Show INCISIVE COMMENTS A characteristic letter from jan 20 90 1888 do not look to see providence rovia ce lash dasa the cup ot of prosperity from every dishonest chajid or you jou will be disappointed yet this if you look closer you shall often see such IL a wan man holds toe glittering cup tight failed with nectar to the brim but into that cup a shadowing baud band squeezes some subtle ingredient which turns lurus that nectar into wormwood thus moralizer moralizes mora wora lizes a well known writer and in truth there is much in what he says worthy of note the rev dr talmage now febie the disagreeable truth train contained therein it is only a few days since a little drama was enacted in new york city which was productive of much gall and wormwood to the notorious preacher A woman dropped dead flu fu an assignation asi house her male copartner co partner in sin fled investigation ti developed the fact that the woman was the wife of a well known merchant and the mother of a very large family her companion compan ionin in crime was a man of prominence in lobai affairs and a pew holder in the ahe baurch conducted by parson talmage it la is said the deceased woman was vis frequently an interested listener Jia tener to the great preacher WHAT A TEXT this will furnish for that pyrotechnic parson arson tho volcanic moralist mo ralise and dynamite christian who a short time ago wanted utah expunged from the map of america an mr talmage tin an unseen and shadowing hand is at your elbow and you will yet be more borci bly admonished admonia hed of the gross wrong you did to an inoffensive bonest people your foul malign malignancy aticy your vile obloquy and your blasphemous jur gation against utah will yet be brought acme to you in a way which will make you yon sweat drops of blood we have another illustration of the truth above enunciated in that utah war scare of some two or three years ago it will oe remembered that troops were sent to utah entirely ag ac the suggestions of some chicago preachers and editors to wage an imaginary war or to de be made the brutal instruments of a few birds of prey who rejo leed in the dignity of united states officials it in salt lake city only a lew few months ago these sanae same troops were brought direct to chicago 0 in 1 al ap pretteau siou of a real war the man who acted a as governor of utah in the ois affair is now a wanderer b himself i in self there are joe med medill ill and W y 11 nixon both at the time lime clamoring in unison tor for and alid rack utah now they are waging a way war between themselves look at edmunds edmund and others in washington raisin raising their voices in unavailing protestations against the appointment of lamar to the supreme court hear their pleas I 1 they say lamar will be the instrument of corporate monopolies and yet these are the abe men who have prostituted prostitutes themselves bodies and souls tor for these are the men who have cor erupted legislatures and who have disgraced the national congress in their efforts to further farther the schemes of vast monopolies these are the men who talk about war and patriotism yet they never went out ot of view of the treasury at washington they are the tail end of that glorious army of f patriots which held possession of washington in the early days of the war read what edwin M stanton says of them under lender date of M may a 1862 in a letter to the rev he herman rm it dyer and only recently puo dished the secretary of war said in this letter it I 1 wanted to be a politician or a candidate tor for any office would I 1 stand between the treasury and the robbers that are howling around me would I 1 provoke and stand against the whole newspaper gang of tills this country woo wao to sell news would imperil a battle I 1 believe that gad almighty founded this government add aad for my acts in the effort to maintain it I 1 expect to stand before him la in judgment 11 when the country was a victim prostrate on the highway t the he edmunds faction under pretence predence pre tence of assisting were watching the opportunity of despoiling now that the victim is once again on his bis feet this faction comes forward and tries to make him be believe leve they were his saviours savi savl ours oars these are re the men whose patriotism is so pro profoundly unfathomable that they want the war begun anew they are the POLITICAL ORANGEMEN of the united states the long range patriots of irish these men whom nature adapted for wayside lyceums and hedge school discussions accident has made statesmen of they are at the top and having nothing to sustain them there they endeavor to attract notice by wildly waving a crimson banner or shouting themselves hoarse about mormonism or jesuitism or some such catch issue but the unseen hand is behind them and la in a day or two they hilldrop will drop off into a well merited oblivion like many lothers it is true we are all fully conscious coo of the fact that we had ab a brutal and bloody war in 1844 the prophet joseph smith promulgated the only scheme by which war could have been averted it 16 was not heeded and many and various were the ills brought on our country for the apathy find and negligence DeHs esce which ignored the divine divinely ly inspired remedy the war was fouat qu at targe of the 4 american citizens of today have come into existence since that war closed to these the war is a matter of hla his tory and to the students ot of this history slavery will appear but a mere side issue and no doubt a large portion ot of these students it nt a decided majority will condemn the fanaticism anu insanity which precipitated athla hir war on the part 0 of the norta mortn and jeopardized we country and constitution ution A large portion will condemn the obstinacy and sta stubbornness aborn ness and inflexibility of the south in ill not recognizing that a period of t transition ran was at hand band but all these students will probably agree that a system of LOCAL 8 federated into one imperial whole under certain limitations and conditions is the hg highest liest form of practical political philosophy and in the light of modern cevelo developments heuts in government when the main issues of the war aru are considered we must not be surprised nor startled should jefferson davis come out as the real hero of the me struggle and abraham lincoln be looked upon as the destroyer of its his country it if this should aull ever happen and uis ilk will nave have contributed much to bringing it about even in conflicts hate and enmity are looked upon as mean petty and after the of the strife are settled all the great minds of both countries join in bolit erat eratico irig the marks of former enmity childe harold traveling on the continent I 1 att stumbles on the grave of one ol of his cout Erys adversaries adver baries does he stop to swear or upbraid or to wage a war with the dead mo he says by coblentz on a rise of gentle ground there is a small and si simple pi hamid crowning the summit ot uie the verdant mound beneath ita base are heroes ashes hid bid our en but let not that forbid honor to marceau oer whose early tomb tears big tears gushed gashed from the rough soldiers ol diers lid lamenting and yet envying such a doom falling h a ailing tor for france whose right he battled to resume what will our childe harolds have to say with regard to a war which ought never to have ben been waged and what must they say to those who naw now are trying to BLAST TIIE THE MElo MEMORIES ulus and sully the high rights which our southern brethren battled tor for they fought bravely and in the honest conviction that they were right time alone will decide this but bat is it our duty to p protract and intensify the bad detling p produced in n the strife Is it our du duty ty to keep on still impugning the mo motives ti ves and intentions of large idarae section of our brother citi cifuen fc certainly not and it childe harold were here he would say I 1 and shall we leave posterity to say that puritan and cavalier still f ought fought down in this nineteenth century latter day and shall we keep keel oar country thus distraught in madness flaunting our bloody nag tor for naught Shall lwe liwe reap anew our bloody war in fratricide and tend feud so fiercely fought and shall that yermont vermont ghoul tear wide tile the sear scar now healed in glorious grovers Gro verB grandest choice lamar 1 amar Ye severy lover of America and every right minded american citizen should to see aee the memories ot of that war effaced and every patriotic bosom should breathe a prayer that jefferson davis davia may die in tile the lull fail rights and iu in the full mantle of american citizenship petty strife la is worthy only of CATS AND NEGROES malicious sectional hates gateff worthy only of savage tribes or ical italian lian bandits or irish three year olds add four year olds american citizenship has a grander mission before it than ordinary minus minds can well comprehend we have made many mistakes but let us not nol crown these mistakes with the most fatal one of all that of planting Orange iam in our soil heaven avert the tearful fearful curse |