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Fkeb 8iekch, Fkek Pkess, Fkee People.
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TtfXLUME X. NO. 9.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1880.
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3t BBi'DXTNl WAY'S DESCRIPTION OK THK COUNTUY
SCKNRS AW) K VENTS NOTICED HY IIBH
PUKING TIIK PAST WBKK.
Burnt Ranch b, Or., November 8, 1SS0.
i S R TCKADKB-S OK THE NtfW ?'V trUWIWfli
If vou d.,l'v to know ii:-' ' -w well of the very
an lest Kind of active variety you can endure unil
t you can learn it al! by goingn-stoglng in, the
e. tt treeless upland region of Eastern fOreg0n ;
uul Washington. But you neeu not exiect me
j all hardship, for you can also expen-
usiue enjovment which no life-long
mi of a city can dream of, unless he, like our
self, becomes a political missionary, or,
kg in that, a stockman or pioneer rancher's
rife.
After a busy day and almost sleepless nightfit
The Dalles, wo, on the morning of the 31st ultimo,
boarded the thoroughbrace mail wagon, which
kindly called for us at the Umatilla House, our
iiMiiation Canyon City, Baker City, and such
nietmcdinte points as we might be induced by
wjrk or weariness to halt at. These journeys by
tagH have been so often described in the People's
that, but for the multiplicity of new readers
haire constantly widening our ranks,, it would
hardly be worth while to give them more than
iig mention.
pltl us, at seven A. jr., seated upon the perch
the driver, so well wrapped in overcoats
mi tilers that we resemble a Kalmuck Tartar
Esquimau rather than a native-born vic
tim of "taxation without representation." The
air is cold and bracing, and the vaulted heavens
are ns clear as the tones of a silver bell. "We lea e
the rocky flat where the thriving lower town lies
nestling, and climb to the rocky upland where the
growing upper town is nourishing. Then on and
on we go, careening, bumping, crashing, bounding
over the billowy bunch-grass plain, the road run
ning at times through canons and over winding
0043, with ever another higher range of hills
ah ad of us, and on our right the great white peaks
giti the Cascade Range keeping eternal guard over
illimitable vista that is everywhere
tftspread boneath the bending HM-d
tlf in the valleys are- excellent farms, awiail
along on the hillsides are thertpen stock ranges.
V. e traveled through these scenes of ever-vnrying
san.niess for twenty-five Cayuse miles (or about
nixc- English ones), and then struck the grade
lea
ng to the Deschutes bridge. The driver here
pni
m the brake ami gave the well-drilled horses
the
fin
Aein, ami down we went at railroad speed,
tgh awl over a labyrinthine maze of serjMMi
tarves and doubles, the road just wide enough
tor i he wagon, with zigzag deptlis ujon the left,
and certain death at the bottom if the rigging
bau d break, and zigzag heights upon the right
Wbich no pedestrian would care to climb, all cov
end to their heights and depths with a shaggy
Oat of bunch-grass, like the uncombed wool on the
bi;k of a CoUtwold buck, or, barring the color,
lite the unkempt hair on the flattened head of a
Dobl red man. This steep and winding grade is
Htm mill long, and forms a part of the great toll
read running across the Deschutes River and out
toward Bake Oven and the John Day Valley to
; Canyon City. At its feet the Deschutes River
' raits through a deep and rocky gorge of porous
and basaltic rock, and is spanned by a bridge of
ti-.-'i brief dimensions that you pause in astonish
nv and gaze upon it in awe and wonder. The
w ing waters that roar and surge beneath this
bri'.ue are eighty-seven feet in depth at low water
ma and the great river is literally "sot up on
edgt " as it ceaselessly struggles through its rocky
roadway in seeking egress toward the sea.
'Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Shoarar, the enterprising
proprietors of this bridge and toll-road, keep a
travelers' rest at the bridge, and a cosy and pleas
ant abode for the bruised and weary stager it is,
too. "When we saw how inviting its quarters
Wure, we grew too weary to go on, and the rest we
enjoyed under the lee of the great perpendicular
elitft that wall the obtruding heights upon either
aide of the narrow valley will long remain with
I lis as a genial memory. Mrs. Shoarar, like all
sensible women, understands her business, and is
btr husband's partner, book-keeper and general
fattohun. Their business is immense, and is con-
- stain ly increasing. Can anybody tell us why Mrs.
8LHmr, who is as heavy a tax-jmyer as her hus
band, should not vote as well as he?
There are many grand natural curiosities in the
vi inity which we should dearly love to visit did
tiaie permit; but our "clerk of the weather" (a
complaining corn) is warning us to hurry onward
nd escape a coming storm. So on the morrow
again mount tho stwge, and, after a ride of
tw-uty miles througl an intensely rocky, rough
and romantic stretch of volcanic upland, wo aro
ov. naken by the fulhof njght at thoiioad of Doad
3Xv' Gulch, and tho drivor tells us- that wo aro
EASTERN OREGON.
faUH
am i
of
within six miles of Bake Oven station. The miles
up here have all heen measured on Cayuse horses,
with a tail's length thrown In for good count after
every jump; but we are used to it by this time,
and endure the long ride through the darkness
with a woman's fortitude.
Bake Oven is a stage station and nost oflice,
presided over by Mr. and Mrs. Burgess, i amiable
and hospitable couple who nr enjoying" the suc
cess they so eminently dosorve. Their ranuhe is
romantically situated in a winding valley through
which a living stream is coursing, and is bounded
oh all sides by an upland plain, which is given
over to the use of immense flocks and herds.
"We here yielded to the hospitable invitation of
the? courteous host, and, after supper, gave the
crowd of teamsters who were at tho hotel for the
night a friendly "talk," which so pleased them
that we spoke again by invitation on the morrow,
which,, being "election day," was tho scone of
unusual activity and interest. The polls were
opened in the ladles' parlor, where the gentle
manly judges presided over the destiny of the
voters with becoming gravity. Half a dozen la
dies wore present, every one of whom expressed
herself "determined to vote for the next Presi
dent," and, judging from the popularity of the
suflrage movement here, we have no doubt that
they will. About one o'clock the polls were closed
for a horse-nice, and we all went up the hill in a
pouring rain to see the fun, which such as it
was lasted for an hour, and we then returned,
wet but jolly, to the hotel, where a goodly crowd
had assembled from a radius of forty miles around
to hear tho lecture. The occasion could not have
been more opportunely chosen. In tho ladies'
parlor sat the judges of olection, around them
their wives and daughters, and in the men's
sitting-room, which was densely crowded, sat or
stood an attentive bund of interested hearers of
the gospel of liberty for women. The silly sophis
try which claims that it will degrade women to
go to the polls was happily exploded here by prac
tical experiment. Mr. Hilton, with his young
and amiable wife, who is a sister of Mrs. Young Qf
the Occidental Hotel of Portland, is living a few;
miles from here upon a sheep ranciie, and doing
well. Mr. and Mrs. "White, formerly of Portland,
tmd Uutix interesting daughters, live near, also
upon a sheep ranchc. f Ju Misses White, one of
whom is the district school ma'am, favored our
lecture with excellent vocal music with organ ac
companiment. Mr. R. Rooton, a successful stock
man, and a bachelor, very kindly interested him
self in circulating the announcement of the lec
ture and in bringing out the ladies from an adja
cent ranche by the hack load. The woman who
lias the good sense to marry him will be in luck.
Six v. r. came on ajwee, tho lecture whs over,
the polls were closed, and it was super-time.
The day had been as quietly and orderly sent as
though the olection had been held by the men anil
women of Laramie City. The crowd dlsjMjrsed,
and at seven o'clock we mounted a buck-board for
the night drive of forty-seven Cayuse miles across
the country, our destination Burnt Ranche. .IMie
rain hmlceased, and the
down upon us from t
irs ijfffmed
averts, like
myriads of
A
; little 4jUpJ;-
luMird up
4 a.ff
thl Kcntlenmnfv
driver Wj
h bucking
pony ram
eu their loud ovnr
uie slippery rnlges with the stoical fortitude of
law-abiding heroes.
