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FltIDAY...".....".T'-ATJGUST 30, 1872.
PIlfANOIAL IfOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that after Sep
tember lOtli wc sball stop every news
paper going as a complimentary or
dead-head concern from this office and
present bill for arrearages. "We shall
also present every delinquent's bill for
the post year and demand advance pay
ment on the present one. This step is
absolutely necessary to save us from fi
nnncial ruin.
To our staunch and trusty friends who
have aided us financially as well as
with good words and wishes, we express
our profound gratitude for services ren
tiereu. to tnose wno nave aided us
with good words and wishes only, we
earnestly aud emphatically declare that
we cannot pay printer's bills, paper-
maker and pressman, or house rent and
city taxes, with buncombe. Our c
tended and expensive trip in the Hast,
in the Interest of Oregon and our con
stituents, has depleted our treasury and
run us In debt. Now let our friends
prove themselves such in real it'. Wo
are not working merely for newspaper
glory. And even if wo wore, we'd like
to know how we'l succeed without the
needJUL
This is no Idle talk, and we call upon
our friends to contribute such sums as
they are willing to givo ami able to
spare to wards liquidating the one thous
and dollar indebtedness unavoidably in
curred in publishing the Xew North
west during our four months absence
in the East. We are, of course, anxious
to sustain the paper. It lias cost us
many years of hard labor and nervous
anxiety, and now that it lias proved an
unprecedented popular success, if the
people do not sustain it, we shall let it
slide. Other and lucrative avocations
are open to us, and while we shall leave
no cftort untried to keep our "Journal
for the People" ever before them, we
shall not wrong our children nor bank
rupt oursolf to accomplish the aim near
est our heart.
We are free to confess that we don't
understand bogging. We consider it no
personal charity to us for the people to
meet the expenses of the journal to
which we devote our time aud energies,
and if they do not want it sustained,
neither tJtall tec A word to the wise is
suflioient. Now let u tee who o
friends really are.
OAHPAIGHMEETIHG.
The editor of this paper will address
the Grant and Wilson Club at the
Court House in this city this (Friday)
evening. The Republican public and
all Democrats, especially our Woman
Suffrage Democratic friends aud wc
are proud to claim many are cordially
invited to be presont.
COGITATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS.
Well, Ave are homo again, thank
Heaven! And if anybody wants to en
dure the wear and tear, pleasure and fa
tigue, fun and anxiety inseparable from
"such a suddenly projected, hastily com
pleted and expensively extensive jour
ney as ours has been, they may ha'c
our credentials for the next Convention.
We find piles of newspapers securely
laid away in our desk containing "per
sonals," from which we have not as yet
had time to collect the most important,
or indeod any to which to reply particu
larly. Suffice it to say that if we are to
bolicve what the press say of us wc are
philanthropic and mercenary, consist
ent and inconsistent, intelligent and
half-witted, lionorablo and dishonora
ble, eloquent aud uninteresting, poetic
and prosaic, logical and illogical, sane
and insane, amiable and malignant,
handsome and homely, vivacious and
dull, sprightly and stupid, young and
old, and, and, and we're out of breath!
Such a versatility of conglomerated
characteristics certainly don't often ex
ist in one individual. George Francis
Train must look to his laurels.
Seriously, we aro surprised to find so
little of acrimony and bitterness and so
much of courtesy aud clemency in the
personals which were published by an
tagonistic conlemporlcs when wo were
so far away that wo could have no op
portunity to administer gentle and
sometimes merited correction. And for
those many unsought journalistic cour
tesies, of which we are. constantly re
ceiving augmented numbers from news
papers at home and abroad, we can only
Fay that we appreciate them and are
grateful.
In deelarlng our course in the present
lxiiiueai campaign, we expected of
course t0 u Qur j j
. ana misrepresentations of
Tt??11 ideaasunder-
dominant ut n. . ul lue
. , ln)ulIcal "nonl" t.
"fiiihv" that it i imr.; . rl 18 60
. -"i"Bioie to reach if
once tho acme of our womanly ani
lt,.,o nIHinr na In 41. . , -J "-1"-
w.-w ,oue or conduct
Hig a isiujb" t iue men who are
nominated to represent us, and wo are
compelled to accopt, not what we want '
but the nearest approach to our ultimate
object which the men in power deign to
bestow upon us. This being the case,
and it being our motto to support, not
Miow. hut measures, we ehcorfully cast
the fullest power of voice and pen that
we
possess in me political scale in
which the Republican platform has
been cast by the wisest and best men
who aro floundering in the "filthy
pool," and as wo watch with deep and
abiding interest the gradually ascending
balance in which Greeley and his one-
sexed and confused-idead cohorts are
going upward to kick the Presidential
beam, wc look with mingled hope and
admiration upon the impetus the woman
movement is gathering here and in the
East from the declaration of a great,
successful and dominant National par
ty, that our "honest demands for addi
tional rights shall bo treated with re
spectful consideration."
