The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-10-25
"woMBE HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN
MEN"

her way to the Capital on important
Legislative business, she entered the
railroad office in Portland and rendered
currency at current rates in payment
for a ticket.
''Can't take currency at any price"
said the agent.
"Then you must wait for the change
till 1 come back from Salem. Haven't
time now to go up town for coin."
With this we pocketed the ticket and
left the Office. The agent followed, and
seizing us roughly by the arm, as
though he were an officer arresting a
thief, yelled, "GiUe me back that ticket"'
Had we believed in the physical argu-
ment, We should have felled the fellow
TO the earth-We could have done it cas-
lily, for the vile outrage nerved us with
superhuman strength for the moment
but as we have no ambition for the
glory of street fights ..,,a Si,a knock down
arguments tHterally considered), we
borrowed coin from distinguished
gentleman, who fortunately appeared at
the instant, paid the puppy and pro-
ceeded on our way.
Around us stood, their numbers mo-
mentarily augmenting, dozens Of tall
hated, sleek-coated, cane-bearing edi-
tors, lawyers, politicians and Legislators,
all with passes in their pockets, enjoy
ing the immunities of masculine citi-
zenship-men who, because of their po-
sition before the public, (which not one
of them will claim to be intrinsically
superior to our own, always travel as
dead-heads, and who are of course ex-
cluded from all danger of insult from
the ignorant thralls of Cedric Of the
Railroad" These gentlemen were,
many of them, astonished to learn that
we did not possess equal travelling favors
with themselves, and all looked morti-
fled and ashamed Of the fact.
All, gentlemen, the next time you un-
dertake to tell the women that their
liberties are greater than your own, we
ask YOU to think of that mornings adj
venture that you witnessed, and which
every man Of you condemned. How
would you like to exchange places with
us, Ell?
Being desirous Of doing Mr.. Holiday
the justice of entering formal complaint
against the insult and outrage commit
ted by his thrall, we wrote terse, forci-
bic and truthful account of the matter
TO his personal organ, the Oregon Bullo-
tin.
Now, the editorial destinies of that
paper are presided over by one James
O'Meara, who is afraid to run the risk
Of an expose of his secession record dur
ing the war by opposing us openly, and
so seeks by every sort of secret artifice
to make us feel his petty prosecutions.
Consequently, without consulting his
lord and master, the proprietor of the
organ, this hireling refused to publish
our letter, and when the Oregollion
published it, he called that journal ''the
public sewer"
Now, Jimmy, it is seven years or so
since we unsheathed our pen and spilled
ink for you in downright earnest. We
were compelled to ask pardon of the
public for noticing you then, and we
hope the same appreciatiYe public will
forgive us now. We don't wish TO be
severe upon n man who licks the feet of
his master to earn his bread, especially
when it is the only work he ever did or
is capable of learning how to do, but
We'll venture the assertion that your
master does not know that you refuse to
exchange his daily Bulletin with US,
while not another daily paper of the
State does likewise. Well venture the
assertion that you'll never tell him that
the real reason Of your present secret
hostility to us lies in the remembrance
of the fact that we taught our school
children such songs as ''The Battle Cry
of Freedom during the war, and that
upon one occasion, when you were pres
ent by special invitation at a public
exhibition, you heard some Union
songs that so grated upon your Demo
cratic nerves that you went back to the
States Rights Democrat Office and
howled forth horrible denunciation OF
us and our ''insult to Democrats" as
you were pleased to style it, because,
with their consent and appreciation, we
taught their children to Orally Round
the Flag" But your day was hence
forth short among the Democrats. In
your desire to serve them in your syco-
phantic way, you overdid the matter
and they, disgusted with your supercil-
ious officiousness, turned you out of EN-,
ployment. You fioundered from place
to place until your present master
found you, and now, for a prOtracteC
season, he has used you to further hi
individual interests. We don't blam'
him; he has perfect right to buy ser
wants, and you being for sale, are no
much to blame for placing your moutl
in the dust before him. But let us tel
you kindly, obsequious sir, that you arr
making the same blunder in serving
Holiday that you made in serving the
Democrats. You overdo the matter
and before you know it some man Of
woman with sufficient discretion to dc
your master Justice, and sufficient self
respect TO command the esteem of the
Republicans, will get your place ant
your salary.
The gentlemen Of the Eorso u.,,,
NrA ~.