The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-29
TO REFORM THE O r
Don't Club It, But Butter It--Or,
Pitch Into the MOrmons.

Robert J. urdette in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Do not long to destroy your neigh
bors simply because you can't COM
pei them to think and vote as they
should, which is the way you do. 1t
will seem to you sometimes that it
would be very pleasant if you could
only tie a Republican neighbor to q
post and build a fire about him, and
keep it going until he could see his
plain duty to vote the straight DEM
ocratic ticket. And now and then
you will want to take the Democratic
candidate and tie him in a sack and
drop him off the suspension bridge.
If he sdrowns he's beaten, and
if he swims the other mans
elected. But this plan would gain
no votes for the party in power.
They used to electioneer that way.
Andin every instance the party that
owned the thumb-screws and the
whipping-pests, the fagots and the
ak, lost ground, and the fellows who
were burned, branded, drawn and
quartered handed victory down to
their children. My dear boy, if you
want TO reform this old world don't
club it; coax it. Butter it, my son;
butter it. If you can conduct the
campaign on the issue of ancient
Spain and the Kings of CASTLE so
much the better for the feelings of
the candidates. Or, pitch into the
Mormons. I am very firm oh the
Mormon question. Scarcely 4
day passes that l do not demand the
immediate suppression of Mormon
ism, including Sara Bernhard. And
at times I repr0ach myself for this,
too, because I never saw but one real
Utah Mormon in my lite. And he
had only one wife, and was living in
a gypsyish fashion with his family,
in the bottom woods below Prospect
wandering abont in the woods n
day, and taught me how to mark
wild bees and follow them, and thus
find u bee tree. And all the hee-tree
legislation I ever knew that wander
ing old Mormon taught me, as TO-
lows, to.wit, namely, viz: "Whur-
ever a man finds e'er a bee-tree, no
matter whose land, it's hisn." And
even now, when I find myself abus-
ing the Mormons, the tall, lank, Ill
clad figure, and the sunburned beard,
brown face and long, struggling hair
loom up before me, and the pale blue
eyes of my tutor in the mysteries Of
wild bees and the law of bee-trees
look at me in mild reproach. I wish
he had stung me with a hornet.
Still, I am down on the Mormons.
There are hardly enough wives in
this country now to 60 around the
New York actors.
PITTsBURG. Aug. 27.-The report
of the inspection of the prisons in
Allegheny county by the Women's
Auxiliary Committee to the State
Board of Charities is just forwarded
to Harrisburg. 1t makes startling
revelations in regard to the Pittsburg
Jail, and charasterizes the cells rs
chambers of horrors, and condemns
the jail as an outrage on the cOmms-
nifty. In cells only intended for two
persons as many as nine persons have
been crowded at time. They are
dark and badly ventilated.
PARIS, Aug. 27.-The Emperor Of
AMMAN has not yet accepted the trea-
ty submitted to him by Harmand, the
French civil commissioner, but will
probably accept it. In addition to the
conditions heretofore announced, the
treaty requires guarantees that the
French pr%otectorate shall be recog-
nized over all of AMMAN. The sue
cess of the French in AMMAN has
rendered China more hostile to them.
Chinese troops continue to arrive on
the Yiennan frontier.
General Thiebaud, Minister Of
War, has returned from a tour OF in
spection of the fortresses on the east
ern frontier. He will shortly proceed
to the Alpine frontier to examine the
fOrtresses in that section.