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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1881)
VOLUME & NO. 28. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 24. ; 1881. PER YEAR $J00. THE AVEST SJPE. C JIBS. DUNIWAY AT INDEPENDENCE ENTHUSIAS TIC MEETIXQSXIIJS WOMAN SUFFKAOB CAUSE TKirMrilANT. ' ; 7 Peak Reapers7 trrn New NoannrEST " - Independence Is divided Into two parts, desig nated respectively a theOld and the New Town, -ndoveran-area a great as 4 hat of -Salem, - Its- ..kii " i i. tr.tfi. in. it. population equals mat oi iticiiuiiviue,, anu lis industries are not Inferior to those of Corvallls. . The town lies upon the left bank of the Willam ette Rlverrn both sides of a decjjjTgulch,-which , Is spanned by a foot-bridge upon one-street, the car-track upon another, and a wagon-bridge upon third: In the Old Town there is a district school-house, also a large number of homes, more or less preten tious or "humble, as the taste or means of the ' owner may have decreed. The school is under the able care of Prof. C. E. Magers, son of our Marlon county friend, Dr. Magers, and. brother of the rising lawyer of the name in McMlnnville. The school of which Professor M. hascharge con slsU of about seventy pupils, ranging from six, to thirteen years of age, as bright bey of young Americans as one can see' any where. The Profes ' sor Is also County Superintendent of Schools, and ' performs his duties In a manner so satisfactory to the public that It would be hard work for a lady competitor for IhVoIttce to succeed in displacing him. It Is well to add that he Is a thorough - Woman Suffragist, and in favor of giving women the opportunity to compete with him for. official honors Ittliey like. - ' . ' T-herroprietorortheTX)ldwirl81r7;EtvIn Tharp, who settled upon the beautiful donation claim - where he now resides, and of which the - town .Is' a' part, in the year 1844. Mr. Tharp Is a genius of the first order. His library- is an ency ' ' clopiedia of human oddities, and his conversation an epitomejof the, contents of rare books, inter- spersed with his own peculiar nd fresh Ideas, clothed in original language. We enjoyed a half day of genial hospitality in his great rambling ' farm-house, in the company of himself and daugh ters. , .' ; ' . .. : . - - But to return to-NewTowh (where our work was), which, though last to be spoken .of, 1?. by po means least in Importance' or populatlojC The proprietor of this town is Henry Hill, Esq., also an old-timer, whose guest we were, and who lives outside the corporation in regular farmer's style, surrounded, by. his family, and blessed by peace and plenty., Mrs. Hill Is one of the heroines of the nineteenth century, whose work can never be estimated, for it is the priceless labor of rearing rnlldrnrantlTanuchildren who are destined to rise up and call her blessed. - Our first lectures in Independence were given n Sloper's Hall,a wlndowlesa room on the floor above a livery stable, where the people assembled In crowds, till even standing-room could not be .bad. Mr. 1). F. Burcli is the principal owner of the. one church in the' place, and he was out of town, so we could not get the privilege of occupy lng the-pulplt till he came In on the Bccond day, when the edifice was graciously placed at our dis posal for the remaining lectures of the. course. Mr. Burch is very popular among the citizens of Polk, who say they hope to see him reinstated as - Superintendent of the penitentiary at no distant -day. " ' ' The old school-house of New Town has been en larged and otherwise Improved till It, now pre- - seuts a very-handsome appearance. -There are two teachers, Prof. J, S. Sweet and Mrs. Vaughn, nee Miss Ida Hutton, formerly of Portland, both of whom are prime favorites In their respective departments. ... j.- Thenrare several first-class mercantile houses - And a number of grocery stores in Independence. Of the former, the houses of Mr. Adolf Wolfe and Messrs. Smith A Co. are In the lead, and of the latter, that of Mr. J. P. Irvine is the most popular. If any of our subscribers wish to know where to ' send for the best potatoes in the market, we confi dently direct them to "Jack" Irvine, who hasn't paid for this "puff," and didn't order If printed; - but be deserves it, and here it is. -V. ' ' There are two hotels in. Independence. And iy5rerejttian and supported women who keep them being the weariest, sickliest-looking set of "angels" Imag inable. There are many pleasant homes here, too, where the husband and wife are one, and thai one both of them, where the. wives are as happy and rosy as the wives of Laramie pity, and where, It r; is almost needless to say, the husbands are be-. lievers in equal rights. -We must"isotmirtomenwn the prosperous millinery stow of Miss' J. 