Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER junius funao hin hid fiery shafts at frauds the tharp point foint of his trenchant yen ren pierces where jig it strikes CHICAGO dec 27 1886 SEEKERS during the past week chicago was visited by some persons I 1 in ll 11 search of notoriety two of these curious beings hailed from utah one oie ablaine irishman from salt lake city the other an apostate mormon from ogden two others hall bail from regions far remote one a mr mohini from bagdad professor of theosophy the other mr Costy kian from constantinople trader and merchant with tour four such lions our city was rich in amusements last week the theosophist and the trader are persons innocent enough to be naturalized natives and it Is probable that in the registry lists their names might appear as co jos S tigan and mahoney POOR STODDARD mr stoddard the apostate mormon from utah is rather an interesting inte study on last he addressed addressed an assembly of congregational ministers on matters pertaining to utah he del detailed ailed after his own fashion the enormities and criminalities of the religion he has but recently renounced to the ministers he was a sorry disappointment ment after all the racket and all the coaching there were only a the stalest kind of chesti ts about mormonism he repeated the oft told tale of the mountain meadows business bu giness and said he be was wal born near bear the place well one would think it was no great claim to distinction to be born at mountain meadows he also alao spoke about the vast pretensions t of mormonism and that it contemplated tem plated tid absorbing everything in the country cou congregationalists and methodists included mr studdards stoddards dards ad drea did not improve the foul stomachs and disordered livers of the th brainless assembly to which he 01 sated in fact he rather intensified the pessimism and dyspepsia of the unfortunate parsons not by what he said but by what he did not say it was expected that he would furnish sit euch each a catalogue of crimes a ap P d offenses as to paralyze chica chicago 0 bridgeport and the packing camps fu m clouded clu ded but he be did not all lie he could say was that he be was the son of many mothers there were persons listening to him who could beat that poor young man he himself was sorely disappointed also he expected that the mayor of chicago would receive cei ve him in state and that we were ail ready to grasp him by the hand baud as the new messiah he received a formal notice in the newspapers of a few lines some church members looked at him and when I 1 they hey found he be had not the cyclopean Cyc lopian n eye nor the darwinian caudal appendage nor any obber mark of physical eccentricity they were disappointed dalao also poor young man lie he is no tickets amoul the farwell ha hall peni tents and salvationists salvation lots already be sighs for his utah mountains to be a kind of charity museum curiosity to is rattier rather monotonous chicago has no capital to invest in apostate mormons cormons Mor mons and whoever thinks she has will find and himself woefully taken aback GRACIOUS the blaine hibernian from salt lake proved a most amo osing cuss 31 jetor this frisky animal naturi natural a hist history orytha has 8 no parallel his name naine on the hotel register appears as P F H lannan there is no bagdad or constantinople about that P F stands for and H is an ab aspirate pirate afford affording ilig time to blow the odor of the lannan away before grasping it He isaid to abe 6 be a newspaper man though a number ot our hog butchers claim in him bim a brother artist this thia mr lannan delivered himself of a long lucubration about utah in a very oracular manner he be outlined a scheme that would settle the mormon question according to his ideas his scheme is a very simple one it is absolute disfranchisement of all Mor IMor moBs jack cormons mormons and non supporters of blame blaine what strange developments the whirligig of time brings a about here is a man whose ancestors were made to dance a aa Lann igans ball by oliver cromwell and made to choose between hell or Con connaught Baught 11 now advocating vo maa measures gros oace practiced on his fath fathers kit were here is a man who a few years ago could not worship in safety the windows of his church were stoned his priests openly insulted in the public streets and himself the objective point of brutal jeers rotten apples P les and chamber refuse this man now appears in the role of prosecutor himself this man said to r represent resent a learned profession too what what mockers to be sure I 1 tho the words of the roman poet would have little poetry for such a man the roman says haud baud igmara wilt disco diseri chian whian rendered into english would would mean not unacquainted quain ted with persecution I 1 learn 0 to o sympathize with the persecuted 11 I 1 would like to ask this there is in mormonism alien or 1 hostile hos to america does mormonism Mormon ihm seek its inspiration and rule of faith in foreign lands does it arrogate to itself