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m TO 8UBS0BIBEBS.
Ttitlme is very near at band wben
manybbundred subscriptions to tbe
NSW1 JfoBTinvEST will expire. The
prompt renewal of maturing dues, al
ways desirable, Is rendered especially
necessary Ibis year by the great expense
in. "rflarging the paper aDd fitting up tbo
4 with a new dress. To the many
Wpafrons who for nine years have never
'ailed to renew with promptness, we re
turn thanks, and look confidently for a
continuation of past favors. To those
whose arrears for some considerable
time have been a source of great incou
venience, expense and annoyance to tbe
publishers, we look anxiously for a re
sponse to this call. And, to the many
new friends, whose first year of subscrip
tion is about expiring, we turn with a
heart-felt assurance that, having learned
the worth of this Journal, you will put
shoulder to tbe wheel for another year,
and help us to roll along the great ball
of Human Rights. How many who
read this call will respond now ? We
need the money.
IN BESPOHSE TO L. D. BLAKE,
In this issue of the New NoirrHWKST
appears a lengthy and interesting letter
from tlie President of the New York
State Woman Suffrage Society, Lillie
Devereux Blake, In which she gives the
reasons that prompt tbe sullraglsts of
the Empire State to support tbo Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency, and
denies certain allegations against his
character and conduct.
We have carefully read this letter,
and must say that, while prone to ac
cept tbe refutation of the charges pre
ferred Ly the Chicago correspondent
against General Hancock, we are none
tbe less firmly convinced that he is not
a fit man for the Chief Execati ve of the
Kation. His attempt to lead women to
believe that they are included in "the
people" Is rather unsatisfactory in fact
quite "too thin." We do not fiud
"am." before "the people" iu his letter
of acceptance, and thluk his effort to
make the phrase quoted cover the
Woman Suffrage question is a specimen
of cunning similar to that displayed in
not mentioning several of the promt
: -.nem issues 01 tne day. tils letter is
. Vtnaaa of generalities, and does not give
his views clearly on any question before
voters, except that he considers "invio
lable" the amendments and laws to se
cure "the fruits of tbe war." (The per
sons who threaten tbe "war legislation'
-are his supporters.) He is a candidate
for the highest position in tbe gift of th
Nation, and it is dishonorable In him to
' refuse to allow "the people" to know
.his opinions on any question before
them. Every campaign blusterer wastes
more or less breath about this "govern
ment of the people," yet women know
itbey are not iucluded. The platforms
ofthe parties always prate about the
rights of "the people," yet women know
.'they are uot comprehended. Tiie Four
teenth Amendment to the Nation's
Constitution says all persons born or
naturalized in tbe United States are "cit
izens," and the Fifteenth Amendment
, says no "citizen" shall be deprived of
the right to vote, except for crime, yet
women know that they are not iucluded
as "citizens," and therefore are not part
of "tbe people" In the minds of men.
. Only last week we heard tbe declaration
that tbe Democratic party favors "equal
rights to all" from the lips ol an orator
who, wo personally know, is a bitter,
unreasoning, unlistenlng opponent of
equal rights to women. In till day of
fraud and deception, we want an open
assertion by a nominee that be endorses
Woman Suffrage, or we wisu uim 10 say
that be opposes IU
We hold certain principles sacred, ami
they!1 a re antagonistic to those held by
General Hancock. We are working for
woman's enfranchisement, hut we are
no thread v to nay any price for It. We
want.it as a right, not as a purchase.
'Weftcannot throw away all other princi
pled and support General Hancock be
cause he craftily insinuates that he en
dorses one question of great interest to
us. We bold that the action of the
Woman Suffragists of the Uul ted States
In o fieri ng to support any party pledged
to Woman Sufirage Is wrong In theory
and would be damnable in practice. It
6Wbid to induce the parties to do right,
and'fa on a par with an offer of votes for
rnoney. We hope that the Woman
ouflraglets of tbe Nation will adopt a
nlstform of principles in 1SS4. If this
platform Is satisfactory to either party
" (and It must meet the endorsement of
one, women can then hope to have the
Tf6lD:of that party. But we do not think
iSS'men deserve the ballot if their prin
cfples are so unsettled that they can
support one party as readily as another.
Id local politics, where Issues are scarce,
It Is well to drop partisanship; but,
twhen principles are involved, women
hnutd hold to their views.
If any woman's opinions lead her to
-andorse General Hancock, well and
good. She should labor for bis success.
