The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-09-09

IsroknATsox WANTED.
Will some mathematician be So kind as t.
tell US how nucI, one-fou.th Of ncthin.
o to. The amendment TO one cit,
charter. the amendment BY which il wa.
made possible to impose 4 city license special
ty provides that. NO license levied or i'm
posed by the City Council shall exceed il
amount one-fnarth of the LICENSE required te
be paid by the statutes Of the Territory fo,
like business This language is surely plain
enough. out notw Outstanding its indispu;able
import, the legal talent employer to excl:
its Herculean efforts in guiding our munich
pal bark ct state, las imposed licenses upon
several branches If business not taxed at all
under the Territorial Statutes. Now. since
the tax imposed under the Territorial Stat
utes amounts to o, and since the city tax
OF the Territorial tax flor like
tnsiness," it stands to reason. clear
as any mathematical demonstration
can be tina. the city licenses III such cases
mist be 40 greater than o~ne-fourth Of o.
Therefore, We repeat. our request. VIII some
mathematician be 50 kind as TO tell lis what
is the value Of the quantity represented By
OPP We wish tn get an answer i1 dollars
and c%eI,ts, nothing else. No one need tell us
tina: GA represents exactly the amount Of
ceplion 10 be detected in Ordinance No. 10.
We knew tina, MACH before. What we wish
to find out now is how much Of a sum in
hard American collars mus. now be paid as
city taxes by those whose Territorial taxes
were represented by the equation, X=O.
Any information calculated to assist in
solving the Intricate problem presented in the
above. will be gratefully received, but to him
who gives satisfactory replies to tine following
our very soul will bow down in gratitude.
In what manner are we to apologize to the
decent people OF Butte for having assisted III
persuading them TO o~r.anize a municipal
government that licenses prostitution? How
are We 10 Invite strangers to become citizens
OF a town where the lawyer. the merchant,
the foundryman and the harlot are placed OH
a strict equality before tn" law? How is the
thoughtful, reflective citizen to respect him
self when he remembers that the members Of
a body corporate are all partners 10 the ex-
tent Of the ends and objects whose
accomplishment is sought for BY
the exercise Of corporate capacity,
and that consequently he is the
business partner Of the Park street courtesan
who pays her license as he pays his? ' hat
is the use Of any one attempting to instil into
the minds Of the young a love ri purity and
a hatred of vice, in a tOwn whose govern
ment formally recognizes vice; gives it a law
footing in the community /; reaches out
its hand for the foul earnings of vice, making
itself The peer Of the brothel keeper? Our
town government was unpopular before.
Men who lived through Montana's six-shooter
era and did not wish 10 see it return shook |
their heads when they heard one of our city !
:" Officers Boosting on the street IF the fees
the morrow was 70 bring him from prisoners
then in the IS ~c0Oler." subsequently,, when !
the Legislature was in session, there emana-
ted from the ingenuity Vi a certain clique Of
''officers" the amendments which we need
not now describe further than to say that they
can only be viewed as implements designed
for use in all organized raid on the property
Of this people, as weapons to be employed in
a carefully prepared plan Of robbery under
the forms Of law. The citizens Of Butte UNI
derstood all this and it would be strange in
deed If they did not at least view with dis. !
trust the Council that stood passively BY,
making no protest. But this was only local
unpOpularitv. 1t is reserved for the Council
to add the finishing touches by giving Butte a
reputation that will be as "a stencil in the nos.
trils Of decent people the country over.