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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1871)
FRIDAY. 5f OVOIBER 17, 1S71. OTJE BANNJJE YET WAVETH. Home again! tbauk Heaven ! where, with health and strength renewed from the effects of a vigorous campaign, wc gather our loved flock around us and, in the gleesoine joy of sweet reunion and the interchange of words of cheer, we are so befuddled that wc cannot hear ourself think. If Congressmen and Sen ators feel as anxious to get home to the fireside at the end of their terms as we do after a month's absence, we don't see how they can accept office. Wc wouldn't be President to-day if wc could. Seated again at our little ile&k, scrib bling away at a rapid rate, while the click of falling type is heard within and pattering rain-urops mil without, we feel that we wouldn't exchange our office for a Dukedom or our editorial chair for the sole possession of the Isles of the Sea. And our fingers tingle with an elec tric glow that longs to burn itself into words of greeting to the many friends of our glorious cause who read the Xkw Northwest. To each and all of them we say, "Thank God and take courage Our cause is marching on !" MISS AHTH0NYS LAST LECTURE, A large and attentive audience con vened at an early hour in Oro Fino Hall on Wednesday evening to listen to the parting address of this estimable lady, whose sojourn among us has won the hearts of the people as no statesman lias ever beon able to do since the gallant General Baker took the public heart by storm. She began by giving a condensed ac count of her travels and lectures in this countrj'i eulogising our people and giv ing very encouraging accounts of the progress of the cause of Human Bights. Evidently the shaker was very much jaded from the effect of her recent her culean labors as the AVoinati Suffrage "wheel horse ;" but she did not swerve one hair's breadth from the line of her argument, a"ud the audience appeared unwilling to leave the hall at its close. The reporters, of whom she says she always has a wholesome fear, must have been out to the Council or some other equally edifying place, for, with one fee ble exception, we saw no man taking note". The said feeble exception was all the time half asleep, and, consequently. his report is a disjointed effort of rcwr- torial inconsistency, of which we should he ashamed, were it not that man's rights' death is none of our funeral, and every man who makes a fool of himself only makes our victory the easier. Miss Anthony has made thousands of warm and trusty friends in this quarter of Uncle Sam's vineyard, and we hope anu trust that she may again bo induced to visit us to enjoy the full fruition of her labors of love in the great cause of humanity. AN INOIDENT. The dear, generous, good-natured, philosophical, philantliropical, free and easy men, who think too much of women to allow them liberty of voice, con science qr inclination, got an overdose of their own rcyimc the other day at one of the milling points on the Sound. When the steamer landed a lady, with whom Miss Anthony and ourself had formed an agreeableacquaintancc at an other place, met us at the wharf and in vited us to her home, saying that our company would be a great pleasure to her and she could make us more com fortable than we would be at the hotel, where there were indifferent accommo dations for ladies. We protested, fear ing that we might incommode Iter, but the invitation was repeated and wc ac cepted the hospitality of a very comfort able home. The lord and master who supports this woman, and who "loves, cherishes and protects her" according to law, came in in the evening and in formed us that lie had engaged rooms lor us at the hotel : that he didn't keen public house and his wife in inviting us to her house had done that which lie liau not given her permission to do. The wife sat in tearful silence, feebly remon- siraiing occasionally, but to no purpose, and, of course, we could not dispute the authority or the legal power of her "pro tector" to order her invited guests to leave the house. T j anuignauon ran lii-h at the mill, and the men were all ashamed of him, nut tne poor, boorish niggard, who owns and possesses that woman in fee simple, feels that lie has taught her lesson of subjugation which she will not dare to forget. Of course a large-hearted, genteel, re spectable man, who is worthy of a sen sible wife, will never make her feel his power by such exhibitions of masculine prowess ; but when a man is the oppo site of all this, ho has the law and the liberty to set at naught the best inter ests and feelings of the helpless woman who is doomed to be cursed witli such an alliance When that lady gets the "ght to vote and lml.l ' VXJo4 j twin Ui" w.!