Eleven o'clock, and Antelope Station. Here a
shivering woman rises from her bed to distribute
the moil, while her protector and head, the post
master dc jure, who gets the salary, snoozed
cosily beneath the blankets. "We'll wager an
opinion that he "thinks too much of women" to
permit them to vote, if he can help It. The wom
an growled, and no wonder. There was no lire,
and we climbed into the buck-board again anil
traveled on, our teeth chattering.
Cold Camp, an upland distriut of six miles in
width, was reached after a while, and the driver
explained that it was the coldest spot on the jour
ney. "Wc mufllcd up still closer in tho rugs and
blankets, but the air was like frozen razors, aud
we were glad indeed when the "divide" was
crossed and the buck-board dropped into a friendly
gulch that screened us from the wind. Slowly
and wearily the hours lagged, but on and on we
went, and at two a. m. we reached the head of the
John Day grade. Here a scene of indescribable
majesty rewarded us for the journey. A fog came
up from the river so suddenly that we woro hardly
aware of its presence till wo were in it. Tho thick
vapor onvoloped us like wet fleeces, and the mist
confused the faithful horses. "We drove to a higher
point, a little above the fog, and behold the adja
cent heights, all magnified by tho creeping vapor
tlint danced attendance upon the castellated rocks,
as though the high carnival of tho clouds woro in
session. "We could hear the river surge and roar,
but could not hoe It, Nowwoworoupon thegrade.
A fright or misstep of tlichorsos would precipitate
iwjfiBnifB,rnoyft -ruin
us over the rocky precipice into the cataracts be
low. Higher and higher rose the fog. Grander
and more stately grew the adjacent heights.
Louder and louder roared the rushing river. We
grew dizzy with gazing, and were awed with the
mighty majesty of the abounding night. The
grade was short, and we were soon over it. The
road turned from the river, and again we were
above the fog. Oh ! for the brush of a Raphael to
paint that picture for other eyes. With ourself it
wilj remain while consciousness lasts, a thing of
beauty and an abiding majesty.
The day was breaking when we reached Burnt
Ranche, the well-kept home and way station of
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Saltzman, whoro a cheerful
lire, a hearty breakfast and Valf a dozen hours'
sleep have so far refreshed us that wo are able to
ariffo and cat another meal and scribble this letter.
To-morrow (Thnrsday) we go on to Mitchell,
seventeen miles nwaj', where we are to speak in
the evening. A. S. D.
FROM ASTORIA.
Astoria, Novombor 1, 1SS0.
To thk KniTOK ok Tim Nrw Noktiiwhst:
In reading the proceedings of the ratification
mooting held at Salem on tho 21st ultimo, I was
somewhat astonished to And tho following:
After innate, Mre. Dttnlwnr deliver! h hrlf adore of
welcome, nml emit! by IntttMUMlng OoL C A. Recti, who,
Mikl, ImmI bH the flixt ina la Qron who IihiI come
to the Woman Susitaxe platform, and who had Introduced
In the IctHlntnre In 4374 the very iwmtnUoo they were here
to ratify. V ' -
Is it Kssible that, it 'your zeal to do the hand
some by a good ami worthy gentleman's ellbrts in
a just cause, you have forgotton tho ellbrts of
othors equally earnest two years before? If so, I
must refer you to the House journal of 1872. In
it yon will And that House BUI No. 42, to secure
the elective franchise to citizens without regard
to sex, was introduced by your humble servant ;
and in the same session House Resolution No. 06,
introduced by Mr. Willoughby, was the very saute
a introduced by Mr. C. A. Reed. two years later,
anfl met the same fate. Have you forgotten the
ctitumstaiioe of AJrs. Duniwsy's having been in
vited to adUre the House upon the tjaUJtat niat
lerof House BUI No. 42? The same is recorded
In the House journal of '72. Some members said
