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FRIDAY JUNE 2, 1876.
NOTICE.-
Agents will please take notice that It Is a
great tar upon us to pay express charges upon
small sums, and they will confer a great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
HELP THEHELPLESS.
Several weeks Bince a Dumber of
women iu this city banded tbemselves
together, under the name of "Helpers,"
to rescue from a life of shame such
young girls or women as were willing
to turn their wayward footsteps again
into paths of virtue, and thereafter live
lives of usefulness.
It were easy to discover in the outset
that fearful odds must be eucountered,
for women are without money to build
or rent houses and furnish them as
places of Tefuge for these unfortunates,
And, as to woman's influence that
boasted tower of strength concerning
which men so delight to speak ask of
some of these "Helpers" if it has not, in
every instance yet tried, proved a
"broken reed at best, but oit a spear,"
with which their womanly instincts
and feelings have been cruelly pierced,
Laboring under the greatest discourage
ments, these humanitarians yet refuse
to be discouraged, and, though com
pelled by poverty to say to these erring,
remorseful creatures: "House or home
have I none to offer you," they have
supplemented the sorrowing declaration
by saying: "Such as I have I give unto
you," and, in many instances, have the
words of sympathy and exhortation
which have followed fallen seemingly
at least upon good ground, and will in
due time return an abundant harvest of
useful deeds. Working without money,
without political power, and of course
without influence which only one or
ooth of these bring, for a class socially
ostracized and created by the unbridled
passions of men, who have both power
and money, is a task so herculean in its
nature, so humiliating in its require
ments, that naught but the loving
kindness and tender mercy that exists
in woman's soul would dare to brave,
Whether attempting to rescue a
young girl from the wiles of a married
libertine, asking the purse-holders of
the race for money to pay rent upon a
tenement which shall servo the holy
purpose of a house of refuge, or solicit
ing so-called followers of the lowly
Nazarene to give work and shelter and
aid to victims of misfortune, women
have encountered a staring, grinning
ghoul upon every corner, a phantom,
intangible yet real, that will not down,
and, as if iu very mockery of the name
they have assumed, its name stands out
in staring letters which these noble
"Helpers" cannot misunderstand, and
it is "Helplessness."
.The press in this city and in various
other localities has, however, light
ened the discouragements under which
me ".Helpers" wort by encouraging
words, a sample of which we quote as
follows. The Daily Olympian of recent
date says:
The force of circumstances leads to a false
step, and the victim Is as effectually excluded
from the world as-though the clods of the val
ley marked her last resting-place. To admit
that such a ban Is necessary to keep woman
hood pure, Is to place but little trust In human
natui-o. It Is a cruel mandate, unworthy the
age. Thousands would reform If but a reason
able opportunity could be afforded whereby
a virtuous life could atone tor the errors of the
past. The efforts of the women of Portland
should meet with the cordial endorsement of
everybody who expects salvation on the other
shore.
From a charitable and weli-consid
ered article in the last issue of the Ad
vocate, we clip the subjoined:
A noble "Band of Helpers" has already been
organized, and are ready to help In the refor
mation of all those who would return to the
walks of virtuous life. But these "Helpers"
need help themselves In furnishing the means
necessary to erect a home and be fully pre
pared to take care of all fallen women who re-
bent of their ways and turn to the Lord Jesus
Christ.
We met one of this "Band" upon the
street a few days since, and, upon in
quiry relative to the success that tbey
were meeting with, she replied: "We
have no home to offer these women, no
money with which to supply their
pressing needs, so we can only say to
them, if you will turn from the error of
your ways, we will do our best toward
procuring you work, and will stand by
you in your honest endeavors to reform
Men stand up for men, and we pledge
ourselves to stand up for women who
will show a desire to quit a life of sin."
This is well is indeed essential but it
it is neither promise of food nor clothes
These demands must be met, and the
poor creature, young, perhaps, with
life all before her, and a loathing in her
heart for the vile traffic in dishonor in
which she is engaged, turns again to
the only refuge left her the brothel,
We trust that this subject may be ag-
itated until it reaches the hearts and
pocueis oi tne men or wealth in our
city, who, while they believe in
" Saving their souls and winter's pork
With the least possible outlay of salt and
sanctity,"
yet, where all the congregation can see.
drop liberal contributions in the mis
slonary box, and forget the objects of
charity calling loudly for their assist
ance in the highways and by-ways of
ine city.
