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THE NEW NORTHWEST, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1881. A Journal for the Peojle. Indejteudent In Jlitics and Religion. Alice to all Live Isxuc, ami Thoroughly Radical In 0 fosing and Erjiosing the Wrong of the Mioses. SU11SCRT1TIOX RATES (IX ADVAXCE): X)ne Year, by Hail .........$3 00 . fife Mmflis, " - 1 ft) Tltrec Month, " - - -.. 1 00 i&er Month CI lhitron (delivered) 25 AdverHnnt will be Inserted at Reasonable Prices. Ail CbcretjtoHdence intended for jutbllcatioH xk&dtl bead Pressed toJJte Editor, and all business letters to the &UXIWAY 1'VBLISIIIXG COMPAXY, Xo. 5 Washington street, Portland, Oregon. 'TQJXXUti&n. 4MIKGOX, THCKSnAY, APKIL 21, 1SS1. "IBBSBTS OF MARRIED WOMEN." T6' brief communicatiou was received too late ocaUentiou last week : Covk, Union county, Oregon, April 2, 1SSI. -So-rWEnrroK ok tiik Xew Noktiiwkst: ileaas aaUghton your iimny renders by Informing them, srhroojjhywur paper, what rights the Act entitled "An Act t4MMi and protect the rights ot married women " vonfemM womentliRt previous laws did not stive. Ijv yers ee ussert that the law granted no addiUoiml hene (Ht3L f.lto? Yours truly, II. J. IIknukiishott. "Wecamnot give a definite answer, further than co say that the law must await the construction .of the courts. The late Legislature probably aatentled to do a noble and just act, but we fear it tafd. -jThaps Mrs. E. P. W. Packard can throw some "fight on the subject, as she claims the ambiguous ill a her special work. Itmny be interesting -for her to'know how little satisfactory legislation tinea can -get until they have the power to elect . lv-ata"kers persons who are directly concerned in proposed reforms. She opjwses "Woman Suf Sfrai? and consequently equality of the pexes, and ?Jier effort to get better property laws without po Uttlcal rights promises to be as barren of results .-aas this journal has time and time again predicted th-.il all such attempts will be. A disfrauchbed -cist is at the mercy of those in iower. "Equality -of rights is the fir-t of rights" ""1 the ballot is h key that will unlock all property and civil i. right. Let all women who want equitable proj rty statutes join the "Woman Suffrage movement And aid in the consummation of its aims. All talk about "emancipating" women without cn ; franchising them is mere dawdling. ".The above letter whs handed to a well-known tawjerot this city ait unflinching frieud of the fljrhte of women with a request that he give it feta eaiMaderatiou, and his reply npjMaus on our "HAYES OX TEMPERANCE. Ex-President Hayes ha3 recently wrltton a long ' tetter to a friend in Minneapolis, who kindly fur nishes tbe press with this extract in reference to th late Executive's temperance principles and f raetlcea : When 1 txrme Provident, I wa (ally convinced that, wn merer might be the cum in other countries ami with othr people. In our climate, and with the exrltable, ner- i 'cmpernntenl of Mlr people, the hahUtiMl nve of intox ic ting drink ww-c not &mt. I regarded the danger of the h:illt a especially great In potltleal antl otHclal life. It nemed lo me that to exclude liquors from the White IIoukc - -wo-ild be wie nud uoefu: aw an example and wmild be ap proved by good people generally. The suffKestlon wa par ticularly agreeable to Mrs. Haye-s. She hail been a total 4llineny woman from childhood. We hud never used Jkjoor tn oar own home, and it was determined lo continue r home rut-loin In till, respect In our otHclal residence in tt' h1njrton, a we had done at Coin in bun. I was not a total tttiuninerwhen I became President, butlhedl4ctivioii Wti'el) arose overt he ehnseHt the Executive Mansion soon -t-afled me thut therw xrw no half-way house In this mnt- fr. Daring tiie greater part of my term, at leant diirint; tlie i ut three years. I have been in praetlce.a in theory.acon AMent tot! alMtlnenee man, and shall continue to leso. if- "tAt'-mnta Inconsistent with the foreKOliiK, including Aic one m send me, lire untrue and without foundation. NEBRASKA AND ARIZONA. The Hirer Side must have been self-conscious ,hat it deserved reproof for not reporting the pro-t(-Hiinjr of the "Woman Suffrage Club of Inde pendence, or it would not have construed the Kmv Noktii west's expression of sorrow thereat into an,exhibition of anger. "We cheerfully print its declaration that it was "not bulldozed