Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-11-04

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a Breathcs there man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said
i will stand by nv mothers right:
And will oppose with souls best might.
Ne'er my sisters ASPIRATIONS high
Tranpled in the dust shall lie
Meath the heel of foreigner,
Be he plebian born or titled sir.
Not that their judgment we despise,
Not that we deem ourselves more wise,
but in this thing principle we see
And claim the birthr.ght Still to DO
First in Council halls and chair of state.
Though we ask all to freely partake
OfOur dear Country's bountious store,
or which she has enough and more,
To supply the waits of all who need,
BE they Irish, English, Hebrew or Sweed
And ifin their hearts still they choose,
Our generosity to abuse,
And but come for bags of golden sand
Wherewjth t. enrich their Fatherland,
we, l am sure will ne'er complain,
But cheerilv say Goodbye, come again."
But when, in our yearly time to vote,
Their bugles ring out theil warlike note,
And when in orr sisters convention halls,
Their riot thunder shakes the walls.
And Americans daughters become their
Jest
Against such injustice we do protest.
Americas daughters shall their birth
right gain
On mountains high and verdant plain.
Americas needs shall vet be supplied
BY her sons and daughters side by side.
Yes, the poor author of the above
lines has been unmistakably an
swered by the vote cast against
Council Bill 63, by members of the
Council, Messrs. Graden, Hovey,
Hunter, Long, Miller and Wallace,
six altogether. Six men in one hon
orable body, all Of whom breathe
with soul SO dead" as to deliberate-
ly set their feet on the sacred rights
Of mothers, sisters and wives!
Albeit we are 10th to believe the
ndage, "All smart men die young, :"
can be under the circumstances, by
any stretch of the most vivid imag-
ination applied to men who could
thus declare against the most sacred
human rights, that the above
named voters and worthy members
of our Legislative body have, or have
had, mothers, we consider q very
natural inference, though the gen.
tleman themselves may have for
gotten the fact in their zeal to dis
tinguish themselves by closly fol-
lowing in the footprints of the
men of the dark age"
That they have sisters, we will
sincerely hope, in view of the incom
pleteness of home circle wherein
there are no sisters to perform the
duty of "golden clasp" to bind the
circle more surely and tremendously
together. Thatsome or all have wives,
l will persist in believing though
we most EXPLICITLY deny any impu-
tation of assuring there is any truth
in the old saying Fools are the
first to marry" Now good, indul-
gent reader, we pray you not to infer
for a moment that we would think
OF applying such an undignifed pro-
verb to any member or members of
so staid q body as our Territori-
al Legislature, and especially to
those members whose education
evidently dates back to such classic
ages for its first principles. Please
understand We were reminded of the
existence of the proverbby something
In the discussion. What pity it is
some people will persist in believing
all men sincere and true in their
chivalric projections of faith in
woman, and desire for woman's best
good, merely because they occas-
ionally meet such earnest aud high
: minded men, as by their vote on
the above mentioned bill. we are
led to believe Messrs Calhoun,
Evans. Kerns, Sharpstein, Hoover
aud the Hon. President of the Coun-
Gil to be, all of whom voted in favor
ofequal human rights as secured by
suffrage. True it is clear these last
named gentlemen can conceive the
possibility OF brains not being i'm.
mediately connected with wearing
apparel. But banter aside, it is our
serious desire to ask those honorable
gentlemen whose votes defeated
Z. b. 63, to consider some questions
of very great moment to the woman
OF Washington Territory, and effect
Ing woman seriously as they do,
necessarily affecting sill people of
the Territory. We allude to the
present unsettled. underlined, con.
ditlon of the common law of repre-
sentation. AS it is, nobody knows
who represents who. OF course it is
we'll understood, where a married
couple are of the same political opin.
ion' the man represents Iii, wife at
'ne polls; but, suppose III unmar-
RED man is casting ballot who does
ne represent As the law now
exists, mans vote is only half a
vote unless made whole vote, by
Tue voter representing an unenfran.
eo'Sed party. If it happens, as it