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TRIBUNE" EDITOR IN TRIBU.
LATI0N.

Oliver mot Jasper Johnson, one of
the editors of the New York Tribune,
having become frightened half out of
mis- wits by the powerful phalanx Of
Woman Suffragists who have arrayed
themselves in opposition TO the venera-
BILE grandmOther-in-chi of the Chappa-
quacks, is out with a long letter in the
columns of our respected contemporary,
the Wom0n's Journal, in which he of
course regrets that the Republican
party has secured such powerful allies
as the Woman Suffragists of America,
and, like all Greeleycrats, labors assidu-
Ously to convince the women that they
have no hope of anything tangible or
reliable in the fourteenth plank Of the
Republican Platform. To his lengthy
and prosy communication concerning
the splinter" the WIomaifs Journal
sparklingly replies:
But plank fourteen is only "a splinter says
! Mr. johnson. a splinter of whats OF respect
! for woman, Is IL not2 Grateful appreciation o
! her services, approval Of her admission "a
I a wider sphere OF activity respectful considera
| tiOn OF her claims for additional rights a cit
] izcn-is all this nothing We grant that II J.
I not everything but IL contains the germ, n,
the acorn holds the promise OF the oak. PLANK
! fourteen is good seed. Thank God for tho
acOrni
It's no use talking, Oliverl The
women know what they're about, and
they'll laugh at your calamity when you
and Tilton start up Salt River. You
forgot your principles to run after Gree
ley and the lOayes and fishes, instead oi
remaining in the Woman Suffrage
ranks, to which you had committed
yourselves, and upon whose alliance We
felt that We had just cause to depend
and when you are compelled to ac.
knowledge the great strength and con
sequence of that splinter" you'll wisl
you had been consistent with your prin'
ciples and stood upon it too.
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Platform of the Woman Suffrage Party of
the Pacific Slope.

WHEREAS. We, the representative women Of
the Pacific Coast, in Convention assembled in
San Francisco this 2lst day Of June, lS72 believ-
ing the time has come to form "a new political
party. do organize under the name of the WOm-
an Suffrage Party of the Pacific Coast, and
declare the following platform of principles;
lSt. All men and women are created Tree and
equal. and are endowed alike with certain in
alienable rights, among which are the rights TO
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
2d. We hold that under the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments TO the Constitution Of
the United States women are already enfran-
chiscd and entitled TO the right TO vote, and are
debarTed fthe privilege only through preJu Juolce
and misnterpretation of the law
RI Pending a decision of the supreme Court
as to the fuII import of these Amendments, and
in view of the pOsSibilityoI an adverse declslon
I we will labor with our utmost le'tl anu energy
I for an additional amendment 70 the Constitu-
fion To- secure these rights W. VIII also work
with determination for the revision ana Inoul-
ficatiOn OF the Constitution ana laws OF our
respective States go, ,,, ~, a ,-,,,,.,,
4th. All persons alike, bojh men 4lI women women
are entitled to equal rights before the law
5th All persons and pari VIZ VIZ t.it -
DrincfD1es shall be treated as our p0llJieal enc
mics nom whom we will withhold our minus
ence In nolifics and our patronage IN business
9Th We will work for the electIOu Ol any
worthy candidate OF whatever party VINO VIII
work will ms and we will vigorously oppose
anv candidate OF any party VINO Is opposed 10
III. As a political party we unite upon I.nlIs inns
common platform, regardless OF hluohhityI
sex, religion or condltloh'
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FINANCIAL NOTICE.


Notice is hereby given that after Sep
tember 10th we shall stop every news
paper going as complimentary or
dead-head concern from this office and
present bill for arrearages. We shall
also present every delinquents bill for
the past year and demand advance pay
ment on the present one. This step is
absolutely necessary to save us from f.
nancial ruin.
