The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-25
BILL NYE DECLINES.
He Will not Mingle in the
Whirl Of Society.
The EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN.
He VIII not Beard with Grover, be-
cause He Did Det Vote for Him.
"A Moral Leper."

Bill Nye, in declining an invitation to
visit Washington, writes as follows
through the Boston Globe:
have just received your kind and
cordial invitation to come TO Washing
ton and spend several weeks there
among the eminent men of cur proud
land. would be glad to go Is you sug.
gest, but cannot do so at this time.
am passionately fond of mingling wi b
the giddy whirl of good society. 1 hope
you will not feel that my reason Tor de-
Ginning your kind invitation is that l
feel myself above good society. l as
sure you do not. Nothing pleases me
more than to dress up and mingle
among my fellow man, with q sprink-
ling here and there OF the other sex. Ii
is true that the most profitable study
for mankind is man, but we should not
overlook woman. Woman is new seek
ing to be emancipated. Let us put our
great, strong arms around her and
emancipate her. Even ii we cannot
emancipate but one. we shall not have
lived entirely for naught.
am told by those upon whom l can
rely that there are hundreds OF attrac-
tive young women throughout our Joy
Gus land who have arrived at years If
discretion and yet who have never been
tmancipated | met woman on the
cars last week who is occurring on this
subject, and She told me all about it.
Now, the question at oGce presents
itself, how shall we emancipate woman
unless we 90 where she is? We must go
right into society and take her by the
hand and never let go of her hand until
she is emancipated. Not only must she
be emancipated, but she must be enlan-
cipated from her present thralldom.
Thralldom o. this kind Is liable to break
ont in any community, and those who
are now in perfect health may pine
away in a short time and flicker.
Ny course while mingiing in sooiety's
mad whirl is to first open the converse
ton with q young lady by leading her
away to the conservatory, where | ask
her # she has ever been the victim of
ever been ground under the heel OF
the tyrant man.. then time.her pulse
for thirty minutes, so as to strike a
good average. The emancipation of
woman is destined at some day to be-
come one of our leading industries.
You also ask me to kindly lead the
german while there. l would cheerfully
do so, but owing TO the wobbly eccen-
tricity of my cyclone leg it would be q
sort OF a broken german. But l could
sit near by and watch the game with a
furtive glance, and fan the young ladies
between the acts: and converse with
them in low, earnest, passionate tones.
| like to converse with people in whom
[ take an interest. I was conversing
with q young lady one evening at a re-
cherche ball in my far-away home in
the Tree and unfettered west, a very
brilliant affair, | remember, under the
auspices of hose company No. 2 l was
talking in loud and earnest way to
this 'iquid-eyed creature, little louder
than usual, because the music was
rather forter just there. and the base
viol virtuOso was bearing on rather
hard at that moment The music
ceased with a sudden snort, and so did
nay wife, who was just waltZing past US.
Iii had ceased to converse at the same
time that the music shut off all might
have been well, but did not.
Your remark that the President and
winter is ill-timed.
There have been times when ii would
have given me much pleasure to visit
Washington, but | did not vote for Mr..
Cleveland. to tell the truth. and 4 know
that II l were to go to the White House
and visit even for a few days, he would
reproach me and throw it up to me. 1t
is true I did not pledge myself to vote
fQr hun. but still would hate to go TO a
mans house ard eat his popcorn and
Use his .snIoking tobacco after | had
voted against HIM and talked about
him as | have about Cleveland.
No, l can't be a hypocrite. l AM
right out, open and above board. If |
talk about man behind his back,
won't go and gorge myself with his
cluals. / was assured by parties in
whom felt perfect confidence that Mr.
Cleveland was "moral leper," and re-
living on such assurances from men IN
whom felt that colld trust. and not
being at that time where could fask
Mr.. Cleveland in person whether he was
or was not moral leper as aforesaid,
assisted in spreading the report that
he had been exposed TO moral leprOSy,
AMI as near as [ could learn, he was IL
able to come down with it al any time.
So that even il go to Washington
shall pat up at hotel and pay my. bills
luSt do dAI aOtAG14 Al fNAtsLcAt
would l know how it is with Mr..
Cleveland at this time. When tie Leg
isla ton is in ses, ion there. people come
in from around Buffalo with their but
ter and eggs to sell, and stay over night
with the President. But they should
not ride free horse to death. may
not be well educated, but l am high
strung till you can't rest. Groceries
are just as high in Washington as they
are in Philadelphia.
I hope that you will not CLEAN from
the foregoing that / have lost my inter-
ct in national affairs. God forbid
Though not in the political arena MY
self. my sympathies are with those who
are. am willing to assist the families OF
these who are in the political arena try
ing 10 obtain a precautions hyelIhN,ti
thereby. was once IN official under
the Federal government myself, as. The,
curious student OF national affairs may
learn if he wall go TO the treasury de \
partment at Washington, D. c., and
ask to see my voucher for 1896, cOYer-
inc salary as United States commission
e. for the second judicial district o.
Wyoming for the year 1882. II WAS at