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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
WHAT WE SAY.

We notice long letter from Portland
i'm the Albany Democrat signed Y.
(Xantippe?), which is remarkable for
nothing but scurrility and balderlash.
We give its closing paragraph as a spec
linen, and ask our readers to judge he
tween what the NEW NORTHWEST says
and what Xantippe teaches:
l will close this letter 10y referring to a
fact which will go farther towards re-
butting all the foolish nonsense about
''wOman's rights than whole volumes
of arguments. \ noted female advocate
of that dogma i'm this city has been per-
this State with Susan Il.
Anthony, leaving her two young boys
TO run around the streets without a
mothers care, and as a consequence
they have been figuring i'm our police
court for stealing pumpkins What
will the NEW NORTHWEST say about
this?
Simply this: When all mothers find
employment for their young and grow
ing sons as ,rc hare, there will be no
gangs of idle ruilians running loose in
the streets TO entrap children into mis-
chief. Under man-made laws the city
of Portland is 50 dirty and vile that chill
dren who have honorable employment
cannot 20 into the street for a little
needed exercise without being led into
temptation by the children of mothers
who "have all the rights they want. 4"
And the New NORTHWEST has to saw
further that never will its efforts to
awake woman to a sense of duty abate
until it shall be made penal offence to
bring up boys in idleness.
Our fifteen-year-old boy mot boys,
who was thoughtlessly betrayed into the
company of a bevy of mans rights off
spring, iss mercilessly ashamed of him
self over it that the NEW NORTHWEST
is willing TO trust him hereafter to keep
better company.
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wooDHULL L OLAFLIN's WEEKLY.

We scarcely ever take up a mans
rights journal any more without discov-
ering some deleetable tidbit culled from
the organ of Stephen Pearl Andrews,
bearing the above title This man An
drews is fanatic of the Satanic type,
who seems to be the evil genius of Vic
toria Woodruff. These editors roll
these dirty morsels under their Journal
istic tongues, and then spit them out
i'm the face of public decency in way
that is caution to common sense.
We have stood this vile afirOnt upon
good morals as long As we feel able To
bear it in silence. If we should garble
and select the dirtiest nonsense in the
Days Doings or Police Gazctte-both
mnn's rights journals of much wider
circulation than IEoOdhWU 6 CtiWu''
IFcckiy-and should regularly serve
them up rs food to our subscribers, what
would these same editors who quote the
Weekly with such apparent gusto say
of US? Brethren, for shame! Have
YOU lost all sense of decency?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
HOPELESS.

We have intensely enjoyed the per
turbation of our frightened, weak-mind-
ed contempories during the past fort
night or so. Scattered to and fro and up
and down in the valleys are divers and
sundry quaking proprietOrs of mans
rights hebdomadals, who, finding it use
less to attempt a further opposition TO
the cause of human rights by honorable
discussion, are now seeking to throw
dirt and slime upon the NEW NORTH
wEsT-hoping by this means to so dis
dract public attention from the legiti-
mate object of our movement that wom-
en- of large approbativeness and weak
intuitions may be frightened into say
ing that they "have all the rights they
want" All, gentlemen it will not do.
Your quibbles, perturbations, fiutter-
ings and disclaimers are alike under
stood.
ave laugh at your calamity and mock
when your fear cometli."
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
SUCCESS Is COMING.

Our friend of the Bulletin isn't half so
rabid a mans rights man as he thinks
he is. Read the following, dear friends
Of human rights, and satisfy yourselves
that lac is with you in principle and sem
timent, and will so proclaim himself
whenever he finds that public opinion
will not permit him to keep further 81
lence:
SUCCESS To HER.-Airs. II. y. John
stone, "A shorthand reporter and one of
the most rapid writers in the world, is n
candidate for Engrossing Clerk of the
California Assembly, with a prospect Of
election May she succeed, Is the wish
Of all who know her.
While in Washington Territory week
or two ago we learned that Miss PEBBLES
was elected Enrolling Clerk of the last
session of the Territorial Legislature and
that her work gave entire satisfaction.
She received for her services the sum Of
Sc 90 per day and mileage; and our leg
islative friend who gave us the informa-
ton, says that il sis the wish of all who
know herr that she may again be chosen
for the same occupation during the COM
ing session of that honorable body.
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STRONG-M MINDED.