To our staunch and trusty friends who
have aided us financially as well as
with good words and wishes, we express
our profound gratitude for services rem
dered. To those who have aided us
with good words and wishes only, we
earnestly and emphatically declare that
We cannot pay printers bills, paper
maker and pressman, or house rent and
city taxes, with blmcomJc. Our ex-
tended and expensive trip in the East,
in the interest Of Oregon and our con-
stituents, has depleted our treasury and
run us in debt. Now let our friends
prove themselves such in reality. We
are not working merely for newspaper
glory. And even if we were, we'd like
to know how we'd succeed without the
needfA
This is no idle talk, and we call upon
our friends to contribute such sums as
they are willing TO give and able to
spare towards liquidating the one thous-
and dollar Indebtedness unavoidably in
CURED in publishing the NEW NORTH
WEST during our four months absence
in the East. We are, Of course, anxious
10 sustain the paper. 1t has cost US
many years of hard labor and nervous
anxiety, and now that it has proved an
unprecedented popular success, if the
people do not sustain it, we shall let it
slide. Other and lucrative avocations
are open to US, and while we shall leave
no effort untried to keep our "Journal
for the People" ever before them, we
shall not wrong our children nor bank
rupt ourself to accomplish the aim near
est our heart.
We are free TO confess that we don't
understand begging. We consider it no
personal charity to us for the people to
meet the expenses of the journal to
which we devote our time and energies,
and if they do not want it sustained,
neither shall ,rc. a word to the wise is
sufficient. Now let Us see who our
friends really are.
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ooGITATIONs AND CONCLUSIONS

Well, we are home again, thank
Heavenl And if anybody wants to en-
dure the wear and tear, pleasure and fa-
tigue, fun and anxiety inseparable from
such a suddenly projected, hastily COM
pleted and expensively extensive jour
ney as ours has been, they may have
our credentials for the next Convention.
We find piles of newspapers securely
laid away in our desk containing ''per-
sonals," from which we have not as vet
had time to collect the most important,
or indeed any to which to reply particu-
larly Suffice it to say that if we are to
believe what the press say of us we are
philanthropic and mereenary, consist
ent and inconsistent, intelligent and
half-witted, honorable and dishonOra-
BILE, eloquent and uninteresting, poetic
and prosaie, logical and illogical, sane
and insane, amiable and malignant,
handsome and homely, vivacious and
dull, sprightly and stupid, young and
old, and, and, and-we're out of breath.
Such q versatility of eonglomerated
characteristics certainly don't often ex-
ist In one individual. George Francis
Train must look to his laurels.
Seriously, we are surprised to find so
little of acrimony and bitterness and so
much of courtesy and cIemency in the
personals which were published by an
tagonistic contempories when we were
so far away that we could have no op-
portunity to administer gentle and
sometimes merited correction. And for
those many unsought journalistic cour-
tesies, of which we are constantly re-
ceiving augmented numbers from news
papers at home and abroad, we can only
say that we appreciate them and are
grateful.
Ia declaring our course in the present
PoiiIieal campaign, we expected Of
Sourse 10 call upon our head the male
1lo.lohs and Misrepresentation of
nieioehary I, political demapogues. In
'He present one-sexed and ono-sidod
slAOe oi our governmental ideo os -.
stood by the mind mascuIino 81 -.
tieed altogether in the interest of a.
dominant sex, the political ,,pool,, = w -
"hlthy" that 1t is impossible To rel, =.
once the acme Of our womanly asnira as, i .
tions, either as to the mode of condnnt
ing a campaign or to the men WI 80
nominated TO represent us, and we a.
compelled TO accept, not what we want
but the nearest approach to our ultimat,
object which the men in power deign I,
bestow upon us. This being the case
and il being our motto TO support, no
men. but measures, we cheerfully cas-
the fullest power Of voice and pen tina
we possess in the political scale il
which the Republican platform ha
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President, since he became such, is rep
rehensible, but we should have pre-
ferred man who had never been a mil
itary man or a Democrat as our Presi-
dental figurehead in times of peace and
in Republican Administration.
