FKIDAY.
.-JULY 18, 1S73.
"WOMAN
SUPPKAGE
COUETS."
AND THE
Under tbis head our worthy brother of
the Oregonian, under date of July 14th,
discourseth thusly:
Wc have heard of Mimebody savins that
Kcnator Carpenter and lien. Itullcr, both law
yers of considerable eminence, had expressed
the opinion that the amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States confer the rich!
at suffrage on women ; hut we have never seen
any such opinions by thorn, ami s-hall not be
easily eonvmcru mat ni.-y nave gicn sucu.
They are loth understood to look favorably
uion the proposition to extend to women the
right to vote, and in this they have the concur
rence of a very considerable number of promi
nent men of the country; but when we arc told
that they, or any lawyer of their clam, have
civen an opinion that woman suffrage is al
ready the law of the lund, wo "demand the
papers."
Our heart is gladdened. Whenever
we can get men's bravery strcnghteued
into au investigating mood, we have
gained one grand achievement iu their
political education. Our brother "de
mands the papers." He shall have
them.
Turn with ua to the printed records of
the Forty-first Congress, lteport No. Y,
part 2d, and learn that there, In theMiuor-
ity Heportof the Judiciary Committee of
the House upon tho "Woodhull Memo
rial," prepared and presented by " m,
Loughridgeand Benjamin F. Butler, are
"the papers" you "demand." You will
there find an exhaustive and conclusive
argument from the pen of one of the
distinguished gentlemen you name, in
which authorities at infinitum are cited,
all bearing upon the case in point, the
whole proving as docs clearly the able
argument of Ilenry Selden, in thecaseof
Miss Anthony (another "lawyer of their
class,") that in their opinion "Woman
Suffrage is already a law of the land."
From this argument we now proceed
to quote somewhat extensively mid
shall delight to furnish it entire for the
private study and consideration of our
brother if he shall desire it. Kay these
eminent Jurists:
"Try this question by a consideration
of the objects for which the Consti
tution was established as set forth in
the prenmble, 'lo establish justice.'
Does it establish justice to deprive
of all representation or voice in the
Government one-half of its adult
citizens, and compel them to pay taxes
lo and support a Government in which
they have no representation? 'Is tax
ation without representation' justice es
tablished" To insure domestic tran
quility.' Does it insure domestic tran
quility to give all the political power to
one class of citizens and deprive an
other class of any participation iu the
Government? No. The sure means of
tranquility is to give 'equal political
rights to all,' that all may stand 'equal
before the law.' 'To provide for the
common defense.' Does it then provide
for the common defense to deny to one-
half of (be adult citizens of the Republic
tin- right to vote? 'To secure the bless
ings of liberty to ourselves and our pos
terity.' There canbe no olilical liberty
to any citizen dtjirived of a voice in the
fw'orernmcnt. Tried by the express ob
jects for which the Constitution was e
tabh&hed, as declared by the people
themselves, tbis denial of the worn
en citizens of the country of the right
and privilege of voting is In direct
contravention of these objects, and
must, therefore, be contrary to the
spiritand letterof tlieentire Instrument.
lle construction which wc claim for
the 1st section of the Fourteenth
Amendment is in perfect accord with
those expressed objects, and even if there
were anything iu the original text of
the Constitution at variance with the
true construction of that section the
Amendment must control. Yet wc be
lieve there is nothing in the original
text at variance with what wc claim to
be the true construction of the Amend
ment. 5 It is too violent a con
struction of an Amendment which pro
hibits Slates from, or the United States
from, abridging the right of a citizen to
vote by reason of nice, color or previous
condition of servitude, to say that by
implication it conceded to the States
the power to deny that right for any
other reason. On that theory the States
could confine the right of suffrage to a
small minority and make the State
Government aristocratic, overthrowing
iheinRermblicau form. The Fifteenth
article ofAmendmont to the Constitu
tion clearly recognizes tho right to vote
as one of the righiHof a citizen of the
United- States. This is the language:
The right of eitizens of the United
Slates to vote shall not be denied or
abridged ly the United States, or by
any State, on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.' Here
is stated, firt, the existence of a right.
Second, its nature. AVhose right is it?
The right of citizens of the United
States. What right i. it? The right to
vote. And this right of citizens of the
United States the Slates are forbidden
to abridge. Can there be a more
direct recognition of a right Can
right be abrhlffcd which does not cxUtf
The denial of the power to abridge the
right recognizes the existence of the
right. It is said that this right exists
by virtue of State laws and Constitu
tions. Mark the language. The right
of citizens of the United State to vote;
not citizens of State. Tho right is rec
ognized as existing independent of State
citizenM.ip. . men the advo
cates or a privileged class of citizens
under tie Constitution are ,irivcn to
implication to sustain the theory of
taxation without representation, and
American citizenship without political
liberty, the cause must be weak indeed.
