THUBSDAY...-SEPTEMBER 6, IS73.
TO OUEATEONS.
Volume VII. of the New Northwest
will close with tbe next issue. Now is
an important aDi appropriate time to
talk a little with our patrons on plain
business topics. We have struggled
through storm and sunshine, heat and
cold, and health and sickness, to hold
aloft the baouer of equal rights through
a period of. seven and a half years.
Ottee only, and that was nearly six
years ago, .when our entire household
was overshadowed by tbe darkened
wings of Azrael, have our halyards been
loosed and the flag compelled to fall for
a season from its post of honor and duty.
From the day of resumption until now,
tbe People's Paper has never failed to
visit you regularly. Many of you have
promptly paid your dues when called
upon, but many hundreds are in arrears
for subscriptions, and we must ha&e the
money. If you oould know of the cease
less eltorls necessary to not only supply
the paper with the needed mental stlm
blus efforts that cause you to hail its
coming from week to week as a familiar
and valued friend but to do tbe added
, work that must be done to meet tbe
weekly bills, surely you would not be so
lax iu your duty as many of you are.
Then there are many regular sub
scribers who 'might aid us In various
ways, who never seem to even think of
it. It is a very easy thing for every one
of you to procure at least one new sub
scriber. Who will be tbe first to add
his or her name to our roll of honor for
Volume VIII. by sending Ills own sub
scription in advance, accompanied by
another responsible name? Friends,
this is a little thing for you to do for
human rights, and yet the good that
will accrue from it you cannot estimate.
Wherever' the New Northwest is
known and read, the woman movement
Is appreciated. Where It is not known
and read, the Ignorant prejudice of the
dark ages yet lingers. We have done
quadruple work to carry your banner for
so mauy years that we are no longer
able to struggle so hard as formerly. In
fact, we were literally worn out iu tbe
unpaid servitude common to subjugated
womanhood before this public work be
gan, and we are now committing slow
suicide in your service. Help us by
your subscriptions and dues and all will
be well. Who, we repeat, will be tbe
first to act? One example will stimu
late another. Let us have a goodly list
to report next week, good friends. We
need your aid, or we should not ask It.
We need nine hundred dollars next
week. Surely one hundred and fifty
patrons can respond for tbe new volume,
each with their own subscription and
that of one new subscriber. Then we
can pay up old scores and provide a por
tion of the stock for the coming year.
Shall this appeal be made in vain ?
"HEBL0T."
The serial story, " Her Lot," or "How
She Was Protected," will be completed
In two more chapters. The unlooked
for success of this story, far which the
compiler claims only the merit of group
ing and arranging authentic incidents
in a readable form, has encouraged tbe
writer to undertake its successor, enti
tled " Fact, Fate and Fancy," or "More
Ways to Live Than One." The publi
cation of this serial will begin with tbe
first issue of Volume VIII., and will
continue regularly for six months, or
until completed, and will be, like its
predecessor, a compilation of interesting
facts, grouped according to tiie writer's
fancy, ami in such a way as to enebaiu
tbe sympathy aud attention of tbe read
er to tbe end. There is no better, time
than the present for forming clubs, as
this will be not only tbe beginning of
tbe serial but of tbe volume. Any per
son sending us five subscribers, with
fifteen dollars, will be entitled to one
year's subscription free. Or should our
readers club together and forward tbe
cash for six yearly subscriptions, they
may secure the paper for $2 50 per year.
These club rates will continue but a short
time, as our only object in offering tbem
is to secure subscribers at the beginning
of tbe volume.
A little eflert on the part of every reader
will speedily double the list.
THE TALKING MAOHINE.
The phonograph, which has been on
exhibition at Masonic Hall during tbe
past week, has attraoted large crowds of
visitors. The machine is about tbe size
of a family sausage-grinder and stutter,
and looks a good deal like one. Around
its cylinder a piece of tin foil is
smoothly wound, to which an ordinary
needle, attached to a diaphragm like a
tninature drum-head, is cautiously ap
plied, tbe crank turns aud you articulate
words, coughs, laughs, or sentences in
the mnuth-pleee. Then you reverse the
engine's crank and bring the cylinder
back to the point of starting, apply a
raw-hide trumpet to tbe orifice through
which you articulated, turn the crank
again, and a repetition, much faiuter
than your voice, but otherwise exactly
like it, returns to you the words you ut
tered, reminding you of the ghost of
tangible shadows. Some day the pho
nograph will be useful in a thousand
ways. Now It is only a wonderful toy,
which everybody should see in Its
infancy.
