Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-03
CHICAGO LETTER.

j. CHICAGO LETTER.
i The Situation OF the Saints Nigh
lie be WORSE Tested and Trie,
TO PeopIe.-Nission OF Mormouism
d The Truth VIII Yet APPEAR
IF other Cities Faring Worse than
salt Lake. The Republic II
= Danger. The Nature OF the
e Illinois Central Strike.
s Special correspondence DKsEKET SEws.
To the majority Of the people OF
! Utah the outlook, politically and
: religiously, may seem dark and dis
heartening. Certainly there are
grounds for forming gloomy pictures.
Disfranchisement, persecution and
spoliation are not factors to inspire
optimistic authorizations. IL is true
the penal code constructed for Utah
is assuming quite respectable pro-
PORTIONS, but it Is far from its zenith
as yet. The Edmunds' department
alone makes quite volume. Then
there are the Cullom and
Struble balls and a number Of others.
In the face Of al these one would
think that the ordinary or average
Latter-dsy Saint could see nothing
bright or cheerful in the horizon.
But then the Latter-day Saint
Doesn't see with ordinary eyes, and
that is why perhaps he still holds
up his head. And yet, maybe,
there are Latter-day Saints who
pOintedly ask how can mat
tiers be worse for us so
cially, politically and industriaIly?
They will say, Is not our property
taken from US: l. not cur political
I freedom annihilated? Are we not
1 published TO the world as fiends,
murderers and cut-throats? Are We
not branded as malefactors, disloy-
slists and rebels Yes, friends, that
is all correct, but matters could be
still worse. DON'T you know that if
Nrr Ed,,urJ. ba5 lit, 81. t..
- = "a '''e
"a llie FORMER -uay SAINTS, ne would
IIaNe II IN ms power 70 os much
worse man than he isl He could
crafty the intense Thirst for Oppres-
siDn Iiucii oettet IN the days OF
AuIeIlGs imam In those oil harrison:
ne co'ilu then ofler the burning OF
scoIe oI prihltiNe CHRISTIANS 10 |
, ,I.ie,Ii heSei Spectacle IN
WIN raiF heiu III i'one OF JeFu- |
saieih' /
Ss, Ihere are DaI Things SAID oil
.ue iia'ler-dAy saints, but not one
lenth as palu as was sald OF Former
uay Sainls. All the had Things SAID |
90 PrlthitlFe Ihristlans We're prOha-
oiy credited al the time, though the
authors oil the charges were notorl-
Ousiy corrupt men do We not see
ourselves mat the authors OF the
charges against LatteT-day Saints
are synonyms OF corruption: Take
lne IhlcaSO LfDhlte Tor llIustratlOn.
MS paper Is known rs the Jezebel
OF Journalism. II employs private
Ietec'lves 10 trace the career of Mr..
Blame IN MS Juvenile days. IL stole
bogus dispatches from one Of its
brother iTtoUEes and printed them
as original. 1t advocates tariff re-
form ana denOunces Cleveland at
The same time. Butterworth. who
spoke against the Mckinley bill,
and then voted for ii, the Chicago
ITtoDle holds up as man Of honor,
honesty and valor. The editor Of the
tribune was once mayor of Chicago,
and a more wretchet one the city
never knew.
This editor is not an American, |
nor has he ever performed one
patriotic American act. Even the
very name he by ars he has not taken |
legitimately. This man and his
paper says the MOrmOns are aliens,
are immoral, are dislOyal; and people
believe him. The art critic Of that
paper was and perhaps is a member ]
)f Mr.. Alexander Sullivan's family.
Mr.. Sullivan Is the apex of the
Sell-knOwn triangle Of Irish-A mer- !
can politics. II Senator Edmunds
bill in Congress author q
zing the burning Of = score Of Nor
nous at the WORLDS Fair in 1898, u
he Chicago Tribune would, l be- l
ieve, endorse il. This paper is
by a s0n-in-law, who {
would also endorse il. The editor a
md manager are millionaires, but =
hat is nothing in a city where l
Nike Mcdonald, the gambler, is 4 =
Millionaire, anu Mike Crawford, /
he gin-seiler, Is on the way 70 he q
me. II : not wonderful that Jos c
pin MuldoOn, the editor. is ,
I
The tests to which Latter-day q
'aints are at present subjected are
evere ones. But they will prove
quail to those tests. Outrage and 81
MANY are being heaped upon them, o.
oping they would disavOw the q
merican Republic and its Cunsti- e
ltion; hoping that they would pro- =
ounce George Washington and =
'nonlas Jefferson failures: hoping e.
nat they would call Tor the estib- u
Shment OF a German OF Italian ID
,mpire on this continent; YES, 10
oping they would 10 the very Al
libgs which it is part Of their dcS- al
ny not to 10. One OF the missions 50
MormOnism is the perp.tuation 10
this Republic aud its CoustiilI- Al
on, the holding forever sacred the 81
lnes of the fathers Of this Repub- 81
c, and above all 10 guard and fight eT
yainst an alien empire on this con- m
ftsnf niarrnr-s. THE E.,,r I 4