DESER WEEKLY 0. 14. AND LIBERTY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1891. A HAMLET OF THE DEAD. have asked repeatedly for a trial, dark, majestic wood is on one side, While close-cropped meadow fields stretch far present. THE MAYOR AND THE MARSHAL. DEAR SIR-I have thought that in justice to Ex-Mayor Armstrong and myself, a statement of facts should be laid before the public in regard to our cases, wherein in Dec., 1889, twelve indictments were found by the grand jury, six against each of us, for misappropriating public monies of Salt Lake City. Every few weeks our hames have been brought before the Courts, and heralded by the Press from one end of the land to the other. We VOL. XLII. seeing our own officers could not gain admittance to these places, that detectives were employed. " who were Mr. Z. Coltrin, whose name has When Mr. Armstrong and myself figured before the public many times were elected to fill the offices of Mayor in these cases, was employed and a and Marshal of this city, there were commission given to him by me as a five notorious houses of vile repute detective for Salt Lake City. He emdoing a thriving business. The names ployed sub-detectives, of the proprietors of these houses were strangers to me and the police, until very familiar to the public. Sunday cases were brought before the court in liquor selling was carried on to a con- which these men were witnesses. siderable extent, although not with Offenses being proven to the satisfacopen doors. In 1886 a petition was re- tion of the court, fines were imposed ceived by the City Council asking that and the proceeds paid into the city the city marshal be empowered to em- treasury. ploy two detectives for the better pro tection of its citizens and enforce ment of the ordinances of this city. A motion was made and passed at the the next council that the mayor, with the marshal associated, be authorized to employ detectives (no number mentioned) for this purpose. It has been claimed there was no authority given to the mayor or marshal to employ detectives. After our installation in office, these public houses of prostitution were broken up and the proprietors and inmates scattered to the four winds, and a public house of that character was not known thereafter in this city while Mayor Armstrong was in office. Strange women would come to our city and undertake to establish such places, and Sunday liquor selling caused a continuous fight on the part of the city. Sometimes the proprietors of saloons would be halfway decent in their actions, at others they would band together and defy the city to stop them, making threats against the officers and detectives. 1 The system adopted by the saloon 1 A better set of officers in regard to this matter would have been hard to find, but these circumstances made it difficult for the police to detect Sunday liquor selling. It was for this purpose, I received an order from the city recorder on the treasurer as the marshal's contingent fund out of which Mr. Coltrin was paid, and a voucher taken. These vouchers at the end of the quarter were examined and "OK'd" by the mayor, and presented with the marshal's quarterly report to the Council. They were then referred to the. committee on police and found to be correct, and approved, and were so recommended to the Council and acted upon and filed. Now this is in full the proceedings wherein we have been charged with misappropriating the public monies. It was demanded of us by the public and press that prostitution and Sunday liquor selling should be suppressed, and we determined to do it, even as the mayor wisely said, if it cost the city double the money that was made by fines collected in these cases. How well we succeeded we will leave the public to judge. We believed what we were doing was for the support of the morals and good government of the city. Now we are called upon to come into court and prove there was no criminal intent on our part, or suffer the penalty of the law for misappropriating public funds. Whether I have done wrong in making this public, or whether we should have borne this stigma in silence, I leave to the public. ALFRED SOLOMOŃ. SALT LAKE CITY, March 12, 1891: Later dispatches confirm the report that a Portuguese gunboat has attacked and captured a British merchant steamer in the Limpopo River, in Africa. If the British were not on the verge of trouble with Venezuela over the Guiana boundary question, Portugal would hardly venture upon such a bold move. THE DESERET WEEKLY, prosecution against these gentlemen PUBLISHED BY THE DESERET NEWS COMPANY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.50 1.50 Per Year, of Fifty-two Numbers, IN ADVANOR CHARLES W. PENROSE, EDITOR. Saturday, are not ashamed of the farce they have IT WILL NOT DO. THE "Liberal" City Council are making a big and black record. If they had set themselves to the task of bringing odium upon their party But there is a serious side to this they could not have done more batch of buncombe, falsehood and mis- in this direction than they use of official influence and authority. have accomplished during the year Messrs. Armstrong and Solomon have they have been in office. The been put to