- 1 tUm a now l,in n tiiatfel- WOMAN STJPFEAGE ASSOCIATION. Elsewhere we ci vn n. . . of the OrganizI 0CnM,oer"lc'aleeount County Woman SnftV. IuUfah The ladies whosU officers are know., Jl enrolled as worth .nid nliiiit,. called meeting l in eotopressa .111 we shall give full mrtiei,t.. vrhicl. . - "uie next issue. OUE EEGEETS. We are sorry our brother of tlieOlym pia Tribune thinks that we meant to visit any indignation upon him. -ye assure him he is mistaken, and hope he will no longer "feel bad in consequence" pf imaginary indignities. BEEIAH ON THE WAS PATH. The exploded lujnibug for whose sake wc have sharpened our pencil just now is invited to come forward. There! take your position to ! Hold your head up, sir, and look us in the eye thus! Now, sir, have you any sense of personal hon or? Do you expect the world to coin cide witli you when you assert, as you did in the little Dispatcli of November Oth, (which is rapidly dispatching you to oblivion) that the relation of hus band and wife "signifies nothing more than a partnership of convenience, and you are old and not particularly attract ive as an affinity?" (What youjiiean by this Inst sentence is not iwrticulnrly clear, unless indeed you do imagine that somebody may make matrimonial over- lures to you, which we assure you isn't at all likely.) Then, when you try to hide your own short-comings by accusing "that other editor" of being as much a "mass of pu trescence" as, by your own account, we must believe yourself to be, Isn't your accusation just a little cowardly There would be much good sense in your remarks upon the abuse of the ill gestive organs were it not that you for get that the man who adds "drinkin, chewing and smoking" to the other sins against temperance, of which most men are guilty, becomes by so doing just three fold more a "leper" than the man who ali-tains from these last, while you confess that you indulge the whole of them. We arc sorry to sec you affect "Dean Swift's Monk" in the use of the couplet you quote, which, aftcrall, does seem, in your case and by your own confession, to to be a very appropriate one. We were not aware that the woman with whom you live was not your wife Wc gave you the benefit of a doubt un til your flat denial came, but we honest Iy think, in consideration of the present tatc of your affairs, that it would be well for you to follow the example of the honest "negro named Dixon" whose case, as you gave it, we present to our readers in another column and "apply to the County Auditor for a license to marry her," that you may live herenf ter"likc:i Christiauman." Oh.Bcriah! we're afraid you'll never get a legal wife! A man whose ideas of the "holy estate of matrimony" are so utterly at variance with his example stands a poorer show than the "negro named Dixon." It is a pity you are such a con summate old fogy! There is no more use in us hammering away at your one sided pate to try to infuse a little com mon sense in it titan there is in dealing out logic to a lager keg. Your head is so full of your pet hobuy, which you style "coarse, sensual, agrarian," that you are unable to comprehend anything else. You remind us very much of the man who always looked through colored spectacles. "BEOTHEE IKITIN EOSTACIES. Our man's rights contemporary of the Portland Jferuld recently became very mucn exorcised over tne alleged op pression of the Federal Government over the "property holders, men of the high est respectability, of cultivated minds and Christian worshippers," whom he forgets to tell us became politically pow erless through their recent rebellion. But this contemporary, in working up his case, unwittingly makes an argu ment for the enfranchisement of tax paying women, which, if tec had made. would have frightened him into another pious demonstration about the samtity of existing institutions and the newmiiy oradhenngto the present orderof thinj Hear him. (The Italics arc our own.): When the tax-gatherer lias wrung the last dollar from industry and there re mains a deficit, as is fromipnf lv H tlte homestead is then seized and sold to satisfy the demands of this combination oi inieves, who moeu Human govern ment !y plundering under the forms of law. Now we ask, in view of such h slate of inings, is u any woiulerirsucii.a jieople, so oppressed, should fonibine for pur poses of self-protection, for tin- minno. ofgettiiigridoftheiroppreg'ors? Would not you do it? Did not our Revolution ary luitlicrs do it? And when these wronged people complain to the Federal (joveriinieiit, winch has organized ju tins state of things, instead of their complaints being listened to and redress attempted, tliey arc abused, calumniated and slandered. And so stands the case. with the actual and unvarnished facts told. Is there no magnanimity left among us? Are we wholly insensible to wrong and injustice when practiced unon tile itcoitlc of the South f Arr they not hone oj our bonr ami Jh-sli of our icn; w nen wc uuhk uou is just, we tremble for our country in view of such injustice. God w-ill punish the oppress or as sure as in justice is immutable. No wonder Chicago is in ashes; no won der tiiat fire is devastating the North cstern States : no wonder that tlious- ands arc consumed by the merciless fiaiucs. It looks as though God's jus tice was blastintr