Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER junius in one of his happy veins THE WOMAN QUESTION CHICAGO june 2 1888 in his tour around the world carter i harrison ex mayor of chicago has I 1 found occasion to say many cheva lierly I 1 things about woman in ja japan tan his bis modesty was a little mite shocked smocked ed because ol of the fact that his bis bath attendant was a lady in egypt he saw women swimming across the nile lle and in india he has seen women in many positions which has called forth elaborate criticism he has said such fine i things about woman in the abstract 1 and tins nas dwelt so pathetically on wifely devotion motherly solicitude and virginal innocence that one would i imagine he had a marvelous record as a womans comans rights man the fact to is that carter during his bis long rajab rajah ship of chicago did not even appoint a woman to the city school board which he be could have done under the school lawa lassof of Illi illinois nole in this respect carter has been surpassed by an olo old bachelor who has never published A word of blarney about women tom brennan by his energetic action has shamed the cook county heard ard of commissioners into electing electing mrs carse a member of the county school board it is true tru e t the h e duties of the board cover only y t the h e normal school but even in this it can be demonstrated whether womans comans presence will prove beneficial in the administrative departments of education e mayor roche boche has done nothing so far in the appointment of women to the city school board he has been re quested beveral several times to do so but the political syndicate which controls mayor roche boche takes se ae stock in the woman question the fact is his honor has ban all he can do at present to dodge the preachers and the saloon keepers talk about steering between sylla and Charyl dis but it was easy work compared to trying to keep in with whisky advocates and prohibitionists the preachers are pressing easing on him so closely that it looks looks like a union of church and state and in troth no other union can curb the insolence arrogance and si veness of the whisky and beer interests of chicago at the present time CHURCH AND STATE alluding to a junction of church and state matters in chicago tend in that direction the other evening I 1 dropped into a political meeting where all the speakers were gospel ministers there were some 50 of these speakers representing all shades of christian orthodoxy there I 1 heard the nasal toned phrases phrases of little the sharp cracked discordant is accents of goodwin Goodw ln the smooth flowing periods of fallows bat to cut cat it short these preachers were the most determined lot of politicians I 1 ever heard beard and in fastre they mean to take a hand at election time and see for themselves that the political adventurer does not figure in III municipal legislation in the future as he be has dene in the past though we ve nave have a regular church presby presbyter tei tor for mayor and the majority of the city council are republicans yet chicago was never worse governed than at present THE SALOON VS RELIGION the saloon to is more or less the cause of the political muddle while the churchmen of chicago were either asleep or making nonsensical sp speeches beches about utah the saloonkeepers saloon keepers wire were organizing and spreading until finally they were in a fair way to ment counters in the very churches themselves they had got as far as the side and back doors and church wor shippers in some cases could drink out oat of a Bottle handed from the saloon to the church door this was close enough then an ordinance was introduced Introduce dla in the council to prohibit the it licensing of saloons located within fe feet et of ef any corner of a house of worship borshi p or school house of course the ord ordinance in ce was Bat upon was it likely that thal saloon keepers would legislate against themselves and this was what they were I 1 expected to do the catholic alder adders men claimed that their constituents were not opposed to saloons this statement brought out the roman priests and roman church societies and then it was wa s the saloons versus universal christianity T the he saloon is still in the lead HK HE SIDED WITH ROME HOME the mayor in attempting to carry water on both shoulders was a failure tile the bucket on the left fell and drowned out mr bonahan city collector in short mr bonahan was called upon to resign he was charged with being the author ot of all this ahti saloon agitation mr honahan was largely instrumental in electing mayor roche he is a gentleman who has always combined politics and religion in a profitable manner owing to his stand on the saloon question the protestant ministers were vigorously supporting mr bonahan and tais was why mayor roche feared to say much in an evil i hour hoar that now famous I 1 pa papal pal was published mr bonahan sided aided with inome the majority of the chicago irish took up the anti roman i side then came the mayors chance the preachers of course would not support an ultramontane andOn ahans influence is gone and ana gone he is with it mr has made an honest and capable off official leial millen million dollars ot of city money has passed through his bis hands and not one cent of malfeasance or misappropriation can be charged against