Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-02
THE PARADERs lNsULTED.

among the incidents OF wednesday las
in Butte, consequent upon the memoria
exercises, which were generally OF
character for complimentary notice ant
congratulation on all sides, there wa
one occurrence to which, as an 0bservan
chronicler of events and faithful com
mentatOr thereon, THE MINER is forcet
to advert with severe condemnation fOl
the reckless disregard it showed of tbt
comfort of the men who were on foot in
the procession. There was a very credita
BILE outturn both of military and societies
OF the militia, the five companies in line
had not less than a couple Of hundred
men present. bincoln Post was fully
represented. Tie Sons of Veterans were
present and there was a very large out.
turn Of the Patriotic Order of the Sons OF
America, to whom the day is as sacred as
the Passover is to the Jews. There was
an unusually large Outturn, in fact, OF
men ON foot, in uniform and with re-
gala, to do honor to the occasion and a
must imposing display they made. To
veterans like the Grand Army men, when
they were in active service, the march
from the Grand Opera House to the
cemetery would be mere child's play.
But to men unaccustomed to marching,
the heat and the dust created by their
own tramping were a sufficient trial OF
endurance without any addition. 1t
would occur to most persons Of a refec-
tive turn Of intellect that the men on
foot marching in the hot sun through the
dust Of Montana street deserved every
consideration possible, and certainly to
be spared any additional inconvenience
to that to which they were unavoidably
subjected. But there were enough
callous-minded people among those in
carriages accompanying the procession
to be utterly regardless of the comfort of
the men who were the central objects of
interest in the days proceedings. With
utter indifference to the comfort. of the
men tramping along in the dust, they
rushed past the column in their carriages
to windward Of them, raising a binding
cloud Of dust, and almost smOthering the
column out Of sight. They could not
have acted with more utter disregard for
consequences if, instead of the column
of men, there had been a drove
of hogs in the road to whom a dust bath
be a luxury. Such want of con-
sideration for the comfort of others might
be excusable among a horde of African
savages, but in a civilized community
like this it is perfectly shameful and can
not be too severely %reprobated. The vul-
gar and indecent haste these people made
10 get past the procession ayailed them
nothing. There was room and to spare
1t the place where the ceremony of dec
the graves was performed for a
hundred times the number of those in at
enhance, great as it was. The process
ion was on foot and they in carriages.
There was time for all the carriages to
lave turned out Of Montana street and
round by South Butte Or the Cen
ennial Brewery at an easy trot and then
AVE reached the cemetery ahead of the
recession on foot. There was not the
excuse for trying to run past the
PEDESTRIANS on Montana street on
Wednesday. The same thing has been
one before, but on Wednesday it was
articularly aggrayating to the men in
as the dust was excessive and the
Indecent conduct of the vehicle contin-
emit most exasperating. The simple re.
alt of this direct insult to the men on
arade will be that men will be less
nxious to exhibit their patriotism on a
occasion again where such a
has to be endured for marching I
parade. They will cease to turn out
anything like the numbers of yester-
ay. They will let who will do the pa 1
they will join the ranks Of spec s
then there will be 40 parade, 7
nd the people who are so greedily and i
anxious to see will feel like the q
an who was SO greedy be couldn't wait s
let the goose lay the golden eggs she a
i'd as nature arranged, but killed her to s
IT them all at once-and got nothing n
IT a dead bird on his hands. Il
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