those who uphold and countenance such luminous oppression and wrong. And He will punish the op pressor and avenge the oppressed ; for lie says so in J lis written word. Don't you sec, dear lady reader, that all you have to do to make this argu ment exactly suit i'our case is to change the italicised word jteojtlc to "women" and tiie italicised word South to "Coun try?" If it were iossibIc to get a broad, phi lanthropic idea into the head of this man's rights champion concerning women, we'd have some hope for him ; but alas! like his obtuse predecessor, Be riali, whom we're trying to advertise in to a little notoriety in this issue, we fear that "he is given over to hardness of heart and rcprobacy of mind to believe a He that he may be" our Bible is lost and we forget the remainder of the quo tation. COIIVEBTED. Vc promised a few weeks ago to con tort a certain "obtuse Johnny Bull" at Obmia to the doetrine of Equal Subscribe for the Vu,.. x- wit .Mnv Nortiiwkst. AN EEBATIO SHAM. The Orcyonian thinks that we, with unnecessary severity, "characterize" "Joaquin Miller" as an "erratic sham." Has the Orcyonian forgotten that it, as well as the other dailies of this city, in dorsed all that we said of "Joaquin" while the Atlantic ocean lay between tween them and himself? And will that journal, now that this new literary donkey is braying right in our very faces, grow frightened and ap plaud ? We have never said that "Joaquin" Miller was not a poet, but we do say, with the Jlullctin, that he is not a man ; and if our friend of the Orcyonian lias any fear that we have over-stated the case, let him read Mrs. Miller's letter as it appears in his paper, and satisfy him self that we have not been "unneces sarily severe." We have received a letter from our friend, Mrs.Miller.in which she expresses regret that wc published the fact that her renegade consort had wanted her to copy and sign a certain denial ; and, while we are sorry that she regrets it, we are not sorry that the public has learned the truth. The time lias gone by when a woman of brains may sub mit, like a whipped spaniel, to neglect, abuse and misrepresentation from her legal master because the world ap plauds his doggerel. Such a genius as Mrs. Miller possesses will naturally as sert itself, and we are rejoiced to know that she Is proving herself a (rue worn an by standing firmly by iter deserted babes while struggling to expand iter pinions in the literary world. We'd pity the man who couldn't make a literary donkey of himself after having sacrificed his hearthstone in the desperate attempt. THE "BULLETIN'S" EXPLANATION It is the custom of some men editors to lie very courteous and dignified in their remarks in reference to Women Suffrage advocates while in their own vicinity, reserving whatever of censure, sarcasm or insult they may have to oiler until tiie objects of sucli attack ire gone. Apropos, a short time since the editor of the Jlullctin endeavored to make some capital against Miss nthony while that lady was lecturing in Washington Territory by decrying the efforts made by her to assist the sufferers by the late devastating fires. A paragraph concerning the donation made by Miss Anthony to the Wiscon sin and Michigan Belief Fund was cop ied in these columns from the Olympia Echo which was deemed a sufficient refutation showing that the nett pro ceeds of tho first lecture at Olympia were given to the charitable object named. It was also incidentally men tioned that Miss Anthony hail for warded the entire proceeds of a meeting at the State Fair Grounds to the relief of Chicago. This latter statement the Jlullctin calls in question, and asks us to "explain." The statement Is cor rect. Miss Anthony cares little to trumpet her deeds of benevolence to the world, and so it was not published in the Oregon newspapers; and, further more, it was not intended that it should be published in the JCeho. The amount forwarded from Salem was some fifty odd dollars. As to the price Miss Anthony chose to charge at Olympia, that is her own affair. That, after the lecture was over, she should donate tiie nett proceeds in stead of doing as first proposed, shows her to be a generous whole-souled woman. AVo hope our neighbor is satisfied. PLAGAIBISM. In tier eagerness to serve the cause of the "down-trodden," the fair editress of the Nkw NoimtWKST has published a poem written by Owen Meredith under the name of "JuliaWanl Howe." Chris tian (Polk t o.) Jfcxscnycr. What a Christian spirit our J lev. Bro. evinces! Just how it would iarticiilarly serve our "cause" to purloin one of Owen Meredith's poems and give the credit to Julia Ward Howe we cannot see, and we think no one can unless indeed it bo our very astute Christian Brother of the Jftitciiycr. The poem may or may not be Julia WanI Howe's, but, if it is not, the literary world has been most suc cessfully humbugged. To the charge of plaguirisin which our charitable Chris tian Brother so generously makes, we only sny that the poem was set up ex actly as it was clipied from