Under this caption the Walla Walla
Statesman thus discourseth
\ San Francisco paper says the
'strong-minded business" is spreading,
worse than the cholera. To which we
may add that the whole movement Is
worse than the smallpox and chills and
fever combined. II railroads and
"women Fighters go together, we shall
endeavor to reconcile ourselves to the
fact that the Walla Walla people voted
the railroad down.
We assure our trembling brother that
railroads and WOman's Fighters go
wherever brains are rulers. Walla
Walla already possesses large share Of
active, sensible Woman's Fighters OF
both sexes, and the railroad will follow
as natural consequence.
We are sorry our brother has such fee
BILE appreciation of the useful and agree
able. Everyone TO his taste" as the
old lady said when she kissed her COW.
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DISGRACEFUL.

A creature who represents herself as
historian-of whom nobody has ever
heard only as she blows her own trumpet
has been endeavoring to earn cheap
and dirty notoriety by pandering to the
vicious element of mans rights men i'm
Albany. A maudlin correspondent OF
the Portland Herald has imposed upon
that paper long review Of what pur-
ports to have been 'leeture" given by
this monstrOsity. We cannot eonde-
scend to sully the NEW NORTHWEST
with true account of the abomination;
therefore we waive further comment,
hoping that this prurient champion Of
masculine free-lovers will come to Port
land and serve up a dish of her delecta-
BILE hash in order that the people may
see what manner of men give Immense
applause" over her inane sophistries.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
Why a Woman Should not Vote.

! She hasn't sense enough 10 vote in
| telligeHtly. She never can have, be-
cause she hasn't enough brains of the
right kind, and the few she has are in
the wrong place.
! She is only reflector of mans wis
dom, not an originator.
Horace Greeley says she Oughtn't to
vote. He cannot be jealous of Victoria
Woodruff in the Presidential race.
Darwin's theory won't work on her
she is not an original worker, but sim
ply an invention, growing out of mans
necessities, havingan ancestral line end
ing in n "rib" instead of coming up
through creation, rs man does, "seleet-
ing material for his destiny;n whether
that be toad, woman or monkey. A rib
is a good thing to show immense inven-
tive resource upon, being an awfully dry
beginning, but it is poor ancestral root
for intelligent voters.
She Is only matrimonial bait. She
was put here to serve man, not to rule
him, being made for his comfort and
convenience alone.
If she was allowed the ballot, ten to
one she would vote to prohibit the sale
of liquors, and break up half the pleas
ures and rights of her superior
She is under Scriptural condemnation
for cOquetting with snake. She hasn't
paid that penalty, yet. 'Frhe man shall
rule over thee" She must not oppose
that sacred order.
Irishmen, Dutchmen, NegrOmen and
Cinnamon can become our brothers,
women cannot. Home is the last place
man goes at night after billiards,
cards, saloons, theatres and club-roOms,
and it is no more than right that his
sshelDmeeti should he uncOntaminated
by society, as it is enough Tor nm 10
smell of rum, tobacco smoke and saw
dust without finding her perfumed with
the same stencil.
4 woman is too weak to resist tempta-
ton. If il were not for the virtues OF
men what would society be?
Placing a ballot in box would make
the women "strOng minded" as IS
clearly demonstrated by the increase of
intellect even among men exercising
that great freeman's right by voting
searly and often"
Lastly, she would play the part of vine |
to mans oak, and twine her delicate /
tendrils around his gOdlike form, with
out question or doubt, even cOmfiding i'm |
the purity and wisdom of his intentions
and acts, however much appearances !
may be against him; this is to be wOm- |
anly, delicate and angelic. Voting inn /
plies equality. The vine assumes to be /
oak, and that spOils poetry. Let her
stick to the kitchen, the nursery and the |
drawing; that's all she is fit for, all she /
can learn, all she aspires to, and all she /
ought to have.-ISdm StodH.F
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
THE ADVOCATE AND THE BIBLE.

