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4' I t .1 THE NEW XORTHWEST, THURSDAr; DECEMBEJl 30, 1880. 0ie $ttJ $orihwt$t: : "sir all. women VOTE?" . ' Independent e I'UUit and ReUgiam? , . U4m I tf lie mm, mnd Tlkorouffkty JitmUmt im Op- jaweaa mmd XrpoHng th Wrongt mf tho Matt. aVBBCRIPTIOX RATK8 flit ADVANVKjT ' ' Om Tear, a J. 00 MtmUU, ...-,,, in.....-,.- t 6 rftrwr JtfonJAa, " . i . 1 Ul tfrr Mvnlk to OK Wrww (deiinred) , 23 AdvtftltetmemM trUI 6 Inserted mi ReatonabU JYfewa. ' m Qrrwaoxfr-wee intended or publUntion itutul't be ad drrtd 40 tkt Editor, and oJt bukneot letter to the " , DUXXWA T PUBLISHING COMPANY, - Jfo, I WatAtngioo street, PortUind, Oregon. VORTLAXO, REOOX, THURSDAY, iJECEM BUK 1, 10 - rUBUMUERS 'ANNOUNCEMENT. r Durtof the eomlnc year, Mrm. A. H. Dunlway will. "be ao aoaatantlr employed la public work that h-wUt And It tticanveiileot to furnUh a aerial for theNsw Kokthwimt, ao wiwwl the n now being printed. Tha publlahera are 4ealroaa of farnUhlnf an excellent story, and, reallilnf ht the proprr war tq securt one of merit la to bring un tribaters 1st competition, hereby offer a prise o 17500 for t ttfca beat original aerial that ahall reach tola oflto bylfio ' Sita of THwmarr, 1H8L To tha. aeeond bat we will award ftt 0a We will ba tha Judgea of the merit of the a'orlea, : vaa'd aVmot 4ealre name of author antll after we publish ,taaa1tla-of tha one awarded the flrat premium. Wereaerve VttArthl to reject any or all offer. Tha atorlea iiut run tat of about twenty-els rhaptera, of not leaa than three col lotaai to the charter. We would prefer them to point a ia4hhaherUonj& T THE COMING CONVENTION. - Attention Is luvited to President .Ileroy'a an nouncement of the forthcoming Convention of the JOregoh State Woman Suffrage Assocl'atlontlWe 'trust that his suggestions will be met with a hearty response all over the raclflo coavt. Indies and gentlemen who will make speeches, write t waya, or furnish vocal or Instrumental selections - for the Convention, are urged to contribute Volun- -tary offerings or send notifications to this office of. ..their Intention to do so. The Convention -is -rjitrlctly a people's meeting, lit which all persons '.favoring Woman Huffrage arequalljr InterestetL Doubtless there are excellent workers In the, city .and the country whom the officers of the Associa tion do not know and Cannot Invite, but their presence and assistance are desired. The times are auspicious for effective work. "The wise action of the late Legislature -in passing a . ii a A A t . 111.. LaV.jeBOlJUUoa.JQr-JKiampnning inajsuw uuwuu Tha East brraontan of Pendleton last week treated Its readers to nearly a colgmn and a, half of marvelous wisdom In negative answer W the question, "Shall Women Voter! The verboaa reply bears evidence of the pruning hand of 'some respectable person, for It Is greatly lacking In the expletives and vituperation that usually abound In the paper's peculiarly original productions. ")f course, like ail the articles that are scribbled against Woman Suffrage, it falls to take Into con sideration iighj Justlceand liberty, but Is based on wrong, tyranny and oppression. Its author Is fearful of dread results when each and every Indi vidual citizen shall be a sovereign voter. Judging all women by those from whom his Ideas of feml nine purity and honoThave been gained, he groans aloud lest every woman shall prove: a Cleopatra anf every man, a Marc Antony. Now, he has a perfect right to believe (though he should not ac knowledge It) that he would be .the .suppliant tool of a designing "female," but he has not a right to Imagine that all women would become sirens and all men their weak-minded servitors. The astute essayist having proclaimed thatjie could see no "reason, sense, or logic" In the argu ments for Woman Suffrage, we naturally looked for a . "logical" solution of the question at his hands ; and we confess that our anticipations were realized. The extraordinary reasoning of the re markable logician proves one of two things we cannot definitely say whlchf-that his "conclu sions" would be better without hls'argument," or that his "argument" would be better without his, "conclusion." For Instance, he says he Is not "opposed generally to all measures, classed In the wmmonrategoryT -of woman's Tlghts,;many;of me provisions oi mat uocirine meeting wild hearty approval and support,'! naming pro; rignis as among me "measures" he sanctions but hlslijoppoiied to woman's voting and hold office, or tOl he only means which will enable her safely enjoy the benefits of the "measures" , A TEST FOR VOTERS. 