the newspa pers, adur being published in tho Mine identical style for a number of years. If that be plagairism, then make the most of it, but we arc afraid our Bev. Bro. will come in for a fair share of the sin himself. We respectfully suggest that Owen Mereditii is not the only poet in the world, as the Jfcsscnycr editor seems to think. Women, if they do belong to the "down-trodden" class, sometimes write poetry, although some aspiring, selfish specimen of masculinity general ly stands ready and waiting to seize upon it and publish it to the world as his own. Mrs. Dtiniway.attheWoman Suffrage Convention, stated the result of a talk she had atSeattlc with two distinguished politicians, Mr. Garlleldc and Col. Lar rabee. Neither wanted an office, ac cording to their statement; aud when asked their opinion of the woman suf frage question, were utterly astounded that the question was one that was com manding any serious consideration from the American ioople. They could not for the life of tlicm tell which side they were on; politician-like, they were on tiie fence. Tho movement lias not suf ficiently demonstrated its strength for these weathercocks. Mrs. Duniway wound up by saying that it would be heartless in the extreme for tho icoplc to waste their time and energies to ele- ate one of these political weatnercocKs f o anv hiL'h position of honor or trust, when f hov were so much averse to ac cepting, and begged the people not to thrust honors on those who had no taste or appreciation for them, but rather let them pass quietly into private life, where they will have time to study up the great question of suffrage. Iran-script, WOMAN SrjTFEAGE ASSOCIATION. Portland, Nov. 14, 1S71. Pursuant to published notice, the ad vocates of Woman Sull'rage assembled in Oro Fino Hall at two o'clock, r. M whereupon Mrs. Abbie B. Gibson was called to the cliairand Miss IrttieSloper appointed Secretary pro tern. Mrs. Harriet W. Williams read the following, which was adopted: hkkkas, We, the women of Port land, Multnomah county, believing that wc have the constitutional right to the elective franchise, and that it becomes our duty to use that right for the good of our country, do hereby form ourselves into an Association to secure concert of action in this important movement. CONSTITUTION. Article 1. Tills Society shall be called Multnomah County Woman's Suffrage Association. AitT. 2. Tho object of thlsAssocia tion shall be to encourage such co-oper ation among women as shall cause them to assume their responsibilities as citi zens of the United Stales. Akt. 3. All persons subscribing to this Constitution shall be considered members of this Association, with the rigiit to participate in its deliberations. Aijt. 4. The officers of this Associa tion shall be a President, Vice Presi dents, Corresponding Secretary, Becord ing Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Committee of not less than three nor more than five persons; the officers to be ex-officio members of the Executive Committee. Akt. 3. The Boaid of Officers shall have power to call meetings, draft reso lutions, secure speakers, correspond with othor Societies, and perform wiiatover duty Is required to forward this impor tant movement. election ok officers. Tiie permanent officers of this Asso ciation were elected, as follows: President Mrs. HatticN. Shanahan, Vice Presidents Mrs. Harriet W. Williams and Mrs. I. B. Moores. Beconling Secretary Miss Iottle Slopcr. Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Sara! J. Bumsey. Treasurer Mrs. Sarah Williams. Executive Committee Mrs. Francos S. Law, Mrs. Sarali J. Peters, Mrs, Mary A. Thompson, Mrs. Mary G. Daly Mrs. Abbie B. Gibson. Miss Anthony offered the followin; resolution, which was unauimouslv adopted: Tlcsolvcd, That we urge the friends of Woman Suffrage thorotiglinut the State to organize Associations iiitheirrespcct- ive towns and voting precincts, hold stated meetings for lectures and discus sionsjcirculatetract.s, speeches and news papers, enroll the names or all women who will present their votes at the next election, and of all men who will giv their influence to induce women to exer cise their right to vote, and use every other moral means to encourage women to assume their rightful position as vo ters. And we respectfully solicit tli judges of election to fulfill their duties in receiving aud counting the votes of women citizens precisely the same as they do those of the men. On motion, Mrs. General Saxton was appointed as Delegate, and Miss An thony as Assistant Delegate, to repre sent the Multnomah County Association in the coming National Woman Suf frage Convention at Washington. On motion, a number of the ladies of the Association accepted an invitation to occupy a scat upon the platform upon the occasion of Miss Susan B. Anthony', last lecture in Portland, at Oro Fino Hall, on Wednesday evening, Novem ber loth. Mrs. Harriet W. Williams accepted an invitation from the President to in troduco Miss Anthony to the audience at the lecture. On