The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-04-27

we had escaped?
Are our dreams of wealth and all
ill-gotten things to be dissipated ? has
this thing with white garments come
among US at last? Can this be the
answer to the calling memories? Let
us be practical Mr.. Editor, this echo
is going to be revolution, and rev.
elation also. There Is something
onimous about this voice among these
old mountain peaks. There is coming
change. This thing decency is CO.
ing to pull down the sign of the swine
wallowing and substitute the sign of
the immaculate. Like it or not, de-
cency has found US out. Men are
having dreams, the mountains are
echoing it and it is going to establish
itself in our midst. If we would sill
ence this thing, measures mus: be in
augurated at once. l ask you this
question, MIR. Editor, is ii well that
we should have this spectacle in our
midst of a woman, who vet retains
the modesty Of woman, walking in
our streets without a sense Of shame !?
Why virtue will become brave, and
vice will hang its head. Is this the
thing we want to develop our. mex
haustlble mineral resources,is not this
thing going :" to block the wheels of
progress ?" Is there money In this
decency? All! now we have struck
bed rock, is..there money il it ? None OF
your sentiment, but how many dollars
and cents are there in this thing
Our golden calfis this sign Of dollars,
and we have branded it on hip, heart
anG brain and here is the mathemati-
cal status of things moral III our land
OF swagger. 900 rum shops i church.
Run, shops have different names, faro
banks, dance halls and that thing that
bushes to have a name, but they all
have for there denomiNator the 600.
To lksowa problem into a mathenaai
ica, figure is to express ali .unadorned
tact.
We wish feftensly some one would
send us a fighting minister of the
gospel, no matter what his creed, col.
or or previous condition, who knew a
l!e,whsn he saw one and who could
preach mathematical morals, some
man who could throw indeccncy and
moral filth into the multiplication
table, so we could tell who is who and
what is what. A man after living
here a few years, begins to have 5
longing forathe exact science. 1t IS SC
easy to lie and to call virtue wee anc
vice virtue, in this Great GuAnlsor
country, that one gets all adritt.
When | think Of that church splre
at Irwin lifting its head into the
clouds, while its skirts are bedraglec
in filth, | venerate it. Its a brave
thing to do and | wonder that it should
not long since have called up forgot
ten memories, for | have often heard
its bell calling and have lifted ny
eyes to its spire. The film Of inde
cency and forgetfulness gets very
tough fbered sometimes. 1t strike:
me that decency has no. enough o
the aggressive spsrit. 1t is quite tol
modest. 1t too easily gives up the
fight. Indecency gulps down mum
berlcss glasses Of wet dafnnation,
.umbles into the street, throws up 1t:
hat, pulls off its coat and sings out a
the top Of its voice that 1t wants to ca
somebody. 1t seems almost q pity
that respectabiIity" could not 70
once get off its stills, step into th'
street and give this swaggerer his fill
Il is the most beautiful chance for {
good square stand up fight I've seer
this many day. and then there woult
be no Conscientious drawbac ks, ii;
right would be all on one side. Moth
ing could be finer unless it be tn,
hanging OF a horse thief or claim jun
per. 1t would be good thing If de
cency had little more OF this ire in
It.
Well, Mr.. Editor. nave not ye
told you what has suggested all this,
have been writing. 1t is brief ane
simple story and it points its OWL
moral. Three days. it seems as nan,