Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER at this late date to refer to the year that is passed seems like trespassing tres passing on the domain of the antiquarian however this may be the year will prove a memorable one in the annals of american history it will not be called the year of the long congress though this term might with propriety be applied lied to it the first session of the e fiftieth congress lasted days the president of the united states appended his signature to over 1100 public and private measures and bills he vetoed some others in all this mass of legislation only two bills were hafez passed worthy of being classed under the head of national statesmanship these bills are that for the establishment of a department of agriculture and that providing for a conference of american nations at washington next autumn to the people of utah these are measures of great I 1 moment agriculture is the basis is of their industrial economy and it is hoped that it will continue so in the future as it has in the past americanism is the basis of their social and political framework not an americanism confined to a cabbage garden jn in new england nor to a sugar patch in the south nor to a corn belt in the west but tut an americanism which embraces the whole continent from alaska to patagonia and from long island to the golden gate this americanism is not built on a murchison letter nor on a whisky trust neither is it built on class privileges nor on discriminated in us tries nor on politically favored socially fashionable religions it is an americanism based on the constitution of the united states which is regarded as a sacred document and on the lives and writings of the fathers of the republic re I 1 am sure it to is the wish olevery of every honest citizen and agriculturist in utah that this americanism may ma ultimately overspread this broad bro land our public schools are not giving the study of the american continent the attention it deserves you can find a pupil who will tell you all about russia and ger many but cant cantwell tell whether mexico is a republic or a monarchy and who thinks patagonia is a facetious synonym for ireland this is not the americanism utah practices nor does she desire it america first the world after this is Uta hism concerning the presidential vetoes of last year the question might with reason be asked were there too many of th them mr blaine says 1 1 there were but the reasons for his saying so sound rather strange to an american among these reasons mr blaine said the veto power was not exercised by the sovereigns of england only a few times since the accession of william of orange did mr blaine imply by this that all the legislation enacted by the british parliament during all this time was so just so equitable and so christian like fike that it did not need to be vetoed no other construction 4 can be placed on his utterances let me ask mr lannan of salt t TWI lake city or mr west see tuu adges salt lake city formerly of Xen kentucky tucky as to the correctness of mr air blaines justification of innocuous desuetude in the royal veto of britain both these gentlemen are now in washington working against autonomy autonom for utah working against that Th at which whiz that glorious old man W E gladstone is trying to obtain for the mother country mephistopheles laugh laugh heartily at pat lannan a victim of the infamous penal code which was enacted within the period briod of british history mentioned gy by mr blaine and which was so just as not to require a royal veto yes laugh at mr patrick lannan terly formerly butcher of Con now in washington before a congressional committee making makin a plea pies against autonomy autonom for utah UM oh spirit of edmund burke if thou hast cognizance of earthly matters feel not aggrieved because this creature lannan is a native of ireland remember that the sweet little isle grows weeds as well as shamrocks sham rocks and that even in this land there are other patricks who uphold religious and political equal ityl the penal code had a vicious perfection it was a complete system full of coherence and consi consistency consistent stene well digested and well disposed in in all its parts it was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance and as well fitted for the oppression impoverishment and degradation of a people and the debasement in them of human nature itself as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man I this is edmund Is characterization of the infamous code which according to mr blaine did not receive a royal veto it was the code established for the government of mr hannans Lan nana nans grandfather it is the code which mr lannan now wants to impose on his fellow citi zens of utah can such a man possess reason has such a man a heart if he has religion rel ion he stands on it he arar tramples aples it ite he disgraces it As to the other co laborers of mr lannan we cant well blame them poor blind wretches forgive them they know not what they do As to the governor of utah who is now in washington for the purpose of defeating statehood what can be said of him I 1 must admit that in caiti bising these people one is engaged in a very delicate matter and the very criticisms thus uttered are taken up and construed as aa treasonable acts against ag ainest the government of the united states but as a certain favorite book of mine says wherefore the things which are pleasing 4 unto the world I 1 do not write but the he thin things which are pleasing unto od tru truth h and unto those who are ot t of the t e world it is my idea that truth should be spoken no matter what the result may be herbert spencer says chot not as adventitious will the wise man regard the faith which is in him the highest truth 1 he te sees he will fearlessly utter knowing that let what may come of it he is thus playing his right part in the world knowing that if he can effect the hange he alms aims at well if not well also though not so well here ligion on and secularism agree but eh perhaps adla s the saying of grover cleveland u is more forcible than either because of its innate energy and aphoristic bluntness it is tell the truth and shame the devil IJ this is the only course to be adopted with regard to those who are forging chains for utah we are living vi near the last dec adelof the century ury and if truth is to be covered d today then alas for humanity if chains are to be forged for our religion on the evidence of kate field beld the california wine trust d drummer amer or bummer if you w will on the e evidence of a dys dyspeptic ic preacher like lamb or of a pig sticking journalist like lannan then woe for religion in