"If be is a Woman Suffragist, she I
not dding her duty If she does not use
Jser Influence in bis behalf; but some
thing stronger than a reference to "tbe
people'.' in bis letter of acceptauce Is
eeaea to convince us 01 nis lavor. it
lie Is an advocate of Woman Suffrage,
et'hlm admit It; if he is opposed, let
m say so. We have great respect for
arfield's action on this question, if not
iHsJvlews. We know how he stands,
voted while Id Congress to allow a
woman to practice law before the Su
nrommCourt of the United States. He
mlghjjiplnt to his record when asked if
lie IflSKWoman Sutiragist,
flj?WSWWhPtUr than Hancock;
1 ax. un bbad tbe eaudorJft tj.oiuiy eay
'-'vt ho dfUVcot w YfitOjgtCcaustj HiOvfs
wd the sufirage tax woman.
referuoce t
est opponent lda very
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VIOE-PSBSIDEHTS, BEAD.
One week from next Mnmlav. the
Legislature will convene in the" State
House at Salem. It undoubtedly will
comprise as fine a body of men as has
ever assembled in Oregon's legislative
nans. A good percentage of the mem
bers of both Houses are known to be
lavorable to woman's equality before
the law, while some have never ex
pressed an opinion either for or against
the measure. It is Important that the
non-committed members be Interviewed
hy tbe Vice-Presidents of the Oregon
State Woman Sufirage Association for
the various counties, ami, if found tin
decided as to the position they will
take, be informed of the wishes of the
unrepresented half of the community
If of sound and reasoning mind, they
cannot fail to see that the claims of
women to political freedom are fouuded
in justice. If they are opposed to our
cause, lay before them the arguments
with which our demands are backed,
aud trust In their sense of right to com
prehend the present condition of woman
and her needs for tbe future. If thev
will not listen, or listen without hear
ing aud understanding, nothing is lost.
Also, it Is well to iuterview tbe foes ol
Woman Suffrage among the hold-over
Senators, for two years may have
wrought a change in their views. If all
tbe members of both Houses are care
fully instructed as to the wishes of
women, we may confidently hope for
some assistance at their hands, if we do
not get the great boon for which we all
are stilving.
"THE LIQUOE BALLOT."
The II waco correspondent of the Sun
day Welcome says that Mrs. A. E. Tor-
rey, a Portland lady who has been rus
ticating at tbe seaside, circulated for
signatures two petitions "to the Legls
Iature of the Slate of Oregon," and be'
cured some sevetity-flve names among
the citizens of this Stale. The first one
reeds:
The undersigned, citlseiM of Oregon, do earn
estly petition your honorable body to enact
law similar to the Un In force in teverxl
States of tbe Union, commonly designated
Civil Damage Iaws, whereby tbe liquor-sellers
and the owner of the premises on which tbe
liquor is Hold may be held Jointly responsible
for the Injury caused by tbe use of Intoxicat
ing drink.
The second reads :
We, the undersigned, elUsens of tbe Stale of
Oregon, do hereby petition your honorable
body to enact a law wbereby the licensing of
retail dealers in spirituous liquor shall be left
to the will of tbe majority of the cltlsens of
each precinct, aud that ai cltlsens, men and
women, of legal age, may be allowed to vote on
the question.
If these petitions are properly circu
iated throughout the State and numer
ously sigued, it will probably not re
quire much ellort to Induce the Leglsla
ture to pass laws in harmony with them.
The number of Woman Suffragist aud
temperance members in both Houses Is
sufficiently great to warrant this confi
dence. BAE-KEEPEBS?S. BAB-MAIDS.
A correspondent of the Greenlxiek-
Labor Chronicle, published at Auburu,
Maine, averts that prohibition N a fail
ure in Portland, the home of General
Neal Dow, the Prohibition candidate
for the Presidency. The correspondent
then proceeds to relate that driuks are
sold In certain places by both men and
women ; that the upper classes get their
bottles filled at tiie liquor agency by
saying tbe magic words, "Medical pur
poses;" and that the only persons ever
arrested for tbe Illegal traffic, are "poor,
helpless women, who, with their other
work, are selling a little to keep starva-
tion from the door." This is another
ease which Illustrates very pluiuly the
advantage the su II rage gives man over
woman. As the "poor women" liavo
no votes, they oanuot revenge them
selves on the officials on election day,
and must suffer, while their fellow of
fenders of the masculine sex can help
retalu in power the men who will never
see a bar-Keeper, out wuo are ever on
the alert for bar-maids. We pity women
who by inclination or of necessity be
come liquor-sellers, but it is a matter of
justice that they be uot prosecuted
while meu escape.
James L. McGiimess, of West Kltti
tass, W. T., declines to pay for the Nkw
Nokthwkst because it does not "sute"
him. After receiving a letter from
him, we do not marvel that he disap
proves the sentiments of this journal,
nor do we wish to "fourse" him to
"talk" it. The Ignorant always oppose
Woman Suffrage. The "indulgauce of
a generous Publick" may have caused
the "Senyor and Juneor Editors" to
"cultivate the Brass of a Begger," but
they have not yet developed sufficient
"Brass" to refuse to pay their hills.