From the beginning our Govl
eminent has been right iu theory but
wrong in practice. Tho Constitution.
had it been carried out in its true spirit
and its principles enforced, would have
stricken the claims from every slave in
the Jtepublic long since. Yet, for all
this, it was but a few years since de
clared, by the highest judicial tribunal
pf the Republic, that, according to the
'general understanding,' the black man,
in this country, had no rights which i
the white man was bound to respect, j
General understanding and acquies
cence is a very unsafe rule by which
to try questions of Constitutional law,
and precedents are not infallible guides
toward liberty aud tho rights of man.
It Is said by a majority of the
committee that 'if the right of female
citizens to suffrage Is vested In the Con
stitution, that right can be estallished
in the courts.'
"We respectfully submit that, with
regard to competency and qualification
of electors for members of this House,
the courts have no jurisdiction.
The judicial department cannot thus in
vade the prerogatives of the political
department. We, therefore, recommend
to the House the adoption of the follow
ing resolution:
"Jlcsolval, by the Home of Itepracjda-
lives, That the right of suffrage is one of
the inalienable rights of citizens of the
United States, subject to regulation by
tho States, through equal and just
laws. That this right is included in the
'privileges of citizens of the United
States' which are guaranteed by section
1 of Article U of Amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, and
that women citizens, who arc otherwise
qualified, by the laws of the State,
where they reside, are competent voters
for Representatives In Congress.
"WM. LOUOirMIKJK.
"Bexj. F. Buti-kk."
Eminent authorities, ancient and
modern, Roman, Grecian, English, Ger
man anil American, are largely quoted
in the Report, and we regret that our
space precludes the possibility of pub
lishing the whole. Enough Is given,
however, in our judgment, to satisfy our
friend of the Orcgonian that we can
comply copiously with his "demand"
for "the papers." Wc assure him also
that Senator Carpenter has issued a
similar document, but he must take our
wonl for it till we hunt it up. These
things take time and labor, as he is well
aware. Our brother will observe, also.
that women have not yet attempted lo
vote for SUite officers. Where they
have voted or attempted to vote, they
have in every case been strongly ad
vised to do so by lawyers of eminence
and distinction. They do not desire to
override the law, but are rather deter
mined to test its efficacy.
We ask our brother to retract his
declaration iu view of the above con
clusive evidence to the contrary that
"in his view of the law the Judge is un
questionably sustained by a current of
contemporaneous opinion so nearly un
broken that his decision may be called
the unanimous decision of the profes
sion." Our friend also errs, in savins:
that those who desire "Woman Suf
frage" denounce as infamous every
officer who obeys the laws as he finds
them, whether they believe iu them or
not. Women have not done so. A
man may not be infamous himself, and
yet sometimes make infamous decisions.
Again, our brother says that Judge
Hunt's "manifestly correct decision" of
the legal question does not stamp him
the enemy of suffrage. This we deny.
His action throughout was that of an
angular-brained, one-idead old fossil,
who would excel as a first-class donkey,
but who has no more business upon the
judicial bench than you or wc would
have in drawing a dump cart. He
caused a change of venire from the
county which Miss Anthony had so ef
fectually educated that its jurors knew
their duty, to one wherein she had not
had lime to disseminate the needed
truth. Then, he took upon himself the
duty of both Judge and jury; advised
the jury to find a verdict of guilty; re
fused to poll the jury at the requestor
Miss Anthony's counsel aud a number
of the jurors themselves a most arbi
trary proceeding, which wc arc surprised
to find Judge Hill defending and then,
assuming, donkey like, that he could
not err, refused to grant a motion for a
new trial, although Henry Seidell's
argument in Its favor was absolutely
unanswerable.
Now that our friend has got his
p:iicrs-," will he please to print them?
SALEM CORRESPONDENCE.
Sai.K.vt, July 14, 1S73.
Dear .Vr. I)tmiway:i!, your read
ers and subscribers, who have watched
your journalistic course witha solicitude
of which you have but little Idea, feel
that you are not altogether consistent
sometimes. You will pardon us for say
ing so, I know, for you have a very
good-natured way of recieving censure,
however viciously you may pursue an
tagonists. 1st. When did you begin to "rate
scandal-mongers with adulterers and
bigamists and murderers ?"
2d. Did you consider yourself of that
clas9 when you M-nuedoue of the broad
est attacks the world ever saw, in re
lation to the early life of Gen. Grant?
3d. D'd you have the same opinion
xs now when you "hounded" Joaquin
Miller for deserting his wife and little
ones for fame and poesy ?
4th. When you are cautioning others
to "be consistent aud careful," would it
not be as well lo consider brielly your
own public acl? Yours fur justice.
M. J. J.
We are rejoiced to m how closely our
friends watch us, and we thank them
earnestly for appealing direct to us with
any question which they do not fully
understand. This course is so much
better than the back-biting spirit of
many that wc cannot praise it loo
highly.
