Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-23
PR0HI RESOLUTIONS.

The following is published by re-
quest OF two estimabie ladies, who be-
lieve they are doing the Lords will by
agitation Of the so-called temper
ance cause" As they have no news
paper to advocate their views, we tres
pass upon our limited space to accom-
modate them:
To THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND Council
OF OLYMPIA:
We, the undersigned parents, teach
ers, citizens churches, Sunday schools
Young PEOPLES and Missiona.y So
cieties, temperance and other philan-
thropic and fraternal organizations of
Olympia, dc most respectfully pray
you, the guardians of our civic condi-
tions and public veal, 70 join us in a
practical, persistent effort to make
better surroundings for our children
and ourselves, that there may be more
of peace and plenty in the home and
more of success and safety for the in
dividual. To this end we earnestly
petition you
First, To refuse to renew or grant
license to any nickel-in-the slot ma
chine or other gambling device, since
this machine has proven to he most
cunning and successful means of
educating gamblers, and its establish
ment in pleasant and otherwise harm
less places of trade and resort, greatly
magnifies the evil.
Second, To refuse to renew or grant
license to any person for the manu-
facture or sale of cigarettes, because
they are making fearful inroads upon
our boys, dwarfing their bodies, dry
ing up their brains and weakening
their wills.
Third, To refuse to grant license for
the sale OF alcoholic liquors as n
beverage, since the saloon systematical-
ly preys upon our youth as the follow
ing from the Ohio Liquor Dealers
Convention abundantly testifes:
Gentlemen. the success of our bust
| ness is dependent largely on the creation
of appetite for drink. Men who drink
liquor, like others, will die, and if there
is no new appetite created, our counters
will be empty. as will be our Golfers.
The open field for the creation of appe-
tite is among our boys. After men are
grown, with their habits formed, they
rarely change in this regard. 1t will be
needful, therefore. that missionary work
| be done among the boys, and nickles
expended in treats to boys now, will re-
turn in dollars to our tills after the APP
petite has been formed. Above all
things, create appetite"
Fourth, To refuse to take or exact
fines, in lieu of license, for social i'm
purity that undermines the founda-
tions Of home and virtue upon which
our hope and happiness depend.
Fifth, As long as the saloon remains
among us, We pray you to enforce the
Sunday closing of its back and side
doors, as we'll as front, and to insist
upon the exclusion of minors from the
saloons under all circumstances, &C.
cording to the laws Of Washington
and ordinances of Olympia.
Sixth, To improve the existing city
ordinance for keeping children under
sixteen off the streets at night, by
making the hour nine for summer and
eight for winter, and to rigidly enforce
the same.
Seventh, In every possible way to
use your divine trust of power and in
fiuence to make it easy for the people
to do right and difficult for them to do
wrong, that by the help of God and all
the people, Olympia may become a
safe place for children to dwell in.
We promise you our hearty cO-ope-
ration in this great work, for which
we shall ever pray.
1t is safe to say that the alleged ex-
preston OF the Ohio Liquor Dealers
Convention is wholly false. Liquor
dealers are not fools, whatever else in
disparagement may be said of them,
nor are they, as a class, less patriotic,
less charitable, or less public-spirited,
/ than other vendors OF supplies.
If the temperance people persist in
fighting in the name of Christianity,
they should fight fairly and with
Truth" inscribed on their banners.
Any other course but weakens their
cause and brings the cause of the
Meek and Lowly One into disrepute.