The Legislature of Oregon will not do
its duty to tax-payers unless it repeals
tbe laws allowing SherifN and County
Clerks fees for their work. The great
incomes of these officers under the pres
ent system cause niuoh corruption
among men eeekiug them. Women
tax-payers are interested In this matter,
and they desire that the ealailes shall
only be high enough to fairly remuner
ate the officers. They are taxed with
out representation, but they want the
extortion to be as small as possible.
The latest enterprise at Oregon City
Is a sewing school for girls and boys
between the ages of six and fourteen
years. The citlzeus of the City by the
Falls, with characteristic good sense,
have decided that boys should know
how to mend their clothing and sew on
their buttons. The leaven of equality
is working.
Democrats of Walla Walla are very
aiiury with their-oritan. Mrs. "Colonel"
i-atKer rewelPjaterno fcr prai()
tKlJfcasrt tUat'lbe m.M . it'lu'Ja!
iltrtHe TP-r'8 opinions tovjtcacdl
es for s-io each.
TO FOBM
A WOMAN
SOCIETY.
SUFPEAGE
The Xatkmal Citizen contains some
excellent remarks on the sul-ject of
forming Woman Suffrage Associations,
and some valuable Instructions at to the
manner of proceeding. Any woman
may and should consider the word. ad
dressed to her.
First, speak with your neighbor. If
they are already women of thought upon
litis stitject, the way is dear. If they
are not, a few words will arouse their
interna aud show you they are not in
different. Every woman wishes as good
a ehauoe fur her daughter's education as
for her son's. livery woman deal rex
equal pay for eqiiHl work for herself and
her daughter. Every woman desires
the same laws to govern herself as gov
ern her husband, father and brothers.
When once you have induce! thought,
speak of farming a society. Iaue Invi
tations for some convenient afternoon
or evening. If but half a dozen women
respond, you have enough for a begin
ning. Hold your first meeting witli
women alone. Women are brought up
from childhood to have their opinions
criticized, laughed at him! treated wltl
contempt, ana win speuK much more
freely If no man Is present. Select an
energetic, go-ahead woman as President.
Haveoneortwoor three Vlee- Presidents.
Lleot an hxocutive Committee. See
that its chairman is a worker. It does
not matter so much in regard to the
rest. Elect a Corresponding Secretary;
also u Recording Secretary. Let tbo
minutes of each meeting he read at the
next one. Elect a Treasurer. Let there
be a small membership fee. Monev
will be needed fur stationery, tracts, etc.
Hold your meetings frequently at first;
say once a week. After women have
become somewhat acquainted with the
routine of business, invite gentlemen to
become members. But let women con
trol the society, hold the offices, aud de
cide what is to be done. Womeu need
this responsibility as an educator, and
besides, they are more interested In
their own enfranchisement than meu
can he.
The following Is a good form of Cou
stitutiou :
Akticlk I. This organisation shall be called
tbe llnsert name of place Woman Suffrage
Society.
Art. t. The object of this Society shall be to
secure protection for women citizens In the
exercise of their right to vote.
Art. &. All cltltensof Insert name of place
subscribing to this Constitution, and paying
Its I weekly or monthly dues, shall be con Rid
ered members of this Society, with right to
participate in its deliberations.
Akt. i. The officer of this Society shall be
a President, Vice-Presidents, a Corre
sponding Secretary, and an Kxecutlve Com
mlttee of not less than five.
ART. t. The officers of tbU Society shall be
women, elected at each annual meeting.
Art. C Tbe annual meeting shall be held
on tbe of in each year.
ti excellent way to make the So
ciety's sessinus Interesting aud instruct
ive is to study the laws allecting worn
eu. Law books can easily he borrowed
Tile Session Laws of eaoh year will he
found at the town or county clerk's
aflice. Look in the Index tor the word
woman," "wife," "widow," "mother,'
"parent," "olilld." "wills," "Inherit
ance," "divorce," "sejiaratloti," etc..
eli). ; then read un and see whether the
laws relating to tbeee tliiugs are the
same for roan and woman. Ascertain
whether in your State the mother lias
equal right with the father to Iter own
child. Study the law which gives th
right of property control to the husband
allowing him to use as he pleases all
that the wife earus lu the family, and
to will it as he pleases (to great extent)
at his death. Appoint some one to
write a short essay for each meeting,
upon some phase of the laws relating to
woman. Afterward discuss the law an
its bearings. Study the National Con
fititutlon. Take a Woman Suffrage
paper, rending its editorials aloud ut
each ineetittg of your society. Do these
things, and you will have a live, ener
getic society that will benefit yourselves
and the world.
lite long Mglitg ot winter are ap
proach lug, and tbe women in the cities
and town of Oregon and Washington
may well employ a iortlon of the!
evenings in gaining deAulte knowledge
as to their political standing and im
prrta:ice.
