The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-09-15
MISS ANTHONY'S THIRD LECTURE.


The audience that assembled at Orc
Fino Hall to hear Miss Anthony's an
swers to questions and objections brought
against woman suffrage, was large and
intelligent. About one half of her hear
ers were ladies, and among them we no.
ticed numbers of the most prominent
leaders of society and fashion in the
city.
The first objection stated and consid-
cred was the trite accusation that the
BIBLE Is AGAINST 1T.
The same objection has been urged
against every reform of any magnitude
which has ever agitated the public
mind. When Calico asserted that the
world moved, Bible adherents, ignorant
but jealous, pronounced his conclusions
blasphemous, and east him into prison.
But the irOrld mOred, and the people
! learned that that sort of Bible doctrine
would not do. Time was when servants,
obey your masters" was the most i'm
portant Bible creed. This creed is now
out of date; the people had advanced be-
yond it. The time is speedily coming
when such scriptures as "wives submit"
etc, etc, which are now quoted by
thousands of men who daily neglect the
weightier matters Of the law, will be east
aside as absOlete.
THE BALLOT WILL DEGRADE WOMAN.
Gentlemen, you don't believe it. Good,
pure and noble women meet vile men
every day; they hold the most intimate
family relations with them, being their
wives, sisters, daughters. As now situ-
ated, they are under the control Of these
men. When they shall have equal
rights, and equal power to control cir
cumstances, think you that they will he
any worse than now?
WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF THE BABIES?
Who takes care of the babies of fash
ionable women now? Do they not trust
their children TO Irresponsible hirelings,
while they fiirt and dissipate at fashion
able watering places, at balls, parties
and receptions? When woman learns
her highest duty and obeys its behests
she will know that she must not trust
her baby to the tender mercies of ignor-
ant hirelings, and will consider it her
chiefest glory to take care of her chill
dren herself. Again, there are thous-
ands and tens of thousands of women,
wives of drunken, incapable, or vicious
and niggardly men, who are compelled
by force of circumstances 10 earn their
own livelihood. The babies of such are.
alas, too often left without the care of
mothers, who 90 out into the world to
earn bare subsistence. Let woman
have opportunity to obtain office, places
Of profit and trust, where labor is light
and pay is liberal, and she will then be
able TO provide 1oeU for her children.
GOOD WOMEN WILL NOT VOTE.
That's a mistake, gentlemen. Women
have ever been interested in politics
They always have their minds made up
before election rs TO their choice of can
didate. Try them and see if they will
not vote. Horace Greeley wants GO,OO0
cooks. So did the speaker. Experience
had taught her that the world had need
Of cooks. But men are better qualified
for that occupation than women. They
have monopolized the business; and, as
women as a class do not like to cook,
they must learn TO do something else.
II WOMEN VOTE THEY MUST FIGHT.
That's nonsensei Half of the men who
Yo'e never smelt gunpowder. But
y, ~oiilah has never been known to shirk
,ne burdens of war They have been
;ns,S. ,le~h 10 disguise themselves in many
90 r''s,'.iees ,-l" ana fight bravely by the side
,,o... =, me" and-shame upon the Govern
H., ,,,'' "eh Their sex was discovered
were ueprived Of back pay. Moth