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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
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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."
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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
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