PORT ORFORD POST.
TIII 1 tSDAY, ■ JUKB8, 1881,
, 1 0 , 1 1 a t ic m i i ’ i d i t v a m »
T H E S T A B K O I 'T K M K K IX ESN .
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Ex-United States Senator Wal­
lace, (Dem.) v ho was Chairman of
the nub-committee on the Post-
office deficiency Bill made neces­
sary by the Brady gang thefts,
rises to explain that no Democrat
ever profited a cent by the steal,
except it must havo been by the
merest accident, llo need not
have said that. Republicans are
not in the habit of dividing their
good things with Democrats; and
tin, Star Rout«, mine was all their
own. But Wallace proceeds to ex­
plain why he recommended that
tlio dificiency Bill pass, ami here­
in lies the weakness of his posi­
tion. Ho, ami the entire Con­
gress, tho Presiilent ami tho Cabi­
net, knew at the time that tho Con­
tract Department of tho P. O.
Department was rooking with cor­
ruption, ami rotten to tho very
core. But Wallace explains that
such a clamor was raised all over
the country against “ crippling the
Star Route service,” that his Com­
mittee thought it advisable to for­
ward tin, appropriation asked for
by Brady, rather than incur the
popular denunciation which he
thought from the signs to portend
if tho service was “ crippled.”
Hero is where the Committee ami
the Democratic Congress which
endorsed its recommendation,
showed their incapacity to grasp
the situation. They could not
distinguish between a genuine
manifestation of popular senti­
ment, and the fictitious clamor
raised ami promoteil by Dtirsey
ami his eo-thiflves. As in other
matters wherein the last Demo­
crat i«' Congress demoiistrated its
incapacity to meet the demands of
tin, times, it waH in this matter es­
pecially timid, halting, wavering,
irresolute and hesitating —followed
by the spectre «>f popular disap­
proval which its cowardiceuud stu­
pidity instead, finally invoked upon
its head, and not a moment too
soon for tho public good; for,
w bate ver else may bo said in «liw-
piirag«*m«’nt of tin' Republican
Congress which supplants the last
vaseilating, nogatixe Congress,
inaction and imbecile timorous­
ness will not probably be reckoned
in the catalogue of its shortcom­
ings; it will likely b«i positive and
aggressive, even if in wrong«loing,
which will at least be a relief from
tli<> tedium of the “ how not to do
it” philosophy of tin, body it suc­
ceeds.
We linxu been expecting Mad­
ame Duniway to develop into an
angel or something of the sort, but
del not suppose she was ready to
tly just yet; but she is. She dates
her correspondt'nco to her paper,
“ Dn the Wing.” M iteliel 1, w hose
sir name was Hippie, was went
in time past to date his comtnuni-
eati ms. "Wide World." There is
a fascination in this thing which
the vulgar may never kuow.
I* t( l l l <
C O A S T W O.VIEX IX T H E
I* ltl» F E S S H » X S ;
It lias not been successfully
demonstrated that women may not,
on an average, succeed as well in
the professions as men; nor yet
can it bo assumed as an incontro­
vertible fact that they will. This
much is certain, however, viz:
That, in the preparatory ordeals to
entering upon the discharge of
professional responsibilities, wo­
men liavo developed equal if not
superior aptitude in the matter of
the elementary details, to the aver­
age run of men in the pursuit of
like ends. We have in mind at
this writing, live Pacific Coast la­
dies, viz: Mesdaines Duniway,
Sawtello and Denlingor, all Orego­
nians, ami Mrs. Laura Do Force
Gordon and Mrs. Clara Foltz (tho
latter formerly of Oregon) of Cal­
ifornia, with all of whom we have
enjoyed in the past a personal ac­
quaintance more or less intimate.
Mrs. A. J. Duniway (now “A. S.”
to confound Ben Hayden who per­
sisted in calling her “ Andrew
Jackson,”) lias by dint of courage
and perseverance, supplemented
by sound common souse, aeheived
honorable distinction in journal­
ism light literature and tho lecture
field without special preparatory
training.
Mrs. C. M. Sawtello, after hav­
ing reared a numerous family on a
farm in Douglas county, conceived
an ambition for the medical pro­
fession, and, entering the Medical
Department of the Willamette
University, she rapidly mastered
such of the intricate problems «6
tho medical science as were en­
countered by •7 lier class
<» • in that
*
school. Ano bo it said to the last­
ing shame of the Faculty, chief of
which was Dr. Carpenter, that, af­
ter taking Mrs. Sawtollo’s money
for all the courses up to the grad­
uating point, they refused to admit
her into the graduating class.
Nothing daunted,'she found means
to go Fust, and there graduated.
(Wo believe in a New York City
College.) She is now practicing
near tin1 Mission, in San Francisco.
Mrs. Denliger, the wife of a Sa­
lem printer, aspired to become
useful to her kind, and adopted
the medical profession, and we
beleive graduated w ith distinction.