motion, the society adjourned, to meet again at the call of the President and Executive Committee. Hattik N. Shanahan, Pros' I. J-ottie C. Si)1m:r, Sec'y. CORRESPONDENCE. Tliis department of the Nkw North wkst is to lie a general vehicle for ex change of ideas concerning any and all matters that may be legitimately dis cussed in ourcolumns. Findingit practi cally inqmssible to answer each corres pondent by private letter, we adopt this mode of communication to save our friends the disappointment that would otherwise accrue from our inability to au swur their queries. We cordially invite everybody that has a question to ask, a suggestion to make, ora scolding to give to contribute to the Correspondents' Column. Mrs. F. T., Springfield : Your article is given iuauothercolumn. Thousands of women all over the land are sighing just like yourself for opportunity to ex pand their pinions and try their innate strength. Do not "submit" with too much "good grace to your fate." The woman wlto has strength of mind suffi cient to make, shape and control her own circumstances, should obey the high law of reason, remembering that her first duty is to do Justice to herself and family. The large family of boys of which you write will soon be old enough to place at trades or school. Then try your jwwer, using in the meantime sucli opportunities for culture and information as you can command. Your time is coming. Work, ami plan, and wait. S. E. S., Iowa : Pleased to hear from you. Just such words of hope and cheer are coming up from every quarter. Your poem was published. It was very fair. Writers make great mistakes by con fining their thought to poetry. If you will write for us sucli prose articles as in your judgment would be suited to our columns, wc should like to hear from you frequently. M. A. B.: No. Poetry is altogether overdone. Try your hand at a sensible 'letter upon some sensible theme, and wc shall be pleased to publish for.you. M. L. P., Sheffield, England : Your request is complied with. Glad you like the Nkw Nortiiwkst. Tiie story of "Judith Bcid" will be nut. in Iwmk form during the coming year. Have not yet submitted It to a publisher, as we preferred first to lay it before thr- public, for whose appreciation on botli ides of the water we are liumblv and sincerely grateful. No charge vou are welcome. Sarah H., Louisiana: From almost every State in the Union we get sucli appeals as yours. How we wisli that the many women who never own a dollar would come to this great North western comerof Uncle Sam's domains! We should like to make fanners, irar- leners, hotel keepers, lawyers, doctors, preachers, house-keepers, dairy-women, poultry raisers, shepherds, etc., or at least sixty thousund able-bodied wom en who can find no paying work to do in tiie older States. Cooking, washing and chamber work are here mostly per formed by Chinamen thank Heaven- giving women who have brains un op- lortunity to engage in more lucrative employment. Mrs. E. A. C, Nehalem : Shall send the photograph just as soon as wc can get some more taken probably next week. Yes. Agents may select pre miums or retain 2T per cent, as pay for their trouble. Shall lie clad to have you act as agent. Can get you any kinds of flower seeds that you may name. Hope we shall meet sometime. Many thanks for kind words. THE WOELD MOVES. The following call was printed in the daily papers In this city on Tuesday, November 1 lib. Appended to this call are the names of some of the most re spectable and influential of our women : The undersigned citizens of Portland, believing in the practical application of the principle of "no taxation without representation," invite the friends of Woman's Enfranchisement to meet in Oro Fino Hull this (Tuesday) afternoon at two o'clock, for the purpose of form ing an association, the object of which shall be to secure concert of action among the women of our city and county. Mils. 11. W. Williams, Mrs. It. Williams, Miss I. T. Watkixs, Mrs. Sarah Ii Pktkrs, Marv A. Thompson, M. Mrs. C. C. Cam, Mrs. O. B. Girson, Mrs. I. It. Moorks, Mrs. I. GooDKNouaii, Miss Ella Pktkrs, Mrs. A. J. Duniway, Hknriiitta E. Elliot. A report of the meeting will be found elsewhere. WE ABE DISCONSOLATE ! The woman who edits the New Xoutiiwkst seems oflcnded because we do not call her a lady. We assure her that we should do so with the greatest pleasure if we could do it conscientiously. JJeraUl. Now are we undone! Alas! alas! that it should be so ! This, cruel blow we might have received with impunity from any other source, but from the JTcrahl editor it is too much ! Wc arc disconsolate! We feel something like the soldier did who was dying from the effects of a wound caused by the kick of a donkey. AVhen It became known to him that the hour of his departure was near at hand he burst into tears. His comrades tried to cheer him, telling him not to fear death, but to meet it bravely like a man. "I'm not afraid to die," replied the de sponding hero; "that's not it; but after passing through so many battles, where