| Show CHICAGO LETTER everybody can afford to read bead this it is something rich and juicy from junius Jn CHICAGO july 24 1888 in IB my last there was still much left unsaid in the RUTTER ROMANCE after my conversation with police officer john connor I 1 was satis satisfied qed that a woman who gave her narlie name as published inthe in the papers was taken to the hospital direct from the drug store by a patrol wagon my next move was to the bo hospital spitAl to see this mrs rutter batter and ascertain from her own mouth if she were willing to endorse the story as published atter after setting etting to the bo hospital spital I 1 learned I 1 that the woman hud hd left a few minutes previously busly in charge of an a gent agent from some bell lo charitable society the office ahouva at the british consulate here are from 10 to 3 about pm p m I 1 called there and found the great official at home I 1 proceeded directly to my theme I 1 pointed out the rutter butter article in a paper which I 1 carried he remembered all about it the woman bad just left he helped her from funds fauda specially set apart by his hia government for aiding destitute british citizens the woman was in charge of 0 the st bt georges society several religious religions persons had called callea regarding tho the woman she was probably by this time on her way to new york or at least would ibe that afternoon in this strain the british consul talked quite freely but bat I 1 wanted to ascertain what he thou thought bt of her at story ry he H admitted that ft it was certain taini lre exaggerated ja e r abed but it would help to break ak up mormon work in Engi england aud I 1 mildly suggested u 9 that such conduct was not in harmony with the traditional character of english fair play the gentleman then for the first time asked me did I 1 represent the press I 1 said yes the american press laying particular emphasis on the w word ord american I 1 asked him did he be tret get the woman woman to endorse the published lis lied statements of her alleged troubles no lie he said the woman WAS too stupid to comprehend the article if read to her but he had bad the assurances of SEVERAL RELIGIOUS PERSONS in chicago that her story could possibly b y be e true rue and that was sufficient ent for h him I 1 that at he e bad ad forwarded or would I 1 forward orwar co copies lea of the article as pub is e a government and would on supplement ae e t it b by his own testimony as tot to the e enormity r I 1 of mormonism this representative of english honesty and majesty is a short thickset thick set redheaded red headed beaded person he talks so last fast that sometimes he becomes unintelligible tais engiishman is in fact a native of ireland but of course of es carpetbag carpet e t bag ancestry I 1 endeavored to eipp explain 1 to him that untruthful tales of this kind only intensified existing sectarian hatred and did not at all effect the objects aimed at I 1 instanced the case of ireland and said that stories of this kind were regularly published in england about ireland and that it wan wai such despicable work that made enemies of two people who really were by bv nature and by geography an and d by patriotic otic interests kinsmen I 1 I 1 proceeded to state that the article was more of a BBS LECTION ON THE AMERICAN government than on mormonism I 1 informed him that utah was entirely in the hands of a gentile government that it was overrun with carpetbag carpet bag politicians tic ians and with perfidious missionary plugs of preachers and that all liao bad p pencils e n ails and tablets ready fo tor r anything to reflect on mormonism and that the case of a murder or all alleged egell murder going uninvestigated was about as preposterous ik a story as it if I 1 stated that parnell would succeed her majesty to the throne of england I 1 said farther that in all probability if he be represented to his government the condition of society it Arne pc go 9 pictured in t the he butter case it mity may lead to donee between boell countries I 1 held that the present administration in this country was what would be smirched smirch ed by stories of this kind he wanted to know why I 1 was so interested and whether I 1 was pr prepared to defend polygamy I 1 told him that my instincts as a man revoked at mean 7 perfidious FALSEHOOD and that my duty as an american citizen urged me to reprobate all insults slid and slanders slander 4 on the american name and american people ard and I 1 emphatically stated that the tha real representative american was to be found in utah I 1 mr consul then said he did not relieve the woman because of her story but because she was an in destitute circumstances that this cry ot mormon tyranny aud and treachery was so dinned dinnee in his ears that thai lie he was forced to half believe it I 1 wanted to emow what he meant by breaking up mormon work in Engl england ancl and whether a society existed for this purpose and if be thought this was one of thy jobs of said society and if he w wre wire re wil willing ling to identify himself with such nefarious work the gentleman did not relish this catechising catechi dins sing aud and lie he paced nervously around his office noor floor he said probably he would modify his report to lie che government so as to leave a margin tar for future inquiry I 1 went out on the street and MET OFFICER CONNOR again he told ms dig he had seen the woman rutter ratter during the forenoon she was in charge of one of them thein lads that is what an aa irishman de nominates a christian whose religion is in his stomach the fact that she was ia fia charge of a con vinced connor that the case wa was 0 a flimsy one and deser deserved Ned investigation connor further informed me that owing to my inquiries at tho tha relice stai stations lons the rutter case tad bad become a topic of general conversation amoda the police poli ati and aad that it was universally pronounced the sickest and silliest kindol kin dof a fabrication what surprised me most of all was the ale artness alertness witti which the woman was transported from chicago I 1 knew if there was auy any truth in tier her story she won would id be kept heritor a week and exhibited at church societies aud and at preachers meetings I 1 thought about calling on the editors of our prominent to ascertain from them if it was good isau sense se to publish uncertified TALKS from every vagrant who happened to come along but as I 1 had no BO evidence eviden cL to show allow that I 1 knew the lonians won comans womans ians story to be false I 1 concluded to let the matter take its course for the present tais case would tic nc the chicago tribune especially A short abort tim pe ago that paper publia aeda a statement from a southern carpet ba ger it was I 1 just such another as aa this R ratter atter case the carpetbagger carpet bagger said his business was ruined himself boycotted his family killed with insults and per in a kentucky