americal it is only a few weeks since a P circular was published in the chiago ago papers purporting pur to come com from the liberal party of of utah protesting against statehood for utah this circular was signed 0 W powers f can this be the person wb who went as associate judge to utah from michigan and held the place a few months just long enough to make a long eared animal of himself and a farce of the judiciary of the united states it would be supposed that when this man was shorn of his ermine he would return to michigan where it is presumed he had a home no he remains demaid in utah mah his worldly possessions a glit tongue a box of paper collars and a pencil an ani I 1 dictates to the national congress VOn gress at washington what to do with utah we are told this fellow IS w a 4 democrat and if he be is criticised criticized in jn a utah journal it will be said that utah mah has no politics yes demots brats of this stamp have trailed democracy in the mire during the last campaign in this city a very heated argument was carried on for a few weeks between two sections of the irish citizens one section held that the democrat jc w party was the champion of aolis equality and of political equity the platform of 1856 was cited it contains ins a plank on religious toleration on james buchanann Buchanan Bucha nans ls letter of acceptance was quoted it contains a gragra paragraph h statin stating 9 that when any religion I 1 gion in n this country would be discriminated against would be a bad day for america all ajl this was der stood to apply to the know nothing excitement which aimed at tae political disfranchisement of IrI irishmen in reply to this john finerty Fl nerty ex congressman admitted everything SO 80 fir ar but completely showed the hypocrisy and hollowness of the hanan nan party by relating the affair of the expedition against utah that the plank and letter were shallow subterfuges to gull irish votes that when this platform was written know was completely betel killed that republicanism ead had started started because of the odiousness of the old anti irish party the hon john quoted from one of governor bests messages in which it was stated that a united states army marched against utah the hon john added A few months afterwards the commander of that army was marching against the flag of his own country the result was that john succeeded in removing the sentimental attachment to democracy in the breasts of a great many irishmen john is now one of the pillars of republicanism in chicago and has a position worth a year he maintains that his party is the champion of religious freedom and of political equality last summer a gentleman named samuel rockwell Boe kwell reed traveled in utah as correspondent of the cincinnati gawek isette he wrote some very good letters about utah and said some very severe things but admitted that there was no justification fi at all for the religious persecution se and that there was not another country or legislature in the civilized world but ours that would make mere belief a statutory crime accompanied by disfranchisement and jury discrimination as in utah I 1 cannot find the clipping from his letter at present aut but at some future time I 1 may be able to give it I 1 must confess it is incomprehensible to me how senator edmunds should originate a code of legislation which he knows must be disgraceful to his country can he not see the hung hungry lawyers already yelping over chu church rc property like wolves over a dead buffalo can he not see that he has established a precedent for anarchists ts and socialists with regard to all property ah but there is that polygamy bugaboo wen polygamy can only be lecog recognized i zed as a police governed affair and in no sense a I 1 justification for confiscating property 7 or franchising disfranchising dis whole communities there are mysteries in psychology as well as in in religion I 1 can account for senator edmunds and his bis penal code only on the same grounds on which his grandfather enacted codes to burn witches it is generally supposed that witches were executed without due process of law it is no such thing the trial had aalthe all the characteristics of a modern trial there we were judge jury and witnesses there was statute law as leckey says some of the test lawyers and judges of the time conducted and investigated witch trials invariably ending with cremation or drowning A respectable clergyman swore that he saw moll moh flanders enter a copse dressed in old clothes and saw her issue forth a ravenous wolf and proceed at once to devour flocks of sheep this evidence was corroborated by a respectable farmer probably the grandfather of senator edmunds or of judge baskin and ot of course poor mon moll flanders was executed in due form there was betty coyne charged with riding on a broom handle from boston to new york making the trip in a few moments the affair was clearly proved by the evidence of three clergymen and ten farmers and six merchants one thing is certain some of the witnesses belonged to the lannan family this family had something else to do at the time dodging as shamus 09 01 brien says the peelers feelers by day and the martial law sergeants by night but it is more than probable that the B Bask as kin inand and bennett f family amily gave strong evi evidence delice as to this broomstick equestrianism Anyhow poor betty coyne was tied hand and foot and because she could not swim was drowned by due process of law and yet wesley founder of methodism defended this business right to the day of his death even martin luther said he would burn burn every witch in the country calvin remodeled all the geneva la ws except that against witches S suppose ose a broomstick broom stick rider turn turned up in chicago today would we wait to hear the ermence Mence ev why the very absurdity of even entertaining a thought about evidence in such a thing would crush the matter out of sight bill nye and mark twain may find some funny things to say on the relative merits of electricity tri city steam and broom handles in locomotion co motion or in rapid transit trans but that is all there would be of it in the evidence now being taken in washington against utah is there anything more sensible than that given by our grandfathers against witches I 1 must modify that word out our thank heaven none of our grandfathers ever testified against a witch nor helped to burn bum her I 1 meant the granda grandfathers athers of senator edmunds and judge baskin in one respect pat lannan and I 1 are equal our grandfathers never burned a witch and our grandmothers never rode a broomstick but on the question of utah we are very wide apart jan |