'M. Allen, a thorough " builness lady, who would not marry a king unless be could be queen, but who is as completely womanly, polite and gracious as though she had ' never earned the bread of precious independence oflasted the sweets of Individual liberty. ; Nor should we forget to record an .Incident dur ing the progress rof the lectures which is worthy of special note. At the close of one of the speeches, and when we felt pretty sure of the vote, we asked every lody who believed that women should have equal rights with men to arise to their feet.JThe crowd that had beer) seated arose, and those that were standing Jhrewjjp were two or three who had not yctjromifjso tne negative" wa'fr-called for.- Two persons arose, one Wing a youth of 'eighteen, who, when pressed for a reason for his negative vftte, explained that he gave it to be on the opposite side, and because he. saw the" overwhelming -majorlty-wa- with - us The other man, a voter, said that he hud made up his mind years ago, and he never changed. To this we answered that we were willing to confess that we, had sometimes been led to change aa opinion, but whenever we were induced to change we were consoled by the reflection that the differ ence' between a human being, and a donkey is that the human being can change an opinion and the donkey canV. . "The house came down." The merriment was universal but respectful, and the utmost order prevailed. But that voter won't hear the last of It soon. Boys bray when they see him on the streets, and men hail each other with the question, when' they see him coming, "Have you a mule to sell?" At this writing there Is every prospect that one opponent may be Induced to change an opinion, even if he has not done so already.' . . , . . . .The Hirer Side, Is a creditable , weekly journal published here, of which fMr. G. W. (Juivey'is editor.- -The paper JhaaL a goocLfleld, and is, we bopewell patrohlietL-JVYo are proud to recognise 1 it as an aoie tieienaer oi equal rights, anu our thanks-are due for courtesies extended during our visit. .. - - . Mrs. C. B. Sklpworth, mother of Eugene Skip worth, who Immortalized himself at the late Temperance-Alliance, and who (the mother, not the son) has resided here for some years, has recently departed for Goldendale," the scene of her hus band's future labors and her own untiring Indus try. Mrs. Sklpworth, who has been an ardent opponent of Woman Suffrage, la destined to bo- come theJoshua of .the new dispensation. See' if she- doesn't.. Her daughter, Mrs7PIpe, 'whose' husband, the lion. Luther Pipes, voted against Woman Suffrage In the late Legislature and Who is an active, intelligent and energetlclittle lady (we mean the. daughter, not the son-in-law) is a strong Woman Suffragist and is not faithfully represented by her husband when lie votes against it. But Xic" think fiC fwu mean the-'son-irtdaw this time) has already seen the error of his vote, as ne is a geiuieman anu a scnoiar ana aisposeu to be cosmopolitan in his Ideas when he Is led to investigate a subject. . . , - V Our space Is too llmityd to allow us to make more than passing mention of many friends to whom we were ludebted for courtesies, including the Butlers, Tliarps, Whiteakers, I HI Is, Coopers, Wolfes, Roberts', Smiths, Vaughns, Parkers Harts, De Bonis, Osburns, Lees, Irvlnes, Slopers, Sweets, and others, whose memory will remain with us a benediction wherever we shall go here after. . 7 " V , Our lectures were ovCr," rounds of calls were made, the schools were vlsited7 and our work was not yet finished, so we decided to go to Dallas On Friday, and return to Independence on the follow ing Wednesday to organize a club. Our route lay through the valley by railway line to Deny Sta tion, where we alighted to await the Salens stage. As this vehicle would not come along for several hours, we accepted the kindly escort of lion. Mr. Pipes, who happened to 'be going our way, and walked to Dixie, half a mile distant, past Colonel Nesmith's farm, and through the very prettiest part of the county, to the home of, Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey, where we spent the dayln pleasant. chat and needed rest, , ,-, - ; Since Nesmlth has put off 'politics, or rather since his party has put him off, he has turned his attention to agriculture, and Is saiiTto be a much decenter man than hitherto. .Relics of obscene stories, which be Is charged with having related as parts of conversation between him and oursetf, are still sniffed as a choice relish by some of his at all save lor the purpose of Informing the wives of some of these foul-minded beings that "kind Providence has always furnished us with better company thaa WNeamlth that- we never conversed with him on any topic in our life, and never rode in a stage-coach where be was ; that wejiev e rDspoke-ia-b I m-bu t once, and that was' Mevef Thlroduc He may be and proba bly Is a vulgar babbler ; but be is not a fool, nor could he afford to make declarations of a libelous nature concerning ourself or anybody else. ' And those moralists (?) who are claiming to condemn us upon the supposition that Nesmlth has some time addressed us In Improper language would doTwelt to And out whether or not he is really guilty of saying he did before, they-condemn us everlastingly because of his sin. 