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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1881)
.4 Journal for the itopfe. Independent 6 Pnliticx and JUUgion. Alive to all IJve Imm, anl Thoroughly llatlUal in Off lining and Erpooino tkp-lYrongt vf the il'ine. stmscttzi'rjox hates fix advaxcbi: erne Ymmrihy Mail. J ..S 00 fficJMfc, " I iO 'fnree MtmUtt, " 1 00 ur. Month to City lttronx 'delivered.:...- K AdvertUrmrntt trill be Inserted al MetuonMe Price. All Correspondence intended for publication should be ad Anaed to tfte Editor, and til butinen letter to the DUXTWAY PVHLIBiriXU COMPAXY, Xo. 5 WatkingUm street, Portland, Oregon. IPOBXUIXD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, ltWI THE ANNUAL MEETING. As the forms of the New Northwest arc sent to the press, the Oregon State AVoman Suffrage Association is deliberating in morning session of the third day of its ninth annual Convention. The iniuutes of the sessions- of Tuesday and Atftdiusaday, with outlines of the remarks of thu mauy prominent speakers -who have addressed the large assemblages, will be found in this issue. The attendance of delegates from the interior is somewhat limited, as travel is almost entirely suspended by the unprecedented anil remarkable storms and Hoods of the past few days ; but the crowds of spectators who throng the Y. M. C. A. Hall partially atone for the unavoidable absence f members. The hall, which has the largest Mating capacity of any in the city, will not hold the opening audiences. It is very gratifying to sate the interest and enthusiasm manifested in the meetings. The very best classes of citizens take part in the proceedings, and the discussions ace-liberal, courteous, comprehensive and spirited. Tinier the auspices of the Executive Committee, a xeceptfou will be held in the Esmond Hotel par lore to-morrow (Friday) evening, from 9 to 11 tclock. An editorial resume" of the entire pro ceedings of the Convention will be given next In last Sunday's Attorian, Mr. AV. H. Gray, of Olaey, complains that the columns of the New Northwest have been "opened for an article from a man called Bishop Lunt, on the genuine Bible arguments in favor of a Klygauious sys tem," and "prostituted in the interests of men onlling themselves a religious sect." Mr. G. is needlessly worried, and might restrain his un seemly, warmth. He has been a subscriber to this journal since its infancy, and knows that it has sever lost an opportunity to depict the horrors of Mormon ism and denounce the crime of polygamy. 2Tft other paper in the State has commented so freely on the practices of the Mormons. Tn the introduction to the article which so excited him, it was expressly stated that the New Northwest favors the disfranchisement of polygumi&ts "be cause they are offenders against the laws and no more deserving of the ballot than other crimi nals;" that "the statutes against their practices ould be enforced if they were deprived of politi cal power;" and that "the remarks made in de fense of jwlygamy by Bishop Lunt" were pub lished because "we alwayn wish to be fair in discussing any question" and to give both aides. With these sentences staring Mr. G. in the face, he is guilty of demagogy in holding tliis journal up as an endorser of the Mormons and charging that its editor's pen is "prostituted" Ul disseminate their doctrines. Medics! societies generally "resolve" not to advertise in newspapers. In doing this, they are Blind to self-interest and to their duty to human ity. It a doctor discovers a valuable remedy for any disease, he should let the world know it. it jfc as proper to advertise a cure for a disease as a labor-saving machine. In one instance life is to lie caved or prolonged by a remedy, and in the other by husbanding the strength of a worker. Though doctors generally designate advertising a "quaekery," they love gratuitous notices, and tare quick to furnish items whenever they cut oil' a finger, lance a felon, or extract a stiver; and every fledgeling M. IX who holds a bandage or a a box of salve must have it announced that he "assisted." A New Jersey aper discovered how li allow are the pretensions of doctors that they do Bee wild) to "see their names in print." It made jHw-eounty medical society mad by remrting the proceedings without giving the names of the members. It announced that "Dr. occupied ihe chair;" that "I)r. , Secretary, read the re port" of some committ or other; that "Dr. moved ?' eto, etc. Then- - re not dashes enough euMdo-of-a type foundry 'o express the highly oljftpKWttble. woals used y the M. D.s when H'mfurjinj?11 the apparently sincere ami Hiefffijfljit it the editor to respect thoir ir-Ke5pfeilutlon against "advertising." (rtain so-called newspapers, be- IV4 1TOOS into lliwnu u-liara Itlitv t. - ' ' aiw.w mvj frYiutfllWfU flllfl miutl. ........ poush subscribers from the best - I . . it e .... u.iiiik ivnuuiK ' mo puiMisiicrs 1 Tribune says: "It is rumored feCaiiiMS is negotiating fur the MnrnttaUi XetUinel." Mr. MeC. lsn oftgit ready writer, and of course is a Woman Sal eonm dKyLui (J ii "ToS - will vcr aj ' . -TKoW INANE OBJECTIONS. In a recent issue of the Waston Leader, aj) peared the following remarks, which display such a profound knowledge of the rights and obliga tions of citizenship, such a complete understand ing of the power and use of the ballot, and such a deep appreciation of the attributes and virtues of true womanhood, that they are worth reprinting and preserving to posterity : A modest, HinlMble mid liitHltsont woman Is truly a "queen of social life," the delighted hiibinlmlon of her sub ject belli iHwportlonate to thejfrewtnewiof thotie ualltieK. It may be ceeed as a ruletlmt the more nearly a woman jKi?eti what are generally considered dUtiiietlve mascii line iiuallties, the less Is theeteiii of, and her liiUuenee over, the male sex, and rire rrrxn. Woman ha attained that nic xraphically depleted us the "queen of Mjclal life," and that nheenii be further elevated In reapert and esteem Is unlikely. IMreet polltleal iower will detract from some of the most channhis and wholenome attrac tions she iMwsessrs, ami It Is more than questionable whether their lo could be compensated for by the privi lege of votlnx. If she cannot purify olltl-s by her present influence over man, she l less likely to do it when that j tower is lessened by her actively mlxiiiK in politic-. To speak seriously, that ellusion is enough to nauseate intelligent women. "Submission of subjects" is a phrase which provokes only sneers in this country. Women of breadth of intellect regard and respect men who uphold a standard of equality and. justice, and not those who ludi crously endeavor to stand on an imaginary and impossible platform of assumed patronizing superiority and allbcted submissive inferiority. If a woman be a homely, honest, hard-working, unattractive drudge, she is not, according to rules laid down by the Leader, apt to be treated as well as a butterlly of fashion, because she cannot command the "delighted submission of her sub jects." Sound reasoning would therefore find that she has the greater need of civil and political rights. AVomen have little regard for the intellectual capacity of men who connect the right to sullVage with "charming ami wholesome attractions." What a sensation it would create if some member of Congress should propose to make the "charming and wholesome attractions" of men qualifications or disqualifications for voters. The bold states man who advanced the idea would be relegated to private life, and possibly to the oblivion of a. mad-house. Yet men are occasionally found who can see, when attempting to discuss the woman question, a relationship between ersona! "charms" ami inherent rights, and who consider that justice is founded on "wholesome attrac tions." The more the Iender says, the worse its alleged argument grows, and in the last sentence it reaches the height of absurdity "If woman can not purify polities by her present inlluenoc, she is less likely to do it when that power is lessened l5' actively mixing in politics." "Where is Jack Bunsby ? He probably could declare that a class without political rights, without a voice in the enactment ami enforcement of laws, has greater power and intluence than the sovereign citizens and law-makers in fact, that "subjects" are rulers. As the Leader favors temerance, it should see the inanity of its statement. If they had a chance, ninetv-uiiie per cent of the women of this State would vote for temperance, and, with the aid of temperance men, they would hold in check the liquor trallic. But the Leader has the sublime cU'rontery to assert that women have greater influence now than if they could throw thousands