dissensions are reported to be frequent aye even apostasy apo stacy is there on a large scale according I 1 to the boston advertiser if this latter statement be ethere true tru there is no necessity for coercive legislation and we will bo be spared the disagreeable task of sending out our gatling guns and our bloodthirsty blood thirsty warriors to utah we are told that mormons cormons take no interest in national politics and that church a aggrandizement randi randl and anh ecclesiastical supremacy are their chief c concerns on cerns here again the boston philosopher maintains that they are shrewd politicians and arld worked strategically cally to get a colorado we are told that mormons cormons did noi nod not reco recognize ize national authority landwere and were indifferent to party legislation that in fact it would please them to see the parties so worry each other that there would be nothing left but the traditional caudal appendages of the historic felines of kilkenny now one of the parties of the day recognizes the mormon right to say something in the country helas he has helped to develop and to let the world see that if a man espouses espouse san an unpopular religion he is not disqualified to exercise the political rights extended to heathens athens he in nid fid les ies and criminals and because the party does this boston indignation is aroused REGARDING OTHER SUBJECTS it must be understood that these boston virtues are not confined geographically to 33 oston boston even in chicago but fortunately to a very limited extent baeton sentiment will brov provide de refuges for the poor and h hungry U but w will 11 sell the skins of their d dead tb bodies 0 d 1 to provide comfortable fi resides for live officeholders boston sentiment will send a commission com jonew orleans to investigate constructive injustice to colored citizens while it refuses a colored orator the I 1 privilege rl of eulogizing the dead phillips PhU lips irps and while it pronounces distinctly against a fractional colored judiciary boston law is even more anomalous jake farmer is tilled filled two do dollars liars for laying playing marbles on the sabbath while mr J fr ingersoll pronounces almighty god the murderous monstrosity of a diseased imagination under police protection A hackman is imprisoned for using rather forcible anglo saxon to an obstinate mule but on the way to the police station both he and his captors are assailed with ribaldry from painted courte at every comer eyes bloated with alcohol gaze in superior innocence at them gaunt individuals rendered dyspeptic by a long course of ill cooked pastry and an unhealthy religion moralize on the awful consequences of intemperate ton tongues gues there is also a boston religion in liy which the preacher pre acner acher is prominent in more ways than one the recent trial of the methodist spurlock spurn ock in this state will illustrate hub theology mr spurlock spurl ock criminal was ad adjudged budged guilty of lying and of criminal intimacy with a married woman one of his sunday school instructors tors boston religion will give mr spurlock spurn ock another start he ean get divorced from his congregation and from his concubines and can start anew in another field other pastures in the fields of love and rell reil religion lon ion await such capacity THE CAPITOL QUESTION AND corruption it is to be feared that we cant get the national capital in the vicinity of chiea chica chicago 0 because cleveland protests the leader leader of that city the official organ of the secret society maintains that the removal of the capital would be unjust to the memo memory of washington to n that it would be MSS a foss loss to sacrifice the public bu buildings bildings of the D C and that chicago has too much corruption but the of this city knocks these hese arguments all to pieces first george eorge washington ton did not anticipate the he future possibilities of the city by the he laker had he done so he would have made provision for the future capital As to the public buildings they can be paid for and the corruption business is all ali right because for every church behave we have hase a saloon for every preacher we have a gambler and the social forces being so evenly balanced the churches and the preachers cant do any harm Inde indeed edI edl dont see how harm can be apprehended from such a complacent body of persons as 0 our ur chicago ministers their principal employment is in passing resolutions a against a s sunday papers and suburban egl trains with an occasional poke at mormonism by way of variety somei times they make all olympus quake over the application of a numeral numeral adjective jec tive and then perhaps they are dangerous but even then I 1 think a body of legislators would not be intimidated by their sulphurous fulminations on the whole I 1 think that our preachers will compare favo savo favorably bly uly with any bocy body bory of similar people all through the country monopolies AND ABNORMAL FORTUNES even the pur purchasing chasin of a little package of stationery suggests thoughts on national politics some soine sa sagacious ac ous englishman who has troubled himself to give some friendly advice says that our chief danger is likely to arise from the growth of abnormal fortunes and the power corporations it did not need an englishman to tell us this we are being told that by every penny scribe from maine to california and I 1 suppose it is the k knowledge now ledge of this thia fact that prompts t the he legislation now going on at washington I 1 which proposes to curb corporations ID po we can notice in all our large barge cities the gradual but sure absorption orp tion of small traders by the larger ones ynes establishments now add to clothing hosiery drapery departments entirely foreign to such trades books stationery trinkets and other minor trades that in the older