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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1881)
, ' - . -' ' rui Hpkk-b, Faa Pasxs, Kbkb I'aoriiic. ' .v.' VOLUME X. NO. 19: , - . ' PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1881. - PER YEAR-fS 00. vJ I - 4 RALLY AT McMINNVILLE. - :-.-r I... MRS. DUNIWAY'S AOCOUXT OF TIIE IXtEBE8TIXO MEETING OF THE YAMHILL COUNTY WOM " "AN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. .. '.-' McMinnville, January 17, 188L PU RUDEM Or TBI Ntf. N'UKTHWINTt Since the inauguration of the railroad era In the .JYamhill Valley, there have bee n so many changes in the f old landmarks that it is like visiting a strange country to alight at the McMlnnvllle depot, where trains from both ways meet and stop, - while passengers and employes take dinner at a pretentious hotel. The old stage-coach no logger toots its warning horn as of yore ; but in its stead the shOrtof thetlron horse awakes distant echoes, "land the rumbleof tug railway cars resembles thfc warnings that precede an earthquake. . v. We see at a glance that McMlnnvllle has more than doubled its former size and population since the railroad -era. Miles -and ni lies of good side walks lift the pedestrian above the soft prairie mud; new, neat and substantial dwellings abound on every handfr a half dozen churches are'visible, and the main business ftreet, as well as the town generally, very much reminds us of Albany. Mrs. J. lie Vore Johnson of Clackamas, and the undesigned from Multnomah were the ordy -guestsfromher-twintleswhoT- Woman Suffrage rally of Yamhill as co-workers ; but the resident friends of the cause, were out in force, and we had iTgran"tI,grand time. Tlie rally was held in the new, neat and commodious town hall lately erected - by our old :f rlehd of equal rights, Mr. O. H. Adams. The meeting was calfed TfklayDy Mrs. ILA. to order at & o'clock P. M, Loughary, who briefly stated the objects of the1 mef ting. The constitution of the Association was thenread and circulated for signatures and dues, and warfollowed Toy the electioirof isfflcers Tor the ensuing year The election resulted as follows: President, MrsH. A. Loughary ; Vice-President, Mrs. Ann M. Martin; Recording Secretary, Miss N. B. Martini Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. S." M. Kelty . Treasurer, Miss M. V. Olds. r-The; President appointed the following cuiumlf tees : On Resolutions Dr. A. K. Olds, Mrs. J. De Vore Johnson, Mrs. A. S. Dunlway. On Pro grammeMiss M. V. Olds, Mr. W.J. Loughary. : The following stirring communication from HoivLee Laughliny of North Yamhill, was read - by the Secretary : ; ' ; Every organisation having for It object the elevation. enlightenment and larger liberty of every Individual, and which it rives to secure, to each member of the community ... all the rights to which all persons are entitled by nature. nil n i V!. Withheld from all the women of thl otherwise great coun try, and Is withheld for no other reason than the alleged disability bfwxr'Wat said and written by the opponent of woman's enfranchise ment, I have-not aeen or heard one valid reason, founded poirjunttce and equity, for deriving Intelligent, patriotic. -tax-paying women of the exercise of equal political right with men. J have sufficient confidence In the Intelligent desire of men to aeai justly with the women of this Ktate to believe, since tne initiatory step has been taken for restoring women their rights the passage of the Woman Suffrage resolution by the laleT,cgiIaTufr foi1 amending the Bute Constitution that an active Interest In the work, ana a candid presentation or tne subject before the people, will secure a Legislature for lKrtJ which will ratify the legis lation already begun. And, after the endorsement of this Tesohrtf hty3wosepaST rL3,t' be no "difficulty In securing a majority vote In Its favor when It comes before the people; for surely there will not'then be found enough voters in the HUUe so selfish as to deny to others the right which they prise for themselves more highly Uian all others the right to vote, After brjef addresses by pr. Olds and the uiuler - signed, the Convention adjourned till 7 O'clock p. M. The evening session brought out a large audi ence. An excellent combination of brass and string music was tarnished by an amateur band of -jroung gentlemen, consisting of Messrs. Hawley, Juoughary, Windom and the Sanders brothers. Mrs. Loughary again stated the objects of the ventlon and then Introduced Mrs. J. De Vore Johnson, who favored the meeting for half an hour with an interesting, spicy and logical essay, entitled 'Our Thanksgiving," which we know was written on the train as the lady was coming up from Portland in tlie forenoon. The essayist was accorded -the deepest attention and retired amid hearty applause. V; r r- - ; ; Brief speeches were then 'made by ,Rev. Mr. Buss, Professor Johnson andJyour correspondent. Next came the reading by Mrs. Johnson of Ten nyson's "Lady GodWft," followed bya tumultu ous encore. The lady responded with an inimit able rendition of Vas Bender IIendphecked 7. 