There is a paper published at Cha?p
City, Virginia, called Young America1
Advocate, which advocates the right of
suffrage at eighteen. Its motto is;
"Give the young man a chance." In
our opinion it will be time enough to
consider the rights of minors after their
mothers are enfranchised.
The space assigned to the New
Northwest in the pavilion of the Cen
tennial newspaper exhibition is desig-
nated by the number 6,202. It will also
b3 on file at Pacific Coast Hall and No
1,011 Vine street, Philadelphia.
POLITICAL.
Again the political cauldron is bub
bling at a fearful rate. Again stump
orators enjoy unlimited opportunity to
air their eloquence at the expense of
long-suffering auditors. Again the
p read-eagle acclaim of candidates, anx
ious to immolate .themselves for a pe
cuniary consideration upon tbo altar of
their country, is heralded by the smoth
ered cry, intelligible only to the in-
tiated, Ad captandum vulyus.
And, while the smoke ascends from
the smouldering camp-fires of the polit
ically embattled hosts who metaphoric-
Ily slumber till election day within
the wigwams of their fancies, and the
constantly recurring convocations of
the "ganders," make those whose wont
it is to visit "hen conventions" glad for
the nonce, because of their political
nonentity, we, as a chronicler of pass
ing events, and speaking from a disin
terested stand-point, while taking the
same philanthropic view of the case
that the woman did whose husband and
the bear were in a fight, look on in
serenity, and rejoice that the encroach
ment of woman upon the borders of the
political arena is already felt in the
increased moral tendency of political
aspirants.
Since women have become watchers
upon the walls of the political ZIon,
men have been constrained to put on a
semblance of courtesy and integrity to
which, a dozen years ago, they were
utter strangers. Sometimes, even now,
by packing conventions, some scur
rilious specimen of masculine sover-
ignty becomes a nominee, and then
the ladies are compelled to veil their
faces till the political excresence passes
by. But, as a whole, the candidates
to-day in the field are men of average
decency, and a few of them of more
than ordinary ability. At least half of
the nomiuees of each paity are known
to be Woman Suffragists, and, in case
of the entire election of either ticket,
the vote of the next Legislature against
taxation without representation is as
sured.
In the event of a mixed election, a
contingency almost unavoidable, we
are not so certain of the vote, but we
assure our brethren that we are watch
ing them, nor shall we abate one jot or
tittle of our vigilance' till victory shall
perch upon the banners of Freedom,
and all the hosts of political oppression
shall be brought low.
Lady readers of the New North
west, everywhere, a word iu your ears.
You ail know the men who arc up for
office in your particular localities.
Sound them on the suffrage question
Talk to your husbands, fathers, brothers
and sous, and urge them, on the 5th
day of June, 1876, to remember the
spirit of freedom that nerved the men
and women of the country a hundred
years ago. We know that many of you
are overburdened by cares and ail
ments, the natural consequences of the
unnatural lives you lead, and we kuow
how hard it is for you to rouse your
selves to make extra efforts when it
seems to you that the struggle is al
most hopeless. But we admonish you
to be up and doing. The struggle is
not hopeless. Lose no opportunity to
attend the political meetings. Listen
to the discussions. Weigh what you
near. Do not lear to express your
opinions. Let men see how earnest
you are. Do not depend so much upon
the editors of the New Northwest.
Like you, we have our own domestic
duties, and, like you, must not neglect
them. The woman who is only a wife
and mother, fails as signally in her
whole duty as would the man who
could be content to be only a husband
and rather.
Very soon, under the irrepressible
logic of approaching events, you are to
become enfranchised. The men who
are to be elected next Monday are to
act their part in the drama of your lib
eration. Whether the individuals so
chosen shall be those who are to act
wisely or ill, depends much upon you
tact and sagacity. Tins is not a ques
tiou of party, but of principle. God
has endowed you with brains and
tongues for a wise purpose. Use them
judiciously by urging the election of
Woman Suffragists to the next Oregon
Legislature and the next Federal Con
uress. we depend upon you to do you
political duty. Let us not be disap
pointed.
PLEASE EXCUSE US.
We are in receipt of a short commuui
tion to which is appended the somewhat
familiar monosyllable "Kate," and
which we are very modestly asked to
"allow space for" in our columns. Now
we would say to "Kate" that It would
be a gross violation of a long-estab
lished rule of journalism for us to pub
lish ever so meritorious an article with
out being first made acquainted with
the author's name. But candidly,
"Kate," after a careful consideration of
your curious contribution, we are com
polled to conclude that we could not, i
justice to our patrons, cumber our col
umns with it even had the abov
prerequisite been complied with. You
have attempted poetry, but you would
probably have been better understood
had you been content to follow the
homely highway of prose. At -any rate,
we have ignominiously failed to under
stand what your subject is, or which
side of the same you assume to cbam
pion, but that our readers may have an
opportunity of seeing that there is an
iucipient Hemans or Sigourney even
in isolated Oregon, we submit the fol
lowing stanza from your manuscript
" Not like the blessed master
Ne'er taught such doctrines here
But called the poor and needy
And heeled them by ills word."
