Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER A few moments ago while glancing over the pages a gee of tul lidge adges s history of bayt salt lake city my eye rested on a sketch of the history of the salt lake tribune this sketch suggested a train of thought which for the moment completely took possession of my whole soul SOU 1 1 I note that after a cheque red existence of some fourteen years the tribune at last hill fell into the hands of mr patrick H lannan under whom it became a success both financially and politically the historian does not say whether this success to is attributed to superior business talents on the part of mr lannan or to a change in the en of the tribune one of the charges most frequently preferred against irishmen is that they are absolutely u a fitted for any kind of business except that of saloon keeping or of manipulating ward politics here is a most emphatic contradiction to this charge mr lannan a pure pur e type of the aboriginal irishman has made a success of a j journalistic enterprise in which englishmen scotchman Scotch men meu and americans america i is failed it may be urged that the gentile journalism of utah is beneath the standard of legitimate newspaper morality mi and that is why the superior intellects of and sawyer failed in what lan nan made a success if that to is so a hickory conscience and a petrified soul has ham more to do with journalistic success than an educated mind a com comprehensive intellect and an exalted altet morality but it is not with this special province of journalism that I 1 wish to deal from mr lannan the mind naturally turns to mr mor rison of arizona this latter gentleman it appears is also a success but in that special line for which critics say may he is adapted politics politic 8 to make the triangle another name conuis comes to mind that of mr lynch foreman cf the grand inquisition which indicted a dead bishop for whistling down went mcginty to the bottom of the sea mr lynch may not be a native of ireland but you may as well try to disassociate the moors of Con from the geog geography rap by of ireland as to disconnect the name of lynch from irish history I 1 in u fact it was a mayor of galway of that name who gave us the well known phrase lynch law it is true there is a very prominent gentleman in the south named Lynch but his color is too pronounced to be of celtic origin though his heart may be whiter than that of his namesake dont think for a minute that I 1 am about to enter into the chea cheap wit and stale satire usually indulges indulged in about natives of ireland dont think that I 1 am one of those who gloat over the faults errors and misfortunes of irishmen ou the contrary I 1 am one of 0 the few that believe the very name of ireland sacred and that if she had her proper meed she would indeed he be the first gem of the sea that grand high priest of poetry lord byron said of one of Ir elands Ireland 28 sons the great sheridan when the lond cry of trampled Hind hindustan hindostan arose to heaven in her appeal to man his was the thunder his the avenging rod the writh wrath the delegated voice of god which shook the nations through his bis lips and blazed tiu till vanquished senators trembled as they praised it was another of Ir elands elandIs sons the glorious henry grattan who uttered in an invective against flood the following words with regard to the liberties of ameri ca which were inso inseparable parable from ours I 1 will suppose th a gentleman to lo have ben be n an enemy decided and unreserved that he voted against her liberty and voted moreover for an address to send irish troops to cut the throats of the americans that lie he has called these butchers armed negotiators and stood with a mets meta chor in his mouth and a bribe in his pocket a champion against the ri rights MIS 0 of america the only hope of ireland ireland and the only refuge of the liberties of mankind flood wasa irishman who as a british legislator accepted bribes to help to son d a an n army of his countrymen to fight against george washington mr r grattan was not slow in characterizing the viper flood in the proper manner and remember at this time years ago to say a word in england favorable to america was about equal in our time to raise a voice in favor of fairplay fair play for the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 yes itaman it was an irishman who proclaimed in the teeth of british tories that america was the only refuge of the liberties of mankind and the only hope of unfortunate ireland to the honor of Ir elands met men of genius we invariably find them on the right side always fighting against tyranny and oppression unfortunately we find fidd too many of Ir elands sous sons on the wrong F ide side but they are the offal of the irish irl h race every man in the irish police force is a native irishman and instances have been frequent where they shot