The Wett Shore has completed IU
third year. With the new volume the
publishers will commence tbe issue of a
tbirty-two-page paper In colored cover,
stitched and trimmed. We are glad to
note this evidence of prosperity.
Mr. Charles E. Stowe, son of Professor
and Mrs. Harriet Beecber Stowe, has
recently been licensed at Hartford,
Conn., to preach. He Is a graduate of
Harvard College, and has studied two
years abroad at Bonn. J
UNJUST, BUT TSUB.
No ono can read tha immnni mnitol
by the press, or listen to the comments
of persons, who are firm believers in old
idees of woman's sphere irrespective of
circumstances, without becoming con
vinced that a line of conduct iu busiuess
matters Is insisted upon for women
whieh is entirely overlooked in the case
of men. We have, as iswell known, al
ways advocated tbe doctrine that women
should be fitted by a careful course of
training for auy business in whieh they
expect to eugage for a livelihood, ami
that in busiuess of all kind woman
should be paid, not in consideration of
6ex, but aocordiug to tbe work she ac
complishes and the manner in whieh It
is done. Justice and not favor is tbe
great demand of the hour. Some women,
it is true, seek employment, expect con
sideration to be shown for inetlleiency,
and blunders to be overlooked because
they are women, but this is the fault of
education and depends not at all upon
tbe aeoideut of sex. They have been
throughout all tbe ages so accustomed
to be considered secondary that they do
not readily take first plaeesand fill them
with an assurauce that places them
high up in tbe scale of individual work'
ers who are In every sense "worthy of
their hire." Tbe world probably hears
In greater or less degree of tbe 111 success
of every woman who attempts a line of
busiuess and fails, aud iu no case is the
matters placed upon a basis of justiee and
eouilv. but the fact that a woman has
failed to fulfill attempted duties is her
alded far ami wide. Men fail in busi
ness attempts, aud in thousands of In
stances fail to support their families
(which is, next to voting, recognised as
man's peculiar province) iu comfort, yet
no one ever heard the failures attrib
uted to the physiological fact that they
were men. In every eommunlty men
are found who are not employed because
of their illness to follow the business
they eugage iu, but because they need
to be supported, and more, that they
have involved the welfare of families iu
their Incompetency. It is no uncommon
thing to hear of places being made for
men because they need them, and this
extends throughout all grades of work
or service, from presidential patronage
to the employment of street cleaners,
The cases when women are given em
ployment regardless of their qualifica
tions are inelguillcaut in comparison to
like cases with men, yet we bear about
tbe one out of one hundred women who
fails, with the additional announcement
that she failed because she was a woman,
while of the fifty out of one hundred
men whose lives are failures in every
sense, social and financial, we hear not a
word of reproach because of sex. That
this is as true as it is unjust no one who
will consider the matter will deny
WOEE TOE THELEGISLATUBE.
The State legislature will convene in
regular biennial session on Monday of
next week. As usual, the all-absorbing
topic for a time will be the election of a
United States Senator. That this duty
should have been delegated to State
legislature at all is one of the gravest
aud most manifest blunders of the Fed
eral Constitution. If one-tenth of the
reports relative to tbe bribery and cor
ruption that obtains in State leglshv
tures upou occasions of Senatorial
elections are true, evidence sufficient
and black enough would be admitted to
render constitutional amendment in
tbls regard imperative. The usual po
litical trickery and tbe customary waste
of the people's time and money upon
this job for in no sense is such election
fit to be called by any other name will,
of course, take place. After that is
over, if the average legislator does not
lose all interest in the business of tbe
session, we may hope for matters of
real interest to claim the attention of
the law-makers. The question that Mr,
Ferguson, of Yamhill, at the last session
was in favor of considering so that it
"might be got out of the way" the
great question of Womau Suffrage will
be brought before that body, aud tbe
plea presented for it will be backed by a
legion of names. To get this question
permanently out of the way put a qui
etua upon it so that it may trouble their
dreams no more legislators must
understand that justiee will have to bo
done. Tbe suffragists of the Slate
reasonably expect this at the hands of
the corainc legislature, and are de
termined to work for it faithfully.
A TBAMP LAW.
The legislature of New Hampshire
has just passed a most stringent law,
looking to the abatement of the tramp
nuisance. This law declares that any
person going from place to place, beg
ging or subsisting upon charity, shall
be punished by imprisonment in the
State prison for a period uot exceeding
fifteen months. Those exempt are
women, minors under 17 years of age.
and blind persons. The first probably
forming an exception because there are
no women tramps, and it is just as well
to show magnaminity when It is cheap.