We have often read of malignant per
sons sending infernal macliincs through
the mails carefully packed, and directed
to some one against whom they held
grudge, and since your package is a pro
found mystery to us, we dare not tamper
with it, Irom rearoritaoeinga moral in
fernal machine, designed to injure us or
some or our unsuspecting patrons,
riease excuse us.
A COWARDLY OEY. I
Not all the subtleties of ethnologists
nor the dogmas of doctrinaires could
make the matter of man's descent, from
the cowardly progenitor who hid his
fault behind a scantier fig-leaf than the
fig" tree bears, when he declared, in the
presence of his accuser, "The woman
gave me and I did eat," more certain.
Accuse tiie average man of any misde
meanor, witli abundant proof to back
the accusation, and he will never fail to
shelter his misdeeds behind a woman.
Such conduct reminds one forcibly of
the history of an ancient army that
went into battle with its gods and its
children in front, presuming that upon
them no gallant army would like to
open fight.
It is related of a certain Spanish king
that whenever any trouble arose he
asked, "Who is she?" holding that it
was impossible for any man to make a
fool of himself unless there were a
woman in the case, and he suggested by
this question to all men in difficulties
to get behind that screen, a suggestion
they have been ever ready to accept.
Does a man commit dishonor,- barter
power for gold, or sell his fair fame for
gain? Not a voice is heard to declare
that he was tired of honest poverty with
its self-sacrificing labors, its struggles,
and its needs; that he preferred the corn-
forts which wealth ensures, and took
risks to get them, because lie preferred
them; that lie loved his costly wines,
his fust horses, his full bank account,
No. But without dissent all will de
clare that his wife's luxurious tastes de
manded the elegant appointments of
house and dress, and to gratify these he
fell. Always the vanity of the woman,
never the sin of the man. Neither,
amid all this gross injustice, do they
stop to consider that if woman has in
ordinate vanity aud Jove of display,
that man is directly responsible for it.
That if sho is possessed of pettiness that
t is because she is so heavily burdened
by iutoleraut custom that largeness of
mind is unattainable to her. The men
who tell women that they were created
for their especial admiration, and then
proceed to bestow their time, their at
tention, their good behavior upon the
well-dressed women, and let the plainly-
dressed and quiet woman, who is not so
agreeable an object to the eye, nor so
pleasant a stimulant to the senses, go to
the wall, are directly responsible for the
love of dress that they then have the
hardihood to condemn.
If woman but had her equal place be
side man in every department of life, we
should hear no more of the cowardly
cry, when beset by misfortune or over
taken by the legitimate results of
wrong-doing, "The woman beguiled me
and I did eat."
MAKING A CONTRACT UNDER
PALSE PRETENSES.
The following somewhat contradictory
paragraph contains somethings that we
believe:
The woman that Is a happy wife need not
long to be courted again. There is no need-
she Is won. Norare many compliments neces
sary. Mutual devotion is an ever appreciated
compliment. Vet, still, you who are married
do not quite forget those old days which drew
you to each other. Be lovers always. Many
people are; and those who love are safe. The
meeting and parting kiss, the kind look, the
appreciative word never forget these. Never
let marriage degenerate into the common
place. So surely as you do, worse will follow
for the husband and wife who have no tender
sentiment toward each other will become foes.
An implicit belief In the first two or
three sentences would insure the latter
clause of the last. The idea that any
woman could be the "happy wife" of a
man who regards her as "won," and so
sees no "need of compliments," is ab
surd. If compliments, appreciation
and expressions of tenderness from a
man she loves are necessary to the hap
piness of a young girl, in her father'
house, where care and responsibility are
to her as strangers, aud ill-health
dim, distant, and unreal, surely they
are doubly so to the wife and
mother to whom life's cares aud
sufferings come so thickly as to "fret
wrinkles in her brow of youth." If
anything ou earth will cause marriage
to "degenerate into the common place,
it is the lack of the courtesies that ren
dered the season of courtship pleasant,
A man who wins a woman's heart with
tender words and promises which he
fails to repeat aud ratify in the future
has obtained a wife under false pre
tenses, which no amount of sophistry
can render honorable. Again, a woman
who takes care before marriage to have
always her hair smooth, her dress tidy,
and her countenance wreathed I
smiles, canuot expect to retain the es
teem which these and kindred graces
won, if, under cover of marriage, and
the idea (as we have often heard it vui
garly expressed) that her "market is
made," she degenerates into a slattern
or a scold. She also has won a position
by fraud, whicli she holds, if at all, by
force of the marriage coutract.