The cnthusiasmof women is one of the
most necessary auxiliaries in the suc
cess of any public campaign; and the
women of the East aud West, North
and South, having girded on their ar
mor and gone to work with zeal and
earnestness to insure the success of the
Republican riatrorm, will bring to that
party a success in November that will
show old Grandmother Greeley that
women are of more cousequence than
he imagines them to be. We remem
ber, during the Taylor and Van Buren
campaign, while wo were yet a little
girl, that one of the campaign songs
which did mora perhaps than any other
single agent to stir up public sentiment,
contained this stanza:
"The Iodic all are on our side.
And urge us to our duty;
Ami Where's the cause thut ever failed
When backed by truth and beauty
Now, women of Oregon, let us take
the current when it serves our turn.
Let us not heed the declarations of Ite-
publlcrats and Demicans who support
Grandmother Greeley and man-made
government when they tell us that, as
Woman Suffragists they are not satis
fied with the plank the Republicans
have given to women. Let us tell them
neither are we satisfied, but wo can eas
ily see that one step in the right direc
tion is worth a great deal more to us
than a contemptuous thrust in the op
posite pathway; and let us call upon
professed Woman Suffragists to prove
their fealty to our cause by helping us
to defeat the dotard who declares that
'to be consistent with his principles he
would be compelled to veto a Woman
Suffrage Act if Congress should pas3 it
duringhis Administration." Amanwith
Greeley's obstinacy a contradictory
characteristic of all fickle men who
can see nothing but sex as a necessary
qualification of an American citizen, is
unworthy the support of any man or
woman who lias intellect enough to sec
that the animal function has nothing to
do with the inalienable prerogatives of
intellect.
A "TEIBUNE" EDITOE IN TBIBTJ
EATION.
Oliver (not Jasper) Johnson, one of
the editors of the New Yorlc Tribune,
having become frightened half out of
his wits by the powerful phalanx of
Woman Suffragists who have arrayed
themselves in opposition to the venera
ble grandmother-in-chief of the Cliappa-
quacks, is out witli a long letter in the
columns of our respected contemporary,
the Woman' $ Journal, in which he of
course "regrets" that the Republican
party has secured sucli powerful allies
as the Woman Suflragists of America,
and, like all Greeleycrats, labors assidu
ously to convince the women that they
have no hope of anything tangible or
reliable in the fourteenth plank of the
Republican Platform. To his lengthy
and prosy communication concerning
the "splinter," the Woman' Journal
sparklingly replies:
Hut plank fourteen Is only "a splinter" says
Mr. Johnson. A splinter ol what 7 Of respect
for woman, Is It not ' Grateful appreciation of
iter services, approval or tier nnmiwiion to
a wider sphere of activity, respectful considera
tion oi tier Claims lorauuiuonai rigius as a cit
izen Is all this nothing? Wc mint that It Is
not everything; but It contains the germ, as
the acorn hold" the promise of the oak. Plank
KHirteen is good seed. Thank God for the
neom!
It's no use talking, Oliver! The
women know what they're about, and
they'll laugh atyourcalamity when you
aud Tilton start up Salt River. You
forgot your principles to run after Gree
ley and the loaves and fishos, instead of
remaining in the Woman Suffrage
ranks, to which you had committed
yourselves, and upon whose alliance we
felt that we had just cause to depend,
aud when you are compelled to ac
knowledge tho great strength and con
sequence of that "splinter," you'll wish
you had been consistent with your prin
ciples and stood upon It too.
THE "HEBALD'S" WOMAH.
Our attention has been called to an
article in the Herald of August 7th
which deserves something more than a
passing notice. The communication in
question purports to be a letter from a
Polk county woman, but wc think there
is not the slightest cause for believing
that a woman would speak of another
woman as a "fair editress." Neither do
wc think it likely that a woman would
worry because another woman "changed
her dress a couple of times a day." In
our experience with women we had
found that they all did it, and, if possi
ble, with a bath as an additional luxury.
Again, we expected the mind mascu
line to be obtuse enough to fail to com
prehend onr renson for showing up the
early character of a man whom they
had placed in the highest office in the
gift of the nation, while self-compla-ccntly
advising tis to eschew the politi
cal aid of all pure trowicn whom they
persisted in slandering, but we arc satis
fied that no tcoman who Is capable of
writing an able article, or one which
which smells of the "filthy pool," as
does tills purported epistle from a Polk
county woman," is so dull of compre
I honsion as to fail to see our reason for
gathering all our forces, nnd, for the
sate of womanhood, making a notor
ious examnln nfllm ncitn..i -r.... f-n...
tiny."