'And should they find him guilty we cheerfully. give him the ben efit of the doubt we suggest that lie atone for his own lulqultles.focive disclaim all .responsibility In the prenilses.Ncsmlth ought to be a. good man, for he has an excel ledt wife and an inter esting family. And b ought to be a Woman Suf fragist, for he has daughters whore capable of filling, higher poslslons than he has ever reached, and who are taxed without representation and governed by their political sovereigns, the negro and the foreigner. The stage ride from Dixie to Dallas was not long or uncomfortable ;rbut' It left ii exhausted J and dull, and precluded the possibility of writing up this place till next week. " ' A. S. I). Dallas, March 21, J881. ". Fronv4he Weston Leader: "While the wife of a President reaches that. altitude Incidentally only, and Is not directly responsible to the citi zens, she yet wields a mighty Influence. As she moves, so moves, the leading society ;J this, rami fying thence, becomes fashion. . Mrs Hayes had a proper conception of her position, andflrmiy stamped the Imprint of 1ier wisdom on the fah ions she moulded. Her stand on the temperance question, in excluding winefrom her receptions, regardless of the strenuous opposition met, has elicited much commentatid:been productive of much good. But this radical step was not the ouly oneTTBcIng a woman, it was her prerogative to d lctAie3onccrnliigheJaBbJoruible-ostHmes of ladies. A correspondent, speakingof one of Hayes' - receptions, , mentions . that 'but one woman appeared in undress, with bare arms' etc. And in every direction where an Intelligent woman 6f her station could accomplish! good, has Mrs. Hayes been correcting the evil tendencies of the day. She baa retired from, her station with the best wishes of an admiring people, marred by no far-fetched considerations of polities.". Mrs. Hayes further shows her good sense and thorough womanliness by being a pronounced Woman Suf fragist. ' In his recent comments on the "conversion" of Tifu rderersjuslT?dilheyararTwnt'lo7ste Henry Wanl Iieecher has offered to the world a lump of. wisdom. Sjteaking of the work of women In decorating and beautifying the cell of a brutal behalf, and the efforts of priests or preachers to Tnsu reTiTsaly alhtti,' ' Air, itewfiersaji; "Are not one hundred thousand persons dying all around him? There is nobody Jto run to them. There Is no sympathy for them. But If a monster Is to die for foul murder, the flood-gates of sym pathy are opened, and the newspapers tell how be died trusting In, Jesus. Faugh I Can a man who has crept to the gallows through common sewers, at the last moment, just before the last effort Id obtain pardon, suddenly blossom out Into fervent religious life ? I don't brieve it." Governor LI ttlefleld, of Rhode Island, is the fifth Governor who has In his message this year made a friendly recognition of the rights of women. He recommends suffrage onhe school question. 'The other four gentlemen Who have lent a hand to the woman movement are Governor Long of Massachusetts, Governor Cornell of New York, Governor Porter of Indiana, and Governor Perkins of California. It Is now proper for some philosopher to offer the remark that the Woman Suffrage movement Is .djrJng.VeJbavr iio thft statement in au exchange for some time, and fit would seem like meeting an old. friend to come across it once again. v. WHY IS IT? Addle Heath la Woman's Journal. Why Is It, I wonder, that women occupied wltk their own affairs are subject to so many more criticisms and Inquiries than men? Did you ever know a young man or old, for that matter FhojyaoUend this question asked alout ulm : JjN liat sopporss Mr. So-and so?" or did you e'er hear this com ment)' "He dresses too well to be a working man !" Of course this state of affairs Is net uni versalfor (hat we are very thankful. Neverthe less there is, and among so-called intelligent leople too, a class whose special mission Is te wonder and investigate what self-supporting women do to maintain themselves, and If by their chosen calling or profession they earn quite enough to cover all their expenses. I suspect that the homely saying, "Satan gives employment to idle hands,"- nilght explain the problem If