Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-11-23
uLymriA. WASHINGTON TEW.
OLYMPIA. FRIDAY EVENING, NO.. q. 1885,
Let Us Act with DeliberatiOn.

Let us Act with Deliberations. ,
The prevailing craze at this time
seems to be admission to Statehood.
the prospect is fair for
admission soon as the people can
make reasonable preparations for
the change, there is a class of poll
ticians who seem determined to
force the question by a hot-bed
growth process, and bring about
the passage of an enabling act by
the present Congress, even though
a special lobby be employed and
the matter fastened by all the
means usually resorted to when
matters Of purely personal interest
are to be subserved by legislative
act.
Except to the politicians, who
are anxious to step into fat Offices
at a time when popular sentiment
is at a high tension and the way to
their own preferment seems to be
unusually clear, the matter pos
sesses but little real interest. The
country is already progressing as
rapidly in the acquisition of those
elements Of future greatness, popu-
lation and wealth, as is essential to
permanent growth. A transaction
90 great, to be Of benefit to all,
should not be hastened any faster
than the people can adapt them
selves to the new order of things
that will result. The delegates
charged with the duty of prepar'
ing a constitution should be care.
fully chosen and the convention
composed of our ablest men. II
should be submitted in a manner
that will allow the widest discus
sion and understanding Of its pro
visions before tho vote is taken on
its adoption, and the document
should embrace in its scope provi
sion for all those safeguards Of the
rights of the people which the lat
est experience suggests.
The honeyed words now EN-
ployed to induce the Democrats o.
tho House of Representatives t.
acqniesce in the preliminary step
for immediate action came too soor
after the rancor of the campaign
to leave an entirely pleasant fare
well to the taste, and the sugges
ton that the Democrats may thu,
make any amount Of party capita
out Of it, is too puerile for serious
thought. The fact il, the Repub
Iicans want the conflict to begir
for ascendency under State gov
ernmsnt. while they knives arr
whetted to u true edge, and before
the mistakes Of \ Republican Ma
tional Administration have re
duced the majority rolled mp in th,
late contest. The Democrats have
nothing to lose by the exercise o
reasonable deliberation in tlli,
matter, and the people will be ben
Gifted by that thorough discussion
/ which should precede final actor
% Oh important matters.
Tho 6rANpARn, ~ the advocate
Of measures affecting the well-beine
a the masses, has never been al
enthusiast for admission Of thu
Territory. with its present boun
daries. Il has honestly entertained
ths opinion that the adaptabilitie,
Of Eastern and Western Washing
ton were too dissimilar, and the
habits and customs of the people
too much at variance. for a perpet
~ 1nioO under the bond Of Stats
hood. A reference to almost any
volnme Of the session laws of thu
Legislature i sufficient to prove
this position. Even in such an i'm
portant master ~ the assessment
q property % q basis for the an
nnal tax levy, the law hss, at times
1zsd different periods for that ser
vice. and large numbers ef specia
aets, Or those excepting other part
# the Territory from their opera
ton. were passed every session IN
I'll Congress put \ veto on suct
legislation, and since that restric
ton many methods Of evasion have
been resortsd TO as a means for 90
curing local legislation under act
Of seeming general application
Dissimilarity Of interest and incen
tive has resulting in alternating thu
sympathy that should exist be
tween all the members of a clos,
and lasting compact.
Probably this is enough to write
on the subject at the present time
Other reasons for the faith we hole
will be given when tho critic poise'
his lance.
The C0mm0ner's headline de
scriptive of Republican antics at I
late ratification meeting in Cola,
must be taken, We presume, in
figurative sense. It describes 9TH
intoxicating joy with which the.
closed their lips over the publi
teat." Now that is doubtless jus
what all the Republicans leader
want to do, but as yet it is only I