FEIDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1S71.
Owing to tbc absence of Mrs. Duni
way soveral subjects deserving editorial
mention are not noticed, as it takes
some little time for mail matter to
reaehherand return. They will most
likely receive attention in tlic next
issue.
THE TAMMAITT C0BBTJPTI01T-A
NEW PAETY.
The corruptions perpetrated by the
Tammany King in New York city
eolipso anything of the kind in the his
tory of our Government. Each succeed
ing day but serves to ferret out new
frauds, and the developments made have
sent a thrill of indignation through ev
ery honest heart. Most disastrous has
been the effect of these disclosures upon
the Democratic party, and the honest,
conscientious members of that party, in
stead of longer excusing or endeavoring
to palliate the offence, now join as hear
tily as any In demanding that justice be
done. There Is a reasonable prospect
that some of the principal parties con'
cerned In perpetrating these frauds will
come to grief, but In so corrupt a mu
nicipallty as New York it is not easy to
anticipate.
The elections since the discovery of
these frauds have all told one story.
variably have they been carried by tbc
opponents of the Democracy. But the
people may well tremble when their trust
for honesty In office is confined to the
Republican party. Tiie recent over
whelming defeats which tho Democracy
have received may, indeed, in the long
run, be but the precursor of a like fate
to the Republicans. In the event that
the Democrats, becoming discouraged
and demoralized, should conclude to put
no Presidential candidato in the field
and of this there is some probability
there will most likely be a grand combi
nation against tbc Republican candi
date of all the opposition elements. In
such a contest a Republican victory
would be by no means easy. A new po
litical organization, freshly sprung
from the people, would have no faults
to excuse, no corruptions to clear up, and
that is more than the Republican party
can boast of. The fact is that both po
litical parties are corrupt to their very
foundations, and a change is badly
needed. If, however, the Democrats
concludo to run a candidate the Repub
licans will achieve an easy victory, and
their already accumulative corruptions
in office will be doubled and quadrupled,
while the disastrous defeat will put to
rout the Democracy and forever preclude
the hope of their again rallying on an
other political battlefield.
In reference to the possibility of a
new party appearing in tho Presidential
canvass of 1872 the sagacious New York
Herald lately gave an outline of the
probable programme and platform of
such n party. We have room bore only
to mention a single item the incorpor
ation into the platform of a Woman
Suffrage plank sufficiently broad and
distinct to win the support of all who
believe therein. We mention this as
one of the signs of the times. The great
political questions arising out of the Re
bellion are virtually settled, and there is
nothing to fight for between the Demo
cratic and RopubliKfrT parties except
the spoils of office, while woman's de
mand to vote is thrust contemptuously
in the background. They will not be
able much longer to keep this all-cn-grossing
subject from a test aMhe polls,
and once fairly before the people for
their suffrages its triumph will be sure
and swift.
WOMAN STTITBAGE.
Tliei?uWeiH of this city republishes
the views of a correspondent of the True
Woman (what a misnomer), a seven-by-nlno
anli -Woman Suffrage sheet, pub
lished at Baltimore, and commends them
to the attention of the Woman Suffrage
advoeates of this State. It would seem
that this correspondent has been circu
lating an anti-suffrage petition:
I find intclligentand respectable ladies
willing to sign, and many say they would
not vote, even if the laws allowed them i
to.
Now, wo sny that this correspondent,
by the ingenious wording of the lan
guage, endeavors to convey a false im
pression to the world of tbc result of her
labors. It is not said that the majority
of women were unwilling to sign, and
as that is omitted it is fair to presume
they -wore willing. "Many" is the word
used. Wo submit that, under the cir
cumstances, if a majority of the in
telligent, respectable women had been
opposed to the exercise of the voting
power it would most undoubtedly have
been so stated. So much for that. This
correspondent further says:
But the ignorant are anxious to vote.
In one house, the most filthy place I
ever entered, I found six women. The
old girl of the house sat leaning back in
a window chair, looking half asleep,
with her hands folded across her breast,
hair uncombed, bare feet unwashed, a
Kiuuxy caueo uress, that looked as if It
nau not seen a soap-suds bath for a !
: Z "" S uaF. anS
a? er uress. wnen i :
,,-nVi IS a"",c,xl"'w the ictit on as
SM C : "Xo-1 wallt to vote: 1
and to malf. ffe1 W I.lntl to vote
anu to make the laws than half of tbt
men are." Another said, "i L?r 7
vote, and I have as good n r!. i I 1
asthe,.." Tl,a'8te
much the same wav. aiulnii viV 1,1
"could make better'iawsVlluXme
This looks strongly susniolm,. ,
ing been penned for effect. T..t ...
at the other side of the iiictiin
hold the husband of tho "old girl" men-
tioned. His right to vote is not ques-
tioned, although wc dare snv his plntiio. i
are just as unkempt, his person as dirty
and himself just as lazy as his spouse.
