The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-08
LAURA DEFoRcE GoRDo,
LETTER FROM OLYMPIA.

EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
The seIf-invited, self-styled anti-suf-
frage champion, Hon. VIM. Hunting
ton, of Cowlitz county, ex-COuncilman,
has had his say on "the subject" His
first appointment was postponed on ae-
count of war of elements, but on the
evening of the 10th he 'came to time"
An audience of some fifty persons con-
vened to listen TO his diatribe.
He commenced by saying he did not
think he was well used by the Woman's
Suffrage Convention held here last fall,
and was especially ill-used by Miss An
thony, who, he claimed, "bullied," and
"bantered," and "tantalized" the
preachers and the members of the Leg
islature" to say something, 'if they
kne1O anything to say" until himself
and Judge Lassater accepted the situa-
tion; and he thinks they should have
been allowed "a reasonable amount of
time,n but he says they were "choked
Off just as they began to be effective.
CThe two occupied one hour and quar-
ter, while all other speakers were limit
ed to ten Blilutesl
He also said that he had mother
when he was young-isn't that aston
ishing?-and that he respected her
memory-that is one good trait in him
at least. He says he is entirely willing
to be convinced, but that it cannot be
done.
He took his stand on the Bible and
quoted Paul, ''wives, submit yourselves"
etc, and said there was no use multiply
ing passages, for when God speaks 1t is
true, and speaking many times makes it
no more true. You see he gets an occa-
sional CLEAN of light Through his
WOOL" He quoted, 'let the women
learn in silence with all subjection but
suffer not woman to teach, nor usurp
authority over the man, but to be i'm 81
lence." This, he said, settled the ques-
ton, as sin the mouth of two or three
, witnesses every word shall be estab-
lished." If we will just stop at that
quotation of Paul to Timothy, together
with what Paul says to the Corinthians,
we must admit that Mr.. II. was right in
his conclusions, but if we quote the
same Paul on him, on the other side of
the question, then what? Will Mr..
Huntington, or any other anti-suffra-
gist, who rely on these quotations for
conclusive proof, please to tell us what
Paul means in his epistle to the Romans
where he says, 'T commend unto YOU
Phoebe our sister, which is a servant of
the church which is at Cenchrea. -
Rom. 1911. Also, ''Greet Priscilla and
Aquilla, my helpers in Christ From.
1853. Also, how do they tolerate the
doctrine of Priscilla and Aquilla's ex-
pounding more fully unto Apollos the
/ word of God ?-Acts 1926 Again, what
say they to this, "And Deborah, a
prophecies, the wife of Sapidoth, she
: judged Israel at that time, and the chill
dren of Israel came unto her for judg-
nt."-Judges "A and 5; also 5:7. /
suggest these quotations without COM
ment, because Mr.. II. peremptorily as
: serted that Gin the mouth of two OF
! three witnesses every word shall be es-
tablished."
! He dwelt at length on the doctrine
that man must rule his o,cn house;
said it was just as much a command of
God "that man should T1tIe Orey his
tOVen as it was that he "should eat
bread by the sweat of his brow,n and
when he sees the earth produce a susie
nance for man, without his laboring for
it, he will begin to tolerate the plea for
I the abrogation of the injunction for a
man to rule his wife; but he says while
, the command stands as it now does, "a
, man must rule, brains or no brains:n
and in that connection he queried how
we were to know who possessed the
brains, for, said he, ''as a general rule
the more brains person thinks they
have, the fe,Cer they generally posses" I"
In that idea l agree with him, and am
of the opinion that is why his lecture
was so stale and uninteresting TO the au-
dience, while he himself felt such live
ly interest in it.
He read from the Woodruff and made
q weak effort TO prove her the "head of
the movement" He acknowledged that
the suffragists everywhere disclaim her,
but he says they cannot do it, for he
cannot get along with his argument
against "the doctrine" without Wood
hull or some of her kind. He reiterated
the "horrors and evils to arise to the
family circle, marriage relation" etc.
He also described a ''hen-pecked hus-
band" and likensd him unto a Demo-
cratic rooster turned back down after a
Wing victory; but he failed to say any
thing about a ''rooster-peeked woman,u
who might have been likened to a de-
moralized Whig coon after Democratic
victory.
He had a good deal to say about the
Scripture INDUCTION TO "get married,
rear children" etc. think before urg-
ing that matter too tenaciously, some of
its advocates would do we'll to look care
| fully at the moral and mental calibre of
the children whom themselves 'shave
reared" and candidly consider whether
it were not better that they had never
been born.
Weak and pointless as was the lee
ture, yet all such have a good effect, as
| il tends to agitate and to compare the |
different ideas on the question.
CE EMPE.