New vocation are opened to women
daily. The dentist's profession Is now
invaded. Woman seems particularly
adapted to fine, delicate work, stloh as i
ruired in dental operations. We can
call Ut mind bnt a few ladies who liav
choeeu dentistry as a profession one I
Ohio aud a few In the far East but
they are said to be very successful
Tiie profession is not over-crowded Ilk
medicine and the law, aud women wh
have the determination to thoroughly
master iU various branches will In
few years he enumerated for the time
spent In properly learning it. But th
profession is like the others iu one re
spect it will not prove very profitahl
unless tlie operator 18 expert. A poor
dentist is an abomination. Let those
who have dentistry in view choose
"Excelsior" as their motto.
Miss M. L. Clough.a nativeof Bethel
Maine, has been apjiolnled by th
trustees of the Maine Hospital at Au
gusta as a trained nurse, who shall de
vote her entire time to the women'
wards of the hospital. She Is a grud
Uttte of the New Euglaud Hospital
Training School, was superintendent o
the trainlug school for three month
after graduating, and has been for sev
era! months past head uurse in tlie City
Hospital of Boston, where she weut to
become thorouchlv acquainted with
hospital management.
The communication from "A Chris
liau without Hate," commenting ou
the letters of "Kitzner" and ''Mental
Freeil
1 "
correspondsuta as we
can spare this
wish them to
week," though we do not
IhlnU- Ihttui, Mi. hi.. ,i.iltf ars
Qm!Uaud"AIi9.iDnuiway;s'replyio"
laltergwTfl apuartu our'tiextjl'sae!
EDITORIAL 0OBBESP0KDEHOE.
NoitTH YAJt HILL, August 30, 1880.
Dear Kxadkrsof thiKi North wst:
The past fortnight seems like a dream.
So
ruauy events have crowded them
selves into that spaee of time that, as
we sit here, in tlie village of North
amhiil, and seud our busy thoughts
back to Astoria, whence our last letter
hailed, we pause and almoet wonder
ho aud what and where we are.
Our loved and honorrd sire, who for
many years has lived in tiie secluded
enjoyment of his subtirhan home witli-
n the claosio shades of Foreet Grove, is
stricken low with the Infirmities of age,
and tlie bnsy world hat well-nigh iieen
forgotten since we have been at his Ited-
slde, counting Hits hours a they glide
away, leaviug him at every cloek-eiroke
isibly nearer the Evergreen Shore.
But the great world cares little for In
dividual atilletlous or family bereave
ments, and we try to realize this faet as
we turn our thoughts from tbe sick
chamber, which we have left at tempo
rary intervals through the week in the
ursuit of our well-known aud ueeee-
nary work. A dispatch Irom the
Grove announces that Mr. J. T. Scott
died at three o'clock yesterday after
noon, September 1st. Jvs. En
We foil nil Forest Grove enjoying its
regular Summer vacation of pu pile and
inflation of city, boarders. Several new
and tasteful residences have recently
been creeled, and others have been en
larged aud beautified. The bay-window
mania lias reached the town and at
tacked many of the houses, thereby Im
proving I hem muuh in roominess, light
ami general appearance. Business has
thrifty air. Tlie kindly faces of old
friends greet us at the stores aud shop,
and we know by Hie look of content
that beams from their eyes, as well as
the alacrity witli which they settle their
yearly dues, thtl they are all proeper-
ng. There is no pleasanter, prettier
riirel retreat than this; and Summer
boarders need go no farther to find the
recreation they seek. There are moun
tain streams near by for fishing, and
thecanyous, plains and fureste abouud
in quails, grouse uud pheasants. The
orchards are loaded with fruit, and the
carriage drives are lovely. Mrs. Sloan,
who keeps the poimlar hotel, aud is
known fur and wide as a woman who
understand her business, lias hail her
grounds cleared aud fitted up in a pleas
ing style, in good keeping with the rest
of tlie premises. Her low price for
board, So per week, Is quite an item for
rest-seekiug mothers with little ones
needing country air.
But tlie crowning feature of Forest
Grove just now is its Indian sehool,
whioh we visited hy invitation of Mrs.
Huff, the efficient matron, who lias a
mother's charge over some forty or more
children of tiie forest, ami who takes a
pride in them that is at once justifiable
and praiseworthy. The buildings con
sist of two large two-story frame struc
tures, in advanced stages of comple
tion one for tiie schools and the dormi
tories and plut-r.mnis of the boys, and
tlie other for the dining-room, kitchen,
luuudry, sewing-room, matron's rooms,
ami tiie dormitories of tlie girls. Pro
feesor Baynlou, who has had much ex
perience in lodiati sahools, is the
leaeber iu charge. Indian children, like
negroes, excel In sluglng. Some of
them are from the Warm Springs Res
ervation, aud were formerly under tbe
excellent training of Mr. Cyrus Walker.
