The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-09-01

ceremony ana evident responsibility, II
a box. There you may ask, and will
some propriety, why these women didn'
have their sybaline eyes upon the risin,
generation, and why their time was no
employed in looking after the innOcents
We do not find all of our time taken IN
in attending to the physical wants o
three or four beloved babies (and theil
physical wants are all or nearly all they
require for seven years after they ar,
BORN. We do not believe in giving :
child three cold water baths every dav
changing its clothing as many times, be.
sides frizzing its hair like the ''true wifi,
and mother does, and it does not take q
lifetime to spank a baby and put it t.
bed. So these women have been OBJ
serving-and they may have little GU
riosity, desire for adventure and ex-
pertinent, but generally, believe, it is
a pure and earnest desire to better and
elevate men and women that they ask to
vote.
There is another class Of sad, stricken.
hysterical women, who really have had
hard time, who are neglected and
abused and long-suffering, and this ele-
ment it will protect and encourage. Then
there is another class that it will not af-
feet, just as there is a class of men who
are not affected by politics, who scarcely
take interest enough to vote. This is
the little domestic dove, cooling softly,
and content to COO; the clinging vine,
caring only to cling; the real, orthodox
"true wife and mother" and if you men
will keep on being good to her she will
go on with her round of domestic duties,
which is to her labor of love-forever
and forever hunting up your very essen
tial slippers, sewing on your important
buttons and raking up the hair OF her
baby into little rows like a neatly ar
ranged garden.
Do not accept any Of these terrible
and heart-rending pictures of the result
Of woman suffrage drawn by Congress-
men and speakers in the House and
upon stumps here and there. Do not
believe them when they tell you that
women will leave their homes and their
husbands unprovided for, and their chill
iren standing around the desolate hearth
n attitudes, subsisting on bones and
RUSS. Look upon them merely as strong
y imaginative when they say that
woman will leave her little babies to /
lie Women do not do this way. III
hey were inclined to do so there are al
ready plenty of temptations and oppor-
tunities. The truest, strongest, inherent
feeling and motive in a woman's breast
is her maternal love. You cannot in
1uce true woman to neglect or forsake
her offspring, and false woman will do
it anyway, and go to perdition. If she did
it and went to Congress, it would be bet
ter.
Do not be selfish in this matter; do
not be constantly thinking of what you
will lose. Would you deprive millions of
human beings of a privilege which they
ask, just for fear there might
be in consequence missing button in
the next decade?
There is a class of men who are good
and philanthropic, and 1 believe are
really sorry for womankind. They al
ways say: II am glad am not a
woman" / was talking with one of
these the other day; he said:
~ sympathize with women, and / do
it i'm a substantial way"
~ do not see how, since you are not in
favor of any kind of reform, or political
or social change"
81 do it in this way" he said, signifi-
,antly putting his hand into his pocket.
"Yes, but there are many little cases
around through the country that you
cannot reach"
After little more conversation came
The sweet old romance / had loved in
lays lang syne:
81 was brave because a woman gave
me her kisses; / worked because a wom-
an loved me; was kind because wom- /
an trusted me-"
Yes" | answered, a little fiercely, |
but that other man was not. Christ
s''id; i came not to call the righteous.
Dut sinners unto repentance For indi-
viduals like yourself, or the one who in
spired you, these things are not intend
ed, and be assured they will never inter
fere with her trust or your troth."
This man needs only to understand
fully the wants and aims of woman and
he will give her his assistance.
But there are other men who stand
up, winking pensively at nothing, with
a far-away look, and "smile that is
and bland" and tell us that
we do not know what is for our good.
This style of man will not believe any
thing until lie sees it.
Then there are others who are fright
ened, and stand perfectly aghast at the
idea that their wives may possibly claim
certain privileges, socially, which they
at present most triumphantly arrOgate
to themselves.
"When heyvote want to die" walled
forth trembling sinner the other day;
81 never want to live to see that day"
Well, such men might as well die
they are better off away down in their
little beds" where the cold frowns of
women can never reach them.
SALEM, Oregon, Aug. Goth.
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