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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-29
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ESxpOREA MARKETS.

Take the Doctors SPECIFIC for
chills and fever. 1t is sure cure, and
never tails. 4lv1
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MORRIS, M: Il

sPECIALTX-Diseases of women and
children.
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90 pieces of prints just received at
Smiths. -s e. ms
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Ladies'. .undergarments at "A. 5.
Smiths. Il
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: Chicago kip boots, hand made, at A.
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For new style ladies cloaks and
shawls go to Bancroft & McCarter's.
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BANCROFT e McCARrER.
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: just received, new stock aof rib
hons, ladies' collars, cuffs, neck ties,
&C.. at Bancroft & McCarter's. A
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40 pieces more of that all-wool fill
ing, Salem, Indiana jeans, at Bancroft
& McCarter's. Al 8
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SUGARS.
B and c are u and x Chess than a
Coffee a. per fb...--..... i 162<
:. c. :. extra
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Crushed and granulated coffee
sugars lie more than coffee A : 49,
New orleans, per . $3.50.
Porto Rico, - 12KaI3 IA
Demarara 90 IA .tS
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3. T. wright's old stand.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
DECISION AGAINST WOMAN SUI
FRAGE.

Our citizens will remember that dur
ing Miss Anthony's sojourn among us
she made mention of the fact that Mrs.
Ellen b. Van Volkenburg, of Sacrament
to, had been met with a refusal when
she applied for registration as a voter.
She thereupon applied for a writ of
mandamus, and the case was carried
into the Supreme Court, and the decis-
ion of that august tribunal was adverse
to her claims. What a triumph that
pigmy-brained follower of the Infamous
Judge Taney, of Dred Scott decision no.
toriety, must imagine that he has
gained.
Says the Oregonian:: 'The decision,
written by Chief Justice Waller, is an
exhaustive review of the whole ques-
tion." We should rather think it was!
A more "exhaustible' mass of incom-
prehensible buncombe; a more complete
mixture Of dry-bone hash; a more out
rageous eonglomeration of wooden-pated
ideas; a more stupid effort to distort
Constitutional law, never emanated from
the brain of a mutton-headed mascu-
line. The only attempt this would-be
wise logician makes to render a reason
is the following:
It will be seen that the construction claimed
for the Fourteenth Amendment by the counsel
for the plaintiff would leave nothing Tor the
Fifteenth TO operate upon.
So Justice Waller, of the Supreme
Bench of the man-governed State of
California, does not dare to act upon the
rules of justice, lest he "leave nothing
for the Fifteenth Amendment to operate
upon" Oh, what logic! Oh, what err
udition! Oh, what asinine stupidity!
Is this thing to govern women?
Continues Justice Waller:
The mere power OF the State 10 determine the
class Of inhabitants who may vote within her
Amendment.
Do you think, o Judge, that because
the Fourteenth Amendment does not
curtail the rights of citizens, you have
an individual right, "with the concur
renee of your associates, ,"-Uide Oregon
idn-to take upon yourself the response
bility to do this little job for them?
Chief Justice Taney is henceforth no
where.
The conclusion of this exhaustive"
document is thus summed up:
The Fifteenth Amendment took away her
authority to discriminate against citizens of
the United States on account OF either race,
color, or previous condition of servitude but
the power OF exclusion upon all other grounds,
including that Of sex, remains intact
So it's all settled at last Sex is the
only necessary qualification of a voter.
Brains, morality, judgment, education,
property, taxes, justice, common sense,
common decency, liberty, inalienable
rights-all these must bow before the
animal qualifications of the privileged
half of humanity, distinguished by the
masculine gender.
O,libertyl O,wisdoml o, justice! how
We are outraged!
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
ONE-SIDED POLITICS,

