The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-05-25

Nv HE uapsus EBnMsval0vs Commenting
June

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On The first dry ~ june the DoDsnD
HDDnoratDvs pTe IN deseeDd DpOD BIZ
\ lDRs and every other city iD tbn lADd
Tor the purpose ~ asking seemiDgl,
| inlpertinODt questions, IN this sinl1
md elsewhere IN tho union tbs wOrl,
~ preparing 10 tako iho nonSDs Nv going
ahead quietly but thoroughly, Tbo
law provides that The work snail be
dODn balweeu JuDn ! md June BO,
Tho ynntDess NJ This wOph Nv s0Dle,
thing bnrd w reAiizo There nyo some
10, 600, 600 pDgpla ~ bD counted, and
asked All axis NJ questions ~ 10 birth,
ancestry, nativity, ng0, 0duonliOD,
work, social pOsiiioD, 0DDDDbtDj oOUdi.
ZION, and III tbDt, one w0nld think
lhnt tho aimpln counting Of ~ 900, 600
p0oplps W thirty days would bp a
hugo lbst, 10 Hpy DolbiDp " doing Ibo
OlhpI work IbDf neDussrtnkiDR these
days HDluils,
Jb0 lnsl 0onanB NJ The Unllnd Hintos
gpat MI ,a7 200, and the one tbIs yeup
VIII cost ty,O 0p tbrGG million dglIDps
more, IN 1900, GO,OOO nl6n wel0 I'm,
| plOsnd IN tbo work, nDd lbs yeDr tboro
VIII be a0Dpn 10000 moro, 0eoOvJiDR
to tho nalIlDntps NJ Director WiIItun y,
Merriam, iormoI poynruor " Mipuo'
b0n,
Tho quesIiOpa ,ttlnt the oUpmorntors
Wi nsk wiz bo nnWnl0Dr, bDt iboy
VIII nol iDplpdp some NJ those which
were onDaidoTad most objectionable IN
1870, Vhoao nr0 nbollsbed, not bopnufo
lbo people Objeotod 10 answering them,
bnf heonpfo They proved ~ be utterly
worthless IN \ bneis fOI stntisliGH on
chrome dlaenan, r0r which fbpy were
doslgned' Iho questions ibis yonr
l-ANvnBma, GbplstlaU nnnlp, lniHaI,
y ''oFldanoa, street Number NJ
h0nso,
D-Ralaliop4hip Of snNh mpmbpp 10
Ihn bend ~ lho fAmlly,
a@lOl0r ~ rNno,
N-AHp N Inst birlbdNy,
Y-llnyi month md yeur when born,
h-ATn y0u slnRle, married. widow,
Wld0WeF, nv dlYoTofdf
O~~Nnmbpp NJ years married,
lO~ How mnny 0hildrenf
H. Hnmhor ~ ohlldlpn living
" aaA ~ thebe GhildpoD,
H. Whopo wnre yOn b0vDf " IN the
Hnlna slnln4l give slnfh ~ territory
Y " f0pnlan blIfh' give name NJ tho
aNnntIy only,
lf-WhaVo was yoNr father boppy
Y0np n0thNpf
anmn conditions ~ tho foregoing,
lh-lr NJ Foreign bith, when did you
O0nln ~ tho United sfnleaf
l0-HNw mnny yanvs haye y0u
paslded N thn Vniiea slAleet
lT-#HnYA y0n hAen nAlnpnlisad' How !
lnnlls seAFH Since yNn bnnnmp n piti' !
lA~ WhAt N y0nr occupation, trade
~ RI0fnHHl0nf lphia 0NpAliOn applies
IN InVaepH ~ Years nj aga Nv 0yAv, J
|u-l10W many months during tho :
gRng NPn, yaA alnplasndf
,.h1.a a1e.sllaw uany gIAns 'nonthF hays son NJ
~-IAn lAn Iandf :
p~@llgn RlIl Wvltnf
VII lilvn tlln mhin fAaIa concerning
1nlp education 0
ID, ',M,1o ,,vay son ow0 'Ae haN'e IN wh'ah \
q sA,E,n!o ia! y0u rant Vim hap1e In wh'ah !
pa-I gnl own Mn house, ~ N fpae q
Y mnillNndV l'pha AAme questions VI
Rpls w fATMll II
'Mn hndy II fo .put any apvrp M nh u
n NM pananA thia yaNT ho hns IN hp ii
nll " hyntnkn hlmaalf W his lonR III
onlp NJ \ llttlNH And appropriate time M
" lnnht m " w0nld aenl, frOm th0 Al
llNl NJ MI .nHalAtnnt superintendent "
lnll nllNaplaak w dIll Into llH nnnmaF'
l0rH lNNnlIl|R' Whlll wns lhnt IhN NJ
NH woman nv .ohild Wh0 llyRg one NJ
lNHlA minute ntfpr dnnn - Whi0h Ill
ln!l!lH NOV nNlnH HnIll nlIor midnight NJ
MnR Hills nllyp fOr tlln pnrposp M N
lla n0ganH A finn pOint, indeed Vho
lnpt IN NIL NyNhNRilify viii not hO NJ
llAnn fnv spynlAl wnNkr after thiA tlmp' NJ
llt pnlAnll W. 0lnAllnl may have hnNn
~ Ann hllFlnd fnr lhN Wb0ln liMR,
IT, Wlll hn HnNnfra lNAf Fho AAlln NJ
llHlllk nhIH0n' ~
,Vhnn, tAO, Il hama may he hlaappd +"
'lth II newcomer nv thin aANn tilna, "
INkna M difference, thnNgh, N the :.
!Nnd npW member faila Vi fNpQrt until =.
INV midnight N dHnR |, In VIII mi n
\ annRt IN tbia RfnsnH VIM i1ka u
llnaf on the RAhg In thia instance, ha. n
lHan X VIII nnt eQnnt fNF Nnph HnHl "
|lHA i9l0-7thAf N M anY m faT All tha n
llenh IN .annafFnAdr pbla IN thR tinla a
ANY whan " PAyA w dla Int ARA IN eN "
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