into silence,'' but arc greatly surprised at its closing liaragraphs. We had considered G. W. Quivoy .ioo courteous a gentleman to write such stuff. The New York Episcopal Conference has adopted the following: "Resolved, That we recog- nixe no ground for divorce except violation of the seventh commandment, and that we will refuse to marry oritdmit to membership in our churches ny wjio are divorced on unscriptural grounds." Which is oild Christianity. It ia in direct oppo sition to the reformation of blunderers in wed lock iu open antagonism to marital sinners who v wfih alvjitien. The Canyon City iVcwssays the members of the - il rant County Woman Suffrage Association in tend toltold a picnic at Pine Creek on the Fourth - of July. Among the attractions will bo an i oration and the reading of the Declaration of In- dependence, botli by ladies. Ht'tem "pleasure to note the fact that the Daily yWoraanliasbeen enlarged to n23-column papec Myrrtss prosperity continue, is our sincere wish. The Mountaineer gave neat notices of Mrs. uniway' lectures in The Dalles, and advised all -who had time to go and hear her. A statement has recently appeared in several newspapers to the eflect that the Legislatures of the State of Nebraska and the Territory of Ari zona have both conferred the right of suffrage on women, and a correspondent "wishes to know if the report is correct." We believe it is not liter ally true, though the actions of the Legislatures mentioned were quite liberal, and might easily have served to start such a rumor. In Nebraska, the situation seems to be strictly similar to that in Oregon and in Wisconsin the last Legislature having decided to submit to the legal voters of the State, for their ratification or rejection, a Woman Suffrage amendment to the State Constitution. The same Legislature also conferred, unasked, school suffrage on women who own property or have children of school age. The Beatrice Krprcxa says that "Senator Howe, of Omaha, enjoys the distinction of being the only person in either House who made a speech against Woman Suffrage," but that, by reason of his standing, "his opposition was considered ben eficial to the bill." The same journal also states that "twenty-five of Nebraska's "best newspapers have already otl'ured their support to the amend ment." We herewith print the reasons given by Senator Turner of Columbus for his atlirmative vote on the amendment : Our wives, mothers and sisters, having mi equal interest with u In the welfare of our commonwealth, nnil lx-lns equal to ourselves In IntelllKence, there nppnr no kom1 reaon why the rieht to vote should he withhold from them. The senilis of our institutions Is opposed to taxa tion without representation opposed to government without the eon-tent of UicROvernod and therefore I vote "aye." In Arizona, the Territorial Legislature adbpted a bill granting tho school ballot to women ami making them eligible for educational offices; but we fail to find anything in relation to an amend ment for general suffrage. However gratifying it might be if such action had been taken, yet it is the duty of Woman Suffrage journals to correct all false reports, and the cause will be better olf than if its friends tacitly aided , in circulating erroneous rumors hy giving them the sanction of silence. The Tucson Daily Star says the school bill "shows tlmt Arizona is not behind in the progressive spirit of the age," and adds: The sphere of woman ha, within the last twenty-live year, been enlarged more than during the previous cmi tury. She Is now represented In all of the learned profe Kcin, and is taking the lead In edonittonnl atralrs. Tki colleccs and universities which twenty years uo bolted and barred their doors against her, are Uvdny thrown open. Her right to voi, and to be elected Truxte and Scliool Su perintendent, or to any other oflhv. Is a Inherent as arc the prin1il of th IelHnUku ot Independence, .ind we It win H pat Into practical eltect, ewpecJnlly as to School Trustee. WOMAN'S STATE FAIR. Anonymous scribblers who make personal at tacks through newsimpeix are afways given to un truthfulness. The "gnat" that furnishes "Amity items" for the Independence Jliver Side is a fair specimen of these sneaks, that have not the cour age to assume responsibility for their falsehoods. To show our readers how slanderous such cowards can be, we clip these sentences about the