Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-25

| tnat one does not expect 10 ma
among the Puritan people of the
States on the sunrise side of the
Mississippi. And while we are quite
willing to admit that this ready
adaptability to new customs, new
diversions, and new ideas, is some
| time turned to All account not Who'll
! ly commendable from a moral stand
point, we cannot justly place our
seal of wholesale condemnation up
on "the moral looseness at our west
ern people," as it is termed by the
pulpit and religious press of the
country. In this connection what
do you suppose the STRAIGHTFORWARD
would think Of the versatility of our
people in their amusements on the
Sabbath Day? Contrary to all Pu-
ritanical notions of what constitutes
religion, m orals and propriety, to say
nothing of orderly conduct, our min
ers and mills necessarily, of course)
hammer away every hour and mo-
ment of the Lords twenty -four
hours of the week, pounding out SER
mons to Mammon as well as Indus
try and Science. Our merchants ac-
credited with being possessed of more
godly attributes than any other class,
keep up both reputation and trade
by opening their stores for an hour
or two in the morning and closing
doors again at church time. The
saloons their name is legion recog
nizing Sunday only as day of bet
ter trade, a harvest time of dollars
and dimes, open wide their doors
and mix the cheering beverage,
manipulate the nimble poker check,
and give full sway to every line of
their business. The amusement
hunter, the tired clerk and merchant
and artisan go to the springs or some
other resort in quest of pleasures
that a week of toll just ended has
made almost indispensable to the
health of his physical, as well as his
mental condition. A few "a very
few-go to church, or spend the day
at home repenting the sins that a
successful week of business has lett
burdeniug their conSciences. In fact, !
every one worships God in their own
way, caring little about the orthodox
prohibitions laid down from the |
pulpit, and solacing their accusing I
with the promise to bet.
ter bv-and-by, when they get old I
and can't have anything but govt 7
and rheumatism. s'YOu can get !
more people out on Sunday to wit
ness a wild cat chase, dog fight, or
a negro minstrel performance than
Won can to listen to an eloquent SER
mon," says our pious friend, and
this state Of things have existed here
for fifteen years. 1t will last fifteen
years longer-and why? Because
people of this sage-brush land have
gotten out of the old moral grooves
in which they patiently and fearful
al IN, al
they find their new set of habits are
so much easier to wear that they
will not put on their old ones again.
The life of pioneer teaches loose
ness as we'll as liberality. 1t begets |
liberal ideas, and liberal interpreta- /
tons of what is required of man by |
the Creator that no doctrinal theo-
logy can again contract or counter
act; and which, if not quite warrant |
ed by sound reasoning, are still so
acceptable to frail human nature |
that we inseparably cling to them,
regardless of the cons equences to be
faced in another world. Yet, after
all, were we to judge a people by
their acts of liberality in purse,
their friendships, their honesty in
business, and by their lack of hy-
pocrisy, who will say that the pion-
GERS of the sage brush are not as holy
as their brothers of the east who
look upon them as ''the roughs of
the trontier!'
THE GAMBLING LAw.-The mat
ter of the mandamus case of Westley
George VS.. Sheriff Swift, of Ormsby
county, came up in the Supreme
Court last Wednesday. This case
involves the validity of the gambling
law of the last session. The facts,
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