Acts usually committed by tramps, such
as lighting fires on the highway, enter
ing dwellings, carrying dangerous weap
ons or making threats of violence to
persons or property, are specified, anda
term of two years In the State prison
defined as the penalty for commission
of any of them. Copies of the law are
ordered printed and sent to the several
town and city clerks, with directions to
post in at least six conspicuous places,
three of which shall be on the public
highway. It now remains to be seen
whether this nuisance can be legislated
out of existence, or whether, like most
lortuiuable evils, it will exist and multi
ply In calm defiance of statutory enact
ments.
xue miru number of Mr. Pearson's
paper. The Jlemureet of Oregon and
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If amouut of wwer n Us peculiar
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uciu, uuu snows care In tbe compllatl
and arrangement of the same.
THB JUTUBEMAJORITY.
a trll.knwn scientist advances the
opinion, which hedenotnlnnteaaprincl-
pie, that "trails produeed by eireumstan-
ces are inherited by thatsex upon which
tbe circumstances acted." If this prin
ciple Is accepted, It pours a flood of light
upon the vexed question of woman's
physical Inferiority. Let us consider
tbe ages of slavery to dress for woman's
dress in its simplest form is a slavery
that would soon prostrate mau's physi
cal strength the slavery to enstom, the
slavery to wearing, and often unappre
ciated home duller, and, remembering
that the traits thereby Induced have
been handed down always to tbe daugh
ters, we will cease to marvel at woman's
physical weakness. Let us consider fur
ther the centuries of mental starvation
aud repression which have beeu the her
itage of women, and, again remember
ing our scientist's principle, that daugh
ters alone have come Into the maternal
inheritance, so far from wondering that
more women have not distinguished
themselves iu the world of letters, we
will be nstoulshed that any have beeu
known in tbe realms of thought. A few
generations of mothers whose woman
hood has beeu well developed, instead
of beiug stunted aud narrowed by re
pression, ami the daughters will come
into possession of tbe birthright of men
tal ami physical strength of which they
have been so long defrauded. The puny,
puling women who have barely sufll
elent strength to declare without n mo
ment's previous thought that they
have all tbe rights they want" will
then be in such pitiful minority that
men cannot boast of their numbers to
tbe brave souls who besiege them in
legislative halls, beseeching for equal
rights. No longer then will be heard
the tauut from men iu high places, "a
majority of women do not desire equal
rights before the law
SOWING POE OTHEBS TO EEAP,
"Have you Methodist schools in your
district?"
"Yes, sir; some."
"Are they doing anything for Metho
dism ? "
'We are trying to make our schools
useful iu training our children up relig
iously."
"There Is no use in glviug our money
for Methodist Institutions of learning
unless those schools are of a benefit to
i."
Is there, or Is there not, an exhibition
of tbe " primal sin of selfishness " in the
foregoing short colloquy ? It appears iu
the published proceedings of the Metho
dist conference as between a presiding
elder and tbe bishop. It is, in our estima
tion, an extremely selfish ami egotisti
cal idea that there Is no use in giving
money to sustain tbe schools of the
church unless Methoditm Is thereby
benefited. If humanity is benefited,
something Is surely gained; if ignorance
is forced to yield to knowledge, it Is
surely a gain; if lessons of industry and
principles of morality are Inculcated,
surely tbe gaiu is immense even if not
one pupil iu a hundred, after the com
pletion of his education ever hears
a sermon fall from Metbodistie lips, or
drops a penny iu tbe bat at church col
lections. "Sowing for others to reap" is
therommou lot of humanitarians, and
it is vastly better tlmu abandoning a
field to thistles and brambles unless we
alone can reap a useful harvest. If hu
manitarians are coutent with such lot,
surely those who make Christianity
speciality should be content, even if
their creed is not able to garner all that
their Christian zeal and labor has sowed.
KEEPING SILENOE.
Mother II III, president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Unlou, Newark,
New Jersey, was present with her son,
Rev. J. li. Hill, at tbe Methodist con
ference, and on the occasion of tbe tern
perauce anniversary spoke with great
clearness, readiness and force, giving
interesting details of tbeorigin, progress,
methods of work, and success of the or
ganization she represents. She closed her
remarks by a solemn appeal to the
women of Salem to do something at
onee in behalf of the temperance cause,
The ministerial lights of the great M
II church, while opposing tbe ordina
tion of Mrs. Van Cott, for reasous grouud
ed upon Paul's gospel to the ancient
Corinthians, listen wlthedification while
tho very same gospel Is put to equal
stress or violation by a woman "speak
ing Jn church" In advocacy of lemper-
auce. "Imi your women Keep silence,'
brethren, or rise above dogmatic asser
tions of a buried era, and give them
equal liberty with yourselves to "pro
claim the gospel to every creature'
