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THE 3STETV NORTHWEST, THITRSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 18S0.
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PORTLAND, OltEOOX, TIITjltSDAY, OCTOIIEK 7, 13S0.
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.
From some unknown cause, we are without our
usual letter from the Legislature this week, and
must rely on the brief reports in the daily papers
for information concerning the action on the
Woman Suffrage amendment proposed in the
Senate by Mr. Fulton and in the House by Mr.
Laughlin. The discussion of the amendment wis
made the special order in the Senate for the after
noon session on Tuesday; but the Standard states
that the debate was postponed until this (Thurs
day) evening, on motion of Mr. Fulton. We pre
sume the gentleman's reasons for moving a'jwst
ponemeiit were good. In the reported proceedings
of the House of Wednesday we lind no mention of
the matter, though yesterday afternoon was the
time agreed upon for the consideration of the sub
ject The matter stands in about the same posi
tion that it did a week ago.
TEACHERS' SALARIES.
A friend has favored us with an extract from
the report of tfie National Committee on Educa
tion, from which we loam that the Southern
States of Alabama, Maryland, Missouri, North
Carolina and Tennessee pay very nearly equal
wages to the teachers of both sexes in their em
ploy, while the Northern States of Iowa, Massa
chusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island and Vermont
pay their lady teachers less than half, and in some
instances scarcely one-third, as much for teaching
as they pay men for like services. This, at first
sight, wouid make a favorable showing for the
Southern chivalry; but a little rellection will
prove that there are local causes forthedifFerence.
In the South, there are comparatively few teach
ers, and the proportion of men and women is not
only nearly equal, but there are no high salaries
Riven to anybody. No man of great intelligence
competes with women for the position of a peda
gogue ; and the few competitors the sex encoun
ters are not aspirants for very high wages, seeing
they are content to teach for an average of $35
per month. In the North, on the contrary, the
position of a teacher is an exalted one. Educa
tional standards rank high, and talented men are
ambitious to secure the best positions. Women
largely outnumber men in the North, the State of
Massachusetts alone containing an excess of
seventy-five thousand widows and spinsters, who
present the ideal anomaly of a "supjorted and
protected sex" with no masculine supporters or
protectors to rely upon. These hordes of women,
being in the position of perpetual minority, need
not hope, while they huve no official votes, to suc
cessfully cope with men who can manipulate
school boards in their own interest and secure
largo pay for their services. The result is that
women, driven to the wall in the struggle for
bread and butter, are compelled to underbid each
other in the few overcrowded professions open to
them, of which teaching is the mo3t prominent.
When men shall have risen above the idea that
an aristocracy of sex constitutes a true republic,
and shall learn to scorn any position, emolument
or privilege which thej' are not willing to grant
their wives, their sisters, their cousins and their
aunts, the science of teaching will be given up al
most wholly to women, who, having equal rights
with their present superiors, will no longer be
compelled to crowd each other into toiling for a
pittance, while the easy positions and lucrative
remuneration are monopolized by those who now
have votes.
A letter from a prominent gentleman of South
ern Oregon states that hoodlumism was so ram
pant at Jacksonville that the citizens made no ar
rangements for any demonstration on the arrival
of the Presidential party, fearing that the slums
of the town would cause trouble and publicly In
sult, the company. There was not even a com
mittee appointed to receive the distinguished vis
itors ; but it was necessary for the party to remain
over' night, and in the evening a quiet reception
was held. That the guests noticed the town's
slight, is shown by the fact that tlicy mentioned
the kind welcome accorded them at Ashland. It
is enough to Hush the face of every "Oregonian to
know that the only discourtesy shown the Presi
dent on liis tour was shortly after his arrival in
our State. Brigadier-General Tlios. G. Reames,
of the Oregon State Militia, is President of the
Town Board of Jacksonville, and such a man
could not be expected to rise above his level, even
to welcome the Chief Executive of the Nation.
Tho respectable people of the place feel deeply hu
miliated that they could not venture to treat the
President with the respect due his station.
"THE BLIND MAN ELOQUENT."
Rev. Dr. Milburn delivered his farewoll sermon
in the Taylor-street church on last Sunday even
ing in presence of a large audience. Aside from
his blindness, there is little about him (except the
judicious use of printers' ink) to attract public
attention. He speaks slowly, and" with almost
painful deliberation, and, though his word paint
ing is sometimes striking, like zigzag lightning,
and sometimes gorgeous, like the impossible flow
ers in a Japanese panorama, his attempts at logic
lack both pith and point. The analytical thinker,
who listens for two hours to his masterly display
of mental imagery, goes away with a sigh of
relief that it is over, and askshimself, What of it?
and what does it amount to, after it is all said ?