4elng again encored, she rendemla second Dutch Legislature In granting equal property rights to the women of Oregon. ' ... . ' r- '. . AiMfnrf, That we thank the Legislature of UWO for IU Just and generous act In passing a resolution for so amend ing the 8tate Constitute that It may be legally possible for the next Legislature to submit the proposition for a Constitutional Woman Suffrage Ameadincnt to the vote of the people In 4i. Jftwofrerf. That pur thanks are specially due to Senators Hurch andMcConnell and Representatives Laughlin and Galloway of Yamhill, who voted "aye upon the Woman Suffrage resolution. ' . v Knotted, That we urge the Kuffraglsta of the county to litrni Woman Huffrage.clubs, hold mass meetings and con ferences, and strive In every other honorable wajrto render the movement acceptable to the people. " Reaotvrd. That we wllF"Ueall honorable means to elect men to the Legislature of 18K2 who are pledged to sustain the Woman rUiffrage rewrJutlon passed by the Legislature of imml' . . .( , ',. v ; ' AnoM, That we believe our fathers, brothers, husbands and sons are not afraid to grant the women of th,e State equal rights with themselves, and we look confidently to them for the needed votes to Insure a Tlotory. , The resolutions called out speeches from Pro fessor Johnson, Mr. Loughary, Dr. Olds, Mrs. Olds, Mrs Loughary and , the undersigned, and were unaniiAously adoptet ", . - Adjourned to 7 P. M., when another immense audience Vembled, very many not being- able to obtain sea After music by the band, your correspondent was introduced by Mrs. Loughary as the speaker of the evening, Vliyrot?M being the subject on t occupied an hour ami a half. torn Id the best orderand most respectful attention. -Music was again furnished. A' brief address fronk the-President cJosedrih exercises, aud the Convehtloh adjourned iine die. On Sunday, though there are six churches In McMlnnvllle, there was uo preacher, and no luoriilng eerctsei exeptliyMrvlcfftJylilemfy" Warren In the old 01 lege wherV we usejl to go to 'meeting in tlie days of auld langsyne, to tisten, with babe in arms, to the preaching of Father ChandlerBut we. were told that these failures of preacherado not often occur.T Rev. Mr. Hoberg usually preaches In the M. E. church on the third Sunday of . the month Rev, Nelll Johnson, though stricken with the weight of years, occupies the C. P. pulpit occasionally ; tlie Church of Eng '-" "firkfri Hn PB'tTiflT'i ih" rhn"n prlns h1 tniatnrnu. afh.r tini rnir irlin n hia work the Baptist church played truant Hence the lay service above mentipneil was all we had ; but it was good and acceptable." In the evening, the commodious and well-arranged M. E. church was opened by the obllgingtrustees for the large audi ence which assembleuld hear, our lecture on Lessons of the Century." lioqd order, harmony and good cheer prevailed, and the' friends of fhu man rig ht were glad. A - J r .' svtnnafKv TKIfl la at tnnsi I m rwHa nl slK Am MH ..-!.. 1 . v"' " ' ' are going out' to . canvass and. reconnoiter. We will tell you more about tjLewrran(Lpeoplg-iP our nexu - , A. H. D.t- We find the following among the uiicredlted re print Items of an old paper: 'The wife, the home maker, devotes twenty or thirty of the best years of; her. life to bringing up her children. She is their care-taker (no matter how many nurses there jnaybejilayand, nlghthejoheursfe when they are IU, and often their physician too, She is comini6n, friend, counsellor and law to them till they are grown. During the years that her time has been so devoted, her -htwband has t engaged-i n-busi ness-that- is res peeted--4serrou, worthy' business that Is counted in the census, and that rnade money. He has his profitsTlils wealth,' to show for It. She has her fine sons and (laughters. They are intelligent, conscientious. educated chlldreii. Tliey are ti be the future phi lanthropists like William Jioya liarrison, or statesmen like George F. Hoar, or good farmers or mechanics ; or they will be authors like Oeorge Eliot or Louise M. Alcott, or artists like Harriet Hosmer and Ahtrie Whitney, or gootl, sensible mothers, or honest, worthy workers at the handi crafts, or teachers. In whatever capacity they serve, they will be good citizens. If we estimate by results lhelife-woTlrof -man-ami -woman, which is more serious, which is more important V . "-.