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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1880)
.THE JSOgW- ffORTHWEP, THXTBSDAY, DECEMBER 16, Tl$80. ' A' Journal for tlie People. Independent in Politics and Religion. Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly Jiadical in Op posing and Exposing the Vrongs of the Masses. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (I3f ADVANCE): One Year, by Mail..... . . 83 00 Six Months, " Three Months, " . 1 Per Month to City Patr6ns (delivcredj. ... - Advertisements will be Inserted at Reasonable Prices. All Correspondence intended for publication should bead dressed to the Editor, and all business letters to the DUXTWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, No. 6 Washington street, Jbrtlund, Oregon. Portland, Oregon, Thursday, December 10, isso PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT. During the coining year, Mrs. A. S. Dunlwny will be so constantly employed In public work that she will find it inconvenient lo furnish a serial for theXitw Northwest, to succeed the one now being printed. The publishers are desirous or furnishing an excellent stoo'i d, realizing that the proper way toisecure one of morit is to bring con tributors into competition, hereby oiler a prize of $75 00 for tho best original serial tllnt shall roach this oillce by the Utth of February, 1SSL To tho second best we will award S5 00. We will be the Judges of the merits of Ihe stories, and do not desire names of authors until after we publish the title of the one awarded the first premium. We reserve the right to reject any or all offers. The stories must con sist of about twenty-six chapters, of not less than three col umns to the chapter. We would prefer them to point a moral in the direction of the woman movement. v EFFECTS OF THE RESOLUTION. Tho effects of the passage by the Legislature of the resolution for a Woman Suffrage amendment to the State's Constitution are already quite no ticeable. Two ladies and two gentlemen who have not heretofore taken any active part in the woman movement have notified the editor of this journal that they are ready to "stump the State for the resolution" whenever the suffragists choose to call on them. Several town and county "Woman Suffrage Societies have been organized, the former auxiliary to the latter, and the latter auxiliary to the State Association. Public arguments by in dividuals and debates by societies on the merits of the woman movement have occurred, and there have been private discussions almost Innumera ble. The press of the State has commented on the action of the law-makers, a majority of the jmpers sanctioning the resolution. These various agi tations liave led large numbers of heretofore un concerned people to give the woman movement attention, and with good result-, for no one will be turned against it by investigation. Perhaps no other persons are so well able to peak of effects of the resolution as the publishers of the Nbw Northwest. This paper, being the recognized champion of the Woman Suffrage cause in this State, naturally looked for many ap plications for specimen copies and an extended circulation in course of time; but the demands for .sample numbers and the increase in orders for subscriptions are in excess of our anticipations. We have circulated thousands of these specimens free, paying the postage ourselves, and aro print ing more papers for steady patrons than at any previous time. The applications for specimens have come from nearly every county in Oregon and from most of the States in the Union. We have had requests from postmasters for copies for distribution one gentleman in particular fa stranger to us) stating that he could place papers to advantage, and would cheerfully hand them to persons who would become supporters of the paper. We realize the necessity of doing every thing possible to promote the cause, and shall print and circulate extra copies to the extent of our means. SAN FRANCISCO'S SHAME. From the Chronicle, we learn that Mayor Kalloch has been giving "permits" by which children are allowed to perform in the music halls and "dives" of San Francisco. Nathaniel Hunter, Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, had the proprietor of a disreputable Dupont-strcet resort arrested for employing a Ut ile girl in his place, when he was confronted with a "permit" by tho Mayor for the child to appear in theaters, with an interlineation allow ing her to be used in music halls. Mr. Hunter claims that the Mayor has no power to grant this warrant, and will proceed with the case. He has learned that more of the "permits" are floating around, and he intends to break up the pernicious practice of granting them. No wonder the better class of San Franciscans are ashamed of their Mayor, who, while a minister of the gospel, grants permits for starting young girls down the road tqjjruin, sanctions tho oin tment of childish innocence as a means of at- capting cusJjOjnjrJsto beer cellars, and approves ligacts.jif f noHbyfevords, the debauchmont of loraeoureivneuegrauation of men. The mi raprMpltta tlie Kallochs up a tree, aiied yfdrocious blood-hound, with the cu Public r3nion' ' oh its collar, while lorder;" Mtnorality," and "virtue" aro red over theff round. JSEl convention of the Ameri- aanBpAjBsdcition was commenced t da - ESln tHalF- Washington. IX C. iwSuncedKddress tho- meeting eWary A. Livermore, FJJy E. Haggart and Matilda J CHINESE VOTERS. Thirty-seven Chinamen voted in New York City on the 2d of last month whether for Garfield or Hancock, we cannot say. The number .is not sufficient to make any perceptible