7; When the Womans Deposit Company of Bos ton collapsed, and a. large number of women were pecuniarily wrecked, the newspapers of the coun- O. 8. W. a (A. CON VENTION,!: The ninth Annual Convention of the Oregon SUte Woman! Suffrage Association, will meet In Portland on Tuesday, February 8, 1881, and ho try tnat oppose woman Suffrage, endeavored to l pains win ne spared to make it even more Inter uv tB agajnst tnentnessoi women www. The New York Nation, In particular, took oc casion to preach along sermon on. the failure of the "women's bank," In which It promulgated a test of a citizen's fitness to vote, saying that It U not aare to put votes Into the bands of a class oi persons, many of whom can be easily deluded t their ruin by flittering financial schemes, tlu falseness of which any wise and Judicious mind can, percelv. The JVcrion and Its class had been driven to the wall for objections to Woman Suf frage and. reasons, for opposing the Innovation1, and clutched at the Boston circumstance as jt drowning man grasps a straw. Its long homily on the unfitness of all women to exercise political power was evidently Inflicted on Its readers with out reflection. The silly artlclelwllirnow come back to It and fts allies in a forcible way. The collapse Is reported of an institution known as the "Guaranty and Income Company," which did business at No.'4TBroadway, New York. This was equally as palpable and flagitJouiMi Bundle as the Boston concern, and a large number of men are Its victims. Therefore the New York Nation should conclude that all men, Its editors 'Included, are unfit to, vote; but It won't. It will be dumb about Its prescribed test for voters. Its rule was made for one particular case, and having served the occasion, will be seen no more in Its columns, unless the Woman. Suffrage journals force It to admit the silliness of Its test. estingthan the mapy successful ones that have preceded It The different county associations are ; especially requested to send delegates, and all 1 others in1 sympathy with woman's enfranchise ment are earnestly requested to attend and con tribute their presence, work, money and Influence In aid of the cause. It all sympathizers who cannot attend the Convention send at least their annual fee of $1 00 to defray expenses. Remem ber, this Is everybody's Convention. California, i Idaho and Washington Territory Woman Suffra gists are particularly Invited to attend and partic ipate. Arrangements will, be made to entertain all members who will notify Mrs. A. 8. Dunlway, prior to January SOtb, of their Intention to ba present Due notice of the place of meeting will be given hereafter. M. A. UVMVXtoP, i Secretary. V .- '- OENERAL NEWS. E.F.HEROY,i President.' ttlon that suffrage may be granted to women, has placed the equal rights movement on a new basis. The best and. most Intelligent men and women are Its advocates. Friends of the Convention let us svfmonlsh you to Won the alcrt: Talk to your acquaintance about it The work Is in your hands, and It wlll.be easy for you to-make-ltr tauccess. "endorses." lie fails to Inform his readers that the property rights of any class can never be per fectly secure, theoretically or practically, without political rights. He is careful not to state that a disfranchised class haa no means of rebuking the givers of unjust Jaws and no power to choose rep resentatives who will repeal or cancel the delete rious statutes. In fact, he enters not Into the merits or demerits of the woman question, but evolve Such predictions ofresulUof Woman Bui frage as can only come from the brain of a believer In the universal depravity of humanity, and might as reasonably and logically deduce from his remarks that the moon Is made of green, cheese as thaH'the ballot would degrade woman," and only the "worst ones't would vote. ''-. 