In all candor, are not these ignorant
women as well qualified to vote as their
ignorant husbands,, fathers, brothers and
sonsj Thoargumentof ignorauccehould
per tal nly bear with as great force against
man's qualifications as a voter as it does
auinst woman's. That there arc ignor
ant women we do not deny; and, con
trary to the statement made by .the cor-:
resiwndent of the True Woman, they I
are generally tho very ones who most
strenuously oppose the granting of po
litical rights to their sex.
A YIEW OF WOMAN SUFPBAGE.
Gall Hamilton is one of the most pun
gent women writers of the day. In tbc
New York Independent she presents for
the consideration of readers the follow
ing, and -we should like to hear Miss
Anthony or any other champion of the
Woman Suffrage folly respond to it.
Gail says:
"Wiien women are cursed wiin ineir
granted prayer, the hardest lot will fall
to tiiose wnosc lot is Hardest now. it is
the workingwoman for whom all is
asked: but it is the workincwoman on
whom the sword will be turned. She is
the unfriended or the insufficiently be
friended. Workinirwomen are chiefly
those whose male relatives are unable or
unwilling to support them. "The lov
ing and beloved wife," the "ctted and
caressed daughter" of the strong and
successful man will be scarcely con
scious of any chancre. In her well
guarded home it matters little to her
whether she is loved by law or trracc.
But the unguarded woman must light
her fight with the same real and relative
.It 1111 . 1 . - A Til. 1
uisuuiiuy us hum , uui wiui mi ussuuilh,
a legal equality, winch precludes privil
ege, though it cannot disann futc.
When she has no vote, no defined lxjwer.
her position is a constant appeal to
chivalry, a constant rebuke to brutality
When she has seized the suffrage, her
urutai euipioj-er and tlje not-too-nentle
bystanders will not fail to sav. "ISow
you have got your long-sought equality.
maicc t ne most of it. ask no ravors, and
look out for yourself." Alas! but
women are women still. Change thy
laws, thy state is still the same. Good
men will be good, but the bad and selfish
will have no cloak for their sin. With
women somewhat deferred to, with greed
somewhat held in leash by shame, the
life or the weak woman is hard enough.
Is it likely to be easier when she has
dismissed the ad-antagcs while retain
ing the disadvantages of sex, challenged
her foes to combat, and dulled the
swords of her defenders '."
Wc clip the above from the t'orvallis
Gazette.
Is the "chivalry" alluded to above ac
corded to women in obedience to any
law? Is it obligatory upon men now to
show women deference and respect?
Will men, simply because woman may
possess a political power to-morrow she
does not to-day, refuse to treat Iter with
respectful consideration? AVe have
more confidence in human nature than
to believe that. But there is a kind of
false reaped we know not wnat else to
call it which every woman of sense
would like to see abolished. What is
that "chivalry" worth to woman which
to-day gallantly tips the hat on the
street or surrenders the bast seat at the
parlor entertainment, and on the mor
row pays her one-half the wages for her
services that men receive for the very
same kind of work? If the price of such
"chivalry" as this is half-wages, down
with it. The sooner it goes by the board
the better. Wc speak the sentiments of
every thoughtful woman in the land
when wo say this.
It was argueTl that the negroes would
not be protected by the ballot; that in
stead of redressing their wrongs it would
array them in hostility to their old mas
ters. This in substance is tho argument
above quoted against Woman Suffrage.
The writer believes that the ballot will
array woman in opposition to her for
mer lord and master, man. The argu
ment in reference to the negro has been
proven fallacious. The one in regard to
Woman Suffrage will, in the march of
events, share a like fate.
AVe have no fears that men will ever
be lacking in courteous conduct towards
women. AVe sec not but that those la-
dies who most strenuously urgo the
right of women to vote and hold office
are just as respectfully treated by men
as any. AVe have traveled considerably;
our views are well known ; and yet, de
spite this, wc meet with as much genu
ine courtesy as any woman who "has
all tbc rights she wants."
Is the Gazette satisfied with the re
sponse? Now, Bro., come out from your
retreat behind the absurd inanities of
Gail Hamilton, and speak for yourself.
It looks just a little cowardly to put Gail
forward to fight your battles and she a
woman, too!
THE M0BM0NIMBB0GLI0.
The Mormon imbroglio in Utah
brings the question of tho legality of
polygamy squarely before the courts.
One of the prominent Mormons has
been found guilty of bigamy, fined five
hundred dollars and sentenced to three
years' hard labor in the penitentiary.
An appeal has lecu taken to the higher
courts, where doubtless the action of
the inferior court will be sustained.
Nearly all the prominent personages
among the Mormons, including Brig
ham Young, have been arrested and
held to bail. AVhethcr this course of
action will break up tbc abominable in
iquity so long Haunted in tho faces of
the American people, and which has so
long defied the law, remains to be seen.
Chief Justice McKeau, who has juris
diction of these cases, seems to be a fear
less, Impartial administrator of the
laws, and transgressors will not likely
ue ablc to evade the plain provisions of
the statutes in that Territory as hereto-
; , . ,
fore. AVhatever the result of the pres
ent imbroglio may be, there cau be but
little doubt that polygamy as an insti
tution has seen its palmiest days. The
most benign result attending its over
throw will be the liberation of many an
enslaved, heart-sore woman from a
bondage worse than death. I'oiygami
Is an anamoly in progressing civiliza-
Hon. Like every other off-shoot of
barbarous and feudal times it must pass
awa"i ad the quicker the better,
PBOGBESSE.G.
