Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-07
CHARGE OF JUDGE GREENE To THE
GRAND JURY.

one OF you prefers 10 be affirmed rathe
than to take the oath. /. myself. Az
not unquGlifiediy in favor of judicial n
oihcial oaths, yet recognize that ther
are some things about them susceutihl
OF utility. | remember that before
was allowed TO enter upon the duties O
my own office. or be in fact an officer.
was required to take an oath, eudiu,
with the same words as end the oze yor
have Jest taken. Before that oath wa
fuiiy uttered l was not Judge; after j
instantly l Was. To hear the Qraciou.
name OF the Divine Being was thus TIL
nrst event Of my official life, and Ia,
desire OF my heart towards Him hai
been t. have my @fficial career made u
bent such an overture. So with tn.
name that ends the grand jurors oath
grand jury service begins. Ii is a ser
vice In vhich vou surely need and uay
well expect the help of God. God
kEows the right, and wants IL done. auc
helps the one who wants to do il. His
eyes, as 1t is written, run to and fire
throughout the whole earth, to show
Himself strong in the behalf of then
whose heart Is perfect towards Him."
BY His favor, the people Of this terri.
tory enjoy today, for the administra.
ton of public affairs with justice and
moderation, rare and unsurpassed faciI
tiles. Among what people else in the
world are the various conditions and
estates, that go TO make up common
wealth, so fairly and go fully repre-
sented in all possible departments OF
public function. This is matter for
congratuiatOry reflection, on every re-
curing occasion to exercise our fran
chises, aud especially when throughout
the nation, and particularly in this ter
ritory political needs, political rights
and political responsibilities are en-
engaging universal and supreme atten-
tion, and are being canvassed AZ never
before in history. Onr people here
have been led to think that society
and that each man, woman aud child
As member of society-has an inher-
ent and inalIenable right TO be gov
erned both theoretically and practi-
cally, by the bsst laws that the best
can choose; and that those persons are
best who excel III wisdom and good
ness and that excellence in wisdom or
goopness is not in the nature of things
necessarily tackled to superior bodily
strength, nor found altogether on the
male side of the line that divides be-
tween sex and sex. Accordingly, the
women of this commonwealth have
been-l will not say admitted, but-re-
legated to their rights of sharing with
men the privilege of government, under
allthe complement of responsibility that
belongs TO the privilege. 1t is 10 be re-
gretted that this right stands evidenced
by ohly statutory and not constitu-
tional or organic law, for it Is on that
account liable TO be misoonceived. Be-
cause 1t Is statutory, one Is apt TO think
it provisional of thing of sufferance.
And it has occurred to me that the la
dies on our juries might feel embar-
ras sed and restrained from acting with
healthful freedom, being oppressed
with that notion. Bat the fact is that
men and women stand precisely alike
in this Territory as to governmental
powers: the provisions Of the Organic
Act are negative; neither man nor
woman has been entitled. by the terms
Of that act, to political pre- eminenoe,
one above the other, at any time since
the frst Territorial election. and both
alike now receive the measure of their
public privileges and responsibilities
our last Legislature In throwing open 10
women elective and other franchises
was an assent by our people to the en-
lightenod proposition. long asserted by
thinking Rlen and women, that such
herently, and should be constitu-
our legislation of last fall was
g. .af ,xrs, WA ItuA ~,
times of change. We ars Just escaping
spring of brute force and religious fer
vor. whose will was strange kind Of
martial law iourishing most ia times
of peace. whose dwelling was q system
of castles and fences and hedges to shut
in power and shut out liberty, aud shut
up woman, has been for long time
failing aud now drops from its dying
grasp those regions upon which IL had
the most outstretohed and precarious
hold. Our Territory, at least, IL free.
Oar people are not extremists they
think that men should have their fair
share of the burden of public work, be
that share more or less and they be-
lieve in laying bnrdens according TO
strength, and IN getting service accord
ing TO capacity. They do not believe IN
crowding the men out, but they do be-
lieve that regardless of sex, all upon
whom, or upon whose possessions or
rights, the laws are to operate-all, who
are liable TO be accused of, or tried or
punished for. breach of the laws-all
ON whose labor or property contribu-
tion Is to be levied to enact. maintain
or execute the laws-all who, whether
at home or in field, add their increment
of labor to that aggregate which as the
wealth of the commonwealth the laws
are to protect say, oar people believe
that all such persons having arrived al
years of experience and discretion,
should be free TO participate in saying
what those laws shall be, aud in deter
mining whether Gr not good laws. care
fully made, shsll be faithfully enforced.
This, il understand oar legislation, is
what our people believe and what they
have declared.
Law might for purposes of civil gov
ernment give. as in some common
wealths it has given. magisterial rower,
even to the extent of life and death
To husband over wife or 10 the male
sex over the female, but no such power
inheres naturally in the relation of the
sexes, or Ia the relation OF marriage
These relations are naturally of part
nership and love. As husband to wife
in the home, so to great extent Is man
to woman in the state. | would not dc.
cry but exalt the God given position OF
the man, and the way would exalt II
is by insisting that any proponderancs
of his in strength or energy Is trust
fund, not to be used against the woman
bat for her, subject to her appointment
as we'll as to his, and bestowed on him
rot fer msstery's sake. bat as affordins
a greater scope for self denying chival
rous love. Ii is the duty Of man to as
sert for woman the partners place viii
him, that he with her aud not aparl
from her. may rule. Such u ths
prompting of natural affection, and tbs
male sex in any commonwealth thai
Yields not TO IL is, at least in one dsrec
tion. without natural affection.
But woman has her peculiar and dis
tinctive worth. IL we are returned q
first principles, We are at liberty 20 con
slider what has been thought and taught
in times long past. That was sp.en
did aud true tribute which the bri2hI
intellect OF the Greeks paid TO woman
when, through the mists Of Polytheism
il figured. gracing the topmost hight o
Olympus as one OF the three higees
deities, the goddess. Athene. puress anc
loftiaSt eanoaption that Greek imaQiua