The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1867-04-06

( Ed. RECORD Your correspondent, "A Citizen.
in your last issae who delivered himself of a hom
ily virtue, and descanted on the impropriety of
gentlemen visiting the lager beer cellars to the
Yerkers, TO hear the music, and to sip lager. after
the has gone down and the days work
is orer, says lit is adage that birds of feather
will flock together" Without disputing the truth
fulnesz of the adage, would remind him that there
is another, culled from of Burns songs, which
fits him nicely as if though it had been framed
for the especial purpose. 1t reads after this wise :
"The over-righteous are fool the over-wse an
ither." The performances in those beer cellars
are secluded from pasiic observation, and no
thing OF grossly immoral character takes place
there as A Citizen" would argue. They are sim
ply places of rseort for drinking, and the music
which is good. and the "Yerkers,r as they are
termed, are employed TO promote custom, by max
ing the stay of customers pleasant to themselves.
There is not objection that can be urged against
these places Of resort but will apply with equal force
to any bar saloon. But there is something so
Puritanical and over-righteous in the tone of "A
Citizen" thatI am led to suspect that he is OF the
Cotton Mather School. and if not restrained by
the superior civilization of those by whom he is
surrounded, would apply the lash and the torture,
or, perchance, burn at the stake, those who hold
op inions different from bis own, as his New En-
gland progenitors did before him. If the 'Yerkers'
an institution be evil, let people keep away
from them. If hiatus did not exist for them here
in Oroville, they would not be found here. They
will never fix their residence in place where no
inducements are held out to them to go. But,
am far from looking upon them nuisance.
They wellordered and, class, keep them
selves aloof they consumers and pay for what
they get they are adopts at their peculiar busi-
ness and render themselves agreeable to all who
approach them. Mankind may preach, pray and
lecture much as they please, but they can never
bring society up to the ideal standard of extreme
moralists. After all that has been said and done,
there is not city or large town upon the face OF
the globe where women of questionable reputation
cannot be found. By many men of standing and in
tellect they are looked upon as necessary evil,
and in some places they are protected by law. So
far as Oroville is concerned, she is singuary ex-
empt from many immoraties common to other
towns in the mining regions. There is no place in
California where higher standard of morality ex
lists, and where more Difference aud respect is shown
TO females than IN Orovlile. Ii ~ Cltlzen mas de-
termined, in imitation of Don Quixotte to attempt
to correct all the evils of the world let him, like
the renowned Knight of La Mancha, provide him
self with Rosinante, an Esquire and a spear, and
go forth in quest of adventure. And if some dark
night he should bring up in Chinatown, and mis-
take one of the novels for a castle, and be found
kissing the hand of Celestial nymph through
window, thinking her distressed maiden impris
oned. and vowing vengeance against her persecu-
tors, the parallel between h i'm and the demented
Don would be complete. IXIoN.