immense trouble and ex- lavish expenditure of public funds; the March 28, 1891. pense in this vexatious and vicious oppressive taxation; the failure to acpretended prosecution. They are in- complish anything promised to the jured materially. That may be some public when they were struggling for satisfaction to their accusers. But it is office; the pot-house style of their pera wrong which they should not be sonal disputes when in public council; made to suffer from without some the incapacity and dilatoriness they redress. What course they will take have displayed; the readiness they in relation to the matter we do not have manifested to play into the hands know. But it is clear that they ought of speculators, and their complete disnot to be made to bear alone the burden regare of the public wishes; have dis of the expense which has been incurred gusted the community and principally in defending their cases during the the best people of the party that put many months in which they have them in place. been pending. CONFERENCE NOTICE. The Sixty-first Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will commence at ten o'clock, on Saturday morning, April 4th, 1891, in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City. All Officers and Members of the Church are cordially invited to be present at the meetings. WILFORD WOODRUFF, First Presidency. COLLAPSE OF A SHAMEFUL The last movement they have made The idea of prosecuting public officers is perhaps one of the worst. It is the for diligently endeavoring, by lawful pretended change of site for the public means, to suppress immorality and dis- building. Very few citizens believe it order is something peculiar, and is anything but an excuse for can only be accounted for by postponing any work whatever the fact that it was a Liberal" political upon the structure. The grave i notion. The same may be said in re- nouncement of the Mayor that credit PRO-ference to the Hydraulic Canal Company cases. They were all attempts to injure the reputation of gentlemen whose character was above reproach, and fling “Liberal” mud at the People's Party. THE closing scene in a broad "Liberal" farce was played in the Third District Court March 13th. The cases against ex-Mayor Armstrong and exMarshal Solomon were dismissed on motion of the District Attorney. These were the last of the trumped-up charges against prominent members of the People's Party which were made for political effect during the last municipal campaign. was due to the Council for its public improvements, among which was the expenditure of over eleven thousand dollars for city building-which con sists entirely of a hole in the groundwas a piece of grim humor that the taxpayers could properly appreciate. And that the hole in the ground is all of the city and county building which will be seen during the incumbency of the present Council is a general public belief. We are glad that an end has come to the legal farce which has been played for the intended benefit of the "Liberal" party, and trust that all decent Liberals" appreciate the acting of the chief performers, and have formed a correct estimate of their worth. We If there was any real intention to go consider the whole business an out-on with the building, work would have The accusations against the Mayor rage, not only upon the gentlemen | been commenced on the foundation at and Marshal were all of a piece with who have been assailed and put to the site already selected. Discussion those connected with the Hydraulic needless trouble and expense, but up- had been ample over the proper loca Canal Company. There was nothing on the public and the means intended tion for the building. It was decided in them. The "Liberal" individuals to promote justice and protect citizens that the spot where the excavation was who moved in these matters knew from wrong, which have been perverted begun was the best for public business there was nothing in them. The into a vehicle of injustice and evil, and being so near the centre. There is no "Liberal" grand jury which found the earthly solid reason for a change. The indictments knew there was nothing squares ought to be left for the purpose in them. The "Liberal" scribes who originally intended, which in spite of tried to manufacture public sentiment The proceedings were terminated lawyers' squibbles, everybody know against the accused gentlemen, on ac- without noise and without any attempt was for places of public resort, breathcount of these groundless charges, at justification. It was acknowledged ing spots, to be beautified and adorned knew there was nothing in them. The that no criminal intent had been man- according to the means of the munici whole proceedings were a prostitution- ifested, that therefore there was real-pality. The sight chosen is good of the powers of the law and shamely no case against the defendants; and enough. The Eighth Ward Square, ful to the last degree. the curtain was rung down over the af- apart from other reasons, is too far The pretext on which the charges fair to shut it out of sight with as little away from the centre of trade and trafagainst the former Mayor and Marshal ceremony as possible, and no blast from