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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
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ht the proprr war tq securt one of merit la to bring un
tribaters 1st competition, hereby offer a prise o 17500 for
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' 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
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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,
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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. -
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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
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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.
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. 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- .
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