To clearly answer the questions of our
correspondent Is our aim in this reply,
and we hope, if she is satisfied with our
explanation, she will have the goodness
to say so through the uextNBWNGKTii-
WKST.
1st. We begnn to rate scandal-mongers
with tho other moral outlaws you
name while we were yet a little child.
We theu saw a dear, good woman,
whom her neighbors loved and honored,
become the victim of cvil-braiued gos
sips who blackened her reputation,
blasted her hopes and sent her lo an un
timely death. The Impression made
upon us by that awful experience we
never shall forget From that day un
til this we have detested all gossip aud
loathed all wretches who hunt and
hound humanity when forgetting the
beam In their own eyes, while plucking
at motes In the eyes of others.
2d. e are surprised that one of our
reader?, who professes to watchj our
"journalistic course" with such supreme
"solicitude," should have asked the sec
ond question, as anybody but a preju-
dice-be-bllndcd politician, who cannot
and will not comprehend a reason, no
matter how prominently it stands out
before the mental comprehension of his
clearer-brained associates, can certainly
foresee tho reply. Our correspondent
knows well that from the beginning of
our journalistic career, we were in con
stant receipt of slurs, more or less cov
ert or open, according lo the cowardice
or audacity of the men who threw them,
charging the Woman Movement with
placing leaders in the front who were
suspected of immoral social ideas. De
nial, explanation or indignant remon
strance alike availed us nothing. The
false accusations continued until it be
came necessary to apply "the hair of
the dog as cure for the bite." We
did it, with what success the world well
knows; and men have found that in
stead of smirching the Woman Move
ment they have enough in all conscience
to do lo watch their own weaknesses.
3d. We had precisely the same opin
ion then as now when we were Intro
ducing Minnie Myrtle Miller to the
world as her husband's peer iu intellect
and superior in duly. And itrejoiceth
us much that the wide world has ad
vanced to the same standard of judg
ment. n. e trust mat we snail never
cease "to consider our own publicacts."
Retrospection is good for everybody,
and is oftener necessary for editors than
other people, because they are far more
than others compelled lo hurry their
ideas into the presence of the public be
fore they have time or opportunity for
reflection, or for seeking thc.advlce of
co-workers.
So far as we are capable of judging wc
believeour course to have been consistent
all the way through. That we are infalli
ble we never claimed; that we gather
wisdom by experience we believe; that
we grow philanthropic in proportion
to an increase of wisdom, wcknow; that
our conduct, In the main, will stand the
completest test of future years we hope,
and in the quiet consciousness that wc
are doi ng ou r d u ty accord t ng lo the 1 igh t
that Is given us, we read the criticisms
of our friends in serenity, and profit, we
trust, by their advice in tliotightful
ness. ANSWEBS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A bride: Your gloves may bo of the
shade of your dress. The bridegroom
wears the same color.
Bashful: You had belter go strong
for woman's enfranchisement. When
women get their rights they'll be
permitted to "pop the question" some
times, you know.
Susan H.: Chinese grass cloth is not
so durable or desirable as plain brown
linen, but it Is cheaper, and may suit
you better for that reason. We can pro
cure you a good quality, five quarters
wide, for 371 cents per yard.
George G. C: Neither can we imag
ine why you should address us upon
the subject ; but we do not feel inclined
to laugh at you, after all. An honest
love is nothing to be ashamed of, hut
every boy has lo have some bitter expe
riences in that line to bring out the best
metal of his manhood. Don't fret after
her. You'll find the "right one" some
day, and then you'll wonder at your
present despondency.
Mrs. S. G. S. : Ask your husband to
purchase wire gauze aud make frames
for your doors and windows lo keep out
the Hies. They should be hung upon
door hinges aud made to close them
selves with a spring. Tiiese screens arc
used to a very great extent in cities,
and we arc anxious to sec them intro
duced in country homes. If you cannot
afford the wire gauze, make rustic
frames to fit your doors and tack mus
quito bars over them. These you can
hang by hinges made of the leather
from the legs of your husband's old
boots. You can tack the musquito bars
securely over the windows on the out
side, and will not need frames or hinges
for them.
A young mother: Don't give the baby
soothing syrup. When he cries undress
him and rub him gently all over. Give
him plenty of room lo kick and expand.
We are afraid you fasten his clothes too
tightly. Give him clear cold water fre
quently this hot weather. He won't
need medicine If you don't overwork
yourself and will abstain from nostrums
and late hours, and will indulge plenti
fully in plain, nutritious food. Mush
and milk or Graham bread and butter
will make heller food fur the baby both
in quality and quantity than al! the tea
and ale aud beer and other slops you
can swallow. Learn a lesson from Ihe
cows that roam the prairies and the
calves that play iu the barn-yard. Your
baby needs no more nostrums than your
calf and you need beer and other slops
of the kind just a3 badly as old Briudle
doe, and no worse. Don't get angry.
We only mean what we say.