The OregOIiian and Herald are still
worrying each other and the public with
their one-sexed and one-sided ideas of
political economy. The Herald insane
ly imagines that the Democratic party
will corner Mr.. Holladay's transporta-
tion market; and the OregOnidn, equal
! ly impracticable, thinks that capital is
sovereign and that government cannot
hinder Mr.. Holiday or any other man
from making just such lawful prey of
the public plunder as may suit his am
bition. AS usual, both of these journals
are right, and both are wrong.
Mr.. Holladay deserves great credit for
the financial skill and enterprising abil-
ity which he displays in opening up to
the world the hitherto almost unknown
resources of Oregon. We are glad to see
him successful in his enterprises, and
cannot deny that he, as an individual,
has an inalienable right TO make just
such charges for transportation as suit
him. Thus far the OregOnian is correct.
But Legislatures can, if they will-the
Oregonidn to the contrary, notwith
standing make appropriations for
building not only canals and locks, but
railroads and steamboats,, which must
belong to the State; then ''let corpora
tiOns snap their fingers in their faces" if
they can. To this work must our legis-
lation come at last. Then we can have
uniform transportation rates, regulated
by law, and the people, being their own
arbitors, will out-legislate attempted
abuses. The Democratic party, upon
which the Herald vainly builds its
hopes, has no more and better ideas of
public economy than the Republicans.
Both parties are enveloped in great f.
nancial and political fog of self interest
and party politics. Good women of bus
iness capacity and economical ideas look
on and smile in compassion as they con-
template the furore which muddle-
minded politicians raise, while railroad
corporations grow rich, the people pay
taxes, subsidies and perquisites, and
mothers toll and scrimp and eke and
economize, and children, many Of them,
grow up without trades and education.
How long shall these things be?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
WOMEN DON'T WANT TO VOTE-O,
MO-

Our mans rights brethren of the
United States Senate made their strong
point against Woman Suffrage by cry
ing Justify, "Women don't want TO
vote" Then, in their futile efforts to
prove their sophistry, they refuse to
publish wOmen's arguments, hoping
that they can by this means longer
hoodwink an inquiring people. But the
women are not so easily outwitted.
Under Ben. Buffers frank they send
their arguments everywhere, requesting
that they be printed in the secular and
religious newspapers, as well as i'm the
progressive ones, and we shall see if
many editors do not willingly respond
to the intelligent requests of their dis
franehised sisters. The people are i'm
advance Of the party press, and the par
ty press is in advance of the Senate. Our
friends at Washington have sent out the
following circular to editors all over the
United States. Watch, readers of the
New NORTHWEST, and see how many
of them will comply with this reasona-
bic request:
To the Editors Of the United States: The Son
ate OF the United States having refused a hear
ing 70 Inc MemorialiSts I'm person. they being
members OF disfranchised class and fhere5
lore without representation in that body and
the Judiciary Committee having declined even
70 PRINT their arguments side by side with their
adverse report, the MemOrialisfs DO earnestI.,
invite the press OF the country 10 print these
arguments in full, that the people NAV decide
Tor themselves whether women are or a - -,
entitled 10 vote to-day under the National Con-
StffuffOn Noii-
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
"A TRANSACTION IN BRIBERY. /"

Our friend HOlladay's man Friday is
after the Willamette Farmer like a rat
terrier after buffalo. Because the Far
meT-a journal, by the way, for which
we have no particular liking, because of
us dogged opposition to Woman Suf-
irage-is out with fearless promulga-
tlon OF its EDITORS own ideas, O'Meara,
VINO cannot possibly imagine how any
man can work upon any other plane
than the personal and selfish considera-
tion Of individual accumulation of dol
lars and cents, a man who has served
every party and every partisan in polit-
ical life who would pay him the price
he claimed, and who has beguiled other
men besides Ben Holladay into usinp
his services as a sycophant in the news
paper business, is out Indignantly ae-
cusing the Farmer of being in the same
category with himself. We have no
fight to make for or against the Farmer
in its Independent course. We like the
ring Of patriotism which it gives forth
in the articles objected to by Friday;
but we suppose that this Objeetor knows
much more than we do about the 'buy-
ing and sellingr business of which he
says so much. Judging from his state
ments, the man who sells himself is in
his turn badly sold, and we know of no
man who has had more experience i'm
that line than James OMeara.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
HON. GARY JOHNSON.

