Show CHICAGO LETTER the new mew mayors first official act saloons fee 11 chicago liquor tes blaine and joe cook some beautiful patriots sufficient clent for fer the day in the evi I 1 thereal change of front on the lie mormon Moru iou quest lov etc NEWS F special correspondence CHICAGO april the first official performance perform asce of our new mayor vaa A as the signing tig of a saloon license lot lor a fat little dutchman of 53 meagher street it is perhaps wise to sanctify the initiation of a new official reign by a graceful concession cor cession to the great malt and spirituous interests ine rests of this country we have in chicago saloons or rather we have now since the fat little Dut dutchman ehman joined the gang every saloon pays a license of annually to support these salo oris will require requard an average of I 1 cash takings I 1 of from 12 12 to la 15 a day over their counters thit that means a sum of money equal to about paid aid annually in chicago alcoe for malland malt and spirituous 1 quoos at retail THE to the city from fr alpons amounts to about but saloons aff afford ord a revenue to many other classes also we may safely state that the couten conten tion litigation gad and disorder attendant on each saloon give employment to one lawyer every two saloons will find work for one doctor of medicine every live five will require the special services of one policeman and all the saloons conjointly conjoint ly succeed in keeping asylums orp orphanages haages foundling cribs hospitals etc always frill jails prisons and penitentiaries aries are the natural concomitants of saloons and we have so many of them that our convict system is becoming one of the great issues of the day when john A roche silted the Dutch mans licence he be back in his hi easy official chair and belt much more comfortable and much more self satisfied than did thomas jefferson Jef ferbon after he signed the declaration ot of independence pen dence WHISKY RULES in chicago and whoever would climb to the top of the political ladder must bend toe knee to whisky the saloons of this city are open at all hours they make a pretense of closing for a short time in the early morning but really the saloon fire is never extinguished on sunday mornings the saloon harvest would seem to he be at Us its full maturity the bar m rooms oms are full of drunken rioters and the streets are crowded with boisterous and profane inebriate s ou on sunday afternoons if one strolls stroll into sinto a vacant lot where an old empty wagon is laid up he wih w ih oe be sure to find a crowd of boys rushing the growler this means getting gloriously drunken drun drunk kon bon swill beer tile boys whose ages may vary from 10 to 16 years will contribute a nickel a piece and a general fund is formed and then the can commences komove to move A large can of slop beer ca can u be had bad for ten cents at any af the saloons and the YOUTH OF generally spends its time drinking slop erand oe ne neeland chewing prairie dog tobacco there is no effort made to stop this dreadful habit A policeman will join tile the youthful UI gang and slake his bis thirst from the growler with HS as much gravity and self possession as mr roche koche would sign a license there is no effort made lo 10 suppress saloons or to place them in the scale of contempt to which they naturally belong the high bigla license only crushed the poorer ones but wye gave dignity importance and wealth to tile the richer ones in the last election four saloon men were elected aldermen in the county board there are some few saloon men whisky is in truth king A prohibitionist is looked upon as worse than a socialist and it is a question whether st john or august baies receives the most abuse it is only a lay or two since that alderman carney caraey a saloon keeper and a red hot roche man kicked an office seeker nearly dearly to death the victim was a HARRISON HEELER and he sought carney for influence with the new mayor but carneys carleys Car civil service code is ia the baud ba bag and brogan it is estimated that are annually spent in whisky shops in the united states and that 1 0 0 0 persons are habitual dr drinkers e r s ce take the tobacco the opium the chloral the cocaine the coffee and other drugs consumed in the united states and figure aure on them as in toe the whisky case then imagine it il a nation that consumes such immense quantities of drugs arid and poisons can be 1 in 1 its t prop proper er senses sense just imagine the con condition d itlo am a man must t bp be is in who in one hour consumes hot coffee slop beer and ice water and winds up with a huge chew of tobacco yet this is what millions of people are doing every evera hour in this country Is it any that reason and common sense are departing irom the human animal Is it any wonder that anarchy disorder and contention are the prevailing characteristics of our society A meeting of a score of persons cannot be conducted with order even among the me learned and wealthy it is sure even among them to end in riot parliamentary usages are disregarded reason is ignore dand commod sense deemed antiquated load talk and profane oratory gener ally will carry the day there is no use in disguising the fact no use in t trying y