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THE MORXIXG . OREGONIAN. 3IOXDAT, OCTOBER 2, 1015. SPEAKERS AT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MRS. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY, AND SCULPTOR'S WORK IN SPIRED BY THE GREAT WOMAN SUFFRAGE LEADER TO MRS. DUtllWAY Highest Citizens of Oregon Gather in Memory of Mother of Suffrage in This State. 41 -YEAR BATTLE RECALLED 14 LOVING HONOR PAID Final Victory of Women, in Winning Ballot Credited to First Cham pion's Unceasing Kf forts; Life -Is Held Immortal.. A pualic memorial service in honor of the late Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, who for 41 years championed the cause of wom.i suffrage in the face of preju dice and persecute n. until as an aged woman she lived to see senti ment of her' state remolded, and the ballot granted to the women of Oregon, was heli at the Eleventh Street Thea ter yesterday afternoon. The speakers were all men who had known Mrs. Xunlway many years. Some bad helped in the work she made her life end. In their addresses they re called the courage with which she had overcome difficulties, her dovotion to the principles of liberty and Justice, and the qualities that will cause her to he remembered S3 Oregon's greatest woman. , tiovermor Wlthycombe Presides. . Governor Wlthycombe, who had come from Salem to give this tribute of af fectionate respect, presided ac the ex ercises, and the Rev. Luther R. Dyott, pastor of the First Congregational Church, pronounced the invocation and the benediction. The speakers of the day were Charles W. Fulton, ex-United States Senator; Miiton A. Miller, United States Collec tor of Internal Revenue: Justice T. A. McBrldc. of the Oregon Supreme Court; Colonel C E. S. Wood, T. T. Geer, ex Governor of Oregon, -and Colonel Rob ert A. Miller. On the platform with them sat M. C. George, chain an of the committee which arranged the memorial service, and H. L. Pittock. A portrait bust and a portrait etatuette of Mrs. Duniway, sculptured in plaster of paris by Roswell Dosch. professor of art at the University of Oregon and son of Colonel Henry K. Xoseh, occupied a prominent place on a. stand near the front of the plat form. Mrs. Duniway posed for this bust and the statuette, which repre sents her in a characteristic posture in her rocking chair, about a. year be fore her death. She expressed such pleasure at the sculptor's work that the two pieces will be cast in enduring bronze. Splendid Example- Valued. ''We have assembled here .in honor of Oregon's greatest woman," said Governor Withycombe in opening the exercises at 2:30 o'clock. "In all ways she was a remarkable woman. It is fitting and proper that we should come together here to honor this great woman who did so much for civilization. ' After the Rev. Luther R. Dyott had pronounced the invocation, Hartridge Whipp rang Dudley Buck's "Crossing the Ba.'," Leonora Fisher Whipp ac companying htm on the piano. C. W. Fulton. ex-United States Senator, was then introduced by Governor Withy combe. "The great work' with which the name of Mrs. Duniway will ever be as sociated, said Senator Fulton in part. "Is that of securing to the women of Oregon t!ie elective franchise. It was Indeed a splendid work. Vet. as I sub mit, valuable as that work was, still " more valuable to us of her generation at least, is the splendid example of her life. It is an inspiration to" higher and better things. "While they who co-operated with her In her work know in a measure, no one can ever fully know the sacrifices she made to carry her work forward. None can know or realize the heart breaking disappointments and discour agements she encountered and sur vived. Mind Strong Vntil End. Beautiful, however, as was her life, especially beautiful was her death. She was permitted to live in health, physical and mental, far beyond the' allotted years of man, surrounded by loving children and grand-children, all worthy of her. In the late evening ot her life the victory so long hoped for, yet too often denied, finally came; came, indeed, as the sun was slowly sinking below the Western horizon and when the shadows were falling far Into the East, yet came while the light was still strong and the mental sky was etlll clear." The next speaker. Milton A. Miller, who spake in behalf of United States benator Chamberlain, said in part: "I knew Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway for many years. It was my privilege ana pleasure to assist in the cause which was so near and dear to her. namely, that the right of the ballot be extended to women. "She was my friend. "Mrs. Duniway was one of the early pioneers of Oregon. She devoted her life and her energies, to a great ex tent, in building "up this great state. tne iruits of which we are enjoying today. She stood for that which makes civilization better and humanity hap pier. Heroic Coirase Shows. "By her energy, her courage, her in domitable will and great mental r pactty she not only endeared herself to ine people or uregon. but to the m tlon. She commanded great respect as a enampion or a great cause. "She was one of those sturdy plo neers wno gave an exhibition of heroic courage seldom witnessed in any country or in any age. and though her form has passed from the stage of human action, the record of her great ness win live to bless and benefit hu manity In the years that are yet u come." Justice T. A. McBride. of the Oregon Supreme Court, said in part: "Looking back over more than half a century since I first became ac quainted with Mrs. Duniway. I can re call no work or day of that time that might have been called a leisure day for her. She was the nearest neigh bor of my family at LaFayette. where she taught a school which included boardnig