-.,. i , . ,. . Mrs. Belva A. Lock wood recently rose in the JeWioirrHe Vasn't ConschlllatedV and mtolln.orn?J,I mid'tumultuous cheers. The meeting closed for the evening with .music. Mnvened again on Saturday at 2 P. M. -The Committee on Resolutions reported as follows: ' .lKeteitml, That we heartUy concur i the recent act of Jibs Supreme Court of the United Stales and said aiie would like to add a few words to an argument thv which had just been- made. Chief Justice Waite said to her, You may proceed, and the matter as to whether ft woman lawyer can speak in tle Supreme Court of our land Is forever settled.' The Clackamas Democrat adds : "One by one the cobwebs of prejudice and discrimination are being swept away by the Iconoclastic hand of progress that respects not venerable age whenjulled with Farmers' wives' and their needs. ft.. (From the New York 811114. Mrs. Clara Colby, of Nebraska, read a very sen sible paper before the Women's jpongres at Ito- ion on tlie in wnlch attend the lire 01 me farmers wifetHer folctutesTbf the characteristics of exist ence on a farm were drawn chiefly from observa tion of the. farming communities of the West and of the far West ; but the life she describes Is little different from that we see in the agricultural por tions of even the oldest States at the East. There is the same monotony, the same seclusion, and the same lack of wholesome friction with society, whether the detached farm is lu Nebraska or in New York, and the dally routine in the one place is very 'like that in the other. Moreover, we must remember that our great farming regions are no longer at the East; that the richest grana ries of the country and ot the world are not now in tlie Genesee Valley, but in Minnesota and be yond. Mrs. Colby first spoke of early marriages as fruitful of many troubles. Matrimony Is easily undertaken in rural life, and the country girt as-, sumes tlie cares of a household and of maternity at an age wTieiTcity aud village girls are still at school. Her' health Is likely to break' down In consequence, her nerves to become shattered, and the htrnlHhli which severe poverty adds to the many which are necessarily 1 ucldent to farm life In its beginning make-her old prematurely, and she may add another to "the long list of farmers' wives who are foundTnour Insane asylums." When a country boy thinks of starting out for himself in life, Ills first careJs to look out for a wife junoug.the. neighboring glrhv Perhapa there J are not many competitors to interfere with him, and, If he is a likely young follow, he is not apt to find It-hard to win a helpmeet. He is not after money, nor a flue social alliance. - All he wants Is a wife, and because he has nothing to offer but his heart the girl is none the less ready to accept him. Worldly considerations do not affect her choice of a husband. - - She receives a cow and a feather bed as her dowry, and he gets a team from his father as his was away from town, andJiev. Mrurohett-of-jngf the age of twenty- one. Tins, sirs, uoiby says, is the common cus tom throughout the region of . which she knows, and If. is substantlallyihe same as that prevalent in the-old States. The couple may begin housekeeping on a rentetl farm, oneHliird of the produce of which comes to them for their toll. If they get more than a bare subsistence, It must be an exceptionally good year ror crops ami prices. ierhaps some 01 the young men may be able to buy .their own farms, or make ftJlrst payment on litem, in the East the oldest and In tlHrAVestthe-jotmtcert's it theliomesteadTliufr the life Is apt to be Irksome to him, and at last he plucks up courage and goes afterTilfrtmithers to new fields in the Westi r i The most eastern States for these pioneers now adays are -Iowa and Minnesota, but Jthe chief ob jective Klnts are Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas. Dug-outs, unhealthy and gloomy at the Tbest, maybe their first habitation, and even when houses -are built, they are small, Inconvenient, and finished only by degrees Tlie women's work In them is peculiarly trying. "No pnejmJyJamlK larwltktlie comforbleJiomeatcadiiif the East can form any conception of what farming Is to the 4 Western woman. The fuel is not under cover, the water Is hard to draw. When the land is bought, aiwl not homestealed, there are the pay ments to be met ; and until the land is clear, the farmer feels that nothing must he expended for ,comforts In, the house." Debt and ovCrty rest over these home. Over work breaks down the . women, who may rebel against the, hardships of their lives, and seek to change thehi by escaping from the bonds of mat rimony. "Divorces are frightfully common mong the farmers of the West," Mrs. Colby tells us. And even when the- farmer's wife sees her husband gaining In prosperity s!u finds' no lessen Ing of her arduous labors. They may rather In crease. "More stock, more grain and fruit, more help to tU-farmer, all these mean more work to woman. She can seldom procure help, for such as there is naturally seeks the town.''