Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER in the first paragraph of his book on caesar mr froude says if there be one lesson which history clearly teaches it is this tb that at free nations cannot govern subject provinces if they are unwilling or unable to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution the constitution itself will fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its ts duties in this mr froude only echoes the judgment of all historical scholars ano and especially so of those scholars who have made a close study of roman boman history and who have traced the steps b by which a great and powerful republic became a military empire and finally a corrupt and bloated oligarchy of the united states as a nation utah is a dependency in fact it might safely be said she is a satrapy no subject province of ancient rome was ever ruled with greater rigor by the rapacious arm of a verres or a scylla than is utah today u under the g government overn ment of the united states the worst in a roman province was spoliation and disfranchisement and are not both these crimes practised practiced in utah with the connivance of our senate in washington our senators and our statesmen have dragged down the constitution to gratify the yells of a few conscienceless vagrants in utah the property of a church has been openly violently and unlawfully confiscated if it is lawful to do this in utah it must be equally so in chicago and the cry is raised in chicago that the ministers must give lve up the churches to the people tere here is an editorial from the chicago tribune on this matter PUBLIC PROPERTY AND SOCIALIST propaganda the suggestion made the other night at a socialist meeting that the churches and schoolhouses be used to hold socialist meetings in is one worthy of the audacity of the teachers of this foolish fanaticism so far as the churches axe are concerned each congregation will act for itself it is said said that one at least of tho the city ministers is willing to place his building at their service but the consent of his congregation is not likely to be so easily obtained his desire that the application for all the churches shall be formally made so as to put other ministers on record ought to be gratified ministers have time to read their knowledge of the number of socialist experiments that have been made since the world began and have foiled failed in every instance no matter how favo favorable everle ab the conditions will enable them to give ve S prompt and explicit reply C to the application the schoolhouses are public property it is true as one of the advocates of socialism said that they are not in use in the evening concept in the few cases where evening bools schools are taught in them nevertheless the th eless ess they cannot be granted f for 6 any such purpose as is here proposed ro even if the majority 0 citizens at whose expense th these buildings are sustained and wom wet erected were advocates advocat om of socialism it would still be a clear infringement of public rights to devote the school buildings to any but the specific uses for which they are legally designed if a majority of tho the board of education should favor the lease of them it is certain that enough good sense would remain in the community to enjoin that body from a course clearly at var variance laVoe with public policy and it is ably certain that the courts w woul uld protect the school buildings for the ix exclusive elusive benefit of the school dw t dren 11 churches and all ec ecclesiastical property r property are here exempt from t tax ra sion on they are granted municipal A privileges that only purely publio property is entitled to free water free roads free police and many mady other such favors are amon among the tb political blessings be bestowed stowel on oil churches and church properly the preachers rea chers of these church 00 raised a cry against utah and with the operation cooperation co of a well organ izad clique of spoils spoil men emen and politician in in utah succeeded in driving ft stage coach through the constitution of the united states now to the cry is raised here against 00 to churches of these political preachers and in no uncertain accents w is 3 the he demand formulated one ODO speaker says we must these churches and use them for the W education of the masses toe the man who makes this demand 10 dubbed a socialist and a fanatic by bj dr goodwin but is he really sal worse thin than senator edmunds of 0 senator cullom of illinois not a whit if the constitution the confiscation of the taberna Taber ole or temple in salt lake it must naus WRO so permit that of trinity church in new york in the eyes of the tow law all religions are equal there U A nothing in the book of mormon inore supernatural than there is in the he old or new testaments cu rhorah is no more mysterious than te IN sinai when the italian provinces of the old republic began to ask for the ponlan anian franchise how was the de mand nd received at rome very simply the senate and mob joined in passing wing a law making the very 4 citation tion of the extension of the anChise anch lse a death offense it is true IL few farsighted far sighted statesmen in rome W lt the necessity of doing justice to the roe provinces but the fate of poor wis gracchus who had lost his life ie in the cause taught these men to w act with caution today utah applies aplies for the american franchise but rt because the mormon church a few thousand scraggy sheep on the slopes of utah and a pile of aimo me and granite in salt lake the great nation of the united states was wag likely to be over awed by the wealthy cM mormon ormon church what absurdity to be surel salt lake aft va going to swallow up washing wa new ew york and chicago and POT t st louis and new orleans in ws pistol pocket of its pantaloons this church property is a big thing ng but mr baskin bashin has not got w it all there is an old hat fiat of 01 president sin in brigham youngs youngkin Young a naum here it is church property why not demand it there are w some sheep pelts church prop toy vin in a shanty in arizona why aget lot get these the united states vill ul fall unless all the mormon property is securely con ei e i by baskin west et al when ahen li undertook to plead awad the cause of the italian brov ces at rome borne both senate and mob ob