Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER A new phase in anti I 1 mormon warfare the maternal instinct the situation in utah puritans ancient and modern edmunds and hoar CHICAGO march eth 1886 1836 editor deseret news bews the anti mormon warfare seems to have in process of development ne new w phase and from the mauner manner mauf aie r of f procedure it is 1 a likely to itself into a vital activity this phase at first sight may appear very trifling and maye may be considered by thinkers a worthy experiment but serious inquirers it is fraught with and cowardice to be brief THE NEW DEPARTURE means an attack on the women of utah it is pro proposed red to extend to them t the he penal so solitude g I 1 ude already besto bestow wedo edSon on the rougher sexy sex some of the christian missionaries report that utah women are fiercer than the men en alarming stories are told abdulm about the armed resistance made by mat matron rons sand and girls to deputy marshals and to that species specie of the genus homo known as the carpet ba bagger ger now it is seriously contemplated to urge or rather wage war on the women if there was any doubt heretofore as to the superiority of mormonism over the average sect of the time this proposed movement entirely removes it this proves effectually the existence ol 01 the maternal instinct of the women of utah as it was extended by god and nature to the sex this instinct does not bel belong ong to women alone but it extends to the whole animal creation the sublimity of its beauty Is only equaled by the intensity its power it has afforded the most engaging themes in human history hist orv and has invested the lower animals with poetic interest it is the same through the whole lane of the animal world from the woman who stands at bay in protection of her baby against the murderer to the wren insignificantly fierce that puffs itself out and chirrups chir raps defiance at the lout who Is plundering her little pretty nest it is this passionate sentiment so uniform in all its manifestations which demonstrates clearly and unquestionably the existence of a great ruling force or power at the back of all things and it Is possible that the small brained slim cadaver ous looking tract distributor is not conscious of the magnitude of the tribute he pays to the utah mo mother ther when he says that she resists the ruthless desecration of her home by persons person calling themselves law officers it is to be hoped in one sense that this movement may become a success but in another it is to be deplored that such a movement should even find an orl originator ignator this time there can be no hesitation hesitation or treason on the part of the woman acknowledging a higher law than the edmunds whatever doubt the materialist may raise about divine revelation he can raise none concerning con cernin THE MATERNAL INSTINCT even ingersoll himself has to bow to this and in acknowledging its beauty unconsciously proclaims the existence of god the wildest cowboy of the plains the rudest miner of the mountains the most desperate footpad foot pad of the hi highway 11 all have witnessed the intensity and force of maternal love and have grown eloquent in depicting the details deals t of its working one describes the herd of timid antelope the mothers of which form a defiant rampart around the young ones at the approach of some beast of prey but the culminating mina ting point is where the dam falls a sacr sa crance atice by her adf awful a I 1 love for the young oue one when she might have escaped by night all through the world of lower animals from the lion and tiger to the little wren or sparrow defies the stealthy cat this intense ins instinctive luc tive love is seen it is that which leads to such terrible combats between the forest beasts how often have lion and buffaro buffalo tiger and boor fought out the dreadful issue over the cabor cub or calf still incapable of defense and this instinct is just as strong in the natural woman if not stronger than in any creature of the whole animal world the desperate and infuriated ariates mother away off in tae mountains of utah armed with a pitchfork and standing on the entrance to her he rhome bidding defiance to some beast of prey in the shape of aj carpetbag carpet bag minion may afford a humorous paragraph for thoughtless scribners scrib lers but for the poet and philosopher it is the concreted essence of poe poesy a and n d wisdom she is defending ake her r y young oung ones and she recalls at once the lines of the poet bloomfield in reference to the valor of the innocent ewe at lambing time he says for at their birth the powerful instincts soon seen that fills with champions all the green for ewes that stood aloof with fearful earful eye with stamping foot now men and dogs defy it is possible the deputy dog may have never heard of bloomfield and it is probable the utah mother neler neer read his lines but there in utah is his picture all the same the stamping ewe and the voracious dog at bay another poet a child of nature himself sings of this grand passion he says the love of offspring is natures general law fro from in tig digresses tigresses r e s and cubs to ducks and duck lings g land wheres where not nothing g whets the beak or arms the claw like an invasion of their babes and suck langs lings all who have aa ever seen a nursery saw how mothers love their childrens squalls and chuc klings 11 it surely cannot be called treason in the mother who defends her little ones from the ruthless hand or claw ot of the despoiler be he man or tiger president or king away back back in 1812 boron wrote of THE SPANISH MAID she of saragossa and in his treatment of her alludes to woman in general i and spanish maids in parti particular cula r in allusion to one emulating in arms the male portion he attributes it also to this instinct of maternal love and conj ugal jugal duty he says but the tender fierceness of the dove pecking the hand that hovers oer her mate in loftness ofine as in A firmness dmn ess far above remo JRe moter ts r fema females leq famed for sickening prate her mind is nobler sure her charms perchance as great how aptly these lines apply to atah utah at present the sickening prate of remoler remoter females is finely illustrated in some of the female trad traducers traduce acers rs of utah women who as the chicago interior once observed kill their babies and fondle lap dogs what is the proposed law but one to trap that dove which pecks at the hand that would