Our worthy brother of the p. c. idrO-
cate has become seriously affected over
the fact that Miss Anthony will not
fight his battles unless he is willing to
fight hers. He has persistently refused
to openly espouse the Woman Suffrage
movement, although he cannot but
know that upon the success of this
movement hangs the destiny of human
progression. But let somebody throw
the Bible as a stumbling block in
woman's path, and he Immediately ex-
poets a Woman Suffrage lecturer to not
only clear out the obstacles thus used to
impede her progress, but he even eX-
poets and demands that she shall at
once endeavOr to help the Church to
sustain its Bible doctrines right i'm the
face Of the fact that he will not use his
influence, as editor of Church organ, To
induce the people who read his journal to
uphold the just equality of the sexes.
Gently, gently, good Sir Bro. A5lro-
cate. When you begin to fight our bat
ties and help us on to victory, it will
then be time enough for you to ask us to
to help you fight yours. We believe
and know, and can prove, and hare
proved, the Bible to be staunch WOm-
ans Rights organ. 1t is yoW' business,
rs the conductor of a religious news
paper, to fight your own Bible bat
ties. Miss Anthony and Ourself have
all we can do at present to clear out oh
stacles from our path to the ballot.
When we have won this victory it will
be time enough to ask Us to help YOU
win a victory wherein you have al
ready marshaled the bitterest OF ouI
enemies, rs well rs many of our warm.
est friends, as your adherents and co.
workers. Yet, strong as you are, finan-
cially and numerically, you ask Us, in
our comparative weakness, to cast over
board all our helpers who do not adhere
to all your religious ideas. This We
cannot afford to do, even had we tn,
disposition.
We welcome to our ranks the aid of al
who will work for our political emanci
patton, just as you welcome To yoU
ranks everybody who believes i'm YOU
one idea of the atonement.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
MISS ANTHONY.

This irrepressible advocate of human
rights met with most gratifying success
at Albany. Her lectures were largely
attended, and the deep and silent inter
est of her immense audiences was the
most fiattering tribute they could possi-
bly, pay to the sterling worth and genu-
inc good sense of one of the noblest
specimens of true womanhood it has
ever been our good fortune to meet.
Miss Anthony and our 'other hall
are at present making a tour OF the
West Side. They hold a meeting To-
night at Lafayette, tomorrow night at
McNIinnville, and Monday night at
Forest Grove. We will all proceed to
the State Fair on Tuesday, where we
look for further triumphs in our glorious
cause.
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Gbe !Siseu a!ertbwest.
FRIDAY. .............OCTOBER 6, 1871.
OUR BOYS VACATION.

As everybody will attend the Annual
Fair next week at Salem, and as our
boys naturally want to be ineiuue" !"
the list, we have decided not to issue Tue
NEW NORTHWEST on Friday Oc'oOei
18th. Our young and growing sons to
whose faithful assiduity the public Is in
dabted for tbe regular appearance of this
,,,;delv-circulated journal for over five
,,,ontbs deserve one weeks vacation,
and they shall have it. Next year we
hong TO be rich enough to hire somebody
70 set the type while they enjoy little
needed respite. We could do so now il
all the delinquent subscribers TO the
NEW NORTHWEST would send along the
sums so Justly due us. Our subscribers
will lose nothing by the vacation, as the
volume will not be completed till 52num-
bers are issued.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
GRACEFULLY RETIRES.

Our very eonsiderate friend of the
Bulletin gracefully ''thrOws up the
sponge" and retires from the field of edi-
torial combat. He has suddenly dis
covered that the Woman Suffrage move
ment "seeks agitation a. n chief food to
subsist upon," and therefore does mot
intend to play into the hands of its
votaries by helping on the agitation" 4"
Wise man Sage conclusion!
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
THE KINGDOM OF WOMAN rs AT
HAND.