These singers naturally lead the rest,
and tlie music Is n pleasing feature at
all their exercises. Mrs. Huff, who Is
evidently the right woman In the right
place, informs us tliat the girls under
her care are quite as orderly and obedi
ent as so many white children. There
is no quarreling among them, aud ap
parently no disposition to shirk their
duties. Like the negro or the China
man, they are easily impressed with tbe
Christian faith, and many of tlie older
boys anil girls can "speak iu meeting"
and "tell their experience" as well as
mature white f.dks.
We had spent an hour or two In tbe
afternoon in examining the premises
from every quarter, and were then in
vited back to attend tlie evening exer
cises. We went, accompanied by friends,
aud exjiectlng to be entertained, but to
our surprise the Professor arose and In
troduced us to his dusky constituency
and announced that the "well-known
advocate of woman's rights ami man's
rights would now address them." Tbe
dilemma was a little embarrassing ut
first, but we soon got over It, am! for
about forty-live miuutee we talked and
talked to the children's evident edifi
cation and the amusement of Rev. Mr.
Hud, the matron, a few other friends,
and the urbane Professor. Surely there
never was another speech like it. We
retired at last, enjoyiug the vague con
sciousness that one political missionary
had succeeded in making n laughing
target of herself for the delectation of
her hearers, after having supplemented
her success by accepting the unanimous
Invitntion of pupils, teacher, pastor and
matron to "call again."
Everybody who doubts the wisdom of
Captain Wilkinson's latest Indian ex
ploit should visit this school. While it
is well known that we have uever been
sangulue of the success of engrafting the
Christian religion upon Indians, yet we
do believe it possible to eugraft the
young of any tribe upon our civilization
whenever, as lu tills case, the top roots
are cut that formerly counected them
with the associations of their kind. We
have great faith in litis experiment, es
pecially since we have seen it in its pri
mary form. But we could not bnt wish,
as we gazed about us, that the Govern
ment aud the missionaries would act as
wisely and humanely with Mr. No
body's white children as with the half-
breeds here, of whom some ore red'
lialred,bluc;eyed.and freckled
impassably well looking.- "
MiriooiyJtbelGatlagUfr boy" .were.-a
ualPbTeed Ihdiau now ! But he's only
a hall-Irish lad, atniris consequently ha-
youd the pale of ChrUUa'n reforaatfoD. I
'Vft wern tnM hv a wnrthvclxilv of thn
Grove that the above-named boy's!
mother sent word that she would give
five hundred dollars to know tlie Profess
or's name who refused her iwy a place
in tlie eollege. Without fee or reward
we are ready to give the first letter of
the surname, which, in connection with
its fellows, spells JarsA. Several prom
inent subscribers to tlie Nkw North
west informed us in substance that
they had thought for a while of discon
tinuing the People's Paper this year for
economy's sake, but its independent
course In exposing that Pharisaical
sham to the public gsse, and its digui
fled rebuke of the loose and slippery tool
of tbe erring party the starveling ed
itor of tlie faculty's "organ," who had
eviueiitiy been lured tiy somebody to
throw mud at us bad changed their
minds. So, a iu Uillsboro, we ilid not
lose an old subscriber, aud gained
goodly array of new ones.
But we wer& speaking of tiie Indian
sehool when the above paragraph in
truded Itself, and will now return to the
text. We had heard mueli while In
Tacoma aud Steilaeoom about tbe kid
uspping of these young Indians by Cap
tain Wilkinson, under au order from
General Mlroy, aud took occasion to
ask the children, while all together, to
state tlie faels from their own stand
point. All who vtere pleased with their
present quarters were asked to raise
their hands. Forty hands went up. All
who wanted to return were asked to
signify it. Not a hand was raised. Pe
ter Stunnup, a young ludiau, and evi
dently the spokesman of the school,
arose at the close of our address ami
stated that all the Puyullup Indians
were ready to seud sueh of their chil
dren as the Captain wanted, uutit by
some mistake among the white folks it
was proclaimed thatOeueral Mitroy hud
sent au order to take them by force, at
which, very naturally, the parents re
tailed. But, he said, none of the chil
dren were taken without the parents'
consent, aud several that the Captain
wanted lie did not bring, because their
fathers were not willing. The Indian
woman who was sent to jail had broken
the law by stealing a child from the
Puyullup school. That child was not in
tills school, ami had not lieeu. The
prlneiiat fuss, he said, hud been made
hy the white folks who had not be
lieve! in the Captain's experiment, and
so had opposed It. So far as he knew,
there was no dltatl"fucUon now.
