Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER LULL IN MORMON MATTERS PUBLIC EFFECT OF ANTI MORMON OUTRAGES THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE UNE LOSING CASTE SENATOR EDMUNDS considered CHICAGO april ath 1886 editor deseret news perhaps no more appropriate description of the condition of affairs I 1 in this eastern country can be furnished than that of the member from st louis who stated in his place in the house at washington that the country was RESTING ON A VOLCANO several other speakers in that house also have made some strange assertions one of our chicago members has said that the country would be none the loser if jay gould were strung up to a lamppost lamp post this same member lest any possibility of ahn charging him with aristocratic or dudish tendencies could be entertained has furnished the interesting blo biographical 1 particular that he commena com commenced I 1 life fe as a 66 brick at six dollars a month in this he is ahe adof our illustrious senator from illinois who also stated that he be commenced life as a cowpuncher cow puncher at six dollars a month it fact it has become rite quite the fashion to be a novus homo or new made man public men everywhere cheerfully revert to the time when they were bootblacks boot blacks news benders venders grooms or some olgo other of the many humble but really useful occupations which go to make up a civilized society mr hoxie of railroad fame was an hostler in iowa but subsequently a carpetbagger carpet car et bag bagger er in texas where he achieved achie fame fortune lor fortune tune an and I 1 fear dishonor jay gould invented a mousetrap mouse trap so that it will be seen his bis spider like proclivities manifested themselves at a very very early age no doubt it was this inventive faculty which enabled him later in life to entrap the whole of wall street and one fourth of the united states senator edmunds began life asa as a partner of jay gould and while jay invented the traps the great senator patented the inventions but neither of these latter two will revert to their adolescent existence jay courses in his yacht with as much ease as if his ancestor owned the mayflower and the princess mary which brought william of orange to england SENATOR EDMUNDS sits on the end of his spinal column in his place in the senate as stiff and rigid as if he had swallowed loved a crowbar and looking lookin ls as grim ascetic and puritanical anical as if ne be had breakfasted on peanuts and pig iron he is fully conscious that the immortal gods are viewing him with envy and that mere ordinary mortals as compared with hima him are rebut but the dross simple animate clay to say that such a man mail would patent the invention of jay goulds mouse traps would sound to many a sacrilege yet such is the case however all these tl ese little incidents go to show which way the storm is likely to blow though there is a decided LULL IT MORMON xa MATTERS frers yet we find time occasionally to say Sm something about utah the chicago tribune has an editorial on judge zane it is a kind of an apology for the stump speech delivered by his honor at the murray jamboree there is no BO doubt but that the tribune feels the judge has made a mistake in thus mixing up the character of justice with barrel organ orator and mob moralist the judge was not sent to utah to descant on en the enormity cy of polygamy nor disturb his digestion with pessimistic philosophy he was sent to administer law philosophy iw justly fairly and equitably his stump speech shows how much he is fitted for his post pest speaking of mr zane the tribune says his court is held in a territory but the judge was appointed by the president and derives his authority from the united states and not from the territory of utah while there may be some dispute whether such an official is technically a united states judge there is at least a very grave doubt whether hether he is subject to removal by thue the president this shows that the judicial gentleman has been rather injudicious in his recent stump business for the honor of the united states it is to be hoped that he is not a U S judge we would rather he was the property of 0 the late mr Gite aus accidental president speaking of the zane and murray from a purely arely secular coale view it must be confessed that the miserable bigotry of both has done much to disarm the unpopularity of mormonism Mar GiMar monism in these eastern cities the continuance of both in office may cause much ill feeling and much utah but 0 outside tit side a strong feeling was growing that perhaps a few irresponsible sj ble officials were using the name of the amer ameo an people in the perpetration of i i Y v tyrannies tyrannizes tyr annies and gross exactions k thy only ot of a russian police policeman mau turkish tax gatherer or an irish runt rent collector there is no doubt but that six months more of murray would have raised a clamor from the outside world which would soon be heard afar off and it is not at al all I 1 denied by impartial and sagacious observers that the action of the utah carpet and that of the senate in its nasty hasty passage of the recent confiscation bation biu bill how has had a bad effect on the anarchist and anti capital part of our people what more EASY conclusion for the unlettered mind to arrive alq at than that it il the united states senate composed mostly of millio million aries has no respect for the sanctity of private or corpora I 1 ii P ro erty why are st starving trvin labor and 11 ill 1 kalcl craftsmen e expected I 1 to have a sacred regard for property I 1 it is well known if honest industry hard bard toll privation suffering har hardship unremitting labor go to make up the sacred title to property then the citizens of utah have the best claim on earth to their little savings and acquisitions THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE true to its old mercenary instincts and to its principles of indiscriminate abuse unless where it to is paid makes a foolish attack on the omaha herald the attack is harmless since it proceeds from an old blind and toothless dog it is not very good taste to notice the tribune at present in fact it is a barbarous grossness that would insult calamity or that would pile on more weight where misfortune and adversity are already bending persons down and the poor tribune now in its cheap senility with its still poorer editor experiencing all ail the ills and de of old age is not a lit fit subject to vent indignation on it is to be hoped that shat the magnanimous editor of the omaha herald with the broad spirit of charity and generosity characteristic of the genuine enuine democrat will look at the tribune in this light and let it off