Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER to the majority of the people ol 01 utah the outlook politically and religiously may seem dark and disheartening certainly there are grounds for forming gloomy pictures disfranchisement persecution and spoliation are not fa tors to inspire optimistic anticipations it is true the penal code constructed for utah is assuming quite respectable proportions but it is far from its zenith as yet rhe phe edmunds department alone afine makes quite a volume then there are the cullom and struble ble bills and a number of others in the face of all these one would think that the ordinary or average latter day saint could see nothing bright or cheerful in the horizon but then the latte rd saint see with ordinary eyes and that is why perhaps he still holds up his head bead and yet maybe there are latter day saints who pointedly ask how can matters be worse for us socially politically and industrially they will say Is not our property taken from us Is not our political freedom annihilated are we not published to the world as fiends murderers and cut throats are we not branded as malefactors dislow lists and rebels yes friends that is all correct but matters could be still worse dont you know that if mr edmunds had bad lived in the days of the former day saints he would have it in his power to be a much worse man than he is he co could uld gratify the intense thirst for oppression much better in the days of aurelius than in those of harrison he could then order the burning of a score of primitive christians to to introduce a novel spectacle in III a worlds pair fair held in rome borne or jerusalem yes there axe are bad things said of the latter day saints but not one tenth as bad as was said of former day saints all the bad things said of primitive christians were probably credit edat the time though the authors of the charges were noton bously corrupt men do we not see ourselves that the authors of the charges against latter day saints are synonyms of corruption take the chicago tribune for illustration i this paper is known as the jezebel of journalism it employs private detectives to trace the career of mr blaine in his juvenile days it stole bogus dispatches patches Uis from one of its brother tribunes and printed them as original it advocates tariff reform and denounces Ci cleveland eveland at the same time thae butterworth who spoke against the MCK mckinley Dley bill and then voted for it the chicago tribune h olda up as a man of h honor onor honesty and valor the editor of the tribune was once mayor of chicago and a more wretched one the city never knew this editor is not dot an american nor has he ever performed one patriotic american act even the very name he b ars he has not taken legitimately this man and his paper says the are aliens re immoral are disloyal and people believe him the art critic of that paper was and perhaps is a 14 member of mr alexander sullivans family mr sullivan is the apex of the well known triangle of irish amer jean ican politics if senator edmunds introduced a bill in congress authorizing the burning of a score of mor mo mons as at the world Is fair in 1893 the chicago broune would I 1 believe endorse it this paper is managed by a son in law who would also endorse it the editor and manager are millionaires but that is nothing in a city where mike mcdonald the gambler is a millionaire and mike crawford the gin seller is on the way to be one it is not wonderful that chait joseph muldoon the editor is a millionaire the tests to which latter day saints are at present subjected are severe ones but they will prove equal to those tests outrage and infamy are being heaped upon them hoping they would disavow the Ameri american cap republic and its constitution t hoping that they would pronounce george washington and thomas jefferson failures hoping that they would call for the establishment lish ment of a german or italian empire on this continent yes hoping they would do the very things which it is part of their destiny not to do one of the missions of mormonism is the perpetuation of this republic and its constitution the holding forever sacred the names of the fataei 8 of this republic and above all to guard anti and fight against an alien empire on this continent disprove this foul of utah if you can no matter what is said truthfully of utah it will not dot be heard beard today but the time will come when it will be heard when victor hugo took his first poem to a publisher the great pup publisher lisher almost kicked theun the unknown author into the he street milton sold his paradise lost for 25 lori byron was called a silly sc of sickly sentiment but he compelled his critic to take it back and in fact the libel helped to make a great poet see how christianity was deceived by the people who bowed to horace to Vir virgil gilaRd aad to cicero these people were not savages aud and christ was to them what joseph smith is to edmunds tucker and cullem an empiric and mountebank there is a system and a divinity behind all this the people of salt lake have trials and contentions but what city is free from them yesterday in chicago over persons were sun struck and one third of these cases were fatal the day before has a record just as appalling today is promising to be just as bad writing even almost in natures garb is laborious in many of the small towns through illinois and iowa work bad to be suspended from tennessee comes news of a tornado which destroyed church burying the congregation while at service yesterday in its ruins A public was also blown down and its furniture crushed into kindling wood from west virginia come reports of houses blown down and the inmates mates crushed of bridges 7 tr trestles estlee and railroad tracks washed away and travel suspended the east kenta ky normal college a building worth with ail its contents was literally wiped out by lightning graduates of the college are perhaps known in utah from michigan comes a report that stephen drums house was blown to atoms and five of his family entombed in its ruins it Is needless to go further into details to show how much worse off other cities are than is salt lake salt lake has to contend only with wolves and canines in human form but other cities are visits d ly by an angry goj goil the wolves will pass away but god remains remi his forever absolute just and great you may talk about billsland bill sand laws but what are any passed for utah compared c cm pared to that under the paternity of cabot lodge I 1 mean the