Glittering and glorious, like diamonds
among pebbles, shine out the words of
hearty cheer that greet our growing en-
terprise from many of our noble breth-
ren OF the press who have no fear that.
by acknowledging the political equality
OF women, they will lose their wives or
fail to sustain their present position as
men Of worth and influence. Brethren,
not one jot or one little of your good
deeds shall be forgotten, while to the
scurrilous fistes that whine upon our
track we say in calm commiseration,
"Be sure your sin will find you out"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06

JOSH BILLINGS on FREE LOvE.-I
beleaG in free fight, especially amung
eats and dogs.
I beleaf in free rides-On gate.
| beIeaf in freedom of every slave On
arth.
But free love is one Ov those kinds OF
free,Ium that it don't do TO Timber with.
If this world was a garden of Edin and
full Ov Adam and Eve, az they was
when they was fust launched, then /
kan imagine it might do for some other
Adam to hold my Eve on his lap, and
talk about his affiniteeh and spiritoal es-
senee, and play lamb.
In them daZe there want no humin
natur, it was all God natur
Humin natur has been soaked so much
since, il is tew weak in a lot where the
seed is poor, next to n meddo, without
much fence between nor emmy poke on.
Free love wants more poke than any
other animal.
l don't believe in total depravity-un-
less a man has a good chance.
Free love is a good deal like drinking
a six shilling gin for n bevridge. Bev-
ridge is a Chinese word and means Gus
sidness.
All the free love have witnessed thus
far, has existed between a villaniOus
letcher on one side, and lunatic virtue
on the other side, that has been deOdOr-
lied out of its truth, and has lost aul of
its mOdesty and shame. in hunting
aftera cOndishun where sin ceased to be
a crime.
The fust free lover we have emmy
akOunt Ov was the devil.
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some ancient Mecca, or the forlorn hope
Of a caravan of forty-niners.
What the creation has all this to do
with the Walla Walla Fair?' asks an
impertinent typo.
"Wait till the next issue and we will
tell you" is cur meek reply.
We didn't mean to be so garruloUs.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
FAIRS.

We've been attending fairs quite reg
ularly of late; so regularly, in fact. that
we have had no time to write of what we
saw, and consequently are compelled 10
waive our comments upon the different
exhibitions until the State Fair is over.
and we will then endeavor to serve them
all up at once.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
SOLICITUDE.

We hope, for the sake of the prosper
ity of Bro. Brown, of the Albany Demo
crat, that he will soon be at his post
again. a few weeks longer misman-
agement on the part of a certain played
out Republican will send that paper
''where the woodbine twineth,"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06
CROWDED OUT.

Two communication from Eu-
gene City and the other from Walla
Walla-are unavOidably crowded out of
this issue. When our paper grows to
a mammoth quarto, which we antiei-
pate some day, such vexations will no
longer occur.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06

Miss susan B. Anthony is endeavoring
to impress upon the citizens of Portland
tie Importance of giving our dear sisters
the privileges which we have conferred
upon the niggers, diggers, Fiji Islanders
and Hottentots. She even has the au
dacity to claim for herself an equal
amount of intelligence with these very
enlightened citizens. "Go for them,"
Susan, ego for them. ."-ROse5urg Plain
xygnIgs.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06

OLD MAIDS.-A quaint and gallant
writer some fifty years ago, says:
love All old maid-I use the singular
number, as speaking of n singularity in
humanity. An old maid is not merely
an antiquarian, she is an antiquity; not
merely record of the past, but the very
past itself; she has escaped n great
change, and sympathizes not III the or
dinary mutations of mortality. She in
habits a little eternity of her own. She
is Miss from the beginning of the chap
ter to the end. l do not like to hear
them called Mistress, as Il sometimes
the practice, for that looks and sounds
like Il resignation of despair, voluntary
extinction of hope. | do not know
whether marriages are made in heaven;
some people say they are, but L am al
most sure old maids are. There Is some
thing about them which is not of the
earth, earthly. They are spectators Of
the world, not adventures nor ramblers,
perhaps guardians; We say nothing OF
tattlers. They are evidently predes-
tined to be what they are. They owe
not the singularity of their condition to
any lack of beauty, wisdom, wit or good
temper; there is no accOuntingfOr ii but
on the principle of fatality. | have
known many old maids, and of them all
not one that has not possessed as many
good and amiable qualities as ninety and
nine of a hundred of my married ac-
Quaintances. Why, then, are they sim
gle? 1t is their fate
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06

