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THE NEW : NORTHWEST, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1B8L
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A Jmtrnal for tkt tropU.
Jmlrprntient in PotUlet and Xriiglon.
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Jrtjf WiwAiaffto IWlnmt, Oregon.
rORTLANH, onEOOJT, TIIUIWDAY. APRIL T 1L
ANNOUNCEMENT. . '
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nTaMtiT mornlnr. Mr. A. K Dunlway left tbla city
tor Etnded tour of .Eastern Oregon andlSaBtern Wah;
tngtk It U her Intention to visit .all, or nearly all, tb
ttlesand town In th great action named.- Mi I prob-
aMy at Th latlle now.
CHRISTIANITY VS. CHURCHANITY.
The Marlon county correspondent, whose letter
appears in another column. It laboring under a
mistake In regard to the course of this journal on
. ehwrch matters. He has certainly failed to read
tfe New Northwest regularly and carefully (he
confesses he Is not a subscriber), or he would not
accuse It of "taking a stand of open hostility to
the church." This Journal has neTer been the
nemy of reilglon. Without the restrictions
which the church enjoins, and the future punish
ment It prescribes for the wicked, society would
aoon relapse Into barbarism.
- JThls paper Is strongly In favor of good and filth
JuTarid progressive preachers. Its publlsliers are
proud to claim as personal friends many of . the
foremost clergymen of the day. With humanita
rian Christianity It has ever been In perfect ac
cord. But the senior editor has often encountered
a narrow, puritanical, blue-la wcAirrAa, which
tars Its doors against her work, and, withja'n
over-pious and super-holyjLalrturns ItsprlesUy
back upon heftnlsslon. This bubble of pharisa
fcal unrighteousness Is always punctured la these
columns when It attempts to blockade the
-pathway of human rights -with the-Bible.
We . are sorry our correspondent has failed to
discriminate between the religion of the New
Testament and the-bigoted cant of the scribes,
pbariseea and hypocrites who sometimes attempt
to thwart her work, and whom' ahe" never falls to
denounce. If Christians generally would do the
will of the Great Exemplar, there would soon be
left to doubt the divinity of His high mis-
As before intimated, It Is not Christianity,
tot non-progressive cburchanlty, that this Jour
pal opposes. .
'We are rejoiced to see the spirit of intolerance
yielding to the teachings of the Golden Rule.
Many churches which once were barred against
the work of this journal' Acid editor are now open
tor her lectures; ana many clergymen who once
-epposed us have wisely yielded" to the inevitable
Iogicorevents, and have become co-workers with
, as In. heralding thwdnrtrlnrs , of. equal rights and
justice for alL ' - - ,,,
TU- man'arlghU-elementln-Independence
: though so greatly In the minority as to command
. no respect from 'anybody, seems, nevertheless, to
fcave succeeded In bulldoilng the liivtr Side Into
- silence In reference to the work of equal rights In
lis midst. Notwithstanding the fact' that the
Woman Suffrage organization i Injthat enterpris
ing locality starts out with a large membership,
f which the editor forms a part, there are but Ave
fines In reference to it In the liivtr Side. There
is, however, a quartet column of scurrility from.
an Amity correspondent In reference to Mrs, Dun-
tway, who evidently aroused the contributor's
hostility by accepting the hospitality of her
'friends In said village. Instead 6f patronizing the
. hotel." We are sorry, for Brother Qui vey's sake,
to see his exhibition of the white feather; but It
la all the better for the New. North west, as It is
brought hereby Into direct ami advantageous
competition with the Jiitrr SMe In furnishing
local newi for Independence. .1
. The New York State Woman Suffrage Associa
tion held an enthosiastloconventionatTroy-nn
the 7th and 6th of February. The report of the
proceedings, as gleaned from the Troy newspers,
makes exceedingly Interesting reading. Among
the prominent speakers were ' Dr. Clemence
Lotler, Helen M. SloctinvLtlIIC"T)evewuxBIile7
llatllda Joslyn Gage and Mr. A. O. Wilcox.; W
are glad to see the Eastern as well as v the I'aclflo
press engaged In treating i he Woman SufTrage-
causs with respectful consideration. New York
Is keeping abreast with the mar$h of progress.