Nkw Nokthwkst from the said "gnat's" last 'effort: "Now let me ask in all candor if it is not pitiful to see a paper, championing a frcat cause, going over head and ears into the lowest quagmires of blackguardism to find language nasty enough to lling at a supposed opponent. No wonder that decent people, with any resjKTt for the morals of their children, refuse to admit the vile, slangy sheet into their families." Somehow we are unable to harmonize the statements contained in this choice extract with the fact that the Nkw Nokthwkst's advertising and subscription bus iness is now larger than ever before, and its patrons are with hardly an exception among the better classes. After copying this journal's very compliment ary notice of Senator McDonald of Indiana, the Port Orford J'ont made this comment, which per haps in itself as completely refutes its own charge as anything we could say: "And yet, the Nkw NoitTirwBST is unsparing in its blackguardism of all Democrats and everything Democratic. Sen ator McDonald is a stalwart Democrat." How ever, this might have been said in a sarcastic spirit. The New York Medical College and Hospital for women held its eighteenth annual commence ment in Association Hall on the evening of Mareh 30th. The class consisted of five members, and the valedictory was delivered hy Miss Maria O. Eitella, who has been educated under the pat ronage of Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil. Tito Brizilian fiag was displayed on the stage along side the Stars antl Stripes in honor of the event. A horrible fact that between the years ISTOand 1875, forty-two women were killed in New York City by drunken husbands, most of them kicked to death. "Women are supported and protected by men, and do m,t j,eed the ballot to enable them to enact laws for self-preservation." 'Thtr are better protected by their husbands now u, they can ever hope to be whim they get the suf frage." Anna Whitney, the sculptor of the statue of Samuel Adams, contributed by Massachusetts to the national pantheon in the Capitol, never touched a tool of her profession till site was thirty eight years old. Mr. S. II. Shepherd has assumed editorial con- i trol of the Bedrock Democrat of Baker City. The Indiana women have shown their practical common sense by a new departure, and their ex ample might be followed with good results in every State of the Union. In 1878, they hurriedly gathered a collection of woman's work into a separate exhibit at the State Fair, under the name of the "Woman's Department," which proved a remarkable success. This was the first attempt to make woman's industries a distinct and leading feature at any State Fair. The "Woman's De partment" is now regarded as permanent, and includes all work done by women not entered for competion in other departments. It is under the management of the Woman's State Fair Associa tion, which is a voluntary organization, deriving its authority, jurisdiction and funds from the State Board of Agriculture, and is duly authorized to arrange the premium list, regulate expendi tures,.select awarding committees, rent space, etc. The purposes of the Association, as stated in its circular, are to "encourage and develop woman's industries;" to "aid in improving the quality and securing due recognition of the value of woman's work," which' is now "commercially and statis tically underrated ;" to "help in introducing new and more profitable industries for women, in opening better opportunities antl markets and in promoting the interosts of business and working women generally." It would be well for the Oregon State Fair if it were aided hy a Woman's Association, working with the same laudable objects that the Indiana women have in view. Many women of this State are deeply interested in the annual fair, and con tribute largely to its success. They now exercise but moderate influence on the State Agricultural Society's actions, and will not be more fully recog nized until they effect an organization of their own. They can then cooperate with the State Society with advantage to both. Women are branching out in numerous directions, and we should like to chronicle a movement for yearly l'lacing before the people of Oregon a representa tive collection of the results of woman's brain, mil ton. in the Baker City Democrat: "In 1S53, Andrew J. Bolon and wife, now Mrs. Jerusha Spark of this city, settled