difference in the vote, or in any way to influence the result; but it is enough to alarm all people who have any knowledge of the Chinese. It is the entering wedge for the enfranchisement of this class, who will not and never can be made to assimilate with the American people and become a part of the Nation ; who will never accept the benefits of our civilization and become its upholders and extend ers; who will never embrace the Christian relig ion, or infidelity even, but will remain idolators; who have no regard for chastity, morality and virtue, and no respect for womanhood; who never assist in the prevention of crime or help to bring offenders to justice, but look with contempt upon all wholesome American statutes; who swarm in plague-breeding shanties, knowing lit tle and caring less about sanitary laws, and bringing forth pestilential diseases; who are in veterate gamblers and opium-users; who believe in slavery and practice it in the hearts of Ameri can cities ; who by a system of secret orders, aided by intimidation and assassination, maintain such a reign of terror that only in rare instances do their serfs break away from them; who are almost without affection, destitute of charity, blind to good motives, and devoid of honor; who have no reverence for the aged and infirm, leaving their invalids in out-of-the-way places to starve rather than care for them; who worship only mammon and their Josses of various sizes and de grees; avIio exist in such places and under such conditions that it is impossible to keep any ac count of their numbers or any directory of their names and occupations; whocome to thiscountry temporarily for gain, and care nothing about methods so long as the end is accomplished ; who desert the temporary stopping place and return to their celestial homes when their aims are accom plished; who never will become citizens in spirit, but only as a means of helping them to gain a competence to carry to China. We harbor no hatred of the Chinese. They have a right to what they earn; it is theirs, to take with them where they like. They have a right to their roligious idolatry; the Constitution guarantees it to them. They have a right, guar anteed them by tho unwritten law of the sacred tradition that the United States Is a home for the oppressed of all nations, to seek this land if they wish to become bomt fide citizens. But they come not for the purpose of securing citizen ship, only so far as citizenship will be profitable to them; they are not trying to escape from "op pression" in their native land ; they are not mem bers of the class Americans invite; thoy do not seek our country as a home and an asylum from tyranny. Having closely observed the Chinese as they exist in nearly all the Western towns and cities, we unhesitatingly affirm that they will make the most corrupt of all tho corrupt classes who wield the ballot. They appreciate tho fact that the villainous politicians will place a cash value on their votes. Their bosses will sell their suffrages wholesale. They will be the means of electing the nominees that have tlie most money and are unscrupulous enough to use it. They will be a power that cannot be disregarded. This situation of affairs is causing the people of the Pacific Slope great alarm. There is consider able discussion as to the means to be employed to offset this blighting power. The result of the de liberations of the Chinese Commission is not known. If tho new articles open the way for ab rogating the Burlingame treaty, it is by no means certain that the opportunity will he improved. If the treaty is annulled, there are enough Chinese already in the Pacific States, who can claim the protection of the Government, to cause any amount of trouble for years to come. In looking for a solution of the politico-Chinese problem, the Independence River Side, edited by G. W. Quivey, boldly speaks as follows: With tills last addition of the mercenary and unscrupu lous Chinaman to tho list of voters, tlie crowning act has been added to the corruption of the ballot In America; and now it is time that something In- done to purify It. With the ballot in the hands of the ignorant mid corrupt of all castes and colors, It is not to be wondered at that In many places the question of political success is merely a question of barter and sale. This Is a matter which should cause thinking men to pauee and consider well whether or not some remedy for this state of affairs cannot be found. As an element of purity In politics, would It not be well to In vest the noble women of America with the elective fran chise? Whoshnll say that his mother, wife or sister Is not more honest, more Intelligent, anil more capable of casting a pure and true vote, than the degraded denizens of "Five Points," the Ignorant negro, or the opium-besotted China man? The tlmo Is fast approaching when tho Indian, Ills tribal relations broken up, will be made a citizen, and will be, at the polls, the peer of any man, his ballot falling with as much weight as tho ballot of any single individual. Something must bo done, and that right soon, to remedy this state of aflalrs; and wo see no method bettor or more likely to prove effective thnn the enfranchisement of the noble, Intelligent women of our land. It is probable that the sentiments expressed in this extract will frighten some timid men, who fear their wives will be degraded by voting along side of Chinese. Wo would suggest that it is bet ter to have women the political equals of China men than their inferiors-. Mrs. Yoakam, of Coos county, aided by her daughter and one hired man, carries on her farm, and has this season laid down 