Show OUA CHICAGO LETTER A great cites bad government attempts at Par purification n convicts Con vIets and christians Christ lans stin vessels Beig gIng lor for money to redeem utan the inconsistency si sis tency ete etc special correspondence CHICAGO march the government of great cities isa is a question which is vigorously forcing itself on the attention of politicians le legislators gisla tors and journalists all through the t he country but buc chicago statesmen pta ar are e coming more earnestly to the front in n favor of of radical changes in municipal governments than those of any of the other large burghs of the republic perhaps this is owing to the bublic disgraceful graceful is condition of the political management of the county in which chicago is situated all the chief officers of the county institutions are now rio under wunder arrest for malfeasance in office the county commissioners all of whom are elected by the people are in BAD ODOR at present sent many of them the in are under indictment t by the grand jury now in session the papers publish the most diabolical stories about some of these commissioners commissio neis nels there is one commissioner about whom little is said except in a humorous w way ay his name is buck macarthy and the respect shows this man is not abot because he is a blaine republican republicans 0 but because ot 91 spirit he needs but to look at a report erand away the faber knight flies as the wolf did from the man in the story A constitutional amendment enabling soling en the general assembly of illinois to deal specially with cook county is now demanded virtually cook county is chicago or will be in a 9 short time since it is proposed to annex all the SUBURBAN TOWNS make up cook county outside hutsi de of chicago pro proper oer then a municipality of of the enous human elements I 1 of which it Is pose possible lule to conceive mankini mankind made up will require government how a constitutional amendment or a ustate state statute can render a people e honest and mural moral is what puzzles some observers all our officials are not elected by the people and if the people cant be be got to elect honest men it is because the people themselves are dist dishonest ionest and venal and treasonable and irreligious at first our papers cried out democratic frauds then we changed around and put republicans in office but it was worse and worse the papers no now w want amendments and laws but the same officials will rule anyhow the papers have CORRUPTED AND demoralized DEMORAT ZED the people and now anarchy sedition disorder venality and corruption are the characteristics of our people the wealthy classes perjure themselves to cheat the tax gat gatli heier eier and the official perjures himself 0 lo 10 o rob tue taxpayer tax payer perhaps I 1 can give no better ideson idea of t the he condition of chicago religiously politically and morally tha than n by citing the action of the congregational ministers of this city on oa the propriety ot sympathizing with mrs beecher in her sad bereavement you way may of the indian who scalps an enemy and dances around tile the body of a burning prisoner but that indian is an angel compa compared to a chicago preacher when mr beecher was on his bis death deathbed bed these ministers had a war dance and laughed with HYENA GLEB atthe at the prospect of seeing the great in a sulphurous atmosphere DO 0 you want any better evidence ot of chicago depravity if you do you will have to go to biter Ave avenue nut where the preachers counterpart exists and oh b irony of 0 religion oo oh q rot ot morality morality tf these are al xe the preachers who send in missionaries be Jo narles to utah and entertain renegade rene garie cormons mormons Mor mons 11 in addition to our religious and political turpitude we are threatened with something of a more calamitous nature the once ogee pure and pellucid rejuvenating water of lake michigan is fast becoming foul fetid and poisonous bonous the death rate is increasing at a fearfully abnormal ratio something like a week strenuous efforts are being made to remove the cause of this DREADFUL I MORTALITY by purifying our water supply but there are so many reformers desirous of distinguishing themselves and of turning an Il ionest penny by byth the oper coper aaion that it is to oe ne feared no immediate action can be taken the plan which seems mot mo t popular in chicago 1 1 1 that of turning the chicago river WM with its foul contents into the illinois river y er and thence to the mississippi is not relished at all by the towns along the illinois These towns naturally enough object t to chicago sewage unless in such away that it will not be hurtful f al to health our jury ury system seems in as bad condition as our drinking water and efforts are also being made to purity that the state legislature now in session has taken cognizance of the system and the literature PRODUCED by the agitation aei tation demonstrates that we are not a whit better off thim than were the anglo saxons before the memorable day at runnymede sime six centuries cco when masna magna charts charta was granted by john john june 16 1215 it is true we have no lordly barons now to each other and then unite in trampling the poor serf but we have just as bad we have king caucus and baron primary chris mamer and mike macdonald buck macarthy and preacher noble aad many others the p poor people used to say in the reign pi of 8 stephen 1135 1154 that chr christ lot b but ut in chicago during the reign of P pinkerton ink erion and mike macoonald we say that christ istead is il dead now kow the tda weakest go to the wail and the good old rule Sufi Suffice leeth tn us the simple plan that they must take who have the power and they gey aust keep who can WHAT TO JO DO with our convicts is is another question chichis which is enk engrossing much mach attention tile old system of of contract labor is abolished in this state and many are the substitutes suggested in its stead one reformer wanted convicts engaged in the production of school bop kand bibles for gratuitous distribution trl trib ution another wants them employed iu in manufacturing necessaries for the state and county institutions and still another wants them educated for editors and preachers clieta this list last would not be a b bad aNra sch scheme vine the standard of religion has fallen very low among us and our preachers need fresh blood from some so source the only difference between a chicago preacher and a convict CONVICT Is that one has a little more book learning 1 r ill n g 1 whiles the other excels in lia practical C e a 1 knowledge of the world both t h are r e equal q u a in n e evil v intention a t e n t I 1 0 a a and n d I 1 in n wicked designs by cow combining bining