The West-Side a short time since pub
lished an article against AVoman Suf
frage. In the last numlcr there is an
enthusiastic laudation of Universal Suf
frage. Bro. Hundley is progressing ra-idly.
EDITORIAL C0BBE3P0NBEN0E.
Leaving Olympia on the evening of
the 23d, we took passage in the United
States mail steamer North Pacific, re
tired to our state-rooms, and the steamer
weighing anchor, wc proceeded on our
"journey down tho Sound. The water,
which at the time of sailing was as I
placid as the AVillamette on a midsum
mer morning, gradually grew turbulent
and furious, and by the time that we i
had ploughed its depths for a dozen
hours, the waves had lashed themselves
into a frenzy and disturbed tho meals ol
most of us.
AVe touched for a few moments at the
various ports Ludlow, Gamble, Town-
send and so on and reached Her Majes
ty's Dominion about 5 r. M. on Tues
day. The rain was by this time pouring
down in a heavy Oregon fashion, delug
ing the streets and sidewalks, bringing
into requisition long unused umbrellas
and causing the use of lumbering
vehicles with ewe-necked, ratish-
looking and half-asleep horses, whose
services we were glad indeed to sum
mon. AVe drove to the Driard House,
a branch of the Colonial Hotel, a
building recently opened, after a Rip
ATan AVinkle sleep of half a dozen
years. This hotel was built when Vfc
toria was in her palmy days when
mines wero good, and miners with pock
ets full of dust were far more num
erous than now. AVe learn that our
friend Mr. Jacobs, the present proprie
tor of the St. Charles hotel In Portland,
was once "mine host" in this establish
ment. The house is being thoroughly
repaired ami refurnished. Two addi
tional stories arc being added, and the
prospect is good for the new proprietor
to realize a handsome income from fu
ture probabilities. As a sample of de
preciation in ATictoria's real estate we
may mention the fact that this building,
which was originally erected at a cost of
$15,000, was bought tho other day, lot in
cluded, for $5,000. Victoria has evident
ly once been a very flourishing place;
but, like all towns that owe their prom
inence to mines, its success was short
lived, and it to-day has many tenant-
less houses that arc rapidly falling lode
cay. At eight o'clock, on Tuesday evening,
we repaired to the lecture room, a com
fortable and well lighted hall, whoro
probably were assembled a hundred men
to hear a woman lecture. But three
women were out, the meu having come,
as Miss Anthony aptly and archly ex
pressed it, to hear women scolded. If
the lecture had been intended for men
the women would have been out in
force.
AVe were struck with the regular
Johnny Bull features of the really Intel
ligent audience. There Is an indescriba
ble difference of nationality that is ev
erywhere palpable to the understanding,
but it is not possible to tell just why it
is or what it consists in. AVe congratu
lated the people in a few opening re
marks upon the privileges they enjoy
under the rule of a woman. AVhile these
people of Her Majesty's Dominion really
revere their Queen, wc find that they
rejoice in the belief that they arc virtu
ally free from the mother country. The
Canadian and British Columbian Gov
ernments having recently been united,
the grown-up daughters of Queen VIc
toria have a strong desire to form a mat
rimonial alliance with Uncle Sam, and
wc predict that they will soon cither set
up for themselves in a national house
keeping establishment of their own or
ally themselves with us if we arc will
ing to assent to the union.
Miss Anthony's first lecture was upon
the Power of the Ballot, in the hands of
both men and women, and the fact that
it was so well received by the citizens of
Victoria was plain proof to us that all
the men as well as all the women of
British Columbia hope some day to
vote.
Her second lecture was devoted main
ly to answering objection that are usu
ally urged against the exercise of suf
frage among the masses, particularly
by tho women. The audienco was about
the same as on the first evening, except
that instead of three women there were
seven or eight in attendance.
AVe jKirlicularly urged the gentlemen
to bring their wives on the third even
ing, which, as before, they signally failed
to do. Miss A. told the men that a half
dozen women had visited her at the ho
tel, and they had all told her that wife
whipping was very common in A'icto
ria, and she proceeded in her ieculiarly
facetious style to give vent to her opin
ions in a way that finally waked up in
the newspapers letters from imaginary
correspondents, after the manner of the
Portland Herald, showing plainly that
at hist the stolid sons of Britain arc
awakening to tho fact that women
some of them at least know their rights, i
and knowing, dare maintain them. The
colored people came out in force to ev
ery lecture. AVe find them intelligent, :
Industrious and law-abiding. While
there seems to be no desire upon the
part of tbc races to intermarry or min
gle socially, there is not that prejudice
of caste existing hero which we sec in
Portland. A colored man Is spoken of
as Mr. and a colored woman is always
addroscd as a lady.
