The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-06-17


Convention IN Philadelphia, | cancelled
my engagements East, and wendell my way
across the continent to Washington Terri
tory to help the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union here to secure desired
legislation in the interest of temperance
and morality. On my arrival in the Ter
ritory was at first simply shocked and
covered with dismay to find how small the
church attendance and church member
ship in various towns and how openly and
unblushingly wickedness of all kinds dis
played itself-the constant and open viola
tion of the Sabbath-the vice of gambling,
moderate drinking and prostitution. But
had yet to learn that while the wicked
people are very wicked the good people
are exceedingly staunch. true-hearted, ac-
tive Christians and, as Miss Willard says,
1.-THE history of this winters legislation
in Washington Territory reals like 'Heav
ems own Fairy Tale.' Let me briefly re-
count the results
l. The passage of the strongest scientific
temperance law in the United States by a
unanimous vote of both Houses of the
Legislature.
2. The passage Of one of the strongest
local option laws Of the United States by
a unanimous vote of the House and a ma
jority in the Council and signed by the
Governor, although the united efforts of
the liquor dealers of the whole Pacific
coast, backed by unlimited sums of money,
were brought to bear to defeat the bill in
the upper House or cause the Governor
to veto the bill
8. The passage of bill in the interest
of social purity.
4. The passage of a bill forbidding the
sale, giving away, or exhibiting to minors
or in penal institutions of obscene litera-
ture of any kind.
S. A bill to repeal the Sabbath law-de-
feated.
6. A bill ''to relieve women of jury Duty
! defeated
| Truly what hath God wrought in this
western world. And yet. as you read
from Geographic dispatches of the mob In
Seattle and Tacoma, who drove the Chi
nese out of the Territory like SO many cat
| tie, you will have undoubtedly low opin-
ion of this region. Our Eastern people,
however, must remember that those who
composed this mob are simply "the riff
raft, y the vicious classes-many of them
having dr1fted here from the haunts of
vice in eastern cities-and by no means
represent the best people of these cities,
| who on thecontrary are organized as home
| guards for the protection of the Chinese
and for the preservation of law and order
| The city of Seattle is still under MARTA
law. Everybody has to get a pass from
| General Gibbons, the commander of the
| United States troops, in order to be on
the streets after 8 O'Clock. But the city is
| exceedingly quiet and orderly, and no one
would imagine it was under martial law
except when trying to walk the streets af
ter night avithont a pass. / do not think
there will be any further trouble. not at
least if the ringleaders of the mob are
thoroughly punished.
NARCISSA e. WHITE.
Seattle, Washington Territory, Feb. %,
1886.
Excepting one drug, there is nothing
which medical men are SO particular about
as the nature and quality of the drugs they
prescribe. They are exact to a grain in
their prescriptions, and so careful are they
that they frequently recommend their pa
tients to get their prescriptions at some
particular establishment, so as to obtain
the purest drugs. But in reference to one
drug they display culpable recklessness
in the way in which they frequently pre-
scribe it totheiI patients. They do not
seem to care what course of life the latter
have led, and even though they may. have
been greatly addicted to intemperance,
our medical men only sometimes take that
into account. Accordingly they prescribe
the powerful drug alcohol. and instead of
doing this in form in which it could be
obtained at the apothecary's shop, they
advise their patients. men, women and
children, sober and Incorporate alike. to
take it in the shape of wine, beer, OF spir-
its, to be procured at any grocer's, wine
merchants, public house, or beer shop
they may choose, and too often can we
hear the young man or woman say, with
the air Of authority at a public bar coun-
ter, II am taking this because the doctor
ordered it, Varying as these drinks
do, as to strength, health and purity,
at each description of shop where they
are sold, such conduct on the part of med
ical practitioners does seem very like
quackery, and disgrace to the noble pro-
fession. If alcohol be required as a medi-
cine, but which, after the experience of
the Temperance Hospital in London is
very questionable, still if our alopathic
and homeopathic practitioners think it
necessary in certain cases, let them be
consistent, and show the same care in it's
prescription as they do in respect to other
Coffee Palace Journal.
Chaplin says: Profaneness is a brutal
vice. He who INDUCES in it is no gentle
man. I care not what his stamp may be in
society. care not what clothes he wears,
or what culture he boasts. Despite all
his refinement, the light and habitual TAX
ing of Gods name betrays coarse nature
and brutal will.
An Irish candidate for Parliament in a
speech at Dublin said that $150, 900, 900 had
been spent in Ireland for drink in the last
three years. in districts where laborers
were starving, and where it was said the
laborers could not pay their rents.
Always tell the truth you will find it
easier than by lying.