and lodging some of her older pupils, and In addition personally cared for her family of young children and did it well, as the subsequent ca reers of her sons so well attest: took part in all our little village activities, and still found time to keep in touch with the progressive thought of the world to the extent that I considered at mat time that she was the most thoroughly informed woman on gen eral topics that I had ever known. . . Bitter Oppoaltloa Overcoat. "If we count greatness either by re emits or by the difficulties overcome in their accomplishment, then by either test Mrs. Duniway was a great woman. I venture to say that when she began her campaign for equal Tights, there were not 1000 supporters of that doc. , , 1 J ! I Sji' J a 1i : '.:-ill-Tl-ti-ii ,ffMir-'" - ' for 10. years that not 10,000 supporters could have been mustered. "Not only was this the. case, but-the opposition- was -bitter. - almost to- the point of persecution. Undaunted by op position and with a -full belief in the justice and final success of her cause she continued her campaign, speaking, writing and expending what would have amounted in the aggregate to a' small fortune, all earned by her own eef forts, until she achieved her recent; magnificent victory. "I call it her victory advisedly be cause, while sche was aided by. a pha lanx of devoted women. -at the last I feel that it was her organization anpl her methods that laid the foundation for success and that but . for these, Oregon ' would not now be an equal sufrage state. In her life we have an Inspiring example of what courage, energy and consecration to duty' can accomplish in the face of apparently overwhelming opposition, and- in her death the state lost one of its greatest citizens." - Mrs. Rose Coursen Reed then sang "Abide With Me." by Little, accompa nied on the piano ty Leonora Fisher Whipp. Colonel C. E. S. Wood was the next speaker. Life Held. Immortal. "Mrs. Duniway is dead. And yet she is not dead. She is here with us., else why our meeting?" he said. "There Is an immortality which can never - be taken away, and just as the pebble cast into a lake ripples to the bank, so the character, the example, that concrete fact known as the life which the per son lives, lives after them is immor-ta.i-;y. if it has linked itself with the immortal things. "Mrs. Duniway has been described as one of -the apostles in our land for woman suffrage. But Mrs. Duniway was Inspired to equal suffrage not to that as the final end and hope in hu man society, but as an act of justice- one step nearer to the great hope. Her voice was for justice and for Individ ual liberty. Many a time in our Fo rum, as we called it. I have heard her in blazing words denounce laws that stood for Injustice and against indi vidual liberty. 'I found in Mrs. Duniway that bravery to be herself, and in herself to be an apostle of liberty and justice. That is why she will not die, that is why she cannot die. Her fame may be forgotten, but her precepts and her acts will go on and on." Ex-Governor Geer told horn 40 years ago he had begun the satisfactory cus tom of "keeping a diary. "I read just the other day in that diary." he said, "that on the evening of November 22. 1875. I went to the schoolhouse I was then living in Cove, in Union County and "listened to a very interesting addres son equal suf frage by Mrs. Duniway. "It was four years before that year. in 1871 she tells us in her book, that she "saw the light' and ever after that she was an untiring champion of the cause of equal suffrage. ' He went on to relate 'that he was a member of the Lower House of the Legislature in 1880, when ex-Senator Fulton, then a State Senator, on Sep tember 27 Introduced In the Senate I resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution, which contained the trine in the whole state, and that after I following 13 words: she bad devoted herself to thry. cause "The elective franchise shall here (1 StatneMe and Bust by ItOfiTvrll Dosca. or Mra. Abigail Scott Dunlnay. U Kx-Covernor T. T. Gnr. (St Governor 'Wltkycombe, "Who Presided. (4) Justice T. A. McBride, of Oregon Supreme Court. 5 M. C. George, Chairman of Memorial Service Com mittee. (6) RoM-tvell Dosch, Sculptor, for Whom Mrs. Duniway Hau Posed for Statuette and Bust. after, not be prohibited on account of sex." Mr. Geer went on to read the ac counts of the proceedings as reported in The taregonian. . Mrs. Dunlwav ad dressed the Senate, which passed the resolution, and later the House. "1 well remember," said Mr. Geer. "the sensation created by having a woman speaK before the Legislature." Colonel -" Robert A. Miller, tho la.t speaker, said' in part: "I knew Mrs Duniway through nearly all the years of her activity for woman suffrage- want to add just a word about her family life. -I was in newspaper work at the same time she and her boys weer editing the New Ncrthwest. know the great love her boys had for her. and 1 know the great love this wo.jan had for her boys and girls." Colonel Miller read letters and tele grams in honor of Mrs. Duniway from Judge Stephen J. Chadwlck, of the Washington Supreme Court: Stephen A' Lowell, of Pendleton; Governor Lis ter., of Washington: the Washington Council of Women Voters and, the Na tional Council of Women Voters. The service ended with a benediction by the Rev. Luther R. Dyott. Man in Depot Shoots Self. TOPFENISH, Wash.. Oct. 24 (Spe clal.) William Laurer, aged 40, while in the Northern Pacific depot here to day, shot himself with a revolver, the bullet entering the stomach, penetrat ing his body and coming out near the backbone. Physicians think he may live. JUDGE M'GINN LAUDS LIFE OF MRS. DUNIWAY Faith in Cause of Suffrage and in Immortal Life Commented Upon in Letter to Son of Valiant Champion. S I In the v Have UNIQUE Northwest. You geenJJhe onders of Qur reat 1inth Floor? The floor on which are located remote from the noise and bustle of the streets; isolated as far as possible from dust and impurities harder to combat. on lower levels the wonderful Pure Food Grocery, the Daylight Bakery, the Ice Cream Factory, Candy Shop and Bakery Lunch Counter. If you have NOT seen these wonders then a pleasurable expe rience, a new sensation and a liberal education in modern store keeping; await you. 