Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-01
STREET PREACHERS IN BUTTE.

in Butte. Probably the cool weather has
something to do with it. Most likely poll
tics is to blame. The FOUNDERS who nave
had salvation preached to them from the
cobblestone pavement as tree as me
smoke from the smelters, have turned
their backs OF tambourines n listed
their attention with a Scotch labor agl-
tatOr named CoWley. CoWley Is not d
Bourke Cochran in oratOry, and IKE all
other curbstone takers, ne is neither
analytical, philosophical nor logical; yet
the prophe Daniel and his prediction OF
the destruction of Babylon is no a mark
err to what CoWley figures out for wage
earners unless they abandon the old po-
litical parties. He harps chiefly on the
Couer dAlenes and warns Butte Worklng
men that the buli-pen will be their por-
ton unless they elect their own people
to office, yet he OmitS any mention OF the
four-ringed fusion circus.
Cowley carries a bible with him on
Sundays and takes his inspiration from
the Old Testament, therefore giving his
discourses a little semblance of religion.
There is where the labor agitator comes
in competition with the Salvatlon Army,
to their great dismay, spiritually and
financially. Cowley draws the crowd ana
he does not pass the hat. The tall lady
of the army who wears an officers cap
along with a perpetual smile, started out
on a collecting tour along the sidewalk
and into the saloons and came back with
81. 20 in the tambourine. After counting
it, she voiced her disappointment. and
declaring tina the Lord would help her
to get an even 81 began another collec-
ton.
This is not Cowley's way. Occasionally
one of his listeners will slip a couple of
dollars into his hand when he gets
through. Once he got a twenty-dollar
gold piece. Cowley make all manner of
fun of the Salvationists and their method
of exhortation, which undergoes no
change in speech from one Sunday to an
other, and usually concludes by admon-
ishing the slime to get washed in blood.
Cowley takes advantage of such crude
speeches n twists the sentences into
ridicule.
washed in Blood Cowley exclaimed.
whats the matter with soap and
water?'
ana the labor agitaor has his audience in
a humor for a discourse on the destruc-
ton of Babylon, or Butte, or any other
topic that move him.
The cowboy preacher and his wife have
taken their departure. They held forth
on West Galena. All the others pre-empt-
ed Park street. The cowboy and his wife
preached a creed that was invented in
Toledo, Ohio, and the little woman could
put up any kind of a story to the queen
taste. The cowboy himself should be in
a good minstrel show. for he possessed
a bass voice unequaled on the stage.
Further down Park street, near Wyom-
ing, and in a basement. the Pentecost
people hold services. They are quieter in
their demonstrations and more effective
in testimony and exhortation. Once in a
while they sally out to the Tenderloin
with their little parlor organ and conduct
services in front of the Galena street
cribs, and it is known that some of the
fallen women have been moved to tears
through the prayers and addresses Of the
PentecOstS.
Since the last arrest made of the whole
Salvation Army, no further friction has
occurred between them and the police.
They decided to observe the city ordin-
1 ances n tun their tambourines at
other places then the crowded thorough
| fare at the corner of Main and Park.