under sanction and by appointment of
the rules of the church of their choice,
0. S. WS. A.
A called meeting of the Oregon State
Woman Suffrage Association will con
vene on Wednesday, September 25th
at tbe Opera House in Salem, for the
purpose of agitating woman's claims for
political enfranchisement. A lull at
tendance at this meeting is especially
desirable. Tbe best speakers and e9say
ists in the State are Invited to be pres
ent aud participate In the deliberations
of the Association. The convention
will occupy three days arid evenings,
and no pains will be spared to make tbe
meetings entertaining, Instructive, pop
ular and profitable. The usual courte
sies of transportation lines will be
granted all delegates, and the good
ladles of Salem will entertain them at
their homes.
Rally, friends of human rights, and
let us prove to the waitiug legislature
that we arc not only thoroughly in
earnest, but amply able to give Incon
trovertible proof of the Justiee aud ex
pediency of our very reasonable de
mands.
Abigail Scott Duxiway,
President.
Subscribe for the New Northwest.
EDITORIAL 00ERESP0NDENOE.
Dkak Hbadehs of the Tk' N'oktkwkut:
The State Teaobers' Iustilute.of which
we last week made mention, dragged Us
tedious lengths along till Friday even
lug, when to avoid itsdpatb byaspbyxia,
the more daring members knocked Hon
the head and ended Us career. As com
pared to former years, this meeting of
the Institute was not a success. There
were presenta few self-opinionated little
masculines, about five feet high, bare
footed in some instances on the top of
the head, and exceedingly "uunierous"
on all occasions, who disgusted the abler
workers and caused them to retreat to
the background. Superintendent Row
land, who 1ms hitherto beeu the life of
these meetings, studiously avoided mak
ing himself conspicuous in such Lilli
putian company. ProLPowoll, his sue
cessor-elect, kept silence evidently for a
like reasou. Several ladies read care
fully prepared essays, which were well
received, but the oflleious air of the ef
fete masculines already alluded to had
the same effect upon them as upon the
above-named gentlemen. There was
music, pleutyof It, and any amount of
"country sohool exhibition" nonsense,
but tbo scientific dicueilou of former
years was almost wholly wanting, so far
as we could judge. Professor Gregg read
nn able essay on "School Laws" on Fri
day, and in the evening Mrs. Curl fa
vored the Institute witli a valuable
paper. For the rest, so far as we saw, a
wludy admirer of Mark Twain had the
floor. An able scientific paper by Major
Hell, of Kugene, was crowded oil' to
make room for this pedagogue to exhibit
his imitative prolicieucy in amusing a
motley crowd. Nellie Meaeham recited
a fine poem in her usual apt and excel
lent manner, aud then "more music"
capped tho climax, leaving the more
thoughtful and scientific of the leauhers
present in doubt as to whether, after all,
the thing had paid. This mention must
suffice for this time. Anil if any feel
aggrieved we cau only say that, as a
faithful chronicler of what we saw and
heard, we cannot do otherwise than eall
the Institute for this year a failure, as
lid everybody else, save the elleles
mentioned aud hinted at, who went
away in sublime unconsciousness that
they wereslmply laughing stocks for the
men aud women of brains and power,
whom they silenced for the nonce by su
perior audacity.
The Institute over, we have time to
look about us. First we note that the
Chemeketa Hotel, whieh Is thronged
with guests, has undergone many im
provements not the least noticeable beinj
tbe fine array of floral beauty through
the house, which stamps Mrs. Matthews
as an artistin tbislluenf business as well
as in the role of landlady. The smiling j
face of Mr. Matthews also bodes a prof-
itable harvest in the coming autumn, j
aud this every one that knows him will j
assert that hedeserves. We also visit witli
Mrs. Mallory, Mrs. Strong, Mrs. Bridges,
Mrs. Minto aud others, all noble work
ers in the cause of freedom, with whom
we lay plans for the forthcoming con
vention; aud on Saturday we mount the
stage for Dallas, and seated on the box
beside Mr. George Fosi, the obliging
proprietor, travel through a portion of
country that u quarter of a century ago
was as familiar to us as. the home of our
early childhood.
Eola, five miles from Salem, presents
much the same appearance as Iu the days
of old laugsyne, when we, as the vil
lage scboolma'am, taught young ideas
bow to shoot through heads that now
are crowned with legislative responsi
bility, while we are left to bog of them
the right to represent ourself; a right
which they, as yet, withhold, though
how it came iu their possession they
know not, nor do we.
