The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-03-29

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1sivdeprived Of pInce: ID sehee walk:
@6j. one drops oat here :ed there and
= ~ noticed. A shop Fri disehaEsed
~ 10 another shop. aese aEs several
ssdred women thrown out q once
r,tSout warning. There y no other
~" to 70 to. Nest q them aEe ftom
xfent States, are w1dows and Orphans,
IA heads Of families. Some II them
s ~. hen long in once one place or an
~, and have lived frugal lives and
rell-tod The great majority of
.ss.s are living from hand to mouth,
~, from necessity OF choice. Az .
~. they are honest Intelligent and
.,,o.,s. It Is terrible thing tooae II
~. unfortunate dependents tolose her
~ There are nearly four hundred
Inn marked for dismissal Monday,
:. ~ census Bureau alone.
vhile the reader r. taking in this A.
Ill. there will b some three hundred Of
~. ~. four hundred clustering around
~ doorways of the Census Bureau,
~ %,,~ about the halls, and sobbing over
et;r empty desks-thein no LONGER
usS he,i,xing and beseeching Coneress-
-. iii over the city for their influence.
Tssre viii he many poor gir1s In straight-
.."I circumstances, who have been
esset and virtuous Ill their lives, who
s;ii nrobably for the 1nr time, calmly
."nfemplate the contingency Of shame
~ho vill make voluntary Ovegtureo to
,hoee whom they believe all-p0werfal
:. e,d them. There will be many who
I'm holdly face the world In tho renew
- 6sht for bread, who would die BE-
S..e fhev would ever think Of such q
Linz. And there viii be q flock Of
",sis harpies crOwding about the more
'i.soefats wsn,en Of this throng, to catch
,hem in their hour Of desperation and
mr. them away to life Of gilded sin.
r. + almost too sickeningt to contemplate.
Rnt Il II . sight which Washington Of
ION witnesses, 70 often that We have
snvn callouoed and hard Of heart.
While clerk in the Treasury, several
Gears 40, saw many Of these whole
~ discharges. At one time there were
IN women driven out of the Treasury
IN enc day. 1t was . frantic mo6.
women tainted in the halls and tore
heir hair, and Cursed their superi0s,
ami vent In the streets about the build
ina. "A II the gigantic columns would
,itv them and restore them to their
',lsces. From all have seen 1t Is clear
70 me that the employment Of women In
the government offices is . great mis-
,xse. 1t IL not only prejudicial to the
service, but harmful the women them
selves. 1t encourages all sorts Of
Righteousness. 1t provides the means
TO members IF Congress of keeping their
mistresses at Government expense. 1t
.lenloralizes. both male and female en-
uloyes. 1t r. standing disgrace to
nnlhood and wOmanhood. It Is satire
IN our age Of civilization.
Il will not 10 to say that these a,0ndi-
lions are not necessary. 1t il enough to
know that they are true. I can think
II no worsc fate for young. handsome
and intel;igen mt woman than IL lN' Sent
Z" this place and be put into Govern
ment Office. Where women have conn
Portable homes it il not much matter,
hut tho.e who come from abroad come
IT, fare too many ups and downs and
foundations for ordinary human nature
~ resist. A detective who has been
here for twenty years says the history OF
wrecked lives Ut those men and women,
especially the latter. Who have started
out with . Government office would
shock even policeman. He told me ne
knew dozen cases. and that there are
plenty Of them, where women were ltv-
ing shameful lives, whose respectable
parents in the States believed they were
in Government employment. A num-
Ter Ut such cases have become public.
Among the most notorious Of these Is
the case Of Nellie Burrell, the mistress
fr scvers! years 1T Capt. Howgate. her
parents were given to understand tnat
she was here in office oil these years, ana
would have gone down to the grave IN
happy ignorance Of nm only daughters
shame hut fi,i the HOWgate exposure.
Her parents were almost crazed WIN
grief, and used every. means In their
uower t. reclaim hel. but 1t was too late:
Ny friend, the detective, declared that
he had acted in q dozen such cases ~ =
medium for the suspicious relatives ana
friends IT such women. They had all
started out alike in Government O1'I''e:
got u>tsl to big salaries, easy work.. an"
good living, and when discharged: a.
they all are s.,oncr or later, could NOT
.eave the fascinating air Of Washington.
have heen appealed to very often. IN
my fifteen years ut the national cap'ta',
"aid in securing places for women ;
hut since I have seen how 1t works l
lave invariably answered that the al''
,ir.nt ha,, better do anything that was
honest instead of coming here nj ne.
want I" repeat that here. And ! wan!
!" extend the same renODstrance anel
advice to every young man. III coulse
they won't take It. I don't expect tbat;
III. feel some satisfaction Of conscience
IN warming people against danger ut any
kind, even ii they break their n"'k* TIC
i"xt minute.
From the Depths.
One Of the u.ost valuable diss.1vef!t:
Il hidden wraitl, il reported In the Io''