The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-06-13
CORRESPONDENCE.
"The Garden City"

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June, Sth, 1899.
To the Editor of the Banner DEAR
SIR AS the different papers come to us
we are overwhelmed at the reports of
the most horrible murders and butchery
of human life in this city, and not only
here but in the country, generally. We
are sorry to acknowledge that this has
become so common with us that but lit
tie attention is paid to it, unless it is
something after the DR.. Cronin affair.
This was deep laid plot under the dis
guise of contract, which was made
with the ice man, as already stated in
your columns, to get the Doctor out in
hurry to take his life, which they did in
a hurry, and in a most inhuman way.
Had our police strictly attended to their
business in hating the wagon they saw
at the early hour Of morning, they would
have found the body of DR.. Cronin in
this mysterious trunk which was only
disguise; as we I. equently see an ex-
press wagon on the streets containing
trunk; so many coming and going in
and out of this city and more coming in
than going out.
There are good many who come here
with the expectation of lettering their
condition, as far as labor is concerned,
and get wofully disappointed, for our
streets are thronged with thousands who
carry starving countenance, to such a
degree that revenge is depicted in their
eyes. These will steal, murder, or do
most any unlawful act rather than
starve. The poorer classes of all the old
countries are constantly coming and
landing on our shores, and, finding no
en- ploy ment, become blood-thirsty, and
allow themselves to commit unlawful
deeds.
But this had nothing to do with the
DIR. Cronin affair. That was more ser.
ious character the outgrowth Of which
we fear will burst upon this great Ma
ton in the near future like a volcanic
eruption, unless the American people
and our own American Government
stand upon the watch-tower of Ameri
can principles, of American institutions,
of the pure and unadulterated Christian
ity that was handed down to us by our
forefathers. who, soon as they landed on
Plymouth Rock, fell upon their knees
and acknowledged to an All-wise Provi-I
dence, his goodres his protection in
discovering this great country Of ours,
where we have been permitted to wor-
ship the great Author of all things I'M
disturbed, till in these later years in this
Nineteenth century the great enemy of
our Christian religion has crept in from
the Old World, and is to day in dark
and mysterious way seeking to destroy
our American rights and privileges;
rights vouchsafed to us by the rivers Of
blood spilled to build up one of the best
Governments the sun ever shone upon.
Your humble correspondent well rec.
objects of listening to great speech of
the lamented Hon. Matt. Carpenter a
good many years ago, in Madison, Wis
on monopoly" warning what would
and what has come TO pass to the injury
of the greater portion of our American
people. So we need to be on the look
out for the enemies of our Christian civ
liz ition, who in mysterious ways are
working to pull down the very pillars of
our system of free institutions of learn
ing and religion. The dark cloud cf dis
ruption already begins to fortily her
strong bulwarks and take bold stand
in our political world. This is already
beginning to show itself in our city gov.
ernments till the very air is impregnat-
ed with its foul deeds Of darkness. We
need as American people 10 take far
warning before it is too late. Let us
hold on to the principles 80 dear to us,
and which cost not only rivers of blood
but tire ,surt untold.
1t seems by the great disasters which
have come upon us as a people and a
Matt IN. not only to-day but for few
years past, that God is teaching or warn
ing us of a power far beyond human
ken, who has the rength to sweep a |
whole city out of existence at breath
of his nostris. Our enemies are here in |
our very midst trying to overpower the
good and establish the evil. Their mo |
tive is self-aggrandlsement, throwing
away principle for the mere sake of self |
until the political world seems as cor
rupt as the world OF evil itself.
CORP. w. E. SHELDON.
TOur friend mus. have had on his pea
simistic spectacles this week. Cheer up,
Bro. Sheldon, thes4 things must needs
be, but there is promise of much
better state for even this world. Look |
at the humanity which makes the world
noble, as illustrated this week and last
in Pennsylvanis.-ED