We had been billed for a lecture in
Dallas, but when we reached the future
terminus of the new railroad, the pleas
aut little burg had locked itself out of
its court-house, and, through its sheriff,
carried off Its keys, so there was no al
ternative save to wait for another occa
sion, and the people and preaoher went
away disappointed. But we made the
best of tbe delay by writing up the re
maining chapters of " Her Lot," receiv
ing calls from suffragists, and employ
ing intervals iu canvassiugfor subscrip
tions to tbo paper and signatures to the
petition to the legislature. At the
pleasant private boarding-house of Mrs.
Stiles we found agreeable entertain
ment, and cheerfully reeommeud her
home to the traveling public.
Conspicuous among the gentlemen of
brains who assisted in making our visit
at Dallas a success was'J. M. Daly, Esq.,
whose card can be found In another col
umn. Those in need of the services of
an attorney cau never do better than
patronize the lawyers who advertise In
the New Northwest. We also bear
cheerful witness to the courtesy of Mr.
J. L. Collins aud family, thegentlemau
ly sheriff of Polkcouuty, and others, and
shall be delighted to visit the place
again at some lime in the near future.
An attempted suicide about the hour
of assembling for the lecture somewhat
disconcerted both audience and speaker,
but a grand good time was had, and
many signatures were added to the peti
tion to the legislature for women's
rights to equality before the law. But
there are men in Dallas who are as bad
ly iu tbe dark over the alms aud objects
of this woman's mission that is moving
the world, as though they were nothing
but eunuchs, whose employment con
sists in guarding women lest they run
away from meu's rights harems In the
suburbs of Stamboul. One of these
would-be autocrats (a druggUt) excused
himself from subscribing for tbe New
Norhwest or signing tbe petition, by
saylug that he was only a clerk, the
proprietor was nway, and that his own
nam was "Code." three dlstlnot well
there's no mau of the name of Cogle
in tbe place. Dr. Connoway was not ab
sent aud kept no clerk. Yet women
who rear men aud pay taxes to support
a government that desires their repre
sentation must to look to such as be to
grant or withhold their personal inalien
able rights. Afterward this fellow ex
plained to others that the reason lie told
us these Ilea was because be lived hap
pily with bis woman, and didn't want
us to make any trouble In his family !
No better proof than this, ids own ad
mission, is needed to write him down a
silly tyrant, who depends upon the law
to do for him that which he Is unable to
do for himself namely, hold his domes
tie relations intaet through his own
worthiness.
Dallas is on the. 7m' vine for a new aud
needed railroad. Property is held at a
high figure, aud ever.vbmly is hoping
for better times.
On Wednesday morning we departed,
bright and early, for Salem and home,
accompanied by the wife ami nieces of
Mr. Foss, tbe obliging proprietor of the
stage, ourroud running through almost
unbroken wheat fields for many miles,
Col. Xesmlth came out to me stage as
we passed for his daily allowance of fresh
meat from town, and his wife sat upon
the porch and surveyed the scenes of
peace and plenty that the two thousand
acre farm offered with an air of pleasant
contentment. But again we must bring
our joltings to u close, lest our readers
grow too weary to follow us further.
A. J. D
September 3, 1ST8.
EEOENTEVENTS.
Tiie public debt statement for August
shows a decrease of $5,476,601.
The barley crop of the Northwestern
States has been seriously Injured by
rains.
The yellow fever seourge continues in
many Southern cities with unabated
violence.
Forest fires, extending In a continuous
line for ISO miles along the north shore
of Lake Superior, are noted.
Total subscriptions to yellow-fever
fund iu St. Louis up to the 31st, were
about twenty thousand dollars.
The iron masters of West Scotland
have agreed to notify their employes o
a reduction of ten iter cent, in their
wages.
About sixty clerks, mostly women
were discharged from the office of th
commissioner of the land-office 011 Sat
urday. Lack of funds is the cause.
The plague shows no signs of abate
meut in Memphis. Physicians, drug
cists, nurses aud undertakers are be
coming exhausted by constant work
Tiie United Stales treasurer has
within the last ten days transferred by
telegraph over otie'-half of a million
gold from San Krnueisco to New York,
The amount of standard silver dollars
coined is $22,596,500; ttraouut outstand
lug, $2,850,927, leaving on bund $10,37,
SIS. The demand for them iu In
creasing.
Kearney add refuted an audience
several thousand people at Pblladelphi
an Friday evening. At his request
collection was taken to defray his ex
tenses to Baltimore, whither be weu
on Saturday.
