FRIDAY. MARCH 20, 1S74.
A PASTING WOED.
Again we must urge upon our friends
the necessity of sustaining the New
Northwest. Wo are compelled to
leave home without having time to set
tle our business as; we desired. If every
one of you who are in arrears for sub
scriptions will at once forward the same
to our office, you will enable us to go on
easily with a work which is wearing
upon us fearfully at present, because of
the financial anxiety connected with it.
Again: remember to contribute to
these columns regularly during our ab
sence. This .work is yours as well as
ours. And while we are away in a dis
tant lecture-field, engaged in earning
money to keep the banner floating at
the mast-head, may we not depend upon
you, dear friends, at home and abroad,
to contribute both letters and subscrip
tions to its support ?
We shall be at home again by about
the firai of May. How many of you
will organize societies, raise clubs for
the New Nop.thwest, and otherwise
carry forward the glorious work of Hu
man Rights during our abseuce? Be
lieving und hoping that you do more
during our absence than if we were at
home for you to depend upon, we take
reluctant leave of our readers till we get
to San Francisco, where they shall hear
from us again.
SOME COGITATIONS.
We were much interested at the
prayer meeting in the Presbyterian
church on last Friday evening, the
last occasion upon which Ave had op
portunity to bo present at these meet
ings before the sailing of the steamer.
A very large and deeply attentive con
gregation was present. Rev. Dr. Atkin
son, whose dignified yet humble bearing
inspires every beholder with respect and
confidence, made a few very sensible
and earnest remarks. Rev.Mr.Medbury
oflered a fervent petition, and Rev. Mr.
Izer read a collection of Bible texts upon
the efiicacy of prayer. Several other
gentlemen also spoke aud prayed, and
the congregational singing was es
pecially stirriug and appropriate.
Knowing well the timidity with
which many of our brethren in the
ministry regard the enfranchisement of
woman or the most indefinite allusion
thereto, it was not without some trepi
dation that wo stood before the people
and exhorted the women to systematize
their work by beselging the law-mukers
with singing aud prayer. We showed
that the foundation for the immense
traffic in ardent spirits rests upon legis
lation, and the way to make this reform
lasting Is to begin with the City Coun
cil ana carry our work from there
through all the various ramifications of
government.
The young miuisters were very much
perturbed at this. They thought we
had enough of laws, and good enough
one; that It was religion we needed;
just as if religion would prosper under
laws that protect the terrible curse of
drunkenness. These ministers must
learn that the women to whom they are
so frantically appealing to go forth aud
destroy the effect") of man-made law,
musthaveopportutilty toattack thisevi!
ly (he root, and that all the prayers of
men and angels will avail us nothing
without a change in law.
Mr. Izer read, with much emphasis,
an account, clipped from some eastern
newspaper, wherein it was related that
the women of a certain town, by prayer
alone, had dried up every rum hole.
Let our brother visit this town a year
henee, our laws remaining as they are,
with women having no opportunity to
make them better, and lie will see that
"the dog has returned to vomit again
and the sow to her wallowing iu the
mire."
God works by plans, aud His plans,
which man would so often thwart by
over-righteousness, are the embodiment
of plaiuer practical common sense. We
by no means impugn the motives
of our young brethren in the min
istry. Their live are wholly ideal.
They subsist upon salaries earned by the
people, who are compelled by their bus
iness interests to take u practical view
of life, aud bo they employ their miuis
ters to look after spiritual things for
tneni, and we will do our brethren the
justice to say and believe that they do
their best to earn and render a full
equivalent for their earlhlv support
But while their doctrine Is splendid for
preachers, and while It Is very gratify
ing to them to have the sisters always
ready to follow their dictation, we, with
all due deference to their calling, must
emphatically declare that the women
have .their own work to do In their own
way. God isopeniug up that way, and it
pains us exceedingly when these men
try to keep women tied hand and foot
under the licensed, rum-protecting laws
of the land, while sending them forth,
fettered, to pray iu the purlieus of vice,
to remove the effects of man's unjust
legislation. But, while they may hln
der, they cannot prevent the onward
march of woman's jiower. The finger
as written the fiat of her des
tiny in the progress of the age, aud the
ail-pervadiug liKht of Heaven's oi.iltwl
truth Is permeating her superslitlon-be-blinded
understanding; and the ultimate
result of this temperance crusade will be
that she will, staud side by ide with
man at the ballot-box to unmafco h,
laws that have led the people to make
01 iuc purueus 01 our cities aud vllhxr.
a vast charnel-house of prostitution and
uruuKenuess.
TO CONTRIBUTORS.
Some importantcommuulcations were
received too lafe to be published in thl
issue. , Persons seudiug matter for pub
licallon are requested to forward the
.ame U time -for us to receive it on
Teusdaj'eveiffngorWeduesday morning,
OBJECTIONS WHICH AMOUNT TO
NOTHING.