Mr. Higgins, of the Jlrithh ColonUt,
seems very much a gentleman. He was
out to our meetings every evening, and,
in the main, reported them quite fairly.
But he, as well as all other men who
publish newspapers to satisfy the public
demand, only dared to give in his report
of Miss Anthony's fourth and mojt phil
osophical lecture of the series, a coarse
outline of her premises, without at
tempting to elucidate, by explanation or
metaphor, any of the really vital prin
ciples of which her logic is constructed.
She announced on the third evening that
her fourth lecture would be, as the Irish
man said, "free, gratis and for nothing,
and not a cent to pay at the door."
This announcement "brought a dense
crowd of men, among whom, of course,
were a number of rowdies, who evidently
assembled. to end the meeting in a roar
ing, laughing riot But they were
checkmated in the very outset by her
naive remark that there must boa strong
interest in the very important subject
which she had come before them to pre
sent, as surely nothing but a desire to
investigate the subject would bring out,
from comfortable firesides and pleasant
homes, such crowds of intelligent faces
on such a stormy, forbidding evening.
mere was much merriment over some
or her sharpest hits, but, several times
when we feared the hilarity would grow
uoionu restraint, some bomb of truth
from her plethoric store would settle
them, and quiet would be restored.
c start to-dav for Port TowiisumuI
and other points along the Sound, and
will endeavor, dear readers of the Xcw
NoirrmvEST, to keep you posted if pos
sible.
Victobia, A'. I., B. C, Oct. 27th, 1S71.
WOMAN SUFPBAGE CONVENTION.
A AVoman Suffrage Convention will
be held at Olympic Hall, Olympia, AV.
T., Nov. 8, 1S71, at 10 A. if.
The friends of AVoman Suffrage, from
all parts of AVashlngton and Oregon, are
cordially invited to be present and par
ticipate in the deliberations.
The object of this convention is to
arrange some plan by which to secure
concert of action among the women
voters of the Territory.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. A.
J. Duniway will bo present.
Signed by M. O. Brown, S. T. Denny, A.
13. Bigelow, J. II. Hall, S. 13. Chapman,
Mary AVheelden, 13. T. Munon, A. B.
A'oung, M. II. Elder, A. A. Manning,
Jane AVylic, II. Maldment, J. B. Allen,
S. F. Coombs, C. A. Sands, A. M. Brown,
M. A. Barnes, John Pike, M. J. Baldwin,
M. McD. Smith, S. DolUemeycr, II.
Gray, O. B. Manning, Richard AVallis,
C. M. LittleJohn, D. L. Smith, Jane
Pattison, C. 13. Sylvester, M.M. Ruddel,
13. C. French, A. R. Elliot, M. P. T.
Snyder, M. R. Denny, L. P. Smith, M.
S. Hyde, 1-1 Peebles, L. E. Hall, F. B.
Keys, M. J. Atkins, D. M. Crane, M. J.
Moore, It. McLaughlin, S. B. Yeslcr, S.
E. A arreu, I. Monahau, F. La Barte,
A. D. AViggin, P. A. Moore, H. Andrews,
F. M. Axtel, M. Morris, L. S. Smith, A.
E. Mitchell, A H. AViggin, A. AV.
Kelly, Emma Peebles, M. J. Pike, S.
Smith, O. J. Bcttis, A. J. Atkinson, S.
13. Hull, Agnes Smith, R. Coombs, S. F.
AVilson, F. AV. Keyes, Levi AVhelden,
A. D. Atkinson, L. M. Winans, II. A.
Young, Mary A. Lotz, II. C. Pike, J.T.
Kenworthy, I. R. Bngley, F. E. Mcnan,
H. O. Brown, J. L. Denny, C. Thornton,
M. A. Kelley, J. B. Moore, A. Brown, J.
F. Damon, L. A. Denny, P. 13. Hall,
Sarah Denny, J. H. Munson, F. M. Sar
gent, L. D. Jacobs, C. C. Perkins, N. L.
Moore, H. S. Pike, Mary Damon, D.
Maydenbancr, L. K. Arey, John Denny,
M. A. Smith, John Buckley, Daniel
Bagley, P. D. Moore, J. AV. Denny, M.
U Frost, S. L. Chapman, E. M. Satin
tiers, P. 13. Elder, Agnes Tallentire, P
Hoski ns, 13. T. Grimm, A. D. McKecknie,
13. A. AVallace.
THE WASHINGTON "STANDABD."
The AVashington Standard is doing
noble battle for woman's cause. Bro.
Murphy will never regret the noble stand
he has taken In favor of the great mod
ern revolution. He is more than a
match for all his man's right's contem
poraries, and he comes oil unscathed in
every encounter. We give the follow
ing from his pen:
The Tribune elevates our frank avowal
of what have been our profound convic
tions for many years into the dignity of
leadership, and attributes to us the
gushing enthusiasm of a new convert,
anxious before many witnesses to pro
claim our devotion to the "new depait
ure," as it calls woman suffrage. 5
Seriously, we are for woman suffrage
because it is right; because it is in ac
cordance witli the spirit of our institu
tions, and because it is recognized as a
part of our fundamental law. If the
Republican party, in socking to do a
great wrong actually did a great right,
wc accept the latter fact though we pay
no honor to the men who "huildcd wiser
than they knew."