There are half a dozen better pulpit orators in
Portland than he, any one of whom, by judicious
advertising, would succeed better in Boston, New
York or London than Dr. Milburn succeeded here,
for the reason that their sermons would be practi
cal and spirited, and up with the inspiration of
the times. The Nkw Noktjiwkst believes that
one sermon by President Lambert of Willamette
University upon "Nature's Religions" is worth a
lifetime of discussion over dead issues. One
learned disquisition by Mr. Eliot, upon "Ancient
and Modern Theology" has more points to it than
were considered by Dr. Milburn in all of his lec
tures here, and one Sunday evening address by
Mr. Cruzan upon "Practical Christianity" will be
productive of more lasting good among the peo
ple than live hundred sermons about Job or David,
or any other defunct barbarian of "Bible days,
who, if ho lived to-day, would not be allowed a
hearing in any church in all Christendom.
MAINE'S LATEST LIQUOR LAW.
Maine is the acknowledged home of the Pro
hibitionists. Their number in the Pine Tree State
is sufficiently great to enable them to put almost
any restriction on the whisky tralfic. The legis
lation heretofore in operation having been found
inadequate to fully carry out the intentions of the
people, they determined to enact a law which
should cover the entire ground and prevent the
sale, gift or use of liquors. Apparently they have
succeeded in making a whisky-proof statute. The
ingenuity of the wine-bibblers and whisky-sellers
will be taxed to the utmost to evade its provisions.
In tle past, a loop-hole of some sort has always
been found in the legislation on the subject ; but
now it is believed that the drinkers are in a bottle,
and that the cork is tightly driven in. When the
ordinary liquor saloon was compelled to put up its
shutters, the private club came into existence;
and when payment for liquor was prohibited, the
dispenser of the beverage found a way of giving it
away, at the same time reaping the usual com
mercial profit Under the new law, all these
tricks and evasions will come to naught. Club
houses and all similar contrivances are to be de
clared nuisances and suppressed upon sight
Giving liquor away is to be remorselessly pun
ished. A person found intoxicated, either on the
streets or in his own house, shall be sent to jail for
thirty days, and if he undertakes to do the thinga
second time, he will be given vacation and an op
portunity to reform for a term three times as long.
It has been reported all over the United States
that the National Woman Suffrage Association
designed to throw its influence in favor of the
Democratic party, and that Miss Anthony had
begun a vigorous campaign in Western New York
against Garfield and in favor of Hancock. Some
of the Democratic journals in Oregon have helped
circulate the rejort, and their attention is asked
to these remarks from the National Citizen, the
recognized organ of the National Association :
"This report is bosh, or worse a lie. The Na
tional Woman Suffrage Association, in accord
ance with its line of policy adopted at its annual
business meeting in Indianapolis, last May, will
support neither party, as neither party inserted
a plank recognizing woman's right to self-government"
Our Providence corresiwndent believes in edu
cational qualifications for voters, deplores the
fact that ignorant men vote "early and often,"
and evidently does not favor giving the ballot to
woman. AVe have no objection to educational
qualifications for voters, but .we want them to ap
ply to men and women alike. Wo are opposed to
keeping all women disfranchised because some
are ignorant, while all men, illiterate and edu
cated alike, can. vote. We do not ask for a con
tinuance of the method of defining voters without
reference to their intelligence or culture, but we
do ask that, if theplan is not to be discarded with
reference to men, it be not made to apply to
women.
A great effort is being made by the Now York
Woman Sulfrage Association to induce the
women of the State to accept the right to vote
on all questions relating to the schools. Members
of the Association among them Miss Anthony,
Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Slocuin are canvassing the
State and arousing women to the importance of
voting "as far as the law will allow them to do."
As they outnumber the men of tho State some
60,000, they have the power to work some just and
needed changes in the conduct of the schools. The
election will be held on the 12th instant
From the Pomoroy (W. T.) Independent : "Two
ladies have been nominated for Superintendents of
Schools in this upper country one on the Demo
cratic and one on the Independent ticket"
OUR HONORED GUESTS.
A J.V XT PKOM SAI.K.AI TO POKThAXI) WITH THE
I'KRSrnKNTIAh I'AKTY.
MISS. 1IAYKS' TltL'K WOMAXI.l.NKSS AX ACKNOWLKDOKI)
FAVOHITK.
The public-spirited citizens of Salem were very
much disappointed on tho 20th ultimo", because
of a change in the programme of the Presidential
party, which so hastened the departure of the dis
tinguished visitors that a sojourn of only two
hours in the Capital City was permitted; but they
proceeded at once to atone in enthusiasm for what
they lacked in time. People of all classes and
ages, to the number of many thousands, congre
gated at the depot, and saluted with cheers, shouts
of welcome and minute guns the special train
upon its arrival. They came in carriages, afobt,
on horseback, and in wagons. They filled the
streets and blockaded the sidewalks and jammed
the rotunda, stairs and corridors of the State
House with a sea of faces.