In view of the unanswerable argu
ment offered jlu favor of Woman Suf
frage, and of the rapid hud triumphant
progress of the movement iu our State
and nation, it would seem that intelli
gent men aud women would cease to
advance or urgo the thread-bare and
oft-an3wered objections whicli have
constituted theentlreargumenlsagalust
it for the past two decades. It would
seem that ouropponenUseo the necessity
of bringing to their aid other aud more
potent arguments or abandon the posi
tion they occupy as untenable.
Our numbers are being constantly
augmented by the addition of persons
who formerly opposed the enfranchise
ment of women, from the fact that they
had given the subject no thought had
never properly weighed and considered
the arguments for and against it and
whose position agaiust it was solely the
result of prejudice. Being, however,
possessed of minds broad enough to
comprehend, aud magnanimous enough
to accept the truth aud justice of our
claims when properly presented, they
speedily overcamo their prejudices,
abandoned their false position, and be
came our earnest friends and zealous
co-workers. That there are thousands
of others who under like circumstances
would do likewise we are assured.
But there are yet vast numbers who
continue to oiler the stereotyped objec
tions, unmindful of the fast that they
have become stale from constant repeti
tion, and forceless from frequent refuta
tion. Of these tho most pathetically
vociferous and Inconsolable Is he who
fears that if women arc granted the po
litical equality, which In the name of
right and justice we claim for them,
that their home duties will thereby be
neglected, the children be allowed to
ruu riot, the husband be compelled to go
puddingless to bed, only to pass the night
in vain attempts to quiet the screams of
a refractory child, and in the morning
as a panacea for his ills be forced to don
buttonless shirt and breakfast on
muddy coffee and hard-boiled eggs,
while the misguided wife is constantly
occupied in voting.
In vain we attempt to argue with,
console or comfort this poor fellow. The
terrible ghost which his prejudices have
conjured up will not down; and he daily
attempts to slay the progress of the
inevitable by the rehearsal of feeble and
witless objections such as these.
Iu close sympathy with him is the
man who fears that women will be sub
jected to jeers and exposed to insult at
the polls, that men will lose their high
chivalric regard for women if they thus
mingle in the common crowd. In view
of the fact that women have heretofore
been strictly excluded from all crowded
places this is certainly a weighty objec
tion. When we venture to remark that
women mingle in our largest crowds, not
only without insult, but to the manifest
pleasure and profit of themselves and
their brethren, he hesitates a moment,
and then brightening up, as with a new
idea, exclaims with an air of masculine
superiority: "Oh! but election are dif
ferent, you see! There are always men
about the polls who are drunk and dis
orderly." Here he has unwittingly made
a strong point in our favor.
Tiie evil of intemperance cannot live
In the presence of good, earnest and
true women. It is one of the first evils
at whicli the vote of woman will strike
and one whicli will thereafter aud for
aye hide its diminished head. .
Here is one of a quite numerous clnss
who, with as much omposity as if he
were hereditary Sheriff of Multnomah
county, declares tiiat women should nut
be allowed to vole, because, forsooth,
they would then be eligible to otllce,
anil he asserts that they are by nature
and circumstances Incapacitated from
office-holding. Perhaps he may succeed
in making some believe that his obiec-
llou is prompted by solicitude for the
women only. But for our part we think
It Is cas to see what is the matter with
him.
Most of the opposition with which we
meet turns upon one or more of the ob
jections we have noticed, so It Is quite
superfluous to mention others. Sufilcc
It to say that most or them are the re
sult of fale educafion, prejudice, selfish
ness and want of proper investigation;
that each aud all have been hundreds of
times completely and easily refuted,
and that iu the great progress of events
each will at no distant day speedily bo
resolved in its native element, nothing-
nets, bo when the clonous dav of
woman's enfranchisement shall dawn,
and Its erewhile opponents declare as
each and every one of them will surely
do, "that they had nothing against it,"
they will only repeat what we have all
along known to be the literal truth.
WHY ARE THEPEOPLE POOR?
Eastern exchanges are loaded with
graphic descriptions of the suffering
entailed upon the unfortunate women
and children who arc out of employ
ment, funds and credit iutlic great cities,
While it Is a well known fact that
many persons are far less provident
than others, and that a majority of the
human family always will live in a sort
of "from hand to mouth" style, yet is
equally well known that all laws and
legislation tend to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer.
Deep-thinking public financiers havo
many times practically demonstrated
the fact that ua business will justify an
outlay of more than three per cent, per
annum as interest upon the capital em
ployed, and that not one business-inter
est, company or corporation in five
hundred is prepared to go on with Its
transactions If collaterals were suddenly
withdrawn aud immediate payment of
principal demanded.
Gold and sliver, instead of human la
bor, arc falsely made the standard of
wealth, aud laud, Instead of humau life,
lis surety. '-
We have often asserted and here 'relU
crato that the value of gold and silver
as currency is-wholly, fictitious, and
that individual ownership iu laud is
justas'hiucb'a relic of barbarfsnifas In!
uivjuuui uwiiersuip iu mau. xhjiu lueas
descended to us from tho days of ReudaT
J H.. t . . . fl
uuspuusui wiicu niigut maue rigut, anu
are unworthy of belli" adhered to bv
the enlightened statesmen of to-day.
