Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-02-27
Written for the AvANr CoURIrR.-
OLD EACHES!
Their TaEIts and EOIiies. Sweet
Grapes that have noure<l from
Remaining I'm the Shade
too KOng.

DEAR EDfiCR ALLOW Ule. through tne
columns of your paper. to call attention
to great anil growing evil appertainin2
to this Territory.
l all,lde to gossiping. and, as it is carried
on by a..certain class of "Old BacLes,".-
will make my remarks directly to tlem,
and not whip them over other peoples
shoulders.
Now, don't think mean all Of the un
married male sex, or that my remarks are
intended tor Galatin county alone. There
are few here, "whom the cap fits" But
stand back, my friends, and give your
neighbor Jefferson his dues.
We have kept silent long time, hoping
that these disappointed celibates would
get ashamed OF themselves and ''dry mp"
But alas! they know not the meaning of
the word shame. Too craven and coward
ly to look an honest woman in thieves.
and too ignorant of the ways of the world
to tell the good from the bad, they solve
the problem by putting them all up as
bad.
Let ne give them all the credit they
deserve. They do not make one sweep
ing assertion, and dispose of them all at
once. but classify them as follows:
l ''Ihose that would be bad it they
dared to;'' 2 "rhose that are bad. but are
not found out - .'Thosc that are bad.
and everybody knows it,
Ny sex calls for the aid of every true
gentleman Of the Territory (and we know
there are hundreds to help us right this
wrong. Everyone who il acquainted in
those regions which are remote from
towns. and where the Escies ..Most do
congregate," know that l but speak the
truth Wien say not one .,o0aaM escapes the
poisoned venom Of their tongues.
Hu;ldlcd around the fire in their dirty
cabins, they dispose of one character after
another in a manner that would surprise
one not familiar with their code of laws.
If any ofmy readers doubt ule, let them
visit one ct these cabins every evening for
a week. and if they don't hear chapter
first Of every scurrilous story goin. the
roun,!S, then will give them years sub
scription to the COURIER.
| don't know the cause of it, only
know 1t is
- -, ezra in the wears
gone by. may have gone to tight and
bleed" for their country. and when they
returned home found that "tiie girl they
had left behind them had con.oled herself
with one not so brave, hut more loving"
But then, it don't seem as though so
slight = wound should have embi;tered
their lives for the next twenty years or
more. | would that silch We're the case.
for then there would be some lopes of re-
forming them; but if it is in the mature
of the beast" there is 70 use in trying.
''for you can't do away with what's bred
in the bone"
In closing this article, I will credit them
with one good deed, and that is going so
far from home and kindred that their
mothers and sisters need never blush to
see how low the loved one has fallen, and.
although such men but cumber the soil of
Montana, yet better that. than they should
return to cmbitter the few remaining years
of her that bore them.
Why! the combined good deeds of ten
such men would not repay one mother for
the agony and sorrow endured in but
twen,y-tour hours.
have written, not so much in the hope
of making any impression on their hard
ened hearts, rs to let all those who are SO
unfortunate as to have been born females
know that they have my sympathy and
such poor aid as | can give them with my
feeble pen and willing tongue.
While our learned friends in Helena are
giving so much time and attention to the
Heather Cbinee" question, we will study
among ourselves the best plan of dispos-
ing of this ''sick man. of the mountains.
Dear sisters, take heart! these cannot
injure you to any great extent, for they
are never seen fifty miles from home, I'M
less they hear of calf week old which
has not been branded.
Goodbye, and pardon nie for int -lding
so long. but should this be the means of
turning but one, back to the straight, but
long forgotten. path Of truth, l shall
know it was not in vain that the spirit
moved me.
And when you enter the house of God
next Sunday, look around, axd..if you see
hinA let me know, that may he en-
,Ouraged in we'll doing.
RERECCA