the right to condemn or uphold suy any Asie american rican organization pr or assoria tion do any of its erring priesthood have to so go abroad labroad to h have e judgment pronounced upon them do s it require that the medium oi 01 cation between god and the united states be an italian or a frenchman or a spaniard does it exact obedience e to an any priest or layman y who is not a citizen or resident ot of this Ile republic public no american to the heart it is ia this man lannan made a number of statements with regard to utah and that in ia complete control of tm this element it was capable of stall furt further lier development lie he also said that tha t great rea t satisfaction dissatisfaction existed among the ven gentile population of utah owing to a certain omission in the Preside presidents lits message there may be some food fo for r consideration in the last statement no president should ignore the gentiles of utah they are formidable in numbers and in intellect and they are unequaled in morality and integrity As to 10 their capacity for development that is ia undoubted they can develop and aad consume more whisky thin than cau call an equal number of citizens in any part of the country As to their morality why you have only to 0 ask any person who has has sojourned sojourn ed in utah about that in numbers too teo these gentiles are formidable they completely tely eclipse the tooley F street tailors three ot of whom spoke in the name of the people ot of england the utah tailors number three hundred they want the president to designate them specially as models for of americans A WIPE FOR WILLIAM WALTER A gentleman named william walter whelps has made some borne comments on the presidential omission this person will be remembered as ane one of mr blaines confidential friends lu iti the contingency ll case cas W W whelp he is ib a whole litter in his communications he writes well we and with propriety seeing that he is a pluralized embodiment ot of puppies teri beniers aers and are privileged creatures and the president has too much good sense to be disconcerted by their petty yelping there are a number of these kinds of canines but william walter well represents the whole breed SEVERAL DEGREES REMOVED reference a was awas made to the utah question at some of the forefathers Tore fathera celebrations held last week throughout the country mr blaine made a characteristic speech at one of these gatherings he said he was not a puritan except through bals children who were Puri puritans jans in the ninth remove here mr blaine has left himself a fine margin lu in addressing a st patricks patrick day meet he can say he is a hibernian through h his grandchildren grand children A man of mis his enterprise might get an african wife for of his sons and then he has a claim on title the three governing races ot america namely the puritans the patricks and the op on a future occasion the president might I 1 reter refer to this incident and show that tn in the case of mr blaine po polygamy lyga would be a decided advantage it if mr B bad a german frow an indian squaw an irish delia and an african belle together with his puritan hel helpmeet then through his children he is sure to command the votes of all the races william walter whelps should take this view of the matter and act on it for 1888 opposition OPP TO dr newman joseph cook and a few others have inaugurated a crusade against romanism the doctor said some hard bard things about the roman church a few sundays ago he was applauded too the poor doctor has proved a sleeping custodian while he was spending his time hurling paper bullets ballets atthe mormons cormons Mor mons the romans were preparing the way for cardinals monsignors and archbishops arch bishops in a few years will have a cardinal in chicago and another in san francisco and one ip ia new orleans with one or two in and two or more in canada then the organization of the roman american church will be completed if ifie afie doctor and his friends dont desire this state of things they had better support mormonism that is the only religion at present capable of perpetuating american institutions institution si and american liberty and by championing it patriotism and fair play can be best manifested conclusion the day will come when these mor mon eaters twill awill seek protection in utah history affords a similar case the norman english Catho catholics fles were the most cruel and rash of persecutors in ireland but when the protestant english english came upon the scene the N normans sought the bogs and morasses of their former victims victim i i f we want to obtain a good view of a district the best way is to get up on a high building buil diner or on a mountain if we want to so see e political ical and religious matters as they really are we must get upon something that will command a view we must look beyond our medef personal self we must look beyond and behind american freedom is something worth fighting for and the man who would not uphold it support it and perpetuate it is a blot juilus |