AVoman sullrage? Aye, we glory in
the oportuni(y to declare in its favor,
and we hope (forlorn hope though it be)
to be ablc yet to hold out the hand of
fraternal fellowship to the old conserva
tive of the Tribune and welcome him to
the ranks of the new party of progress,
which is re-ally now, us it ever was in
the glorious past, the sterling old Jack-
sonuiu democracy.
WHO'LL T0JTHE BESOUE.
The editor of the Tribune, since his
conversion to the gospel of Equal Rights
and his hasty backsliding therefrom,
seems to be in a most deplorable state of
monomania on the AVoman Suffrage
question. Hear him as he desperately
shrieks forth this frantic cry:
AVliere is the leader of might and
mind around whose banner endangered
men may rally and rear defences against
the advancing hosts? Pantaloons, to
the rescue! Swallow-tails, to arms!
"Now's the daj and now's the hour."
Alas, he cometh not. Pantaloons and
swallow-tails arc alike powerless before
the advancing hosts of AA'omau's politi
cal kingdom. Though all day and
night long our stricken brother may cry
aloud for the leader of "might and
miud" to rally the scattered and defeat
ed squadrons of man's rights, his ago
nizing appeals will be unheeded. The
leaders of "might and mind" are all en
listed in the cause of Universal Suffrage,
and not a single talismanic name is lea
around which our badly worsted oppon
ents can rally a respectable corporal's
guanl.
"GOING ASTBAY."
The Olympia Tribune is "mortified that
many of the very susceptible people con
verted to the new faith" in AVashlngton
Territory arc "wavering, and betray ev
idence of backsliding." The only nota
ble instance of this kind is the editor of
the Tribune. AA'hilo Miss Anthony was
at Olympia ho was as devoted aAVomau
Suffragist as even Theodore Tilton ; but
alas! for the frailty of human nature
no sooner had the good evangelist of
the new gospel of freedom to woman
departed than he hied him back quickly
to the husks of man's rights political
doctrine. In his case the good seed fell
upon stony ground, and sprang quickly
up. But because it liad no "depth of
earth, when the sun was up it was
scorched ; and because it had no root it
wjthered away."
Alas! alas! that it should be so!
MBS. J. FEOST.
This woman is now lecturing at
various points in this State against
AVoman Suffrage. She appears to meet
with indifferent success. If the op
ponents of AVoman Suffrage rely upon
her to destroy the good work per
formed by Miss Anthony they will
be badly disappointed. Strange, isn't
it, that Mrs. Frost should be opposed to
woman's transcending her "sphere,"
and yet practiceone of the very things
speaking in public she so strongly con
demns in others? Why doesn't she
delegate some man to. go around and
lecture for her ? It would be just as log
ical as to delegate a man to do her vot
ing.
Apropos, we append the following not
very favorable criticism of the Oregon-
iun on her lecture at the court house in
this city last Saturday evening :
An intelligent auditor expresses the
opinion that there are many good argu
nientsagainst women suffrage which she
did not present at all, and that some of
those sue did use might have been bet
ter nut. From all we hear wc are in
clined to think her decidedly a talkative
woman but not remarkably argumenta
tive; rather smart, but scattering, and
uiwn the whole not calculated to do a
great deal of harm either to her own or
her opponent's cause.
MBS. F. F. VICTOB.
This well-known lady writer is now
in San Fracisco superintending the
publication of a work which she has
recently written. To all who have read
the "River of the AVest" and what
Oregonian has not? it is needless to
state that a rich intellectual feast may
be expected when this work is put forth
before the public. Most heartily do we
wish Mrs. Victor the greatest of success
in her enterprise.
THE ANTHONY PABTY.
Mis Anthony and party are now
iuAVashintonTerritory, having returned
lroni their tour to A'ictoria, an account
of which will be found elsewhere. They
are to be present at the AToman Suf
fragd"Jonvention at Olympia on the
Sth Inst., after which they will return
to Portland.
Woman Suffrage.
T1IS SPICIEST KVESIXOOF THE HEKIES VICTO
UIA A CITY OF WOMAN-WHII'I'KliS I
Last evening at Alhambm Hall Mrs.
Duniway spoho for about 30 minutes in
support of the cause of woman sufi'rage,
clearing away many of the objections
uiai are urged against the principle.
Mrs. Dunl way's delivery is not so forci
ble as that of Mis3 Anthony's, but her
styie oi argument is sound and convinc
ing. After Mrs. Duniway had retired,
and the audience had applauded her
remarks, Miss Anthony came forwanl
and delivered the most telling lecture of
the scries, bhe claimed that by the ad
mission of women to the franchise wars
would cease. Every stcn of science had
been obstructed by the prejudices of the
world, which had to be met and over
come. It is true there is nothing about
women voting in the Bible, nor is there
anything about men voting. All are
subordinated to kings and natriarchs.
