Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-02-12
Local Option Convention.

The officers of the Women s
Christian Temperance Union and
Grand Lodge of Good Templars,
have issued the following call, ad-
dressed "To the people of Western
Washington, friends of the Local
Option Law as passed by the Ter
ritorial Legislature:
The Local Option Law has been
passed by the Legislature of Wash
ington Territory and is now the law
of our land; but we desire that no
friend of the cause should forget
that this law is dead enactment in
his precinct unless it be resurrected
therein by majority vote in favor
of its enforcement. 1t is of the
highest importance that the cam
paign preceding this election be
conducted with wisdom, prudence
and energy, since we must meet and
overcome an enemy fortified by long
established custom, apparently COM
manding unlimited financial re-
sources and led by those deeply
versed in all the tricks of the un.
scrupulous politician.
Already their favorite battle cry
Prohibition does not prohibit" I"
has been sounded forth. Their pa
pers are filled with false and mis-
leading statements concerning the
workings of prohibition in Maine,
Kansas and Iowa, endeavoring to
prove that those States are suffering
all the evils of an unrestricted liquor
traffic, without receiving any COM
pensatory revenue. The falsity of
this plea is apparent. Were it true,
the liquor dealers themselves would
be the warmest friends of Local
Option, while we would oppose it
with all our strength. They would
have the people believe that the
dealers in ardent spirits are SO self
sacrificing, and SO love the good and
welfare of our land, that they will
use the most superhuman efforts to
retain the privilege of paying an
enormous license rather than per-
NIT misguided philanthrophists and
fanatics to place them in q position
where they will be free and unre-
stricted.
Surely they arc imbued to an un-
heard of degree with the spirit of
self-denial and patriotism. They
contemplate with painful emotions
the moral injury which must ensue
to a community which attempts to
enforce laws which liquor dealers
say they will continue to break.
Woe to that people whose laws
are founded in the interests OF law
breakers!
Although each precinct expresses
its views upon the Local Option
Law separately, we consider it to be
of the utmost Importance for the
friends of the law throughout West
ern Washington to organize
thoroughly and Rave we'll in hand
ell the strength they possess, and
we do therefore call q mass conven-
ton of all the friends of the Local
Option Law of Washington Terri
tory, to be held in the city of Sc
attic, on Wednesday, February 18th,
1886, commencing at l o'clock P. NJ. ,
and continuing until adjournment.
We urge oil to attend who can.
Delegates from abroad will be en-
tertained by friends OF the cause
and that due preparation may be
made for all, we desire those ex-
pecting to attend to notify Mrs. S.
D. Crockett, Seattle, chairman of
the committee on entertainment.
AN exchange very aptly says that
things have como to pretty pass
when the honored name of Wash
ington, for the new State, must give
way to that of an Indian, whose
chief characteristics were dirt and
grease. Let Seattle and Tacoma
and Walla Walla divide the honers
of such patronynics. We are con-
tent with our classical cognomen of
Olympia, inseparably connected
with an age of refinement and
learning, but will not be satisfied
with anything less than historic
name for the great commonwealth of
the northwest-W Washington will do,
but Columbia would be better.
The Daily Historian of the Sd in
slant says that four or five residents
of that city are suffering from trich-
ina spiralis, caused by eating un-
cooked pork, and publishes q warn
ing, signed by Drs. Kinney and Full
ton, for all people to obstain from
eating ham, pork or sausage, which
which have not been thoroughly
cooked. The smoking of sausage,