ic. of the city was based, is clearly shown the band or flourish of legal trumpet If this change is insisted upon, trouup in the letter of the ex-Marshal drew public attention to the dead is ble will arise. The courts will be which will be found in another col-sue. But it is a matter of record, nev-appealed to. Further delays will follow. umn. The facts there related cannot ertheless, and will do to file away for The eleven thousand dollar hole in the be denied. If the promoters of the future reference. ground will continue to be all there is * used for party ends, the defamation of of the public building, and an abiding murder. Hennessy, it was stated, was Go on with the building, if you mean business, gentlemen! Do something to brighten your record. If not, come out plaiuly and say so. Give your reasons why you cannot or will not build. But do not try to pull Eighth Ward wool over the eyes of the tax-payers, for they are looking at you very sharply and will see through all your paltry subterfuges. NATIONALISM, MOBOCRACY AND The Weekly States, a New Orleans journal, commenting on the murder and on the causes which led to it, remarked that though our land extends to aliens the blessings of liberty, yet it expects them to be alive to the responsibilities which freedom carries with it. It said: "One-the chiefest danger to our social system—is that of engrafting upon its stem the vagaries of other nationalities." clusive against individuals, and yet justice has been turned aside by the deathbed stateinent even of the victim, himself, that his assailant was his friend and innocent of the crime clearly brought virtue higher even than truth to relegate home to him, the victim deeming it a his murderer to the operation of the vendetta rather than to the punishment of the law." However, as a rule, these people confined their murderous doings to themselves, until last October, when David Hennessey, the New Orleans Chief of Police, was killed. He knew the workings of Italian societies, made himself cognizant of the strifes and feuds which led to their secret plots to murder. It was known that in a case then pending, he would give important evidence, and that was, it is stated, the cause for his removal. The New Orleans episode is only one more of these convincing testimonies prove the uselessness and wickedness of many secret societies, clan organizations and race gregariousness. No man can be a good American, nor, indeed can he be a useful and ef THE fearful tragedy at New Orleans, on Saturday, March 14th, is something to make thoughtful men shudder. In It appears that those Italians bring one of the principal cities of the United with them all their vices and weak. which States scenes were enacted which calm, considerate, law-abiding citizens are disinclined to dwell on. It was a lynching unparalleled in the United States. It was such a violent contempt and defiance of civil law that rational minds are horrified. nesses of their people at home. They The Sicilians are said to be the most a better cause. These people do not generally follow aborious employment. They are not producers. They are invariably peddlers of fruit, fish, or of some bric-abrac kind of ware. fective member of American Society, some The decision of a court and the verdict of a jury were regarded by an enraged public as defenses of murderous conspirators. A corrupt jury and a rotten judiciary are bad enough, but it Stanley, the famous explorer, is a He is an is scarcely debatable that lynching is good illustration of this. much worse. According to the New American, and speaks of it with pride. Orleans press and public opinion, the He has so published himself to the jury and court were purchased in the world, and yet people will persist in trial of the Italians, and that was why trying to get him to acknowledge anthe lynching followed. This is a very other nationality. In every town he sad state of affairs. Mob law is the is almost When it is found visits, he subjected to worst kind of tnyrany and the tragedy that a Sicilian has a trade, it is gea-insult, by persons who want to lower at New Orleans is a disgrace to that erally that of a tinker or cobbler. These his American citizenship by forcing city and the State of Louisiana. two trades are taught in the peniten him into identification with To those who wish for the perpetua-iaries, and it may be inferred that the other nation, because he happened to tion and preservation of our institupersons exercising them here are be born there. To encourage Ameri- * tions this lamentable drama ought to graduates of criminal reformatories. canism and to disparage and denounce make a serious object lesson. It is all In a political sense these people all attempts to establish European facvery well to denounce corrupt jury-are more dangerous than in a tionism here, ought to be the duty and men, venal judges, and undesirable social sense. They are entirely led the aim of every good citizen and of immigrants, but that will avail very by their "padrones." A politician every rational member of society. little. We must begin at the begin. deals directly with a "padrone." The ning, and let every citizen deem it latter, of course, is an