death would have been honorable, to at last lie kicked todeatli ly a Government mule !" Our readers see the point. will, we think, readily POESY KEDIDIVUS. A lady from Curry county, who has. never seen a Woman Sulfra''e naner. has become converted through the ridic ulous cant of the Herald, and has sent for a hie of the Nkw North wust witli which to work among her neighbors. She has favored us with a poem in an swer to some rhymes that recently ap peared about our champion in the Jlcr ald, front which wc make room for the following: "Our canoe Is Jut and eairt be loit, l!ut needsjii.t now a llllle Fkost, For Autumn Frost will suroly bring Oood, thrifty crops tho coming Spring. Reoides, on n cold and frosty morn, They'll belter hear our Champion's horn.". There is much more of this that is just as good, but, as we want to saliva tr the Jfrrald, we'll give broken doses. WE LACK SPACE. We devote so much space this week to the proceedings of the Washington Ter ritory Woman Suffrage Convention that nuieh editorial matter is necessarily crowded out. Suffice it to say of the Convention, that it was a complete suc cess; of the Washington people, that they are whole-souled, wide awake and strong for Woman Suffrage; and of our trip, that It succeeded financially, pleas antly and, for our cause, profitably. Mrs. Sarah Smith, of Southington, erinont, who has just celebrated her ninety-fifth birthday, does her own work including the milking and care of two cows, and the making of butter and lias three in the family; she boasts that in her day, she lias laid stone wall, and laid it well; and it is told of her that she pulled three-quarters of an acre of i!Ilx and nursed an infantatthesamotinie in one day, and has raked and bound ten shocks of rye in one afternoon. A Connecticut Democrat sent his son to New otk to complete his education. Alter a while the son wrote to Ids father that he was studying "Horace." Ou ?ni,i."rlr.that',thc Pal Parent re plied : ''Come home; I don't want Gree ley to make a Republican of my son General Butler on the Constitution Amendments. Well, now, for the question of Woman Suffrage. I was called to examine into this iiuestion, and I had no doubt when I did examine it. Let me state the question to you and you will have no doubt about it. In the first place, until he Fourteenth Amendment was passed, iiiere never was a definition of what was an American eitizpn. Nobodv knew what "American citizen" was. what a citizen of the United States was, for the citizens of the United States were made so because tliev were citizens or tne State, except only the naturalized citi zens. Well, I looked over thejjooks, and I found that there were only two tilings that a icrson must be in order to be a citizen of the United States, two things in order to do, and one thing to have done by them. Everything else can be done by a person, whether a citi zen or not, but those three things belong to nobody but a citizen. Nobody out a citizen can register a ship. Nobody but a citizen can pre-empt land under the old pre-emption law. Nobody but a citi zen can Uavea pas-port. ell, 1 iookcu, then, and I found that women had al ways registered shiis,always pre-empted lands, and always had passports; and I came to the conclusion that women were citizens of the United States because the law expressed that nobody could do that that were not citizens. Very well, then. Then conies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con'sti tion, which settled the question, which is that all persons in the American jurisdiction, born on American soil and duly naturalized, shall he American citizens. That's the Constitution. Then I went into the Supreme Court and I found the Supreme Court of the United States bad said that the elective franchise was one of the privileges and lmmuiiiiic oi American citizens. That is, the right of voting. I then found the llth Article of Amendment said that "no State shall have nnwer in abridge or take away any our of Mn privileges or immunities if an Anw.ri- can citizen." Then I got into iUU lim. of reasoning: Women are Amcrienii cit izens-. Voting is one of the privileges and immunities of American citizens No State can take away or abridge that privilege or immunity. What is the consequence? What followed? What necessarily, logically, resulted? Why, it is that you cannot take awav by State laws the rights of tho women to vote. Applause. Well, having come to that conclusion, do you suppose that for all the governments this side of Texas I noum iiuer my uuud.