Wives are told to submit themselves to
their husbands, but not to drunken.
miserable, tyrannical fellows only to
good meif, laughter. There was the
curse on man that he was to earn his
bread by the sweat of his brow. The
minister who delivered two or three
sermons ofaSundaydidn't sweat much.
The doctor who prescribed boluses and
imtions didn't sweat a great deal; and
the iKditicians only sweated just before
eleetion-time, roars of laughter. Then
there was the curse of Ham his chil
dren had had it removed by the aboli
lion oi slavery. And what is woman
doing to-day? Laboring to have her
curse which is the heaviest of all
removed, applause. She was striving
to free herself of the curse of having
man to rule over her. It was said
that the women who were agitatiu;
to-day were in favor of free love. Men
of libertine, depraved habits were afraid
that, if woman got the same privileges
they have, they would be just as aban
doned, j, ui an mat woman claimed
was the right to separate herself
irom n drunken, brutal, libertine hus-
uaiui, anu reiuse to bear him children
and thus pass down his viees and degra
datiou to future generations. (uheersY
i The speaker claimed that when Laura
air was tried, she was not fairly tried
because she was a woman. Mrs. Wood
hull was villified and abused beeau.-c
sue is a dealer in stocks and a spiritual
ist, and she, Miss Anthony and Mrs.
htauton are abused by tho press of
America because they have extended
their hands to assist an erring sister.
In concluding, Miss Anthony said that
she had been called on bv a minister nml
several ladies, and had been told that
she made a mistake in charging a fee
for admission to the lectures; that the
peopie oi ictona were not accustomed
to pay for intellectual entertainments
only for negro minstrelsy and cirenses.
Laughter. She was also told that the
women of A'ictoria, poor things ! wore
content with their lots and didn't want
iberty! AVas it possible? It was said
that there was no town in America in
which wives got so many Hoggings as in
Aictoria, the audience here became
convulsed with merriment, and they
are content to take them quietly ! She
again asked if it were jwssible that the
women of A'ictoria were so contented
and happy that they would continue to
be whipped and never even murmur?
Laughter. Now, she asked the wom
en to come and hear her on Thursday
evening, the last evening she would be
here, and she asked the men to como
and to be sure to bring all their women.
She had somethlngof importance to say.
and the entrance would be free: the
dnnr-4 rnntf! lio llimu-n widft niwu. Rlin
wanted to see u the women or ictona
had so sunk their womanhood that they
were happy even In their degradation.
(Laughter and applause).
Mr. Llneker moved a vote of thanks
to Miss Anthony. Mr. Nuttall sec
onded and tho vote was accorded unani
mously.
Miss Anthony asked all who were in
favor of AVoman Suffrage to hold up
. , t . rr- i ...
ineir nanus-, .every nuiiu was neid up.
"Be sure and como to-morrow night,"
said Miss Anthony as the audience filed
out. Colonist, Oct. 20.
BITER IMPROVEMENT.
Portland, Oct?20, 1S71.
Editor 2ew Northwest:
If your valuable paper is not too ex
clusively devoted to the AVoman Suf
frage movement, I desire to beg space to
eall attention to a subject matter of
very great importance to Portland, and
Oregon in general. And my sugges
tions are voluntary offerings, and not in
the nature of fault finding.
I desire to say a few word about river
improvement in the AVillamette.
It is not so difficult to lay hold upon
currents of water and make them serv
alory of our wishes as it has proven to be
of currents of the air, though the study
of the latter has conduced much to
navigation.
I will not say anything, either, about
tho plan upon which the expenditures
being made on the AVillametto river are
disbursed. It will be sufficient if the
results are satisfactory to those having
the matter in charge.
Swan Island bar, the mouth of the
AVillamette and the bar opposite St.
Helens are impediments to navigation
from the ocean to Portland at this time,
and these impediments are each ascrib
able to natural causes. Swan Island,
two miles below Portland, and the prin
cipal, main or most-used channel is on
the east side of it. Either Swan Island
should be removed, or one of the two
channels closed. If the island is re
moved it will throw the two channels
Into one. Some may think the expe
diency oi removing nwan island a
strange idea. But the island may be
on the best channel for the river. An
old root of a tree lodging there may
have been the eause of the formation
of the island, and it may be that it is
situated, really, in the best channel for
the river. A century and a half ago an
old stump of a tree may have anchored
itself there, and from that time on drift,
with sand and debris, lodged and col
lected upon and fastened it harder and
harder in its place, and there grew upon
it an island. As it now is, the island so
divides the river that when the water is
high, in winter . time, the current is
mainly on the wast side of the island,
and when it is mediocre or low the
principal channel is upon the cast side.
It is a question why the water does
not itself cut the deeper channel upon
the west side of the island. The most
probable supposition is that the river
bed is too hard there. Rock or other
hard substance may render it impossi
ble for the water itself to make the
channel deeper upon the westside ; and,
for that matter, such reason may exist
for not attempting to deepen the west
channel by labor. And if it be the case
that the iccal channel cannot be well
opened or tlcejiencd, nor the island well
removed, then the west channel ought
to be closed effectually, to high water
water current as well as to mediocre or
low water current, and all the current of
the river turned into the cart channel.