in to delude ourselves oure our elves pelves with tire idea tb that t a all gi I 1 will come right whatever way wo we look at it we must admit that our country is rushing bing to its own destruction A high and a free republic cannot toe be perpetuated by a nation 61 growler iti i ushers tobacco eaters and drug gourmands the knights of labor are endeavoring to suppress the drink evil in their own ranke but they can never succeed as matters mattere stand at present toe ane maris corrupted before he be reaches the labor a age e toe religious and moral t training mining of of the he young is entirely neglected and where principles of RELIGION and morality are not inculcated in youth I 1 you 0 u nave have in age a fiji islander or an a alderman ald ide ermun fea good deal is said abacut the improvidence evidence e and wasteful bess uess of the laboring classes and their tendency to fall into evil ways but let us ask where are the helps the inducements to make the labor element otherwise than it is have w we e savings banks that can be trusted no in illinois there are per haps a dozen shaky concerns in which man would trust a dollar except where he has no other alternative than the saloon about ten years ago the sayings savings banks of this city closed on the poor peoples money iud and the bankers were looke looked dupon upon as the injured persons sympathy was expressed for them from press and pulpit it was then abat socialism not got is first foothold in chicago the victims of banks bauk saud and trust institutions became desperate they reviled religion because rascals wrapped in the r CLOAK OF RELIGION defrauded them they denounced officials because officials winked at the rob bers wio robbed them in a word they became anarchists because they saw the theiu selves es powerless TO effect reform by lawtum weans means harlotry occupied the front box at the theata th eatie e usury and rapacity sat under udder the pulpit corruption and araud sat in the ruling chair and what hove hope was them lor the wronged and despi ed but in violence and chaos our legislature has before it today to day a conspiracy or rather a coercion bill much severer severer and much more crushing than that proposed by the tory ministry af england but there is nothing about providing solvent and reliable receptacles for the peoples savings there is no thought given to any measure that would benefit liae whole community if a clique or a sang cang wants a measure there is not difficulty in this if a corporation or a millionaire wants anything it is granted from a charter for a loan office to a seat in the United states senate THE SENSATION 3 of the hour is the illness of mr blaine who is at present sojourning sojo in chicago some newspapers say that this illness is all assumed for advertising purposes ur poses however that maybe may be mr bouline blaine is here and it is supposed he be is sick though be has not read a murray message a field lecture nor dictated a mulligan letter in six months his sister in law miss BI biddy addy fudge is also in chicago she is the lady who is ia charged with ariti writing ing the arthur Ri Rici imond climond letters a series of libels on the public men of the day who dont happen to he be in harmony with the magnet from maine mr blaine received a delegation of ra 1 1 co religionists of his bis mothers 1 1 and the sick man who could stomach that delegation will not die in chicago the dd delegation legation was composed of the members of ef the irish republican club some som 60 of them the leaders john V F finerty and MP M P brady presented the rank and file in this delegation there was not one business man nor one person engaged in legitimate INDUSTRY RY They were either lawyers or politicians finerty is well known as the man of dynamite brady is a shyster adf anabe he is proving a burden to the there re publican party the notorious mike hickey was one of the delegates HE hb was known here ten years ago as the police partner of webster tile the negro brothels beeper john scanlan is another of the blaine beauties he used to be a mall mail suck sack sewer and is now a professional and policy catholic another is morty mort scanlan Scan laB the man who bombarded aanada canada from paddy odeas saloon in buffalo there was no DO mulligan among the blaine ad se we cant yell well dub them mulligan guards tutuila Tutu ill the pew judge who got 0 ti nto into i office under the wings of ao h A roche performed his first judicial aci act last saturday satu aday hearing MARITAL misfortunes there were 33 mated couples represented before him he 23 93 and continued ten this divorce bus business idess quite an industry these 38 cases mean dollars for the lawyers add for the private detectives la in fact there is quite a contingent of the better class ol 01 our society making a good living bythe by the divorce industry the ordinary di corces give steady employment to quite a number of lawyers detectives and stenographers bis dases cases like lik lawsons Raw sons will net nei to the law rawson is i a banker a tl man on the shady side of his bis boarding boss bosi inic in tf moment of impulsiveness si veness but it has taken him nearly one year and a sum of to get married dis the great begal talent of