Why one person should own five hun
dred acrea-of laud, or-fivo-acres,aran
Inheritance, while his neighbor, who
has toiled when he slept, and econo
mized when Jio spent his substance In
riotous Hying, sbaIlJpay,tithe3.otnlLh.U
earnings for a lifetime to the man whose
father, grandfather, or great uncle, first
claimed the soil, why this Is so; and, Is
it right, merely because It is so, are
questions which the famishing poor are
asking, and which, ere another century
shall dawn, they will force the world to
answer?
If uliieteeu-twentieths of the wealthy
men of the land were to-dav deprived of
all property except their own just earn
ingsand that is all which any human
being may rightly clalirithey -Would
speedily change places with those whom
they to-day spurn as paupers; and if all
men and women were given at maturity
the right to hold, cuitivateand improve,
as taste and ability might diclate, a
spot that they could all their lives call
home, changing their residences only at
.1. .. . . . .
uieir own option, extreme poverty
would cease from off the race or the
earth; the thriftless and improvident
would have no excuse for Idleness and
all could and would help each other.
"ONE FEMALE COPYIST."
Wo call special attention to an aritcle
from New York Tribune iu this issue
under tho abovo caption.
Could Horace Greeley have foreseen,
less than two years agoj the significant
fact that the Tribunes themselves of to
day would be leveled iu such masterly
fashion when he then promulgated that
woman must not vote, because man
made it his business to protect her,
wouldn't he havo changed his tactics?
But the world moves, and it is a pleas
ing faucy to us that great journalists
and statesmen who have made mistakes
In tho earth life, are permitted, alter
seeing the error of their ways iu the
mystical beyond, to use their newly en
lightened influence to rectify the blun
ders of material existeuce. That Hor
ace Greely, emancipated from the dross
and selfishness that closed his earthly
career, is now permitted by the Al
mighty to use his clearer spiritual vis
ion in lightcuing-up the course of the
ew ork Tribune we find great joy in
imagining. Certainly no other journal
has done so much to retard the woman
movement, and to no other so rightfully
belongs the work or undoing ilk- mis
deeds. Why was it necessary to depose "one
female copyist" In the federal employ ?
Simply because that copyist could not
vote. Nothing could be plainer than
the Tribune's statement, and nothing
more to the point than its argument.
Man does not protect woman. Mil
lions of women are to-day suffering tho
bitterest provocations in this so-called
laud of plenty. It behooves them to
protect themselves. With the ballot
they can secure protection; without It,
when thrown ujou their own resources,
they are placed in perilous positions,
fordoes not the history of "one female
copyist" prove that nil dependent,
working women are living at the mercy
or the voting class ?,
Shame upon such a government! Out
upon such usurpation of the sacred lib
erties of God!
TEE HEW TEMPERANCE PARTY.
It will be remembered that the State
Temperance Alliance, at Its recent ses
sion, passed a new irty resolution, and
appointed a committee, whose duty it
should be to issue a call to the friends of
temperance to meet at some time aud
place designated to take such steps and
adopt such measures as might seem ex
pedient antl practicable for organizing a
separate and distinct independent poli
tical action in the coming Stale elec
tion, by the temperance tcoplo of the
State. In accordance with this rMnln.
lion, and In compliance with his duties
as Chairman of the Committee so ap
pointed, Mr. E. W. Ryan has published
a request to the friends of temperance
to meet hi their several counties and
elect delegates to a Convention to be
in Portland at Good Templars Hall on
Tuesday the 31st of .March, to take Blcps
to carry out the spirit or the resolution.
While we are not or those who expect
to sec such a party succeed 1 n detenu I u i ng
la any considerable extent tho result or
the coming political contest, we are yet
glad to see temperance people at work.
Now IhatthoTempenince Reform is be
ing so strongly agitated, it is well to
bring every auxiliary possible to the
aid or the agitators. And though there
be not the shadow ora chance at present
for the success or such a parly, yet Its
advocates may by iho earnestness, wis
dom, and harmony or thcircouhsels ren
der the minority resjeclable.
Two years ago Miss Dolly Runkle, or
Des Moines, Iowa, commenced as a clerk
in the extensive dry goods establish
ment of Knight Brothers, without any
previous experience. A few days since,
Mr. Knight being unwell aud unable
to make purchases that the house re
quired, the duty devolved upon this
young lady, who bought rrom samples
seven thousand dollars worth of goods,
and, to use Mr. IC's own language, "did
it as well as any merchant in town
could have done it." Success honestly
attained iu any occupation is worthy of
commendation, and tho success that in
two years' timecnablesan Inexperienced
girl to perform the duty or-au experi
enced merchant! as'iiotabIe as It is
worthy. ' , -
Mr. J. W. Kelly has severed, hia con
nection with' the Roseburtf.Pa'nrfcaor.
THE RING OFJTRTJE METAL.