The current of the AVillamette river is
sufficient to make a channel bed for
every purpose of navigation for all ves
sels that can enter the mouth of the
Columbia. The AVillamette is a large
river. The Tualitan empties into it just
above the Falls and the Clackamas just
below. And if confined to one channel
it will certainly make a body of water
in its natural How sufficiently hirge for
good-sized ships. Confined to a single
bed it will make its natural channel,
muallg, of the proper depth. If the bed
of the river is of unusually hard sub
stance, then labor will fulfill what the
usual force of current fails of in making
the channel of sufficient depth.
Again, the AVillamette has three
mouths or outlets, instead of but one.
Two of these should be closed, and the
Columbia Slough as well. Yours,
Ax Auvexturek.
In six counties of Iowa at the recent
election the Republican candidates for
Superintendent of schools were women.
Four of them were elected and two de
feated. All hail to progressive Iowa!
Woman's Riciiits. Last evening
Alhambra Hall was crowded and Miss
Anthony was more than usually elfec
tive. She began by examining the
Common Law of England and said that
by it a man may whip his wife with a
stick no bigger than his thumb. She
wondered whether A'ictoria wives had
been whipped with anything thicker
than a thumb. Missionaries ought to
go about and enquire. (A laugh.) If a
wife rebelled against a whipping and
tried to run away she might be re
strained. She knew a man who tied
his wife to a bedpost to keep her from
running away, it had been done liere,
two. (Cries of No!) Oh. Iv'c had half-
a-dozen wives to see nie to day, so yon
needn't talk. In England a man may
sell his wife. The present condition of
woman is similar to that of slavery be
fore the war. She could not even have
the custody of her children. Drunkards
might apprentice their children to rum-
sellers and brothels and the wife could
not prevent them. A father, even, may
will an unborn child. And yet you
men laugh this movement to scorn.
The women of England and the United
States arc slaves, and this movement is
designed to break the very last link in
the chain of slavery. The lecturer
lauded the American system of Govern
ment and said it is a shame that biacK
men are not allowed to sit on juries in
this Province. Talk of woman's sphere!
Man hail choked up all the avenues of
employment lormeny open 10 women.
Thev are in Government olllces, millin
ers, "tailor-shops. Go and look at your
A'ictoria dry goods stores where great,
big six-foot men are measuring ofi tape.
Laughter. You ought to be ashamed
of yourselves for crowding women out
of work. Not a woman in A ictona is
satisfied with her lot. If they say they
e. don't believe them. ie women
are not satisfied. Laughter and hear.
hear. Miss Anthony couiimcu ai
some length in the same strain am i
the cheers and merriment oi me imiu-
ence. Colonist.
trow shameful It Is that you should
-.,, ilnll nreacher to a
drowsy audience, "while that poor idiot
is awake and attentive." "t would
have been asleep, too,-- taiu me iooi,
"if I liad not been an Idiot."
How was Jonah pu nished ? Whaled,
of course.
Oregon's great bard, Joaquin Miller,
writes to the New A'ork Tribune, thank
ing journalists for their many kindly
notices and courtesies, and thus alludes
to the criticisms on his poem entitled
"Kit Carson's Ride:"
"As Kit Carson was allowed to die in
obscurity, without so much as a six-line
paragraph to chronicle the event, it
strikes me as a little strange that meu
now cry out against my attempt to pre
serve the memory of this truly brave
and good man. No sincere, impartial
man, can read my allusions to Carson
and say I have represented him as any
thing but a true man. The Indian girl
is permitted to perish becuase it is in
the order of things. She represents a
race that is passing away. It would
have been contrary to the order of things
to have allowed her to escape. There is
not one Indian in all my songs that
survives, not one Indian woman that
does not die a violent death, because this
is as it is. I have done my work advis
edly, such as it is, and if I have created a
sympathy for the Indian girl that com
pels an outcry, it is surely more perfect
than I had thought."
Mr. Miller has certainly writtensome
very beautiful poems, and lias deserv
edly won a high niche in the Temple of
Fame, and wo will not deny that there
are some very beautiful passages in "Kit
Carson's Hide;" but we venture to say
that if the following extract from this
poem were read to one of his former
companions on the border, he would in
dignantly stigmatize it as a base libel
on the famous mountaineer:
We lay low in the gram on the brod itlain lev
Old Revels ml I, ami my fctolen brown VrWe.
"Forty TuII mile ir foot lo rWe,
Forty full miles Ifsi foot, nml the devils
of red ('uiimnclieti are hot on the Cruet
When once they strike It. It the sun podown
Soon, very' soon," muttered bearueu oiu uev-
eis,
As lie iM-ered at the sun, lying low on his back,
HoMlns fittl to his liiwu; then lie Jerked at hU
hieeii.
