| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER SOCIALISM 14 H CHICAGO THE TRIBUNES ADVICE EXA EXAMPLE IN THE HISTORY OF THE SAINTS MORMONISM ANNOT BE BB CRUSHED OF CRUELTY CHICAGO jan alth 1886 editor deseret news socialism is assuming a really serious aspect in all our large cities but more oree especially spec so in Chica 1 goThe doctrines pro promulgated ua ted by this new e society are such that the they must 0 of command attention on the arguments to be used for the reconstruction of society are indeed of a forcible character they are dynamite fire and sword private property is not to be tolerated in the new order of things and communism is to be the basis of all organization bation the newspapers are at se fast looking this affair straight in the face and some are propounding schemes for its adjustment A short time ago the papers recommended strychnine scientifically adm administered i in tempting edibles to be given to tramps communists ts and labor agitators As a further preventive our local militias were called out and instructed in street riot drill on the public streets so as to show the bloodthirsty blood thirsty what they might expect la in the future but notwithstanding socialism keeps growing and its spirit becomes more and more vehement d daily al ia until at no ai distant stant day the crisis wa will come the chicago tribune suggests a remedy in a very exhaustive article on this subject it says this is a free country and there is nothing to prevent any set of men from laboring to gether and sharing the fruits of their exertions in common land is cheap and in the homestead regions legions of the west may be had without price in no quarter of the world is there such an opportunity for the belaev ers in SociA socialism lisin to engage in its practice without let or hindrance it if chicago social lats believe their own doctrine why do they refuse to practice it and neglect a splendid opportunity to put then their theories into execl tion there are possibly socialistic families in chicago and if they believe that property is robbery why not go where there is no property prop eity and establish them selves in communal societies on the un plowed prairies of the west where farms ire are to be had for the asling asking let them sell their property such as they have throw the proceeds into a fund to be controlled b dy by trustees migrate to the west and share the accumulations hereafter in common in this way they may begin at once to live according to their own convictions and in the course of fifteen orp or wenty twenty years can afford the world convincing proofs that socialism is in practice if the experiment comes up to their thair expectations they cannot fail to make converts very rapidly lap idly but it is berous tor for them to expect other men to believe in theu their doctrines when they them delvs refuse to put them in execution although afforded an uncommonly good opportunity port unity the socialist reads this and smiles emiles at i the innocenc ej ei and which dictates it he says that Is JUST WHAT THE MORMONS DID forty years ago and what is the result even in this state of illinois they settled in the unbroken prairie but as aown as they effected improvements improvement st pretexts were found to dispossess them not alone this but through toil privation suffering disease and hunger they sought homes hundreds of miles beyond the confines lof of civilized settlement and yet the they y were followed carpet planted in their midst and now the senate of the mhd united states has adopted or passed a bill to confiscate their property how much better is that great assembly the house of lords of this republic than the incendiary rabble which murdered innocenti persons esons 1 and temples vo not t a whit what one proposes to do with the cold steel and studied cruelty the other did do under the influence of insane fury and blind intolerance how much better is senator edmunds than pettifogger Petty fogger cyrus walker Is mr hoar any better than archibald williams what it the difference bet between degn preacher brockman and preacher newman none at all in this way the socialist replies to the tribune and further says that communism has originated not with him but with the U S congress there is no doubt at all but that the passage of the second edmunds bill nas as given much secret leasure pleasure to the agven communists 0 of this country and the million or more united laborers are also rejoicing in this measure they see the plutocrats of the senate building over themselves an inverted column which will tumble some day and open the eyes of cold tea drinkers if anything cau can do it it if the senate can arrogate to itself the power of chasing any element of american citizenship zen ship what is to prevent it fro from in proceeding to dis disfranchise frand bise the colo colored red man of the south the socialist of ch chicago I 1 or the irishman of new Y york ork can it not make the qualification fo for r citizenship a G E R of a certificate fr from 0 in some orthodox church this is virtually the foundation on which the le modem legislature legi alatore is building it is to be deplored that democrats are so foolish and obstinate that they cant see the rocks they were wrecked on 26 25 or 90 0 year of course their BUND BLIND ACTION cannot affect the principles pleA of democracy for they will