| Show CHICAGO alter after the county officials als prof lowells Li lecture kate kar field bursts upon tite view william ellery l Channi nir joseph smith polygamy discussed news special correspondence CHICA CHICAGO oo feb 26 1887 we are ha having ving quite an exciting time of it in chicago at present the newspapers are making a dreadful uproar about the dishonesty and immorality of our county officials it appears that thousands of dollars have been paid ont oat in bribes and add in various other illegitimate methods not alone this but burttie the tribune 2 has found out that the officials kept a lady boarding house at the expense of the county besides several other establishments of a like character notwithstanding this state of society at home the I 1 baptist home mission at one ene of its meetings this week discussed the utah problem missionaries lor for utah is still the cry supplemented by the wail ivall for funds to maintain the mission As the ruined archangel of the lower regions views the state of affairs in chicago his fierce revenge and consuming wrath must give way to a smile of SATANIC SUBLIMITY the grea grea event of the week in this a city was the lecture of prof lowell the union league club intended celebrating george birthday with a grand and accordingly invited tae professor to deliver a patriotic oration the members of the union league are all solid men financially and politically they are the tersest kind of patriots their grand ideal of a patriot an orator and statesman was the late mr logan their conception of duty to country is to accept a pension an office or a government contract mr lowell being now out of office it was thought he be would naturally in dulo dalve in Logan ism but instead he be proceeded cee aed to that Shak shakespeare speare did not write richard the third A more sick and more disgusted lot of individuals could not be found in the united states than were the union leaguers before mr lowell got done we have heard the story about the preacher giving a t tract to a hungry man and of the philanthropist who gave a pauper a receipt pt for making nutritious these stories are nothing to that of mr lowell giving richard to the generals and COLONELS of CHICAGO in an after dinner speech mr lowell held up for the admiration of the leaguers the great statesman edmund burke here was another introduction if jack burke gad ad been referred to td mr lowell would have done something worthy of ing tons birthday anda and a name comprehensible to the chicago pork trad ers would be presented jack burke is the champion of our city and in the slugging line has no equal edmund burke was wag a dreamer who used to think about exulting exalting huni humanity anity while humanity merely thought of dining the leaguers sigh for the sable visage and powder blasted brow of their chieftain john A dian didn t they miss his bis martial moustache and sulphurous adjectives his hie grand patriotic outbursts his murderous meta mem chor hor his grant white grammar and gis bis villainous LOGIC yes the LeagA leaguers ers missed all this thip and swore at lowell and called him a whitewashed Britis heran emasculated american another ancient and venerable personage has broken in upon us during the week possibly the name is not unknown in the regions of the west it is field by some called miss kate and by others col field after all that has been said about her she is but a nieve mere ordinary mortal miss field is lecturing here before a few cranks of the baptist persuasion I 1 mormonism I 1 I 1 ia of course a her theme were it hot for that she would have to take to the dime museum she is affording considerable amusement to young newspaper men she is proceeding to the pacific coast to procure material for a book on mormonism she is to remain for a short period in salt lake city she claims to have VERY WARM FRIENDS in that burgh surely slie she ought to be able to raise or catch an old plug of a husband among her moral friends out there it is deplorable to see her wandering about in her present lonely condition nothing to console her but her pipe and her flask As the song says sitting by night in her chamber A spinster ingie and lonely kissing the end of her pipestem pipe stem that and that only A humorous reporter asked her why she never donned donne the mary walker cosme cost me she says she did try a bifurcated garment at one time but it did not suit her another reporter asked HIER HER of the poets tennyson she thinks is obsolete and browning she characterizes as a shoemaker she denies emphatically that her lecture had anything to do with the deaths death of ay mr whipple of boston of mr grant and of mr aribuk arthur in new i york and of mr logan logaa in washington she also denies that she caused the illness of 8 8 cox she admits that she wrote a note to mr logan I 1 1114 on the day of his death by what is ia said about this kate field her tongue is as teacup deadly as kate kearneas Kear breath lady morgan says of THE though she looks so bewitchingly witchingly bc simple theres mischief in every dimple who dares inhale her mouths mouth 1 8 spicy cy gale must die by the breath of rate kate bearney Ve kearney Kc arney 11 in order to show the fun she makes for us in chicago here is one of many items in the papers regarding her Mis misstate sKate field the beautiful and aad accomplished complis hed young millionaire litterateur lectured last evening at our charming oak land suburb on the subject of the mim mam edth mormon monster or the multitudinous and miseries of miscellaneous matrimony ifer her auditors were charmed by the logic the wit the leu nning and the eloquence of her dissection disser tion it i is s understood that miss field will visit springfield next week binh a view to inducing the odense le legislature to adopt a law making it a penal ottense for mormon missionaries to prosecute their hellish work wo rk ot of with in the borders of this state we wis wish the miss field could be induced to deliver her admirable discourse in one of the large halls in this 0 city ity i considerable number of our people are anxious to see and 0 o hear this remarkably intelligent remarkably earnest and remarkably bright young lady SURELY A WOM WOMAN AN of her age and experience ought to have perception enough to see that she linthe is the laughingstock of the country and young writers writer ought sought not to jest thus la in the presence of death tor for though kate field is not a dead woman yet she ae Is dead womanhood and this makes testing jesting at her expense more sacrilegious speaking of polygamy and aad kate field brings to mind the memory of a great man william ellery channing he was a new england man born in 1780 and died in 1842 it would be well lor for society if ff his works were better known than aney are he defines his bis religious position distinctly he