The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-12-15

all.
To follow where you might lead.
GIVE THEM A CHANCE.
From the Washington Times.
Let us arise together" observed he
'square-jawed man with the hard, steely
,eye, and apply the sock-inclosed hunk
jof lead pipe to the suggestion recent
lily made in the form of a lot of feeni-
nine letters to the newspapers, that the
move-on policy already begun on Sew
tenth street now be directed against
male persons who occasionally halt on
the north side of + street between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. Let
us be gentle in the welding of the i'm
plement. But it is not for us to falter
,when confronted by the proposition that
We are not henceforth to be permitted
10 lean on one leg, and then on the
other, on the north side of r street, be-
tween Twelfth and Fourteenth streets,
or on any other thoroughfare within
the precincts, boundaries and confines
of the District of Columbia, when it
tcomes to that.
I'm a PREDATORY amer, let me heave
out the remark that. While 1 don't know
much about Seventh street, l do know
a lot about F street.
I've been navigating up and down
the north side of F street, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, for a
period sufficiently long to cover a.
~iseven-inch expansion of my waistband.
And I AVE yet to see large, swirling
tthrongs of 'tobacco-spitting l%oafers,'
insulting every woman that passes BY
engaged in getting in their deadly work
in that particular section, as the femi-
nine writer's Of these pieces for the pa
,perS state.
The only male persons that ever I
saw splitting tobacco juice on F street
We're a few United States senators from
the far west. and these are with US
Eduring a comparatively brief period of
the year. Moreover. I have observed
ieven these walk over to the curb n
direct their expectoratioE toward the
gutter.
Furthermore, 1 have never seen any
punches of male beings of any age or
kind whatever standslg in the block
referred 20, engaged in ogling beaute-
Sous young things or employing wicked,
sinister devices for the winning of ell
'derly ladies.
81 have been of the rooted opinion for
"a greater stretch of ear than it is
convenient for me to remember, that
any old th~oroughfare of the city of
Washington is as safe for the passage
of ladies as the aisles of a church. and
1 sure hate to ave the thoughtless
tack applied puncturewise to any of my
rooted opinions.
I'm like manner 1 have chung with
undertaking fortitude to the notion hat
no oman in Washington or in any
other American city for the matter of
that, stand one chance in 1000 of being
insulted on a public -thoroughfare, pro-
fviding always that she goes right ahead
about her business.
Let US devote about one-eighth of a
solar moment to the reflection that
there is a whole lot of business in
many forms carried on in that square
on F street that lies between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth streets, and that
many male persons, of quite indisput-
able responsibility. not to say virtue,
pay large annual rentals for the con-
venience and accessibility offered by
that particular neighborhood for the
transaction of business. And if these
male persons, in passing, in and out of
their work rooms, occasionally halt in
: the doorways and exchange the saluta-
tions of the day with accidentally met
friends and acquaintance, shall the
move-on command, hoarsely uttered by
the b~rass-buttoned conserver of the
public peace, and afterward the bruis-
ing club of the same uniformed indi-
vidual, be applied to them therefor?
LAS to the 'puddles and pools of
noisome tobacco juice through which,
according to these aforementioned fem
mine letters which have appeared in
the public prints, women strolling on
I. T SlIteI w GcH llIllFlG6Illl d!1u fOuT-
teenth streets are compelled to wade
and swim, ford or slide, I affirm, aver
and a~sseverate that they are pools and
puddles of imagination only, and that
they do not exist, nor ave they ever
existed in actual liquid form. Only one
Washingtonian in about 1000 lnasti-
Gates the soothing, if unlovely, navy
plug or fine cut. and he does not patrol
II street. He is too busy carrying his
bod or driving his truck, or currying
his mules. So that the runnels and riv-
ulets of tobacco juice or the pavement
of the particular block to which they
and I advert are mirages of the purest
i ray serene.
And say. if the strangers within our
gates, amazed and ~entranced at the
perpetual, perennial procession of beau
tiful Washington women that ever
more glides gracefully up and down F
street occasionally stand paralyzed and
dumfounded on the square between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, and
pay open-mouthed but speeches. trib-
daughters, sisters, wives, yea, mothers
say, shall we withhold from them
that e%levating privilege?
shall we order them to nov on, and
club them with locust sticks if the de-
cline the invitation?
Shall the pilgrim who crosses thou
sands of miles of tenpestuous sea and
rolling plain and desert in order. to
verify with his own eyes the world
wide fame for surprising beauty of
the women of the capital of our ma
ton, be rudely thrust on his way at
the point of a policeman's baton dug
into the small of his back, if. involun-
tarily brought under a spell, he halts
on F street between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets and regards with a
soul boiling with gratitude that never
ending parade OF lo%veliness?
Perish 1.-THE dreams! Give 'em a
chance. Civ US all a chance It's hard
enough for the pantalooned person to
get by now without making more laws
and restraining more territory for him.
4. Black for D%ebutantes.
From the New York Press.
One of the most CONSPICUOUS features; Of
the horse show week has been the choice