Mrs. De Force Gordon first ex­
plored the field of journalism, and
then set herself down to master
the dry and prosiae details of the
law, ami lias been admitted to
practice in all the Courts of Cali­
fornia.
Mrs. Foltz, after removing with
her family from Salem to San Jose,
Cal. commenced the study of tin'
law, ami in due time applied for
admission to the Hastings Law
School, Berkeley, where she was
at first refused admission “ on ac­
count of sex," but subsequently
entered the institution under a
mandate of the Supreme Court, if
w e remember correctly. Three of
our five subjects, viz: Mrs. Duni­
way, Mrs. De Force Gordon and
Mrs. Sawtello, bad children grown
aud soiuo of them married, when
they entered actively upon their
chosau pursuits.
No eno of the five (except it may
Tern .Scott of Pennsylxania, the
i have been Mrs. Gordon) started
great railroad king, is bad.
I
A S T E K X P H E S S OX M A T - is said that it has upon its roll
out with substantial literary quali­ T H T E I I E E W
S ’N C O X F IK T I A T IO X .
more than sixty names of the dead,
fications beyond such as they had
some of whom have been dead
The confirmation of Stanley more
acquired during hours, days,
than three years. A doctor
weeks, months and years of homo ! Matthews as U. S. Supreme Judge i in divinity in Brooklyn says of
is severely denounced by the lead­ one of his brethren that he has
cares and household drudgery.
scores, if not hundreds on his roll
As to Mrs. Duniway, her battle ' ing journals of both parties. Sen­ who have long since gone to glory.
is won. She has successfully run ator Plumb received telegrams Facts like these weaken our con­
the gauntlet of ridicule, semi- ' from Jay Gould asking him to fidence in official tables and re­
blackguardism and the popular vote to confirm Matthews, C. P. ports.
prejudice of of her own sex, and ( Huntington of the Central Pacific That the Churches have fallen
is master of the situation, and has J xvas active in Lis efforts for Mat­ into the ways of the average Indian
Agent in the matter of the falsifi-
the satisfaction of seeing her solid thews’s confirmation.
The
Sun
says:
cation of numerical statistics may
accomplishments acknow ledged of
It
xvas
not
denied
that
these
all men. It remains to be demon­ great corporations engineered his possibly be attributed to the de­
strated whether the other four nomination by Hayes. There is moralization consequent upon
will succeed even tolerably in no doubt that Jay Gould caused Grant’s experiment of assigning
in the practice of professions, Garfield to understand that Mat­ preachers to the custody of Indian
renomination would be ac­ Agencies. But it may or may not
the rudimentary details of which thews’s
cepted as a satisfactory equivalent be taken as a sign of a quickening
they acquired with such seeming for Gould’s large subscription to
cility. But, then, examples are the campaign fund. That Mat­ conscience xvhen one pastor xvill
J wanting of men utterly failing thews was confirmed at all was allege that another carries on his
the prosecution of these same due to the lobbying of Gov. Fos­ membership roll “ scores if not
ter, Mr. Wash. McLean, and by
Rings to which these ladies have social inllueuces said to have been hundreds long since dead.” “Tricks
dicated themselves and upon authorized by Jay Gould and C. P. in all trades but ours.”
licli they have severally builded Huntington. McLean and Gov. T H E H O U S E W I F E O F T H E F I '-
Foster «lid xvliat they did out of
T IK E .
sir hopes.
personal friendship. There is no
question but that the renomination Under this caption a Suffrage
THE
P 1 I E M D E N T A N D T H E of Matthew's xvas urged upon Gar­
journal has this:
S T A I t I tO U T E C I.'K N EIIX ESS,
field before be xvas inaugurated.
“ Method and regularity shall
The folloxving is from tho Phila­ simplify her cares, and each day
Brady has a letter from Mr. Gar­
field, writtten during the late delphia Ledger:
she xvill make leisure for her own
The votes of such Democratic improvement, both for her own
Presidential contest, urging the
raising of funds for tho campaign statesmen as Senators Voorhees, sake aud for others xvhose intel­
Beck and Pendleton, to confirm lectual progress shall be so dear
in Indiana, and the fact that Sena­ Stanley Matthews, is calculated to i an interest to her. Not only the
tor Dorsey, the chief of tho Star throw the party into confusion. ' physical but the mental training
Route conspirators took Indiana It is by no means improbable that ' of heu children will be under her
under bis personal care aud ere long the Senators referred to xvatchful care.’’
xvill be formally called to explain
keeping, and was afterwards dined the difference between their pro­ Noxv, right here, and at the risk
and wined at Delmonico’s in New fessions and their practice. The of being deemed impertinent, xve
York, by the National Republican Board of trade and Transportation, desire to ask this simple question,
Committee as tho “ Savior of Indi­ which had resisted the appoint­ viz: What time xvill the “ ho*u^
ment of Matthews from the start,
ana,” lends additional significance on the ground that he xvas wholly wife of the future” have, ow ing»
her multiplied and manifold cares
to the programme suggested by in the railroad interest, are going
incident to voting, office-seeking,
Barfield’s letter to Brady through to havo a meeting to express their
office-holding, jury duty, etc.,
Hubbell, and tho genuineness of views of the situation, and the
Anti-Monopoly party you may be etc., to give to, the xvorlil “ Ci&la
x^Jpch is no^J^sju^d
sure, will not be sloxv in folloxving DREN?’’