4 t striking example of the "protection" that a wife omay receive at the hands of a husband special ly "it the wife Is young- and friendless and the hus- k4aa4 is Id and tyrannical. When Mrs. Chrls ''jt lancy claimed that '.she was a victim of marital rslty and laid her grievances before a court, her ' husband showed that he could be inhuman by en- deavorlng to blacken his wife's character! though ,Jf successful the accusations against him would not bare been refuted; and the Inference la that iie could have been, guilty-of Infllcling physical fm n l shmejujKOcnatiia mign-Javieemeat ni wayward conduct of his child wife In fretting under his rigorous rule. He charged that his wife ' had one night occupied a room, iu a New York I hotel :wlthone lel .Giro, and' the newspapers throughout the land circulated the report freely; hut the witnesses on whom he relied to prove his aMertlon have positively sworn that Mrs. Chris tlancy is not the woman who entered Giro' room. 'It remains to be seen whether or not the paers tihat were so quick to blacken the character of the .auffering wife will be. honorable enough to "pro- wtect" her from further defamafronr iJ h. JBJCoxedl tor jDfePendletonli-.V SJonlatix has. emphatically ami repeatetlly said In the columns, of that paper that "o taffy" wishes to vote. For his benefit, we append a partial Ilt .of the Umatilla County Woman Suffragists ''who reside at Pendleton Mrs. Despaln, Miss ILee, Mrs. Seeley, Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. Hexter, Mrs. t aile c, Mrs. U all, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Pe nnlng- ton, Mra. Switzler, Mrs. Iktker, Mrs. Wilson, .Mrs. Sargeant, Mrs. Barger, Mrs. Hendricks,' 31 rs. Bean, Mrs. Nye and Mrs. Liver more. Does : I B. Cox persist In denouncing and publishing as "no ladtct" these estimable women of lYiulle- ton? If not, It Is time for hlnl to apologize to -t hem and to thel rtheiushandsTbrotherYaTMr . aona. : ' - ' " It Is a work of gigantic proportions to teach an Individual who cannot or will 'not learn, and we hesitate about wasting1 time with the editor of the Eatl Orrgonian, but we will call his attention to the plain fact that there Is nothing right In his opposing, his bugliear Ideas of expediency to a measure Hiatal unquestionably Just and proper according to the fundamental principle of a repub lican form of government the right of every good citizen of sound mind to a voice In making and enforcing the laws of t,he government under which he or she lives and hlch heoi1 she is taxed to maintain. Furthermore, he should have some knowlexlge of -Woman Suffrage- as It practically fxjgtfbyfore, hM assume-to-derrorrcef 1 1 nd pro-j claim that all women M ho vote are 'bad." This Insulting and sweeping declaration must of neces sity be made by a confirmed bigot, for no consci entious and reasoning person will asaert that the property-owning and tax-paying women who vote In our school meeting are the "worst ones" of tihe State; and no truthful ami honorable person will deny that In Wyoming, where women vote on all questions and for all officers, the results have been highly satisfactory, as the. testimony of many prominent citizen. Including Chief Justice King man, abundantly attests. - "".vv' ' . 'V .. . V, ' In speaking of thejfact that the prohibition amendment to the State Constitution of Kansas was recently carrlel by 20,000 majority, a secular exchange, said, and many papers copied its re mark : "In all the cities and many small towns, lithe ladies electioneered for .the cause of temper arve in a moxt effective manner." We have yet to see an article expressing dissatisfaction with TtherroTidTIcTTof'lhe women, though some of the Journals that have copied the above brief para- irranh are avowedly opposed to Woman Suffrage. , Do they think the mere act of depositing a rote Is "degrading," while electioneering Is perfectly proper? : Buckle's explanation of the decMneof the spirit of religious persecution, was that In modern times faith had undergone an eclipse, and men could not bring themselves to persecute others Into be lieving that wliereof they were themselves akep-v tlcal. The ; lnadbliuateness of, this explanation of "one of themostst rlklng social phenom- ena ofour- time, Is forcibly shown -"In the Xoflh American r Review for-January,- by-Prof.