easily however it might be said that when the tribune courted popularity some dozen years ago with its no irish need ap apply a y 11 advertisements the omaha he herald editor was preaching the broad brotherhood of humanity and upholding the peoples rights the herald today to day is prosperous the tribune fal fallen lento to the level of penny dread fuls and now scrambling among the cheap lodging houses and poor boarding houses for an existence A HISTORY OF THIS TRIBUNE and its teachings for the last 20 years would afford a good illustration of what agencies have wrought the present troubled condition of of our co country colantro coi lantry in an editorial january 10 1883 on I 1 our house of lords the senate Is characterized as a purse proud aggregation of shoddy ignorant old grannies that it was an obstruction that its members purchased their places laces from state legislatures and that it ong ought ht to be abolished this is the kind of teace teaching hing t that ha t in spires inspires respect for wealth or rather for property and for legislation in an editorial may 25 1884 on the rish irish element in our citizenship it characterizes that people as a band of lawless turbulent rascals and drunk en brainless idiots here is an extract were ever a people more easily gulled than the irish any rascal among them has needed but to don the mask of patriotism to rifle the pockets of the majority with impunity and yet a few months after it was calling on this very element to vote for mr blaine that he was one of themselves this is the same paper that a few weeks ago was abusing the president for not sending troops to shoot down anti coolies here is what it said of tile the chinese and their senatorial supporters in an editorial mayal may 1884 neither governmental interests nor hur hn sanitarian mani sympathies nor even the commonest considerations of justice appealed to edmunds sherman hawley and harrison but they continued to the last to resist every effort at mitigating the evil of coolie importation and if they could have had their way the american labor market would today to day have been largely controlled by asiatic prices and morals Is it reasonable to suppose that anyone of I 1 these heso men can come before the people as a candidate far president without inviting the active actave and bitter opposition of the working classes and the condemnation of all men who regard the claims of the family and home bom e as su superior e r bior to the interests of a nomadic and haw halt barbarously horde of 0 asiatic strangers who come to america to accumulate what they can during a few years and take it back imback to their asiatic domiciles domiciled domi ciles understand this is the paper which ch is now calling on the chinese government to demand indemnity of the american people this is the paper which now SUPPORTS EDMUNDS CO to keep a horde of corrupt officials in office whose morals are even worse than than those of the chinese the citizens of utah need only look at their deputy marshals to be conscious of this this paper even supports the chicago preachers and educators who are teaching english to tile the chinese in this city and also instructing them how to evade the restriction legislation pertaining to the importation of their fellow coolies paper may 1881 publishes from an exchange a long article on senator Edmund saad sand gives it a prominence that challenges consideration the senator was then pictured in a dual abal capacity and as chairman Cbs of the judiciary committee and acting vice president me ke had a double staff of assistants si in these days he was a power a very charles II 11 the senate nor the president could say a word against his majesty king Kingl edmunds he had no relatives to provide for but as one of f the unwashed would say he took care of the old woman comans wo mans s relations speaking of one who was a deadhead dead head on the government the article says bay and the tribune endorses indorses indor ses it during the last ten years of his career marsh received as salary without being called upon to expend over one fifth of that sum for his living expenses several presidents became seriously embarrassed because they would not face edmunds and supplant the brother in law with a live man hayes once made a feeble step in that direction by promising the post to william E chandler but not nol d daring a i to fallt his promise ine incurred urrea the m mortal enmity of the disappointed chandler edmunds has at last struck a president who is inot afraid of his bis regal di dignity rity nor of his saintly asceticism wen when president cleveland gets through edmunds will be lucky if he is not as limp as a wash womans comans little littie finger atter alter a hard bard days work in those days the senator discharged an old soldier telegraph operator and then disregarded the wishes of 56 senators to reinstate the poor fellow the most interesting part of this sketch is that which outlines THE GROWTH OF EDMUNDS in wealth and fame he has been the unswerving ally of all the great monopolies no and corporations of this country his first start was in stocks from jay gould for services rend rendered ereo but let the article speak for itself of this partnership the personal relations began begun at that time have continued ever since this has been classed as a slander of edmunds that he is is jay goulds friend and attorney why should it be a slander they are both from the same state and began business together making the first marked step in life almost together they both have a great respect for each others ability and what Is is more natural than mr gould retaining his old friend edmunds in all of his bis great legal legal fights it is safe bufe to say that gould never takes any serious legal step without the advice of the vermont senator edmunds has appeared for him as the attorney of record in any number of cases in the supreme court edmunds was his chief counsel representing the missouri pacific consolidation tion struggle in the supreme court where he has often appeared tor for the union pacific heasto he is today to day the attorney of record in the celebrated tax case of the lie central pacific railroad against the state of california it is safe to say that 75 per cent of mr edmunds tees fees from his legal practice comes from corporation clients if our chicago congressman would only add the lawyer and the client together and string both to tile the lamppost bosti he would be doing what is nearer the right and if the tribune would still continue to denounce both it would not now be in the mud itself this is edmunds the patriot moralist civil service reformer the knights i g ats 01 of labor will remember edmunds dmund as well as his boss JUNIUS |