The whole story of many an un forth
nate and most miserable marriage is
told in the warning, "Never let mar
riage degenerate into tue common
place." And we add again, so surely as
you do, you are living in a condition at
tained by false pretenses, which the law
alone makes permanent, and all the
courage of both parties renders barely
endurable.
The Spirit of the West, which, by the
way, will hereafter appear under the
name of the Walla Walla Watchman,
makes mention ot a young wife, aged IS
years, who drowned herself in a fit of
despondency. If, instead of grieving
after a husband who "had peremptorily
requested her, in a harsh note, not to
write to him again," she had gone
bravely to work and to make something
of herself, she would not have left
behind her the cowardly record of asui
cide's death, nor by the ill-considered
act have gone stained with crime into
the land of souls. Any coward can die
it takes a brave man or woman to live
when assailed by outrageous fortune,
A PEOTEST.
:V gentleman writing us from Port
Blakeley, states that the New North-
west containing our strictures upon Its
Inhabitants has been very freely circu-
Iated among the denizens of the place.
While lie takes us to task for publishing
the truth, he gives some excuses for the
couduct of the citizens toward us, which
we are willing they should have the
benefit of. He says they are compelled
to live isolated as they do, because the
mill compauy owns everything. The
wages of the men are not sufficient to
enable theni to support themselves ; I
hence, the "cook-house" must reed
them. Two-thirds of the men have
'cloochmen," or Indian women, and
the head proprietor of the mills compels
every man iu the company's employ to ing the rounds, and credited to the Ore
buy provisions aud clothing for the yon Churchman, which is "a fair sample
'cloochmen" at the company's store,
The compauy have no use for the visits
of reputable women do not want them
to visit Port Blakeley. Old Captain
Beuton and his wife make bargains for
certain men to live with certain Indian
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women, anu sea inem ouiius ior House-
keeping from the store at fifty per cent. In it, and makes you wish that the part she oc
nremium. If a resDectable lad v were to cupies had run oir at the last switch. She Is
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be allowed to lecture before such men,
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lueymignt reiorm, auu men tue mi"
compauy would not employ them. The
legal wives (he scolds us roundly for
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as the average. They only need to min-
gle with the outside world to get rid of
the morbid suspicion of which they are
guilty. They are shy of strange ladies
because so unaccustomed to see com-
pany, etc., etc. all of which only the
more assures us that our strictures were
strictly true. If men will sell the birth-
right of freedom for a mess of saw-mill
pottage, they must not get over-angry
when women find fault with their wives
for becoming suspicious social mon-
strosities.
LETTER FROM SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
To tiie Editor op the New Northwest:
Since the National Woman Suffrage
Convention, of which you have doubt
less published proceedings ere this, I
have come on to Philadelphia and es
tablished the "National Woman Suf
frage Association head quarters" at 703
Arch street, elegant parlors, where Mrs.
Stanton, Mrs. Guge, and others of us
will stop oil summer. Here all the
women connected withourmission may
feel sure of finding a home ata very rea
sonable cost. Our plan is, to hold at
stated times receptions, conversaziones
meetings, etc., etc. Our parlors will
seat 200, and being accessible from all
parts of the city, the leaders, and all
ti.ora intoroatod in thn BiifTrno-B mnvA.
ment, will have excellent opportunity
to meet and exchange plans and ideas
for a vigorous compaign. Mrs. Gage
and myself have just been to the Asso
ciate Press' geueral agent and sent off a
dispatch, giving the fact of our head
quarters, so you will get that in to-mor
row morning's papers. Associate tele
grams smothered the notice here. Ed.
We have coucluded not to join pub
licly in the celebration of the Independ
ence day of the men, but will, on that
day, bold a meeting of the elect in our
parlors and shout out our protest at
twelve, noon. We shall issue a call for
the friends of Woman Suffrage in every
State, county, and township, to gather
together as best they can, on the same
day and hour, and record their protest
and mail or telegraph us a copy at once.