we were allowed to substitute brains for hands that Is, if the persons in question are always in possession oflhem,i "You must give me references," a lady replied to a young woman artist, who hod called to look at rooms. ., The windows up-stalrs and down-stairs were placarded "Furnished rooms to let.", J'l am a stranger In the city," was the modest reply of the young person, whose, very address was a reference ; "but I can' show you letters from my former teachers to Instructors here. . . t Owing to sickness In the home, she had beea obliged to set out upon her Journey, alone, and so without an escort, was looking up a resting, place.. i ' . "That won't do," returned this over-nice land lalyr"My husband Ia Jtery; particular ma, and he doesn't care to have 'lone women in Use house anyway. You'd, better look somewhere else I" and she closed the door with a bans, marking to the domestic, "She dresses most ttoo well for a girl that 'pears to be earning her own living I" . :: . T So the beginner in JKe walked away te another ' bouse with "Furnished rooms to let," wondering if Boston wasn't a hard place to live In. She might have been saved an unpleasant experience, and guarded against home-sickness. If this worthy couple had specified in their advertisement to', whom iliey let rooms, . : . . .- . "Do you think there is quite as much of this now, asa few years ago ?" some one looking over Under the heal of "Triumph In Nebraska," the last - Womrvi'$ Journal, contains this Item: "A Woman Suffrage amendment has . passed both branches of the Nebraska Legislature. In the House the vote' stood 51 In favor to 19 against; in the Senate, 22 to 8. .Westward hoi" We hope the above may be literally true, but we gain the lmnM..tAii fiviM ATnhan ini. Yi a f t li a 1 I I .1 -.... 1 1 -v A. At- . 1 I m. A . ilUlijdmlrers.juide.wonld-4 ii . . , -i i .i . i cunuM ii iimiiiir w m in vyregon uopiion 6f a resolution for submitting the question, of amendment to the voters. We should like to bear from some of ou r Nebraska n friends on this subject. Tlio New York Wcnlng Pot urges t bat collegeai--nTlW Congregational Churchr I n foLWomea tach the general rules of business, and adds! "It Is this iirnorance which throws bpu yfr,P and bX the merest ccldent fthat 1 moneyed jadh a.lmniiiunlirrs1lr on lw mt cles of the sterner sex as to all business matters,. ever ciaimeu mat ne uio. and ready victims of a fraud which a little busi ness sagacity might have checked." ' . Senator Cameron and Wife, of Pennsylvania, are coming to the Iaclflo Coast soon on a visit, v my shoulder asks. liiere ought not to be, considering the growtk of -civilization, but there Is quite enough now to TieepjwnsrilVeiature apparent that they are "entirely self-reliant" continually on the qui vlve. It Is not so muck what the comment ariiounts to, as the pain it In flicts upon those who are so delicately organized that they cannot all at once make up their mlnda 7 to be a target for every dart that may be aimed ai them. v The Independence River Side of the 18th Instaat speaks thus of Mrs. Duniway's recent visit an labors at Indeendeiice: "Mrs. A. S. Dunlwav, ell tress of the New Noktiiwert, has tiecn deliv ering a course of very, entertaining and instruc tive lectures In this place daring the week. Mrs. I). Is a very pleasant speaker, and bandies hef subject in a manner which entitles her to a front rank on the rostrum. .At 11 o'clock A. M. on Huok day MrsVD gave to a large audience her experi ence in visiting the Centennial, inte'rsierseil with occasloisl strong pleas in favor of the enfranchise ment and equal rights of women. On Sunday evening, the subject of her discourse was Whj Notr. and was a yery able effort, In which she met, in a calm, argumentative way, many of too objections Urged against the Idea of extending the -elective franchise to women. -Her arguments which were given In her own peculiar style, were clear, logical and unanswerable, and will & many to thinking , on the subject, Mrs, TV la emphatically the apostle of the suffrage mo e mentand sufTers nothing to Interfere with Iter duty in that respect; and however much onemsjr. differ with her views, none doubt her sincerity erly present IU We learn that It Is designed to organize A Polk County Woman Suffrage Asso ciation at Dallas at an, early day. We wish 11 Godspeed."..'' ' ,' ' : . field, Mass., was burned on the 1st instant. Tka loss will be nearly $20,000. The following curious vote was passed by its trusteea inJ721i .Oranloi a pew to be built on the left hand of the pulpit, to 4vea, said wWetoset ielhe- pew during their natural life." Again it is stated that the rascals who lorged the Morey letter have been discovered ; but tkelr names are not given. ' - 1, t I t 5 i. il i' 1 t; i ill ! I t. -'- 1.-.