Unhappy: Perhaps it is your own
fault. Too many men lake all the love
their wives can give them as a matter
of course, never thinking to return it
till the wife gets tired of looking for it
and ceases to bestow affection. Court
your wife, just as you did in your woo
ing. It won't hurt you, and depend
upon it, you can win her back in no
other way. Wc have known husbands
to never once beslow a word or look of
love for years, and when at last their
disappointed wive3 are caught gaily
laughing and chatting with other com
pany in the very vein of humor which
nri encliaiued these exacting lords,
they have becnum rrnmaiul reoellant
as hornet-stung bears. Don't be such a
noodle, we beg. Women are not angels,
and they can't always endure every
thing. A nvin U rnnlisll who OXDCCtS
to retain the warm, girlish affections of
his wife by Indifference when he gained
them only by most attentive wooing.
Wo repeat, court her. Let her see that
you care for her, that her comfort Is es
sential to your own enjoyment, and if
she don't forgh-cand love and bless you
wo know nothing about women, that's
all.
Ettle, to whom wc gave our opinion
very plainly last week in auswer to her
question as to whether it would be right
to ask a gentleman to accompany herlo
a party, writes: "I am pleased with
the common sense idea you give in your
reply to my question, but I think its
practical workings will hardly succeed.
If young gentlemen were not expected
to pay tho bills, I shouldn't mind ask
ing them to accompany me sometimes,
but I never could invite a gentleman to
pay his own expenses and mine too,
and of course he would not permit me
to do such a thing myself, even if I had
the money." We sympathize with
Ettie. When wc were iu New York
we were stopping at the house of a lady
friend, with xliom we were anxious to
go in the evening to-Wallack's Theater.
The lady informed us that wo could not
be admitted without gentleman escorts.
Hero was a dilemma. Our legal "pro
lectors" were both absent, and we knew
no gentleman whom we could Invite to
escort us whose funds we felt willing to
tax in addition to his time; so an oppor
tunity we may never again meet to wit
ness a remarkable drama was lost.
However, we gathered wisdom from ex
perience, and the next time we wanted
such a favor we bought tickets of ad
mission and enclosed them to a friend,
requesting his company if lie could con
veniently oblige in. Try that plan,
Ettie.
LETTER FR0MC0RVALLIS.
The following communication ex
plains itself. We assure our friend that
its publication is considered necessary,
and wc thank her for favoring us witli
the facts. Will Mr. Hanua, the clerical
postmaster at Corvallis, be kind enough
to give reason, if lie can, why he takes
such liberty with the private property of
of our patrons? Six papers were refused
at once from that post office, and as tho
sbuscriptions of several had not expired,
oursuspiclbns wercarousedand wc wrote
to one of the number, makingiuquiryas
to the cause of refusal with the following
result. This clergyman is not the only
postmaster wo wot of who has thus
transcended his bonds. We shall pub
lish the names of all such hereafter, that
Uncle Sam may look after his servants
a little. But here is the letter:
Coitv.vLLis, July 12, 1S73.
Dear .17. Duniway:Yrom tho con
tents of your note I see there is a discrep
ancy somewhere. You say our post
master sent you an official notice I
would call it ojjkioux--that I had re
fused to take tho Nkw Nokthwkst,
your well edited and very instructive
paper, from the jiost office. That is
falncl I was puzzled to know why it
had not come last week as usual, aud
thought perhaps as it was Fourth of
July, no paper was published.. I am as
tonished to think our postmaster (who
is also a minister of the gospel) should
tell such a deliberate falsehood. Father
and brothers deny having given him
such authority, so it must have been
done iu order to limit the circulation of
your paper. I am very sorry that I
missed two numbers of it, as the publi
cation of "Ellen Dowd" has just been
resumed, aud I Wanted to sec the be
ginning. Be assured, madam, that I
shall not refuse lo take UicNEwNoimi
wbst from the iwit olllcc as long as the
subscription lasts, and not even after its
expiration, if you continue making the
'paper as interesting as it now is. With
the greatest of respect I am your true
friend and admirer. C. II.
LETTER PROM jSAN FRANCISCO.
Sax Francisco, June 2G, 1S73.
Dear Jfn. Dtmiway:! enclose to
you a Post OHlce Order for $11 00, it
being the balance due for five copies of
your paper, and for advertising therein
for one year. Will you please send us a
receipted bill indicating when the sub
scription cuds?
I also enclose a synopsis of our annual
meeting, which transpired during the
suspension of your paper, and was pub
lished in the Woman's Journal, think
ing it may not be uninteresting to your
readers especially as the Pioneer has
so many omission?, additions and wholly
unreliable statements concerning it.
T should be clad see you and explain
a great many things that I cannot stop
to write. But you have doubtless seen
the official document in the Chronicle
of April 22.1, signed by all the ladies ou
the Board of Control, which I sent 3011
at the time. And I would say that be
sides those persons we have the follow
ing gentlemen belonging to the State
Board, most of whom are actively en
gaged with us Judges Palmer and
Crane, and Messrs. Collin?, Lewis, Shaf
ter, Days ami Leavitt and though we
are holding no public gatherings we
shall soon issue i'uportant documents,
indorsed by the whole Boanl, which I
shall send you. We meet semi-monthly
at each other's houses, and our meetings
arc very harmonious aud interesting.