To tii k ntirroii or Tne"XEnr Xoktiiwb-t:
, "The war drums are beating," aud
upon overysldo, from inland fi) shore;
ithe cry is heard: 1 ' I :
'Up,olillers,nnd fljht! f f
The despot Intemperance f
Hurl down rrom hia height." 1
It rejoices my heart to hear this sub
ject agitated, for I believe it will lead
men to seek for somoTmeans,'asyef uh!
tried, to accomplish Its downfall.- It Is
time something was being done to drive
this "dark presenco" from our land.; -
While I have great, faith iu Ihe.powQr,
of prayer, and believe that the fervent
prayers of righteous men and women
avail much, r know there are many
things which cannot be accomplished
by prayer alone.
When a ship Is at sea In a gale, tempest-tossed
aud in danger or beingdrlvcn
on the rocks, would a wise commander
sit Idly in his cabin, Ills crew riotous
and drunken, his passengers Indifferent
and his ship, with all sail spread, rush
ing to certain destruction? Or, would
ho summons them to his presence, all
kneel quietly iu prayer, and pray that
the vesssol might be homo safely out,
Into the smooth waters or the ocean V
Would he not rather call every mau to
his post, rurl the sails, and use every
means in his power to out-weather the
gale? ir his ship, were leaking, would
he not man the pumps, endeavor to stop
tho leak and call to his aid passengers
and crew, both men and women, as we
know has been done ?
Wo are passengers iu thcgIorious,shIp
or State. Our ship Is at sea Iu a gale
and iu danger or being wrecked on the
rock or Intemperance. Captain Grant
sits iu the cabin, seemingly Indifferent
to our fale. Some of the passengers and
crew arc drunk and disorderly, others
are engaged iu prayer, and wc are all at
the mercy of the wind and waves.
When such such is the case, shall wc all
kueel quietly In prayer, and without
making any other effort, beseech the
God of storms and sunshine to bring
our vessel into the calm waters or Tem
peranco? No! Prayer alone will not
avail.
Oh, friends or the tcmperanco cause,
iryon would have your prayers prevail,
perfaco them with good deeds, work and
watch as well as pray. If you cull upon
woman to assist you in your efforts to
vauqulsh tho dread monster, and call
upon her you must If you succeed, place
in her hands the only means by which
it can be accomplished. Arm Iter with
tho ballot and she will go forth "con
queringand to conquer." It will prove a
weapon Iu her hands the liquor dealers
and liquor drinkers will be compelled to
respect. Do not call upon her and ex
j pect her to accomplish anything with
' her hands tied.
I The only way to effect any permanent
I good, in this matter, is to bring to bear
the strong arm of the law, to lay the axe
1 at the root or the tree.
Men unaided cannot, will not do this,
i Were women enfranchised, they would
speedily putit out of the power of loved
i ones to degrade themselves below the
J level of the brutes, by drying up this
prolific source of so much misery and
i woe.
Let us friends be united in our effort
to advance the cause of Woman Suf
frage, and thus advance the cause of
temperance, truth aud right; let us
"Go forth In the pathway
Our forcralhrrx trod!
We, too, fljht for rrcclom
OiircnpUiln Is Cod!
KIIijk out our broad banners
Against the blue sky, ' '
Ami shout, like true soldlorf, '.
We conquer or Ule!- i ,.
May the day soon come when intem
perance shall be driven from the laud,
and prayer be turned to praise.
TEMI'KKANi'K.
Portland, March 10, 1874. s ,
A VOICE FROM THE PENITENTIARY.
OnixioN State I'enitkstiaky,
S.M.E.M, March 10, 1S7J. J
To the KiHTonor tiii:Jkw XoirriiWKST:
It Is with unfeigned delicacy thatT
avail myself of your permission to ad
dress a letter to you at your home ih
Portland.
In your lecture here you said that
"you would be happy lo send any of our
number who would write to you such
books or papers as lie might wish lo
read." And, as there nre a number of
us who are anxious lo read Mrs. Victor's
story, "Judith Miles," I hope to be
forgiven If I presumo too far on your
kindness, In asking you to send me the
back numbers of your paper containing
It, The paper is a welcome guest in' our
prison. It Is passed from cell to cell.
and read by many with Infinite pleas
ure anu prollt.
I was pleased to see a letter rrom one
of our number in tho last issue of your
paper. The writer-forgives youwlllin
ly for having published it, and reels
himself highly flattered to know that
you esteemed his thoughts worthy to bo
given to tho world.
I nm delighted to see that the ladies
are making so grand and successful a
raid on whisky, but fear that but little
permanent jrood will be accomulished
till they are allowed a voice in themak-
lug of our laws. Then saloons and all i
uio naunisorvicowill bo forever cIased.
I hope a prohibitory law will soon be in
force In this State: but while so many
4ir..i i . , , I
"Jug-ologists" are chosen for law-mak-
era, o new not expect sucu a law to oe
passcu. iney nro "too sweet" on gin
passeu. mey nro "too sweet" on gin
themselves to pass a law prohibitory to ,
its sale. Do our legislators know the ,
aiuuuuiu; uarm uio use oi. liquor uoess
iu this State? I cannot think thevdo.
or they would certainly put a atop to it. '
on,.. t i . i.. tt ...
