The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-03-08
STEAD'S BOOK.
1t Will Create a Storm in Chicago
When Issued.
The kooit Bristies From Beginning to End
With Thrilling Revelations, Bitter De-
nunciation and Alleged Wholesale
Ex posurrs of the Windy City.

VI t''S '''h"y S''y'
CHICAGO, March 5-W. r. Stead's
book. If Christ Came to Chicago" will
bring down on the London editor the
most terrible denunciations From
beginning to end it bristles with
thrilling revelations, bitter denuncia
tions and wholesale exposures of the
city's inmost workings
Every existing moral, physical and
spiritual condition of the people, with
out regard t. sex or condition of bank
account, is subjected to fire of criti-
cism utterly scathing and merciless.
Politicians and churchmen, the idle
rich and the luckless pauper, society
women, saloon keeper and monopolies
are all given taste of the lash. line
manuscript has been finished and the
author will sail on Wednesday for Lon
don.
The frontispiece of the book is in it.
self caricature which deals out the
bitterest kind of condemnation 1t is
reproduction OF Houman's famous
picture, Christ Driving the Money
Changers Out of the Temple" but the
faces of the fleeing crowd have been
changed to those of prominent Chica-
goans. Just in front of Christ with
his whip of cords, stoops a man ralt-
ing coins which have been hurled from
| an overturned table into the top of q
| receptacle which resembles North
| Side street car The face is that of
Charles Yerl<es, Immediately behind
him. with, a huge bag under his arm
| labeled Gas Trust" stands c. X. Bill
aud -, 4 NJ 4
| Alderman Powers is represented as
running away. In the background
Alderman Brown, famous for his con-
nection with the Watson gas ordinance,
stands grinning at the extreme right
| of the picture
The preface of the forthcoming book
| is written in Mr.. sStead's characteristic
vein lie says:
''The original conception of Christ
coming to Chicago reached me like
most of my religious philosophical no
tions through the poetry of James Rus
sell Lowell This short poem. which
he styled a parabl seems to me to sum
up in a page the vital sense of Christs
teaching"
The first part of the book considers
in regular order ''Thc Tramp" ''The
Harlot," "The Whisky Heller of the
Low Precincts" "The Millionaire, {"
"The Predatory Rich" and "The Idle
Rich An effort is made to show how
each of these classes has defiled the
image of God, and every man
mentioned comes in for merci-
less scoring. Following this there
is complete map of the
nineteenth precinct of the first
ward, one of those represented
in the city council by John
Coughlin. All the disorderly houses
are colored red, the saloons black, the
pawnshops brown. It shows in a
graphic manner just the condition of
the worst part of the levee, and the per-
centage of red and black is astounding
Referring to his description of the
Harrison Street Station, he declares it
to be central cess pool of all the
poisonous drippings of Chicago, city
which he says has become the greatest
cess pool of the world
The second part of the book is an ex-
haustive review of the observations in
the homes of the Magdalens. He tells
of a church which would not allow
fallen women to enter
''Such a church may be respectable,
as Thurtell the murderer, was declared
to be respecta BILE, because he kept a
gig" says the author "but its respecta-
bility will not save it from going down
with all it's conventionalities into per.
dition; nor will it have far to go, for
the abode of such is nigh unto the
gates of HE'LL
In the third section he displays the
history of the reign of king Boodle'
and the coming of "the Assyrian
hordes," by which he means the growth
of monopolies ane trusts. He decries
the gift by franchise of valuable public
rights, such as street car and gas priv
ileges-
Recent movements of the American
Protective association in this country
have attracted his attention, and by
means of interviews of leading Catho
lies and me embers of the association he
has gathered an immense amount o1
data. The information together with
his own observations he will present tt
the pope during the coming summer as
the matter is assuming large proper
tions, and he thinks the pope should
have the benefit of the opinion o.
one who is not affiliated with either
party