Italian, more or part of his bounden duty both to see less conversant with American politics, that good men and wise men are and able to speak the English langelected to office, and to watch the course uage. This "padrone" can manipulate of those who are elected to public posi- votes as it suits his purpose. His tions, also to discourage all race fac-strongest ground is at the primaries. tionalism and maintain the supremacy And it is there that he is most in deof law. mand. 1 A WORD OF WARNING. " "MONEY is tight." We hear this every day. For some unexplained reason, the cash boxes of the capitalists and the safes of the banks seem to be locked up, and only at big interest and extra securities cau money be borOf the Sicilians the Weekly States rowed. Blessed is he who needs not to borrow or can so manage his affairs that he does not run into debt! A It will be remembered that a few months ago a murder of a very sensa: says: tional character occurred in New "Our records show that as a nationality Orleans. Captain Hennessy, the hey belong essentially to the criminal It is against the disposition to get classes, and yet, conviction, when crime chief of police in that city, was shot is charged against them, is very hard to goods and property on credit that we and killed while in the dis- secure, because of the difficulty of get- wish to utter a word or two of warning. charge of his duty. The reports at the ting them to testify one against the other. Some people seem to think that, if they time connected an Italian secret so-inal records are full of instances where can obtain anything "on time," parciety known as the "Mafia" with the circumstancial evidence was all but con- ticularly if it appears to be cheap, Of no other race is this true. Our crim whether they really need it or not, cash instead of paying interest on port. They think their slain counthey have made something and are so time. trymen were shot down, largely bemuch ahead. They appear to ignore The same advice is good for all cause they were Italians, and that while the fact that the debt must be paid and classes. Watch closely your expendi- the alleged guilt of the doomed men that interest upon it accrues and ac- tures. Pay as you go. Avoid unneces- and the failure of justice were promiu. cumulates and may swamp them en-sary purchases. Keep within your ent reasons for the assault, race antitirely if allowed to increase. means. Don't be penurious and pathies and the prejudice which is This fatuity is noticeable among the stingy and stupidly starve your-growing in this country against the farming community. The reckless- selves to hoard up dimes. But prac- low class of Italian immigrants, had ness with which agricultural machin- tice a wise economy and try and much to do with the rage of the popul ery and implements and vehicles of have a margin, however small, over ace which led to this catastrophe. different descriptions are bought on your expenses so that you may be pre- Of course, there is nothing in the atcredit, is really alarming and astonish-pared for contingencies. Sickness, ac-tempt to make an international quarrel ing. The old spirit of fraternity and cident, misfortune may come at any co-operation among neighboring farm-time, and he who is in debt when overers is declining rapidly, and every man taken is doubly distressed. seems to be disposed to "go it alone." The consequence is that in places where two or three mowers and reapers and similar machines, by exchange of help co-operative ownership Be watchful. Do not involve yourwould amply meet the needs selves. Keep on the safe side of the of neighborhood, every farmer financial line. Owe no man anything. wants to have a machine of his own, Debt is a heavy burden. Interest will even if he have to run into debt to pro-eat you up if its rust is allowed to pre-between the two powers that need cure it and give his note, bearing Clear off your pecuniary obliga-give occasion for unrest. heavy interest, in payment. And the Be free from all such incumworst of it is that so many seem to look brances. And use your influence to upon an interest bearing note as though check extravagance and promote finanit really were, payment. When pay cial freedom. So shall you be blest day comes and interest accumulates, with prosperity, and peace shall crown then trouble begins, and the burdened your days with joy. debtor resorts to all kinds of shifts to postpone settlement, thus lengthening out the interest upon his note until he "pays through the nose" for his ma chine or vehicle, and perhaps wears it out before he extricates himself from his burden of debt contracted to secure its possession. Times are tight, money is stringent, the future is chiefly unknown. And wisdom cries aloud to her children. Prepare for what is to come. Be thrifty. vall. tions. THE TRAGEDY AT NEW ORLEANS. NOTHING that has happened for a long time has so startled and aroused all classes of people in this country as the lynching at New Orleans. If the event had occurred in some mining One reason so many agriculturists camp or new Western town it would have to struggle for a mere existence, not have shocked the country, because and seem to make little or no head way, law