| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER the cry of the newsboy that another terrible railroad accident has taken place is becoming so familiar lately that it occasions little surprise but chicago was started this morning by the cry simply because the railroad accident happened within its limits six persons are reported killed and several badly injured As the details of the disaster become known the wonder is how there were not hundreds killed edison park is a suburban recreation resort tie the lutheran orphan asylum Is id located there sunday last was the anniversary of its opening and the day was celebrated by an excursion from the city sixty seven carloads of people were carried there by the illinois central in four separate trains the road to the park is used by two dif different roads the chicago burlington quincy and the illinois central all passed off well at the park but in the evening the accident occurred on the return the excursion trains on the illinois central were returning home about pm rhe fhe last of these trains was delayed somewhat on the ways way and an express train of the C B Q ran into it demolishing and telescoping four of the rear cars on the train these cars were crowded with people and the wonder is how only so few were killed of course there is the usual talk about buch things one man blames the next and the general public finally knows nothing but that so many persons have been killed or injured and that some section boss or track laborer or decrepit decre pid flagman working for 90 cents a day was to blame there is also a report of an accident on the B 0 which resulted in the death of one and the injury of several others the wreck at shoemakersville Shoemakers raville ville pa is still fresh in peoples peopled minds there it was a regular juggernaut sacrifice now the question t ion is what causes all these accidents ants surely it cant all be owing to defective management or the inefficiency of employed emp loyes nor can it be attributed to wilful carelessness less inasmuch as the railroad men themselves are concerned religious people may say it is a j judgment from heaven because of sabbath desecration there may be something in this because most of these sad accidents happen on sundays but there is another cause that should be inquired lato into and that is whisky the custom is now general to travel armed with huge F bottles of whisky travelers pass X these bottles to railroad hands and a drunken trainman is not at all a novelty on sunday evenings F the early hours of sunday morning were celebrated by other acts than those of chanting monks or hysteric nuns at matins the celebration took place in McGar MeGa igles saloon mac has an lilter international national reputation it was he who escaped from the bath tub here some time ago ani and got safely across to canada mac was one of Chi chicago cagos famous bood lers but never went to the penitentiary his mends friends compromised with the authorities here and mac is now running a fashionable which has haa special privileges such as police protection sheriff protection and permission to keep open night and day sunday and holiday this saloon is patronized by such well known gentlemen as bad jimmy connorton and bull haggarty both statesmen and journalists of local repute connorton is a writer on the staff of a paper called democratic siftings jUngs Si this paper employed connorton to obtain information about gamblers and saloon keepers and politicians and write them up before publishing the matter it was shown to the party and a price demanded for its suppression it appears that the price of suppression usually cost the gamblers got firem of paying connorton for his silence they hired bull haggerty to settle with jimmy when he would come around to collect jimmy did come to collect a little bill at one place where bull haggerty was awaiting him jimmy received a scientific slugging which hurt his body and his honor too A few days after both met at me garigues Ga saloon and pulled their shooting irons and fought like kentucky colonels both are alive still though the general public hat both may die it is not always that such characters fall by mutual slaughter yet these are the kind of men who are petted and courted by senators and congressmen theae are the men who make and remake mayors aud and governors haggerty is also known as doctor owing to his dignified appearance he wears side whiskers and presents a much more imposing appearance than chaucey depew he was employed here a short time ago by a street railroad corporation as a jury firer and right well he did his work he saved for his company a good deal of money the president of said corporation is a well known churchman but when the matter of his connection with haggerty became known he had the sensitiveness to swoon away in a police court there is not in the united states today a corporation which has been more soundly abused by newspapers than the standard Com company ane name of this corporation served as a synonym for political corruption commercial crookedness and business john D of cleveland 0 is at the head of the standard oil company he has surprised the newspaper in in fact surprised is too mild a word and paralyzed would be more express ve by his munificence the baptists baptista had a university here a few years ago it sickened and died they made an attempt to reestablish establish re it about a year since but baptists though willing enough to contribute for education in utah had no m ney for chicago th then e n john D Bock feller con contributed tribu te d provided the sect would raise raie more in order to gain the gift baptist preachers and newspapers worked hard and finally succeeded in raising the the university had then a round million to start on in iii cash marshall field the shopkeeper prince next presented the university with a site worth this site is on the midway plaisance between jackson and douglas parks the most fashionable locality of chicago A few weaks weeks since J jno no D rockefeller came forward again and this time endowed the university with a full million with this endowment borne bome conditions are attached the phe profits from are to be used for education in the liberal arts the profits from for theological instruction and the profits from for the erection and maintain ance of a divinity school building john it is seen don dont donit it believe in an exclusively baptist training for americans the evening journal of this city speaking of the gift says I 1 the I 1 he fact that mr Rock fellers immense wealth has been secured mainly through the operations of the unpopular standard on monopoly seems to out cut no figure in the case for is is there any good reason why it should in accepting the money coming from questionable operations in oil the denomination does not necessarily pass upon the moral quality of the transactions brough through which the wealth was acquired of course not what do the recipients care if the money were