| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER tile the cronin case still drags its slow length along the winne peg suspect burke Is causing much comment there are many who hold that lie he knows nothing of the case while others maintain that he is is merely a dummy used to mislead the police the chicago police have a valise key belonging to burke but where the valise is is the question the state attorney has a fine theory but it is no good without evidence and he is advertising for an informer and promising him immunity cooney the fox has gone he was waa at the door of his lodgings when an officer called and asked for pat cooney pat asked the gentleman inside and then went to call cooney the fox never came back on the whole the news all around us is not reassuring from harvard comes the report that the students t attempted to blow up tip the college with dynamite the anarchists and the clan na gael have a formidable rival in the dynamite field when harvard embarks in it from iowa the news reaches us that thai a forger and embezzler has been waited on in jail by the best young ladies of the place presented with bouquets of flowers and encouraged with wreathed smiles when an embezzler obtains such approval as this croninn Cr onins murderer may be expected acted to get ice cream yet in fa iowa wa the rev mr haddocks grave is unmarked and covered with weeds and roots in the coal mining centres bentres of illinois the direst distress prevails brandwood streator spring valley coal city and other places are actually st starving it is estimated people arvin are little ittle better off in the way of of food and clothing than were the inmates of libbey prison there is a suspension of work caused by a strike some say a lockout lock out and misery is the result the miners claim that they could riot not save anything while at work that the company compelled them to trade in stores where they were cheated that they did not get full weight for coal mined and that an able bodied miner could not average more than 17 a month the miners are italians and swedes who took the places of strikers a few years ago the chicago tribune has a cor respondent on the ground this abl I 1 s paper is loud in favor of protected industries coal is one here is its picture of braidwood men rambled idly about the house thin ill III fed creatures looking hopelessly out women sat idle having nothing to occupy their hands bands or cared for hungry ragged children whom they could neither feed nor clothe the floors were bare articles of furniture were few and cheap there was absolutely nothing about the whole wretched community with which to occupy mind or hands bands there never dever had been anything never any money except what was needed to satisfy the craving of hunger and furnish an insufficient covering for the body the mine owners claim that the men were improvident extravagant and drunken but the correspondent has found persons who are not such and who owned their own homes and little bits of land the homes are now valueless nobody will buy them the land is worthless so the thrifty and unthrifty are in the same position all unite in denouncing noun cing capital capita and wishing eternal perdition would take the government and state of illinois from michigan we hear that an insect known as the green midge has taken take 11 possession of the wheat fields and that the complete destruction st of the crop is probable some of these insects are described as of a reddish color with a shell like a potato beetle and others with long gauzy wings from indiana come similar reports the green midge and plant louse are both working industriously to produce a famine in the country next dext winter already in the coal mining centers of indiana there is great destitution the governor has issued an appeal for funds fund to relieve the hungry and starving strikes and lockouts are causi causing ng the most intense suffering chil children Ch illren r n and women are reported to be dropping off through hunger notwithstanding the abundance of money and provisions forwarded to johnstown yet the victims of the flood are almost as badly off as if one ent cent had bad not been contributed there is no wisdom no honesty displayed on the distribution of the goods the matter fell into the hands bands of professional alms tors and it is found that with them charity begins at home everything of value they appropriated for their own use or for the use of friends the contractors took up the charity food and then charged their laborers board money some good christians will come out millionaires lion aires alres by reason of the johnstown flood they will also be looked upon as philanthropists r though really boeje bood lers rs of the meanest kind we have at present a dr leonard here who is causing quite asen a sensation whether be is the leonard of utah notoriety or not I 1 cannot say at the methodists preachers meeting last monday he fired a bomb by stating that this country was encompassed by evils of a dreadful nature the catholic church he designated as the first and greatest of these evils the methodist church which is the only true one must don its armor to fight these evils it must quit sending out missionaries while there is work to do doa at home thome its Ite ministers must educate themselves to quote his own words he said there one preacher ont of ten who can repeat the ahr lords prayer correctly the methodist church without religion is the poorest institution on earth from baltimore also comes this cry of anti romanism baltimore was founded by a romanist and it sounds strange to read of the rev P F M ellis denouncing cardinal gibbons as a traitor a and a perjurer his essay was spoken before the teachers union of baltimore it was entitled the bible in the public schools it appears that gibbons at one time pronounced in favor of reading the bible but mr ellis declared the cardinal did not mean what he said gaid mr ellis maintains that rome controls all her people and therefore a romanist cannot bea be a citizen of this republic the ministerial erial union of baltimore which is eom composed posed of all the denominations in the city endorsed mr ellis cardinal gibbons will do one good thing if he succeeds in getting those jarring sects to unite for once who is tonti is now the question asked by many persons who read of the ostracism of the jews in secret societies the order of tonti is a secret benevolent organization with headquarters in philadelphia where its supreme president mr wheeler resides it has hap twenty one subordinate lodges governed by three deputy presidents the success of the order Is such that it has become necessary to establish another deputy presidency to accommodate the increasing membership A voluminous correspondence between the supreme president and the chicago autuori ties resulted over the new cy the supreme president ordered the chicago men not to admit jews or negroes to membership th that atthe the jew was no better than the chinaman that he was a curse to any society and that he was unfit for existence at all in the animal kingdom it appears that the hebrew race constitutes fully one half the membership of the order in chicago this correspondence fell into the hands of a hebrew officer who communicated the matter to his fedow religionists the indignant jews held a meeting and now t they e demand the removal of mr wheeler ler or they will remove themselves from the order it is not generally supposed that jews seek entrance to secret societies they do and they are the most inveterate society hunters of any race in america there is not an orde from masons to Tuck pointers but has a large representation sen tation of jews the societies charge the jews with selfish and business motives in entering them hence the opposition old tonti was an italian and founded a system which benefited the longest live livers rs the jews are a people who cling to life with wonderful tenacity and are perhaps chaps getting too much of the tontine routine benevolence T this his would be reason enough for the opposition to jews the average american wants to have the best of every trade after you take him on your hack back across the stream you must be sure to lay him down very gently if you stumble at all he is sure to abuse you thus it is with tonti and the jews when the order was weak and struggling the jews were sought after and caressed now the erder is flourishing the jews are selfish and obnoxious but this is only another illustration of the general chaos and universal anarchy which seem to be setting in it is only another incident in the babel of ethnology which characterizes the present standing of american citizenship feud and faction are not however confined entirely to the foreign races in this country at present in texas the terrys and the gibbsons are at war the soldiers have been called out to quell these yankee roderick dhus in kentucky the normal condition of society seems to be feuds whisky and race horses in our nothern states bosses chiefs and leaders are the rule there is the alger clan the blaine clan cian na gaeds gaels the harrison clau for office the deputies british americans french cana cada deans christopher columbo italo americans American sanda and a hundred others too toe numerous to recapitulate unless one were engaged in compiling a directory of american clans and secret societies all this turmoil aud and discord must be attributed to the chaotic condition of religion and to the mushroom system of Ju uca cation tion which pervades society the editor and preacher are both pieces of machinery worked to order for their respective bosses or chiefs JUNIUS CHICAGO june 27 1889 |