and order are not supposed to be so is because they anticipate their crops thoroughly established there as in the and eat them up before they are har-old abodes of civilization and Christian vested. The reason why many work- institutions. But in a city like New ing people remain in comparative poverty, is because they use up their wages before they are earned, by running into debt to stores and other places. It is on the improvidence and recklessness and extravagance of the needy that banks and money lenders flourish and make fortunes. Orleans such an occurrence is as as- over this affair. Italy is in no position to take up arms against the United States, no matter how much importance the Italian government may attach to this attack upon some of its citizens. And the Government of the United States will, no doubt, deal courteously and in a proper spirit with the complaint that comes from Italy. But it will end in an investigation and diplomatic civilities, and there will be no collision It may be very different as to indi viduals. The lower class of Italians are very revengeful and not over particular as to the objects of their hate We shall not be surprised if reprisals are had and many fatal quarrels are the consequence of the uprising at New Orleans. It has provoked Italians in every part of this country, and if mur. der and riot do not spring out of this unfortunate affair we will be greatly mistaken. The utmost precautions should be had to prevent trouble in this direction. Some good will no doubt arise out of The Mafia" will be curbed. It has the evil of this lawless occurrence. received a terrible warning. Secret societies having murder for one of their objects will experience a check. They should be stamped upon and destroyed. But their demolition should be accomplished by the arm of the law. We have nothing to urge in defense Corrupt judges and juries will also of the slaughtered Italians. They. take notice of this popular outburst. were, in all probability, guilty of the murder of the chief of police and de- They may be awed into the path of serving of death for their crime. But, duty because it is the way of safety. Friends, try and stop this folly! none the less, their execution was And cowardly assassins of all races will Farmers, if you possibly can, refrain assassination. It was the unlawful from mortgaging in any way the crops killing of human beings "with malice you expect to reap in the summer and prepense and aforethought." The mob fall. Try and manage so that you will had no lawful authority to pass upon have your harvest to use ahead, instead their case nor to execute any penalty of being compelled to pay out most of upon them. It was mob law and mob it in liquidating past Indebtedness. execution, and these are the worst Keep a little grain in the bin. Put a kind of tyranny. little money in the saving's bank. Dobility of many who participated in the a cash business. Keep out of debt. massacre, instead of palliating it makes Instead of buying a machine or a the matter worse. wagon or a buggy on time, so arrange The anger aroused among the people your affairs that being a little ahead of Italian blood in this country is very instead of in arrears, you can pay for natural. They look upon the it "on the nail" and get discount for massacre as having a national im see that there is a force behind the uncertain machinery of the law which, when once let loose, is swift and awful in its directness and power. Yet, with all this, the fact remains that the killing at New Orleans was murder, the result of mobocracy and And the respecta- lawlessness. For that reason it is a disgrace to the City and State where it occurred. For that reason it is to be deprecated, aye denounced, by all whe venerate law and order, and who do not want to see violence and mɔb law gain the upper hand in these United States. IRELAND AND ST. PATRICK. THIS is St. Patrick's day. By many it is called the 17th of Ireland; and by others the Irish Fourth of July. At all events, it is a day almost as marked in the United States as any national holiday. Persons of other nativity than that of Ireland are familiar with this date, and if speaking on any occurrence which might have happened on or about this time, generally speak of it as occurring about St. Patrick's day. he established a school of learning and men owes to him her independence of Rome. Much may be said against Parnell, but if through him independence of Rome could be obtained, he would be the Henry of Ireland. And until Ireland is independent of Romé as well as England, she can never be prosperous, happy, nor peaceful. Bede and all the early historians of About two years ago, a very learned the British Islands agree on this point, Jew, the Rabbi Rosenthal of Chicago, They also agree that the schools estab-published an article in Menorah, a Jewlished by Patrick and the missionaries ish monthly, on St. Patrick. In it he produced by them were far superior to endeavored to show that the famous the Romish. It is certain that a spirit missionary was a converted Hebrew Probably there is not in the history of nationality and race unity was pro- Christian. He undoubtedly made some of primitive Christianity