1600 pounds of butter, for which she expects to realize fifty cents per pound during the Winter. Besides suf- ficient hay for her stock, she had forty tons to sell. "MAKING CONVERTS." , " ' ,. -L ; '. ' - Tn an argument with an opponent of Woman Suffrage,-a friend of the movement is frequently unsuccessful in making converts because of tlie difficulty in obtaining the attention of antago nists, who listen without hearing or hear without understanding. This is not the fault of the cham pion of the reform in failing to clearly state points, but the result of the egotism of the opposers, who, honestly thinking their ideas and opinions unas sailable, are engaged in formulating further ob jections, instead of being attentive and respectful listeners. We have had considerable experience with the class indicated, and have frequently found it necessary to corner opposers and mildly insist on their either acknowledging the logical conclusions of our arguments or refuting our re marks. For instance, after indulging in a consti tution dissertation on the injustice of taxing women without representation and governing them without consent, it is not satisfactory to have an opponent begin to declare, that woman's sphere is the home, or that the voters of cities are so rough that women would be degraded by mingling with them at the polls. This ignoring of right and justice and disregarding of all the principles on which our government is based, and raising objections based on expediency, is the most common of all the means used to answer or offset the claims of women to individual freedom and sovereignty. If by mild and firm means an opposer can be made to look into the right of women's claims, the result is certain. When any person is shown and comprehends the justice of any measure, it is comparatively easy to predicate effects that will convince him of its expediency. Whatever is right, will do no harm; and argu ments should be made with a view to defining the rights and duties of individuate both men and women. John Scales, of Dover, New Hampshire, is one of the most thoughtful, careful and radical of the many writers on the Woman Suffrage question, and never for an instant loses sight of the just governmental principle that every individual is entitled to and should have a voice in making and in naming the executors of the laws under which he or she lives. Colonel T. W. Higginson, one of tho editorial contributors to the Woman's Journal, having said, in speaking of "personal liberty" and "enfranchisement," that "a question of en franchisement, complicated with questions of tax ation, rwidenee, education, and so on, affords some perplexity even as regards men, and still more where women are concerned," is promptly answered by Mr. Scales, who does not accept the statement, and wants to know why the case is "still more complex when women are in ques tion." He supplements his disagreement with these remarks: "If it is right for one class of men to vote, it is equally right for the similar class of women to vote on the same terms. It is not only equally right but equally safe for the moral welfare of society and for the maintenance of good government. Women do not constitute the dangerous class in society ami government." There is a man in Trenton, N. J., who wants a wife. That he wants a partner bad, is proven by tho fact that he is advertising throughout the country for one. No ordinary woman will an swer his purpose. The lucky creature must be a "quiet, respectable, cultivated, Protestant lady, (85 to 50 years of age), of large wealth, without children or incumbrances whatever, of moderately tall and plump form, dark eyes, vigorous health, kind, sympathetic and motherly disposition, and a neat, tidy and prudent housekeeper." The gen tleman makes a mistake in sending to Oregon for this kind of a woman. With proverbial enter prise, Western men will not allow to remain sin gle a woman of "largo wealth and of kind ami sympathetic disposition," but are over on the alert to "support" such wives. Beerstecher, one of California's Railroad Com missioners, who came to the surface as a Work ingman about two years ago, was shot and badly wounded last Sunday night by Antone Fischer, President of the club to which his victim be longed. Of course, the assailant affects the "in sane" dodge. It is a peculiar characteristic of San Francisco muderers that they are "not of sound mind." Their brains aro always just sufficiently damaged to enable them fo keep out of the hang man's clutches, out of the penitentiary, and out of the asylum for the insane. In an exchnnge it is stated that the franchise litis been extended to tho women in the Isle of Man. The little country is not subject to the British Parliament, but is a separate kingdom, having its own Legislature. The Manchester (England) Woman Suffrage Journal says that the Isle will be "a kind of Paradise for women," as they will have tho ballot, and there arc no taxes there. "Escrito," the Oregonian's correspondent at La Grande, writing to that journal under date of the 1st instant, says : "Mrs. Duniway has been ad dressing unusually large audiences throughout this section. Sho is at present the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Chaplain of this place " Miss Emma Molloy has gone to New York City to take editorial work on Tho Morning. Her In diana constituency still keep hold of her, how ever, to the extent of frequent visits for work among them. Some time since Jas. H. Turner became dis satisfied and disgusted with the views expressed by the East Oregonian on certain topics. Feeling the injustice and humiliation of bearing the re