The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-22

why Because they would be call ignorant
II they dill not
Now, when men are turned loose In such a
great pasture as was California thirty-nine
years ago aud fnd themselves even for a
short time beyond the G.ciation Of colleges
and universities and 3 As and LLD.'s
there comes a tendency on their part 20 kick
up their hcols and run rampant for a time in
tie intellectual sense.
FREEDOM ~ TALK AND DRESS
Thoy seom infected with the wild, unsub-
duet nature around them. and in their first
scnse of freedom they do many Wild, gro
teSquo and even improper things. That IS
why your ancestors. the argonauts, gavo such
dreadful names 20 these tOwns-slch a.
"Ennrtoan." "Murderers' Bar" "Shiriail
CANYON and the like. 10 was a reaction
from Che prcteaiioua style SO long practiced Ia
fbe eastern states and oldor countries. The
tendency 20 call come one horse town. Rome,
or Athens. or lthaoa-nomes generally sue
rcstcI bv somo village literary pomposity,
too shows bis classical eiucation Roveling
I'm their freedom tho argonauts in the earlier
days invented within a couple OF years a nov
SGT OF terms. almost "a new language, bred OFT
u the country itself and The new conditions
ana modes OF lifo above them-such as
Planned out, Give upthe Gune, Broke,
STRAPPED" Busted and "petcrcd out"
Men liked 70 talk improperly and in an out.
landsh fashion be'ause i'm the older states
tho ,~hooimasters rod first and tho rod OF
popular opinion aiterward had been so long
bcii over them 20 make them talk properly
They have been made go % do In 50 far as
they dii not ont Of love, but fear and any
thinr learned out Of fear viii be rejected of
terward for p time oven though IL b3 good
thing II ia O luxury for a boy 20 wsdc
through mud puddle and soil his cloths
whom ~ homo he has been from first 10 last
licked into clean garments and the iiist and
last Thought associated with a pair OF clean
pantaloon- is hisiuCthor threat that Il h0soil5
Them ha will be punished California gave be-
first settlers liberty 10 dress talk and act IN
many things about as they pleased OF course
when men FIRST have liberty In anything thoy
are ant to abuse &c. or rather make bad use
OF IT, But liberty they've got 70 have some
time or other before they can learn 70 make
propor use Of 10. You can't make an expert
horsoman unless you give him fun liberty
with the horse That j. q very shaky kind OF
goodness or virtue which always docs the
commondahle thing because some one else
saws II Is the thing 20 do. That kind OF good
ness is very often dcep down IN the depths
wanting To- do the forbidden thing, but not
iarug 10 do it for lack of opportunity.
Many Of your solid citizens Of today, phi
lars of church, state and society, during
their earlier years in California went for
THINGS forbidden M the older states HAT
footed They went for the fandango, for
faro. for monte. Tor tie bar-t0r anything
and everything which the New England Sun
iov school sand was wrong They went and
saw and tried md tasted. and drank 70 the
drers. and found the cup bitter, and the ac-
count when footed up IL the ledger OF
health. % boz a losing one and being men Of
Indictment. balance and common sense, they
nut away the evil thing once and for
ever. having satisfied themselves out Of theu
own experience that the evil thing did not
n1v. ana they really wanted no more Of It
They conl then pass the gilaed portals OF
dancer without caring to 60 IN, and that Is
prohab.v more than ever they could have
done had they remained 10 the oldor states
and tod nearly the same path their fathers
troi.
TIT MORAL. rs 1T.
Ib.lcve thoroughly that il is far better
for one to sin and sin IN good earnest 50 as 70
know theevil that comes of &c than not TO SIN
and vet have always a covert desire 20 do so
some of our very good girls and boys both
OF smaller and larger growtls, covet great
deal They would dare teal no ono, hardly
themselves Tho result is, l imagine, that
they may keep Oh covc-ias and live covctng
and die covetiug and 60 70 glory coFeiins,
and If 10 be- true that there no thing can be
bii and "eveu 70 tho teeth and forehead Of
our faults wo must give Ia evidence against
ourselves we may have some difficulty IN
GETTING within the golden gates and getting
our checks casLel at tho bank Of eternal
happiues
Bat this is a danger that tle old seasoned
ar-onaut who has seen for himself and tried
for himself need not fear
In other words tho f0rty-uinors had
better chance % be natural than ia the older
communities lt may n some cases have
hasn 4 da1ldorly kind of naiuralness, but
ra.i. not better than no nuuralness al alt
Brown of Tuollmne usel % say al times,
81 do wlsh could DE consistently and per
.lstcntv. Alas. ! cannot Tue truth VIII
fall our ot uy mouth "a, times Ia sp.te or all
ny effort. o. prevent 1t, anl at the very time
il most hurts nly busne-s.
There Was q noble honesty in this You
dread "a man FAR Jess whom Ge says TO you, j
ama ,liof / viii steal 90 times | can't
hclnt You must be on guard against me '
such % man hangs out hs SIGN and gives
Won % lancc % guard yourself against him.
r..'t d.. frcfsr4Iie 10 the cautious sneak
trick.ror--the man who lortiiics himself in
an o...es and pos .bly behind an iron grating
and bv ihe a.l of laws perverted 10 wrong
uses rohs with scarcely any r.skt-i renilce
Milford in San Francisco Chronicle.