-.u k ,e.k -C"i-'vcuieuill,,.uc-,vIljh nrnmnU. M..L-o.l hv
this prison to-day who have been sent
here through the influence of whisky; Woman Sutlrago discourage and uis
aud out or two hundred and sixty that i ,J0nleua,lce 1,isiiinff- 11 ls unworthy or
have neeu sent here since I vAffi&'
1SG., two hundred of them boye, beeu ( a Legislative body, especially, and at a
whisky victims. There are men here hearing where tho audience are. present
now suffering for crimes .J SlLpK'a're
committed while . so .druuMbat
did not know what they,twere. doing.J Mrs. Warner asked the Committee to
When sobcrthey Iiad nojntention of
haralug aiiyoiieaucLvver3not aware of
having ilnma c ml i' . ,
iV-SfcT uuruiuu oi tue wet
hy thejailor, a rewJhdurlPartcr their ar-4
K"w "eycommit the crime, or
gid whisky? Tho same law that licenced
men tonell them whisky condemned
them lo prison for IireTor crimes com
mitted while under Us Influence. I rail
lo see the justico iu such a law; but our
lawJmakere-arrrwIgerthanTr-Perhaps
It is all right.
Whisky and Ignorance are the two
prlneliial.cau3e3;wjiich lead lo the com
missiou.of.crime ,
I am sorry to say that a majority of
us convicts are lamentably Ignoraut.
Aim, until Jlr. Watkluds took chanre
or the institution, there was no means
of hetleriiigour condition. He pur
chased books for those who desired to
study, and loaned many from his pri
vate library to those who wished to read
them. He has granted us a couple or
hours each evening to study, and has,
In fact, done all he could for the amelio
ration of our condition.
What little I know I have taught my
self since coming lo prison. You will
think from my letter that I have made
but poor use of my time. I know that
might 'have learned much more; but
I had but little encouragement to study,
supposTngthat all honorable avenues to
success would bo barred acaltist me
when T should ho released. But I feel
encouraged since you told us In your in
teresting lecture that such would not be
Hie case; and I hope ere I leave the In
stitution to fit myself to fill an honora
ble position in society.
Your lecture is still the theme of con
versation here. It will bo Ion-' ere the
words or encouragement and hope
which you addressed to will be for
gotten. We long lo hear the sound of
your voice again In our chapel, aud
nope wnen you again visit Salem that
you will not forget us.
We wish yni Success in the cood and
just cause for which yon are so bravely
iigiiuiig, nnu nope sometime to aid vour
causa by casting a vote In its favor.
Hoping, dear madam, that you will
pardon-this'lntrusion on your time and
patience, as well as all errors, I sub-
scrilx- myself, Yours "trulv.
Dine Ai.EXANnr.rc.
Yfoman Suffrage in Mas3acliusetts.
The friends of AVoman Suffra'rr. in
Massachusetts have reason to be pleased
and satisfied with the LcisIativo lmnr-
ing before the Joint Special Committee
on woman .uiirage, wiiicli took place
in the Green Room at the State House iu
Boston, on the 13th inst. Although,
from the shortness of the notice, no an
nouncement or the hearing had been
made in the Woman' Journal, a large
and intelligent audience assembled.
The Committee, most or whom were
present, are compased or the following
gentlemen:
SKNWTF. COM3IWTBK.
Henry S. Waihkurn of Suffolk county.
Walter X. .Mason of Middlesex,
Charles P. Stlekney or Bristol.
irot'sn COMMITTKU.
John 31 Fitzgerald or Boston,
William S. Knox of Lawrence,
William K Ulutit of Haverhill,
Warren Tyler or North Brookfield,
F. K. Oray or Springfield,
Henry V. Wilson of Boston,
Addison (iillicrt oroiousceter,
Henry U Pratt or Mansfield.
At lu a. M. tho chairman read the
petition and invited all who wished to
speak for or agaiust It, to do so.
Lucy Stone was the first speaker.
Shu reminded (lie Committee that the
women or Massachusetts had petitioned
anu appeareu at tiie state House, year
alter year, in support of their petitions
ever since ls.3. Men who were now
voters wero infants in theircradles when
this demand for justice was first made.
and yet the wrong Is not righted. Our
claim Is baed upon the foundation
principle of representative government.
We aslt only for a consistent applica
tion or the recognized American theory
oT self-government in the case or one
half of our citizens. You have enfran
chised the colored man. You have en
franchised tho rebel. You admit men
of foreign birth. Only your own moth
ers and wives and sisters aud daughters
arc oxcluded. You rank every woman
the political inferior of the meanest aud
most degraded man. All we ask is that
you will make our case your own, and
"as you would Ihat others should do
unto you, do ye even so unto them."
