Show POLITICAL pandemonium the last few days the so called national liberal league has been in convention at chicago this Is a medley of froc lovera infidels freethinkers nd all thi ilk toma of them eccentric but sincere sorna others de scoundrel sand pate but full cheated braggarts brag garts in tho evening of tho session of the isali tho platform was presented and as htiu gevea tle keynote lo 10 the whole liberal movement we will giro be telegraphic eyu opia or the grand it provides for tho total separation of church and tata by law and by amendment the taxi kioa of church properly lion of schools of clial raws nd othar similar international legia protect tho bithen in ual political civil industrial and religious rights regardless regard leis of race or i universal uni vertal education tho basin of universal Buffe rage a amendment requiring every klalo to maintain a thoroughly pubic nd o educate every child within its bonier fh platform was then read it declared ansons arsons other thib thil theren hould ba no legal or kocial itcea on account of religious iou belief or absence thereof that all laws requiring religious teats in order to qualify any penion to sit on a jury testify vote hold office or do any public act should bo repeated as relics ol 01 barbarism and that ali laws regarding marriage which is a civil contract acl divorce births and burials should be placed on a purely secular and tiao basis and have their justi fica tion only in their use to society aasc that the comstock laws should be re pealed forthwith and altogether while some of these demands might be deserving of discussion there ara others which are too absurd and too subversive of every principle of religion and morality as to deserve even refutation even col ingersoll the great bob of infidelity thought the crowd were going too far in their baie brained fostir matesso Ia tesso he protested that he was trying to keep the league from destroying itself and to knock some sense in its head the lone of contention was the clause of the platform asking for the repeal of the Coic stock laws by these congressional laws a certain anthony Comstock New york agent of the society for the suppression of vice is given certain powers to opan and inspect U S mails and take any other steps necessary in the prosecution of obscene literature pictures and other immoral articles offensive to the public sense of decency in the pursuit of his mission this comstock has often acted and too inquisitorially and we believe that several parties have been hunted down by him out of pure malice and personal hostility as in the case e P M bennett who received a sentence of thirteen months penitentiary at albany for some inadvertency which could not be construed into a crime except by bigoted judges still however bad a tool comstock may be the flood tide of obscene literature lewd pictorial representations and all other immoral articles must necessarily be a very dirty one it requires men of not too fastidious taste and tender nostrils the repeal of the comstock laws which by the by we consider as a congressional infringement on state rights serves to the long haired men and short haired women of the national league simply as a cloak and pretext they want full scope and unlimited liberty for their libidinous tastes their iconoclasm does not stop with the demolition of real idols of superstition but they touch hand truths of religion and morality an inkling of such reust have touched soul for he took his resignation as vice president of the league in company with the secretary of the central committee a mr green sundays work of the league consisted in listening to some very illi beral and intolerant into lerent speeches and in the expulsion R E spencer who was chairman of the committee on future work and who when robert roti gnad led the minority in opposition to the ex free lovers and spiritualistic branch in favor of more reputable planks in the platform his crowning offense was the dueling of the following satirical resolution booked Roo ked that the national liberal league auxiliary leagues and kindred organizations are recommended to consider the pr briety and wisdom of allowing alie national congress con greBs of liberal leagues to denounce all people and powers that be that sad congress shall be empowered to apfl at once to work to remedy all evil and cure all the ills of the world according lo 10 their very liberal becu liar views respecting the came spencer was promptly iia thereupon stirred up the hornets nest detill more interestingly by offering the following resolution Jle solved that the fourth congress of the national liberal league and kindred organizations consider the propriety and wisdom of turning over the control of the organization organisation to the religious sect of spiritualists and the squad of avowed and practical free lovers the excitement grew very demonstrative stra tive and he was forthwith expelled by an almost unanimous vote in private conversation he afterwards said bo was fully cognizant of the infamous and abominable things practiced practised by those who seemed to be in tho majority in the league lie was glad to get out of it and such a set of noisy garrulous blasphemous and erratic fools want to become the future law ivera of the nation yea of the world truly if they are ripe fo any place it h bedlam the climax of the nonsense was reached by a member of the league choso whoso speech the associated press reports us follows look at my hair ook at my legs look at my feet and I ana a member of tho league oh am a leaguer ah dooh booro honorah am I a leaguer golly holly jolly oh name on oh what name follet beg l olleta am I a member of abo league what do the liberals of utah territory bay to uch a clique Is thia the liberalism which they anre advancing and which they are in vain hopes of in these valley for their honora sake we hope their liberalism little as il mean moans something better two and a beauty with fabulous fortune are among the sia tera of mercy who accompany the russian army against tho Tur comans in the wild ot central aia taco magnanimous women maintain out of heir own ician alie well appointed ambulances to which they are attached ati thian practical STOCK shipments from the united stales to europe which were introduced a few years ago a timid experiment have become o that they now exceed the export of meats last year head wo reent over thia year hoad havo already been bent in balue to nearly |