Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER JULIUS TREATS UPON UTAH AFF affairs CHICAGO chicado ao april 25 1886 editor deseret neus the question to Is now Reque frequently asked what ims has become of the utah dispatch fiend we never hear from him latterly he used to afford much amusement to many readers it is to ab be hoped he has hag not caught his deathblow surely his once fertile imagination has not become barren Is there no process of irrigation that would restore fertility to exhausted intellectual soll soil borne bome means should be adapted to restore that salt lake to his wonted literary pro lingat ion it is a pity such a stern moralist should go up salt creek so ignominiously and ana so silently the affairs of utah are once more coming to the front the delegation of salt lake ladles who visited washington to present the case of their religion t thear e people eople and their homes to 0 the t e head of 0 the e nation is causing not a little co comment ent many papers refer to it as a degradation to woman as a reprehensible course and such rancid nonsense it is amusing in oni one sense to consider the source from whence some of this criticism comes in one case I 1 know it to come from a man whose mother was transported to this country in oneff one of Tap scotts old yachts at the expense of british taxpayers this critic would have the same process applied to the women of utah it if he be had vied his is own way it is really strange what a curious animal the human being is this same critic when it comes to historical toleration talks like a prophet he lauds mr gladstone to the stars and denounces the carpet who forced his mother to take passage in a the legislatures of several states have also indorsed endorsed indor sed mr gladstone in words worthy of edmund burke himself though they can shut their eyes to deeds enacted in utah similar to those which edmoud burke denounced over years ago and which were the source of the present crisis ta in british affairs edmund burke was not backward in telling english statesmen their shortcomings even in those days the men who were enacting penal laws for ireland were most vehement denuncio acors of departed tyrannies tyrannizes tyr annies he says thial thia retrospective wisdom and historical patriotism are things of wonderful convenience I 1 believe there was no professed admirer of henry VIII among the instruments of the last kiln king james nor in the court of henry VIN VIII was there I 1 dare say to be found a single advocate for the favorites of richard II 11 11 and today to day in america your most rabid anti mormon will denounce the witch burners barners of massachusetts chu the know bothin nothing priest mutilators of maine and tle the puritan scourges urges of quakers he will do this quite unconscious that he la is already actually standing in their shoes and doin doing exact exactly what they did and placing himself himself atin an fn the archives of obloquy lot for future generations senator teller and a few other enlightened far seeing and sagacious stafean St atean load have told the mis eLble eaters from massachusetts and veric vermont nt just what edmund burke told the paddy eaters of great britain a century ago when some future bancroft comes to review the american congress of 1886 and assigns to edmunds and hoar their proper place how he must sigh for the puritan after two centuries of progress ro gress I 1 I 1 and if this bancroft should libe be a little of a cynic what a mephistophelean phelian laugh he can have over woodburn of nevada this latter gentleman is reckoned among the men who are now supporting gladstone and denouncing departed ty tyranny ranny this is historical morality a and ad patriotism with a vengeance after to r a all the most pitiable object in existence esthe is the man who Is a slave to his own misguided reason and dont know it god help him is all we can say for him How however everi if the salt lake is sleeping we have the satisfaction of knowing that our chicago is waking the tribune has an editorial lies headed d ed systematic mormon duplicity which makes most interesting reading it quotes the following in sentence from its salt lake namesake safe parents denied all knowledge of their daughters marriages although these daughters had children mothers denied that they were married and claimed that they did not know who was the father of the children in their arms both 21 ibanes then go on to char charge the women r k of utah with per jury aie min and blasphemy these gaoa good tribunes wont stop and ask even whether a blaine marriage had ever taken place or whether a tombstone epitaph had been de faced or whether some wan wandering derin deputy uty sea cooki cook had strayed into t the e hallowed flowed arms of judge orlando marshal Ir elandis or governor no contingencies cies are not considered by the tribunes I 1 and in this respect they differ from the he I 1 latter day apostle of republicanism jingoism and the editorial then goes on to comment