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Trlt QuALITTT STCR.e OF PORTLAND rHUv, Sixth, t-forriaoty AUm- 3ta. Pom -Wi in (In 181. when the late Abi-all Scott Duniway came to Portland and began the publication ot the New Northwest. Henry fe.. McGinn, then a schoolboy, became ac quainted, with Mrs Duniway and her sons, a-nd a friendship was be-un which has n dured during the succeeding- 44 years. Judge McGinn has written the following- letter, addressed to one ot Mrs. luniway's sons. eulogising her work and her character, and expressing bis sympathy In her loss.) ORTLAND, Oct. 22. 1915. My Dear 'Wilkie: I have been .very much. thoug-ht. with you all. ever since I learned that your beloved mother has passed to the other life. This' is the anniversary of her birth. I thought 1 would commune witn you while I speak of her Kreat life, of her noble work, and 'the splendid example she has left to the world. Tou may Just remember you cannot do much more when, at the end of 1870 or the beginning; of 1S71 you came to live in Portland. I so well remem ber when you lived at Third and Washington streets, where the Failing: building: now stands, and when your mother commenced the publication of the New Northwest. Of course. I re member- the immense assistance that Willis and Hubert were to her in her new undertaking:. I remember how un promising: the work seemed to every one but her. Those of this generation can have no conception of the prejudice which then was against the cause of suffrage for women; in fact, against equality for women in any of th walks of life. As I look back over the more than 44 years since your mother took up the cause of women for equal ity before the law. I nnd myself ask ing: the question. "Am 1 in the midst of the same people?" True, people were net burned at the stake, executed or imprisoned for opinion's sake, but It Is inconceivable to what lengths the brutal and coarse of that day would go to break up your mother's meetings, to cause her inconvenience, disappoint ments: but she fought on aeainst every hindrance placed in her way until after more than 40 years she lived to see her life work crowned with success, to re ceive the plaudits of the world for the part she had taken in life to give her sisters equality before the law. to know that not only the State of Ore gon, but the Oregon country of her youth had enrolled themselves under the standard which she planted, and in the support of which she never fal tered, no matter what the setback was, in the more than 40 years she strug gled for the cause here. I cannot tell you how glad I am that she preserved a record of those troub lous years and told us of them herself, as only she could tell it, in "Path Breaking." a book which will be of in calculable value when the story of the cause of women shall be finally told for the education of the world, if edu cation is still needed that "Truth crushed to earth will rise again." I rejoice, also, that she has left the rec ords she has. in this book of the united and devoted family you have always been, and how you all sacrificed your own ambitions to further the cause dearer to her than life. Many reflections are in my mind as I write these lines. Your mother herself sent me. with her written compliments, "Path Breaking." I would not be with out this thought for a great deal. Her cheerful disposition, her optimism, her perfect peace with all the world; the comfort, the hope" of Immortality and the thought that she -would again be with and meet her loved ones In an other world is a record she left us which this "work-a-day" world of ours could 111 afford to be without. This world Is the great gainer that she made her pilgrimage through it. Tou. her immediate family, have a great herit age In her good name and In her achievements. Those of us who were so fortunate as to know her realize that in her was a large spark of- the divine. I do not dogmatize much on the sub ject: still I love to dwell on the con cluding verses , of the' 42d and 43d Psalms: "Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me 7 Hope thou In God. for I shall yet praise him who is the health nf mv countenance and my God." With sympathy, and love, and hope. ever faithfully your friend. HENRY E. M'GINN. inch tire not more than a two-ton load. No load, under this ruling, shall be more than three tons, and the speed trucks is limited to eight miles an hour. The ruling was made largely in an effort to regulate automobile truck transportation between Portland and Oregon City so as to protect county roads. The regulations will be printed and posted along the roads. CATHOLIC BONDS BOUGHT Issue of $3,000,000 to Finance Par ishes in Quebec. Charles A. Stoneham & Co., 41 Broad treet. New York, acting for Montreal Interests, have sold to F. A. Brewer & HOE CAKE HAPPY PROSPECT Hood River Sawmill Owner Will In stall Gristmill. HOOD RIVER.. Or, Oct. 24. (Spe cial.) Hoe cake and corn pone bid fair to become popular in the Apple Valley this Winter. Within the next few days J. R. Phil lips, who for many yeara has been op erating a sawmill on Phelps Creek, will sro to Portland to obtain burrs for a srrist mill he will Install at bis lum bering plant. 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