to 'we then that if I would oiler a resolution to
amend the Constitution, they would suHort it ;
but I had no faith In the just principles of men
who urged the unconstitutionality of direct action
upon the subject by the Legislature, however
shrewd they might be uimjii matters pertaiuiug to
their own interests, and maintained then (and do
ao still) that if we cannot directly pass the law, a
constitutional amendment Is a hoiteless case, and
for this reason no sincere Woman Suffragist
will contend for a moment that direct legislation
upon the subject is unconstitutional (which I will
discuss hereafter). If we cannot jmss the law by
tlie legislature, composed of gentlemen selected
by the people for their justness, moral character
ami ability, supposing them as a body to be above
the average voter, we cannot hope to succeed by
constitutional amendment when it is submited to
the voters, a large portion of whom aw not citi
zens, and never will be many of whom cannot
I 'peuk ttmtynee of our Ianjnojiropeiy, to say
noiniiigot rending aim wnunguijami who nave
been born and raised in countries, where women
are looked upon as menials mtd drudge's for the
especial use and benefit of man ignoring entirely
the question as to whether or not they like IL
Mr. Willoughby, who, by tho way, is one of the
oldest and most unflinching Woman Suffragists in
Oregon and every inch a gentleman, said to me,
after my bill had been passed (into the shades), "I
will try the constitutional amendment dodge, to
see what will come of it, though I have no faith in
it." Mr. T. McF. Patton, who was not a suffragist
only so far as it could he mnde subservient to the
toinponinco cause, introduced a bill to give tho
elective franchise to women on temperance mat
ters. Mr. Englos introduced a modified Woman
Suflrage bill. They all met the same fato in '72
by a close vote, 21 to 22, showing there was no
sincerity in constitutional amendment advocntos.
. I will now give my reasons for not considering
an amendment to the Constitution necessary.
I Section 20 of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution
of Oregon provides :
XolnwHhnll pass grunting privileges or immunities to
any citizen orclim of citizens which upon tliu same tonus
Nliitll not enutiiiy belong to all cltlzuns.
Now, does that convey any meaning or signifi
cance? Is it not replete with fairness, humanity,
justice and equal rights? Nay, is it not big with
meaning of greatest importance to tho human
family? I have no doubt the honorable.-body
which adopted it (the Constitutional Convention
convened at Salem in 1857, composed of sixty
membors) felt and intended tho full force of tho
above expressed sentiment at that time; butthoir
future actions remind me of the cow of historic
rz
fame that gn vc a :
kicked it ovr, a.,
where the J k ox
and logical J;- atijo
feiture to tl'm
to others,):
In all election not
tuUon, every wl.it1 n.
year anil upvritpls
elcctious Muitio .
od buck-; o: ) lilk 4:he
1 in cation U Article "lis
es in (vvhrjh k.jk, iMrtuUj
dfttc-'i upon, vould v arkn fop
the . ry right? t ftecim
'! : -'vi
c!t:vri .if !.
a!'! -.air.
am
r;
No just person ".i, toll t JJie ctever ont
protruding through evwry yOm lo -thk
which is in striking eoljripM mh 4&k!;,. TJ
the Bill of Rights. Tf rtfjj '. 0f
expressed by an a iOin&e,' tbt u!w .v
consult my wife on all , .JatA mi-:f:,
bet your life Snyder w h& ut ;JhW
call names. Howev .- f. .-!tofirjhfev
in the country. The nna uBf ta tfe -
of very ancient origin . n d--flSe Javrertffe ?
intellectual development
tribe, tho greater is th
instance, the Boajesm
Australia, who are ab
ercise their b.-a-sbfp
wives that, ulthoifa
icai consmi : iraar
.... .
broken dowu
it
Ave years. As
is with indi tdu
Woman Suffrage?
whose Intel Uetuai fV
veloped are terribly t
"boss," and it Is we ffgjj.tt'
fit, o iiiuuuuic auu jfz ro'Vu real"
no other excuse for $ecf(Pt a
ateve.