him CHURCH secularization what is the lesson to be learned from all this must we come to a real junction nation of church and state to pre serve the purity and morality of the people bishop spalding said a short time ago at the laying of the washington university corner stone I 1 to do the best work the Ca catholic thelle church must fit herself to a constantly changing environment to the character of every peo people P W band and to the wants of every age the earthly environment in which the church lives to Is subject to i change and decay and new surroundings I 1 imply ly new tasks and impose new dutill duties the plain truth of this is that the modern church must be secularized that is it must be the duty of the church to take cognizance of what is going on around it and in it we must not be frightened by that bugaboo church and state because a pr priest iest or a well meaning religionist tel tells Is his bis fellow citizens not to vote for a saloon keeping alderman wemusa we must keemp balderman not cry church dominance c becie because an honest elder settles il a ae difference rence between two of his bis brethren in preference to letting them into the hands of lawyer sharks to be consumed property and all it Is not the church that ever rained a state but it was the state which destroyed ANY ea the church A CHURCH CANDIDATE in truth it is to the church we owe the mayoralty ot of john A roche boche he was essentially a church candidate the politicians 0 liticia i 1 ns promised the preachers bonje wonderful r f ul reforms and then after election laughed at the pr preachers eichers and dubbed them old fools it ft was thus with the high license business we were auld that with a license the saloon would be suppressed what if is the result the saloon rules by our high license we made alade a capitalist of the saloonkeeper and dignified his calling into business keep down the saloon if you cant suppress it invest it with an odium a disrepute a vileness that will place it in its proper grade as second to tho the bagi nottie 0 t h e lazar heuse or the gambling hell NATIONAL POLITICAL MATTERS everybody Is talking politics today and everybody seems to know who will be our next president though large numbers number f our citizens are departing tor for st louis yet the doings of the democratic party is not what concerns us most here it is 18 who will be the nominee of the republican party that is the question both democrat and republican alike now ask for the vice presidency on the democratic side thurman seems to be much in favor the illinois men who are aspiring to the place are infernally jealous of each other and the nomination of thurman would sit on all of them as well as on we the indiana man these illinois statesmen lost a united states a lew few years agg by this mean petty jealousy and the chances are they will imperil the sac cess of their party this fall of course 1111 illinois goes republican anyhow and it if it to is a question of availability rather than fitness for the place perhaps it would be better to give an indiana man the thurman is very old but he is a 41 democrat and there are few of the kind no now it was hoped that with the point blank refusal of blaine to be further identified in ia any way with A presidential Is candidacy a feeling of amity and brotherhood would develop among the different factions of the republican party this hope is now dispelled the petty grovel grovelling gro velling lint self in mans lower and baser baser nature is sho showing in itself t among the chiefs of clans ear alson of indiana charges gresham of illinois with know the latter retaliates by charging harrison with pro chinese legislation the Blai profess contempt for the and welcome is extended to socialist anarchist prohibitionist etc but none for the the che r result of all this the chicago tribune p predict swill be defeat for the party it sees new york gone irretrievably it ignores burchard and says practically new york has been not a doubtful b but ut a democratic state since 1880 for the have no noc carried it during daring that pt period 0 As against the democrats garfield is the only president who has carried new york since bince 1864 11 it seems rather strange that no mention is made at present of edmunds hawley cullom and several others who at one time were considered statesmen poor fellows they have outlived themselves what a satire on statesmanship to see jerry rusk of wisconsin looked upon as a possible nomination for abr a great party for for president and senator edmunds ot vermont at the same time regarded as an old crank endeavoring to sit pit upon OB fuller faller it is conceded on an all hands that with a united party gresham could be elected that is the rub unity either in a party or in a people cannot except where there is a very fine coral na tarea very high culture or a very good religious system where all these are absent every tommy atkins considers himself a general sheridan idan and he cant be convinced to the contrary except with a sUi ski llelah or a co cowhide waide that is what caused the disruption of the labor party and what will also fix the republican party unless it appeals to its better self since it has neither morality culture or re to ta appeal to As 8 the tribune says ays why not vote directly tor for cleveland or the prohibition party or stay at home JUNIUS e |