countries are carried on separately are here being swallowed by tile the corporation monster even some houses in chicago have added curiosities and lunch counters to their regular business this process will gradually clean out the small storekeepers and turn them into mere wage working worked servants congress cant legislate against promises to be more dangerous than railroad ca corporations 0 tio this Is spir spirit t can only 0 y be letb met by a conse conservative active encouragement of the small trader by the people in a political sense the trade trad monopoly has a bad outlook the he manager of a large establishment more effectually controls the ballots of his serfs than does any railroad corporation and as this manager Is generally a church functionary he feels it incumbent on him to provide spiritual provender also the average farmer and trader are the safeguards safe guards of constitutional governments their independence and their intelligence are the factors which w cut the monopolist and elevate th the e menial mental abolish these and we become ither either merchant princes and railroad kings or r flunkeys flun keys with dirt instead of powder POLITICAL INCON incongruity GRUIT S the clans are arc gathering and we will have haye some lively music la ia the near lu fu ture republicans and democrats are mar marshalling their respective forces and preparing tor lor the deadly encounter it is amusing to read some of the republican papers and to ponder on the feeling articles which profess to give advice to democrats it reminds one of the sandbagger sand bagger who knocks down a victim and then under pre tence of putting eting him on his feet makes away with his watch and purse they dont want democrats to nominate tilden for fon f or the presidency because he would be defeated because he would die immediately after election because having no relatives he would spend his money in politics thereby corrupt corruption in virtuous republicans these are tu th incongruous reasons why Tilden should be left in obscurity these benevolent and guileless republic republicans c ans dont want payne of ohio to come forward Paynes raynes son is connected with the standard oil company and that fact would alone kill payne besides payne is also likely to die such philosophy as this together with a lugubrious wall wail from the bloody shirt fiend is the k kind ind of statesmanship we are to expect from good republicans the fact is they are afraid tilden will be nominated and that his election would be a f foregone ore conclusion and if mr hax hay hayes es would relieve his name from the political infamy which must accompany it to posterity and if the american people would remove the opprobrium resting on them through mr hayes they ana and mr hayes should combine and elect tilden president As to death they need not be alarmed there are no guiteaux Gulte Guite aus in the democratic party As to payne of ohio his record will carry him through the republicans say his son is a standard oil co official what of it if a mans cousin is a murderer does that disqualify him from being a governor the fact is paynes peculiar pecullar tariff views do not look loot well to republicans he is old and might die that is true prest brest garfield was young but that did not save him SAVE THE NEGRO erol eror HIS FRIENDS the southern outrage mill has done good work but there is a possibility of overdoing it and it would be well if i the colored people could be made to understand their position because they would in a the end be the victims A colored legislature in some new england state proposes that legislations compel insurance companies to take colored risks on the same oasis as white it never occurs to his thoughtful mentors that the companies could refuse colored risks altogether if they so chose northern methodists go south to teach religion to the negro but linstead instead they teach him to believe that plots are being hatched for his rein re in sla what what useful are t they e y acco accomplishing peishing pil shing by this are they h helping elpin the negro they are neither h helping el p in t the e negro agro nor the white but they tey h will I 1 bring the republican part party y to be e a mere pettifog pettifogging ing clique of officeholders and paid demagogues and what is worse worie their action will give it in the f future history of the country a mere selfish spoil seeking aspect competition IN CORPSE STEALING it is not very often that chicago is distanced in trade enterprise but burcin cincinnati has gotten ahead of of her for once the new business which promises to assume respectable proportions was supposed to find its most congenial field in chicago this business is the catering of subjects for medical colleges at stealing corpses colmes it was thought w we were ahead we furnished buffalo and other eastern towns with sawbones saw bones material 0 our ur men hunted grave yards and county dead houses and got themselves investigated by the grand jury cincinnati got ahead of us 1 ana and and manufactured corpses to order de r the enter enterprising rp rising citizens of ohio whenever they beheld it a promis corpse simply took a hammer and knocked it on the te head and presto the young students order was filled really it is not very creditable to the intelligence of the country that such a condition of things thing s ex ests as this medical subject business there ought to be provision made for supplying colleges in a decent manner with the subjects which by usage and common cammon consent belong of right to students unclaimed bodies enough can be had in all large cities without makin making 9 sensationalism out of the matter A short time ago ngo in this city some whisky barrels were seized which contain contained ad human remains it transpired that they were shipped from the east cast for dissecting purposes juslus jusius |