of temperance ballots. Thu Leader should know better than this, mid it insults the intelligence of the people of I'matilla county by the utterance of such puerility. The Dayton (W. T.) Chnmirte reports the arrest at AVaitsburg of Dr. G. W. Sutherland, on a charge of seduction, and that he has been admit ted to bail in the sum of Vor the present, it withholds the victimized girl's niimo, as she "has hitherto borne a good reputation and her family is one of the oldest and most respected in the county;" hut. It thus condemns seducers, though asserting that it does not wish to prejudice the case In view: "A man who will deliberately plan and accomplish the ruin of a warm-hearted ami affectionate girl, who, while loving and con fiding in him as her promised husband, in a weak moment, against her better Judgment and the promptings of a pure heart, yields to his passion ate entreaties, therebj' bringing shame and dis grace not only upon her but her family and friends, and then refuse as far as in him lies to right the wrong by giving his offspring a legitimate name, is worse than a murderer. The relatives and friends of the poor girl would a thousand times rather have followed her remains to their last resting place in the silent city of the dead, for then their grief would ho unmixed with shame." Our friend of the McMinnvIlIe Ilepnrter unwit tingly exhibits some unnecessary anxiety in ref erence tu a little notice in the New Northwest about the late freshet in Yamhill. It was written up from actual observation, and not from hear say, as he would gladly believe. But that freshet was nothing, compared to those we get up in Portland this Winter; ami wo see nothing calcu lated to "injure" anybody by describing the un usual freaks of Jupiter I'luvius in any locality Wo had no thought that the Yamhill freshet was otherwise than temporary, nor did we say so. A paper has appeared at l'ataha City, V. T., called tho fiplrit. It is a sprightly local, shcot. Mr. G. C. Y. Hammond is the publisher. Its subscription price is $2 per annum. PBOSECUTING DRUNKEN HUSBANDS. Attention is called to an article on the preced ing page of this paper, entitled "Woman's Work in the Temperance Field," from the well-known pen of David Newsome. There is much food for thought in it. Men often wonder why women who are victims to the abuse of drunken husbands dislike to make complaint and get the ollenders punished. Mr. Newsome explains the matter in these few words: "The fines take from the drunkards' families the means of their support." If the fines thus imposed were for the benelit of the wives and children of the ollenders, there would he no lack of complaint against drunken husband.. But the wife, who knows site will be robbed of her means of t-ubsistenee to pay the imaginary damages to outraged Iawfortheoll'ense committed against her by, her husband, will be slow to make her conjugal indignities known, ami, when impelled to do so under stress of sud den excitement or alarm, the ollicers, who ex pect liberal fees for protecting (?) her, are sur prised that she makes no further complaint and they get no further fees. Mr. Newsome's remarks about "fast" young men are well taken. While the New North west does not believe that laws made in advance of public sentiment can be executed, and there fore fears that tlte fruition of the correspondent's idea of universal prohibition will be long deferred, yet it does believe that when women become as independent, socially, financially and politically, as. men now are, they will hold husbands and suitors as strictly to the lines of moral rectitude as men to-day hold their wives and sweethearts. l'his is the only practical way to deal with drunk enness. Men will not tolerate drunken wives, and women would not tolorabledrtinken husbands if not compelled to. A few decades of such liberty ami power for women as men possess, and which will hi and by accrue to women through the bal lot, will successfully settle the temperance prob lem in families. Some time since, an Eastern Washington man was indicted for the commission of rape on a farmer's wife, and the Pomeroy Independent vehemently denounced his crime. The man has been "cleared," it having been shown that the couple were guilty of adultery, and some paers .