| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER IN ILLINOIS GOVERNOR OGLESBY POLITIC 41 PROSPECTS LABOR organizations puritanism IN POLITICS IDEAL DEMOCRACY CHICAGO april 12 1886 editor deseret news I 1 matters in general do wot lot seem to improve with us here in the east the labor troubles are frowine more and more serious illinois still preserves the palm palin for her superiority in riotous and for the inefficiency and incapacity of her public men governor oglesby has proven himself the first man in america most unfitted to be at the head of a democratic commonwealth mon wealth only a year ago he called out his militia to shoot down a few polish laborers and then his party organs ns raised a shout of glory about the decisive reci decisive sive spirit and prompt action of OUR EXECUTIVE 4 last week he deprecated calling out his bis abut he be suggested to a sheriff the means of raising a local force advertisements verti were inserted in various newspapers requiring men of grit to act as deputy sheriffs or marshals or whatever the they might be these were to t get ave five dollars a day and board these were the heroes who distinguished themselves a few days ago as licensed murderers scamps scalps imported from saloons and dives all over the country and this governor of ours has senatorial a aspirations I 1 he refused to call out his militia I 1 in time lest it would damage his bis prospects of attaining a seat in the senate I 1 the april elections have passed over but not without suggesting OMINOUS HINTS FOR FOK THE FUTURE to the sagacious observer the republicans public ans claim that a reaction is setting in on their side yes but it is the last flickering before extinction the last heavy breath before dissolution it is true they have gained some little advantages locally here and there such as aldermen town officers and a few small affairs but it is not owing to any change in public sentiment it is owing td to a skillful manipulation of the soreheads foreheads sore heads and mercenary bands always to be found in large towns and cities and there Is one other significant fact that politicians of the democratic party must note it is the lack of enthusiasm even of interest manifested by many old line democrats of these numbers remained away from the polls the republican organs claim that this means dislike of the administration it is not exactly that but still it is a doubt about something in the administration which seems to them mysterious the conservative course adopted by the president and his care in selecting men not very prominently identified with local politics to office has been represented by republicans still in office as an indication that the president may one day openly avow himself a republican really many democrats thought until the recent tilt with the senate that there was something in the administration not easily explicable in our city there were some appointments which did not give satisfaction to either the office seeking democrat or the unofficial one these men were irreproachable in character but politically obscure their democracy was known more to the bonton bon ton of republicanism than to the rank and file of their ow own party 1 hence thi the color given to the hints of officeholders office holders from the old regime i such appointments dont improve the politics of a country nor advance the interests nor elevate the sentiments of a party it is supposed that by such buell appointments decent republicans public ans are converted there are no decent republicans hence none are converted but decent democrats are driven into socialism and dirty democrats are bought over by republicans as was the case in several of our wards in this city old officeholders were retained and by this means the old political 0 c labs clubs are still intact these R republican e p u b 1 I ca a clubs are composed of ex so soldiers 1 adler pensioners officeholders and G A R men and the safety of the country demands the breaking up of these clubs they constitute A HUGE FEDERAL conspiracy every means of diverting money out of the national treasury from these clubs ought to be rigorously adopted the knights of labor as an organization bid fair to wield no little power in future politics in several small towns they have elected their own men to office against coalitions of democrats and republicans As this order prevails mostly if not entirely in republican states that party must shout labor or lose its grip senator logan must throw aside the sword and resume the cow wattle edmunds must renounce pace jay y G gould and brint drin cold tea with barney bi biglan 11 bulloni must adopt ad apt some ale role wherein where iti he can play me lae friend of the working man and poor old hoar will nave have the satisfaction of seeing ben butler senator from massachusetts there i every probability that a new party will oe be in ia existence for the next pres presidential election and this means ti th e demise of the republican parly pany pew pem ohio illinois michi michigan a Q a aal minnesota can be controlled by knigh 8 of labor so to keep these states tt e republican party must re organize toe the democratic party has al always ways bean br a the friend of labor and besides it cs esp a 40 0 o without these states so 80 IU in any event its perpetuation is certain it will be funny to see jay