The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-01
Cause AND WOMEN
Butte Pictured as the Wickedest
Town on Earth.
A SENSATIONAL TRACT
Missionaries Attempt to Stir Souls by
Records OF Sin, Harlotry and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of
the Brothels

Rev and Mrs. Kent White, who are
conducting a "Pentecostal Mission al
II East Park street in Butte, have, for
, advertising purposes, issued a stirring
and sensational tract, which has been
distributed about the city. 1t is head
ed with this appeal:
Read this tract and the sin, harlotry
and drunkenness in Butte will stir your
soul"
The tract contains the following about
"Some public officials in Butte; their
fall and the cause since 1885," which
is credited as Statement from an old
resident:
"One city treasurer defaulted. alb
seconded. Cause: Immoral habits; es-
pecially lewdness.
''One city treasurer defaulted SIS, 900;
suicided by shooting; of good family;
young; very popular; considered llrst-
class financially. Cause: Supposed to
be gambling, especially on races.
'One city clerk: EmbezZlement and
incorrect business methods; resigned
under pressure and friends made good
deficit. Cause: Riotous living and eX-
cessiVe intemperance.
zone city clerk issued false warrants;
absconded; now in China; first-class
family; good prospects; young. Cause:
Wine and women.
faulted and absconded; young and cap
able; now living in South Africa.
Cause: fast living, accelerated Ky
drink
'Oue assistant county treasurer de-
faulted and absconded; noW in Chiad.~
young and capable. Cause: Drink ard
gambling.
"One county treasurer default ed and
sbsconded. Cause: Fast living.
zone city attorney defaulted ana sui
cided by shooting; young: good ao,,i-
ties and prospects; left a lovely ard
loving family. Cause: Drink and
gambling.
phine route. Cause: Immoral habits.
1T would be simply astounding il
list of non-officials could be made since
1885 who have betrayed financial trusts
from similar causes"
The tract devotes some remarks to
gambling and THE Devils Prayer
Book" and has the following on other
prominent subjects:
, Young Man. Did You Know This Was
in the Bible ?-"She stitch at the door
of her house (come not nigh her door
Prov. $50 II to call passers by
" to him that wanteth understanding
she saith stolen waters are sweet. But
he knoweth not that the dead are there,
and that her guests are in the depths
of hell-Prov. 8 CHI.
go not astray in her paths. Her
house is the way to hell, going down
to the gates of death-Prov. ch. Her
feet go down to death; her steps take
hold on hell-Prov. 5 CHI
The Dance Halls Are the Principal
Feeders of the Brothels-Official state
ments from large cities prove this to
be true. Passing a dancing hall In this
city with a Christian friend he said Il
am acquainted with a man, patron of
the dance in the past, who says he
knows 10 young women who have gone
TO the bad from that place" I sought
further information from one who said:
Il know too much to tell" So the
world is silent, and many parents seem
ignorant of the evil and all the while
the work of ruin goes on. Fascinated
with the siqdy whrl and the sensual
istic embrace. they dance from virtues
fields of white roses to the barren re-
gions of shame and despair. What a
picture of sorrow is a fallen sister! No
more can she place the white rose to
her bosom, an emblem of the purity
Within