Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-03
PROTESTING TOO MUCH.


Some ladies' Of COlombus. KAN have
protested, it is said, against the admls-
sion OF Turkish exhibits 10 the ST. Louis
fair ON the ground that the Turks are
the enemies Of Christendom and as
such should not be given any privileges
10 the assemblies Of Christians" It
is, we SUPPOSE, an American privilege
to Kick aud protest and find fault with
everything and everybody. That is the
assumed prerogatiye Of monarchs,
and Americans are. Of course, an mon.
archs, But In this case the most prom.
inent feature Of the protest is that 1t
is unreasonable.
The Turks have been guilty OF many
crueltIes, certainly. They have a mum.
Der Of crimes justly charged to their
account But Americans cannot afford
to be TOO exactlng IN that particular.
The newspapers at present tell of the
moral condition Of one OF our large
cities, There are now" says Mr.. Den
cen, states attorney pending In the
Chicago courts fifty-slx cases Of MUIR
der. So common have they become
that the public conscience Is becoming
dulled and murders are coming to be
regarded with little more Importance
than fist fights The Jury IS inclined to
say when a man is tried for murder:
It Is his first ofense. We might as
woll let him go" Think of that in
Christian" Chicago!
Speaking about this condition the
New York Evening Sun comments as
follows:
I'VE venture to say that until Chica-
go reforms us politics life win continue
to be held cheap and criminals viii es-
cape their deserts and murderers the
rope; and In saying this we are aware
that we do not have the millennium
here In New York But the Chicago
brand OF politics is peculiarly sordid,
constituencies and brutal The Grim
inals vote is as much solicited as the
vote Of the decent citizen, and the
criminal is courted and coddled by the
class OF politicians who run the pri-
marles and often control the board OF
aldermen. The tone Of public life In
Chicago Is low base and degenerate,
and there WIZ be no uplifting or change
for the better until Chicago undergoes
a moral cataclysm under the scourg- |
Ing Of an honest and fearless man"
We do not mention Chicago as an
exceptionally wicked American city.
The condition there Is merely typical
OF an almost general condition, more
or less manifest. according to the ex.
listing opportunities.
only the other day the story was told |
about blacksmith living In Brooklyn.
who was brutally beaten by fellow
only because he desired TO
work TO maintain wife and children,and |
because he innocently thought he had
a right 60 live and to pursue the hap.
pIuess OF supporting his family. The
accounts said he was knocked down
and kicked on the head while he lay on
the ground Had q not been for the
presence OF O DISTINGUISHED citizen who
lntofcred this affair would probably
have ended as q murder As II was.
an ambulance surgeon was summoned
and when the victim was removed to
the hospital his condition was said to
be serious can anything more out
raeeous be conceived Of as happening
IN civilized country? We need not
mention the lyuchlngs, the burnlngs,
the savage deeds that are rot more
than duplicated IN the wake OF Turkish
hordes Dec loose to KIN and plumber
But what has that 10 DO with an ex.
hiblton OF the products OF the worlds
arts and manufactures? In such a place
every nation OF the human family Is
entitled 10 representation--eyen canni-
balls, as loug as they do not propose
TO exhibit caunibausm. The protest
Ing business may be all right IN some
respects. but It should not be carried
too the point Of the ridiculous, Those
who aIe induleing In that kind Of d.
version should always remember the
SAYING about the beam and the mote.