The girls of the twhool are taught to
cook, wash, iron, sew, wash dishes, do
ebumber work, uud all other duties
wlii:li the supported sex are expected to
perform, and tbe boys are to be taught
tanning, horticulture and trades. We
personally know some thousands of
white children' whom we'd be glad to
see as well provided for aud as practi
cally taught in the ways of honest work
as these wards of tbe Nation.
Diliey 'isa little way station on th
West-aide road, about three miles from
Forest Grove, ami here we speul tlie last
Sabbath of August, a guest of our excel
lent friends, the Mcljeods, to whom we
were indebted for two brief return visits
to the dfsr paternal bedside; also for an
audience iti tin- Dilley school-house iu
tl.e afternoon of tbe day of rest. A copi
ous Summer rain poured its revivifying
waters over the bosom of the earth,
wasbii.g all the venture on the face of
Nature spotlessly clean. Bnt the rain
did not hinder tiie Ieeture-goers, nor
spoil tbe interest of tlie ooesslon. One
leading family, like the McLeodf, In
atiy community, can prepare the way
of the woman movement and make its
path straight. Mr. Mel,, is the one mer
chant, freight-aud-ticket agent and
postmaster of Dilley, and his good wife
tlie one hotel-keeper. Tbe village
lioasts a doxen or so of ueat frame
dwellings, a large ware-house for storing
grain, am! a good distriot school.
A half hour's ride on Monday's train
brought us to North Yamhill am! the
quiet home of Mother Higgius, where
we've scribbled till this letter is full,
am! now must go anil post it. Particu
lars concerning this place next week.
A. S. D.
"PETTI 00 AT"
EULE.
To tbr Editor or thr Nkw Northwest:
A lady iu San Fmiioleeo, upon read
ing a eopy of tiie Nkw Northwest,
writes as follows :
I think tbe proper place for a woman Is at
home with her family. Let toe men go out to
struggle and battle against tbls cold-hearted
wirld. I do not want to be ruled by anything
that wears petticoats; it is liad enough to be
ruled by man alone. One sex at a time is sunt
dent.
The above is an erroneous but com
mon idea among many jieople. I want
to knaw how a woman can have her
"home and family" when she has
neither. It Is only the homeless that
have to struggle with this "cold-hearted
world." The ballot will uot compel any
woman to leave her home, while It will
open to those who have none many vo
cations that are now denied them, which
could not be otherwise than beneficial to
the 'protected sex." Even the Presi
dential ohatr should not be beyond the
aspirations of women, although such
presumption would greatly astonish
some of our fat office-holders. That
women will be ruled hy "petticoats"
when they get the ballot, is very true;
but It will be an agreeable change from
the brecchet rule that lias so long kept
women in submis-iou.
Again, this lady Is mistaken when
she says "one sex at a time is sufficient.
the sexes must eo-nperate iu order to
pull smoothly together. A "govern
ment of the people by the people" mut
not be a government of one sex by the
other. As husband aud wife must be in
sympathy with each other In order to
live harmoniously, so must a nation's
government be composed equally of
men and women, then, and nut before,
win justice utjiioup.
her sex. She win 't-'wehy 1$riSnt?fr
Anil Ml lr xV AP-iiJI-M J wumau, uaw-jv.- .
i ona!i;ij-rniSfeni. .u-in.Jl.r. j.-i 't34jroverob
3 blTvithT C SSTr
less fortunate enters, aodvin iicIp'UBRfliflBtrerls in "full nvmnmlx"
others will help herself. W-ffr d
Auuia ior cqusiiijrf.
GENEBAL HAH00OK DEFEHDBD.
New York, August 18, 18S0.
To tbi EniToaor the Nkw Northwest:
I have just read the editorial in your
issue of August 5th on the action of tbe
New York suffragists In endorsing the
nomination of General Hancock.
Now, first, I wish, as they say iu Cou
gress, "to rise to a personal explana
tion." If you had been "Interviewed"
as often as I have by New York report
ers, you would know that one of the
most trying things about such an expe
rience Is the extraordinary language
you are described us using; and so, in
the interview witli me in the New York
Herald of July 3d, from which you
quote, I was made to talk au amount of
"gush" utterly unlike me. Especially
is tiie word "gentility" entirely foreign
to my vocabulary, and one which I par
ticularly dislike. As auy welt-bred
person knows, it is a word wbieit sug
gests want of culture when used as I was
represented as using it. I never hear It
without thinking of the lady ami
her blaek mils, which were "so very
genteel."