By mistake, in the hurry of preparing
our report of the Salem meetings, \. b.
Meacham was mentioned as one of the
speakers of the second evening instead
of Hon. Cary johnson, of Oregon City.
Mr.. Johnson made his first Woman Suf-
frage speech i'm Fourth of July celebra-
ton a number of years ago, when he
officiated as orator of the day before a
large audience in Clackamas county.
He alluded to this fact i'm our Salem
meeting, and further said that in the
Baptist Church, of which he is a mem-
Der, the recognition of the equality of
the sexes dated back to the earthly days
of Jesus Christ. He concluded his
happy and able effort by calling on young
converts to relate their experience" :"
and took his seat amid enthusiastic ap-
plause.
Hon. A. b. Meacham spoke on the
first and third evenings, but, We believe,
was not present at the second. 1t gives
us pleasure to note that this gentleman
has been chosen as candidate for Presi-
Dental ElectOr. He, like Mr. johnson.
Is among the few brave, strong-minded
men Of Oregon who dare TO stand up for
the cause Of Woman Suffrage while yet
the mans rights journals are afraid to
speak Gentlemen, the ladies will re-
,le'hoer their political friends when
they vote.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
OUR SECOND VOLUME.

The season is now near at hand when
many hundreds of our subscriptions to
the NEW NORTHWEST will expire. We
urge upon our friends everywhere the
Importance of Immediately renewing
their subscription fees. A little effort
nolg upon the part of each of our numer-
Gus readers will enable us to start out
with the Second Volume with debts all
Cancelled and in the enjoyment of safe
financial prospects for the future. We
could then bring a light heart to our
work, to which, since we took up the
load of financial care that large news
paper business requires, we have been a
stranger. There are also yet many de-
linquents upon our list-men and women
who have regularly enjoyed the products
of our toll for the past year, and yet neg
lect to pay for their paper. To all such
We say in respectful solicitude, ,0e need
the money. The sum of three dollars is
small to each of you, but the aggregate
Indebtedness of several hundred delin-
quents makes a sum of much import
ance to us. We trust that this call will
not be passed unheeded. We have toiled
diligently at ress-making, millinery,
lecturing, story writing, editorial work
and canvassing, doing faithfully the
work of half dozen to keep up the ex-
penses of the paper, and our strength is
severely over-taxed; and we now ask
our friends, one and all, to cheerfully
put shoulder to the wheel and help us
through the Second Volume, which
shall be in all respects superior to the
first.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
From the New Northwest Extra OF ThurSda
March 18th
THE PEOPLE ADMoNIsBBD.

Next Monday, April LIST, an election is
to be holden in this city for the purpose
of filling the Office of one School Diree-
tor for two years, one for one year, and a
Clerk for one year.
Patrons of our public schools are
hereby notified that efforts are secretly
and cautiously being made TO elect men
who shall be pledged TO abolish the City
High School. The object is to force the
people TO patronize the sectarian schools,
or-as will suit few would-be aristocrats
still better-place classical education
beyond the means of the common people.
Fathers and mothers, look OUT Don't
let your enemies cheat your children.
See that no officers are elected except
such as are pledged to the protection and
support of the City High School.
Go early TO the election, and vote un-
derstandingly, that you may thus
checkmate the designs of selfish in
triguerS.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
LETTER FROM POLK COUNTY.

LUCKIAMUTE, Polk county, Ogn.,
March 10, 1872. !
Dear Sister DtmiUdy:- cannot deny
myself the pleasure of telling you how
highly the people of Buena Vista and
vicinity were delighted with your lee
lures. You have done an incalculable
amount of good. Even Democrats are
almost persuaded to be Christians. Your
second lecture especially is regarded as
the finest and best discourse ever deliv-
cred in Buena Vista. In fact, all your
lectures are greatly praised. l regyet
that circumstances were such that L
could not be present the last evening.
But my heart was with you in the good
work. This good cause in which you
are earnestly engaged with tongue and
pen must finally triumph, despite all
opposing forces.
regret to see that Mrs. NJ. NJ. Miller,
the gifted and talented lady, in her lee
ture on "Man," has taken sides against
this great reform. "She ran well LOT
season; who hath hindered her that sne
should turn against her best friends Z"
But truth crushed to earth VIII rise
again. She will certainly see heT
error and again embrace the true gospel
of wOman's acknowledgements.
I will try and see il L cannot get lew
subscribers in this vicinity for the NEW
NORTHWEST. Also, in conclusion, l
subscribe myself your true friend ana
well wisher, and hope you Will i've TO
see ''the good time coming" when w0m-
an will have all the rights OF her brother
man and enjoy that happiness which re-
suits from being free. LABAN CASE.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
INpIGNITY UNPARALLELED.