Our sisterly brother, or brotherly sis
ter-we hardly know which is the bet
ter term-will please remember that in
our teachings we have ever recognized
the right of all women as well as all
men to arise from the lowest pit of per-
sonal degradation and have the same
opportunity to become Presidents of the
United States of America that their re-
claimed, reformed and transformed
brethren possess.
Our showing up of the early life of the
"Silent Man Of Destiny"-even the cap
ton TO that article was prophetie-had
the effect which we as a political physi-
clan expected when we gave the dose
it made our Republican mans rights
patients sick of calling women pOliti-
clans in whom they could find no guile
''free lovers and sympathizers with
loose ideas on the social question" Des-
perate diseases require desperate rene
dies.
As there is more joy in heaven over
one sinner that repenteth than over the
ninety and nine just persons that go not
astray, so there is more sorrow on earth
over one good man that forsakes the
principles of life time for personal
Presidential aggrandizement than oveI
ninety and nine bad men of whom
nothing better could have been ex.
pected.
For the further enlightenment of oul
brotherly sister, or sisterly brother, we
will explain that the reason why, "wheu
the fight is between Grant and Greeley
we take our present course" is because
we are not working for party measures
Grant and Wilson and the Republican
Platform are pledged to carry forward
that work. Greeley and Brown, and
the horde of sore-headed, rapamt office
seekers, desperadoes and rebels at theil
back, are pledged against Woman Suf
frage, and Greeley said to MS ''that, to bt
consistent with his principles, he should
be compelled to veto a Declaratory Act
if Congress should pass it,"
In conclusion, we respectfully invit,
further communications from this Poll
county correspondent, and will cheer
fully lend our columns for his use or hei
pleasure.
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SORROWFUL.

\ sad tale Of shame is related in the
daily papers concerning a young girl
who has been led from the path of recti-
tude by the tinsel and glitter of the re-
wards of prostitution.
Just so long as sex is considered the
only legitimately marketable product of
a woman's being, and just so long as
traffic in her person pays better than
anything honorable in which she may
engage, just so long will weak and silly
girls be in danger of being decoyed into
the haunts where the protecting(?) sex
will lavish money upon them as a re-
ward for their degradation.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.


IA large number of letters, received
during our absence, are now lying upon
the table awaiting examination. We
promise our friends all and separately
to attend to their commun ications as
soon as possible. We notice few OF
them in this weeks issue and will attend
to others in their turn.1
Mrs. NJ. j., Salem: Do not know;
cannot tell until we see you. If you re-
tained cash commission you were not
OF course, entitled to premiums.
Mrs. NJ. ]. H., Canyonville: Your pa
per has been forwarded regularly from
this Office.
Mrs. r. 5. NJ, Salt Lake City: Many
thanks for your excellent communiea-
tion, and for subscription, which does
not, we assure you, come amiss.
An an. c." whom we have loved to
consider an excellent friend of Woman
Suffrage, writes to us, bitterly deploring
our antagonism to Mr.. Greeley. He
says: 'If you were to live little nearer
and see how he is OH all grand questions
you would call him a saint He said to
me that when the majority of women
asked for suffrage he would be in favor
Of their having it. He will not veto
any measures that Congress will pass
and / think we ought to use our infu-
ence for him. Cannot you be recon
ciled?" To all of which we answer re-
spectfully that we sounded Mr.. Greeley
thoroughly upon the great issue o
woman's enfranchisement, and founC
him low, coarse, unscrupulous and big
oted. He positively said to us that, tC
be consistent with his principles, h,
would be compelled to veto suffrag,
bill if Congress should pass it. TheI
his silly twaddle about granting suf
frage to women when the majority O
women ask for it'' is n puerile exhibition
Of shallow pomposity of which all tru
manhood should be profoundly ashamed
Where did he get the right of suffrage
pray? And by whom was it confided L
Nto Inc vel Nlla
he has any right TO prescribe the inal
ienable prerogatives of men or womel
is as absurd rs his unseemly aspiration
for Presidential honors. The dotar
cannot conceive the idea of liberty yet
Your paper is sent as directed.