- Soinebodyrwh-etylec himself uAunt Sallie,"-
writes to the Yamhill J!ejoHer, saying he Is "not
In favor of women having the ballot," but Is in
, savor of their making their own UvlngJJLJIc says
they ve a right to "chop wood, go when they
flea, come In iff the sam My Ie7 make garden,
t tc forall ofjwjilch Jhcromen, who have hlth-
s)rto been 4enled (?) these rights, should be be
comingly grateful. -
"Tbs Spirit of r86," a piece Intended to satirize
fte Woman Suffrage cause, was produced In Cor-
rail Is last week by the dramatic club.' It was as
extravagant aa such pleoes usually are.
THE GREENWOOD WILL XASE, AGAIN.
An outrageous and shameful decision by a court
of law Invariably leads to complications, and con
tinually rises to annoy and torture both the
Judges who render It and the litigants who tern
Jporarlly profit by It- Especially Is this true If there
are doubts as to the legal existence of the court.
The many suspicious things connected with
the radmlnlstration of Oregon's : late so-called
Supreme Court combined to .make the public, re
gard that bidy (or two members of It) with coni
tempt aud d(trust; but, of all Its unjust decisions,
perhaps none caused more surprise ami Indigna
tion than that J n the Greenwood will case, by
which a devoted daughter was robbed of the prop
erty left her by her. mother (though Judge Boise
disMeuted from the decision). The matter came
home to the two mistrusted Judges In last June,
when they sought reflection j for tne daughter
circulated thousands of copies of the infamous de
cision ail a canjjtalgndoc-ument, and the' result
was thsfthey ran far behind their ticket, and
pnbablyaldedrby thel
cre&Hl hg the vote" of the "other" members of their
party. The case Is now up again, and this time it
worries not only the Judges, but the beneficiaries
by the decision. The people of Oregon generally
think the so-called Supreme Court was not a legal
tribunal, inasmuch as it was appointed instead of
elected, as expressly and plainly provided by the
Constitution of the State; and the daughter,
Mrs. M. C. Cllne, through her atttorneys, Messrs.
J. F. DArcy of Portland and Oi W. Lawson of
Salem, has brought suit, as stated last week, to
Impeach and set aside the decision, on the ground
that the Court was not a lawful tribunal and had
no Jurisdiction. The Court was created under an
act of the Legislature authorizing the Governor to
appoint the Judges ; but the counsel for Mrs. Cllne
maintain, by almost numberfess references to the
works and decisions of able Jurists, as well as the
plain and unmUtakable wording of the Constitu
tion Itself, that the Legislature's bill authorizing
the apiolntment of the Judges was unconstitu
tional and an unwarranted usurpation or assump
tion of power. If, In direct violation of the Con
stitution of the State,, the Legislature can em
powerthe Governor to appoint the. Supreme
Judges, the same .body 'could authorize a notary .
public to "name not only the Supreme Judges, but
all other officers of law. . The act of the Legisla
ture In this "matter, If allowed to stand,-wlll serve
to render the State Constitution an Idle fancy of
silly dreamers Instead of an organic law of a com
monwealth of thoughtful peoples ' '
Mr. D Airy has taken especial pains to collate
opinions and decisions, and has presented a sur
prising array of 'points In support of his client's
cause. He quotes from Webster, Marshall, Story,
Parsons, Sawyer, and many other authorities, and
from numerous State Supreme' Court reports, on
the question of Jurisdiction, 'and then says:
If a Court appointed by a XJorrmor under a void act of
tb0Lrf Mature la d fort and It act b4nlin, w no
longer Hr under a rrnmrnt of aw-but by the trace
andperniliiaton, of any faction or arrogant and unnctupu
lou minority that may gala control of the IKlalatare.
Well might th rtghteou Chief J untie of Prnnnylranl
cry out In bl anger on a itmllar occaidon, "Soon the very
exiWtrncof tb tn(ltutlwn will becciine trndllionary. If
thin iihoold he permitted f
Wei "ffht Wrtinli i ii I il ni
with bl mati-hleM power of Ktateinentt Th admlnUtra
tlon of Juatlc would be an empty firtn, aa Idle ceremony I
Judge would lt to execute elUUv Judgment and de
cree, and nor fo declare In-law or tu admlnlater the Ju-.