-eem to think he is free of all blame, as his inti macy was permitted by her, tliough they con demn her. But the Ltdenendent sensibly says that the man is not "any better than he proves the woman to be, if reports are true as to his in timacy with Iter;" that "the day of barbarism is passiiigaway, wheuamaueaiigouucondeinned for the very crime that makes a woman an outcast," and that "if she is what they say, vile man, in making her so, is Just as guilty as she is," Well said, fiHlepenttent. The "good people" will en dorse your sentiments. Parents cannot be too particular in the kind of newsjmper literature they introduce to their fam ilies. Newspapers that abound in coarse and in decent allusions, indicative of the natural coarse ness and indecency of their editors, are not the kind of papers that childron should have daily access to. Parents do not want a jmper in the house that they cannot trust in this respect one that they are obliged to read in advance to see if it will do to submit to their children. They have a right to insist that their family paper shall at least be clean, even though it bo wanting in honesty or ability. A liberal exercise of this sacred right would soon crowd out of circulation all nasty newspapers. The Boston Congregationalht, one of the most illiberal of the ecclesiastical opponents of equal rights for women, is very willing that they shall do more than equal work in saving the doomed human family. Amonir its remarks on tho duties of women is this: "We hope and pray for the time when every woman who professes Christ will be found helping in all ways jmssible, both in home and foreign fields, to win the world to Him who died for it." Which leads the Woman' Journal to ask : "But if a woman desires to be or dained and to preach as a 'simple way to win the world to Him who died,' what will the Congreya tionnllnt soy ?" The Walla Walla Tomi Talk of a recent date contained a wail about the "ignorance, cupidity and positive rascality surrounding the exercise of tlie ballot," supplemented by the declaration that "something must be done to purify our elective system to rescue it from the mire into which it has fallen or the doom of the Republic is sealed." But the 7'omvi Talk failed to point out a remedy for the deplorable condition of politics. Is it timid about suggesting that the way for purifica tion is to enfranchise the pure elements of society? The Eal Oregoman asserts that it and Ncsmith are the only two focmcn who ever "got ahead of the editor of the New Northwest, and proudly claims that scurrility and obscenity were their weapons ! "Therefore, women should not vote." The Port Orford 7W of January 18th contained some rhymes by "Oypsol" in opposition to AVomnn Suffrage, which were neatly answered in verse in its next issue by "Fran Holoise." Tho La Grande Republican has discarded its "patent outside." Mr.1 A. F. Parker has aseumod charga of the Lowiston AVtw. AMUSEMENT NOTES. The Maude Granger combination, of which George Chaplin was a member, has disbanded. Sam Piercy was playing the "Legion of Honor" in Chicago last week, supported by a New York company. "Drink," with Rose Ey tinge and Cyril Searle in the principal parts, was presented at the Stand ard Theater, New York, January 21st. Sometime in September, Joaquin Miller's new est play, "Forty-Nine," will be produced in grand stvle bvMr.and Mrs. McKee Rankin at Haverly's Fourteenth-street Theater, New York. "Tlte first really good dramatic performance that has been given in San Jose for many months," is the wav in which the Mercury speaks of the Owens combination, which recently played a brief season in that city. Mrs. Shultz (Madame Anna Bishop) appeared at a concert in Steinway Hall, New York, on Monday evening last. She has been forty-four years before the public, and still sings with power and sweetness. A market! copy of the Auburn (N. Y.) Daily Advertiser, bearing date of January 25, has reached this otlice, and is liberal in its praise of the now celebrated McGilieny family. Their entertain ments in that city were very successful. The two performances given by the McWade companv last Saturdav at New Market Theater were fairly attended, ami diliered but little from the former efforts of the troupe in the same play, "Rip Van Winkle." The comjmny left for The Dalles on Monday, and may visit Walla Walla before returning. Parisians actresses wear paper lace a great deal. It is tough, soft, and so effective on the