II. c. NJ, Salt Lake: Your name wa
omitted by mistake in transferring tn
list to our mail books. Sorry, but it
now attended to.
Sheba: Your communication await
its turn.
Mrs. f. NJ, Sacramento: Your dc
scription was beautiful. The idea wa
so grand we'd like to share it wit
somebody around us, but the time is nc
yet.
f I. 5, Clackany, Oregon: Our MALE
sent the money for the magazine an
picture as directed, and if you have nc
received them, write to them and the
will correct the mistake.
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been cast by the wisest and best men
who are fioundering in the "fIthy
pool" and as we watch with deep and
abiding interest the gradually ascending
balance in which Greeley and his one
sexed and confused-idead cohorts are
going upward to kick the Presidential
beam, we look with mingled hope and
admiration upon the impetus the woman
movement is gathering here and in the
East from the declaration Of a great,
successful and dominant National par
ty, that our ''honest demands for addi-
tional rights shall be treated with re-
spectful consideration
The enthusiasm of women is one of the
most necessary auxiliaries in the sue
cess of any public campaign; and the
women of the East and West, North
and South, having girded on their ar
NOR and gone to work with zeal and
earnestness to insure the success of the
Republican Platform, will bring to that
party a success in November that will
show old Grandmother Greeley that
women are of more consequence than
he imagines them TO be. We remem-
Der, during the Taylor and Van Buren
campaign, while we were yet a little
girl, that one Of the campaign songs
which did more perhaps than any other
single agent to stir up public sentiment
contained this stanza:
s.rhe ladies all are on our side,
And urge rs 10 our duty:
And where's the cause that ever failed
When backed by truth and beauty 90
Now, women of Oregon, let us take
the current when it serves our turn.
Let us not heed the declarations of Re
publicrats and Demicans who support
Grandmother Greeley and man-made
government when they tell us that, as
Woman Suffragists, they are not salts
fed with the plank the Republicans
have given to women. Let us tell them
neither are we satisfied, but we can cas-
lily see that one step in the right diree-
ton is worth a great deal more to us
than n contemptuous thrust in the OPP
pOslte pathway; ana let US call upon
professed Woman Sufragists 10 prove
their fealty to our cause by helping us
to defeat the dotard who declares that
''to be consistent with his principles he
would be compelled to veto a Woman
Suffrage Act if Congress should pass ii
during his Administration" Aman with
Greeley's Obstinacy-a contradictory
characteristic of all tickle men-who
can see nothing but sex as a necessary
qualification of an American citizen, is
unworthy the support of any man OF
woman who has intellect enough to sec
that the animal function has nothing tC
do with the inalienable prerogatiyes o.
intellect
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LITERARY NOTICES.

The Winning Way is the winning
title of neat and dainty little paper
just started in Sacramento, Cal, in the
interest Of equal rights and social re-
form. The number before us contains an
excellent treatise on Capital Punish
ment, a salutatory which gives evidence
of much editorial ability, locals, gener-
alities, etc, etc, all gotten up in exquis-
ite taste. Mrs. II. II. Clark & Co.,
editors and proprietors. Terms, S2,00peT
year in advance.
The VomGn's Exponent, published at
Salt Lake City, is a readable, racy and
vigorous journal, which we welcome to
our exchange list with pleasure. Thus
everywhere women's exponents are
winning the way.
The Balance is the weighty title of q
magnificent eight page newspaper
edited and published by four women in
Chicago. Well may our brethren trem-
ble in their bootsl Women in editorial
chairs and on the rostrum, where they
prove themselves able to attract and ell
chain the multitudes by wit, logic and
elOquence, are sure in time to reach pub
lie offices of emolument and trust. They
do not want to eclipse their brethren,
but they do intend to walk beside them
in the journey of life. Every new ex-
change which comes to US as the work OF
women is a harbinger of woman's near
millennium, and the well balanced
Balance, "impelled by zeal and re-
strained by principle" is destined to ac-
complish noble work. Success to it.