iion a donation claim 010 acres near Vancouver, W. T. Mr. Bolen was Indiau Agent at or near Sjokane Falls, and, iu the diseliarge of his duties, was killed by In dians in the FalLttf the year lfvw. Nearly ever since that time Mrs. Sparks has been contesting in some f"rm or other, in the cwirts or before the Interior Department, her rtjdit to mi,i lands. Tfvo years ago she employed L. O. Sterns of thi eity to attend to her interests, wh, after taking it to the Secretary of the fnterioi on appeal twice, has finally obtained the decision that of ficer in favor of Mrs. S. The land is very viluahle, as a jmrt of the town of Vancouver is built Upon it, and it is largely antl extensively improved, f n. Sparks is to be congratulated on her victory; te sides, it shows that she is a woman of pluck atj deserving of it Tt is proper to say that Hon. J. H. Mitchell argued the case before Secretary Schurz, who signed the" decision iu person. This decision gives iter nearly six-sevenths iff about 400 acres of laud, which ought to make the deserving old lady comfortable the remai ndlr NOT A QUESTION OF COMMON LAW. Portland, April 14, 1881. To tiik Editor or tiik New Nokthwkst: We hear the tread of the hosts, and the forces are nearing the gates of the citadel ; and we need them to make complete, to make harmonious to make impregnable, a constitutional government We might as well plant ourselves in mid-ocean" with the changeless blue overhead and on every hand, and say that we were surrounded by all the beauties of God's pencil, as to assert that a govern ment of men alone comprehends all the percep tion and intelligence in tlfe world. When the representatives of liberal thought and culture of England were lost in the fog on the West India question, they summoned to their aid the genius of Elizabeth Heyrich, and for seven years they listened to her clear elucidations of truth applied to practical life, until England lifted by one peaceful word a million of slaves into liberty a glory that God granted alone to the genius of women. To-day a question is before our Supreme Court in which woman is interested. In it3 final analysis it is simply whether there is a power above the Constitution, and a power that shall continue to live because it existed in the past; if hereafter in all time there shall be any check for legislative or executive usurpation. It is not a question of common law, but of written constitu tional and statutory enactment. Can persons who exercise authority under no color of title execute the decrees of a power behind the throne, and must these decrees stand as unalterable as the law of the Medes and the Persians? If this is to go forth as the law of land, may God hasten the hour when new forces fdiall act and react upon political and social life. YcitAD. GENERAL NEWS. Secretary Windom's bond policy is approved by ex-Secretary Sherman. California raisius compare very favorably with London and Malaga layers. Disastrous floods are reported throughout tlie southern part of Wisconsin. Lindsay, the Morey letter perjuror, lias been sent to Sing Sing for eight years. The new officers of the New York Tammany So ciety are understood to be John Kelly men. Edison's electric light is successful. He can turn olf a light with a thumb-screw just as gas light is put out. Tho Virginia Republicans denounce Mahoiie, and claim that they want no affiliation with him and his followers. The north wiug of the inano asylum at Anna, TIN., was burned on Tuesday, and one patient per ished. Loss, $150,000. nnffnti ornn nf nnu rtrnrriicinc tnhAmtiAlt t- .aas x'Jfc.ra- " " J wv..7 v w gU parser than that of 1SS0, notwithstanding previous rfMiri in me contrary. Lieutenant Fred. .Grant has resigned from the army to enter the employ of the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central Railroad. 