says 1 I wish to regard myself as belonging not to a sect but to a community of FREE MINDS of lovers of the truth avd and followers of christ both on earth and in heaven thetis the poetry ot of religion and channing commanded the admiration of poe poets ts C coleridge ole ridge said of him he has the ave love of wisdom and the wisdom of lovi love in the year 1826 the rev mr chan abig wrote an essay on milton which essay assay ranks among the classics of english literature in this essay considerable sid id splice space is devoted to polygamy poly eamy it because because milton in his bis christian doctrine declares polygamy is ii an essential to pure christianity but it is with what mr channing says we have to do at present or rather what he did say aay in 1826 the prophet joseph smith was but a youth then it was in this year that the angel showed to him for the fourth time the GOLDEN BIBLE it was in this year that solomon spaulding died it was in this year that thomas jefferson and john adams both died and in this year was born john A logan and george frisbie hour hoar all these names are more or less identified with american history and also with mormonism poor logan has lived and died and passed away but mormonism thrives senator hoar has lived to redeem himself partially he voted against the last infamy spaulding has been given a spurious kind of immortality by a few crank preachers but joseph smith shines among them ill all as the moon moo among the lesser leaser stars mr channing channin says of Mil tons christian doctrine doctrines 1 6 no part of bis book has given such offense as hit bis doctrine odthe of the lawfulness of poll polygamy gamy and yet nowhere is he be less liable to reproach it to is plain that his belief was founded on his bis reverence for scripture ile he saw that polygamy was allowed to THE BEST MEN in the old testament to patriarchs before the law who he be says says were the objects of gods special favor and to eminent individuals in subsequent ages age and finding no prohibition of it in the new mew testament he believed that not only holy men would be tra deuced but scripture dishonored by pronouncing it morally evil we are aware that some will say that the practice is n condemned in sak t the e new testament and we grant that it is censured by implication in these words of christ whosoever shall put away his wife except it be for fornication and shall marry another commit teth adultery 11 but we believe it to be an indisputable despu le fact act that although christianity was first rot preached in asia which ich had bad been fro from the earliest ages the t e seat of polygamy the apostles never denounced it as a crime and never required their colv converts erts to put away all wives butone but one 1 I 1 mr charming anning Cb then goes onto state that the very fact of the NEW TESTAMENT containing no expressed prohibition of polygamy proves that christianity Is fitted to be a universal religion that christianity is not a system of precise legislation making out with literal exactness everything to be done and everything to be avoided but an inculcation cul cation of broad principles which it interests individuals and society to be applied according to their best discretion he Re further adds that it is through this christianity can subsist and blend itself with all stages of society and can live in the midst of ef abuses which it silently and power fully overcomes but against which it would avail little were it immediately to lift up the voice of denunciation this interpretation of christianity by the eminent mr chaining Chau ning was given before mormonism wan wad established and it shows that thore there was some unseen power paving the way for mormonism and the language ot of mr channing Channi DR is merely the instinctive YEARNING of society tor for advancement and progress this interpretation also proves that christianity is jeffersonian jeff erso nian demo cracy applied to religion or what social reformers would call local prohibition as applied to the sale of whisky and it also shows that it is only the country and race which produced abos jefferson could produce joseph smith and that the production of both was long since ordained one to be the prophet of the fulin fullness ess of political knowledge the other the prophet of the falness of religious grandeur mr interpretation of the scriptural text from matthew is entirely a perverted one Byno by DO means can it be said to apply to polygamy it is simply one of the definitions of ADULTERY and if any implication outside of this can be attached to it it is that celibacy celi baby is admissible In Christianity ini if reference to polygamy were meant even in cherem the remotest bi est manner the reading would surely be whoever Who eyer having one wife another commit teth adultery it is as plain as daythan day that in the putting away the whole secret lies if the wife be put out away without cause and another substituted then it is plain celibacy was not dot the ob lectia in view ai first the man is guilty of license and wantonness wanto aness and commits adultery but the question li is had he be acted honestly to the first wife and ajeh then by taking another does be commit adultery anyhow whatever way this text is handled it cannot be rendered either by implication or by distortion as censuring or in any way disparaging polygamy it would rather imply that under und erthe the guise of polygamy no lajustice injustice could be done to woman i is christianity in its best purest and fullest state mormonism does not absolutely command its disciples to adopt polygamy poly gainy monogamy or even celibacy polygamy was given to it by revelation as one of the agencies to reform and purify society and also to represent the fullest and most exalted form ot of christianity the th principle of polygamy 01 gamy can never be eliminated from no mormonism Mormont sm as a religion but the practice of poly polygamy my in communities or countries might be regulated as mr channing Cb anning says according to the best discretion of the society or community and it if the divine agents of mormonism should deem a community or a county not in need of pol polygamy 7 its practice may be suspended ended or abolished according as the sugg divine vine will would direct but mormonism as being THE of christianity and as being destined to e embrace mb race the the whole earth must maintain itself to blend with au stages of society and to live amidst abuses of al all I 1 k kinds I 1 d a in this thia doctrine mormonism will be found to be far ahead of the best sanitary science of the best material philosophy mind and of the hardest common sense it is by studying mormonism in its relation to the world at large and to humanity in general that its divine origin can be proved belond question doubt or equivocation JUNIUS |