chicago is em employed bloyed in this case goody stiles and such lads THIC are also affording a rich harvest for the lawyers and private detectives the bood lers are the cook county commissioners and the wardens of 01 the county institutions who are now charged with ill doing in office the end of all this will be a cool V for the lawyers of chicago the socialists cia lists case is also a rue fine harvest fo for r the law of course a new trial m must ast be granted just think of spoiling such a tine fine case for lawyers by hanging banging these men by keeping this case on for years many a poor hardworking young legal gentleman will be raised poverty to opulence support law even if the country should goto the cie dogs we nave have sarah berghardt Bero Becu hardt bardt in chicago this week and we had joe cook ot boston here a snort time ago berha p s he is here still poor joe he has julien into innocuous desuetude he receives but small favors at the hands bands of newspaper men then we have mr blaine and GAIL HAMILTON and the two young blaines so that these are gala times in our city in addition to all this we have elder bider joshua baker of dakota with three wives and eighteen children ildren cn on exhibition at the dime museum mr baker claims to be a mormon but not from utah he aas has received a little advertising hl already ready he first put up at an hotel and registered as a mormon with three wives and eighteen children he was wan then taken before a police judge and charged with bigamy Atall at all events he was in the hands of museum agents and the newspapers took up the question and the chicago greenhorns greenhorne green horns are having a high time of it ito over the mormon the museum and the newspapers a ars we are promised jewsh a red 0 t camp alln about utah this summer and fall 1 there are some commissioners now in utah investigating the mormon question and we are promised some same lively reading for the next six mouths months it is am amusing using to read some of the productions duct ions of these persons they are all preachers and parsons and it I 1 is funny to contrast the attitudes they take on the MORMON QUESTION well let th them em go ahead well find them all in due time the demand for boodle will surely reach us in the end it is also interesting to compare the opinions entertained of the tucker edmunds bill when it first became law and those expressed about it at the present time the southwestern presbyterian published pt at new orleans 1 said in its issue of january 27 1887 this bill is not to restrain in any way the freedom of mormon worship or the liberty of mormon belief it simply puts mormonism as a form of religious belief on the same political level with other forms of reli religious J worship the f be utah jud judiciary does not seem to accept athis interpretation of the edmunds tucker law mr anxiety about the hereafter reminds one of schoolboy days and it must remind him also that is it if he ever went to school horace says in book 1 ode 9 quid sit at eras luge fuge et Quern fors dabit lucre aphone that is the old roman bard tells not to trouble I 1 ABOUT THE MORROW but whatever lot late fate or fortune may send us to io put up as profit 6 A some gome one of toe sacred writers teri says sufficient for the day ii I 1 the evil thereof boyle boye says bays only from day da to day the life of a wise man runs what matter it if seasons far av aa ay have gloom or have double suns to climb the unreal path we lose the roadway here to swim the livors ot wrath and tunnel the hills of fear our feet on the torrents brink our eyes on tho cloud afar we tear fear the things we think instead of the things that are arc like a tide our work should rach each later wave the best beet to tomorrow morrow for ever flies dies to dayis the special test teak lika a sawyers work is life the present maker the flaw and the only field for elrite Is the inch before the saw CARLISLE also says that the man who does his duty at the present need not fear the future the horde of carpet and religious tapeworms tape worms in utah are endeavoring to prove by mr Dick sona sons methods of examination that the 46 present iu means breaking the law on the morrow people here laugh at this theory and think that the utan utah authorities are gope clean dait daft suppose one of those who swears to obey the law at the present time should be arraigned for foi polygamy six months hence would mr dickson accept the pl plea a that the intention was good atthe time the oath was t taken or would mr dickson prosecute prose cuta for polygamy it is plain to us here in the east that the utah carpetbag carpet bag gers BOODLE not bellef belief in their interpretation of to the baw there was an If irishman ishmall once buce prosecuted for perjury 4 aad d was not guilty on tile the gro ground that he kissed his bis thumb and not the prayer book boo I 1 but the plea did not hold it would be the same with mr Dick sons hereafter be a poor defense to state that the intention was rood good at the time of the oath besides any american citizen need biot answer any question relative to what his bis religious belief is whether wh he believes in ia polygamy in celibacy or monogamy that is Ws bis own affair JUNIUS |