Do you not see that it would be the
grandest imaginable thing if we could
have from ten to twenty thousand
Fourth of July protest meetings against
taxation without representation? No
matter if only two or three are gathered
together, the spirit of Freedom will be
in their midst to bless their efforts and
crown them with ultimate success,
Then, when the men's Independence
day is over, and we have gathered the
actual words they shall have spoken at
their jubilee, we propose to holdagraud
convention In the largest hall in Phila-
delphia, and issue our Declaration of
Independence.
Now, Mrs. Abigail Dunlway, you
must forge the thunder for us that shall
roll its echoes through the past and
present centuries! As the namesake of
Abigail Adams, wife of ouePresident and
mother of another, and the first woman
who asked suffrage for her sex at the
hands of the First Federal Congress, we
look to you, planted as you are upon the
furthest slope of the American Occi-
dent, to come over ana neip us until
taxation vuthout representation shall
be Doue-away. How I wish you were
with us now. Bouse your societies and
demand of them the financial aid you
need to bring you to our councils. They
owe you this assistance, and you should
have it. Let every man aud woman in
Oregon and Washington Territory who
feels, a spark of local patriotism forward
you one dollar to meet your expenses,
and reimburse you for the time spent to
represent them, and the work is done.
Write us at once, giving your plans,
and what you see we ought to do or say
at Philadelphia on and after the Fourth
Weall feel so unequal to the needs of
this hour. Oh, for the fire of Old Otis
and Patrick-Henry !
Inclosed find S3 25 in currency for
my paper. Mothersaid to me (.1 stopped
. . .
one night on my way down), "Mrs.
Dunlway has got the best story going
now of all she has written." Don' t fail
to stop and visit heron your way over
No. 7 Madison street, Bochester, N. Y.
Please send a copy of the New
Northwest to head quarters, 705 Arch
street, Philadelphia
Do urge the Oregon and Washington
women to hold their meetings and shout
their protests.
Remember me to all the good friends
of freedom, your own dear children and
sisters, and Mr. Duniway. I am re-
minded of "specie payment" by the re-
membranco of the jingle of half dollars
wheu he used to keep door for us at
meetings. How the old memories do
crowd in! Susan B. Anthony.
May 15, 1876.
far-fetoSed theories:
To the Editor of tiik New Northwest: j
ln times past, when our brethren who
beld absolute control of the newspaper
world saw lit to lecture women upon
any subject wiiicu tliey chose, we were
compelled to submit to their criticisms
and aspersions in silence; but thanks to
yur energy and bravery, women have
now a channel through which they can
speak and obtain-respectful listeners,
Tnat this immense advantage Is seen
an(l appreciated, is evidenced by the
sharp replies that from time to time ap-
pear in your columns from women who
are presumptuous enough to Deneve
that they kuow a thing or two about
their own business.
We find the following sentiment go-
of what an arrogaut individual who
edits a Christian paper and fails to ob-
serve the golden rule, says of women:
It is the first duty of woman to be a lady.
Tne vom&n who says that this is making
m"cu au noum,B s lue " wno
will accost you by name when you enter a car
in a tone that introduces you to every person
the woman who, under pretext of conversing
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with one or two friends, informs the whole
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company ot her views on woman's rights and
her relations with her husband. Good breed
ing is good sense, ignorance of etiquette is or-
icn Liie result- ui circumstances: uui uuu umu-
coarseness of demeanor merits that mild form
of restraint called "Imprisonment for life."
Now, it is but just that each Individ
ual shall be held responsible for his or
her own actions, and no sensible or just
person will for a moment consider these
wholesale attacks upon the deportment
Qf women as a class in any other light
than that of a cross violation of the
"good manners" with which the article,
from which the above quotation is made,
lis ostentatiously headed.
Even ministers, however much they
may deplore the short-comings of their
ministerial brethren, do not seem to re
gard it as necessary to feel humiliated
over the matter and mourn the same in
sackcloth and ashes, and why it is that
they must consider women in general
as humiliated by the inconsiderate acts
of their sisters, is, I confess, a foggy
problem to me.
That there are women whose actions
in stage-coach, passenger-car, or steam
boat, are ill-considered, we all know
but a large majority of women behave
themselves with becoming modesty and
dignity In these places, and to singleou
t
the occasional one who does not as an
example and publish a grave diatribe
upon her actions, holding, by implica
tion, at least, the entire sex responsible,
and declaring them all humiliated
thereby, is contrary to trutn anu nonor,
It is perfectly impossible for anything
which is ennobling to one sex to be de
grading to the other. Does Christ, the
great examplar, make any difference in
the conduct of the sexes ?