Lucy Stone, President of the Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association, re-
Gently addressed a communication to
the Speaker of the Kentucky House of
Representatives, enclosing a memorial
of the Association, requesting that it
might be presented to that body, at the
same time expressing her belief that
kentucky would treat the subject with
chivalrous courtesy and enlightened lib
erality." To show our readers what sort
of stuff that Kentucky House is made
Of, we append the following official re-
port of that august Kentucky assem-
bly's "chivalrous' acknowledgement of
the receipt Of the memorial:
WoMAS's SUFFRAGE-A COMMUNICATIONS
FROM GEN. Lucy STONE--"The Speaker laid
before the House the following communication
from Mrs. MajOr-Geneml Lucy Stone, the
Head-Centre and High-COckalorum and Jerry
codniter OF the Woman's Suffrage and Free
Love international Association, and the &C. Il.
J. A. o. OF the Strong-minded Sisters"
Men and brethren, We fathers, hus-
bands, brothers and sons of the forty
thousand women who have already sent
up their petitions to the Congress of the
United States, praying that body for a
Declaratory Act, are you not indignant
at the manner in which such petitions
are received by the man-made powers OF
Kentucky? Think you that Legisla-
tive body would dare to thus insult a
petition from an association of negroes,
headed by Fred Douglass or the Hon.
Hiram Revels? Don't you feel ashamed
of yourselves that you do not arise on
nldsse and demand of Congress and your
Legislative bodies everywhere the full,
respectful and dignified recognition OF
the individual rights of your mothers,
wives, sisters and daughters?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29

FROM OREGON.-Our lady friend Mrs.
J. S. Briggs, formerly of Fayette county,
now of Portland, Oregon, has placed US
under renewed obligations, by sending
us a nice package of Oregon papers, the
Oreg0nidn and the New NORTHWEST.
We once supposed that in Iowa We were
somewhere near that much talked of
locality, termed the Northwest, but we
find ourselves grandly mistaken; we are
quite too near sunrise to presume to take
to ourselves that credit. II our readers
could all take the Oregon papers, they
would soon arrive at the conclusion that
in order to be sure of not becoming OBJ
noxious to the anything but euphonious
sobriquet of ''old fogies" they must at
once emigrate to the West. We like the
ring of the Oregon papers, they are
chuck full of business; and why should
it be otherwise, when we remember that
if we ever had any right down GOA
head, git-up-and-git specimen of man
and wOmanhoOd in this country, they
are now at least a portion of them in
Oregon. - Peoples Paper, CleTmOnt,
Fdyette Co., IOlcd
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
LECTURES.

Our lectures upon "Woman and the
Bible and Marriage and Divorce on
Friday and Saturday evenings Of last
week, were very largely attended by in
telligent and deeply interested audiences.
We are just beginning to become ae-
quainted with large numbers of our
Portland friends, hundreds Of whom
have met us recently face to face for
the first time. And this association
with true and honest neighbors nerves
us to go forward in our duties with re-
doubled zeal.
Truth is marching on.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29