goulds goulais attorney turning K of L many persons think that great changes cha oses it if not lot actual revolutions are about to occur no doubt we are ON THE EVE OF A CRITICAL EPOCH but then perhaps it maybe may be all for the better this organization of labor will tend to produce a homogeneity of race that must in the ine end be beneficial to the country it will also abolish the growing feelings of caste and class which were taking root it will divert the minds of politicians from subjects which were calculated to dwarf and pervert ervert for instance anti mormon legislation egi will have to be suspended if that were indulged in the next would be anti romanist or anti methodist according as the mind dwells on narrow views it gets more and more contracted tr by harping on such themes as the above the mind of edmund burke would soon be on the same plane with that of katel field of course we will have a large sprinkling of the puritan with us for many a da day y yet and while we have such we must expect to see puritanical doings the pal puritan itan is as not entirely an evil we owe many good things to him just as we owe good sewers and clein clean drainage to cholera and plague one thing is to be feared from the precept gables troubles 0 inthis in this coun country and that is that democracy in ill europe will rece receive ve a severe c check eck its ts opponents in england n lan always maintained that democracy emoch cy carried out in the shape it has been bee for r the last 25 years would result in anarchy an and there wes was much reason for this prediction here we had a newspaper enlarging on the horrors of stealing human beings and selling them this was all very just but then that same paper contained an article or an essay stolen from the brain of a frenchman or englishman and most unblushingly sold on the public street any man inan would rather sell negro flesh than british brains any time it was the same way with communism this same paper dubbed the communist a foreign pauper while it prospered by selling foreign grains this paper claimed to have abolished slavery yet et it has helped to establish irom china and contract labor from europe which are but milder and more economic forms of theold the old system thesis this is all the result of TUE TIE PURIT PURITAN AN IN OUR OUK POLITICS the puritan cannot conceive any anything thim grand or Is large rge in a hence in our time he is matter misplaced in is I 1 matthew arnold says in his essay on DEMOCRACY nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them hem are numerous free and active but they are great dom and this activity are emp employed loVed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself the question ju estion is who can set this high tone in a demp dempe cracy racy such sur has as ours professes to be one would naturally answer the upper house in washington ought to be one agency alq and that instinctive spirit of mental activity and progressive expansion said to be characteristic act of democracy ought to develop an intellectual aristocracy which would be the other most potent agency 1 Is the senate doing its duty H hear ear logan dragging up detestable war memories on every occasion hear in galls analyzing harney coroy near hear edmunds edmunds growling azout about a maine postmaster hear cullom with his schoolboy school boy platitudes on interstate inter state commerce hear roar hoar and his puritan antl anti mormon ideas then ask is the senate setting a high ideal anere is our intellect echo answers where mr lamb of salt lake is an III illustration astra and his bis erudite patron marshal murray we have not today to day one really educating and instructive book in our literature tending lo 10 0 o produce a high national ideal miss Clev elands book is the nearest to such that has been published within the last years i mr arnold thinks the fathers of the republic intended THIS IDEAL to be found in the dignity and authority of the state and in a strong sad and vigorous executive at the present time we have an executive that commands popular reverence but the action of the senate is truly despicable this howl about soldiers and pensions pensions reminds one of a gang of yankee notion peddlers each blowing his own horn an illustrious senator grasps at some unsavory name the game same as a 9 hoodlum in a barber shop would grasp the police news an and dwells on it with nauseous ness it Is probable that barney cou roy rov is a scoundrel but if so cowhy villy not adopt the proper course refuse to confirm or prove tangibly his unworthiness for any place of trust wretches i will come to the surface in every walk of life why riot not in quest of an office what an edifying and dignifying signifying dignify ing national ideal edmunds and his crowd presents to the nation this silly puritan element in our politics is a curse carse to our country it is bad enough in england but it is worse here mr arnold says of it in england our puritan middle class presents a defective type of religion reU aion a narrow range ol of intellect and knowledge a stunted sense of beauty a low standard of manners but it applies per cent more forcibly to our yankee puritan aud and yet it is lu in deference to ahls class anti antil Mormon laws are enacted confiscation fis bills are passed and from class a national ideal expected jumus dimus |
