The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-07-19
The Woman Question.

On Saturday evening Mrs. a. J. Dun
iwav, at the Liberal Institute, gave
very able and eloquent lecture on the
mission and sphere of woman in society,
i'm which she particularly dwelt upon
her political mission and fitness. In
deed woman is a political essential, the
sneaker cOntended. both for the worlds
GOOD in general and the publication OF
our national life. She held that, If you
isolate either of the sexes, the isolated
one would deteriOrate rs well IN ehaIae-
ter rs in mode Of life. This was Illus
trated in the experience OF those mining
Territories and in Utah when the hardy
pioneers first came here to settle. IL
has been found that man could nor live
long apart from the society of woman
without deteriorating, but woman was
necessary to make the wilderness bios
som as the rose. God in the creation
saw that il was not good for man to be
alone, and what He had Joined together
as necessary to perfect social life ought
not 10 be put assunder. She had not
come to relate wOman's rights or wrongs,
I but to affirm the necessity of her infiu-
ence IN society extending to political
/ sphere. In the enfranchiSement OF
woman nothing could accrue to woman
which did not also accrue to him. But
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/ were necessary to perfection Of charater
/ and completeness in every pursuit of
/ life. Again, the son should never be
able to travel outside the pale of his
mothers influence and mission, and
| where society could say to her ''thus far
shalt thou 90 but no farther for out
side that pale his footsteps take hold of
| hell and lead to the very gates of death.
! In every consideration of her subject she
/ held that woman was necessary to mans
/ career as we'll rs it is for the complete
ness of his character, and the same was
true of herself in her relation to man.
/ Upon the question of the suffrage Mrs.
/ DuniWay was for an intellectual not n
sexual suffrage. Some may say we
have too many votes already, but grant
ing this she inquired, what kind of
votes. She would have an intellectual
standard and national schools estab-
lished in every precinct, from which
every one irrespective of sex would have
to obtain certificate of intellectual fit
ness before being granted the privilege
to vote. The speaker next dwelt on the
hollOWness OF our National Conventions
which proieSsedly are called to carry
out the sovereign will and choice of the
people. The Convention theory is splen
did, but carried out by our political
for by them our honest yOemen are
brought like sheep to the polls. Rail-
roads received her consideration next.
They were becoming vast mOnOpOlieS
and the country was fast drifting to q
{ condition of things in which the few
would be immensely rich but the multi
tude wretchedly poor. Railroads must be
, owned by the government or their COM
: panies would soon own the Government.
, Mrs. Duniway touched upon a number
of other important national matters in a
very able manner and then she related
/ her interview with Horace Greeley,
: which strongly illustrated how unpopu-
p lar the philosopher President would be
: with her class. Her narrative of her
: visit as one of a delegation sent by the
: WOman's Convention of New York,
4 was very graphic caricature sketch OF
uncle Horace, and her reply to the ques-
tion of his prospects of reaching the
, White House was very sharp. His
y prospects she said We're ''quite as good rs
Woodhulps.n Horace and Victoria thus
n classed was almost too much for philOs-
N Ophy to bear, considering the chances OF
q the sage of Chappaqua at the Baltimore
Convention. Mrs. Duniway next pre-
dicted that Uncle sam was about to pOI
= the question to woman and that he
81 would claim his bride and that right
ir royalty, and closed her able speech with
most brilliant poem, almost epic in
its theme, on Colonel Baker, the hero Oi
California, and Abraham Lincoln
which we understood her to say was
written at the grave of our nations
l. martyr. We should have been delighted
to have published it, but its length and
our limited space prevents the giving tC
'e the public this poetic treat. Tonight
l. Mrs. Duniway will lecture in the Tab
is ernacle on Human rights and Mother
- hoOd.-SdH Lake Tribune.