And .-pranc to liix feet ami glaneed swiftly
around.
And then dropped, as If slwt, with Ills ear to
tin- "mlllid.
Then asain to his feet and to me, to my bride,
Willie ins eyes were nice lire, in lace ime k
Khroud,
Ills form 11 Ke a kins, and his beard like a
CHim,
Ami his voieo loud and hriU,aj If blown from
"Pull, pull In your lasso, and bridle to Meed,
Aim Keeu you ll ever ir ill you wohhi upeeu.
And rule for your llve for your liven you mmt
ride:
For the plain U a flame, the prairie on Are,
And 'eetof wild horses, hard flying lieStre,
I hear like a sea breaking; high on the shore,
Willie the btllliilo eome like the surge or the
sea.
Driven far by the Hume driving fast on us
three,
As a hurrieane comes, crushing palms in 11b
ire."
We drew in the lasso, slezed saddle and rein,
Threw thcmou,gluehed them on, stttehed them
over again,
And again drew the girth, cast aiWe the inn
cheem, Cut away tupidaro, looked the sash from Its
fold.
Cast aside the eantenas ml and spangled with
gold,
And gold-mounted Colt's, tree eompanloiis for
years,
Cast the rvd silk sei-apes to the wind in a
breath;
And so bared to the skin, sprang all lmste to
the horse.
As bare as when born as, when new from the
hand
Of God without word, or one word of com
mand. Turned head to the Brazos in a red race with
death;
Turned head to the Brazos with a breath In the
hair
Blowing hot from a king leaving death in his
course;
Turned head to the Brazos with a sound In the
air
Like the rush of an army, ami a flash In the
eye
Of a ml wall of Are reaching up to tlte sky.
Stretching tleree In pursuit of a black rolling
sea,
Bushing fast upon ns as the wind sweeplngfree
And ararfrom the desert, bearing death and des
pair. Now Kit Carson would never have at
tempted to run a race of forty miles
with a prairie fire, even if "Old Itevels"
was fool enough to advise him to do so.
"Why, the young squaw would have had
more sense than that! Kit Carson, in
stead of throwing away his weapons and
stripping himself naked, would have
quietly kindled a fire in tliegrass, which
wouiu nave mane a sale tracK for liis
advance to the Brazos over the burnt
territory the herd of wild auimais be
hind would have obliterated tho trail
and the pursuing Indians would have
ocen tnrown oil the pursuit. This is
the thought that would naturally have
occurred to the merest tyro on the bor
der, much less to a veteran frontiersman
like Carson.
Carson's fame rests on his skill and
experience in all the vicissitudes and
exigencies of a border life; and a poem,
avoweuiy mienucu to perpetuate it.
should have some incidents tending to
uiusiiiiii; iiiui. sivui uiiuer trying cir
cumstances. Instead of this, Mr. Miller
has sacrificed all that was natural and"
reasonable m the incident to a desire to
burn "Itevels" and the squaw to death,
and let Carson plunge naked in the Bra
zos with no companion but a blind and
singed horse and a million or so of half
roasted buIIUIocs. The violent death of
the Indian girl is all well enough, for
the reason Mr. Miller assigns above;
but he could just as well have drowned
her in the Brazos after the escape from
the fire, or gotten up a first-class fight
with her red kinsfolk and let her meet
her death while trying to stive her lover
(in the approved fashion) by the hands
of her irate father, while Kit, after per
forming prodigies of valor, and offering
half the tribe as a sacrifice to her manes,
filially runs oil" on Pache. He would
havepreserved the "unities" (we believe
they call it) at any rate. Jacksonville
Times.
A lady at Long Branch excites a great
deal of amusement by taking her daily
bath in the ocean, arrayed in a water
proof bathing suit, India rubber shoes,
and oil-skin cap, India nibbergloves, and
a wire mask over her face.
Said a fop to a young lady, "Thatgold
ring on your finger is emblematical of
my love for you. because it has no end."
"And it is emblematical of mine for
vou," said tho lady, "because it has no
beginning."
Fond Father "I see ye've put my son
into grammar an' jography. Xou, as
I neither mean him too bo a minister
or a sea captain, its no use. Give him a
plain bizziness eddication."
A man named Pepper gave a party,
and one of his guests on entering the
room exclaimed: "My dear Mr. Pep
per, now giati you must- oe to see your
friends mustered !
A lady asked a punil at a nublic ex
amination of a Sunday-school, "What
was the sinof the Pharisees?" "Eating
camels, marm," quickly replied the
child.
iiWIu-ilnvnii ....It ..... ......l.,-oi,
....j j uu vail jiic uiiuai lii lit:.,.
ilUlllired .1 wlfn nf 1i,,r Inil.-nnl "T!n-
cause," was the answer, "you are al-
ussociaieu in my mum wuu u
bill."
The only liberty-cap, says a clever and
witty author, is the night-cap. In it
men visit, one third of their lives, the
only land where they are free and equal.
A 'WVsrr'm nanfr accuses a COtltein-
"and frankly
adds: "We want him to understand that
two cau play at that game,"