survive the idiocy of individuals individual sin in the future as in the past congress may legislate as much as it pleases it may multiply it its carpet until there is one for olevery every household in utah it may place a guardian guar dian on oil every eve cornstalk stalk in mor mo conland mon n la land nd but au this will not avail that a wo work which chic was commenced half th ottury a century en ago york CANNOT BE STOPPED the humble individual who was made the instrument of this work already alread divides the empire of civilization with the he christian his name at first was a cause of excitement to a local village next to a county next to states and nations and now to empires of course hod god used the f fury ury and madness of mobs and politicians to further this is great work and if there had bad been no perfidious judges in carth carthage age I 1 it is probable there would be no utah today if there had been no ford with personal aims and private interests with an aw honest heart but with moral courage in the slack of his pantaloons there would be no history of Illi illinois notz edmunds hoar murray powers and ad d such are mere tools for the advancement ment of mormonism is as their predecessors boggs ford and walker have been one of our local preachers attracts much attention ign by his discourses on religion mingled with poetry poetry and humanity manit he Is s really in n intellect as far alve above the average parson so as the lion is above the toad or to make the similitude more congruous congruous as miss cleveland is above irate field last sunday in speaking af pf CRUELTY AND inhumanity as it exis existed ted in the past he said some very nice things ile he says oneo one of f the astounding things of history is to see a saul of tarsus a man of poetic taste and a man of wide acquaint ance with the arts and the literature of the hebrew and classic nations taking delight in the storm of rocks which beat the life out of a poor harmless teacher of some new religious ideas it may be the pelting of ul ill aimed stones lasted a half hour hoar before the victim lay dead under the heap that those moments were moments of satisfaction to saul seems to us incredible that nero and his tutor seneca should have planned the death of neros mother is an episode as shameful us as that in the biography of saul the woman indeed had no womanly merit but she was a queen and his mother under the garb of a new friendship nero sent a boat to bring his mother from the summer resort at baize to rome kome but the royal hypocrite had built the boat in such a manner that the assassins assassin son on board could unfasten some bolts and all the structure would tall fall into ruins in the sea if the mother was liable hable to save herself the assassin was a appointed L 1 hinted for adding a few I 1 blows to the pe peril r of the water thus it is that professor swing des cants on the cruelties cruel ties of tk e past but he does not confine himsel hi I 1 to saul sau I 1 uni nero he brings into the pan panorama oraina of 0 cruelty 14 egypt with her b of slaves her dwarfed childred chit chil dreu i i nil ad her prisoners of war lashed together with wire passed through their tono tongues lues he also reviewed the deliciously cruel slave laws of old rome and how the grandees grandeas gran dees of the time amused themselves by y torturing slaves and dependants ne he comes next to the christian and jew the protestant and catholic and he does not find matters much improved he next branches off into cruelty to animals and lets his soul deltinto melt mel into tinto lava in sympathy for animals conveyed in stock cars over the american continent strange to say he has not a word on an episode of this state which exceeds in brutality anything ever perpetrated by egypt greece rome the inquisition ti the britan puritan witch court or any phase phage of the cruelty practiced in the past can he forget the CARTHAGE OF FORTY YEARS AGO where one of the foulest murders that ever disgraced savage or civilized existence was committed glencoe pales into insignificance before it trog frog heda was but a plaything compared to it honest citizens were assured of fair play yet in the middle of the ileth century they were trapped as hunters trap bears one 0 of f t these hese men is alive today to day preserved bv miraculous intervention tion A and aad ad it was only a few days ago since the senator fro from in this state acted a more brutal part than the villain who lodged his rifle bullet in the watch carried ty by john taylor senator cullom said the mormons cormons Mor mons could not agree with the people amon among whom they settled this was sa said id in th the senate chamber at washington such a falsehood as this from such a source is meaner than the bullet of the assassin the Morr agns have never taken the agg aggressive dessive in anything and 3 et they are vilified as if they were the worst criminals john taylor is still alive after a stormy and eventful life of some 76 or 78 summers and if senator cullom can produce man woman or child who can say that he was wronged bv johr john taylor ataylor then he co could u say chissay in the senate cullom is a worthy successor to walker and williams and broc Brock kman maTi and like them he will pass away and his name be re me inbred only for its cruelty to be classed with swings malefactors J UNI u s |