inspiration of woman, in reference to
the fulfillment of parentage, before the
first condition of righteousness and har-
mOny can obtain. He has no moral
right to subject her to the burdens Of
maternity when undesired by her. We
believe it to be the duty of man and
woman to consider their position as pos
sible parents before entering upon mar
riage; to be well informed and under
stand their fitness or unfitness for as
suming the office. 1t is by no means
the most desirable of all things that
many children should be born, but that
those which are born should be well ell
dowed. This is a point which many
really good women are seriously cOnsid-
ering, and which many pleasure-seek-
ing, wine and rum-drinking, tObaccon-
lied and debauched men should serious
ly consider.
In the light of our present knowledge,
meagre as it is, no conscientious man or
woman can with impunity invoke the
life of child, regardless of the evils
which may be transmitted. We believe
that children and youth can be so in
structed by judicious, well-informed
motherhood, that they shall look to
marriage as a cOmpanionship and means
OF mutual unfOldment of the parties into
a higher manhood and womanhood, in
stead of respectable outlet for prOpen-
slty and a safe means of indulgence.
We claim that the moral sense needs
higher education in the light of science,
and that the false distinctions between
manly and womanly virtues must be
set aside. Legalized prostitution and
debaucheTy, under the false title and
sanction of marriage, must be Outcast
from the lives Of decent men and wom-
en-, instead of the frail girl who has
yielded to temptation or been ensnared
by want. All persons who love right
eOusness and desire human welfare, must
displace the unhealthy and long-main-
tanned reserve by calm discussion of
these vital though delicate subjects, and
agitate not only, but educate the thought
and moral sense of the rising generation.
Man has never and can never compre-
hend the creative power and the neces-
sary conditions of motherhood. He
must wait at the portal of this "hOlv of
holies," and put his shoes off his feet.
Children are the natural product of con-
Ijugated manhood and wOmanhood.
/ They are curse or blessing to them
selves or their parents, according to the
conditions which have been made for
/ them. 1t is time, in the progress of the
race, that we seek to come into natural
relations. Force and the domination Of
masculinity have brought US to the
present estate. If a woman is unwilling
to accept the Office of maternity, she is
surely unfit to fulfill its important duties.
Let us seek to learn the law of feminin-
| ity-tO elevate wOmanhood above the
sphere of frivolity, and manhood above
that of sensuality. The reform will
necessarily be slow and labOrous, but the
demands of the hour make it imperative.
God has not left woman without a law
of her being, whereby to regulate the
exercise of motherhood. Let man wait
patiently and unselfishly, obedient to
the expression Of this natural indication
of Divine order.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29

inSto5 susan 9sala ~ Anthony, in speech at wash
come An The ie,...ssl .llssl she would GLADLY well
yTiiiing ~ sue py side with them, ii thev yTere
fr.seio7n :, "he S speeches In favor OF universal
= NeN w, a9Tk are estimated at twenty tRoussn I,
l1iI 70 say that Miss Anthonvis charif,. ~ -
sr,,Ii H., .ii.t covers multitude OF sins :, W.
would would ike 10 know whether sister p,,Ii,W VI
ell, q ~ s,ahI upon Miss Anthony's piaf
Considering the fact that masculine
prostitutes in New York city, as else
where, are in comparison to the femi-
nine ones as ten to one, We think ''NIiss
Anthony's charity" granting that she
said such thing, is very much dwarfed
indeed when placed in contrast with
that of her mans rights brethren.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
PROHIBITION CONVENTION.

We call special attention to an article
in this weeks issue, copied from the
Christian Advocate, relative to the Ma
tional Temperance Convention, which
met at Columbus, Ohio, on the 22d inst.
Our politicians, who are so dreadfully
anxious lest a third party be organized
to interfere with their schemes and pee
ulations, may there see the handwriting
on the wall.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29

BOTHERING \ DOCTOR.-A few nights
since, at late hour, the speaking-tube
at the office door of popular physician
was used by some midnight wag to the
following effect The Doctor was in
very sound sleep, when he was partially
awakened by a "hall0Ou through the
tube, when the following dialogue took
place :-"Well, what do you want ?"
"Does DR.. Jones live here ," ayes,
what do you want ?'' "Are you DIR.
Jones ?' AYES" "Dr. Simon Jones >"
ayes, yesi what do you want?n "Why,
how long have vou lived here?,' "Some
twenty years. Why ?r "IVHy? why
don't you more ?i "If you stay there
ten seconds more, you'll find that am
moving ~ He bounced out of bed, but
the patient was heard moving down
the street at a rate that defied pursuit
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-29
WANTS TO BE NOTICED.

The editor of the Olympia Courier
wants sOme6ody-it matters little whom
to notice him. His paper is filled
with pointless and far-fetched attempts
at wittieism, directed at the Oregon and
Washington press, and to ourself in par
tieular. The sample we published a
short time since is an average specimen
of the remarkably brilliantly scintilla-
tions of his literary genius. Won't some
body notice him just a little? 1t would
relieve him so much!