denounced him he was murdered in his own house by that ob who wanted all the s spoils of the provinces and the murder was con at by the senate also from sel uh motives the he C condition Dondi tion of the roman boman re iwic was not much different at y time of livius drusus brasus to that of our own republic at the present ahne se when dougherty of florida the washington congress asked for allt autonomy Onomy for utah he was not ordered it is true but he was signed a at t by the solons of our the member who laughed at duct ug herty is in spirit almost as a 4 murderer as the greasy boere gaa thug ug who murdered drusus gerela it a paragraph from froude Is e ve appropriate at the present political convulsions work in a bov the direction of which varies i atio in ill any age or country insel elrae once sufficient and salu salutary daae to a change of stances ces the holders thi th 88 of power see their interests aed ned they are jealous of in oriS the they look on agitators aart orm as felonious persons debein F 1 64 ug to w appropriate what does not 0 to them iem the complaining abare anare are conscious of suffering arld os AM blindly on the superficial of their immediate distress the existing authority is their enemy ani their one remedy is a change in the system of government they imagine that they see what the change should be that they comprehend what they are doing and know where they intend to arrive they do not perceive that the visible disorders are no more than symptoms which no measures repressive or revolutionary revolution axy can do more than palliate the wave advances and the wave recedes neither party in the st struggle can lift itself far enough at above V the he passions of the moment to study the arons drift aft of the general current each Is violent each is one sided and each makes the most and the worst of the sins of its opponents the one idea of the aggressors is to grasp all that they can reach the one idea of the conservatives serva tives is to part with nothing pretending that the stability of the state depends on adherence to the principles which have placed them in the position which they hold and as various interests are threatened and as various necessities arise those who are one day enemies are frightened the next into unnatural coalitions and the next after into more embittered dissensions this is a critical period in the history of our country and if the lessons which history teaches are of any avail statesmen should profit by them at the present time if senator cullom of illinois or senator edmunds of vermont disregard the laws and constitution of their country how can we blame paul grottkau or mrs parsons of chicago for being anarchists if the congress of the united states sanctions the confiscation of a salt lake church how can we blame poor petty miserable baskin if he endeavors to get a church frying yan pan that was concealed from the myrmidons of the edmunds tucker law the aggressiveness af pf the senate is peculiarly prominent r 0 eminent just now and is strongly ngay suggestive of old old rome borne just on the point of losing her liberties here is what a dispatch from washington says here comes the most important im committee of the house of representatives senta tives arraigning the senate fos fo its alleged violation of the constitution in originating a revenue bill and starting anew the old discussion of the senators senates growing importance and aggrandizement probably there never was a time fn an this country when the senate displayed greater eagerness for power and manipulation than it is displaying at the present time senators are learning more and more to feel themselves above the commons they are ex exerting elting to the utmost all the prerogatives prerogative a placed in that body b by the constitution they virtually took out of the presidents hands the fisheries dispute they rejected the extradition treaty their foreign relations committee is becoming so aggressive that its ita chairman is almost an auxiliary secretary of state they build a tariff bill of their own under the guise of a substitute for a house bill and cause the question of constitutionality tiona lity to be dire directly etly raised more than all this the senators are looking forward to a revival of the power which in other days made of an administration senator a political autocrat there has been of late a remarkable display of senatorial affection for the senatorial seat not one republican senator to Is willing to leave his post to go into the cabinet it is a common saying baying in washington that the senators are in love with themselves and in looking ahead they foresee in gen harrison who was himself a senator a revival of that so called senatorial courtesy which leads the executive to make the senators of his party guardians of the patronage distribution in their states gen harrison has intimated to several of his callers that it was his intention to lend a willing ear to the senatorial recommendation there was no greater stickler for the senatorial proprieties in all official and personal relations than senator harrison and while it is not expected he will as president fully revive the system which made conkling master of new york and other senators dictators in their states certain it is that the place hunters who cannot secure senatorial endorsement will have but a poor chance of securing a prize every cabinet place except the state department is likely to shrink in importance i arta n ce under the coal coming ng adain admin administration by virtue of the enlarged influence of the senate utah has a duty to perform in the present crisis she must raise herself above all petty strafes and party intrigues she must study the questions of the hour calmly complacently and philosophy philo philosophically sophi call no matter if spoliation and disfranchisement kran chi stare her in the face she must still uphold the integrity of the constitution and if the united states tramples on its own instrument then should utah citizens nail the document to the doors of the temple and let mr west be guilty of double sacrilege when he be comes to take poss possession ess ion yes when he comes but we must not calculate ahead we made everything ready here to build an ice palace this winter but we got no frost to make ice so our palace has become a castle in spain CHICAGO feb |