Now, to the more Important part of
the letter. General Garfield has avowed
himself opposed to Woman Suilrage,
Geueral Hancock has expressed bis
sympathy for it. I went with a party
of ladies to Governor's Island, aud asked
the General to give us some guarantee
of Ills views. After expressing much
sympathy with our cause, he said that
it would not be proper for him to go
outside of his letter of acceptance, but
we might say to everyone that he took
his stand ou this phrase of that letter,
"It is only by a full vote, a free ballot
ami a fair count that all the neoole
women as well as men call rule as re
quired by the theory of our govern
ment." His manner to us was most
cordial. As we were leaviug, he shook
hands with a girl of thirteen who was
of our party, and expressed the hope
that she would he a voter by the time
she was old enough to vote.
Now, do you blame us for using our
utmost efforts to secure the election of
the first Presidential candidate who ever
declared himself to be in our favor?
We should be recreant to every princi
ple we have professed if we should do
anything to secure the election of Gen
eral Garfield, who would probably veto
uny bill looking toward our enfranchise
ment, and I entreat you to use all your
iullueuce in behalf of Geueral Hancock,
whose sympathy will be au Invaluable
aid to our cause. There is no need of
our coming out as Democrats iu order
to do this. There are Kepubllean Han
cock clubs nil over the country. Why
not Womau Suffrage Hancock clubs?
For us, enfranchisement is tlie one vital
issue, and any candidate who will aid
us in our struggle should have our sup
port. As for the other attacks on General
Hancock, which you quote from tbe
oorresiondent of a Chicago paper, they
are absurdly untrue. I send you an ad
mirable likeness of the Geueral, which
I hope you will place Iu a conspicuous
position in your office, and which will
entirely disprove the allegations as to
his appearance. He is straight, sol
dierly, compact, aud his mental abili
ties are of an order to impress any one
with his force aud aeuteness. As for
the ridiculous statement that he is inac
cessible, we saw that disproved, as there
were plain farmers going up to see him,
who were freely admitted on the day
when we called. Of course there Is a
sentinel ou duty day aud night, because
Governor's Island is a military Kt of
tbe United States, and hy army regula
tion there must be such service at
every such post.
I hope that yon and all the earnest
womeu of Oregon will show that you
are tired of Republican false promises,
will exert yourselves heartily for tbe
candidate who favors you, and show
that the women of the land are a power.
In this State we are pushing a very
aelive campaign; first, to bring out a
large vote of women at the school elec
tion ou October 12th, then to secure the
election of members of tiie Assembly
favorable to our cause without distinc
tion of party, aud lastly for tbe election
of General Haneock.
Li i.i.ik Devereux Blake.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Georgia,
brings the sad intelligence of the suicide
of a young girl who had some time
ainee wedded a young man, only to
learu that the marriage was mock. The
knowledge that she had been ruined by
one wuoiu sne loveu drove Iter to de
spair and death. The telegraph, with
tiie characteristic meanness of meu in
shielding one another lu their greatest
crimes against women, did not furnish
the name of him who deceived tlie girl,
but unhesitatingly and uublushlngly
spread before tlie gsze of the world her
name ami tribulations. The ruin of a
girl by a false marriage is a crime far
greater than seduction. The mockery
is evidence that tbe victim is naturally
chaste and honorable. She is deprived
of the opportunity to indignantly spurn
the advances of a libertine.
Tbe Chilean Consul at San Francisco,
in a lengthy letter to the Chronicle, de
nies the reports that the victorious
Chilean armies have been guilty of tbe
murder of Peruvian prisoners and the
violation of women.
Tlie officers of the Union County
Woman Sufirage Association are : Mrs.
J. B. Eatou, President ; Mrs. Morris,
Vice-President; Mrs. M. P. Ames, Sec
retary ; Mrs. E. S. McComas, Treasurer.
Geueral Grant announced In a speech
at Galeua, Ohio, on the 2Sth ult., that
he would cast a Republican ballot for
President aud Vice-President in next
er. It will be his first Rennh-
tFBresrdeiitlal vote.
'
with the Massachusetts Democrats, who
have nominated Chas. P. TJlrpmpsbu ffr
Governor.
4U-ns. .
BEPLT TO OLABA S. F0LT8.
Slaughter, W. T., Aug. 36, 1880.
lo the Editor of th k New Northwest:
Your paier has ten a welcome vis
itor In the family for many years, and I
seek through its columns to communi
cate with your intelligent reailera by a
brief review of the above lady's article
in your issue of tbe 1Mb inet. She says:
The intelligent women who make up the
rank and file of Woman Suffragists of the
United States must know that to the Republi
can party we are Indebted Tor the preservation
of the Union and all that makes us a great and
prosperous people.
If she will assume a position from
wbicb she can take an unprejudiced
view of the true status of affaire, she
will find that the Rebellion was put
down by the bayonet; that President
Lincoln called upon the. loyal people
(not the Republican party) to come to
the rescue of tbe Uoiou, aud all party
names were merged into one, the Union
party ; ami that there were more of tbe
followers of Bell and Douglas that re
sponded to the call than of the Republi
can party. Hence tbe declaration that
the Republican party saved tbe Union
is a mistake. Aod it may be truly said
that we were a great and prosperous
people before tbe Republican party had
any appreciable existence ; and I beg
leave to urge that we are a great and
prosperous people now, despite the Re
publican party.