So busy were the reporters of the San
Francisco dailies iu noticing the objec
tionable proceedings of the day sessions,
in our Convention, that they could find
little time to dwell upon our evening
meetings, at which we were favored with
able and carefully selected speakers.
The Inhartuony that prevailed was ow
ing to the affiliation of Stevens with
the Woodhull clement, through which
many outsiders who had never before
acted with us, and were not even ac
credited delegates from any society, per
sisted iu dragging in dress reform, co
operation and free love to the exclusion
or the legitimate business of the hour.
Therefore, to avoid protracted discus
sion upon side issues, and the result that
we foresaw, and which afterward oc
curred at Anthony Hall the defeat of
Bennett's Anti-Free Love resolution it
was deemed advisable, jio by 3Tr. Col
lins atone, but by the whole Board of
Control, with one exception, by 40 out
of tho 50 San Francisco delegates, as
well as by most of the country mem
bers, to adjourn Wednesday at 10:30 1 sr.
And not only in private conversation
but bylettcre from the absent Presidents
of auxiliary societies, are we constantly
receiving assurauces of confidence iu
the wisdom of our cause.
Wishing you much success in your
every' effort for humanity; I am very
truly yours, Mary F. Sxow.
The Congressional pot is bubbling.
Tho candidates are legion, but among
them all no other has so slim a chance
as Bud Thompson's "Unpurchasable
Woman." The ex-Senator is to be pit
ied. Let us weep.
Dr. J. W.Watts,of Lafayette, has prom
ised us a scries of articles from his pen
upon his peculiar Bible theories. We
have no doubt they will be of interest
to a large number of our readers.
"The Case of Miss Anthony A Dangerous
Charge to the Jury."
Under this suggestive head the Rich
mond State Journal, iu commenting
upon the recent decision of Judge Hunt
in the case of Miss Atithony, asks, "If
these views are to prevail of what eflect
are the Sullmgc .Amendments to the
Federal Constitution V" It then says:
There is not a shadow of apology for
the laws by which the negro was en
franchised, if tliis doctrine is correct.
Those laws were passed to secure to him
the ballot as the only security for re
taining his freedom. The States failed
to recognize and protect that one right,
more important than any other because
it secured all others. The United States
used its latent power iu this emergency,
and overthrew, by emphatic legislation,
the State laws which discriminated
against male negroes iu the matter of
voting. Judge Hunt specially alludes
l. ...... i i.. i.:.. .t..s,.t i
lit liii'sir i.iits in uia ucvisiuil Ullil hoes 1
out of his way to justify them. Yet he
charged the jury against .Miss Anthony,
and refused even to poll it, as requested
by her ecu sel, Henry R. Selden of New
"Vorlc. In the ease of the election in
spectors who received her vote, he re
fused to allow the counsel to address the
jury. Hiscouduct iu this case has been
inconsistent, arbitrary and altogether
unworthy of his ju
ilieial station, the i
whole spirit of his decision is at war
wttn that uuerai ami just rule or raw
which requires statutes atlecting funda
mental rights to be always construed
liberally iu behalf of freedom. This is
but another conspicuous illustration of
the fact that judges, like other people,
arc generally warped in their judgment
by personal prejudice, and tho domi
nant influences of sect and party. It is
a most dangerous and disgraceful fact,
hut this action of Judge Hunt, designed
as it was to settle a vexe 1 question by a
decision iu a test case, only exhibits the
astonishing logical weakness of the op
ponents of woman suflrage. A man
who beliecs that tho United States
may legally enforce the right of suf
frage in behalf of tho ignorant and
helpless frecdnian, but denies to the
same power the right to interfere in be
half of Intelligent aud educated white
women, is too stupid or too prejudiced
to bo a safe minister iu the temple of
justice. Meanwhile this brave woman,
who has sturdily battled for the rights of
i her sex for a quarter or a century, will
1 receive the respect and sympathy of all
i who prize noble devotion to a great
cause. The decision caunot fail to pro
' voke extended discussion and severe
. criticism, aud its outrageous character
will react upon the bad and failing
cause it was designed to sustain with its
arrogant and dangerous assumptions.
Whafs thoRemedy ?
Our brother of the Dallas Jlcpublican
gives the Advocate the following good
advice:
Wc agree with the Advocate, that no
people or which we have any record re
liable, since the creation of man, ever
degenerated so fast, or allowed the
wheels of destruction to roll ou with
such rapidity without check, in conse
quence of these two great apjiarent and
acknowledged evils, twin agents iu
crime, obscene literature and intemper
ance, as the American people. The
Advocate thinks our State Legislatures
ought to follow the example of our Na
tional Legislature on the subject of ob
scene literature, and punish severely
tho oflenders; so wo think, ami they
ought to act as rationally concerning
the evilsof intemperance, in which opin
ion wo believe the Advocate would
agree with us. We hold that the peo-
Elo have tho power to put an end to
oth theso shocking, fast spreading
evils, and the great question Is, will they
do It? We answer "no," not under the
present organized state of things. Why?