- Having con vinced my own mind on that question. won't I be man enough to staud up in my tracks and state everywhere just me conclusion i nave come to I And I have come to that conclusion, and I siaien u in a reitort to congress, and. therefore, I say, "women have the right to suffrage whenever they choose to de mand it." Cheers and waving of handkerchiefs among the ladies. That's so. I don't make any promises about this just before election, because I have nut forward this very argument more at length in a reiwrt in my place as a member of the Judiciary Committee of Congress; and we had with us almost half of the Bepublican votes on that question. The Empress Eugenic is paying a visit to her mother at Madrid, where that lady lives in great splendor, maintain ing a hospitality unusual in that coun try. She has the reputation of being a marvelously good woman of business, and has brought the property bequeathed her by her husband, the Count do Mont ijo, into excellent order a condition in which the properties of Spanish graudecs very seldom are. SPECIAL NOTICES. WILLIAM DAVIDSON, Keal lGsitttte Dealer. OFriCE-No. 64 Front Street, riiirruND. okkcox. 1JKAI. KSTATK IN THIS CITY AND HAS! XV Portland, In the niosl desirable l.x-ulltles, consisting or lyiT.s, Halk and Blocks, llovsis and ktoi:ks. Also, Imi-kovki) Fakms ami Vai.u.vhi.k U t'CLTlVATKn Lands, located in nil iwrts or the State, for nale. Hkai. Kstatb and other Property min-lmsed ror Correspondents, in this CrrY and through out the Status and TmutiToitlKS, with great rare, and on the most Advantaumjus Tuiims IIOCSKS AND STOIIKS I.KASKD, I.OANS XEGO tiatkii and Claims oi- hi. l)si niiTtiv PnoMiTi.Yl'OM.KCTKn.and a Cknkiiai. Finan cial, ani AUKSCY liUstSKsSTKANSAlTKn. AOKNTSOf tills Ot'KK'K ill :ill Ilip I'lTIlw :m,l Towns In theKTATKU-lllreeclvcdeKcrlptionsor r.m.-i i-iioi-Hiiivaiiii iorwiim me .same lotnc aooveanurex. ; Parrish, Atkinson & Woodward REAL ESTATE AGENTS Corner Alder anil Front Streets, HAVK PIIOPKItTV FOIt SAI.K IN I-OP.T-land and throughout Oregon generally. Wo can ofTer SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS to Purchaoersof Ileal Kstate. Houses Iteiited, Itents Collected. Jloney Loaned, Tntes lnld. And everything that pertains to the Heal E-o- uit; iHiouit-M aiicnucti to whii promptness. LEGAL PAPERS WRITTEN AND ACKNOWLEDGED J. L. ATKINSON. Notary Public I.. .11. IMKItlSII. "i TYi.Kit vt'oomvAiin. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE! No. SO front St.. American r.Tclinnge ItuIIdliig. ClONTIlACrFOItS Hotel Kecers, Fanners Cariienters .nut P.nllitnnt timl In fact all who require help of any kind, will find It to tiller mlvTitittif... ti. mill mut I.Mivo tliffrnif- dress. j. u. WITIIKKKLL. 1. S. I have nlto some Good Farms aud Lots for sale. u2 J. It. W. COUUIIX & McCABE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS S WASHINGTON STREET, UIKSTAIRS, Portland, Oregon. Woik dono at KKAKONABLE HATES, nl A well known gffiqer iuAuld Beekie was celebrated for liis cunning and wit.' His mother having died in Ediuburg, lie hired a hearse and carried her to the family burial place in the highlands. He returned, it is said, with the hearse full of smuggled whisky, and being teased about it bya friend, liesaid, "Wou, man, there's nae harm done. I only took awa' the body, and brought back the specrit." OUR AGENTS. The following persons are duly authorized to act as Asents for the NKW Northwest : O. R. Rlood Mr. M. Jellries... II. II. Welch Traveling Agent Traveling Agent .Washington county . . Lafnyette -.Albany Dr. J. Watts A. N. Arnold 1 S. W. Ijureoll... M. I Owen ..an I em .Salem Oregon City OrBon City ..Milwuiikie .The Dulles ..... Yoncnlla Roseburg . Forest Orove Mrs. r. A. ( ouuni 1 Mrs. J. DeVore Johnson Tli os. Parsons .... IL renthind Miss sidlle AiknHte .Miss it A. iiwena J.T.Scott, Ksi Mrs. A. K. (Jorwm.... .Nehnlem (i. W. Morgan J. W. Jackson -Walla Walla Eugene San Kmnclsoo L. I. Fisher Mrs. I.aur.i De Force Cordon California Other parties desiring to aet as Agents will please forward their names. We want Agents at every postolnee throughout Oregon anu Washington Territory. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE! Unparalleled Inducements to Clubs THE NEW NORTHWEST, A Journal for Hie People. DEVOTED TO THE IKTETESTS OF HUMANITY. Our Intensely Interesting Serial Story, "JUDITH REID, A I'lnlu Story of n IMnlu AVoiiiim," Is now Iteins published from week to week, and is attracting universal attention. A limited supply of back numhers yet on hand. Arrangement have been made to seeure the Services of a COMPETENT CORPS OF WRITERS uikiu any and all subjects of Publle Interest. The Nkw NotrrnwsT 1 not a "Woman's Ilights, but a Human Rights organ, devoted to whatever policy may be necessary to seaurc the greatest good to the greatest number. It knows no sc.-c.no illlI-s,no religion, no party, no color, no creed. Its foundation is fastened upon the rock of Kternnl IJlKrtv. iTnivnioual Emancipation and Untrammeled Progression. our preTaium list. As an inducement lor our friends to make exertions to secure large clubs for the Nkw Xnimitt'KST, we oiler the following list of val uable piemiums: ror twenty subscribers, at S3 00 each, accom panied by the cash, we will give the HOME SHl-rri.K SKWINU MACHINK, without ta ble, beautifully ornamented. Price, 530. For thirty-live subscriber, at JI00 each, ac companied by theeasli.we will glveaJIOMK SHL'TTLK SKWINfi MACHINK, with Illaek Walnut table, bronzed and nicely finished. Price, For forty subscriliers, at St 00 each, aceom panled l.v the cash, we will give a IIOMKSHLT-TM-: SKWINO MACHINK, finished In extra style, witli Illaek Walnut table and cover. Price, 5-VJ. The above Sewing Machines, which are war ranted first-class in eery particular, can be seen at I lie office of Geo. W. Traver,112 Front street, Portland. For fifty subscriber., at $a 00 each, accom panied by the ea.sh.we will ci ve aMISONi ll.VMI.IN 1-Oirr viH.K OltflAN, four octave, single reed, with blaek walnut ease, automatic bellows swell, two blow ix-dale. Improved cen ter pressure reod valves, etc. Price, .