Uce or-th counlry." : :
' In the Ah Iiee habeaa corjm caser"a case has
tily and Imperfectly presented, Judge Ieady de
cided that the late Oregon Supreme Court .was a
legal tribunal ; but Mr. D'Arcy loes not accept
this, and brings abundant authorities In support
of his opposition to the opinion of the learnel Ju
rist. Judge DeAdy stated In his decision that "no
authorities were cited" to uphold the claim that
the Court was illegal, thus showing that much de
pendson an rnttorney'snpreparltig his case pro
crly. The Judge will now be able to read a num
ber of authorities, and will doubtless regret that
the points were not broughtvout in the habrai'
corpm suit. "
If the opposing counsel In this Greenwood case
Is correct In stating that "public convenience and
utility" is to take precedence of the Constitution,
Mr. D'Arcy asserts that "the whole theory of our
government Is .changed, and we are traveling
backward to discord," and adds: -.
W acknowledge that under Cromwell the. officer In
power wer tflVnw ie lo from tb4n4ng-doMs if 4he
Conatltutlon and th Oovertvment are swept away by
armed revolution, there will be officer drarta Hut the
plea of public convenience and utility ante-date Crom
well. It I tb old argument of tyranny and wrong In
every age, but It la not wont to stir th air of the court In
urdayluurlitaeFliUdrc
advocate; but the Ixng arllktnent led I hem to the block.
A harlot and th mother of harlot. It wa burled at York
town to sleep the dreamlea aleep that lull th dead, while
the soldier of l Fayette and the veteran of W.anhlnglon,
"beneath the warcarred.flag of the Continental and th
eagle of France, celebrated th exit of the age of fn Juatlc
and th advent of th new era of conatttutlonal light and
civil liberty; To-day tu ghont, born voT tit vivid Imaglna-
Huli T m a i aa aai aV nm S mm tm hk I 1 mm 4t ImjI mmmmmAm-JBaAMw.AaB
llvfl Off wt;vTsrCx flsvCl vsl our si as. I Iwvi JU HI II V1 VF 1 1 1, ll tr II ailr
Judge from their a tool a. Caeleva J leleat A well
might they bid the river, turn back on It" course and lav
with Ita aun-warmed watr th chilly feet of th hlllal
- Women In Oregon have suffered much at the
hands. of law-makers- and court, but In no In
sUiletiaa there been a morerglarlng wrdngdone
than by the LegUlature of 173 through its bill
permitting Yhr appointment of Judges who hesi
tated not to defame a departed mother's memory
and to filch fron a dutiful daughter a sacred
legacy. But the eratVf right anl Justice Is dawn
ing, and there Is little doubt that Mrs. Cllne will
eventually have restored to her the patrimony of
Which she was defrauded. '
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FOR WILLFUL LANDER, $50a
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A Chicago dUpatch of April 1st reads:
Id th ault of A tic A'. Earty, of Rock.agalnat Wll
lUm F. Ktorey, of th Chicago Hmm, f willful defamation,
of character, th Jury thl morning, on final hearing, gave
a verdict for' !& against defendant, which ia a virtual vic
tory for defendant. On one trial plaintiff waa given titfitn,
and Htorey one ofTered ftMJO: a a com prom la. Th ault
waafori.oWu, - : V.... ..... .'.
rjTlian this dispatch, nothing could le written
that would plainer shqw the contempt In which
woman's character Is held by a very large .portion
f men; nor could anything be said that would
better . prove the need of her having a trial by a
Jury of her peers. Worse than this,' the men who
are wotrtto loudly declaim about the protection
of women are the ones who will render a verdict
like the above. We venture the assertion that no
Woman Suffragist was. a member of that Jury, for
suffragists have a high regard for "probity of con
duct, and a clear conception of right and justice.
No" bodjr of menwlth" aproperappreclat ioiraf
moral rectitude would place the damage of willful
slander at the low sum of five hundred doIlarr""A
woman character ' lr everyt hi ng to her;'and'the
man who slanders it is guilty of a heinous crime.
In such' a case, women are the proper persotnrto"
constitute a jury. If Alice A. Early's suit had
been submitted to twelve Jntelligent women, she
would have got justice. They would have had a
just understanding of the enormous Injury done
her, and would not have made the willful defamer
a "virtual victor." . '
Other-women are in the same condition as the
plaintiff named in the above extract. Their good
names are not safe. There Is no thought of a se
vere penalty to deter men from defaming themT
It is not possible for them to get Justice because
they cannot lay their cases before a jury of their
peers. They must appeal for Justice to thoaejwha
have no comprehension of what would be right In
the premises. -This state of things, will continue
until woman gets the political ballot, and conse
quently the power to enact laws to adequately
punish willful defamation and similar crimes.
