Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07

| OF the very cnds sought. Inc cluo-
room would take the place of the
saloon, and as much whisky be drank
as now. His personal experience had
led him 10 believe that this alterna-
tive was even more destructive to
sobriety than the sale as now sane
toned under license. This bill did
not make any distinction between the
different beverages vended as intoxi-
eating liquor. Whisky and brandy
had a madlening effect; wines, exhil-
Grated, and malt liquor induced sleep.
Some of the European nations were
habitual consumers of these milder
beverages, aud were law-obeying
people.
Mr. Stewart spoke in defense of
the bill. He believed that all pow
or was inherent in the people; they
lad II right to protect themselves
aGaias; wrong doing, and everybody
admitted this TO he gigantic evil.
If the principles oounciated by the
gentleman we're sound, we did not
have q legal county road in the Ter
ri;oIy. Under the present law the
most worthless scalawag could obtain
license for $500. 1t was democrat
ic to allow the people to say whether
such things should be tolerated or
not. He closed with q most stirring
appeal for the rights of woman to
be heard upon a subject in which
she was the greatest sufferer. lie
said that the attendance of the wives
and mothers and daughters at this
debate, indicated their heartfelt feel
in. in the matter.
In response to q remark OF his col
league (Mr. Ward) that common
schools and churches, were the con-
SENATORS of public morals, Mr..
White again took the floor ard in
dulged in a merciless TRADE against
the churches. He said they were
the nurseries of bigotry and intol-
erance.
Mr.. Smith declared the law to be
an abortion, and while protesting
temperance principles should vote
against it.
Mr.. Ward was astonished that a
man who had grown grey in the tenn
perance work. should, when his vote
could be made effective, oppose this
bill, without Offering something in
its stead to stay the evil.
Mr.. Twiss said he did not speak
as a lawyer or man who had taken
an active part in temperance reform,
bat when he saw the means and ap-
planes used to defeat this bill he
was not at o loss to discern which
was the right side of the question.
When he heard the cause of religion
assailed it was time to pause and re-
fleet. That temperance reform had
been successful and sanctioned by
the wisest and best of men, was ap-
parent in the legal epactments found
upon the statute-books of every
State in the Union. Contrast the
advocates of whisky with the sup
porters of religion, and virtue and
morality, and an intuitive sense of
justice prompted O reasonable YER
dict. AS to the constitutionality of
the act, it was for the Executive to
decide. Congress had passed law
enabling Thurston county to issue
bonds, prospective in its operation.
and this was good precedent. As
to the decisions Of Supreme Courts
he remembered that the U. S. Su
preme Court had declared the green
back unconstitutional, and it re-
quired a reconstruction of that au-
gust tribunal to make it constitu-
tional again. Since then, his respect
for the decisions of Supreme Courts
had been considerably shaken.
Mr.. Perkins said that if he had
been averss to this bill, after listen
ing to the traducing of religion by
its principal opponent, he would
now give il his hearty support. He
believed that if even the arch infidel
IngersolD were a member of this
body he would array his vote in its
favor rather than appear as the apol-
egist of whisky saloons.