1 The President intimates that he will call an ex- tra session of Congress if the dead-lock iu the f Senate is not broken this week. Another great flood has just occurred in the Missouri River,nd much suffering and desola n is wrought at Sioux Citv and Yankton, Dakota. Although not nor wantttd in the North as voters, th0 negroes do not show any great desire to remain in the South, and the Spring exodus has commenced. Cincinnati's new Mayor, Hon. Wm. Means, is endeavoring to enforce the laws forbidding places of amusement to be open on Sundays. A number of arrests have been made. On account of the filthy streets of New York, physicians fear that a plague Is impending. Four cases of cholera and 12t e.3 nf 9mall-pox are re ported, and typhus is raging. New York Socialists have helu a formal trial and found Alexander III. of Russia guilty of murder for haviug caused the death or Sophie Pieoifsky and her confederates. Street-car drivers and conductors in several of the large cities have "recently struck for and re ceived an advance in wages. They work long of her days." Mrs. F. M. Hunter, wife of A. G. Hunter, forn erly Superintendent of the Aztec Mining Con pany, committed suicide in Tuscon, Arizona, oh the 11th instant, by shooting herself with a re volver. Hunter is now engaged in mining opera tions in Sonorn, and some time ago married i Mexican woman there. His wife, who was re siding in England, heard of his marriage to the Mexican woman, and about three months age came to this place with the intention of going to Sonorn. A coroner's jury found that she was driven to .self-destruction by tlte perfidious, cruel hours, and the labor is wearing. and inhuman treatment of her husband. i prye of Maine has raised a fuss in the Senate, .... v a,uI the Democrats, thinking he represents the I rom the tone of the daily press, it is plain that administration, will probably aid Conkling to Oregon's most pressing want at present is a PortA defeat Robertson's confirmation as Collector of land Jockey Club, which shall conduct a race course like thoseat Saratoga, Long Branch and Baltimore; nothingelsc can be devised that would so rapidly develop the great natural resources of the State and tend toward the education and ad vancement of the general public. However, there is no occasion to limit the numberof clubs to one. Let us havcat least a baker's dozen of them. One of the remonstrances sent into the Illinois Senate against the repeal of the temperance law, was the signatures of 1,050 convicts in the peni tentiary at Joliet, 020 of whom solemnly declared that the use of spirituous liquors was the original source of their degraded condition and the prime cause of their incarceration. A Mormon colony has arrived at New York from Liverpool, intending to go direct to Utah; and forty-four Mormon missionaries have left Utah for Wales on a proselyting tour. It is now In order for the President to again say that "po lygu,v nmst and shall be stamped out." The women ot Kdinburgh, Scotland, are pub licly demanding that women householders and owners of property shall be allowed to vote for members of Parliament and Town Councils. Miss Frederikn Perry and Miss Ellen Mnrtyn, who form the only ladies' law firm in Chicago, are both graduates of- th law department of the University of Michigan. Customs at New York. ( The anti-monopoly party in Jersey City has len partially successful in municipal elections, 'lie city is railroad-ridden, the corporations pay ing almost no taxes, and the otiu.r taxpayers are rising in righteous wrath. Jorgp"?en, a Republican Congressman from Virginia, and George C. Gorham, the California turn-coat, are at present comparing chnrautori through the Washington City papers, and the Virginian has the best of it A peculiar and heretofore unknown disease lias broken out among tho. horses in Chicago. Itcem mences with a swelling at the fetlock, which changes to a running sore, and the animal's blood is soon poisoned if it is not speedily and skillfuUy treated. San Francisco's Health Officer has destroyed sick-houses scattered throughout' the Chinese quarter. Though he did not comply with th forms of the law, he claims that the Supervisors will uphold his action, as the case required "he roic treatment.' Kutz, i" voi.v.. -,- r ii.. .. ... it i unii in a rm. - uto. in nf ilvnamitu anu niiro-giyeeriue." a President was much amused at tlte fool's impu dence. Mr. Charles Heath, of Massachusetts, endeav ored to carry on a plantation in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, dusiring to build up a business there, and had .erected a grist-mill, a gin-house, and blacksmith shop, all of which he fitted up with itnprdved machinery ; but his whole establish ment was burned by incendiaries. c treatment. vutz a Chicago Socialist, lias written a letter Pr.Jj,innr. Garlleltl. charging him with being "as union a uespm " " forming him that ho ought to be served with bijr dose of dynantitu and nitro-glycenue." 1