A Washington dispatch of May up the movement from tho same
standpoint.
“ IX D E .V 1 X IT V A N D O B 1 .1 V I O X .”
10th, says:
The New York Commercial Bul­ Shortly after the Restoration.
I talked with a gentleman who
know about Garfield’s letter to letin gives vent to its indignation Charles II. proclaimed his famous
Hubbell about raising money thus:
“ Act of Indemnity and Oblivion.’’
from the Star combination. “ Nat­
Tho real significance of the Sen­ The proceedure xvas severely criti­
urally,” saiil be, “ 1 am with Gar­ ate’s confirmation of Stanley Mat­
field. I want to give bis Admin­ thews as a Supreme Court Justice cised by the King’s courtiers, who
istration what support 1 can, be­
not in connection xvitli its party characterized it “ An Actoflndem-
cause 1 want it to succeed. About is
relationship,
in the fact that inity to the King’s enemies, and of
his letter to Hubbell, I have to say the power has but
arisen
in this coun­ oblivion to his friends.” AVe al-
this: It xvas written after consul­ try which is strong
to
tation, and with a full knowledge overbear both the great enough
■ loxv that Senator Conkling, in the
political
that it w as to be slioxvn by Brady parties, and, right in the teeth of ! anguish of his heart, recalls the
to the Star contractors to let them
opposing popular opinion and ' above simile as one fitting tho atti-
umlorstanil that Garfield knew all an
of
every dictate of propriety, to 1 tude of Garfield tow ard him and
about it; in fact that it was lie compelí
those two parties, as oc­
that xvas passing the hat for their casion may
require, to «lo their his crowd at the present time, and
contributions. Garfiehl
might bidding. This
is at once apparent xvitli good reason, if xve may credit
just as well deny tho best-known upon an analysis of the vote. the evidences of the bargain at
fact in the worhlas to deny to such Thus among the Senators in the !
of us as were inside this explana­ affirmative (will it bo believed?) i Mentor, Conkling’s part of which
tion of the circumstances under arc such leading Democrats a s , he scrupulously fulfilled. If any­
w hich the Hubbell letter was writ­ Voorhees of Indiana, Pendleton ‘ thing xvill shake one’s faith in hu­
ten'. He may just as well deny of Ohio, Beck of Kentucky and man nature, it is an act of base
writing the letter itself as to deny Lamar of Mississippi. AVe «lo not
the circumstances, the objects, see lioxv these heretofore ostenta­ ingratitude.
auj results, too of it.
tious opponents of corporate mon­
“ It was just this: There was opoly can look their constituents
During the late Presidential
sore need for money to «‘ai ry Indi- in tlio face when they return home campaign, “ comparative state­
diana. It was thought if Brady after having made such a record. ments” of the stealings under the
lnul the right kind of a letter from It looks as if those constituents
several Administrations xvere xviile-
Garfield,ho could get contributions havo been deliberately sold out.
ly circulated, giving to Hayes’s
from the Star people. Just, what
they were Garfield knew perfectly A L L E L E » 1.« F I .E S I A S T IF A E Administration the lowest per
well, from the investigation in the
O E F E P T IO X .
cent, in that line, of the lot, ami
(louse of Representatives the pre­
Tlio Churchman of Nexv York, yet at that moment, the Brady
vious Winter. Besides, ho xvas
told why they would give. His rgan of tho Protestant Episcopal gang were stealing their millions
letter to Hubbell xvas to fit the Lurch at the East, has been ex­ by the xvholesale, and it would be
ease. The very least Garfield can hiring some statistics together a poor compliment to Mr. Hayes’s
do now is to keep silence. 1 don't
knoxv xvhat we xvoubln't have done fith a spice of denominational sagacity, and fitness for the place
crookedness" in connection there- he occupied, to suppose him io de
to get money for Indianajust then.
Garfield is perfectly enveloped by
itli, both in Nexv York and ignorant of “ daylight robberies ’
complicity with these things Irooklyn. The Churchman says: on so stupendous a scale. Of
which the Hubbell letter, explain­
Our denominational brethren course these comparative showings
ed as 1 have explained it. forms a
re
learning not only that figures were utterly unreliable, and were
part. He would have w ritten any
rill
net lie, but that they xvill tell
letter to fit the case. That letter
good many unpleasant truths, devised and circulated to, in some
belongs to the category of epistles
which principals in wickedness ly way of comment upon the sta- measure, justify and palliate offi­
<xf mie of tlie ir c h u rc h e s , it cial misfeasance.
write to pals.’
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