on an extract from a speech purporting to have been delivered by brigham some halt half a century ago the extract has been going the rounds of all the anti mormon books published during the last 20 years 1 have noticed it in 25 different volumes written about utah when this short extract is so clung to by all tae I 1 mormon I 1 eaters food food of the kind must be v very ry scarce brigham bighum young is made to say that fill ell perkins or the fabricator of the matthew arnold letter could find an equal in utah for telling lies there is no harm in this it if true it augurs well for utah to beat a chicago tribune special ecial I 1 writer riter is no mean accomplishment P ment ent especially when it comes to plain una unvarnished falsehood it is also a so said sai that schenck himself could get et points eints on euchre if he were in ra utah 91 and that joe cook and newman would be dwarfed in their hypocrisy were they to visit utah aud it is for accomplishments of this kind joe debill wants utah visited with the penal code which his scotch irish grandfathers inflicted on ireland durina during the glorious reign of queen anne if joe oe may hunt up the documents procured in 1876 by private detectives tec tives in kentucky relating to mr J G blaines private life and publish them they would be much more interesting reading than Brigham Youngs sermons at least to chias chicago go r readers aders joe has these documents carefully laid away in the blaine pigeon nole hole it might not be judicious to publish them at present as an aa alliance between the houses of blaine and medill is contemplated tem plated when a blaine sits in the white house and that will be bibs eve or tims eve an epoch which comes neither before nor after christmas the editorial in question concludes with the following choice extract under mormonism woman is so BO degraded that she must swear herself destitute of the least trace of virtue and below the level of a human being these striking evidences of crimes counseled by the church authorities not only show the extent of the foul mormon ulcer but prove also the extreme difficulty of reaching it by law mark the beauty of this written by the descendant of a scotch irish carpetbagger carpet bagger written by one whose ancestors formulated that penal code which will forever stand as a disgrace to british statesmanship and be a lasting memorial of protestant christian turpitude the mae mac deil of today wants a similar penal code codd for utah with no doubt the usual results godkin says of it too well did it accomplish its dreadful work of debasement of morals intellects and physical condition of a people sinkin sinking in degeneracy from age to age till all 19 manly spirit all virtuous sense of personal independence and responsibility was nearly extinct and the very features vacant timie timid cunning and unreflective betrayed the crouching slave within I 1 I 1 I 1 Is this the condition grandmother medill cow wattle logan buttermilk woodburn woodburn prostitute hoar polygamy edmunds and that miserable abortion of humanity that brass covered counterfeit of american citizenship zen ship the black hearted foulmouthed baskin would reduce atah utah to yes that is just what they would do but thank heaven there are men at the helm ot of american statesmanship ahio will i never sanction the demon ins inspired ired penal code of ireland the re learned jesuit theland blushed even for protestantism Protestant sm when he read godkins words he would not admit that human nature had fallen so low and he says in relation to the crouching slave within could they give back a proud answer when a proud look was an accusation of rebellion are prudence cunning and just reserve vacancy and want of reflection it must be remembered that simple accusation to the irishman meant death the workhouse or the american plantation what a world af matter for reflection is in these few sentences let us look across the ithe atlantic and see that divine old man trying to undo the work of the perjurer fanatic and preace preacher er trying to wipe from off the page of english history to the foul stains s ins and bloody footprints p ts of the Me dills the hoars haars and the edmunds edmundsen ses s let us then refer mackto back to the quoted utterances of edmund burke and ask ourselves what is man let us ask ourselves is it possible that one of these I 1 crouching slaves is the manager of one of the most virulent most unprincipled the most mosi t tyrannical of all the anti mormon monnon journals yes it is possible and itis it is true oh ireland it is no wonder that thou hast become the bye word of nations the synonym for pov 1 erty depravity and shame it is true thou hast produced edmund burke and brinsley sheridan tom moore and oliver Goldsm goldsmith fth but what apology caust thou give for such vermin as james carey paddy langan land joe medill the british penal code you say I 1 accept the reply it is correct JUNIUS 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