down their own relatives and kinsmen for the palt paltry ry two shillings a day given by the british government the two most despicable characters in great britain today are two genk genuine tine roman catholic irishmen the one is captain the other peter obrien recently appointed lord chief justice of ireland by balfour because he packed juries to convict Gladston ites the last gentleman is known know a as peter the packer from his dexterity in pack ing juries As to the other the english language has no word forcible en enough on gh to define his baseness I 1 know of but one olae word in any language to fit him anti and that to is in the mexican spanish garrone rone I As we have seen that ireland embraces all shades of humanity frow fronc the lowest to the highest how is it that in the minds of english and indeed american writers the average ag e I 1 irishman man is invariably associated wi with th all that is vile and wicked in humanity this is very easily accounted for it was first started by a gang of unscrupulous preachers and politicians who wanted to make ireland a farm for theia cheh own benefit and sent the most dreadful accounts of the country across to england it soon became common in england that no DO law was too severe for I 1 ireland re and englishmen honestly believed that ireland was savage an englishman who took it into his head bead to investigate for himself actually crossed the channel to see ireland the result of his experiences he embodied in a little poem and placed it before his own countrymen for the edification of the triangle lynch dannau and morrison I 1 cheerfully submit the saxons poem it is entitled the native irishman here it is lefors I 1 came across the sea to this delightful place I 1 thought the native irish were A tunny funny sort ort of rs race I 1 thought they bore shillelagh sprigs and that they always said och hone tare an auns ani and bedall bed adl I 1 I 1 thought they sported crownless hats with dhu deens in the rim am I 1 thought they wore long trailing coats and knickerbockers trim I 1 thought they went about the place As an tight as they could get get and that they always hi had a fight with everyone they met I 1 thought their noses all turned up just like a crooked pin I 1 thought their mouths six aix inches wide and always on the win grin I 1 thought their heads were made of stuff As hard as any nails I 1 half suspected that they were possessed of little tails 0 0 0 but when I 1 came unto the land of which I 1 heard so much I 1 found that the inhabitants were not entirely such I 1 found their features were not all exactly like baboons babions ba boons I 1 found that some wore billy cocks and some had pantaloons I 1 found their teeth were quite as smell small As euro europeans eans are and that their their ears in point of size were not deoul lar I 1 even saw a face or two which might be handsome called and by their very largest feet I 1 was not much appalled I 1 found them sober now and then and even in the th street estreet it seems they do not have a fight with evry boy they meet I 1 even found some honest men among the ve very poor ra and I 1 have he heard some sentences sentence which did not end with 11 11 it seems that craties in their skins are not their only food I 1 and that they have a house or two which is not built of mud in fact not all brutes or fools and I 1 suspect that when they rule themselves be as good almost as englishmen I 1 i this to is an actual experience the poem was recently published in a chicago journal for which mr morrison of now new mexico once corresponded this englishman went to ireland firmly believing that he would find mr morrisons Morri eone sons grandfather decorated with a tail he also thought to find mr hannans Lan nans progenitor a facsimile fac fao simile of an aurang rang boutang the mayor lynch of galway was supposed to be minus pantaloons adorned with a tip tilted nose graced with a mouth from ear to ear and with teeth like the tusk of a wild boar no such thing the englishman found the lynches the lannann Lan nans naus and Morri aona much the same as the reef aest of humanity all tae world over ever ohl oh shades of sheridan burke and grattan if from your sesta in the heavens tonight you can behold what is transpiring in america the country you so gallantly upheld in the face of royalty treachery and knavery inspire with your heavenly spirit some earthly form to proclaim and denounce the vilene sethe meanness and depravity of a few of your countrymen in an utah who are engaged in honest men and virtuous women an aa did the carpet of ireland one hundred years ago inspire with your sacred soul sonae some american amark an orator to denounce noun ce the system of spoliation misrepresentation and political disfranchisement now going on in the great republic of wash washington i ton J jefferson efferson and adams chicago chloa CuI cAgo eo jan 14 1890 |