The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-10
NCH CRITICISM.

anners and Customs Of
> American People
y1Es ARE DowrsTRooDEN.
Msrd - ~ Yeung oaz1 -
nnirsundings-Ths 1axnsrs
DsdIy HaadIsd.
April 8t-fspecial Correspond
Slf - soon to publish here in Paris
- entitled. "Nes Crimesl Me-
II fkom which select and con-
- following paragraphs:
- ever think Of going to the United
- wioh to know something about
f1ler republic, I" / should advise you
IS al the books you can on the
- nd then to draw your own con-
- sespecsing the country and its
r sense diametrically adverse to
ornounded in the works Of the
~ ruu have consulted. By 90 doing
me 70 be well posted on al topics
oozn American manners, customs
- policy.
o61nce, when you read. - you
MI, that Americans are In the full
1T Of civil liberty, political equal
such like statements. reverse the
I'm and you viii be not very far
"a IL
= = not only draw the long bow,
~ never visited the country and
- Of IL BY hearsay. On the con-
E771nI = no country in Europe are minori-
foweve1 imposing by their numbers,
aIensly dountrodden, 20 heartlessly
Hen q they are in free America. {"
5zk Suo : : story in proof. One niglk
- my way TO watering place with
= wife, the steam engine came to
1c6op ct place along the line and We
S = nit ave long hours the arrival of
- txain. had noticed this s.halt"
Z - handbook, but convinced should
he1ter in some hotel near the station,
- subject no further thought On
$3.50 from the car at Nortonsville-
4 80 of the halting-place-the train
~ sway without me. I went up to
q - rs~-boned gawky in boots, who
RI ! lsntern in his hand, and asked him
1ec< me to the nearest hotel.
NDAst hotel :" queried the man.
~. any hotel, the nearest win d."
- thers il no hotel here"
That no hotel at Nortonsville 7"
- - $>a -
"a Maybe, stranger, You don't know
- de town Is not yet built7"
Il what. exclaimed, there i no town
= Nortonsvilie7
80. but the survey has been made and
1uiIl nan b under way"
sWdI, where Is the station7"
. 80 station either. yet, but the sur
sBut. " / said, interrupting him, ''surely
Nm must b. some shelter for travellers in
~ vicinity"
syss, thsrs's de shanty where drinks
a1e sold-
ssWhesss shats"
ssYouda." added the porter. - he
pointed - Z log cabin in the darkness.
The night was cold and my poor wife's
teeth chattersd With ague in getting into
ne night cir after the overheated car. /
opon camo actoss the booth, where . man
shood behind the counter.
@What'l1 ysr take 2" said he.
4 eiasa a. whisky: hot please"
= ain't got no whisky"
Well, gin win do. or any spirits you
~ hsse. lis for my wife. Who is sick. :"
= en- let you have lime-squash. but no
tA This country's temperate.
And thus il h. When certain number
4 lhols find themselves in the majority
~ place an embargo on all alcohol. so
- no spiritnous liquor can be had for
~ or money inside their district. and
~ one Of abstemious habits who wishes
nkave wine or beer at his meals must 60
ubhout, or run the risk of incurring
usee penalties And this happens in
vAas is called Stree country"
Il Il doubtless also in the name of the
N6gious liberty inscribed in their consti-
takion that Americans today prosecute
- imprison the wretched Mormons. At
~ rate, they have an ingenious way of
clsting round the difficulty. The Ameri-
IN constitution formally prescribes that
uAsn the population OF territory reaches
seerta figure, the territory shall be de-
dnFed state and allowed to administer
~ own affairs. In order to prevent Utah
bocoming Mormon state and so promui-
~ its own laws, the federal government
1dhses to make q census of the population.
ootherwise il would have TO acknowledge
1T the people are ten times more numer-
- 1t Salt Lake than is required by the
eunssitution for raising the territory into .
unte.
Al m Offset, what is more amusing than
~ dithyrambic fuss made in the news
npen by these Mormon-persecuting
Americans over the unheari-of tyranny Of
- car, who now and then takes ii into
- bead 70 cleanse the Augean stables of
- empire by expclling few extra Jewsg
The Americans, while thus laying down
- doctrine that harbarism consists in
pinrality Of wives, are rather .hard" on
0esr fair compatriots; for you must know
oat in the United States every girl is
6onghf up in the notion that. after we'll
nkting right and left, and when tired Of
nreiving and making love promises, the
Martial to whom she afterwards accords
1ez hand in marriage should be highly
enftered at so signal favor. and consider
e'naslf as under an obligation TO her until
- end Of his days.
The young American girl, who often has
waited every corner of Europe and knows
tsogseilou by heart. very seldom opens .
eerk which is highly esteemed by all hus-
eaads. allude to the .aLady's Cookery
Iook": the result is that she is unable TO
~ two eggs on plate. and should be re-
efded. in every sense of the term, as an
~ De lsae fancy goods)
ishail never forget the anger Of a smart
American matron (whose daughter, in
lozcDanx nth kaxr ..shNr Girls