The Legislature met in joint convention in the
Senate Chamber at noon, President Hirsch in the
chair, and by his side the Speaker of the House.
Tho lobby was crammed with spectators, and all
the spare room inside the bar Avas crowded with
chairs for invited guests. At a few-minutes be
fore one o'clock, the President entered, accompa
nied by Governor Thayer and Secretary Earhart,
followed by Mrs. Hayes, her lady friends, and the
Secretary of War, General Sherman and General
Howard and staff. The Governor introduced the
President of the United States to the President of
the Oregon Senate. The latter responded in a
brief and appropriate address of welcome, and
concluded by Introducing His Excellency, the
Chief Executive of the Nation, to the Oregon Leg
islature and the assembled multitude. The Presi
dent's address was brief and felicitous, and the
applause that followed was respectful and hearty.
Mrs. Hayes was then introduced, and her gracious
smile of greeting was met with wild enthusiasm.
As it was impossible to admit the vast crowds be
low to the broad corridors and spacious rotunda of
the State House, the jmrty repaired to the open
grounds .at 'the east front of the great building,
where the President ami General Sherman
mounted a platform and made brief and happy
speeches.
The distinguished vi.-itors were then hurried
aboard the waiting train, their company' aug
mented by a large number of invited guests,
among them the undersigned, who, overcome by
the fatigue of "wearing out her life in the service
of an ungrateful country," had been unable to go
toRoseburgon the previous day. The escorting
company consisted in jmrt of Governor Thayer,
Hon. J. II. Mitchell, General Howard and staff,
Captain Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Newberry, Mrs.
D'. P. Thompson, Hon. and Mrs. A. C. Gibbs, Hon.
J. N. Dolpli, Mrs. R. Koehler, Hon. H. W. Scott,
Postmaster Cole, and Judge M. P. Deady. Al
though the visitors were all noted for theirsuavity
and intelligence, Mrs. Hayes carried the palm in
agreeableness, and, unconsciously to herself, was
everybody's acknowledged favorite. She has
earned her high distinction as the leading woman
in American society through the exercise of sound
good sense and true womanliness. As mistress of
the White House, she was the first lady who dared
to banish wines and gambling from its historic
wills. She is known from Maine to Oregon as an
earnest advocate of Woman Suffrage, having
long been a leading member of the Ohio State W.
S. Association. Children delight her mother
heart, and the joor ami newly are never repulsed
when they approach her. She is a warm friend of
education, morality and temperance; and, if all
the women and half the men of America had their
choice to-day, she would lie the next President of
the United States. But this is not yet a free coun
try, nor will it be while women, who constitute
one-half the people, are denied a voice in making
the laws to which they are held amenable, and
whieft deny them, among other rights, the right
to be President or choose their executive leader.
When the party reached the East Portland
ferry, they were met by carriages and conveyed
across the river, where they were greeted by
D. P. Thompson, Mayor of the city, and Colonel
McCraken, Marshal of the day. The President
received the Mayor's message, standing in the
carriage with uncovered head and a benign smile
lighting up ids expressive features. The proces
sion then proceeded through Front street to the
Esmond Hotel, where apartments had been as
signed to the city's guests, and where everything
had been handsomely fitted up for their reception.
Desire to see the President attracted large crowds
of "people to the city on Friday. Every arriving
train and boat was crowded, and thousands of
eager faces were seen upon the streets.
After a night's rest, the party drove through the
principal thoroughfares and out upon Robinson's
Hill. They climbed to the dome of the Custom
House and admired the scenery of the country
and the buildings of the city. After lunch, they
visited the public schools, and were fairly deluged
with flowers. It was a day long to be remembered
by the little folks. But the crowning event of the
season was tho reception at the Mechanics' Pavil
ion in the evening. Fully eight thousand persons
were present. The military band from Vancouver
furnished delightful music. The Pavilion was
ablaze with light, and the grand fountain played
a sweet refrain to National aire. Hon. J. N.
Dolph outdid himself in a masterly address of
welcome to the President, which closed with a
stirring appeal to the Infinite Good to grant a
lease of life unto His Excellency that might ena
ble him to see the country advance speedily to
that secure protection of the Constitution and the
laws which shall guarantee to every man, woman
and child who owes the Nation allegiance the
equal protection of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. The President's response was able,
comprehensive and kindly. The speeclr of
Secretary Ramsey was plain, statesmanlike and
candid, and the address of General Sherman was
brief, amusing and popular. The presentation of
Mrs. Hayes created the greatest enthusiasm. The
lady bowed her gracious acknowledgments, and
took her seat amid renewed outbursts of tumultu
ous delight. She is doing more for Woman Suf
frage than all the platform orators in the land.