Mrs. J'Mnah i). Cheney showed the
loss which the State sustained by being
deprived of the active services of women
in Its charitable, educational and re
formatory enterprises, and its other
brandies or congenial public activity.
Sullrage would bo of great practical
value to women by securing better op
portunities of culture and wider fields of
usefulness. The 'recent exclusion of
women from tho Boston School Com
mittee, upon the express ground that
women are not voters, it is a new aud
striking evidence of the evils of disfran
chlRemeut. Mrs. Zina Fay Pierce spoke earnestly
iu opposition to the petitions, upon the
ground that Manhood Suffrage is essen
tially unwomanly. Voting is an exer
cise or power which Implies ability to
sustain it by physical force, if necessary
This ability is wantinjr in the case of
women, therefore suffrage should be
withheld. Inasmuch as women are, iu
Massachusetts, more numerous than
men, we may suppose a case where all
tho women will. outvote all the men
How can this merely numerical major
ity enforce obedience? Women are
physically and Intellectually the Infe
riors of nien. There is no injustice in
taxation without represeutation in the
ens of women. Ifecause their nronertv Is
not earned hut inherited, nnu oecause
I they share in tho protection and benefit
Ul UHa gUVt'i IlillCIll. ? UiU III
point of fact pecuniarily ami personally
.l..i.n1nnt liiinn llirid nrtil 1mAfnh
t..,M;,uient upon men, and therefore
should not be politically independent of
1 lem 0lrs- f ,c-?e auraiticu, However,
that women, having special class Inter-
j wUj Mmuld have somelort of re1resei
tation. 2iie suggested the election by
wwm.ii oi an auvisory uongress author-
women oi an aavisory umgre
j1"1 u' propose laws to the
Cretan ioena'
the Legisla-
omcn aud
ft nninfmant r f
jaws wnicii lo them Injustice.
Tills very frank declaration of wom-
P'8 inferiority elicited expressions of
disapprobation from some of the audi-
by the Chairman. Let every rriendor
examine tho siguaturcs,altachcd to the
nnMflntio fnn Wn mn rt4" G It fFrfl fro ? 1in Ilflll
been informed that the children iu the
common schools of Bostoti;had been in
vited to sign them. I
-Mr. H. B.Blackwell stated that this
charger was'leutlrely unrounded. The
petitions had bc'ene6iily to respon
sible and well-known citizens, with the
request to obtain only signers of
twenty-oue years and upwards. Ior
the credit of tlin l.itlv mid hnrseir. he
asked her to produce her-informant-or
to lay a written statement of facts with
a responsible signature, before the Com
mittee. Nearly 5000 adult citizens or
Massachusetts had petitions this Legis
lature for suffrage within the past four
weeks. Petltlons'wercpourlnglndally.
ft was nrouer to saT. in this connec
tion, tbat'not one dollar had beeii paid
to any one person for the labor or circu
lating these petitions. It had been done
mostly by ladies in everv case from oer-
sonal interest iu the movement. He
was glad that Mrs. Pierce had given so
flno an examnleof woman's fitness for
suffrage. Her moral courage in avow
ing ner convictions was an act of Hero
ism and deserved thethanksof all. But
her argument was really on our side.
YY hat we ask is not Manhood Suffraee
for women, hut citizen suffnnre for all.
Sufi rage is uota masculine fuuctioii. It
Is not muscular but moral. It, is an
authoritive expression of opinion, and
implies intelligence, patriotism and
conscience. Women are not, in any
sense, tne inferiors of men. They are
different but equal. And thisdiflerence
of sex Is exactly what needs to be repre
sented, and can only be represented by
Impartial Sullrage. Women inherit
iroperty just as men inherit property.
Women earn nronertv lust as men do.
Instead or sayfnsr that the nronertv or
women Is not earned, we should say It
is ear taxi two or ttiree times over, since
In ovcry department ot human activity
women are only nald rrom one-third to
one-hairas much as men for equal work.
But to-day men are uot themselves rep
resented iu politics. We live under
caucus government, iu which not five
per cent, ot tue voters take part. The
be3t class or men spend their leisure in
the society or women, and so long as
women are excluded rrom the iirimarv
meetings these mcctiiigs will be largely
controlled by coarse, and iguorant aud
mercenary men. roiitics Has become a
trade, and our nresent svstcm mav be
defined as ignorance manipulated by
cunning. Political Reform must becin
iu the caucus. And it can only bo ef
fected by enlisting the social sympathy
aud co-operation of women, and men
uu iuwociaie wun women, in me pri
mary meetings and at the polls. Speak
ing of the method to be pursued, Mr.
Blackwell hoped that the Committee
would, first of all, ask the Legislature
lo give women Presidential and Muni
cipal Sullrage by amending the election
laws. Thus women could be enabled to
vote in town and ward meetings for all
officers except Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, and mcmbera of the Legisla
ture. The State Constitution only
limits suffrage to male citizens In these
last named cases. For himself he was
opposed to going before the people with
a proposal lo amend the Constitution
until sutlrairo had been extended to
women first under the Constitution as
it is. If the presence of women In town
and ward meetings proved beneficial
and acceptable, it would soon bo fol
lowed by a Constitutional Amendment,
ir It proved injurious, it would be re
pealed by a subsequent Legislature
elected by men alone.
