Show OUR CHICAGO AGO LETTER llie CRY happy and prosperous proposed Prop Axed enormous Knori Monn sewer newer anti and a doubtful soon boon for st it louls rhe clergy clarky AL abul the b adlet att WV Vi avont out got but mut must have etc 61 CHICAGO iliago lec dec 21 1886 that to wards the close of 1886 presents as respectable spec table a browing as auy any city in america peace prevails business flourishes and general prosperity is id visible on every hand politicians amuse themselves by thumping newspaper nien men preach preachers eks occupy the front seats beats al ai the ballet opera performances perlor mances and our oue engineers axe are seriously contemplating tem plating au an outlet for lake michigan to 10 the gulf of mexico by way of the mississippi river these are developments that any city might be proud of chicago must be credited with having established the most elective effective PRESS CENSORSHIP 1 known to the history of journalism the new censor is named buck macarthy physically tie be la is a counterpart of john L sullivan and it if mr trude trade is to be relied on buck is in the field as an intellectual rival ot of Shak shakespeare speare M trude trade has stated in a public court that MacArt fay was the author of nus and adonis Alo nl inatius ignatius don donuelle Donuel belly ly would t jo do well to take cognizance of this statement mr donnelly is laboring very earnestly and enthusiastically to prove peare a myth recently one of our newspapers published publio hed reports calculated to bring our county Commiss commissioners louers into col con tempt the ress censor mr r macarthy took the matter in a d A representative of the was found and in a snort short time the jou journalistic realistic rua listic vision was obscured the journalistic proboscis was emitting a crimson castalian italian Ca stream in short mr macarthy gave the news gatherer a areat real 7 donnybrook SLUGGING mr alc theia proceeded to a court of justice and arraigned himself as i a disorderly character and paid a fine the press man soul sought rbt consolation in his bis club and fierce rea resolves Aves were hurled at the creat macarthy the pen way may he be mightier that the sword but the is not mightier than MacArthy MacAr thys ls I duke cluke 11 the most remarkable about this incident was the sudden conversion of the offending newspaper r to religion A few days after mae macs generous gene roue and salutary treatment the e paper came out op openly effly acknowledging its former and flatly declined publishing any details or of the colln campbell d divorce I 1 varce case corporal chastisement is after all a potent f factor actor in reform chicago will antu in future have a decent paper and carter ai got get a good nights sleep occasionally our have organized themselves into inton kind of BUREAU for the purposes of advertisement and critical am they haxe have denounced the stage the drama the opera the ballet and in fact all the a appendages pena ages and belongings of thessis Th espis thalia and terpsichore they did not at do it on earhar they went into the places and 1 judged budged for themselves they sat in the airout seats and witnessed 92 young females from i sunny taly italy indulging in all the poetry pt of motion poor old parson bumble it did you good to feast your eyes once on OB such a cebe unfortunately our preachers are not worthy of sued such a city as chicano C 0 it if there were any mae mac arthas among them they would have jumped on lue ahe stake stage wiped the floor with the manager birchee the naughty nudity nod and made firewood of the orchestra really this ballet is said auld to be a nuisance ui dance I 1 am not a preacher and of course did not see it the books say lt it was originally a good thing and that bat males were the performers if reform can be effected at all it is by reverting I 1 to the primitive system why not glat get up a ballet of ministerial performers joe cook dock newman the rev bev D I 1 L leonard mr amaty empty lamb ills his grace macneece Mac Nelce Nice and his Is eminence macmillan with kate field as director would make a splendid ballet troupe it would not be immoral to see them our engineers are contemplating a 4 work of great moment they undertake ike to land the sewerage of chicago in the gulf of mexico it is claimed this can be effected by deepening the des plaines river fors for a distance of a few miles then the waters of like lake michigan as well as all the sewerage and drainage of the chicago district from evanston Ev auston to the indiana state line will go by st louis cairo memphis his and new orleans and if good old oid dather father marquette or robert cavalier la salle should ever again seek those re realms glins he be can proceed down the chicago river and ou on tp ta the mississippi without heaving his canoe as they had to do formerly it la is not yet decided whether any TRIBUTE WILL BE EXACTED from st louis for the boon we are arc about to confer on her A good deal of our sewerage must enter into the drinking water of st louis and of course that will give them a new vigor and vitality and rouse up that sleepy ys torpid overgrown german village with french names to its streets to some colvit chicago s sewerage might in salta apere SOFA St Louly uhl to throw off the dominion aai on of jay gould and russel sage in fact this may lead to its ita becoming a full krown grown city I 1 Busi business businesses is nourishing flourishing in chicago is said that the whisky business is the most prosperous five hundred dollars per annum is now the license fee fur for one whisky mill some reform ralo this fee to ii it t 1 may not dot be generally believed that there 1 1 are places in chicago devoted to the b e sale of liquors we furnishings decorations and embellishments of which cost but it to is a fact THE WHISKY has become the premier one in this city therease there Ther eare anre six or seven aldermen four county Commis commissioners signers and dozens of other officials engaged in a this trade the person of a saloon keener is as sacred here as that of a jesuit in quebec or a dominican jn in italy only a lew few weeks ago the digger porte one of these saloons was interfered with by a city policeman why there wa such buch a clamor raised against the whole police bocce albrice