| Show CHICAGO LETTER junius excels himself Every everybody lody should rhad head this thie correspond 1 ence I 1 he closing paragraph a gem for latter day at the present time the question on of education is largely engrossing toe attention of the leaders and directors of opinion in chicago the illinois legislature passed a compulsory LAW some ave beor or six years ago this required all children beaw between en 8 sad and 14 11 years of age to attend school at least during 12 11 weeks la in every year the law was not absolute inasmuch as exemption could be granted a child by a school director or board of fit education under certain conditions in chicago anis law is s in a worse condition than that of innocuous desuetude fit it I 1 is literally as dt dad d as a door nail no attempt has ever eve been made to enforce it eitner in chilano or adv where else in illinois in july last 1888 the SCHOOL CENSUS of chicago showed children between 6 and 16 years of age in the city the public school enrollment is the private and parochial schools 47 leaving a I 1 balance of children entirely unaccounted for in an educational sense according to these figures the public school system of chicago is in a fair way to become a failure the private ana parochial schools are crowding it to the wall the catholic church is blamed a good deal for this hostility to the public school it is all nonsense to blame one sect because every sect and church in chicago has its parochial or private school just as well as catholics the result is that tile the public school has fallen into the hands of mercenary politicians who dont care whether school keeps of or not provided there is a little boodle in fil it if as it has been said bald the child is father to the man manthei mant heH thelt the future manhood of illinois Is likely to be of a deplorable plo rable type with gutter rats growing up there id oe ce pleat pleni yot raw material for anarchy and kocial socialism ism the children who wao attend school are not much better than those who do not during the recent strike ot of street cabdrivers car drivers and conductors the children of the public schools caused more trouble to the police than the tae strikers did the greatest disorder invariably ore prevailed in the vicinity of the schools whatever damage place etwas it was through schoorl ch children ildreM it occurred THE are now establishing a system of sunday schools 1 in which will be taught the destruct destruction ida of the line existing society toy a all means mean e by energetic relentless cle eat lent ess less revolutionary and Int erfia tio dional 1 action perhaps a a question from one of the leaders themselves will best illustrate what the anarchist sunday school is here it is mr editor of the loade a speech he be said we will nut not teach ye religion ligion in air our sunday schools schoola decanie rel religion tifton to is an I 1 of the rich to suppress the poor the richare rich w not religious there is broderick Dr frederick oderick the rest great openly and publicly insulting god there is no prince nor emperor who belie believer in god the rich tell the people e OP I 1 a you go 90 to heaven if you botteron on t ehte i is earth 1 nobody ever proved that there is d a heaven and nobody ever will but it has been proved that thai there is no god no nd heaven heave ii why does not mayor brodlie send bend his children to lo work why does not he arto eo to work uin sell it be can secure heaven dy by so eo do do jug bid religion does coee not elevate the mind it it we will have nothing to do with la in our sunday schools we will teach history and 11 natural scie noea vim the rich teach the he children a of th the poor 0 or the his bis tory lory of kings but we will te teach ph them the history ot the me people people poe poems a about ut tree dom are taught in german v y yet t pr UK citizens cannot approach their emperor emper r w without being watched by spies what the private anil and parochial school of this class will be can be better imagined than described but bat the anarchists can hardly be blamed for speaking disrespect disrespectfully tully ot of religion when the religionists themselves nave have not a charitable or kipa kind word for each other here la is what one preacher oaid yesterday in his sermon tb the a roman koman catholic church said aard mr nickerson has always been an enemy to the institutions of this free republic it hs has never been becente al harmony with its spirit ot of progress it does oaf not believe in liberty agro fea and d does as nothing torpid the country it atia a an enemy of the public schools but our school system proving too powerful for the romanists Romanis ts what do they purpose doing first establish parochial shook schools where tall AW