Again, a woman, however little she
MiM. . ; r ",e "nomination if
1 ' ' ""l an3- social act of the
President, since he became such, is rep
rehensible, hut wo should have pre
ferred a man who had never been a mil
itary man or a Democrat as our Presi
dential figurehead in times of peace and
in a Republican Administration.
Our sisterly brother, or brotherly sis
ter wc hardly know which is the bet
ter term will please remember that in
our teachings wc have ever recognized
the right of all women as well as all
men to arise from the lowest pit of per
sonal degradation nnd have the same
opportunity to become Presidents of the
United States of America that their re
claimed, reformed and transformed
brethren possess.
Our showing up of the early hfo of the
"Silent Man of Destiny" even tho cap
tion to that article was prophetic had
the effect which we as a political physi
cian expected when we gave the dose
it made our Republican man's rights
patients sick of calling women politi
cians in whom they could find no guile
free lovers and sympathizers with
loose Ideas on tho social question." Des
perate diseases require desperate reme
dies. As there Is more joy in heaven over
one sinner that repentcth than over the
ninety and nine just persons that go not
astray, so there is more sorrow on earth
over one good man that forsakes the
principles of a life time for personal
Presidential aggrandizement than over
ninety and nine bad men of whom
Homing better could Have been ex
pected.
For tho further enlightenment of our
brotherly sister, or sisterly brother, we
will explain that the reason why, "when
the fight is between Grant and Greeley,
we tako our present course," is because
we are not working for parly measures,
but for woman's enfranchisement
Grant and Wilson and the Republican
Platform are pledged to carry forward
that work. Grecloy and Brown, and
the horde of sore-headed, rapamt office-
seekers, desperadoes and rebels at their
back, are pledged against Woman Suf
frage, aud Greeley said to us "that, to be
consistent with his principles, he should
bo compelled to veto a Declaratory Act
if Congress should pass it."
In conclusion, wo respectfully invite
further communications from this Polk
county correspondent, nnd will cheer
fully lend our columns for his use or her
pleasure.
SOBBOWPUL.
A sad tale of shame is related In the
daily papers concerning a young girl
who has been led from the patli of recti
tude by the tinsel nnd glitter of tho re
wards of prostitution.
Jur t so long as sex is considered the
only legitimately marketable product of
a woman's being, and just so long as
traffic in her person pays bettor than
anything honorable in which she may
engage, just so long will weak and silly
girls be in danger of being decoyed into
the haunts where the protecting'?) sex
will lavish money upon them as a re
ward for their degradation.
JASPEBJOHNSON.
Once in a while the weakest and most
vapid of our interior exchanges of man's
rights and Rcpubllcrati-Dcmican pro
clivities gets off something sharp. Hear
this from the Boscburg Plaindcalcr:
Another Instance ofthe superiority of Oregon
intellects over the average American, Is Jasper
W.Johnson. Ukc Gcneml Hooker, Attorney
General Williams, aud others we could men
tion, he was not much In Oregon; but like them
lie looms large now by contrast with the feeble
minds of the Atlantic side.
As an example of sarcasm cn terrible
wc never saw the above suqiassed. Poor
Jasper! But Oregon's ahead every time.
BEPUBLIOAN MASS MEETING.
A large and enthusiastic Republican
meeting was held in this city on Satur
day evening of last week. Over five
hundred names wero enrolled as the be
ginning of a Grant and "Wilson Club,
aud Hon. J. H. Mitchell delivered one
of tho finest orations wc ever had the
pleasure of hearing. Other prominent
gentlemen also addressed tho meeting,
which adjourned at a late hour amid
much harmony and good feeling.
DISTBESSING.
Wo have puzzled our brain and called
upon our neighbors for explanation; we
have sat up nights and fasted daytimes;
wc have laughed and wept, investigated
and entreated for light concerning an
article in Sunday's Herald relating to
ourselfand musquilocs. "SVe can't solve
It. Havo our local brother's wits gone
daft? Or will he solve the problem next
Sunday?
A QIJESTION.
The Yrcka Journal is asked why, when
men are, as we say emphatically, "good
at heart," they do not "remedy existing
evils by requiring strict discipline,
without the necessity of women in the
jury room or at the polls?" The reason
is plain to us why they do not do so.
Cannot our brother gi ve his reason why?
The attempt to organize a Greeley and
Brown club at IIHIsboro was a total
failure, not a single person putting in
an appearance.
Our able contemporary, the San Fran
cisco Pioneer, is out for George Trancis
Train for "Our Next President." Capi
tal! Horace Greeley has only filled two
public positions in his life, and the
universal verdict has been that they
were failures. While in Congress he
frittered away his timo talking about
pen-knives and mileage, and in tho Con
stitutional Convention of New York he
was engulfed in the same kind of smnll
business.