-,o. For seventy-five subscribers, at $3 oil each, ac companied by the cash, a double reed MASOV A HAMLIN OUG.VN ; resembles the first ex cept that It has also a knee stop. lriee. Ti For seventy-five subscribers, at $.100 each, accompanied by the casli and twentv-flve dollars additional, we will give a MASON HAMLIN OUGAX, of VK ocTAvra. ovS STOl', SKLK-AKIl-STINO nKKD VALVES IM I'UOVKD nKI.LOWS, TREMULANT AND rxi-r. swkll. Price, Sluu. or one hundred subscribers, at t 00 each and twenty dollars additional, we will give a MASON A HAMLIN OUGAX, mi octaves, FIVE strop. TWO SETS OF KIIIKATOKS THROUGH OUT, IMI-HOVKI1 OBADUATBD SELF-ADJUSTINU KKKII VALVtK,IMl-BOVEDnitLIj)WS,THEMULANT AND KNEE-SWELLS. VIOLA, DIAPASON. FLUTK, TKKM 1 I.ANT. Pricc.Slffi. ' Those who ileslre to work Sir these premiums can send the names aud money as fast as re ceived. The siibcrilicrK will be placed to their credit, and if enough names are not received during the year to procure the premium de sired they can clioosea lesserpremlum, or they will be entitled to receive twenty-five iwr cent. in chsii oi inc amount remnieu lurtneir labor, OUR NEW PRjMlUM LIST. As The Nkw Northwest liaoah-eady proved a popular success, wc are decided that It shall also prove a triumph. To enable our friends who may deeide to can vass for our jwixt to Ix-netit both themselves and us by increasing our Sulocrlptlon Lists, we propose to gie the following addttioual Pre miums ta canvassers : Any subscriber who is in arrears for the New Northwest, who will semi us lib orherown subscription fee, and one new subscriber, ae couiauied by the cash W W we will give : A pair l"arian Marble Vases; Ora Hohemlan Glass Vase; Ora Ilnlienilan Glass Card Iteeelver; Or dozen Ivory Napkin lthms; Or X dozen Plated Tea Spoons; Or I pair Alexandre's Kid Gloves; Ora opnngled Lady's Fan, leathered edge; Or an Album for holding HO pietures; Or an Album (extra) forliotdlng SO pietures; Ora Fancy Letter Case; Or a Ikix Toilet Articles, IneludlHtr soap, chalk, perlumerv, etc.; Ora HrltnunlaTea Pot; Ora Kerosene Lamp: Or J4 dozen Glass Goblets; Or J4 dozen Glass Tumblers; Ora large Glass Fruit Dish; Ora Work Basket; Ora Fine Embroidered Ifandkerelifeft Or M dozen Linen Handkerchiefs; Or a Woolen Table Cover; . Or dozen Table Napkins; Or J dozen Towels ; Oran elegant Portmonin. Any subscriber who I In arrears lArayear' subscription, and who will send his or her own subscription fee, and two new subscribers, ac companied by the cash making eft we will send : A set of Rogers' Table Forks, triple plated, on while metal, warranted; Ora set of Singers' Table Spoons, triple plated, on white metal, warranted; Ora set of Rogers' Tea Spoons, triple plated, on white metal, warranted; Or dozen Rogers' Russell's Table Knives, bet quality, warranted; Ora handsome Rlrd Case. Any person In arrears for snlweriptlmi to TUB New Noutiiwest, who will send his or her subscription fee and three new subscribers, ac companied by the cash, making K tti, we will A handsome Marsailles Quilt; Ora hand-onie Woolen Quilt, red and white or blue and white; Ora palrof Tabic Cloths; Or two pairs of Nottingham Lace Curtains; Or three pairs Alexandres Kid Oloves, any color or size; Ora Japanese Inlaid Work Box; Or IS yards liest yd. wide Slieetlng. For seven subscribers at $3 00 each, amount ing to Sit ft), we will send : An extra Castor.tripleplated, on white meta! valued at $0 W); Ora Lady's Writing Dok, of equal value; Or a Cabinet, Japanese Inlaid: Or an Extra Japanese Inlaid Work Box. These articles are all valuable, and are war ranted to lie Just as we represent them. Per sons living In this city or who can visit us can receive these articles from mirown hands at an hoar's notice; or if not convenient to visit us, we will send the articles by express to any ad uriijiim v.ts- dress. No order of this kind will receive attention unless the cash aceomianles It. su-inl moiiev fn lHwtortlfo- orders at the cus tomary rates of currency, or send draft if pre- lerrco. All orders promptly attended to. We sincerely hope that this unparalleled offer, which is a new feature In the newspaper business In Oregon, will meet with a hearty re sponse from the many Mends of our Paper, ..:. . .i.i hnvnuumM to tall to reai- Ifize that The New Nobth west cannot be run without money, ow is iuc umc -j clubs. Begin before some other person gu Ihestarrofynu. See what you eoti ido forycur. sell, the Public and THE New NonTilwr-T