th the children will trill be gathered second get on school boards such as ae dio are in sympathy with catholicism third get teachers in in the schools 30 h who believe belleve in that faith their ultimate purpose lew lato destroy the sj si stem the tha property ot of the tae catholic church in chicago is worth millions what ft A splendid field it would be for an ed munds tucker confiscation law and what a HARVEST FOR JUDGES AND ANA I 1 the catholics laugh it at the rev mr anderson Ander sou and say they will own his little churchin church in a few years more even among the preachers them selves education and abd religion are looked upon as admere mere THUMBS FOR LAUGHTER no better way of illustrating what I 1 here assert can be here adopted than by giving a clip clipping king from the published fermon cermon of who criticizes another of the different debern denominations ansti ons here itis it is 1 1 I in th the 1 mentioned Aed the number of men and or women attend ipg the different was given in many of them the roen rilen wore ere scarce aud and in some there were not mavy many of either laughter i the answer sw the Hei mr bristol to sou fou Wi believe levein in hell I 1 particular av int ate agat airest lt if by hell you mean jake ke 61 or fire 1 said bristol n and it ia not a boet c ing in erroll ia ia simply makhty maki when te lie them belr beldere ere that this is the hell that is I 1 euch a hell preached Is Q 11 J 1 I wonder r foidl said ida r who thomas gs if brother bristol ever read anywhere ut such buch a hell blau laughter 11 1 g john 5 42 e T y jr ja i an aw air tt dhority arit yin in th the methodist 0 let 46 IN he lu in e describing hell imagined ft fintel hak held haw in the flame of a candle tor years then the hand thrust into theA th aflame lamb then shau tho farm and the then the eu body langoo eternity into flames os anro will mk ask 1 says wesley if i wis this is mat C fire are there is no othar alre he to assy hat fire is not material materiel il ie 26 to cast the lie on ibe tie teach ings of carat john Werf leyy my friends is is ah authority in the methodist church fie he touches teaches oter nal torment in hell bell fire and what he be teaches the methodist church as truth and yet brother bastil 1 says that ingersoll it is making tools of p people sav toy y 8 sayin that this is i s the orthodox li helli thid hell that wesley watley described years ago itt ita would seem that one has need aced tot of an to dia between orthodoxy heresy J because the religion of the past has come down i to up P heavy beav yand and dark does ages not prove that there Is nothing in religion tnt nut for comeri women and chil children drew let lei reason drive out the error bitor and the truth will ap pear this all 1 this may s seem ee w bho bad enough for religion but there is worse to come we may blame bame the ana anarchist for his strictures on christianity but we cannop commend the christianity Alty which baa for its cornerstone corner stone yes card playing thin chals Is the latest development vel pt in church society church SOC socials ONI M and church entertainments now hinge ou on the 1 1 I 1 I 1 JACK OF KNAVES who is generally the pastor himself in yesterdays sermon bishop fallows spoke feelingly on nn the subject As a religious and Tearea recreation tion he condemned it of it morally and physically ne he said amid I 1 wh while 1 le ap approving provin of a aft ft virtuous forms of beor recreation eatrou ww which leave the body and mind refreshed I 1 pan find nothing to ap prove prote alg ogress ive eue euchre bre it is played inward in rooms the players hemd a seden sedentary tury posit position iuni the muscles are icer ui aier r ten tension ion from the mental excitement when it 1 is over every player feels tired the wear and war tear are aide much greater than in other forms of social cards because of the crowd and intense 1 rivalries I 1 am told that things are even carried so PO far that ladies lose their temper sometimes the game is now impossible without prizes r eff thit ahn helps to r the th chief vice of f theace toe ago and to give many young men t their heir first taste tor for gambling gambi ug 11 these clippings crippin s taken takei from the sermons and discourses of the most prominent religionists of the day will suffice sallies to show that both bah education and reli religion gion are in a very poor condition of 01 course these people call themselves christians and fancy that the leal jeal aundes rivalries Wab Mn abbles oles arid aid bicker ings which they lu in are a part ot christia christianity I 1 y at stated times they all unite in s fine outburst of indignation at mormonism Mormon ibm and then felicitate themselves on thu rood work they arb art doing without education