proach accruing to him as the senior proprietor and accredited editor of the paper that published so much puerility, he put up tlie name of L. B. Cox as editor. Whence this brilliant journalist hailed, it was not stated ; but from a recent para graph it is evident that he is a product of the South. From "a general acquaintance with every Southern State," he "feels warranted in repelling the slander," uttered by an Alabama gentleman in St. Louis, that the women of the South are in telligent and independent enough to think for themselves and to object to being legally regarded as the equals of criminals, idiots and lunatics and the inferiors of their former masculine slaves. He must have learned the definition of "slander" from a rare lexicon. Mrs. M. P. Ames will please accept our thanks for a copy of the resolutions unanimously adopted after Mrs. Duniway's third lecture in Union. They are inserted in the proper place in Mrs. D.'s correspondence. GENERAL NEWS. Ex-Senator Starbuck died at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 11th instant. Southern States, so it is reported, will partici pate in the inauguration of General Garfield. On the 11th inst, during a fire in Guy's bucket factory, Cincinnati, five firemen were burned to death. A large gang of counterfeiters was broken up in New York on the 10th inst., quite a number being captured and lodged in jail. Captain Jas. Davis, a deputy United States Marshal, was killed near Cooksville, Tenn., on the 10th inst., by a party of evaders of therevenuo laws. Schrocder, who killed Dr. Le Fevre, of Oakland, Cal., for seducing his wife, and whose trial for murder has been dragging along in San Francisco for some time, has been adjudged not guilty. The indictments against Byrne, Post, Hart and Philp, for libelling General Garfield, have not been dismissed, "on the ground of misjointure," iiud'the trial will bo had in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. A Deputy United States Marshal, John B. Har die, has been killed by Alabama moonshiners. Commissioner Raum has sent the Federal officers instructions to use the most rigorous measures to bring the murderers to justice. A young woman, Mrs. Kennedy, was murdered and horribly mutilated near Salem, S. C, on the 11th, by two colored boys and a colored girl, aged respectively 10, IS and 15 years. Subsequently all three were taken from jail by a mob and hanged. A disastrous fire occurred at Pensacola, Florida, last Saturday. Five blocks, embracing over one hundred establishments, were destroyed. Fifty families were turned into the streets. The custom house, post olfice, county clerk's office, banks and two newspaper buildings were among the burned structures. "Payne's Ocklahama colonist--," organized for the purpose of entering Indian Territory and set tling on lands reserved for the Indians, are on tlie bonier of Kansas, and seem determined. Troops watch their every movement, having orders to prevent their occupying the Territory, and trouble will probably ensue. Tne situation is critical. G. S. Boutwell, Chester A. Arthur, Noah Davis and Roscoe Conkling having denounced as a "willful and wicked falsehood" the reported as sertion of Senator Bayard that they had defrauded the customs service of $267,000 and divided it among themselves the Senator comes forward with a disclaimer that he ever uttered such senti ments. John Kelly, the New York "boss," has been ousted from tho office of Comptroller, four Tam many Aldermen having deserted him and helped to elect Allen Campbell to the oflice. The Re publican members voted against Kelly, proving the falseness of the charge that there was a bar gain between the "boss" and the Republican party. Kelly acts the man, congratulating his successor and offering counsel and assistance in regard to the duties of the Comptrollership. The Tammanyites have met and endorsed Kelly ; but they denounce Tilden and his party as traitors to Hancock. Their newspapers are very severe in their strictures on the four bolting Aldermen ; but other journals are well satisfied with the turn affairs have taken. The rivalry between the Panama and tho Nic araguan canal companies increases. De Lesseps has made arrangements for an American director ate of the former, with Secretary Thompson as its President (he has resigned the Navy portfolio to accept the now position), thereby destroying the effect of all the objections foundetl on the,'Monroe doctrine." Subscription books are open through out the country, and the stock is being rapidly taken. In opposition, General Grant and other gentlemen have succeeded in getting before Con gross a bill for tho organization of the Maritime Canal Company, their object being tiie construc tiog of a Nicaraguan canal. The preamble recites that the United States Goverment has entered into treaty stipulations for tho protection of such a canal. FOREIGN NEWS. A number of Jesuit exiles from France havo ar rived at Montreal. A Montreal priest has warned his Hock against patronizing Bernhardt's performances. A London dispatch says eighty-six men woro buried alive in the Penygraig coal pit, Wales, on the 11th, by an explosion. The Governor of Hongkong, Sir John Popo Hennessy, has abolished the branding and flog ging of Chinese criminals in his province. Affairs in Ireland are in a peculiarly critical situation. The Land Leaguers demand "homo rule" or nothing, and the British Government will not accede to the demand. Everything points toward bloodshed and perhaps civil war Coercion must ultimately he adopted by the Gov ernment, which cannot permit the laws, bad and burdensome though they be, to be trampled under A v