-JohnFlake, who assigns a number of other causes that have been at least as Influential In bringing about this most desirable result Other articles lu this number of the Review are: "Controlling Forces in American politics," by Senator Geo. F. Edmunds "Atheism In Colleges," by President John- BaMCotn ?"TheRtiln-of JentralrVmertcai by Desirf Cliarnay ; "Partisan Government,? by William D. Le Sueur; "Popular Art-Education," by Prof. Johnr F. Weir; "The IJmltatlpnsof Sex by Nina Morals ; "The Mission of the Dem ocratic Party," by Senator, William. A. Wallace; and finally, a review of recent philological works; by Prof." -F. A. March.. The Review is sold by booksellers and newsdealers generally.. x " j , . Several hymns were put to a novel use on last Sabbath afternoon fn the county Jail. The pris oners are allowed to hold exercises on and. they- lustily rendered . several well-known airs . to drown the jioIse.madeby one of .their number in forcing an opening in the stone wall with . a small . Iron bar that he had -obtained In some unaccountable manner. Four of them escaped, Rawlins,nnder Indictment for the murder of Kelly, among the number. A Deputy Sheriff was In charge at the time, andmllnary;j X lgllancewaaxeisedT1i-eaeape-wi 1 1 - afford Infidel newspapers a text for sundry remarks, as the criminals lustily bawled, " 'Hold the fort, for I am coming,' Jesus signals still," while they pre preparing to go.' ( Rev. Annle- HrShaw who. was recently or dainml at the Annua! Methodist Protestant Con ference, in session at Tarry town, N. Y.. filled the pulpit of the Grand-street M. P. Church, Brook lyn,. Y., on the morning and evening of the 21st ult She preached to large and appreciative audiences at both services, and was announced to speak in the Wllloughby-a venue M. E. Church on Momlay evening. ;. r- . Christmas was quietly celebrated In all portions of the country. . It ! said that there will not be an Ohio man In Garfield's Cabinet Severely cold weather Is reported throughout the East, South and West President Hayeslias decldal to give Cadet Whittaker a court-martial trial. Senator Sargent of California Is- mentioned in1"" connection with Garfield's Cabinet Chlnpsepmnlovfa-tn th"JamiI.iir-rV""T V shirt works have been replaced by whitest General McDowell's trip East to vote for Oar field cost the Government f 1200 mileage and his expenses. -; , . tlBy a railway collision last Monday near Char lotte, N, C on the Airline. roal, several persons were killed. -4 V , Tlte Ponca Indians will be satisfied with their home in Indian Territory when they are indemni fied for their Dakota lands. h r Quite a number of -settlers .have eluded the' military, entered Indian Territory . taken . up '4 claims, and erected houses.jL " ... Dr. -Elw(n :Jlubbell Chapin, the great Unlver sallst preacher, died In New York on the 28th'Tn r stant He was 64 years of age." - , . , Judge Wm II. Woods, Just appointed to the UnltfHl-tflatea .huprcme-Wnclvwas-a Democrat berore the war, but la now a Republican. Four new Iron shins, to be owned and manned by Chinese, will engage in trade between San h rancisco and China about July or August. At Newark, N. J., on the 28th instant, a bronze statue of General Philip Kearney was unveiled in the military park with Imposing ceremonies. - Tn Plitonimv Iftl Hon linn Kiiahola nf ; been received this year, against 138,000,000 bush els last year. "The West Is booming with pros perity." A TrentontN. J.) woman, Mrs. Johnson, was burned to death in her dwelling on Monday "derlrigher. - .-; . . Tlierelsia split In the Democratic ranks of St. Iyuls, the Independent faction being engaged in an attempt to get rldof the regular City Central Committee. ' - '. . , , ' Chicago's Council has decided that hereafter , 'manufacturers of butterial, oleomargarine, etc., must "stamp their prtxlucts plainly with the name." Penat les are provldedlor-lnf ri ngement .of Iheiaw. . . .7.-. ' -,' i , When Secretary Cliase organized the national banking system, he organized the bureau with two ladles and . one gentleman. One of these lailies, then a young girl, but now a widow, is still employed by the Government In Its national banking business. The- two 1 most used sets of sheets, figures and reports made In the office of the Comptroller of. the Currency are those pre pared by two ladies. ..