Horace Greeley has been more im
posed upon by swindlers and impecuni
ous hangers on than any other man in
tho land. He lias bailed cvervthine:
r t ii- i..t. ilnti.it A ,.t .i 41.n
"uorns uy tno uuit" anu ciean me
ANSWEES TO COBBESPONDENTS.
A large number of letters, received
during our absence, are now lying upon
the table awaiting examination. We
promise our friends all aud separately
to attend to their communications as
soon as possible. We notice a few of
them in this week's Issue and will attend
to others In their turn.
Mrs. M. J., Salem: Do not know;
cannot tell until we see you. If you re-
tained cash commission you were not
of course, entitled to premiums.
Mrs. M. J. H., Canyonville: Your pa
per has been forwarded regularly from
this office.
Mrs. R. S. M., Salt Lake City : Many
thanks for your excellent communica
tion, and for subscription, which does
not, wo assure you, come amiss.
An "M. C," whom wo have loved to
consider an excellent friend of Woman
Suffrage, writes to us, bitterly deploring
our antagonism to Mr. Greeley. Ho
says: "If you were to live a littlo nearer
and see how he is on all grand questions
you would call him a saint. He said to
mo that when the majority of women
asked for suffrage lie would be In favor
of their having it He will not veto
any measures that Congress will pass,
nnd I think we ought to use our influ
ence for him. Cannot you be recon
ciled?" To all of which we answer re
spectfully that we sounded Mr. Greeley
thoroughly upon the great issue of
woman's enfranchisement, and found
him low, coarse, unscrupulous and big
oted. He positively said to us that, to
be consistent with ills principles, he
would be compelled to veto a suffrage
bill if Congress should pass it. Then
Ids silly twaddle about "granting suf
frage to women when the majority of
women ask for It" is a puerile exhibition
of shallow pomposity of which all true
manhood should be profoundly ashamed.
Where did lie get the right of suffrage,
pray? And by whom was it confided to
his keeping? Bah! The very idea that
he has any right to proscribe tho inal-
lonablc prerogatives of men or women
is as absurd as his unseemly aspiration
for Presidential honors. Tho dotard
cannot conceive the idea of liberty yet.
Your paper Is sent as directed.
H. C. M., Salt Lake: Your name was
omitted by mistake in transferring the
list to our mall books. Sorry, but it is
now attended to.
Sheba: Your communication awaits
its turn.
Mrs. E. M., Sacramento: Your de
scription was beautiful. Tho idea was
so grand we'd like to share it with
somebody around us, but the time is not
yet.
T. S., Clackany, Oregon : Our mailer
sent the money for the magazine and
picture as directed, and If you have not
received them, write to them and they
will correct the mistake.
LITEBAEYNOTIOES.
The 'Winning Way is the winning
title of a neat and dainty little paper
just started in Sacramento, Cal., in the
interest of equal rights and social re
form. The number before us contains an
excellent treatise on Capital Punish
ment, a salutatory which gives evidence
of much editorial ability, locals, gener
alities, etc, etc., ail gotten up In exquis
ite taste. Mrs. H. H. Clark & Co.,
editors and proprietors. Terms, $2,00 per
year iu advance.
The iromrm'a Exponent, published at
Salt Lake City, is a readable, racy and
vigorous journal, which wo welcome to
our exchange list with pleasure. Thus
everywhere women's exponents are
winning the way.
The JIalancc Is the weighty title of a
magnificent eight page newspaper
edited and published by four women in
Chicago. Well may our brethren trem
ble in their boots! Women in editorial
chairs and on the rostrum, where they
prove themselves able to attract aud en
chain the multitudes by wit, logic and
eloquence, are sure in time to reach pub
licoftlccsof cmolumentand trust. They
do not want to eclipse their brethren,
but they do intend to walk beside them
in the journey of life. Every new ex
change which comes to us as tho work of
women is a harbinger of woman's near
millennium, and the well balanced
Balance, "impelled by zeal and re
strained by principle," is destined to ac
complish a noble work. Success to it.
LETTEE rB0MSALT LAKE.
Salt Lake City, August 5, 1S72.