Another nltro-glyeerine explosion, tbe
second within eight days, occurred at
Negance, Michigan, nn the 29th, by
which three meu were instantly blown
to pieces, and a fourth was landed on a
shelving-rock uninjured. Cause of ex
plosion uuexpiaiued.
r0BEIGNNEWS.
The general peace of Europe Is deemed
perfectly secure.
Hungary has lieen visited by a Hood
that destroyed thousands of houses and
many lives.
It is believed that a large portiou of
the Mussulman population of Belgrade
will emigrate.
The divisions of the Austrian army,
mobilized by order of the last cabinet
council, reached their destination early
this week.
Tiie Auetrla-lioeniuu war is prose
cuted with vigor. Insurgents are in
creasing, and Austrian reinforcements
constantly arriving.
Persons liable to military duty only
leave Austria with permission of the
minister of war. The government urse
nal manufactures weekly six hundred
rifles.
All property of the late Queen Chris
tiana, valued at eight million francs, is
left to her children by the Duke of Iil
anaares, having In her lifetime given
their portion to Queen Isabella and tbe
Duchess of Montpeusier.
The Sultan sent a dispatch on August
27th, requesting the Czar to give orders
to check outrages on Mussulmen In
Itoumella. Tbe Czar replied, ex
pressing sorrow at the anarchy pre
vailing, but declaring it his belief that
the reports: were exaggerated, and that
Russian generals had strict orders to
prevent and punish such acts.
Mrs. M. A. Warner, who lias recently
removed from this Slate to Washington
Territory, writes from Spokane Falls,
her present locution, eulogizing thecli
mate, healtlifuluess and fertility of that
regiou. She mentious, among other
faets, that hotel accommodations at tbe
place named are notonly very scarce, but
almost entirely unknown, and says tbat
any oue desiring n location for a paylug
busiuess in that line cau do no better
than locate there. Here Is a chance for
some enterprising woman who has a
mission to "keep boarders," or is com
pelled by circumstances to adopt that
business to earn notonly a living, butiu
time a competency.
The Chicago Inlet -Ocean asked some
lime ago, "Whoever saw a woman
tramp?" and tbe papers have been re
peating tbe inquiry alt over the coun
try, and so far not one has been discov
ered, which has led some of the para
graph philosophers to conclude that
women are .better able to take care of
themselves during hard times than the
men.
THE 00IN DOLLAR AND THE
GREENBACK.
To th Editor OP THB N'bw NOBTilwswr :
A "bard-money" friend of miue lias
Just banded me tbe following "knock-
owu"argumentou the money question,
which appeared in the Oregoman or
the 24th lust. :
The following Us an extract from a recent
orach in Pennsylvania by Oalosha A. Grow.
Whatcoald drive tbe truth borne quicker to
the average ciUsen than Ibis comparison of
tbe coin dollar and the greenback T "Tbe
paper read on iu face, I promise to pay real
value. The coin declares on its lace, I am real
value. Tbe coin dollar need ao indorter.
Tbe paper one Is worthless without It. Tbe
coin dollar runs throush the commercial
world by its own Inherent strength, and bears
upon its face its real value. The paper dollar
has not strength to stand alone, and bears
upon Its lace only a promise, wblch. If its fnl
lllintent is to be IndeOnitely postponed. Is as
worthless as tbe rags of wbicb it is made."
With your permission I will offer a
few comments upou the foregoing
through the New Northwest, for the
consideration of its numerous readers
who may possibly read the Oregonian
also. There is an old saying that "oue
story is good uutil another is told," aud
so It Is with tbe money question. The
reader should have both sides before be
or she is prepared todetermine which Is
correct. Mr. Grow says : "Tbe paper
(meaning a paper dollar) reads on its
face, I promise to pay real value." I
deny that a thing can be that which it
promises to pay, and assert that a prom
ise to pay is uot money; therefore, the
paper dollar alluded toby Mr. Grow is
not money, but a "promise to pay," the
same as a note 01 nauu. .Mr. u row-
says : "Thecoin (meaning a coin dollar)
declares on its face, I am real value." I
deny that any piece of paper, leather,
tin or iron, declares on Us face, "I am
real value," in the same sense that
coin dollar does, and that the "real
value" of either is determiued by the
law of supply and demand, and their
degree of usefulness to mankind. I as
sert that the world could better do with
out gold or silver coin In it than it
could without paper. Mr. Grow says
"The coin dollar needs no indorser; the
paper one is worthless without it." I
hold that both the coin dollar and the
genuine paper dollar (which is a full le
gal tender for all debts aud dues) both
have an Indorser, and that they both
have the same indorser, and that this is
the Congress of the United Stales. This
Indorser specifies the weight aud fine
ness of the coin dollar, and declares that
it shall be a full legal tender for all
debts aud due; but for this edict of the
government, tbe gold coin dollar would
only be worth its bullion value by
weight, aud would not be a legal tender
for a debt. Tiie Congress of tbe United
States says that a genuine greenback
ixiper dollar shall contain certain de
vices, and be printed in certain colors,
and shall be a all legal lender for all
debts ami dues; but for this edict of tbe
government, tbegreenbuck dollar would
be powerless to pay one dollar of debt,
and would only be worth its weight as
lper in the market. Now let Mr.