-" " When General Howard assumes command at 'West Point he will probably take measures to Inculcate the Idea ''that the sons of decayed ami : pauperish aristocrats who are belngcared for and educated at the expense of the people are "no tbvtter"ihan the colored and other plebeian boys i af tending. the military academy. No true Amer ican will object, to hla eradicating the Ideas of -caste 'that permeate the atmosphere of West J'olnt : ' " --- ' ' .' A daughter of Senator Sharon of California haa xnarrled t?lr Thomaa Hesketh, of England. It xr III he aeen that even a small-titled Engl lah man is wCIlHJ to assume the duties, of 'protect I pg" 1 Alondoud inpatch of the23dlntant annou need the death of 'Hleorge FJlot" (Mrs. Cross), the distinguished noVellst, In the 00th year of her age. She was the daughter of a poor English curate, but was adopted by a wealthy clergyman, who gave her a careful education. She studied with l!erlerfTpeneer, and acquired great"Treadth of mental development. Perhaps her most success ful novels are "Adam.Bede" and "MIddlemarch," the latter of which is pronounced one of the great est works of fiction of the century. , Mlits Dr. An Ford, of this city, haa demon strated that young ladlescan break a way from the barriers that surround them, and successfully and profitaUy-engagaln.thprofesslonsr- Though handicapped by reason of her youth, she has favora bly competed with older physicians, and now efiH Joys a good practice. " : - . i In the four cities of New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston, the number of women ex ceeds the number of men by loo,W2. In other words, the majority of tha citizen In those cities are denied a voice In making the laws which gov ern them and are ruled by tha minority. - - The , annual Convention of the National Womah'a Suffrage Association will pe held. In. Washington, at . Lincoln Hall, on Tuesday and- Wednesday, the 18th and 19th of January, 1881. aaaaaaBBaBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBaaVBaBMaaMaaaaaaaaaaaM . The Vermont Legislature haa passed a bill de- cianng any place wnere liquor shall be sold or given away a nuisance, and making the keeper liable to fine and Imprisonment ';. On Tuesday, tha city of Cambridge, Mass.; cele brated with great display the 250th anniversary of Its settlement Longfellow, Jlolniea and others made addresses and read poems. -nkllngnirohablyjseeksallsTaciron of itayardon the floor pi the senate for the latters statement that Coiikling. Ijafiin and Jaynes shared in $271,000 wrongfully taken from Phelps, Dodge & Co. ' "V- , A severe storm has raged' off the New. Jersey coast for seventy-two hours. Summer residences at Monmouth Beach were damaged, and the porticos and bulkheads of some hotels -were J. carried away. . j ' ' Brooklyn Aldermen have undertaken to grapple with, the Chinese question. They have adopted strictly class legislation to crush out mongolian . laundrymen, onlering that only American citizens le ihercafter grantol licenses to cleanse dirty linen. -- . " . - '". - ' The exchanges In the New Yorit clearing house t h is yearanMu n tto . $:i8,644,0W000 t heJargest evermide in -any year in'any eHtablhhment or city on earth. 'The exchangts in other cities of the country aggregate $12,20000,000, or one-thirl of those of New York. - President Hayes and the members of the Cabi net are said to feet very unfriendly to Secretary Thompson for his alliance with De Lessens' Pan ama canal project, which is denounced as a fraud. Thompson's name Is used to make It appear that the -American people and Government. endorse the scheme. ; Pheasant, Medicine Bull, Bull Head, Don't Know How. Dog Back, Bear Bird, Big Mane, Weil and Handsome Elk, are the names of a party of israie rioux enters now in . Washington making arrangements to allow several railroads right of way across tneir reserve. Reports are current that Mark Twain Is a vie tlmof attacks of lunacy. Once he Imagined him self a deacon, at another time the editor of the Hartford Cormnf,and a third time the Egyptian obelisk (be was found standing on -a box in the rear ox hla dwelling). The flighty spells are said , not to last more than two weeks. It is probable that the clever humorist Is playing a prank on the public. The Idea of posing for two , weeks as the obelisk 1 Any ladles Wishing to know of the merits of the Excelsior Kidney Pad, Its action, etc., are referred to Mrs. Wm. E. McKecknle, Photograph Parlors, Toledo, Ohio. See adv. : Jay D. Dunning, clerk, Wabash Shops, Toledo," Ohio, says : -1 am" how gearing an )nly Lung ' Pad," and It haa atTbrded me almost Instant' relief from ast hmaJ3e adv- . - -