KniTon New Nootuwkst:
A friend sent mo a copy of the New
NortTHWEST which contained your very
llattcring mention of me. I thank you
for the generosity which prompted it,
yet I do not feci it deserved. We are
forced by circumstances sometimes into
positions which to the inexperienced
make one appear to possess more than
ordinary qualities, which after all is only
the experience of the boy and tho wood
chuck, "bound to have it, for the family
are out of meat." I was forcibly struck
by a little incident, which illustrates the
point. A German had lost his wife. A
friend asked if the dear departed was
resigned to die. "Resigned!" exclaimed
he. "Mine Got! she had to be." And
this is tho sequel of half the Christian
resignation, so-called, in the world. So
I was placed iu circumstances when I
was obliged to exert whatever of ability
the dear God had given me to support
myself and children; and though many
times weak and wcarj'j and with a heavy
heart, I did what I could to prescut a
bold front to tho wolf and keep him
from my door. You know something of
my success, but very little of my strug
gles. But of one thing I am more than
ever strongly convinced, nnd that is,
women should be educated to be less
dependent nnd more self-reliant. I have
never been whnt one would call a
minded woman" in the modern
w.,iiullluu IB l"u """i "
felt the system of education for Ameri -
can women was wrong in theory and
practice, and my friends at home have
often heard me express these views.
Four-fifths of our women are not taught
anything but to look pretty and make
themselves attractive to those of the
other sex, as silly and brainless as them
selves. So when forced as I was to do
something for self-support, there is no
avenue open to them, because unquali
fied, and they are forced Into a loveless
marriage, or slavish drudgery if they
are married, for the sake of their daily
brcad. When will mothers teach their
daughters that such unions are nothing
better than legalized prostitution?
How much more sensible would it be
to teach them some trade, or let them be
educated to some profession, that they
may be in every sense true women.
There is nothing more lovely In this
world than a tcomanly woman, unless it
be a manly man; but a doll or a dandy,
oh, deliver me from coming in contact
with! Well, I did not start in to moral
ize on the degeneracy of the age, so will
leave the subject.
To-day was election day for Delegate
to Congress, and I in company with Mr3.
Woods, and another lady, cast my frsl
vote. We went to the polls at the Court
House and deposited our ballot, and
quietly went our way, they to their
home and I to my business and I have
not heard that dear little Johnnie suf
fered for ids mother's care, or that my
large family of boardsrs were not as well
supplied as usual, because of this act.
The whole time consumed did not exceed
half an hour, including the time spent
in goiug to and from the polls; neither
do I feel I have become less womanly or
less fitted for any position of wife and
mother. But I do feel I am in reality a
citizen of tills great Republic, which I
never felt before.
When you spoke in j our lectureat tho
Liberal Institute, In this city, of
mothers bringing up their son's until
they were on the verge of manhood,
surrounded with the Influences of home,
and then (jaw them pass out into tho
world away from home tics, and could
only follow them with tears and prayers,
my heart went out towards you, and I
blessed yon for the work you were do
ing. I have felt in my heart the agony
of seeing my own ficsh and blood go out
into scenes where I could not follow,
amid temptations whose influence I was
powerless to counteract. Only such ex
periences can make one realize all you
said.
I am glad you aro engaged in your
work and that you arc so successful in it,
and sincerely hope your future maybe
as tho past, "only more abundant."
If you would like once in n while to
hear from Utah through me, it will be
my pleasure to gratify you.
mi ki nties l considerations oi ropeci
lam
Yours sincerely,
B. S.
May.
OBEGON STATE TEAOHEBS INSTI- monthly reports from said Treasurers,
TUTE. and further, that they bo authorized to
The Oregon .StnteTeachers' Institute en)Ploy sufficient help, of clerks and ac
met at tin, iimd m rin.roi, !,, v countauts, to conduct the greatly in-
City, on Mondav. Autrust 3. 1S72. at 1o!creasH, correspondence, and to keep the
o'clock A. M.
President J. Q. Thornton, called the
... .
institute to order. The Secretary being
absent John C. Arnold was elected See
retary pro tern.
There being no business ready for con
sideration the Institute adjourned to
meet at 71 p. sr.
EVENING SESSION.
The Institute metpursuant to adjourn
ment. The committee, appointed at the last
annual meeting, charged with tho du
ty of framing the project o"f a Common
School Law, reported by its Chairman,
J. Quiun Thornton.
Tho report was accepted and the com
mittee discharged; and the project of
law recommended by said committee,
for consideration and adoption by this
Institute, was referred to a special com
mittee consisting of Rev. C.H. Wallace,
John C. Arnold and Kev. T. M. Martin,
with Instructions to report at 10 a. m.
to-morrow.
The President having given an invi
tation for remarks, by any person pres
ent, who might feel interested in pro
moting tho cause of public Instruction,
Bev. T. L. Eliot of Portland, County
Superintendent of Common Schools,
Rev. C. H. Wallace, Rev. E. P. Hender
son, Bev. T. M. Martin, teacher at Eu
gene, Hon. J. H. D. Henderson, and
others, responded by making appropriate
remarks upon various subjects engaging
the attention of the Institute.
Adjourned to meet at 10 a. m. to-morrow.
MORNING SESSION.
Wednesday, August 14. Tlie Institute
met pursuant to adjournment.