The lady further says :
The Democrats are to-day, from every out
ward appearance, as deeply imbued with tbe
spirit of hatred to the Federal Government as
they were at any time froni the firing on Fort
Sumter to the Appomattox capitulation.
This is certainly a bold assumption
for one versed in legal lore, aud should
be sustained by some direct evid- 'i
Tbe writer evidently Inteodf to coi. . -the
idea that the DentQrjatJe party
in spirit, in releIltonflMuV make thu
Republican party UilSoennent. Ha
tbe lady's reason beeoinso blinded try
prejudice and secticlUpt fkf I boa to
trauscend tlie tiouadg gf ijitictU and pro
priety, in the face of the sterafacts ttet
Douglas stated unequivocally that Xils
ooln's election was no tX)und for MMs
sion, and that wben 75,000 troops wre
called for it ought to have bees 300,0007
Can she find in any 2fjtit-l Deeso
oratic platform seceaeie'ti claimed as a
constitutional right under ay 1. 1 renin -
stHtices ? That the DeraV roll? rRr'
split at Charleston and" Ike SMtbcg
wing went itito rebelliofos no rrsnfj
proof that the Dooglas Dfwserats ver
or that tbe party of to-day is in vso
and spirit hostile to tbe FedMu -
eminent, than the split iff, tile M 1 .
Church iu 1844 proves tbe wrroje ehurub
iufidei. t
The "outward s ppeara ucws' referred
to are certainly uot within scope of
vision of an intelligent peoit Is not
tbe present platform upon wfeteb Geu
eral Haneock stands aod the 8feuoae.C
from his hand loyal to the doqgfgpafioc
aod the Union ? r
The lady charges Hancock w(tb hav
ing "a rebel horde at bis-risip Wa
ttle lady from home from ISol-VT? Bht
must know that the Rebelliou'was put
down by loyal arms, reconstruction was
effected under a Republican administra
tion, was accepted aod ratified 'Bf thoWl
who had been lu rebellion, aud tHalevarr
State and Territory in tbe Ulgfpti was
constitutionally represented in QVslgRsse.
Is there really any "rebel horW any-
where iu tbe geographical liinfbsot thi
Government? Would the wrJter:tfie
the doctrine that there is no refttasanee
beyond the grave supplement! Jy the
one that there is no repentance ou this
side of the grave? uo atonement? no
reconciliation possible? NoueHth the
Republican party. It was oonceived
and brought forth iu hatred toviairJ tbe
South and toward all who wlblil-nAt
join tbem in that hatred ; and it siigtiiii
"from every outward appmMbfes" thai
that hatred still roiiHtiUitesAltlta'itjt.
lour numoie correiotMlent sacrificed
everything in Missouri for tin Union,
but nothing for tlie perpetuatlmi of the
Republican or any other party.
I have received from the Nations'
Committee of the "Uoiou Vetera 's
Union," in New York, the requisite pa -
pers for the organization of Veteran
Clubs. These papers reveal the ikes that
there is an immense secret tnltrjjjty-or-isation
in tbe Republican pftt&jfk t&e
United States, with U. S. OraMtjjfoist-mander-in-chief.
Each StatS:ld Ter
ritory has its division comraajptet, to
whom monthly re ports are te l&nad.
Military commissions are to Bagpssoed
hy the commander-in-chief, Sbft of
the United States army are In W jaytl
and the organization may ha&HeI on t
at any time, aod with th
pose of making a Republican P.
Iu tbe monthly reports, thovl
disaffection of its members Is
ported to headquarters. Gerveritt
letter of acceptauce as com mail
chief (a printed eopy) with theyhaiB.ee (. f
division commanders accompanies aa id!
papers Gen. J. A. Garfield-fdr Obio,
Gen. J. F. Miller for Califorflafitc. A
more thorougn military orj
...
a party could uot be devised
it! Tlie military organ!
party iu a civil goverumeo
President! Why scrutinize-.
any disaffection as to the
pose? Tbe lady Is loyal to
ment. Both claim that 1
eratie party Is now beeking
the ballot tbe ends which
attain by arms."
I leave the reader to
loyalty or disloyalty of t
ami urge that Its legal i
considered by every voter
the ballot.
Feariug that the length a
may stand iu the way of I
close by saying that if th
expect to get the ballot, th;
to some other source thaosjt
can party
Yours for
A. S. Hui
Grand Itn
Arch Masposy in session
"elected TJioa. McF. Psttt
Oregon, to tbe first office,
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