Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-02-15
To Mining Secretaries.
The Mother.in-Law In Politics

The woman suffragists are marshall
ing for a new movement. Will legis-
lators please consider what a revo'u-
ton would occur if the mother-in-
law should become political poweri
No married man would be able to
say his soul or his vote was his own.
No unmarried Democrat would dare
to marry lady with a Republican
mother. Both mother and daughter
would vote against his dearest whims,
and he would not dare to go near the
polls for fear of being challenged by
a pair of lace mits and blue cotton
umbrella. Our streets during politi-
cal campaigns would fiaunt tantaliz-
ing banners inscribed, "Vote for John
Smith, the mother-in-law's candidate
for Mayor" "Tea from the tariff"
mo import duties on false fronts!P
No married man would care to be
candidate for Office, and man with
his second mother-in-law would be
politically dead. Cigars would be
heavily taxed, while snuff would go
free, and the Legislature would be
free with lobbying-women whose
daughters-in-law were in office,
if, indeed, the mother-in-law
did not take all the offices
herself, even assuming the Presi-
dency, and writing more vetoes
than Andrew Jackson. Would you,
fellow freemen, fancy mother-in-
law President, swinging her reticule
of vetoes in the air. opening all the
letters in the Post Office Depart
ment, intriguing with Isabella and
making money out Of tea. snuff and
blue umbrella rings? Rather than
suffer the cruelty of an old mother
in-law President we would prefer
even Governor Tilden.
J. A. Steinberger, brother of the
Premier of Samoa, has just returned
from the Islands, and gives a gos-
sipy account OF the people now I'M
der the United States protectorate:
ssThe costumes worn on the Island
differ slightly from the styles so
popular at this time in San Francisco.
The natives wear some clothing, but
not enough to come within the rules
of parliamentary decorum, hence
special rules were adopted imposing
q fine of 500 upon every member
who should appear in the legislative
halls in a partial or complete state OF
nudity. When the members were
compelled to wear clothes, and pay
for them, it began to dawn on Their
minds that civilization had its dis
comforts as we'll as its blessings. A
member of the Samoan Legislature
in tight boots and plug hat is the
most grotesque specimen of law
making timber that constitutional
liberty ever produced. At first they
refused to wear anything on their
feet. SO awkward and uncomfortable
did shoe leather appear 20 them, but
respect for the government finally
.impelled them to change their de-
cision. Mr.. Steinberger speaks in
unqualified praise of the virtue and
chastity OF the native women, es
pecially those residing inland, oil
at a distant from the harbor'
where sailors and other white
men congregate. The women, too
are not destitute of personal beauty
The military force of the Govern
ment consists of $50 well-drilled
militiamen. In the town OF Apia
the seat Of government, where thu
population has reached the number
of 500, police officers patrol the
streets regularly, and make promp
arrests of law breakers. There arr
only three saloons inApia at present
vet formerly there were twenty. A
ten O'Clock every night cannon
fred, and that is the signal TO
closing up the saloons.