The special committee, appointed on
yesterday, reported that,fully impressred
with a sense of the magnitude and great
Importance of the subject, of tho project
of a Law providing for a general system
of Public Instruction in Oregon, they
had carefully considered, in all its de
tails, the Bill referred to them, from the
committee appointed by the State
Teachers' Tnstltuteof last year, and thev
recommend that It be adopted by this
body; and further, that Hon. J. Q.
Thornton be charged with the duty of
bringing It to tho notice of the next Leg
islative Assembly for enactment.
Mr. Eliot here moved a suspension of
the rules, which motion being adopted,
he offered the following resolutions:
Rcsolced, That in the judgment ofthe
Oregon State Teachers' Institute, in
view of the present state of public opin
ion, is is not expedient to ask for a new
school law, which will embody all the
features of a system of public instruc
tion, hut that the Legislature of the
State be asked for a few prominent
changes iu tho present law, viz:
1. That.the election of a Stato Super
intendent of Public Instruction bo pro
vided for by law, defining tho duties of
tho same; aud that one be chosen to nil
the onico until the next general elcc-
1 Hon.
That a State Board of Education be
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neriuteudent in adopting a uniform sys
tem of examination of teachers.
3. That the attendance, as far as pos
sible, of children, of proper age, at some
school, for at least three months iu each
year, bo required by law.
4. That the State School Tax be not
less than four mills on the dollar.
A very spirited discussion of these
resolutions followed, in which Messrs.
Atkinson, Campbell, Eliot, Henderson
and the President participated. Pend
ing this discussion the project of school
law, as reported, was ordered to be read
by the Secrctarj'i and its merits pointed
out. These were admitted by those sup
porting Mr. Eliot's resolutions, but it
was asserted that the Oregon Legisla
tive Assembly had, hitherto, manifested
a reluctance to pass a law embracing
tho whole subject of public instruction,
as a complete system. To this it was
replied that while sucli might be true of
the past, thcro wero many reasons for
believing that tho Legislative Assem
bly, to meet in the coming Autumn,
would readily avail itself of the project
of the law under consideration, since,
upon it had been bestowed more earn
est labor, by practical Oregon educa
tors than had, probably, been given to
any existing statute in the State.
The Institute then adjourned to meet
nt one p. jr.
AFTBItNOON SESSION.
The Institute metpursuant to adjourn
ment. The vote on Mr. Eliot's resolutions
being now taken they were adopted.
On motion of Dr. Atkinson it was re
solved that the project of law, as re
ported by the committee, appointed last
year, and also the project of law, re
ported by the sjiecial committee, ap
pointed ou yesterday, accompany Mr.
Eliot's resolutions, and with them be
submitted together to some appropriate
committee of the next Legislative As
sembly, as containing the general fea
tures of a law which the Oregon Stato
Teachers' Institute has had under con
sideration, and which is desirable.
Dr. Atkinson, of the committee ou
School Lands and School Funds, ap
pointed some weeks ago, with instruc
tions to report at this session of the In
stitute, stated that although there had
been no meeting of said committee
called by its Chairman, Mr. Hare, he
had, nevertheless, given some thought
and labor to tho matter, and begged to
submit the conclusions, to which his
Investigations had led him, in the form
of the following resolutions:
Resolved 1. That the present mode of
i lonninrr Mio ntililir Knlinnl fund, hv llio
j agency of the several Count v Treasurers,
I for variolIS Tcana comm'onds itself to
j our hidirmcnt
I 2. That the Stale Board, who by the
l Constitution are the custodians of the
! fund, should be authorized to insist upon
i exnct state of the fund constantly before
! t,lem' a,ul thus enable Ulem to makc
Witft qnimnl jlictriluif Inn nf flirt ieirnnl
tho annual distribution of tho accrued
interest within the time required by
law.
3. That while we approve the present
mode of appraisal and sale of school
Innds, we would recommend that the
County Superintendents be require to
examine school land on sale at the ex
pense of the applicant.
4. That in our judgment any money
illegally loaned, or withdrawn from the
school fund, should be rcstord by the
State.
The Institute adjourned to met at 71
p. M.
EVENING SESSION.
The Institute met pursuant to adjourn
ment. The oxerciscs of the evening were
opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Atkin
son. The President then introduced Rev.
T. L. Eliot to the audionco who pro
ceeded to deliver an address upon the
subject of "What tho Common School
System of America has Accomplished."
After Mr. Eliot's discourse Bev. Dr.
Atkinson, Rev. Mr. Campbell, aud
others, addressed tho Institute.
After the addresses, Dr. Atkinson of
fered tho following resolutions which
were adopted:
Whereas, A need of authority ex
ists to protect vagrant children.
Resolved, That such authority ought
to be given to any city or county.