The women of the future will arise and call her
blessed. A. S. D.
Portland, October 2, 1SS0.
A Topeka (Kansas) correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune writes as follows of the political influence
of women in that State during the recent heated
campaign: "I overheard a man say that hereto
fore his wife had taken no interest in politics, but
this time she said to him, 'Now, husband, you go
down to Topeka and vote for St John.' It does
seem that the wives and mothers are aroused, and
I have good authority for the following story:
When the amendment was hanging by a slender
thread in the House, and it required one vote to
secure its passage, the wife of one of the members
attained access to the floor, and, going up to her
husband, entreated him to vote for prohibition.
Her action was successful, and upon that woman's
appeal, it may be said, all of the heat and warmth
of the gubernatorial contest rested."
The editor of the Jacksonville Times prates of
the "legitimate sphere" of women. Will this
learned philosopher define their "sphere" and ex
plain how he comes by the right to name or limit
the duties or privileges of any class ? We hope
for a satisfactory reply from one who has given
the subject the years of careful consideration and
deep study necessary to enable him to positively
assert that there is a "sphere" within which
women should be kept
We haste to correct our statement that the edi- .
tor of the Pomeroy Independent wants a Avife.
He admits that he is married, and says he dandles
two fine girls on his knee. The question arises,
Are they his daughters, or do they belong to other
families ? Please be explicit, Brother.
An old physician, writing to a paper, says:
"My text in speaking is not woman's rights, but
woman's wrongs-, imposed upon her by father,
husband, sons and brothers, and even lovers."
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
Rose Ey tinge has a new play entitled "A Bail led
Widow."
The Lingards will not return from Australia for
several mouths.
Dr. Tanner failed to draw $100 at his first ap
pearance as a lecturer.
Adelina Patti's income while singing has been
estimated at $7 per minute.
The Hyers Sisters have a new play entitled
"Shoddy, or Fun on the Brain."
Billy Arlington has given up the lecture plat
form ami gone back to burnt cork.
T. W. Keene has created a sensation in Chicago
by his rendition of Richard III. He is pronounced
the equal of Barrett as a Shaksiearean actor.
The Chief of the New York Fire" Department
says several of Gotham's theaters are nothing but
man-traps, with inadequate means of escape in
case of a panic.,,
S. S. Baldwin, the "exposer of Spiritualism,"
who, it will be remembered, visited Portland some
years since, now has a traveling company of his
own, known as "Baldwin's Briluants."
The San Francisco Chronicle says that George
D. Chaplin has almost entirely recovered. He is
sufficiently well, at any rate, to take a place
among the traveling company of "Two Nights in
Rome."
W. W. Keller, a New York theatrical manager,
cognizant of the fact that a rake and mountebank
will "draw" when legitimate attractions will fail,
has engaged Mayor Kalloch of San Francisco to
deliver a course bf lectures in the East.
Mrs. F. M. Bates, well and favorably known to
old theater-goers of this city as an actress of great
versatility, having played several seasons at the
Oro FinoTheateru number of years ago, reeei'ed
a complimentary benefit at the Baldwin Theater,
San Francisco, on last Sunday evening. The
lady appeared in "East Lynne," and was sup
ported by the Baldwin company.
Miss Lolla O'Connor was the recipient of a ben
efit on last Saturday evening at New Market
Theater. The child, who is but twelve years of
age, exhibits a degree of talent and energy that is
simply phenomenal. If she does not break down
under tlie too great mental and physical strain
she is enduring at present, there is no doubt that
she -will become a star of the first histrionic mag
nitude. Her parents ought now, and for the next
five years, to devote her energies mainly to the
full development of her strength and health, as
there is great danger that she will overtax her
self and fail physically under her present training.
The following from the Chicago Tribune, in
reference toJUiss Abbott as "Virginia" in Masso's
opera, is recommended to the ambitious and
flighty musical critics of Portland's daily press for
careful perusal and study, as some of them mav
utilize it when the next half-amateur concert
troupe comes along : "The little diva caroled last
night ail ravir. In it (tho romanza) she
is debonnaire witli all the abandon of a
first love. Throughout sho is thoroughly mia
nonne. Her voice and method are ex
quisitely adapted to the svclio, and in tho aria sho
displayed sweetness in the susteinito and far be
yond her most brilliant fioriture of other roles in
the final cadenza." .