any character duced in Ireland by the Patrick sys- good points. He showed that Patriabout whom so much misconception tem. When the Danes and North- cius was not derived from the Roand misinformation exists as the perman word in the case of St. Patrick. son commonly called St. Patrick. eighth He showed that a word existed in HeThere is only one fact concerning hiva brew from which the name was dethat all authorities agree on, and that rived. He showed from incidents in is that he was not born in Ireland. the life of the Saint that the latter was The preponderance of evidence goes atrader by occupation, but that he had to show that he was a native resided in Rome for some time. of France, and that his birth- That the Roman authority did not It is to be regretted that learned men place Was Boulougne-by-the-Sea. then prevail in Ireland is a fact well do not dwell a little more on the life Many respectable writers contend that sustained by the "bull" given by and works of that very great and good he first was the light in Scotland, his Adrian the 4th to Henry II of Eng-man St. Patrick. Now the subject is birthplace being near the site of the land, empowering him to subjugate modern Dumbarton, at the mouth of Ireland and reduce it to the Romish the Clyde. There is still a place near faith. This Henry did, or attempted, there called Kilpatrick, and it is sup- in 1172. posed it was so called, from being the place of his birth. But if this were so, the "Kil" would hardly be retained, unless he had founded a church there during his mission. "Kil" is the Gaelic term for a primitive church establishment founded on the community system. Here is where the misapprehension prevails relating to Patrick's mission. It is common'y stated that he was commissioned by Pope Celestine to preach the Gospel in Ireland, yet not invaded Ireland in the and ninth centuries the Celts united in driving them out. The Danes were firmly entrenched. Dublin, Limerick and Waterford were founded by Danes, and they were the most important cities in Ireland. The history of Ireland from 1172 to the Reformation shows that the atoriginal Irish were never recognized as Romanists. Wherever the AngloRoman Supremacy prevailed no person of Irish birth or parentage could hold any of the church benefices, nor could any of the Irish priests inherit property in the way of bequests from religious persons. The laws made by the Anglo-Romanists were even worse than those subsequently made by the Protestants from 1704 to 1770. One line or document of any kind exists law which in substance was, that to show this was the case. What is if a dispute occurred between an still stranger is, that in Rome, no Anglo-Roman and an Irish Christian, Church edifice has ever been reared and the latter was killed in the trouble, to the memory of St. Patrick. all that was necessary was to prove This alone is convincing proof at the inquest that the dead body that he was never recognized as a Rom- was that of an Irish Christian, ish missionary; because all the patron to relieve the murderer of the charge. saints of nations in Europe have This will illustrate the nature of the churches in Rɔme called after them. whole system. ́ The Roman authorities, seeing that this incident gave historians a ground for contesting Patrick's Romanism, turned their attention to bullding a church, and there is one now in pro cess of construction. handled entirely by a set of ignorant Irish priests, who don't understand the mother-tongue of their own country, who are not conversant with Irish history, and who travel in the stereotyped path laid out for thein by such villainous Roman traducers of Ireland, as Geraldus Cambrensis, the Roman Bishop, and Pinkerton, the lay Roman historian. The young men of Ireland should honor St. Patrick, but they should approach the study of his life from a purely Irish standpoint. St. Patrick built a nation independent of Rome, and he preached a Christianity as foreign to Rome as it was to Druidism, THE COURSE OF THE CITY COUNCIL THE City Council continue to act as though they were the masters instead of the servants of the people. This is the spirit of that spurious "Liberalism" which lifted them into office and which maintains six of them in positions to which they were not elected. After the Reformation, the Anglo- The protest of the citizens against the Romans who would not adopt Protest-removal of the site for the joint city antism were treated just as they treated and county building, presented at the the Christian Celts. Up till this time Council last night, was treated in the not a word ever emanated from Rome same manner as other protests and against the conduct of its agents and petitions from the public have been It Was allies in Ireland. Then it began to treated. signed by only howl, and to make capital of the Pro- a few, but they are all proptestaut criminal code, though its own erty holders and persons of finanpenal laws a few centuries previous cial importance, and their were worse. are endorsed by a large number of the citizens who may not be as much interested pecuniarily as the signers, but who are opposed to the change on public grounds. N Patrick's system of preaching was Views |