2. That we hereby recommend the
Legislature to provide a Vagrant Chil
dren's Home or Reform School of the
State. '
Prof. Campbell then ofTered the fol
lowing resolution which was adopted:
Resolved, That this Institute looks
with favor upon the effort of Prof. U. S.
Smith, of Salem, to establish a school
for the deaf, and heartily recommend an
Increase of appropriation to sustain the
same.
On motion, made by Bev. Mr. Eliot,
': tl,e cmmtttec Having in charge the
project of law upon the subject of couv
mon schools wa3 discharged and ten
dered the thanks of the Institute for Its
earnest labors.
On motion of Dr. Atkinson the thanks
of the Institute were tendered to the
people of Eugene City for their hospita
ble entertainment of the members iu at
tendance. On motion it was resolved that the of
ficers of this Institute hold over to the
next year, and that they hereafter fix
upon the time and place of the next an
nual meeting.
On motion tlielnstituteadjourncd sine
die. J- QPINN THORNTON,
President.
John C. Arnold,
Secretary, pro tern.
A wit once asked a peasant what part
he performed in the great drama of life.
"I mind mV own business," was the re-
The Mormons tell a good story of
Brigham Young. Among thoappllcanta
for the special privilege of taking a sec
ond wife, there came one day a brother
of very doubtful character, when some
thing like the following dialogue ensued:
"So you want another wile, do j-ou?"
"Yes, if you please, Brother Brigjiam."
"Well, the short of the matter is, that
you can't have one." -
"Why can't I havo one as well as the
other Saints ?" . , , x
"So you want to Know ino wnoie story,
do you?"
"Yes, I Should llKO to Know wny 4
can't have more than one wite, as wen
as the rest of 'em ?" .
"Well, you shall Know men, in muni.
order. I want your race to ate ovu
Genius nnexerted is not genius.
National Bepublioan Platform.
For President.
IT17YSSES S. CHANT.
For VIee President,
iiKxnv Wilcox.
Presidential Electors,
A. . Menchniu, of Umatilla County.
IV. H. llnrc. of Washington County.
Jus. r. Gnzlcy, of Douglas County.
The ltepubllcnn Party of the United Slates as
sembled In National Convention In Hie eMy of
Phlladelphln.on theoth and tlt days of June,
1S72. again declares Its faith, appeal to Its
history, and ennounces ite position upon the
questions belore the country:
1. During the eleven years of Its nscendancy
It has nceeph-d with grand courage the solemn
duties of the time; has suppressed a gigantic re
bellion, emancipated four millions of slaves,
decreed the equal citizenship of all and estab
lished universal suffrage. Kxhiblling unpar
alleled rnagnunlmitv, it criminally pnnlslied
no man for )olitieal offenses and has warmly
welcomed all who proved their loyally by
obeying the laws and dealing Jimtly with their
neighbors. It Initiated a new policy toward the
Indians; the laciflc ltalfroadand similar vast
enterprises have been generously aided and
successfully conducted to completion; the pub
lic lands have been freely given to actual set
tlers; Immigration has been protected and en
couraged, nnd a full acknowledgement of the
rights of naturalized citizens secured from
European iowers. In the form of National
currency, it has provided for the National
credit, and sustained it under the most extra
ordinary burden". It has negotiated new bonds
at lower rates of Inti-reM. The revenues have
liecn carerully eollei-n-l and honestly applied.
Despite the annual large reductions from the
rate of taxation, the public debt has been re
duced during V. s. Grant's Presidency at the
rate of S10OuVjO per ear. A great financial
crisis has been averted, and ieacc and plenty
prevail throughout the land. Menacing lorelgn
dinicultles have been peacefully and honorably
comprised, and the honor and power of the
Nation kept In a high position throughout the
world. Tills glorious record of the past Is the
party's best pledge for the future, and we be
lieve that the people will not entrust the gov
ernment to any party or combination of men,
composed of those who chictly have resisted
ovcrv step In this beneficial progress.
2. Complete libertvand exact equality In the
enjoyment of nil civil, political and public
rights should be established and effectually
maintained throughout the Union by etttcfent
and appropriate State and Federal legislation.
Neither law nor its administration should
admit of any discrimination In respect to citi
zens by reason of race, creed, color, or previous
condition of servitude.
3. The recent amendments to the National
Constitution should be cordially sustained be
cause they are right, not merely tolerated
because they are law, and should be carried out
nccordlng to their spirit by appropriate legisla
tion, the enforcement of which can be safely
trusted only to the party that secured the
amendments.
t. The National Government seeks to main
tain an honorable peace with all nations, pro
tecting Its citizens everywhere, and sympatblz-
ing with all peoples who
strive for greater
iiiieny.
o. Any system of civil service nnder which
the subordinate positions of the Government
are considered rewards for mere party zeal, is
fatally demoralizing, and we therefore favor a
reform of the system, by a law which (hall
abolish the evils of patronage ami make hon
esty, efficiency and fidelity the essential quali
fications for public position, without practically
creating a lire-tenure of office.