All teachings that tend to make oral
low boys to regard themselves as privi
leged lords, in whom immoralities are
tolerated, because of their sex, are per
nicious; and to teach girls that he-
cause they are girls they must not do
thus aud so, is likewise pernicious, fos
tering in secret that which should be
eradicated by proper and fair treat
ment. Mks. J. A. Johns
Salem, May 10, 1S76.
AN E0H0 FROM THE. EAST.
To the Editor of the New Northwest:
My mother, Mrs. Clemence S. Lozier,
M. D., of New York City, is a constant
and delighted reader of your fresh and
vigorous New Northwest, and
course an ardent advocate of its doc
trines. The paper of March 31, 1676,
contains an article commenting with
well-deserved severity upon a sermon
recently preached by a celebrated Brook-
lyn divine, and containing much whole
some Instruction to such admirers of
Oriental usages and despotism as him
self. We think, or rather fear that the
lesson may be lost, and therefore ask
you whether you have favored him with
a copy of that date? If you have not
already done so, will you be kind
enough to send us one, and we will send
it to him through the mails. We are
personally unacquainted with the gen
tleman, and well disposed toward him
for the good he has done In the great
"city ot churches," and feel sure that
he represents a large class of men in his
profession whose bigotry and narrow-
ness are due to a false education aud
singularly technical and absurd inter
pretation'of the Bible.
We would send our own copy of the
paper, but we think we cannot spare it
and that perhaps you may find one upo
your files that you can dispatch as
missionary to the Atlantic Coast.
Mrs. J. Lozier.
Orange, N. J., May 1, 187C.
DECISION IN A 0IVIL RIGHTS CASE,
Judge Sawyer, of the United States
District Court, San Francisco, rendered
a decision on the 29th ult., In the case
of Green vs. Mag u ire, the plaintiff be-
Ing the colored man who was refused
admission rjy juaguire into uis theater
some months ago, and who brought ac-
tion under the civil rights act in conse
I mi j f r i l
quence. ine uecision was orai, anu in
it the Judge declared that the portion of
the act of Congress providing that any
manager of a theater or similar institu
tion should be guilty of misdemeanor
who should refuse admission to any col
ored person was unconstitutional and
void. Notice of appeal was given by
plaintiffs counsel.
The Semi-Weekly Telegram, pub
lished at Independence, is at hand,
has "patent insides," and declares itself
"free, untrammeled, aud uncontrolled
by any body whomsoever." Weshould
judge from, appearances the last cluuse
in the quotation to be correct,
Don Cameron accepts the War Port-
folio, and will enter upon its duties in
I a few days.
TINUED.
Sure enough ! The week that I
stayed to Miss Markses' the first wrong
step was taken, jest asl knowed 'twould
be. But I waseut a-going to ruu to the
neighbors with it not I; fur I believed
they was both good wimmen, and
meant to do right, and I hoped they'd
see their error afore it was too late; and
even now I ain't a-goiu' to tell their
real names, so folks what don't know
the circumstances won't kuow who I
mean nohow.
'Twaseut long afore the whole house
as rausacked "from garret to cellar,"
as the sayin' is, anil all the old news
papers, magazines, journals, temper
ance tracts, etc., etc., that had been 'cu-
mulatin' fur years was brought out and
searched fur items bearin' on the tem
perance question. I verily believe
there was a whole cart-load of 'em
and Miss Marks was busy a'most the
whole time that she could be spared
from her housework, either readin' or
writin. I kept at the wool pickin',
though she said I'tieedent mind to, but,
to tell the truth, if it hadent been fur
encouragin' a woman in gettin' out of
her proper spere, I should have been
real glad to have her mind so taken off
her troubles. She seemed real inter
ested, and I do-believe it done her great
good. Miss Goodwill, she'd run over a
while every day to see how the thing
was progressln'. She didetit have fur to
come, though we conldeutsec her house
fur the hills. There ain't many places
u that countiy where you can see
more'n one nouse at a time, which
makes it seem migiity lonesome like
till you get used to it. Well, as I was
saynr, aiiss ijooawiu came over every
day, and her and Miss Marks would
take long walks together, and they'd
always take what she'd wrote with
them, so I knowed Miss Goodwill was
a-practicin' ou the lecture. I jest took
it into my head to foller them one day
towards the last of the week, and see
how they was a-gettin' along.
