The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-04-24
WINE OR WOMEN.
4 Few Remarks About the Last Big
Drunk
4 Protest Against Another Of the
same Kind.

lH IeW TeWArAs 1Dout tne propeSe" ''eHd
torial banquet" presume should hsv'
had my "say" at an earlier date, "a iie mat
ter seem. to have been already pretty thor
onshly talked" but having been away
from home, l was not posted. II il is still
in order, however, l would like to enter 8
protest in the name of the good people o
decency, against the idea which ha. been
freely preached, of inficting npon the city
the disgrace Of another 'Leavenworth
drunk" Our people have certainly rot
forgotten the disreputable affair of some two
years ago; those who saw it, arm sure, will
nerer forget it, and IL am not very much
mistaken the people will very generally
ION me in the hope that the scene
may never be repeated. Upon that
occasion, dignitares in Office and in luck,
dipuitaries out of Office and out at the elbows
unprotected members of the Legislature.
and unsophistica,ei young men from the
country, were inveigled from their homes
With free ticket, and the hope of free whisky,
were marched like q funeral procession
through the streets in the afternoon and
made dead drunk at nieht-and all the glory
was ours. We gave them one per cent of
something to eat, and ninety.n'ne per cent.
of something " wash it down with, and yet
there were thoe Who complained Of the
lneagre allowance of sack to the intolerable
deal Of bread. L,ing's Hall, whose sacred
floor had never been permitted by its con.
scientious proprietor, to he profaned by the
unhallowed press Of m,iden's light fsntas-
tic foot, tripped to music, was th,t night
made the mute. .anwilling witness Of s.bac-
chanalian orgie that wonld have sent the
flush of envy 10 the fee OF Bslshazzir or
made father Noah think that his big
drunk was but q moderate spree. That
marvellous touch Of copiOus drink which
makes all the world akin, soon leveled the
crowd, in more sen.es than one, and all
found themselves upon a plane of perfect
equality; those who, but few hours before,
had been engaged in mortal combat in the
fierce political arena, laid down together lik-
the lion and the lamb, and there was no lit
tie child sober enough to lead them; those
Who, but yesterday, on the floor of the Leg
islative hall, and armed with the cold steel
of poignant argument, sought the political
lives of one another, now came tenderly to-
ge,her in the loving embrace of champagne,
slobbered aff. cticnstely on each Others shirt
bosom, and puked amic,biy together in the
same hat. mention this matter merely to
call the attention Of the peo!le TO what Il
meant by banquet with wire"
don't know Senator Ingsil. '.rsona!ly-
never Jaw him-but i und-r1;a'.d that he is
. respectable gentlemen Of ''tinemeit and
culture, and this being the Care lie would
certainly gain better impression Of us and
our city by meeting a quie', orderly and 40
her assemblage of ci'izsns Than a boisterou',
slisorderly and drunken mpb. And while !
have "the floor" Mr.. ZINES, let ne file
another protest. against the proposition to
exclude ladies IRON the banqne'. l don't
know what the programme IL 10 TIE, hat
hanquss, literally deinei, consists of eating
and talking, and 10 far 80 my experience
goes these are accomplishments which female
people generally possess in a very eminent
.iesree. But it ia going to be business talk,
we are told, in which the ladies will take mo
int rest. Now, doubtless the ladies have not
been consulted IN the matter at all, for l
know there are more than a few ladies in
Leavsnworth who take an interest in what
ever concerns the general good, and who are
competeut to talk business to Senator Ingalls
or any other man. There may possibly be
satisfacsory reaeons Why the banquet should
be exclusively = she" affair, but rs a general
rule think it fair to regard With some de-
gree of suspicion any thing of the kind that
excludes the better element Of society.
Therefore suggest to the committee charged
With the responsibility of the matter, that in
stead of swine without women, they have
"vomeu without wine" W. $. b.
TIE POPE NOT DANGEROUSLY I'LL.