Grow coin a gold dollar couluiniug
twenty-five or fifty grains of gold, or
stamp a greenback dollar, ami pass off
either to one of bis neighbors as money,
and see if be does uot fetch up at the
end of a rope, or In a State's prison. He
might put a pound of gold into a dollar
of his own creation, and he could uot
stop interest on a note of hand fur oue
dollar, uuless the person holding It was
willing to take it aud give up the note.
If the person saw fit to take a ball of
paper or a bog of chips, it would be the
same, but he would not be obliged to
take either, and the interest on the note
would continue to increase until Mr.
Grow tendered him a gold dollar, a sli
ver dollar or a paper dollar, backed by
the edict of the government, that it too
a fall Ugal tender for a debt. The per
son would not be obliged, neither could
he compel him to take either of these.
Rut, from the moment of tender, the
Interest would cease to accumulate, and
Mr. Grow aould go about his business
without fear of exeeutiou.
The hard-money meu look upon gold
anil silver as a sort of God-ordained
money, or metals created by God es
pecially for use as money, and it is hard
for them to give up the idea that these
metals should be discontinued in exclu
sive use as money, notwithstanding
there are not enough of these metals in
the world to pay the one-hundredth part
of thp Indebtedness of the world. They
have yet to learn to distinguish between
real money and the spurious trash put
out as money to blind the people a
commodity created in the Interest of a
favored few, to further enrich the rich
aud enslave the poor. They have yet to
learn the use for which real money,
honett money is created, and the power
which creates IU It would seem that
the acts of our nation iu demoralizing
silver money, depriving it of its money
power in sums exceeding five dollars;
In erecting a trade dollar containing
420 grains of silver, and making it of
less legal value for debt-paying purposes
than the silver dollar containing only
412J grains; In creating the new silver
dollar and making It a full legal tender
for debts. I repeat, it would seem tbat
these acts of Congress ought to open
their eyes as to what la real or honest
money and that which is spurious, a
fraud upon the masses. These aets
ought also to teach them where the
only power In this government exists
to create good or bad money, and then
they should join In the demand that
that power henceforth and forever cre
ate ouiy goou, nonest money.
It Is clear that money is the creation
of law, aud tbat the ouly law-making
power in our government with author
ity to create money for use among the
whole people Is tbe Congress of the
United States. It is equally clear that
honest money has but one power, and
that power is to nav a debt. It is the
only use for which real or honest money
Is created, and If none but honest monej
tr. ni.,i o,..i n,.i in snllleient
quantities to' fill the requirements of
debt-paying purposes, it count uoi.
uieU as a speculated corau""j;
n ...II.. aniifl
i?..-tfn1lv submitted,
M. S. BOOTH.
Seattle, W. T., August 30, 1878.
NEWS ITEMS,
TVIK AND TKKKITOBIAt.
The legislt.ure convenes at Salem
next Moutlay.
A Ia.rge fnu we"-kept hotel has been
opened at Tillamook this season.
Snake River is at ita lowest stage, yet
boats continue to reaeh Lewistou.
There were 1,207,474 kecs of lager beer
consumed on I'uget Sound las year.
Mrs. Mary Mead has been appointed
postmaster at Collins, ltentnu county.
The Astoria Packing Company intend
to put up beef at their eauuery ibis fall.
The Hop Association of Laoe county
has employed 180 Chinamen to pick for
them.
W. B.Carter has let tiie contract for
the Stute printing to E. M. Waile, of
Salem.
There are thirty-seven inmates In the
Territorial asylum for the insane, twelve
of whom are women.
Property in Ashland shows an ad
vance of tweuty-tive thousand dollars
on last year's assessment.
Mrs. Colouel Maury, one of the
earliest residents of Jackson county,
died at Jacksonville last week.
It will require the labor of two
thousand Indians to pick the hop crop
of Jordau Valley the present season.
A. M. Smith, of Buena Vista, has
started up his pottery again, aud is now
manufacturing better ware man ever.
The first discovery of oysters on the
Pacific Coast was made at Shoalwater
Bay, opposite the present site of Oyster
ville, in 1S50.