and without re laiglon what can the CON ii n oy OX ot of a country be jaze judeo gresham Gres bam a gentleman who was wag a candidate tor for the presidency last jut juh answers my qu question estion he says pays abere ought to behe ba in our tate state cl ecal bostoni By ant ait unless the slate tikes steps to atop the corruption at the polls j condition of affairs will be produced to which the rebellion will not be a circumstance it is a the pharisees Pharis ees who are doing thie it is is men of prominence pad and respectability alo raise large sums earns or of money knowing the use aee they will be put pat to men who deal openly gu eul I 1 in corrupt tan lAn one day and go to church re the next itis it is these men who bring disgrace the state you may JURY convict a hundred yes yea even a thousand obscure voters for bribery but the effect upon a community would be as nothing compared to that would follow the convis tiou of one prominent 11 roan man in the state of india indiana us there are at election times votes for sale gale is ia open market it is ia hi n reference to ehte that judge gresham made the above remarks ii I 1 it any wonder the order of white caps flourishes in that state i Is I 1 it any gotmer that wp we bar hare 9 anarchists and rioters in IHl lili nois in national politics the situation to is not at ail reassuring here is IB what 1 BAYS odthe A southern question the race question at the south remains rem auit aa it has baa a always ways been beau and for the next generation rt at leat least it will continue to be the most important and formidable in our po 1 i bics ticu the change from slavery to freed freedom ra 0 1 from subordination to legal equality has complicated instead of simplified the situation so far fair from solving the fatal problem it has added new elements of difficulty aua and danger unless history is a false teacher it is not possible for two distinct races not homogeneous omogene ous that is which cannot assimilate ate by intermarriage and the mingling of blood oad to 0 o exist cupoli terms of practical political equality under the sause same government one ne or the other must go to the wall the time will come when the ne groos aware of their strength and number swill insist upon their equality under the law and then there will be a crisis winch which way may become a cabag batas 11 then there is the split in the G A K R and the split in the of labor the news from europe Is ia such that railroad stocks are very inactive Is in deed should trouble arise there holders of american securities would have financial excitement enough at home and the result would be for america a glutted wall street labor troubles tiou bles are by no means over the incoming administration will be one based on the idea of a strong centralized 1 and I supported by a following which believes in a solid imperialism the labor at or riots of ef the future fatute will not be left jett to pinkerton and capt foley the southern quest question iob must be approached pro ached in some way the administration of benjamin benamin harrison Harrt son promises to be topmost toe most eventful in american history possibly one which will inaugurate a new era in the political and social life of the united states in the meanwhile id fa WHAT IS UTAH DOING all this time are her children falling into the ways of the heathen an pub liean with their eyes open cant they read the signs of the times are the meeting houses bouses tabernacles and temples left to the women and a solitary m ml s I 1 A exhorter as chur churchea cheb are the latter day saints sainte lowing the sacred literature of their religion to lie idle on the shelves to be eaten with moth and dust now la is the time tor for them to realize that their earthly mission has just commenced now it is that the their ze ie dizion begins to take material form now it t is that the sc accomplishment of their grand ideal is at hand in the midst of all this chaos both in the old and pew new worlds on the children of utah alone depends the perpetuation of modern civilization and the conservatism of law order and religion yes men of utah now is your time come celorier together live your baur rh religion chirion irion educate your children leave no BO corner in your household or to in your heart for the anarchist and alleged christian spurn the booms of the shark adventurer the enterprise of the financial in lunatic itic the ethics of the rum seller and the religion of the mercenary hypocrite who calls himself christian missionary by doing this ibis in the page of history yours will be the most moat heroic chapter in the roll of song yours the most sub sublime linie epic and to in the firmament of religion yours the coronal star the brilliant venus of heavens galaxy |
