Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-20

OLYMPIA. SiIlRpW NOGlIlG, JiM 20. NI.
WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY
THEY FIRST MAKE MAD"


but little in advance of popular senti
ment as reflected by the press. now tina
the leading papers in Oregon and else
where, are following in the course rio
neered 10y the STANDARD. The results OF
these Incorporate acts has been precise
~ what we predicted it would be. and
has been carried to so alarming an
extent that such inflential journals as the
the Bulletin, the Oycgo an aud the
Ne,cs, are compelled to denounce them
in unmeasured terms.
It seems that the Crusaders in Oregon
during the late campaign, determined
to enter the political arena, not as a
temperance organization precisely, but
as means of bolstering up the waning
fortunes of a clique of corrupt politi-
clans. They accordingly by resolution
endorsed the Republican State ticket
and pledged it their support. None Of
the nominees on that ticket were pro-
fessed temperance men, but on the con-
trary all habitually imbibed the various
liquids so stoutly cursed by the Crusad-
ers. Of the three candidates for Gov
ernor. one was total abstinence iual.
another a moderate drinker of wines,
and the other drinker of strong liquors
in saloons, and the temperance party
selected the last candidate as the recipi-
ent of their suffrages At the Portland
municipal election held last Monday the
same course was pursued and the Re-
publican ticket endorsed and supported
as a simon-pure temperance ticket, al
though it was not one whit better than
either of the others i'll any of the essen
tial qualifications one might suppose
would be demanded by such conScicn-
tious people. They did not even content
themselves with merely endorsing the
Republican nominees and voting the
ticket, but aided it throughout by per-
sistent effort. On the morning of the
election, a document was issued, emit
tied ''Voters Book of Remembrance, :"
which for falsehood, blasphemy and
scurrility stands unrivaled amid the
campaign literature of either party.
Even the Bulletin, the organ of the Re
publicans, stands aghast at the maligni-
ty displayed by it's sanctimonious au-
thor. 1t says:
every many of our city readers have
either seen and read or heard of the ntam-
ously wicked and blasphemous publication
which was distributed about the city last
Monda, in the interest of the Crusaders"
and in opposition to tn Peoples ticket. 1t
is too foul and obscene to be copied into our
columns, but yet it was composed as we
are infoi med, by one who is said to bea cler-
gyman, and who otficiates in that sacred ca
pacity; and in the printing and distribution
of it were concerned FIVE are correctly in
formed, the publisher of the Temperance star
and two ladies-one prominent Crusader
and the other somewhat known as an au-
thoress. 1t is beyond truthful denial that
some of the band of Crusadng ladies person
ally distributed the wicked publication on
the day Of election"
Popular Indignation became so much
aroused at the outrage that on Tuesday
committee of the Women's Prayer
League and the Union Temperance So
ciety published card denying all re-
sponsibiity for the circular, attributing
it to the " Incorporate ZEAL of single
friend of their cause. 1t appears from
this thata scape-goat is one of the means
employed to be be justified by the ends
sought. That he is regarded as a martyr
is apparent from the tone of the card
In conclusion, the Bulletin says:
AFTER this manifestation of the sentiments
and views of the Committee, it would be
difficult to conjecture what offence or sin OF
crime there is, short of murder, which may
ZEAL or exculpated upon the ground that tn,
perpetratOr was sincere worker in the Tenn
perance movement. We are among thos,
who believe that the slanderer and calumni
good name and fair character of men ant
women is little better in point of guilt
though less guilty in the measure of it,-thaI
the wretch who aims at, or the murderer VIII,
takes, the life of another, and that the pun
ishment of either ought to he sure, and ade
quate to the grade or enormity Of the Offence
or crime committed"
PRosPERNe. - The Bellingham Ba.
Mail states that E. T. Dodge, Esq, on
of the pioneer farmers of Skagit Valley
recently shipped to Victoria the frs
cargo of timothy hay from that locality
1t also says that the recent freshets il
the Skagit have moved the jam in tina
river about ten rods. The water is nov