watched till I see which side of the
spring branch they wa3 a takin', then
went down the other side. There was
plenty of brush and limber all along
the branch, so I could keep hid and see
what they was a-doin' at the same
time. Pretty soon I been! Mis3 Good
will's voice. Then I got a little closer,
and sot down under a big birch tree
with three trunks to it and listened,
She was a lecturin', sure euougb, Miss
Goodwill was. She done splendid, too,
and I can't deny that she told lots of
truths that the men ought to know,
'specially the younger ones, and if I
had boys at home they should go and
hear her. I never heard a temperance
lecturer before that dident try to scare
the people into letting liquor alone by
tellin' them what terrible things they'd
do when they was a-drinkin', how low
aud degraded they'd get to be, about
the suakes in their boots, etc., which
boys never would believe they'd ever
come to, and that would be about the
amount of it. But she went right to
the bottom of the thing, and showed
em, (or would if they had been a
listenen'), how a little liquor taken
every day would intlame the stomach,
and the information would go to the
brain, and that was how they would
lose the power to control their appe
tites fur stronger liquor and more of it,
till, almost unbeknown to themselves,
they would be led into all the terrible
things they had ever heard of. That
wasent all she told that I never heerd
of before, but I can't begin to tell it as
she did, and I thought to myself there's
plenty of folks 'round here that ort to
hear it. But fur a woman to get up be
fore a whole house full of men to teach
'em looks awful presumptious. Let
them tell their husbands, aud they can
teach the men according to the Bible.
I was jest a-thinkin' this over when an
awful nip jest to the top of my stocking
made me holler right out before I had
time to think. Then another nip, and
laws-a-mercy ! If I wasent right in a
bed of big black ants ! I had jumped
up at the first nip, and I never stopped
runuin' aud hollerin' till I got into the
house and out of every rag of clothing
I had on and into some of Miss
Markses', and I did it mighty quick, I
can tell you. The wimmen came a
rtinnin', scared most as bad asl was,
and I verily believe we found twenty of
the miserable varmints in my clothes,
Well, I was satisfied with what I had
learned fur the time bein'. Then the
wool was all picked, so I weut home
again'and waited fur sotnethin' more to
turn up. I dident have to wait long,
either; but I havent time to tell you
about it in this epistle.
Aunt Patience.
Walla Walla, W. T.
G00DJ70RDS.
To the Editor of the New North west :
We cannot afford to dispense with the
weekly visits of your paper to our home,
hence please find enclosed the amount
that will ensure the same for another
year. Among the six weeklies and one
daily that we take, we find none more
spicy and better conducted than is the
New Northwest, aud it ought to be
placed in every family.
I have been an advocate of Woman
Suffrage very many years, and I am
ashamed to call a man brother who op
poses woman in her just right to free
dom through the ballot-box. Wishing
you success in the cause of right, I am
very truly N. A. W. Howe.
Creswell, May 29, 1S76.
Speaker Kerr is charged with having
received through Harney, former door
keeper in the House of Bepresentatives,
the sum of $4,500 for procuring an ap
pointment to the army of A. P. Green
in 1866. The accused denies utterly
any knowledge or participancy in the
transaction, or an acquaintance with
Harney. i
Decoration Day was generally ob
served throughout the East.
-Board of Trade.
SPEdAI, meeting, may 24, 1876.
A snocinl mpptincr of the .Board of
Trade was held last evening, for the ob
ject of considering the commercial inter
ests requiring State legislation, and the
course to be pursued by the Board in
urging these non-pouticai measuies
upon the various candidates in the dif
ferent counties of the State seeking
election to the StateLegislature,and for
similar purposes.
The Board was called to order by 3ir.
Goldsmith, Vice Presideut, who stated
the object or the meeting.
Beading of minutes of last regular
meeting was omitted.
RESOLUTIONS.
The- followine preamble and resolu
tions were read seriatum, and after con
siderable discussion, in which Messrs.
Kapus, Green, Gross-, Goldsmith, De-
kum, and I'rinuie parucipaieu, were
adopted :
Whereas, This Board, independent
of political views, recognize the urgent
uecesstty oi tne various commercial
matters of tiie State beiug attended to
at the next Legislature, therefore, have
liesolved, Aud do hereby earnestly
recommend to the various candidates in
every county seeking election to the
State Legislature, the following import
ant subjects for" their careful considera
tion, and request tuem to indicate to
the Secretary of the Board whether or
not they are iu favor or the rollowing
resolutions:
direct railroad connection.
