The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-04-23
A New rield for Women.

A cry of distress from the Wilderness OF
Washington Territory has reached us. 1t
comes from a log house In the centre of n
magnificent wheat farm, which promises to
yield its owner fifty five bushels of wheat to
the acre. But this harvest promise does not
content the lonely man. lie wants the sun
beams Of q woman's smiles In his house He
wants the music Of a womans laughter in
IL. He wants sympathetic cheerful, hope
full woman TO welcome him when he comes
in at night from the field. He is utterly sick
of his own cooking. He wants to eat some
thing cooked by woman "Sir," he writes,
"this Ia one OF the true fields for the philan.
thropy Of the East TO work In. For Heavens
sake send out some missionaries to cyilize
this community, not in the shape of preach
ere, but Of mnrriaCenble women. The intro
duction Of thousand virtuous, good girls,
such as abound in Massachusetts and Yer
mont, who have been raised TO work, and who
would not consider themselves too fine to
marry working men, and help them build up
satisfactory homes, would be the greatest
blessing that could be conferred on Puget
Sound"
We call upon Miss SUSAN b. ANTHONY TO
hear and heed this voice of one crying from
the wilderness He cries very sensibly, and
it would be a very good thing TO do what he
wants to have done. Surely the organiza-
ton that is deemed adequate to confer on the
women of tho United States the right of
suffrage should be sufficient TO give to
Washington Territory the amount of civil
zation that is prayed for. And right well do
we know that bushcl basket full of ballots
to each of thousand Yankee girls would
not do them the thousandth part of tho good
that one good husband apiece would. And
there those husbands are, waiting and
languishing. Our correspondent says
Throughout my county, including the dis
puted islands, there are about 400 adult men
and only % adult women The laboring
population floating along the Pacific coast is
almost wholly composed of single men, and
of such mainly is the population of my
county. Now see one locate piece Of de.
licious land He builds cabin, clears and
gets in a crop. How much comfort can he
enjoy after hard days work. He enters
his dark house at night, has to light his
own FIRE and cook his own supper, with
out q soul to talk to, or to cheer
and encourage him. He may be miles
from his nearest neighbor This con
tinues day after day and week after
week. On Sundays he must wash and mend
his own clothes. This is what all have TO
go through who settle on piece of land
unless they are married. Man can't stand
it, The result is, that scarcely one in fifty
endures his condition for three months.
They then either give up and abandon tie
land, or they go and get an Indian woman.
Three-fourths Of the men in this county are
living with squaws, and fain am | to admit
that seventy per cent. of our children are
halflreeds. The result is inevitable. The
only remedy for it is the importation Of good
white women from the East And the hus
bands they VIII get are just the manifest,
biggest, bravest, handsomest fellows in
America"
If Miss ANTHONY shall feel that providing
good girls with husbands is outside of her
mission in life, we suggest to the single wo-
men who would prefer another condition, and
who would rather DO married now and let
the right of suffrage come when it may, to
organize emigration 10 Washington Terri
tory. The two Pacific railroads and the
North Pacific coast steamship owners would
generously aid their undertaking.