town because he was a republican ju polities politics of course the town authorities took up the matter and proved that the carpet p et ba bagger g ger never had a family nor a b business 1 I em and that he was run out of town the tribune publishes a most pitiable and humble apology for fonts its article we had the UTAH PALACE Exposi exposition floN CAR in our city last week it stood on en the exact spot on which mrs ling lang arys car stood at the union depot I 1 felt it my duty to visit utah so I 1 hied myself across van buren street bridge and around into the most dingy part of canal street and into the car the exterior presents a gaudy circus like appearance it is ib suggestive of advertising car I 1 looked sl at the exhibits specimens of mineral abounded but I 1 am not struck on minerals by any means I 1 was struck on a sample of oats though I 1 believe it was the finest I 1 ever saw what oatmeal oat meal must come from that surel surely it would make food for the gods T in that oats was nerve blood heart vigor muscle and manhood it is no longer scotch essence of oats tor for the nerves nerve sN but utah oats for the whole physical economy after looking through the car on my own hook without any suggestions from those in char charge chare e I 1 opened conversation with a mr culmer on utah and its possibilities in the future the gentleman was enthusiastic in his hopes for the future of utah after we were sufficiently acquainted I 1 polled out oat the mrs rutter article I 1 was surprised at the changed aspect of mr culmer he would not look at the paper he be had bad already read it he was asked red about its truth by dozens no such case ever existed in utah he was raised in salt lake knew everybody I 1 then asked what he cons considered dere d the object of such a mry story he said it was done to hurt his bis mission to dampen the prospects of utah and its palace car I 1 wanted to know who could be interested in retarding the progress of utah to this he would give no reply he said he was sot not permitted to talk religion to in connection with his bis present work I 1 told him then that a mrs rutter was in Cal calcado cago and though I 1 did not see sec her I 1 saw the britian consul and others who saw her ile he stopped a moment or two and finally said the there re was an I 1 organization in utah called the loyal league which was waa hostile to mormonism but whether the league would stoop to this work at present he could not adt say I 1 must say that mr calmer is specially ADAPTED FOR THE WORK he has in hand though I 1 alt dima commend the woric by any agy means mr culmer is id smart quick intelligent thoroughly versed in ia utah affairs he will not noi admit the word mormon in connection with his car he prefers the word utah and says all religions and parties are one one in the commerce business I 1 did not ask him what his religious belief was and he guarded his conversation so that I 1 could sot not infer whether he was mormon or gentile saint or sinner I 1 pointed out sorge some very fine specimens of pedal upholstering and asked him it they were not Morin mormon art not mormon but the work of a utah operative cooperative co company I 1 could not help moralizing moral izing on the f WAYS OF THE WORLD corid as I 1 betook retook myself from the car here is id a man booming utah and backed up by all the press of chicago in ia his bis statements if a mormon elder were to stand up here and say bay that utah was a 9 land of milkana mil kand honey that oats and wheat grew on the sagebrush that silver and gold cropped out of the street gravel that health and strength existed in the mountain air why he would be tarred and feathered and charged with decoying decaying deco ying people to utah for nefarious p purposes ur posea but kere here is a palace car equipped lilly langtry style at an expense of thousands of dollars just saying such things as would abat cause an elder to ro be crucified what is more the chicago papers back up the car the tribune said the utah potatoes were too large to bring the biggest alo along tig balt the rutter article had a FEARFUL EFFECT ON THE CAR the fact is it hurled the car more than it lid did the mormon religion I 1 stood outside tor for perhaps halt an hour observing the visitors to the car the moat of them were commore laborin ing raen imen a few clerks and mechanics and an occasional business man I 1 observed a chicago merchant coming out he had a pamphlet descriptive of utah in his hand I 1 had one also alcoa 3 I 1 resolved to make the pamphlet a ine medium dinin of introduction I 1 brushed up to him aud bluntly asked him what he thought of utah ile he laughed and said aid what he be saw would not justify him aim I 1 in n saying ranch much he did sot not think this method of advertising would bring capitalists capita lifets to utah oa tapual like water knew where to find dud its ita level very few were willing to bring brina capital to a new dew place on t the he strength of an advertisement of a circus us kind the expense of equipping and maintaining this car abroad would IF PUT INTO ONE OF THE VAUNTED OF F UTAH do more to ie advertise adverse them than all the c cars acs and pamphlets in the fhe count country rv he thought the car would be the means of bringing thousands of working men to utah who in time would become traci tramps 9 yes lae he had read the story of mrs rutter slain by the Mor mormon mons of course suh such stories deterred capital and also deterred industrious persons who did not care to be identified with either side such stories at present were a reflection on our government and our country ile he would not take capital to utah on the strength of a pamp pamphlet blet he might be induced to visit ih A for his bo holiday liday he dl did d think that the car would not bring one sound bons bona alde capitalist to utah during the week I 1 mentioned the rutter article to several politicians they maintained it had a political side that it was zot up to give color to the mormon plank in the republican party platform that it would help to keep utah out of statehood what GREAT EVENTS FROM LITTLE CAUSES flow here is plain mrs elizabeth turnbull rutter without any romance in the world about her but hot bet name causing governments and individuals to talk about her she is is to breakup mormon work in england bhe is to stop the utah palace car she is to sit on utah statehood and worse than all she makes prostitutes of the chicago newspapers pa liers Is ipuy vonder we have dynamite in Is 19 it any ady wonder that pinkerton is chief of the brotherhood of engineers la Is it any aay wonder we have a christian Endeavor Convention in fact fac christianity at present is but an endeavor to keep on its ita last legean endeavor to keep above water Is it any wonder condei we have seven political parties now formed with seven more in process of ef formation forni atlen all will come right for utah in the endl JUNIUS |