Because of the natural disposition and
peculiar organization of men aud wom
en, and because the American people
are constantly playing the hypocrite.
it u u;iu iiiie;iii suiicieu great uijuiy
by our hyiocrisy in the cryor"liberty,"
while we held, arbitrarily, iu chains or
steel, four million human beings; and
we shall stiller still more injury and
wrong by our eternal hypocritical cries
of "exact justice and equal rights," no
long as we arbitrarily say, to the most
religious and naturally moral hair or
our own moon and citizens
ion m.iv
with us desire the riuht. but vnu MimM
take no part In raising the standard of
virtue, religion anil morals, or in driv-
ing rrom our ralrland. this ocean or vimv
iniquity, degreilation and crime. The
natural propensity or women tn
morals arc much greater than that of
men, consequently you must give them
the privilege to assist directly In the
establishment of good morals, or your
community will be immoral. We say
to the Advocate, from this on, advocate
the cause of euual itr-Hcp. in nlaln Eng
lish, woman suffrage, and when that is
will bo thrown from the track In one
blackened ma'S oi irreinevauie rum.
nrnn nn iu imi t-nn -. r nun nmrnriwi iujiii jAnwnuv(
battle against obscnity and bad whisky, a terse and vigorous
,.. i -5... , . .......... i ,...,.-. mniiv nilvaiitaires thai
...Ill .?.... .....I flnlnrir will SOclctV bV the JC.I1
tl III 1 Mill ill iiiri. tUiii uvtvij i- - -
Imd0 13S1 v'a'fi j E. Benton, of Oakland, who is
ront " Shi" tVrse.sojustlyadministerxHl ever ready to respond to our call, then
for ou" hyerisy, will le remove.1; delighted the audience with his pecul
md this hideous car or iniquity aud slu, iarly humorous and vivacious remarks,
ninniiicso rapidly in our n.idst.screani- censuring a mrt of the press for its
i n k by her monstrous power the dying 1 misrepresentations, and heartly cudors-
-.T,,;,.riu nr her uiinimiuereu victim, cmuiu, .mti .n, iu.ou,
Annual Meeting of the California "Woman
Suffrage Association.
The third Annual Meeting of the Cal
ifornia Woman Suffrage Association
commenced on Tuesday, May Sth, at 10
a. r., iu l'acilic liall, the mostciieeriui
and elegant apartment in San Fran
cisco. It was presided over with dignity
and graco by the President, Mrs. C. M.
Palmer, and continued its sessions for
two days and eveuiugs.
The day sessions were large and tho
proceedings animated the time chiefly
occupied iu listening to reports, aud the
discussion of resolutions.
The evenings were devoted to speeches
Interspersed with excellent vocal and
Instrumental music.
On Tuesday morning, after the usual
preliminaries, and while the various
Committees appointed by the Chair had
retired for consultation, brief reports
and remarks thereupon were made by
Messrs. Stowe aud Lining, and Mes
damcs Hendees and Waterhouse, after
which the Convention adjourned to
meet at 2 o'clock p. jr.
AFTERXOOX 6ESSIOX.
Col. John A. Collins, Chairman of tho
State Boanl of Control, read an able and
exhaustive report of the work of that
body and the progress of the movement
in Calirornia during the jKist year, from
which it appeared that tho Boanl had
held twelve meetings, sent one petition
to tho Legislature, for Constitutional
Amendment, and enlarged political
privileges for woman, having upon it
5,127 signatures obtained from thirty
four counties, also two Woman Suffrage
petitions to Congress, sustained by
nearly an equal number of names, all of
which were presented aud referred to
appropriate committees. This secured
from the Legislative Committeea favor
able report, supplemented with three
bills, one for a onian Sutlrage Consti
tutional Amendment, one to secure to
widows the full aud absolute control of
tho common property, and one to make
woman eligible to any official position
in the Public School Department.
Through the Post Office the Boanl
had circulated 43,000 pages of sutlrage
trait', Tour large editions of printed cir
culars, written 354 letters, and received
in response 159. Mr. Collins also stated
that during the mouth of June was held
a four days' Convention at which, in
addition to reports and speeches from
our own members, we were favored
with an able address by Prof. Carr of
r..i:r.....i.. !..:..- ...i i...
vaiiiuiiua ill trisitj , Ullll Cliccreil I J
the presence of Miss Pliebe Cousins of
St, Ijouis, whose efforts greatly added to
the Interest of the occasion.
Mrs. Clark, from the Committee on
Credentials, then reported the names of
unaccredited delegates Irom the various
counties, and Mrs. Lewis, from the
Committee on Nomination, proposed
official caudidadatcs for the ensuing
year.