The Transcript is very much amused
at the Standard s favorable notice of Mrs
Duniway's paper, the NEW NORTHWEST.
Our admiration of the talented editor is
not new passion, by any means. We
remember her rs the pioneer authOress
of Oregon, many years ago, and rs a
contributor to the Oregon City Argus
while we ''stuck type" on that journal
about twelve Years ago. We admired
her sterling ability then, and we rejoice
in her marked success now. And we
don't care what the Transcript thinks
about it, Washington Standard.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
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Real Il - { ate aIer.
oFFICE-No. "a Front Street,
PORTLAND. OREGON

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IL Portland, in the most desirable localities,
consisting of Ions, HALF BLOCKS and BLOCKS,
HOUSES and STORES.
Also IMPROVED FARMS and VALUABLE US-
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State, for sale.
REAL Estate and other Property purchased
Tor Correspondents, in THIS CITY and through
out the STATES and TERRITORIES. with great
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HOUSES ASD STORES LEASED, Loans NEGO-
IIArED and CLAIMS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
PROMPTLY COLLECTED and GENERAL FINAS-
CiAL and AGENCY BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
AGENTS Of this OFFICE i'm all the CITIES and
Towns in the STATE Will receive descriptions OF
FARM PROPERTY and forward the same TO the
aDoNc addi'>S. NJ
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MELANCHOLY.

Our friend of the Oregon B"ttet'"
has become so desperate over the un-
paralIed success of Woman Suffrage IN
Great Northwest that he has gone stark
mad. Where's DIR. Hawthorne?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06

BY the time that bar of iron, worth
five dollars, is suitable for the balance
springs of watches, it is worth two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06

CITE THEM TOGETHER. .''-tWhat do
you mean by a eat and dog life ," said
husband to his angry wife. "LOok at
Carlo and Kitty asleep on the rug /
wish men lived half so peacefully with
their wives" ''Stop," said the lady,
''tie them together and see how they-N7e,I
agree
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06

Coleridge says: Intense study will
keep any writer from being vulgar in
point of style.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-10-06

Cats in France are to be taxed five
francs each and birds one franc.
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subscribe for the NEw NORTHWEST.
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EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
l had not intended using my pen to
write in favor of Woman Suffrage, but l
cannot resist the impulse to write Il few
lines in reply to a sermon preached by
the Rev. f. Gerry at the Congregational
church, Oregon City, Sept. 18th, and
published in the Enterprise of Sept
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-23

Some of the West Virginia Democratic
leaders recently sent to Chief Justice Chaee
the following resolution, emboaying the
New Departure as usually expressed by the
conventions of their party
Resolred, That Willis we do net apfro7s
the means employed to adopt the Thirteenth.
Fourteenth, and fifteenth Amendments, we
nevertheless hold that, having been promul-
GATED bv all departments of the Government,
and having been submitted to by the people,
thew are parts of the Consultation OF the
limited States, and are TO be respected and
obeyed as such.
In reply the Chief Justice submitted his
own conception of the most appropriate
manner of expressing these ideas, as fol-
lows
Reiolced. That the Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
and Fifteenth Amendments, having been
promulgated bv all departments OF the Gov
eminent. and having been submitted to by
the people. are parts of the Constitution of
the United States, and are to be respected
and obeyed as such.
He added that q by the general adoption
of the principles laid down in the resolution,
the Democratic party would resume its posi-,
ton as the party of progress and reform,
and 50 insure it's success and the best vel
fire of the country The West Virginia
leaders had neither the boldness nor the
sagacity to accept the Chief-Justice's amend
ments.