Mr. Fitzgerald, Chairman ortho House
Committee, asked whether the Consti
tutional right or tho Legislature to en
act such a law had been considered?
Mr. Blackwell said that it had been
considered, and that able lawyers had
expressed an affirmative opinion. The
old Province Charter gave suffrage to
"Freeholders and other inhabitants
present at Town Meetings." The State
Constitution restricted it only in the
election of the Executive Legislature.
Mrs. Howe asked for suffrage in the
name of Progress and of Peace. She
earnestly disclaimed any desire to par
ticipate in such a separate Congress of
women as was projiosed by Mrs. Pierce.
Siie was unwilling to recognize any
limitation of class interest. The inter
ests of men were as dear to her as those
or women and children. The blood or
men flowed jn her veins. Their coun
try was her country; their weffare her
weffare. She spoke with a thriliingclo
queucc that carried conviction to the
minds, and enlisted the feelings of all
present.
Mr. Samuel E. Sewall rose lo speak
upon the legal question, but yielded the
floor to Miss Mary F. Eastman.
Miss Eastman stated the inequality of
wages, education and opportunity to
which fro in en are subjected in cousc-
aucnee of their disfranchisement, and
rew a graphic contrast between the
provisions of Massachusetts Colleges for
the education of young men and those
of the Normal Schools designed to train
the young women who constitute se ven
cightsorall our teachers. She illustrated
her theme with telling anecdotes and,
illustrations which gave great satiiac
tinn to the audience.
The committee then announced an
adjournment or the hearing to the fol
lowing Wednesday at Representatives
Hall. We will give an account or it
next week. It is greatly to be regretted
that the reports in our daily papers are
so meagre and inadequate as to convey
no fair idea or the real interests ot the
occasion. ll'omnn'i Journal.
Tun Question of Woman's Ricjuts.
The dispatches have told us within a
few days how the House of Representa
tives in the Legislature of two great
States Michigan and Iowa have
formed an article to be submitted to the
people regulating tho elective franchise
and havo voted by a decided majority to
strike out the word "male" in salt) arti
cle, which would, we have reason to In
fer, give suffrage to male and female
alike. It was quite a coincidence that
these great States should perform this
act almost simultaneously, aud that the
vote given iu eacli for striking out the
word male was as Identical as possible.
There being a difference of only one
voto iu the two legislatures, and that
one voto being Indivisible, tne result
could not be identical.
Tho Supreme Court Massachusetts,
answering an inquiry submitted by the
Legislature of that State, has replied
that women are eligible to the ofllee of
scnool Commissioner, xnis opens a
field of practical usefulness to our better
halves that we should liko to see also
extended to Oregon, for no where else
in relation to public affairs, uuless In
connection with State and county char
ities, can woman act to belter advan
tage. We are assured that Woman Suffrage
in Wyoming Territory was not. a failure
and that it works well euough In Utah.
Certainly the world has ceased to make
light of the subject, and even ridicule
aimed at the leaders of the cause is not
directed at the cause Itself. Wo pub
lished lately the principles announced
bv the National Grange, and the friends
of Womau's Rights have reason to take
courage from the indications of progress
making in mat direction. Slateiman.
A mart Danburv woman does tlm
work for a family of nine, milks two
cows, and -keep's track-of thirteen cofii4
tinuea stone. ...."t-in r .uw ie
They found her in the Interior De
partment in the office of the Fifth Aud
itor., She has-been there all the1 time".
While the American people were wait
ing for her to be produced; while Con
gress wrung Its hand3 and wailed that
she could not be discovered, aud while a
fierce and eager Committee went pranc
ing through all the departments with
telescope and microscope, shot-guns and
fishing tackle, hunting for her as the
Senate hunts for evidence when there's
anybody to be vindicated there she sat
in the Interior Department In the office
of Firth Auditor Ela, on a high stool at
a dcsk,calmly.and deliberately sucking
the lffe-blood of the Republic if we
may be allowed the expression and
daily running the nation deeper and
deeper iu debt. She Is a female copyist.