Un motion, the Convention then au-
i iii , , , .
J' n and a half p.
EVEXrXO sEssrox
The Society met pursuant to adjourn
ment, and was called to onler by the
President, Mrs. C. M. Palmer, who, after
an appropriate song finely rendered by a
select quartette choir, delivered an able
address. It was a historv of the Suf-
frage Movement from its origin to the
present time, being a comprehensive
and valuable statement of the outlines
of the reform; replete with allusions to
Its principal actors, anil warmly eulo
gizing those leaders of world-wide repu
union, Aicsuames jivcrmore, .stone,
Jiowe, Mamnn ami Alimony, ami con
ciutung witu me rcmaric mat
"The work goes bravely on.
WWh
,lu
union in our ranks, anil a few more
years of earnest ellbrt the victory will
be ours."
31. V. llennet, Ivsq., United States
Pension Agent, then made an able de
fense of woman's claim to the ballot,
and conclusively demonstrated that her
elevation and political enfranchisement
would add to the strength and glory or
the nation.
After a few closing remarks from Mrs.
Hughes of Han Francisco on the ellect
of the agitation of the suffrage question
in America upon the rights accorded to
woman in other countries, the Conven
tion adjourned until next morning.
S KtOX I ) DAY WK DXLSPAY.
The Convention again assembled at
10 a. M., the President in the Chair.
Two sessions were held during the day.
The time was mainly occupied iu dis
cussing the various resolutions present
ed by the Ihisiness Committee until o p.
M., when it adjourned till evening.
KVKNIXO SKSSIOX.
At 7 o'cloek p. m. a large audience
again convened, when Mrs. Mary F.
Hiiow, Itecording Secretary of the Jan
Francisco Association, being introduced
by the President, submitted her Annual
Iteport a synopsis of which is as fol
lows :
The San Francisco Couuty Society,
numbering ninety-eight members, hud
held during the year eight meetings of
the IJoard of Managers, three quarterly
Tor business, and two public gatherings
for speeches and resolutions. One of
these was exclusively devoted to the
furtherance of the sullrago cause, and
the other to advocating the claim or
Grant and Wilson as the Presidential
candidates or tho party which had
pledged its "respectful consideration" as
to the llights of Woman.
Iu allusion to the recent action of the
Legislature of Massachusetts, wherein a
recognition of woman's claim to the
Elective Franchise has aroused the en
thusiasm, and inspired the earnest ef
forts of so many noble women through
out the Iaud'she remarked:
"But notwithstanding our recent de
feat, wc confidently rest in the hope
that our labors for "the Interests of the
dominant party will not long go unre
warded, knowing that,
"'Kver the right comes uppermost
And ever Is justice done.'
In conclusion she thus briefly alluded
to Mr. Frank Sleeper, late treasurer of
our Mate Association, who, since our
last annual garnering, lias "passed ou:"
"Kver at the post when duty called
and strength permitted; we greatly
miss his visible presence in our ranks,
yet we believe he is not uninterested in
our eflorts here for the purification of
pnuucai nre, ami me general upiirting
ot humanity; aud we trust that all our
deliberations on this occasion may be
pervailetl by his gentle, though ever
, earnest spirit."
The report was pillowed by an ably
written and well delivered address from
Mrs. Matthews, an accomplished teacher
of San Francisco, who eloquently al
luded to the early pioneers oi retorm,
with Garrison at their head, ami de
manded for woman equal educational
and political rights, and that tho same
standard of virtue should be required
for both sexes.
Hon. J. M. Days, the Chairman of
tho House Com mi ttco In tho last Call-
next roiioweu, wuu
speech upon the
t would accrue to
fraucnlscmeut of
ou motion, the Convention adjourned
I sine die. M. F. S.
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Compressed Air Patent Rights.
XOTIt'K.
rpHE IXVKXTlOXS OF IK. ItOYCE for the
1 ITodurtion.slorinir and Transmitting pow
er, etc.. by comprt-sM.! air : also lor destroying
I fellow fever on Ship, in Hospitals, for Ventl-
I lation, etc., have leen proved to le the only
succesMui memoiis, wnere pumping machin
ery Is used.
Xotlee Is hereby given that the management
and control of these patents has been placed In
my hands with live sole nwer of License or.
Sale. Pcrsonsand Corporations desirous of Us
ing Ctnpre.sl Air as a Motive Power, or Tor
Ventilation, etc, may obtain full information
of the title and details ot the patent by apply
ing for copies at the Patent oltice. The reissues
are numbered "1 and .VSt!. and for terms of
ue by addrvs-iiur me, I', o. llox 14I7K. orSV Lib
erty street, JJ.'W York. HOItACK II. DAY.
CLAIMS IN DR. ROYCE'S AIR PATENTS.
DlVtSIOX A, NO. 3,101.