Women, you "who have all the rights you want,"
remember that'lt Is In the power, of 'men to de
fame you, blast throughout life your happiness,
and escape with little or no punishment, simply
because you are, without the suffrage, unable to
protect yourselves. The next time you are dis
posed to say you "have all the rights you "want,"
remember that If a man slanders you, and is
proven willfully and maliciously guilty, you and
your sex can have nothing, to say in punishing
him,-and that he will escape with a nominal pen
alty, because the jury not of your peers has no
conception of the damage done you. .
Five hundred dollars damage for willful defama-'
tion of a woman's character In a paper of the im
mense circulation of the Chicago Times
The Amity eorresponiiiiv-of the-1 iidcpendence.
River Side has chosen a fit name under which .to
vent his cowardly spleen against the senior editor
of Hhe New Northwest, whose heinous offense
was in quietly visiting some friend in the village
and not stopping at th "hotel." A "Gnat'.' Is a
most contemptible insect, put -Into thi world for
Got! OIllv ltnnw it liaf .J L. a. pipn,. lg.. I..
a sneaking whelp that attacks, anonymously and
causelessly, Jady who Is minding her oWn busi
ness. This Is a sample of the "men" who boast of
their "protection-of : womenand who, by their
essmistic meannesa and brazen bigotry, contin
ually furnish points and -illustrations In favor of
the woman movement. Dart around, thou Infin
itesimal Insect ! You only make more watchful
and vigilant those whom, by ' reason of 3-our, In
significance, you are-enabled to attack. -
. At the Spiritual anniversary In this city last
week, a number of medium and speakers were
present and the audiences -were- large. Resotu
I lons7were "passed TnferenceTto spl rl t comraun I
catlon, claiming It to be of Bible origin, or at
least In harmony with pure Christianity. Perfect
iohedience to all the laws of nature was declared
"the only way of salvation" from the consequences
of wrong doing, and monogamic marriage the
basis of the highest social structure. "It was de
cided that- Spiritualism Is heaven's best gift, to
man, for It has robbed death of its terrors and an
swered the great question, "If a man die, shall he
live again?" : - : . '
M r-J.-1 1.-McCl u n g,-of -Ku gene CI t yr has tloneja
sensible thing. At a public meeting, held re
cently to make nominations for city officers,. he
was a candidate for the position of , president of
The Town Council, but w'ai defeatetl." He has been
urgedlo.ru n J ndependently, but publishes a caiil
positively declining, saylnglliat ' uriUeTlh'ecIf"
cumstances he cannqt allow his name to be
brought forwanl agalfu-lnsconduct k com
mended to all persons who enter organizations
and bolt when they find that their personal am
bitions are not endorsed hy the majority.
The reporterof the Standartl let gush run away
with veracity In writing up what the senior ed
itor of this paper said at the bridge meeting last
Saturday evening In East Portland. N allusion
waa made by her to the 0.t RAN. Co, or any
nther-reat-monopoly,", nor dldshe quote, any
Bcrlpture. : '
Readers oTthe Nxw Northwmt are asked lo
note the extra quality of paper used this week.
Despairing of getting a good article In PortlaoLat
anything near a reasonable figure, the publishers
sent an order to an Eastern firm and had a quan
tity manufactured specially for this Journal.
WOMENAKE NOTICE
-mwmm wuitu JCpUO
licans of Maryland, who have sought an equitable
.11 1.-! m 1 '' 1 n A. " .
uivisiiMiw r inicrai uiiivva, liiai, in appointments
the fitness and qualifications of .Individuals will'
be considered," and that "color, whether black or
white, can in Itself be neither jLrecommendatlon
IIVI - 1 J uniru DIIUU 114 IMMC mijthiilac 01
this sensible '' utterance of the President.
Although he did not have them In mind when he
made it, yet it Is so entirely fair that he cannot
well retract-It. Certainly women areuHndlvIJ-
uals," and as such have the President's solemn as
surance that, the' will be. Justly dealt with.