As sucli sho has been drawing pay. She
Is the only person in the Civil Service
ot this great and glorious Republic who
can be dispensed with. Think or it a
moment or, iTyoii have plenty or time,
fifteen or twenty moments In all the
departments at Washington only one
supernumerary, and she a female copy
ist! They searched with lighted candles
through all of them; they summoned
secretaries and chief clerks and heads of
bureaus; they brought In some of the
ablest officers of the Government from
the billiard saloon In' the neighborhood
ol the Departments, aud they questioned
them rigorously aud closely as to the
possibility ot retrenchment by reduction
or force. The belier that somebody was
ilmurTno' ti'linoii corvlpAQ rrtllh! Just
as welf be dispensed with, amounted
in tue minus ot tins t ommiiiee anu ot
Congress to a conviction. Else why
was there a deficiency aud an increase
orthcNatlbtiarDeblV
Tiie pursuit or this person was fierce
and eager. It was suspected at one
time that it might be a man. But iu
none or the departments could there be
found a man who did not support the
Administration and go home regularly
on a rurlough lo vote. The men who
did the work of the departments could
not be spared, and the men who sat up
on HigU stoots anci useu quia tootu-
picks, and discussed National politics
with each other iu the various depart
ments, were indispen.ablo. Without
them the machinery of Government
would hardly run. They oil it. They
regrcsent Congressional districts In
all parts of the Union, aud their influ
ence is felt at every election. Without
them a great many members or congress
would be obliged to remain at home,
and the country would be at the mercy
of almost anybody the people might
take a notion to elect. The conse
quences of dismissing such men would
be immeasurable. It is doubtful if the
country would survive it. And yet the
Tact remaiucd that somebody was draw-.
Ing pay whose services might be dis
penscd with, and the Committee pro
pose! to hunt him or her down. Tho
hour or their triumph came. They had
scoured the departments in vain for
days, but now, in the Interior Depart
ment, in the otllce ot Firth Auditor Ela,
they scent their quarry. Fifth Auditor
Ela had one female copyist whom ho
could get along without. He confessed
It. Very likely lie pointed her out.
And the search ended.
As Mr. Matt. Carpenter aroused the
enthusiasm or the Sonate by his discov
ery of tho great stationery robbery by
the representatives of the press,' so tho
Committee and the country havo been
thrilled by this successful pursuit of the
female copyist. When Mr. Carpenter
threw himself back in his seat, shook
the wild tangles of his frosty hair, and
electrified the Senate witli the announce
ment that he had found where $35 -1C of
the people's money had gone, it was felt
that it was a step in the right direction,
and that if things kept on at that rate it
would very shortly happen that all tho
leaks would be stopped, and Mr. Rich
ardson would resume the payment of
the National Debt. But the work did
not stop there. The Committee on Ap1
propriatious or the House, emulous or
Carpenter's success, redoubled their dil
igence in pursuit or the man or woman
who could be dismissed rrom the public
service without imperiling the Govern
ment. Ami so the work or retrench-j
meut goes bravely on. The female
copyist has no vote. Doubtless she did
nothing hut sit at a desk and write all
day, taking no interest in politics and
only earning a living for herself. The
propriety or discharging her no able
bodied man who sits on a high stool and
picks his teeth with a quill and talks'
politics in any of the departments will
for one moment question.
And now we suggest that this thing
has been carried far enoujrh. This pur
suit of economy cannot be other than
very wearing to the health ot Conjrress.,
They discovered where $3- 40 went and
Have stopped the leak. And they havo
found where the force in the depart
ments can bo reduced by the discharge
of one female copyist. The people are.
not unreasonable in their demands.
This will answer for the present. Now
let Congress order some sloops oE'war'
and some public buildings, and provide'
for some railroads to the Pacific, and ad
journ. .A. j . Jftuune.
A Grand Opportunity.
There are times in the history ot tho
world when God seems to come down
on earth, aud take tho management-ot
human affairs in his own hands. Tho
flaming comet, the mighty earthquake,,
the fearful pestilence, do not more sig
nally display His presence aud power
hv the natural world, than do revivals,
remarkable answers to prayers, and
great revolutionary movements mani
fest his presence aud power in the moral
world. '
Hardly havo the efforts of scientists!
and infidels to demonstrate the futility
of prayer, aud even overturn the throno
of Deity, ceased, ere we see a demon
stration liv menus or the simplist In-1
slmmentalities, carrying conviction to.
tne minils of Human oeiugs everj wuure
r?.i r Hint n over. Ho Is
still the Being who hears prayer. So,
too, the discussion or woman's sphere"
of duty, her ability to do good, her.
right to pre&ch the gospel, etc., is still
sounding through the land, when, lo
and behold, the providence of God
nlaces woman In the forefront of the'
grandest battle ever fought on this con--,
tinent. She goes forth to the engage
ment with no armor but that which
faith supplies. Recognizing a ruling"
God above, and believing In the efficacy
or prayer, sho advances boldly tontha
very den of wild beasts aud confronts!
the enemies of God an man in their"
own dominions. Of woman it may''
now be said, as never before: Sho-'
through faith "subdued kingdoms,
wrought righteousness, obtained prom
ices, stopped the mouths of lions,
quenched the violence of fire, escaped
the edge of tho sword, out of weakness'
was made strong, waxed valiant in fight,
turned to flight the armies of tho
aliens."
A golden opportunity is now offered
to tho Christian women of America,
wilhGodon their side, to achieve,,no
bler victories than were ever won pn,
fields of carnage. In every villageId;
every cily.she should prayerfully, truing
folly, eulist in this great movement'
that is.sweeplng over thq natioui.and
take a grand part in ridding the world
oi tue direst curse on earth iutemper
ance:' Aavocatei'-
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