The nldect 01 my pneumatic apparatus is to
chaw or till reservoirs or conduits with eom-
Iirosed .nfiiiiii laHlies ly means of some
tnowu meehanii'Ml ower. The force-pumps
A' A", rcfri2ntliia-ii-s f f f t"' f", and
main reservoir an- stationary, as shown In tho
drawiiur.iind tlii'ninpr.'ssed gaseous mediums
are transferred from the force-pump or pumps
or main pities, or fmm this fixed main reser
voir, by means ot pipes, tube, stoieeoeks, and
the proper valves and valve-searing and ap
pentlases. Hy means of my invention the com
pressed saxswis lsslies cull le ncd for the pur-IMi-icsortraiismitlin:;
power, and to reproduce
some con-liU'ruMr portion of the power re
quired for the compression, al the extremity of
the conduit tnmi the ismdenseror main reser
voirat any desired locality, within anv reason
able ill -tunc'. llnoiiL'li any of the convenient
forms of steam n-in.- or piiiiiporothermech
auism .suitable tir the puriose, and with or
without the addition ot heat, as may be re
quired; or by detaching the reservoir irom the
condenser the jsiwer contained in the com
pressed air may lie used for the purimses or lo
comotion or navigation as well as !ureratin);
machinery.
The condenser may consist of one or more
cyllndersand pistons, of concentric cyllndera
worked by any power ami ilicharjinR the con
densed fluid into a reservoir or throiu;li pipes
for use, as aforesaid.
What I claim as my invention, and desire to
secure by letters patent of the l ulled States, Is:
1. The method of compression or packing
Kaseous mediums in a rtervnir for theHirTKe
of being Used its a mean of storing and trans
mittlliK Isjwor lieyond the apparatus Itself by
means of a pump or condenser, combined with
the means or absorb! ns the heat evolved In the
process of compression, and witli a reservoir
aud conduit suitable for liiilillnc and transmit
ting the power confined In the compressed me
diums or imparted by the condensing apparat
us, substantially as described.
The employment ot a main reservoir filled
with caseous mediums compressed hv means
of pumps or other condensins apparatus, and
fitted with suitable pipes, tulies, atop-coeks,
valves, valve-gearlns, and appendages for the
purpose of storlntr, retaining, distributing and
transmitting, for use outside of the condensing
apparatus or mechanism the power confined
In the compressed medium or imparted by
the condensed apparatus, substantially as de
scribed. 3. The use of metallic reservoirs, plpes.tulies,
nnd other accompanying mechanism, coated
on the inside with close-grained metals, vege
table gums, resins, oils or extracts, when filled
with compressed mediums, to prevent the es
cape of Ihe gaseous bodies through the pores of
the Investing metal as alsive descrilMsl.
i. The use of tho refrigerating or cooling ap
paratus with the cylinder in which the gaseous
mediums are condensed for the purposi-s of
power, when combined with the cylinder eith
er externally or internally.substantially as de
scribed. .. The use of the hollow piston with suitable
valves and i-onnections, for the purpose or
causing a current of cool fluid to circulate
through the piston and connection, lor the
purpose and In the manner set forth.
ti. The combination of a reservoir of com
pressed gaseous mediums by means of tulies . or
nines of any suitable material, with stoincoeks,
valves and oilier proser connection and ap-neiul.i-es.tlirouith
and by means or which tho
liowcr conthied In the compressed mediums
way be drawn oirfor use and for tlw purixiseof
transmuting power to machinery outnido or
the condensing apparatus.
Ill testimony wiifrrsii, t-ic., ric
PATKXT XO. 3DJL DIVISION U-CLAIM.
1. The serial compression, whether effected
simultaneously, by two or more com pressors
In gang, by first charging one or more reser
voirs, then transf.-rriug that condensed matter
through the same compressors, and adding
greater condensation betorc again entering a
rcservolrorcanduit, and the-privilege of facil
Itj to refrigerate anywhere at any stage of con
densation eltlier by immersion or any or all
JtaVcsl? s,1'"Hral""or the other mode
,ih T:i,, 'I,lK,'?"s and Mechanism, and
otw ?J? part". ,Ilrre"r. as claimed in' the
other division ol my reissued patent, when
usisj to produce roollng .dMiirVrtiu riiien
peutleand chemical elici t by im" ng luto the
h5SSTi?ueS m s,rk-rr,,'' or th,',".irds of
,ViI? r ,her .'"xdosuros (aim 'the couches
SLtijJ '.Tucson which sick rsonorinvalhls
jwllne) compressed air or oilier gases and vup-
?.i..v.'VcoI,lm,", ", iportiBu,ti
iI?r.;i,,ll,,.,I1.'icasMi "r ' treated. on
insulated bedsteads or bedding, irdrsImWe, to
7 ?il:rait o'ecrieltynr calorie from the patient,
through the absorbing ntutlty of axpandiug
air or vapor.
In testimony whereof, etc - " tMl-Iy