by the press and pulpit that one would fell justified in wiping aut the whole police force if half what is said of them were true alts it is no joke to cross a digger porter in a saloon and policemen who want to hold their tips and not be counted among an archis ishad better speak civil to port porters ers license may be good but bat too coo much of it the gin mill grinder a bigger man than old grant it may be all very well to take an optimistic view of matters to pass over things placidly and quietly but in our serious moments we must admit that there are DUTIES AND AIND obligations I 1 resting on us as citizens of this ibis republic and nd members ut of civilized society we must acknowledge that it i IB necessary for to asset t something beyond mere groveling self this republic was not founded to be made a public football of by every adventurer and ica scalawag lawag who wants to ta catch an I 1 h a dutch or a vote nor A wife it founded to compete with other countries in the production of pig rt rings and mouse trape abo an amu though agh an invitation was extended to coall all intelligent and anO virtuous enough to appreciate and enjoy good government yet the coolie the pauper the criminal the peon were not included in this invitation the idea of washington and jefferson was to establish a system of political perfection that would be a model for all systems and that would embody the accumulated wisdom and philosophy of the past the idea awas was we the grandest ever known the greek idea was but mere municipal independence the roman idea was mere military conquest lor for selfish aggrandizement the english idea was and 13 10 commercial superiority but AMERICAN IDEA embraced the improvement and progress and welfare of humanity the world over for human itys sake let us look around and ask ourselves are we acting aching in the spirit and principle of our fathers are we carrying out the idea of washington jefferson and jackson just here a criticism of this country made by M renan some few years eara ago naturally ob obtrudes trades itself the learned french Frenc frenchman man said the sound instruction of the people is an effect of the high culture of certain classes the countries which like the united states have created a considerable popular instruction st without any serious higher instruction will long have to expiate this fault by their intellectual mediocrity their vulgarity of manners their superficial spirit their lack of general intelligence there are persons who may deem it patriotism to tell the frenchman that he lies that he be is a sorehead but that not settle the question let us consider his bis statement rationally every rightly balanced mind must admit that the sound instruction of the people must be looked for from authors journalists and preachers and unless they are men mea of the highest culture DOW bow can they give sound instruct instruction lon WHERE ARE AKK OUR AUTHORS echo answers where have we ten have we one worthy to be called a man maja of highest culture Is there one man in 11 all II this broad land worthy to rank with matthew arnold prot prof huxley prof tyndall herbert spencer in the united states slates today to day there is not what could be called one first class educator journalists we have in plenty but what are they mete mere dam ailers of scandal and fabricators fabricatore fabrica tors of falsehoods with the exception of mr godkin sit new kand a fe there are no journalists worthy of the name the average journalist does not write to edu educator cater but to cont lern poeju i dice ox 01 party parly bias he loes dot bot write to teach political but to resort to the methods of the savage and the lunatic he will urge bloodshed in utah or mobbing in illinois t and call I 1 it patriotism he will suggest t the fram framing of penal laws lor for matters which the very principles and organization of our republic provided for he rows grows g fat on excrement like the beetle or the vulture how about greeba ers dont mention thew except mr beecher and one or two more they are a race tace of denis kearneas Kear instruction and culture ire are unknown to them t h em they are fit for nothing but ballet performers intellectual mediocrity superficial spirit and aad lack of general intelligence are certainly marked chy of our class classes today d ay y when kate a te field represents our intellect at the capital heaven help us she owns worth oi of telephone stock the papers pay fay she certainly is phonetic enough to own jr EC whole phonic company our superficial spirit is well represented by baskin and bennett but it is doubtful whether their spirit reaches even to the surface surf ace the Thee genessi oeral intelligence is well represented by mr edmunds and a few others if they had intelligence laws that now disgrace our statute books would not exist the plain fact is and the sooner we see it the better that since the death of lincoln we tave have had no man in public place grand or noble enough to tise rise above mere self mere pelf and mere inere groveling grove liag demagoguery ery until the present occupant of of the presidential chair came to the front we have had bad jim blaine blad dering about the religion of his mother though he be would not at tend her funeral f what we via want at the present time is a NATIONAL university something on the basis of oxford but broader better endowed and established solely with a view to a pure system of eau education cation the country is full of universities and colleges but what is ip the result A lot of ef old cranks think of maccosh turning agn his bis heel beel and leaving his hia dinner be because galise a couplet ou jarred on bis temper what W we W want nt in m a political sense is that very every state take ca care re of its domestic concerns have one good college in every state organize all the territories rito ri tories rips into states at once and let them set up for themselves redistrict nevada idaho and U utah b tet and admit them as three states let utah come in with the motto jefferson jackson cleveland with these names we lead do this and utah will show the nation what good government can do she will sho how w how the spirit ot the fathers can bp be carried out she can do this because she can rise above mere groveling self jucius |