national election bill orly yester day I 1 heard a speaker say that this was merely the prelude to ta a king the man was not a prophet but som how his words sounded ominous the chicago tribune Fri bune makes light of them and gives his speech in a few lines here i what it says of him free trade dark clark said if this notion of federal control goes on have a consolidated empire here that will overthrow our liberties some morning wake up and find that the republican party has baa placed a king on the throne during the night 11 and yet even in the tribune report there is a ring that does not usually come from false alarms it was supposed that all our labor troubles were over and everything was going on smoothly during the past week we had one of the worst labor strikes yet inaugurated in this country it was nut a question of wages nor of hours nor of overtime but virtually an open attempt on the part of labor to control and confiscate the property which employs this labor the strike took place on the illinois central B R B R a system which extends from dubuque la to new Oi orleans leans this road Is one of the most conservatively managed in the couii country try it has always treated Us its employed emp loyes as part of its system and as human beings these employee emp loyes were so liberally treated that they finally considered themselves the owners and mana mada gers and strange to say P T barnum was the innocent cause of alt all the trouble circus when in traveling order consists of ninety immense cars on which are a re over 1 human beings and a large num number berof of animals this circus was waa to le be moved to chicago in three trains or sections on special time it is well known that barnum is subject to disasters by road as well as fire jumbo was killed in a wreck the men api hinted by the trainmaster to take the he conduct of trallis trains were not considered by af A q it usell rusell the road superintendent t as s c compe tent for the occasion he countermanded ma difed tho the train trai n masters order and appointed pAnted ap men on whom more reliability acu ecu id be placed the trainmaster master got ot offended and resigned the trainmen demanded mr russells bussells discharge this would not be granted and they struck in the strike st rike switchmen passenger conductors and others joined and the road came to a standstill the general manager reu requested ested his men to formulate the charges they had against russell and that he would investigate one of these charges was general obnoxiousness which was interpreted by the strikers as being uncivil and rude in manners and discourteous in action the departments of railroading i are organized for labor purposes each within itself and each with its own grievance committee the rhe grievance committee of the trainmen train mens s department stated that mr russell always received them and r grievances coldly too much so for a polite gentleman it appears that mr russell did not keep a big bottle and a box of cigars and a prairie of plug tobacco for visitors and the trainmen considered this a grievance and wanted him discharged instanter another charge was that mr russell used to go out on the road ser see the men at work pay fare to conductors duc tors and see that men on duty lid did not spend half their time in saloons this was called I 1 spy kg r g 11 and was not the business of the man who was responsible for the work mr russell showed that the fares he paid never appeared on the t trip r ip reports nor did the cash materialize material im in the treasury of the road he showed that he discharged men who were incompetent and negligent and unfit to he be entrusted with the safety of life and property on the whole when the charges and counter charges were published it was found that the strikers were in a fair way to bring all labor organizations izat ions into disrepute and the better class of the strikers wanted to get down lightly the obnoxious russell was not lot discharged but his obnoxiousness has cost the road just thousands of dollars worth of bananas cocoa nuts fruit and vegetables perished completely thrown away when the whole matter is fairly aad impartially considered it will be found that these strikers were guilty of anarchy a hundredfold more hideous than that for which parsons was hanged in fact these thase strikers were guilty of public outrage it is well known that a large percentage of railway disasters are it is known that they are largely due to drunkenness and neglect on the part of train hands in this city a short time ago it was shown that an engineer was drunk while on duty and through his drunkenness a number of lives were sacrificed the engineer was indicted by a grand jury hut but nothing came of it if a superintendent went around and saw this man drunk and discharged discharge him it would bernalea bern he aJea a subject for the grievance committee and the engineer would be reinstated while the superintendent would be cautioned or discharged this strike goes a good wa way to Zions show on what flimsy found foundations our industrialism rests reste when three persons person who constitute them selves a grievance committee camj call suri suspend pend the working 9 of an all immense system ew embracing bracing several thousand emp employed loyes and wreck its 1 tion these persons too the most rabid and unreasoning of the order for generally it is such men who are appointed on the ground that they are men of pluck when such persons can do all this then it is dirae for sensible people to fro think the anarchy of parsons and most is ro re spectacle spec table compared to this arid and strange to say the newspapers half endorsed the strikers some counseling the discharge of russell the chicago tribune called stuyvesant fist fish president of the acad r ad an anglo maniac maidae a dude and so on the fact is mr fish represents one of the most historic of american families and is himself a thorough american it was he who sat on ward mcallister mcalli ter a few years ago then it was charged that english money built this road yes it did and england sent money here at a time when one olae hundred dollars could not be found west of the allegheny mountains it was wai this road aeve ve a start to chicago and helped to make its millionaires this road pays seven per cent of its gross earnings within the st ite to the treasury of the state of illinois yet this thi road and its management are abused to curry favor with it a lot 1 f drunken rioters and anarchists JUNTOS JUNIUS CHICAGO june 1890 |