both a new factor in ID society might be evolved with the learning ot the one combined combine ct with the predatory instincts of tha th other we would then have the devil or dr foster a real live kesic resident ies ident tent iw ia chicago that thai department of journalism known as the religions religious press is devoting considerable atten attention tiou to mormonism during the last few months occasionally casio nally bally when one hasan has an hour or two to spare it is instructing to glance over a tile file of one of these religious papers why athey are called religious is what puzzles me and why I 1 say instructing is perhaps will puzzle others wealthey well they a are re instructing etin ting g in a certain sense the same as a visit to IL a DIME MUSEUM would be to an aa observant person one gets a good idea of human nature by noting the characteristics of the visitors and b by listening to the dulcet tones of the lecturer and it is frona these sources the instruction is obtained and not from the curiosities if there are any two beings more silk alike e in akke world than th edimo museum lecturer and the religious religions editor are to each other some P T barnum ought to produce them in fact this lecturer and this editor are not properly appreciated by bk phi philosophers I 1 spent two hours on st patricks day reading the advance I 1 hope st pat will wid forgive me for the offense I 1 this paper is 4 chica chicago go development and conducted by IL a trinity of the e most consummate ate hu bumb b uga mendom the arin trinity ity is gj posed af Har carribon Harri ribon yon noble and gilbert I 1 professional RELIGIONIST religionists 8 patriotic of the dr johnson characterization and I 1 believe congregationalists or ests this paper is the organ of the savages who danced a war dance around the death bad of mr beecher so of course I 1 have reason to ask forgiveness forgiven essof of stpatrick st patrick lor for wading brough itsjo its go paea y the three great asmo isms which hoem elii to lip engage the columns of the adv advance il no are Ando romanism and all 4 11 abr oi 7 monism it Is with id the last reave I 1 to deal and the articles cles on it in the advance are amusing it not instructive i livery x Meek ae e k the ia set I 1 tf if woj work wt vav vie the regu regularity alriq af ayner ner kian kidney ey cure advertisement in the number for january 1887 is an editorial written evidently by a FOOL ORA OB A LUNATIC this article calls for a law that W will ill cut the mormon root and branch out of existence it says it is known that the leaders of this M mormon movement have bave not one ohe drop ol of loyal blood in their veins it is known that they are selfish and extortionate and cruel col hollister of salt lake is authority for the statement that have been expended in washington t bribe congressmen and fee lawyers is a specimen of tb e rant contained in the article then bollons follow vituperative and malignant denunciation of df presidents taylor and cannon couched in billingsgate that would do honor to 0 1 hil himself self this article was written jan wd d in print before the famous amft 0 january speech reached chicago the number for ainu january ay iy w 4 0 has another editorial lauding flauding tile the TUCKER EDMONDS BILL to the stars but it gives mr tucker no credit for his work it does apt t even absolve him from col hollis 6 charge of tile 2 nox does it apologize to the lawyer whom it already as venal it ireste cottelit cout elit and apis bill will effectually settle question estion it pays a compliman to GOVer governor Dor west and also alao to corporal i hollister holli ster in the number for february 3 is an editorial of a festive nature it is a deum overa miss mary E pascoe of lynne city utah it appears the immaculate mary is a missionary of the new west education commission and she claims to have a pascal or pentecostal time of it it ic utah she waits FUNDS j vo to build a schoolhouse for pupils oil all mormon converts this lady claims to havo have brought to her side most of the solid men of lynne city and she wants chicago to provide a schoolhouse for them afie advance bays no amount of anti mormon bills on the part of the National Hi slature however neb necessary essary will ver solve the mormon problem without tile aid of exactly such vital influences as are represented by the new west education commission what charming logicians must harrlson noble and gilbert be of course cours an appeal is made for funds to send to miss pascoe lascoe I 1 tout but the editors ol 01 ol 01 the ad vance dont sign their aar anything inthe in the shape of monty mone these bellows J are a good deal like goldsmiths religious man who always carried around the contribution box in church but never put anything in himself he had to be WATCHED WATCH fiD CLOSELY that he did not take anything out it must be gratifying atif ying to mr to be told tat that his bills will never suppress mormonism and that a check for a thou thousand would be more effective than all his intricate legislation we come next to an article which will cause one to stare one of these lawyers who in a former article is characterized as a venal jack mor mon is now put dowa as a person of strong casp of mind power of analysis and habit of logical disciplined to so high a degree by the professional labors of a life timey time 3 what a STRANGE TRINITY of editorial talent this advance must have in the number for feb is a corn com muni cation from the rev key alex monroe who says that he has made seventy conver converts tsin in wards 10 and 19 in salt lake and that he is going to capture park city lem lehi coalville Co alville etc of course he wants money also if these fellows are to be believed mormonism in utah will soon ba a thing of thelast the past and yet they demand legislation they beg for money and they rant about patriotism 1 it if is positively disgraceful how the people of these eastern states are humbugged humbugger hum bugged by utah politicians and mission missionaries arkes and the editors of religious journals are more bri criminal minal because they help to I 1 e CARRY OUT TUB THE HUMBUG if the real truth were known this man monroe did not perhaps have a dozen im cormons mormons Mor armons mons go even to hear him and as ap to the woman pascoe it is plain that her statement is false as noales christianity it she got to her side the solid men of a town they certainly would be able to get up a school without sending a begging letter to the lard dealers and pork butchers butcher of chicago for help to buil build done one it is plain abat god is making the antl anti mor ap pp creatures so ao illogical so contradictory that like the builders of babel they will lall fall among themselves JUNIUS I 1 r A I 1 |