To accomplish which the State ought
legislatively, for the general good of all
its citizens and without exhibiting par
tiality or preference for either one of the
threo proposed railroad routes to tne
East, unite upon a general bill giving to
whichever railroad company or capital
ists as shall guaranteo to commence
construction within one year and com
plete railroad connection within six
year?, whatever State assistance or aid
is in the power and ability of the people
as a State to grant, subject always to no
discrimination of fares aud freights in
any locality iu Oregon over another,
and under the farther condition that no
greater through or local freights or fares
shall be charged in Oregon than is iu
operation in California or elsewhere.
immigration.
That it is the duty of the State for the
developement of its various resources in
Eastern, Southern, and Western Ore
gon, to uudertake, like all other West
ern States, the immigration interests of
the country by appointing a non-political
board of immigration with sufficient
powers and a small annual appropria
tion from the Legislature to disseminate
information, induce immigrants to come
to Oregon, and while here to settle them
in the various portions of the State.
pilotage and towaoe.
That in view of the fact that the in
crease of values of our agricultural
products depends almost entirely upon
the number of foreign vessels which
yearly enter the Columbia River
seeking freights, it is of the utmost pe
cuniary importance to our farming
classes for the Legislature to pass such
a bill for regulating tue piloting and
towing charges over the Columbia
River bar as will eucourage competition
in shipping and induce vessels to come
to Oregon in larger numbers than at
present.
SALMON INTERESTS.
That considering the large annual ex
ports of Oregon salmon and the increase
in the foreign demand, it is to be re
gretted that the run of salmon is not
now. so pientilui as in rorraer years;
that it is therefore the duty of the State
to pass such laws as will regulate the
season, time, and mode of conducting
this enterprise, so as to increase, instead
of decreasing, (as at the present), the
tlow or salmon into tne various rivers
and tributaries of Oregon.
MERCANTILE TRAVELERS FROM OTHER
STATES SOLICITING TRADE IN OREGON.
Nearly all foreign countries and sister
States on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts
pass license and other laws to protect
aud develop their internal trade and
commerce, believing that it is essential
for every State to foster and build up
within itself manufacturing and com
mercial enterprises. In Oregon foreign
travelers come from California, British
Columbia, and elsewhere, selling their
goods all over the State without con
tributing directly or indirectly one dol
lar of taxes or revenueto the State treas
ury, while merchants and traders, resi
dents of Oregon, are compelled by law
to pay upon their property or goods so
offered for sale, all State, county, and
other taxes, as well us high rents and
other incidental expenses, it is, there
fore, the duty of the State to equalize
taxation so that such travelers solicit
ing trade in Oregon shall pay equally as
the resident merchants their proportion
or share of taxes, aud thus encourage
the internal commerce of Oregon. This
is best attained by the mode adopted in
other States, which this Board of Trade
recommends, of making such travelers
procure an annual license from this
State.
AMENDMENT OF INCORPORATION LAWS.
That in the judgment of this Board
section 20 of the General Incorporation
laws should be abolished, and section 22
be so amended as to allow a majority of
the stockholders of an incorporation to
file supplemental articles, thereby offer
ing greater inducements for tiie invest
ment of capital.
OFFICIAL WEIGHER OF WHEAT AND
OTHER GRAIN.
That the State Legislative assembly
appoint, as is done by the States of Illi
nois, Michigan, aud other Eastern
States, an otlicial weigher of wheat,
whose duties shall consist of weighing,
at the request of one or more of the par
ties coucerned, all wheat and other
grain sold, or to be sold, or to be deliv
ered free on board ship, or otherwise,
and whose certificate of weights shall be
held in law as evidence of the facts
therein stated between parties. That
the said official weigher shall reside in
Portland, and his remuneration shall be
fixed by the State at so much per ton,
payable from the grain weighed.
Eesolved further, That the Board so
licit the various newspapers of Oregon
to print these resolutions, and that the
Secretary be and hereby is instructed to
forward copies to every candidate in
Oregon seeking election to the next
State Legislature.
On motion, the Board adjourned.
LIBERAL CONVENTION.
The Liberals aud Free Thinkers of
Oregon and Washington Territory are
requested to meet in Convention at
Portland, Oregon, July 5, 1876, at 10
o'clock A. m., at the rooms of the Lib
eral Association, for the purpose of per
fecting a general organization of the
Liberals and Free Thinkers throughout
the country, and for such other business
as may properly come before such Con
vention. It is hoped every community
will strive to be represented.
By order of the Liberal Asssociation of
Portland, Oregon. J. B. Garrison
H. B. Nicholas, President,
Secretary.