-. Be tf "A short lime slriceTMIss AhTilcX Oliver, pastor of the Wll loughby-a ven ue Methodist - Epl scopal Church, Brooklyn, delivered m lecture on "Wom an's Right to Vote," which has been extensively printed, it having got into tlie "patent" side of paper. .::-,:. .. --V: , : '-' ' .' - ' -: - ides taking rare of the house and children; she must look after the poultry, and, her husband hav ing no time to "potter" in the garden, she must plant," hoe, and gather such vegetables as she needs for the ' table. She is cook, nurse, wash- maid, chore-)iipyr gardener, all in one." She: loses regard for. her personal appearance, and perhaps iteeomos n untidy drudge, ca reless of - beauty in herself or her surroundings, f 'AiVy thing will do at home or Is good enough for the family. Tliey Jive, as they teHyou, ft dog'a life of it, but with out ft thought that they are Ip any way responi blefor Oielr wretched nesa.' , .. They do not even have the diversion ami excite ment of buying their own clothes. "As a rule, the husband makes -the purchases, even to pro curing his. wife's dresses, while she rarely or never has control of a dollar. Tlie wife remains a child In finance, and if she Is ever Intrusted wltls- the shopping, she does It awkwardly ' and un wisely." She may get to a town twice ft year; her nearest neighbor may be miles away; the loneliness of the farm life drives the daughters to town to work, and leaves theV-niother to still greater loneliness at home, "in which," perhaps. the spirit chafes until it breaks the bounds of reason." . 1 An early' marriage has prevented her getting sufficient schooling, ami she is lamentably defi cient in Intellectual resource. She knows noth ing of hygiene, and only stout constitution can resist the hard usage to which she subjects her healih with indigestible food and impure air. What little social intercourse she has may serve to add to her labors rather" than to relieve them ; for when she entertains, she Is overcome with the work of providing a profusion of food for her company, and "the extra fuss necessitates extra stinting afterward." This Is a gloomy picture certainly, and the life It holds up to us Is one devoid of all those graces and beauties which make existence tolerable to a person of refinement or social tastes. And yet, that it truthfully represents the circumstances of the lives of many thousand farmers' wives, there can be no question. Their hard lot and the dreary monotony' and coarse toil of. their existence are told in their haggard faces and dull eyes. But what Is the remedy T rs. Colby advocates the establishment of agricultural colleges In every -Staie,wlUi-fTe-. tuition- for- both meiv-ndU women, for, by the census of 1870, there were over 20,000 women In the United States engaged h agricultural pursuits, besides five million farmers' wives. She would also have colleges of domestic economy for girls, where the proper preparation of food, care of the health and dwelling, ftndL household thrift should be taught. "The educated woman will manage more economically, govern more wisely, and work more advantageously, be sides having ft better time In doing it."- She should also be stimulated to Interest, herself la the county agricultural society, and these socle ties should become ft guild looking after the wej fareof their Individual members, men and women both. "The grange might have been such a guild had it not undertaken to manage. the politics and the finances of the Nation ; yet even this has been a great educator to woman in district! where It has been successfully established' - -r There Is no class in the country whose moral and Jmtcllectual Improvement needs" more care, than these farmers' wives, and none whose social wantsajttjw JJl-supplied. Tlie San Francisco Chronicle speaks as follows- of the caseJ6f CleoWheefrwhO-Choked tor death his sister-in-law, with whom he had been criminally Intimate: "On very unusual clr- cum stance connected with the forthcoming trial Is that two women attorneys will appear in the case. Mrs. Clara Folti has been engaged to as sist the prosecuting attorney, and. Mrs, . Laura De Force Gordon to assist the defense. The two women were once close friends, sleeping In the same bed, but lately a coldness sprang up between -them; Inthe-rtcerrt --political -campaign thejr were rivals on the political stump." Tlie Trie gram of this city sayst "Mrs. Foltz Is well known In this State, ana being an uncompromis ing exponent and defender of the rights of women, , will doubtless prove a valuable auxiliary In showing that one of these rights doe not consist In being choked to death by a Jealous paramour.'" A correspondent in Ireland "blushes for his sex" when he see .the employment ofwomen, youngr. and old. Tliey are patient drudges, staggering over the bogs with heavy creels of turf on their backs, or climbing the slopes from the sea shore, -laden ljke WastVof bu rden, with the heavy nndr. trodden, dripping sea weed, or undertaking long journey on foot Into the market towns, carrying with them weighty hamper of farm produce. - - A "Jfew Orleans lawyer, in arguing ft tilvorce ult," held- that a husband bad --legal-right to make hi wife stand In a corner with a clothespin on her none. . "If uch mild mean of enforcing obedience are forbidden," he said, "what I to become of the husband' authority a the master of the household 7" .' ;' " The young daughter of the King and Queen of the Netherlands cannot Inherit the throne because-; of the Salic lawprhich in-aomerparw o "Europe" prohibit trie throne to a woman. v . , Mrs. Helen U Cunningham, 0 Elmira, N. Y., has recoverePt 700 -from a liquor firm, the com ftlaint being an injury to means of Support In conseruence of liquor sold to herhusbjndir v -v. 1