As the se -ttons joo
crienliy opposed
to each ot'.ier lira
!t, one is lav- ana
the other i 'dtpUCI
cording to the phal
h ilaw? Ac-
fpi laW dowa
the ablest i ml most
era in tft tav-
ilized worl i, the seo
Bill of mm
law and tlu section
2 ii null xrA vt5d,
for two 'ain ang. um&mtoble reasons, to-it:
First Art. ele 1 take preeJioence, being ftrbt, an3
is ntt estop -l to any convicting ntatate. SecmiO"
Tlie setio'i of the Bill of Bigbt Is "based upon
commm ase aud the high rl3iplea ot jus
tlce, while Section 2 of Aj-tiA 2 fe offafd and
conflicting ,MMWSi S5SW Lt S?r
Constitutim, thnrrajrh jealoneybf imfm-M
weaker sen, bungitngly put tiOgetiliar, waittttt
ment whi i, If stricUy mJ IUyiasel, weoU
disfranchif .every citizati cf the State iS Oregoa
until the Iislature paapxl a law grkjrting snf
frage regr.rdiess of sex. Has the Legistetore
jwwer so to do? I say yes; and there is not a
lr.wyer in ;'ie land wttfM ntiad Is unbiased or un
prejudiecii who wfH.jfainsay.it, for resnsons to-wit:
The Counitution'oifUie tTnilotl Siwtos provides
that thelc -inakiugpow. r of eaoli State shall bave
control o -i r such nsnt!asuujaat;-$o irovlaioo
therein c tained. Ulio QoTistltution pf Oregon la
silent as e grave upon tn uujwStTof dsatis
franchise f -r women. Nov, SufHt for argu
ment's sn that it was siliuit upon, tha stibjeet ol
elective i ' nehise for tho male ojtujei Js thero
any of th- votUd-bo "bossos" tliaXvoulif tem ii
out of the , wer of the Legislatnro to aqdlrectly
upon tho h ihjqot without going tHcouirfth all
of the qui; ics and formula, of n oonalitational
amendment ' I anstor in.tJtij hingiiajpa of the
sage of ole -Not to ajy alarming Qte&i "
Can a r. rso voto, who is not a citizen of th
United Stte? "laacOrtUilg to Vbe Constitu
tion of Oregon, an all un flan voto who baa resHed
one year i$he Fnlted Stlites and declared hi, 1p
tejutJons; wT;ereas ihtt NaUonayajnsOtution pn
Vldes that f. r-hall bor;:C raiu'enWtW years before
1)0 is a citi . ("mi a woman Uieome a eitixen?
Yes. The r-itutioii of Oregon provides thatar
woman wh an aliateennboootnoaeitizsii.
I intends say1 om thlug about the consfitu
tiohality o Jfi pending constitartional amend
ment, but y" have got thf matter wall ia
hand. I wi ve it with ywfitiJr vUljaT. kow-
over'tlial tnink the authors St that instromeat
got tully demoralized townrtl thChalose 01.
proccfelings, and lmd mor thne mi. thetrfj
than fliey could empl y to advanfinm
Very respectfully, yours for trutlt.
good g)vornment, SAitutft dpfWf
1A" "
Amoig the passengers by tho steamer
which Irought over the famous Mlle.
hardt, avis the widow of. tlio lameiitjWW
t . J J
Lincoln.N The New York jDramrtmb
commontini on the extraordinary rece
tho ecconlri and lowd artist on her arrhiaL a, .
Ms.
mm
eludes by isaing: ,cIt is a curious fiot that-w
this ovation Was boing tondergd Sara lambai
the wife of tlie martyr Prosidont waMDthmo
tho throng uuuoticod, n gray, nvded oU Warn
jostled arid pushed by Anforiqans crowding t
catch a glim- -e oftho Freiich actross." It is tijpt
only a "curi us ftio," but one tbftt iaAagraftt
tlie Americat Republic. 4
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