Within the past year there have been
two large mercantile establishments,
one drug store, and several dwellings
erected at rhilomatn.
The Jefferson Institute will corn,-1'
meuee the fall term September 2d, Pro
fessor G. T. Taylor, principal, aud Miss
Cox, of California, assistant.
Six hundred tons of hops were e--
ported through New Taftoma from '.h
1'uyallup region last year, and tne out
look Is favorable for au equal yield tbe
present season.
St. Joseph's Hospital at Vancouver
was totally destroyed by fire on Sitbda.?
afternoon. The loos falls heavily Shoo
the Sisters of Charity who had cSHrge
of the institution.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templa
will meet at Seattle September 1S
Delegates, by paying full fare gd -will
be returned free on any of '
Puget Sound Navigation Com pat .. 1
boats.
Sevier Lewis was hanged at Knot-i
City on the 30th ult., for the munier of
his brother iu 1S76. Up to the last mi fl
ute he showed a very vindictive sp.i it
and used violent language, losing sr
sympathy had been expressed for r.m
by his conduct.
NEED OF SELP-PE0TE0TI0I
The American Home, com men
Upon tbe gigantic strides of evil,'
combating tbe idea tbat women are- o
blame for tbe greater share thereof, 9y
"The fact Is that man is fast losing bis
power of resistance to evil in any forts.;
witness, for example, his complete suc
cumbing to the tyranny of the tobacco
habit; can feminine enslavement to
lasniou compare wmi tins nauit iu evil
results? It is a lamentable fact thatr
men are allowing their minds to becoiww
subservient to habit more every day;
and every day they so live renders them
less able or less likely to make any de
termined resistance to the usurpers,
habit and passion. When they reatit;
tbe depths into which they are sinking,
there wilt be some hope of a proper con
sideration of woman's elaims; until
then, woman must find some way to
protect herself."
If anything is to be made over :
above good pay for actual labor per
formed by getting the State priallBg
done by contract, let the Stale tnatfflta
own contracts for the work hereafter,
aud abolish the office of State printe-.
Amassing a fortune or securing a
petency at the expense of the tai.l
ers of tbe State is charity on too la
scale to be It towed upou a single citi
zen thereof to satisfy tbe average
inhabitant. p" f
"Whatever I have tried to doSu my
life," says Charles Dickens, "I have
tried with all my heart to do well.
What I have devoted myself to, I have
devoted myself to completely. Never
to put my hand to auytbing on wl ieb
& ,uu,u -' " 1 1 1 1 ,7 '"J m IIVIO BCII, UUU
never to affect depreciation of my Work,
I nnitl.l TWlF ..... ... 1 1 I T . .. .1
. .. 1.... I. T st ...I . I
beeu golden rules."
i. muieniEiuie ihgk ui imirioiisuu s
tbem so to court obscurity and, shirt:
official honors, is noticeable. Ajs proof
note the faet that but one hundVed and
r m ---- i
tweuty-flve aspirants for Senatorial
honors have thus far been reported.
What is the world coming to, wber
men lose all ambition to servo, the
Now is the time to make up elub.
Specks are obnoxious, particularly on
face or beauty. No complexion, bowevei -,:r
it may be naturally, looks well when dUng ,. ft
by tan, Irecklea, pimples, blotches, or Oio'f
blemlsbes of a like nature. Tbat sale;. -'
beantiner and emollient, Olexits 8ri.Pi' ,
Soap, removes all such complexlonal de'
and eradicates all local disease of the
with (ratifying promptitude. It not
whitens tbe cuticle, but imparts to It adell
fnl smoothness. T
Certain Cure Tor Cancer.
Mrs. Ir. Mary O. Brown takes tbls metho
saying to the afflicted tbat sbe is in posses
of a safe, certain, and painless cure for
mo-t loathsome and terrible disease know
CaNCKK, in all Its forms and phases.
remedy is never known to fall. Address .
Dr. Mary a Brown, Olympla, W. T. .
juts. dk. until.
Homeopathic physician and electrician,
removed to the lanre and commodious ror
in tbe building of the Yonnf Men's Christ
Association,
Morrison.
Kirst street, between Alder
SI-KCIAL, XOTICC
All business letters pertaining to tbe N
XoarHWSST. nd all money due this oSice
InhTiiiioiisorotherwle, mant he dlreetec
MRS. A. J. UUNIWA
ass-The National Oold Midal
was a wan
to Bradley 4 Rul!on lor the best "hotograi
In the United States, and the v lenna iieaai
for the best In the world. 429 Montgomery
street, San Franeteeo.