obtained by sandbagging sand bagging money is money honor and shame from iio no condition rise get what you mn can there all the honor lies the baptist church of chicago now horn born a second time starts out with in cash and property if wealth can do it were there is a glorious future for the baptist university men of wealth begin to realize that bonds and stocks are not the safeguards of a nations liberty or greatness they begin to believe in the preacher and schoolmaster hitherto pinkerton Pin kerten was looked to as the protector of wealth and property but the fact begins to show itself that pinkerton is but a very small potato in the protecting line it is to be hoped that other millionaires will follow in the footsteps of mr rockefeller the pullman family of chicago possess wealth untold but no ena endowments dow ments have yet been conferred on educational instalments installments however the pullmans are coming to the front in a light just as laudable if not more so than did mr rockefeller the rev royal H pullman brother of the sleeping car potentate 0 dentate ten tate is a candidate for congress pr from a district in maryland he was asked if he had any scruples about mixing church and state and his reply is terse and lucid he says some people have expressed surprise that 1 I as a Oh christian ristian minister accepted the nomination for congress but I 1 feel that the best american politics is religion in harness and when I 1 accept the nomination I 1 put out harness on my religion in the political icat field I 1 am simply earring out what as a christian minister I 1 have always preached I 1 do not feel that I 1 have stepped down clown from the pulpit in any possible sense but that I 1 have stepped from theory to practice I 1 believe that high and patriotic and moral sentiments are needed to elevate politics from the degradation into which it has fallen through selfish and de signing men who seek personal prefer ment rather than their count rys good and that one of the saddest conditions of our american life is that so many people disgusted with politic shave refused to engage I 1 m any hearty and noble way in the government of their country are not these noble worlds and if carried into practice are they not worth millions in cold coin if religion can ever achieve anything it must come to thia at last one honest man in public life can do a great deal but the question is will he he be sent to congress secretary rusk of the agricultural department visited chicago a day or two since during his sojourn he expressed himself on the great topic of the hour the tariff bill he said the t tariff on eggs was not a matter to be laughed at as many have done he says distinctly that the poultry industry of this country is worth more than the silver industry and ought to be protected he says bays that 44 per cent of the people in this country are engaged in agriculture re and are as much entitled to protection as any other class he says kansas is the worst off of the farming states because they attend too much to cereals one year there is a good crop and the next nothing kansas was settled by poor people who never could get ahe id the rhe Sacre secretary tary repe repeat atel ei what he said to t e farmers at the columbus 0 state fair a week ago 1 I told them said he better se cire their political demands from the two old political parties and not try to start another one L t dont think that would be a success eno cess no honestly I 1 dont think the alliance is going to hurt the republican party any more than the democratic there is a antion n tion that the farmers are all turning free traders dont you believe it it is the depression in agriculture that is worrying them they know that some things the matter and they want to find out what farming pay as it used to during the war and right aft erthe war but then it depressed aa a it was in the antebellum ante bellum times tle the farmin farming b business a a in es has been rather overdone lately or rather it been diversified enough we export wheat and corn but we import bushels of barley a year we can grow barley as well as canada anada and when the new tariff bill goes into effect well keep all that bar ley out ot now kow we import potatoes too and we ought to grow all our own potatoes the worlds fair site is settled at last chicago now breathes more freely the site is a triangular one it comprises the lake front washington park and jackson park the whole making over 1000 acres of ground the national commission the local board of directors and the press are all lo 10 itis fied the work of building and classifying exhibits and so on will now commence in earnest whether the people are satisfied or not cannot at present be deler it will be known next november when it comes to voting for towards the pair fair some people think that the lake front park will be abandoned after november to do so now would imperil the raising of the money as it would open up all the old sectional enmity against jackson park but if abandoned after the money is raised then the people will be convinced that the fair is a fraud discouraging news from europe con concerning the fair is arriving over there the fair is regarded as a grand confidence gune girne to fleece visitors new york merchants are charged with spreading reports in europe that th jt the tha fair FAiris is already a failure that it is a grand swindle that europeans will regret sending exhibits to chicago a barbarous city where the police are thugs and the mayor and common council in the pay of gamblers saloon keepers and brothel holders the fact is there is no necessity to charge new york with all this AlIthe all the Chica chicago papers except the rera herald id and G gawe state emphatically that the mayor awl and council are bought over by gamblers these papers also state that chrt the chicago police are a set of brutal savages and selected from the jimmy connorton and dr haggerty type of politician the chicago aune some ti time rue alzo ago stated that owing to the mckinley bill europeans would not exhibit here it very pertinently asked what the use would be to exhibit goods in a country where one could not sell them the tariff now is or soon will be prohibitory and a manufacturer will not doi incur a vast expense to exhibit here when he knows he can cantwell cant itsell sell at a profit at a dog show one can exhibit and not lose much if a sale is not made Anyhow dogs ardmore are more for ornament and for the distinction conferred on the owner of a dear little prize poodle but with a steam plow it is different th the owner of the latter does not want it for an ornament or for distinction he wants to sell it and like it with the mckinley bill this can cant it be done but then why kifft because europe wont patronize our fair we can get along without europe and the farther we keep away from european manners methods aul institutions the nearer cewill we will be to george washington and thomas jefferson JUNIUS CHICAGO sept 20 1890 |