0. We are opposed to further grants of itubllc
lands to corporations and monopolists, and de
mand thattue National domain oe set apart for
free settlement by the jeop!e.
7. The annual revenue, after paying current
debts, should furnish a moderate balance for
the reduction ofthe principal public debt, and
except so much as may Ik- derived from a tax
on tobacco and liquors, be raised by duties on
Importations, which should be adjusted to aid
In securing remunerative wages to laborers, a ml
to promote the industries and growth and pros
perity ofthe whole country.
8. We hold in undying honor the soldiersand
sailors whose valor saved the Union. Their
icnions are a sacred debt of the nation, and
the widows aud orphans of those who died for
the country are entitled to the care of a gener
ous and grateful people. We favor such addi
tional legislation as will extend the bounty of
the Government to all our soldiers and sailors
who were honorably discharged, aud who In
the time of duty became disabled, without re
gard to length of service or the eause of such
discharge.
9. The doctrine of Great Britain and other
Kuroican powers concerning allegiance, once
a subject ulviiy a subject, having at last,
through the efforts of the Republican party,
Iteen abandoned, and the American idea ol the
rightof an Individual to transfer his allegiance
having been accepted by European nations, It
is me uiuy oi our iiovernmem 10 guani Willi
Jealous care the rights of adopted citizens
against me assumption oi uoauinorizeu claims
by tlielr former Government, ami we urge a
continued and careful encouragement and pro
tection to voluntary emigration.
10. The Iranking privilege ought to be abol
ished and a way propo.-ed for reductions in the
rates of postage.
11. Among the questions which press for at
tention is that which concerns the relations of
capital and labor, and the Republican party
reoognlze the duty of shaping legislation so as
to secure a full protection and ample field for
capital, and for labor which creates capital: the
large opportunities add a just share or the
mutual tuotlts of these two great servants of
civilization.
li We iMild that Congresss and the President
have only fulfilled an Important duty In their
measures for the suppression of violent and
treasonable organizations in certain lately re
lel lions regions and for the protection of the
ballot, and therefore they are entitled to the
thanks of the Nation.
IS. We denounce the repudiation or public
debts, iu any form or disguise, as a national
crime. We wttnrss with pride the reduction of
the principal of that debt, and of the rates of
Interest upon the balance, and conSdently
expect thatourexcellent national currency wifl
be perfected by a xpeedy resumption to specie
payment.
U. The Republican party is mindful or Its
obligations to the loyal women of America for
their noble devotion to the cause of freedom;
their application for admission to further use
fulness is received with satisfaction; and the
honest demands of any class of citizens for ad
ditional rights should be treated with respectful
consideration.
15. Wc heartily approve of the action of
Congress In granting amnesty to those engaged
in the rebellion, and rejoice in the growth of
pence and fraternal feeling throughout the land.
IB. The Republican party proposes to respect
alt rights reserved by the people tothemselves,
ns carefully as the tiowers delegated by Jhem to
the State and Territorial governments. It dis
approves of assert I ng constitutional laws for the
purpose of removing evils by the Interference
with riulits not surrendered by the people to
either the State or National Government.
17. It Is the duty ofthe General Government
to adopt such measures as will tend to encour
age American commerce and ship-building.
13. Wc believe that the modest patriotism.
radical
ustrious
him to
the heart of the American people, and with him
at our head we start to-day on n new march to
victory-
Platform of the Woman Suffrage Party of
the Pacific Slope.
Wiieiikas. We. the reiirosentative women of
the laclllc Coast. In Convention assembled In
Kan Francisco, thl 21st day of June,lS72, believ
ing the time nas come to iorm a new political
party,do organize under the nameof the Wom
an Suffrage Party of the Pacific Coast, and
declare the following platform of principles :
1st. All men and women are created tree anu
equal, and are endowed alike with certain In
alienable rights, among which are the rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
2d. We hold that under the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of
the United States women are already enfran
chised and entitled to the right to vote.and are
debarred orthe privilege only through prejudice
and misinterpretation ofthe law.
3d. Pending a decision ofthe supreme Court
as to the full import orthese -le.ndment,aml
lnviewofthe possibility of an adverse decision,
we will labor with our utmost Zealand energy
are entitled to equal nS,Sh!ioos?tIia
5th. All personsand ff r ''""S,11'
principles shall be treated " L?yIe:
mles.from whom we will w ,Yn i JnST
work with us, and we will yM'J?
any candidate of any party who Is opposed to
thm?. ?Ysn &miea! party we unite upon this
common platform, regaruies oi imuum...., ,
sex, religion orconilitl.
Augean stables, as they say. Fah!