cut cat the throat of her mate will you yon call it treason to defy it will you call it Ama amazonian savageness to meet it witti with armed force no you cannot unless you proclaim nature hers elfand natures god both rebels it was nature prompted the women of tyre to fight so terribly against the greek it was nature drove the women of carthage to min man the last breach against the romans and it was the same which made the women of limerick fight so fiercely IT filling their stockings with stones in I 1 lieu ten of more effective weapons it was this great principle of nature which unsexed the spanish maid and made her espouse the aglace and she whom once the semblance of a sear scar appalls Appal ld an owlets owlett larum chilled with dread now views lews the column scattering bayonet jar the fRi falchion chion flash and oer the yet warm dead stalks with minervah Miner vas step where mars might quake to tread how beautifully these lines written 70 years ago portray THE SITUATION IN UTAH today to day here are soldiers and guns and artillery artiller 7 brought in to overawe women and children without any rea son whatever except the clamor of a few cowardly persons misnamed ofil bials their very fears spring from a consciousness of guilt in themselves As the cough of a consumptive invalid or the squall of a baby of often ten frightens the burglar so the tender fierceness qt ot a utah female wrighta frights the carpet ba bag conic consciousness ausness ous ness of guilt in burg burglar ar and ana carpet knight works the same la in both cases PURITANS ANCIENT AND MODERN students who peruse macau Maca ulys y Is analysis of the early puritans will seek iu in vain for the characteristics ascribed to them in their representatives of today to day except perhaps in pric one particular the latter day puritan in no way resembles iii his s predecessor ot of the stuart period and even in that particular though the resemblance can be traced yet it is in the same manner as the coyote resembles resen bles the do domesticated dog macauly says the very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a terrible and mysterious ance belof belonged aged on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest who had been destined before heaven and earth were created to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away there is not the slightest doubt but that this trait is still visible inthe in the mottern puritan and its offensive prominence is derived from the fact that all the other characteristics have vanished and this alone remains but run to seed the truth of this assertion can be best demonstrated by a casual study of two persons now members of the senate at washington these two are hoar and edmunds it is true that there may be a possibility of these two men not being real puritans ethnologically speak speaking akina inz strong arguments can be adduced to sho show that the new england stock is rather mixed and very often f ten what we regard as puritan may in reality be daro dago kanaka or coolie the family arrangements of these days are such that in the down east country robert burns epitaph on the town drunkard might be reproduced tottie to the chilgren chil kren bobby tells the youn youngsters to tread lightly on his grave perhaps he was fey eyther ther 11 juvenal has something 81 similar 1 11 bilar to say of the people of his time and his lines go 0 o to show that family arrangements range ments i in old rome were rather complicated the roman poet makes the town drunkard say to the apparent head of a noble family to me the pleasure and to you the fame my brat shall thy abilities proclaim but these cases will hardly apply to present representative puritans barita ns if we take tile the roar hoar and edmunds as such these dont show that anything foreign has been introduced but they show the native qualities deteriorated teri orated and some obliterated they stand to the old puritan in the same relation as the cur to the st bernard mr blaine who endeavors to pose as a kind of diminutive macaul macauly ly attempts an analysis of the modern puritan as represented by HOAR HOAK AND EDMUNDS edmunds he characterizes as a mild kind of carl schurz while hoar is classed as a man of great vigor of intellect and broadness of view any schoolboy could point out to mr blaine the error he has made edmunds is not a carl schurz by any means nor is he a political kinsman of the late lat mr gibeau schurz if vary able is true to his party for the time being and gateau was produced by the action of many party brothers like edmunds edmunds is rather a kind of irish james carey now championing champion ng his party to betray it tomorrow to morrow now gin hiis tent to come out tomorrow to morrow morlow as a kina kind of achilles by his tacit acknowledge ment of mr cleveland during the campaign he virtually helped to elect him now he passes asla asa patriot and reformer by pulling pi illing at mr Clev elands coat tails in fact mr edmunds has degenerated geneia generated ted into a kind of aunt sally statesman one moment he puts up an efel effigy gy to it with a baton merely to show his accuracy of aim this ilind i of play may do on a british race course or in a strolling circus but it is sadly out of A place in the american congress As to hoar hs his last appearance on the utah woman suffrage clause of the I 1 new bill brands him forever ba as THE HICKORY politician OF NEW ENGLAND it will be remembered that hat he voted against the disfranchisement disfranchise ent of utah women but in doing so said that if support enough were not at hand to carry the bill through he would not vote as he intended to 6 this is statesmanship nian ship of a high order he votes against one clause to make himself solid with susan B anthony and votes for the remaining clauses to keep up his anti mormon record this is like the irishman who took a pledge hot ilot to drink whisky inside nor outside out in the meantime got drunk by standing nv with one foot inside the threshold of the door and the oher abher outside he was neither inside nor outside the fact is the senate aas has become a kind of molly maguire society meeting since edin edmunds ands hoar cullom and logan have come front aront there dear whisky and cheap patriotism profound ery i and mutilated english martial buncombe un combe and flatulent philanthropy hil anth ropy these are the characteristics which mark the modern puritan and his stepbrother step brother the scotch irish carpetbag carpet bag ju JUNIUS N ius |