Show I 1 OUR CHICAGO LE LETTER CHICAGO july 12 1886 editor deseret news THE CURSE OF CARPETBAG CARPET BAG GERY lay down your morning paper and pause a moment to consider the topics which most engross eng rofas the public opinion of the present at home you yoa wili mil find and that utah engages a very large share of attention benages B beyond y rid the atlantic you will find ireland causing the most excitement cit ement probably you would ask yourself what would great britain be without ireland and what hobby the puritan crank would find it he or she pad had not utah following up your train of thought you on might berio beno comically conclude that tha t without ireland and utah the newspapers newspaper ss ot of today to day wom would be but d dull ull rea reading diri indeed and here perhaps pei haps comes in the only place to give carpet its little meed of praise to it we owe the thel lively nely newspaper its history in ireland is written on parchment made of human skin and with blood tor for ink and cactus thorns for pens it is neither catholic nor protestant it is it neither liberal nor tory neither orange nor green carpet is simply to be defined by the one word woid belly belly in its grossest coarsest and most savage state belly minus conscience minus honor minus honesty this is the carpet bargery which today to day distracts the great greatest estand and most civilized empire of ancient or modern times and which taxes the powers of the greatest living intellect on the earth WITH IRELAND AS WITH UTAH As it is with Ireland so it might be with will utah the carpetbagger carpet bagger is abroad and his spirit extends fram aiom far down boston to far west california in ili boston an alleged great grat man cannot die without taxing his memory in some manner with utah the name ot of E P whipple was a tolerably well known one in new mew england there he be was ranked agthe as the king of literary literal y critics and prince of if er erudite edite lilian whiting writing to the chicago inter ocean under date of june makes this great man whipple the subject of a two column letter mr whipple was buried two days previously 1 june 21 some gur gushing periods have been penned about very trivial matters but thip letter on whipple beats cox on JS sunset or proctor knott on duluth or sir john lunbeck on a cockroach mr whipple was ane concentrated es of emerson Em ersan longfellow holmes fields lowell Wi whittier littier stedman and many others mr wrote an essay on macau macaulay lay anav back ack in 1843 this essay procured fro from M macaulay himself a complimentary letter and this letter written by the real great man formed the basis of it a a spurious urious great man of course lord macaulay macaulay meant no more in writing the letter than did president Vl cleveland eveland the other day when he acknowledged the wedding gift ot of a Pai philadelphia ladelphia chinaman little things are great to little men NOT TO BE WONDERED AT from to io 1886 1880 is a long time mr whipple was in the flesh all this time but outside ot boston toe the fact was not very well known lie he began with macaulay and ended with kate kaie field dont laugh here is lilian whitings writings tings own account it may be fishy or it may be chalky but it is lilians own I 1 remember conw how two years figo ago his interest and was enlisted in miss kate fields opening her lecture here on the mormon problem she blie had but recently returned from utah and was to give ive tile the initial lecture here in in boston ahe ie whipples Whip ples had been HER FRIENDS I HER HEB CHILDHOOD and as a brilliant young girl she had attracted an interest from mrs whipple which always followed her on this occasion when she came to boston mr W wripple lapple more certainly perhaps than any 0 ther other understood how unconsciously she had been led into this work and how hov the unsought responsibility was on her to bring this treason against the government before the knowledge of the american people eople I 1 with his influence and his pen mr whipple hippie met her quick to espouse the vans caus of the right as in iii the old days lie he had biad been tu to enroll himself with the abolitionists at a time when lien boston was steeped in pro slavery sentiments Cani tibe wonder edthe poor old man passed in his checks after tac tackling klinl the blithesome kate A murra murray y message is not more fatal than a field lecture the two combined form a gatling gun mr arthur ex prest dont did not receive the full force of both bosh but he got enough to make him a very sick man dr bartol preached the funeral sermon over ov r the remains of mr air whipple the sermon takes the cake from from anything i in it tuat that line ever spoke nhe abe fore ur dr bartul said everything and capped the climax by stating that mr whipple was all sword dand and no sheath the dr might have gone further and said that mr whipple was a BURRO all head and no iao brains all bray and no music A STRIKING CONTRAST even so simple and pleasant an affair as a family reunion cannot be celebrated in utah without evoking the most rabid mou things from our president of the press association joe medill speaking editorially in his paper june on the young family association cia tion reunion mr medill says such is is the manner in which the mormon church urges its ignorant fana fanatics Licul creatures to persist in lecherous practices which bring people of the same name and blood together in associations resembling hinds herds of cattle rather than civilized families mormonism monism can hardly be athe point of death when hundreds ot people meet to celebrate Br brigham ighani youngs adulterous achievements anu ana all are counseled counselled coun selled to note the example and go and do cio like likewise wisp I 1 contrast the young family with the medill family and what abat do we see brigham young has at present descendants ts to perpetuate his name honor his memory and protect his resting place from insult and iu indignity dignity the medill family is represented at present by one very decrepit decre pid deaf old man two youal youn youngie gih gh h women in a fairway fair way to meccune old maids and a venerable prim prunes and prism old lady thley they hold the family reunion in a wagon drawn by two billy goats in a fw few years their graves will beun be unknown and not a medill to place thereon a stone to give an idea of the strength purity and depth of this edit mal it will be sufficient to say that it is copied in the police news of july 12 the chicago tribune is advancing when it finds its way into the delectable sanctums sanc tums of american journalism ABUSE OP OF THE MORMONS the chicago tribune of june lias has an editorial headed shameless mormon diplomacy if anything in the anarchist line could be written to beat this editorial such a production should be preserved it is me merely re a tirade ot abuse abue abu e on everybody a and dy on on everything the only way to account for it is that it was written when mr medill medal was suffering from a bilious attack brought on by president cleve lands marriage this marriage age sick 1 ened many of the old party hacks they say it killed john kelly though I 1 am sure kelly was of sterner stuff it gave joe medill a terrible colic there is no need ot of a succession bill instead of one cleveland at present it is to be hoped that there are a dozen in prospect and that the cleveland family may inay in turn dispute the palm for prolificacy with the young family before cleveland gets done with the old fossils of politico daany more of them will die and get colic also A second term of cleveland would could destroy all germs of old republican and wipe out anarchy and bogus pensioners JUNIUS |