stage that it cannot be distinguished from real lace. By these intelligent women it is considered the height of folly to wear a lot of costly lace, which may be ruined in a night, when five dollars' worth of pa per looks just as well. An immense audience attended the concert and mask bull given by tlte Ancient Order of United Workmen t New Market Theater last evening. Prizes were awarded as follows: Mrs. C. A. Wheeler, for the finest lady's costume, "Queen Elizabeth," a old watch anil chain ; Tom Corbin, best sustained lady's character, "Topsy," silver tea set; Mrs. Jessie Ellis, most original lady's costume, "A. O. L". W., Good Luck," a pair of opera glasses; J. H. Struble, finest costume by gentleman, "Spanish Cavalier," a solitaire dia mond ring; Max Gallk-k, best sustained gentle man's character, "Bootblack," a gold-headed cane; W. W. McGuire, most original character by gentleman, "Egyptian Obelisk," a pair of opera glasses. To-morrow evening, John E. Owens inaugurates at New Markut Theater his short "season of merry comedy." This sterling actor has achieved a rep utation in his line second to that of no other artist on the American stage, and he will doubtless re ceive that recognition from the Portland public which his well-known ability deserves. "That Man from Cattaraugus." a new American comedy specially adapted for Mr. Owens, is to be the open ing piece, and will be repeated on Saturday even ing and for Saturdav matinee. "Dr. Clyde," "Everybody's Friend," "Heir-at-Law" and "So lon Shingle" will be given during the remainder of the season. The comtMiny supporting Mr. Owens is claimed to be the best ever visiting this city, and it is hoped the claim is well founded, as a smooth, pleasing dramatic performance is a pleasure rarely accorded us benighted Portlanders. The management announces that, despite the great expense attending the importation of this continuation, there will be no increase in the scale of prices. GENERAL NEWS. President Hayes and Secretary Goll favor send ing a relief ship after the Jeattuette. Professor Rodgers is in favor of Trinidad as the location for the Pacitic Coast Harbor of Refuge. Mr. George Jones, of the New York Times, savs $225,000 has been subscribed to the Grant relfef fund. On Monday evening, at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, a grand reception was tendered King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands. AVater is scarce in New York, and some suilfer ing results. InsjMsetors are endeavoring to prevent waste, so as to avert a public calamity. Conkling is opposed to Stanley Matthews, ami it is thomrht will prevent the confirmation of the latter as Swayne's successor on the I. S. Supreme Bench. The Secretary of AVar endorses Hazen's report in favor of an appropriation of S15,000 for a tele graph line from Astoria to Tillamook Rock, and of ?2ti,0tH) for a line from Port Townsend to Cape Flattery. Tlte great storm which has just subsided ex tended from British Columbia to Southern Cali fornia, and was the most disastrous ever known. California has suffered severely. Sacramento A'alley has been a vast lake. Numerous towns were Hooded. lirides were destroyed, and miles of ratlriMKl tracks were washed out. Camp Uapi tola, on Soquel Creek, was washed out to sea, but no lives were lost. FOREIGN NEWS. Another Charlev Ross has been found thb time on tlte farm o"f a German living in Canada'. Sir Thomas Hesketh and bride (nee Miss Sharon) have arrived at his home in Lancashire. The British House of Commons sat for 42 hours continuously while considering the Irish coercion bill. It is telegraphed that Gladstone's house in Lon don is guarded by police, for fear of a Fenian at tack. English Liberals want Gladstone to keep oarly hours and not participate in dilatory debatos. His health ie not the best. Professor Hind is proving that the Halifax flsh erv statistics were false and that the award ob tained from the United States is fraudulent. On the .'Sd instant, the Home Rule members of the British House of Commons were suspended and singly removed by the Sergeant-atrArmsfor attempting to obstruct legislation antagonistic to Ireland. Tho British Government affects to be alarmed about 21 Fenian uprising not alone in Ireland, but in the principal towns-of England, ami lias dis armed the Eighth or Jtoyul Irish Regiment, sta tioned at Aldershot. 1