Though many men are souihlck-skulled as to as
sert that women are not "citizens," yet it seems
impossible that any can be found who will main'
tain tnat tney are not "individuals." .---
A disgraceful scene occurred In the Senate on
r nuaytiasi oetween; ,-vianone ani oornees. rne
latter had the clerk read a newspaper Editorial se-
vririv 1 1 1111 isiiiic iiic toriurr. aiiu mii lie wauieu
11 recornea as nis speecn; out soon aner, at iioars
suggestion, he disclalmeil any endorsement of the
sentiment of the article. Mahope Insisted on
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luriut-r rvaraiioii, wikii 1 ncnitj , i-uihkjuv -oc-
curreil, during which the Virginian said the in
ferences or charges of Voorhees were such as "no
honorable or brave man would make."
Our Sllverton correspondent's letter forcibly
pictures the despicable tricks resorted to by
bigoted fossils in their endeavors to evade and
misinterpret the law In reference to school suf-trageorvoraenrferrTmisti)e-d
riven to desper
ate straits to maintain their hide-bound opposi
tion to progress when they willfully attempt to
misunderstand Oregon's, very plain law In regard
to school voters. ' u '".'
T ..A..' uia... tu. tP--t. r..Al
writes to the publishers of the New Northwest,
saying that she fails to receive the paper regu
larly, and directing that it be sent to her residence,
aa aha will '0wt It mj-U anil .aafor llVr not
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concludes : "I watch s with great lnterestyour
progress, and hope Oregon "will lead all the States
In the ballot for woman."
It Is probable that the Pennsylvania Legislature
will submit to the voters a prohibition amend
ment to the State Constitution. The bill pending
"forever prohibits, except for medicinal, mechan
ical and scientific purposesrlhe manufacture and
sale of all Intoxicating liquors." An effort to In
troduce the word "sacrament" after "mechanical"
has failed.- .- rr- : -
Airs. w.j. t'lymaie, or Jacksonville, is tMWau-
morigeq yimem nuentoi ine wr yoKTiiwEgT
for Jackson county. The ladyjs an earnest friend
of the Woman Suffrage cause, and any favor
shoirn Ker in hr work will be duly annreeiated
at this office. .
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.. Mr. Charles Christie, formerly of Portland, sue
ceeda the shameless puppy, L. B. Cox, as editor
aqd part proprietor of the Pendleton I?at Orego
nirtn, and will yastjy improve the paper. ---
Massachusetts appears, to have a Legislature
that compares favorably with TTallfornla's execra--
ble boily. It .hastlefeated a bill to . establish
Woman Suffrage. .
FOREIGN NEWS.
Portions of Iondpn are now lighted by the
Brush electric system. . '
England, Italy and Turkey have recognize J the
Kingdom of Roumania;
Princess Caroline' widow of hereditary Prince
Ferdinand of Denmark, Is deadrr :c rrr
A sad state of affairs prevails throughout Peru.
The country Is given up to -pillage and mob vio-
lence. . " j. 'A ; .
The British gross revenue during the past finan
cial year was 84,081,000, or 1,341,000 over the es
timate. " .
"The land League has removed all' books and
papers from its London office, fearing a descent of
the authorities. - - - . .. -
A severe riot occurred at Ballyghadeyn, Ire
land, on Saturday. Two peasants and one police
man were killed, and a large number of both
classes were woutided. - v
-A Constantinople dispatch says a severe earth
quake at Chio, on the island of that .name, oc
curred on the 3d Instant, the place being badly
wrecked and about 3000j)ersons being killed or
wounded. .
A quarrel Is reported in the Russian royal fam-llv-Jncohsequenee
ot which Grand Duke Ton-
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Is about to resign as Grand Admiral and Minister
of Marine.
A rYl .rlrt. n .Mw.Mir.li. I aa Wa 'I rv 1 1 1 a. I sm Vintfvw
land free of taxation. It is superior to that man
ufactured in England, but has been kept out of
market by heavy duties. This move Is expected
lo stop the mouths of advocates or bi-metalisin.
Rev. Henry Varley will contest Northampton
against " Bradlaugh. He says In an address to
electors i 'The man who denies the existence of
the Divine Lawgiver Is unfit to be a legislator."
Conservatives will also put up a candidate.
Consequently the ref-lectlou of Bradlaugh Is uncertain.-
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Most, editor of the IWiheit. the London Social
ist paper, has been arrested for Inciting the peo--
tle of a forelm state to sedition and rebellion.''
His paper gloated over 'the assassination of -the
Czar. The authorities closed his office, but he has
made arrangements for the regular appearance of,
hit paper. He will not be admitted to bail, as bit
case Is regarded as "too serious."
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