Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-16
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II zee my neighbor,s boase IN A..
shall l keep silent beeausa IL . none q
my nre. and therefore none Of nav bns;
sesss vii set nav condenser running
and endeag0r 70 ~boil IL down. IN,
cDid water question is hard 70 eondens.
ano have anything left. cannot for
osaf giving your readers soms view.
upoa laws compulsory in their uaturs
nos nPon our Territorial statute books
~ regard TO granting licenses. The Law
a. ia SOW stands eompeis our County
commissioners to grant licenses when i
certain number OF names are appended
70 pstisi0n- Nov, We Of Eagle Har-
Dor. on q majority az least, are opposed
70 the establishment Of q saloon in our
vicinity; but, II John Jones asks for q
hcsnse. and be seearss the names Of Z
fsp petitioners here and the balance Il
bleksly or on the vest aide of the
island. toe County Commissioners ara
Obliged 70 grant his p=tition, provided
always that be sustaizs "a eeod moral
character" This moral character busi-
MSS 10 all right with the classes vha
sign such pesitions-
Now, Mr. Editor, Il presume you are nos
opposed 20 ihe agitation of this quss-
tion, which you and others can hardly
help seeing works manifest injustice %
Inauy country neighboFhoods. Witness
that White river else. Could the Law
he 80 amended. even, Rs TO only permit,
not compei, tbs granting of these d.
'ssnses, we might have q chance 70 es-
cape from thrse cursed holes, Of vaich
there are already too many ia King and
kitsap counties. IL We can't have pro
hibition let ns have s0ne kind Of a
show 20 cripple this internal traffic, OF
af least eonfns II 20 the towns. We do
not fsel like tamely submitting To the
opening OF these dens in our midst and
is IL ASKING too much that We be heard
IN the cslumns Of ysur widely read and
popular j5urnal.
There are traps and snares enough in
our towns and cities to catch the feet of
the young. Ii seems 30 me that We have
a right to be heard on this question
when 0er sons are surrounded on every
hand by these pitfalls aad gateVays 20
perditien. Let this license Law be SO
changed as TO have il discretionary with
she County Commissioners, aud with
the help OF the women of the Territory
ve will elect Commissioners who IL pc
titioued, would net grant such petition.
We will take tnis much; but all the
powers of darkness cannot stay the
Hood Of prohibition agitation that is
sweeping over the United States, and
which u bound 20 sweep this curse from
ont this glorious Territory. The w. q.
Il. Unions are working. and as they
work. are saying TO the Christian women
Of this coast,
"Aroase, ya Christian women,
A mighty rAnsomsd band;
Well work and pray and sweep away
Intemperance from the land"
With the ballot in one hsni and the
other upiifted toward heaven, all the
povers of the rum oiigarchy cannot pre-
vail against ihe Christian women Of
Washington Territory. | ask in all sim
cerity II the temperance people ef this
Territory have not right to be heardl
Saloonists in the past have had neaily
the whole control Of the press. and the
pagers are now scarce whose columns
are not full Of beer hall and saloon ad-
serttsemenis. Very few pagers like to
publish anything which will 0ffand the
salo0nists. IL men are given a reluc-
tant hearing, the voice of woman in pc
tttson, song and prayer, will not be
hush q 20 silence. The ballot In wo
mans hand 10 far more eloquent than
language uttered by Dow, Cough or
Mnrphy, inasmuoh ~ actions speuk
louder than words. | care not what a
man Processes, neither do care for the
professions OF O political party. BY
their fruits he shall know them.n "Pal-
verize the rum power" is grand motto.
A. F. GRow.
Eagle Harber, April, 1885.