Butte semi-weekly miner., 1886-07-24
AN INNOCENT ABROAD.
Another Canuck Escapes From His
HOther's Apron Strings.

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Hother's Apron Strings.
Some unknown friend has sent us {
marked copy Of the st. Johns, New Bruins
wick, Weekly Sum, issued the seventh inst
containing q letter written at Fhilipsburs
Deer Lodge County. by some Innocent
who left his home and mothers care IL
st. Johns-as the editor of the Sun puts it
Ito make his fortunein the United States u
The letter in question occupies nearly q
column Of space in the paper and contains
a mixture Of truth. exagserations, misrep.
predominating. This is the second time
| we have been called upon to notice letters
from Montana published in q St. Johns
paper. No attention would be paid
| to the one alluded to If it were
not for the fact that there are q
hundred or more honest. hard work
ingmen in Butte and vicinity-natives
OF New Brunswick and other portions OF
Canada-who havetakenhp their residence
here and declared their intention to be-
| come citizens of the United Stetes, and who
feel that their good sense and judgment are
insulted and the country OF their adoption
libelled by the uuchalleneed statements of
this splenetic letter-writer.
To begin with, the young man is lustine
for the fleshpots Of his native heath, and
whiningly opens his letter with the declara-
ton that: '.fI we're back in New Bruns-
wick again would stay there" He can
60 back again. Walking is cheap and no
one is holding him. The young man was
in Butte seven or eight days. He doesn't
like Butte: It's q had place. It's people
pay no attention to the Sabbath. All the
stores handle liquor, and Sunday is their
principal business day. Here is what he
says on this point: ut is hard to get
handling liquor, as all the stores keep it,
and Sunday here is like Saturday in st.
Johns-the day of business"
Now the good old praying fathers and
mothers OF the New Brunswickers in Butte
must have held up their hands in holy hor-
ror when they read this piece of news, and
how fervent must be their petitions to the
Throne of Grace that their sons-the pride
of their hearts-may be saved from the
snarss and temptations OF a city where
every store sells whisky and every one does
business on Sunday. But we can assure
the gray-haired patriarchs and anxious
mothers Of St. Johns they have no cause
for uneasiness. The stores of Butte are
closed on the Sabbath day, and among the
100 or more stores of all kinds in Butte
not half-dozen handle Intoxicating liquors
OF any kind. Butte has seven churches,
all of which are well attended on the Sab
bath, and the people are as quiet, peacea-
BILE and law-abidiDg as those of any place
OF it's size in the world. The young man
must have received his impressions OF this
city in it's purlieus. where decency is at a
discount.
Turning from the people in the cities and
towns of Montana to those of it's valleys,
this champion Canadian liar exhibits his
envy OF some of his more prosperous
countrymen by gross misrepresentation
them. He makes q vicious
stab at Mr.. Frank R. Miles, who came
from New Brunswick to this country six or
seven years ago, and who has by his en-
ergy. industry and business tact accumll-
lated large amount of property in stock
and fine ranches in the valley. Mr.. Miles
prosperity is belittled and the impression
that it ID not real by this envious
scribbler. He then pays his respects to the
stock and stock ranges of Montana as fol-
lows: 'There are some good.looking horses
here, but they are what they call Indian
ponies or cayuses-the hardest looking
tickets you ever saw" Ranchero, Vice
Regent, Lula B, Fera, Carrie Belle, Sunday
and host of other Montana-bred horses
that may be named, are pretty fair In
dian ponies or cayuses.
OF our stock ranges he says: 1.-THE grass
grows in punches and SO thin that when
band OF horses gets running you can hardly
see them for the dust they raise" This is
news to Montana stockmen, who are annu-
ally shipping to Chicago and other eastern
thousands of the finest and latest
beeves sold at those points.
The above are only a few specimens OF
this anonymous scribbler's lies. 1t is to
be hoped that the St. Johns Sun. which is
a large, newsy and intelligently conducted
paper, will be more careful in the future
about admitting into its columns such
tissue OF nonsense and misrepresentation
as are contained in the letter from which
the above excerpts are taken.