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The Mormons tell good story of
Brigham Young. Among the applicants
for the special privilege of taking a sec
ond wife, there came one day brother
of very doubtful character, when some
thing like the following dialogue ensued:
$50 you want another wife, DO you ?'
ayes, if you please, Brother Brigham"
"Well, the short of the matter Is, that
YOU can't have one"
TWhy can't have one as well as the
other Saints ?n
$50 YOU want to know the whole story,
do you ?''
ayes, I should like to know why !
can't have more than one wife, rs well
as the rest of 'em ?''
"Well, you shall know then, IN snort
order. iCaat your race to die o'tt!'
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can women was wrong in theory and
practice, and my friends at home have
often heard me express these views.
Four-fifths of our women are not taught
anything but to look pretty and make
themselves attractive to those of the
other sex, as silly and brainless as them
selves. So when forced as / was to do
something for self-support, there is no
avenue open to them, because unquali-
fed, and they are forced into loveless
marriage, or slavish drudgery if they
are married, for the sake of their daily
bread. When will mothers teach their
daughters that such unions are nothing
better than legdlized prostitution?
How much more sensible would it be
to teach them some trade, or let them be
educated to some profession, that they
may be in every sense true women.
There is nothing more lovely in this
world than a ICODl0nly sCODadH, unless it
be manly man; but doll or a dandy,
oh, deliver me from coming in contact
With Well, 1 did not start in to moral
ize on the degeneracy of the age, so will
leave the subject.
To-day was election day for Delegate
to Congress, and in company with Mrs
Woods, and another lady, cast my frs
Uote. We went to the polls at the Court
House and deposited our ballot, and
quietly went our way, they to theil
home and to my business-and have
not heard that dear little Johnnie suf.
fered for his mothers care, or that my
large family of boardars were not as wei
supplied as usual, because of this act
The whole time consumed did not exceed
half an hour, including the time spen
in going to and from the polls; neithe
do | feel have become less womanly o.
less fitted for any position of wife an,
mother But / do feel am in reality
citizen Of this great Republic, which
never felt before.
When you spoke in your lecture at tn,
Liberal Institute, in this city, o
mothers bringing up their sons unit
they were on the verge of manhood
surrounded with the influences of home
and then saw them pass out into tn
world away from home ties, and coul,
only follow them with tears and prayers
| my heart went out towards you, and
blessed you for the work you were do
ing. have felt in my heart the agon
of seeing my own flesh and blood 90 ou
into scenes where ] could not follow
amid temptations whose influence 1 wa
powerless to counteract. Only such ex
periences can make one realize all yo
said.
/ am glad you are engaged in you
= work and that you are so successful in il
and sincerely hope your future may b
as the past, "only more abundant"
If you would like once in while (
hear from Utah through me, it will b
r my pleasure to crafty you.
I With kindest considerations of respeC
{ am Yours sincerely,
: r. :. MAY.
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LETTER FROM SALT LAKE.

SALT LAKE CITY, August 5, 1872.
EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
A friend sent me copy of the New
NORTHWEST which contained your very
flattering mention of me. | thank you
for the generosity which prompted it,
yet 1 do not feel it deserved. We are
forced by circumstances sometimes into
positions which TO the inexperienced
make one appear to possess more than
ordinary qualities, which after all is only
the experience of the boy and the wood
chuck, "bound to have it, for the family
are out of meat" was forcibly struck
by a little incident, which illustrates the
point. A German had lost his wife. A
friend asked if the dear departed was
resigned to die. "Resignedw exclaimed
he. ''AIine Got, she had to be-" And
this is the sequel of half the Christian
resignation, so-cdlied, in the world. So
was placed in circumstances when /
was obliged to exert whatever of ability
the dear God had given me to support
myself and children; and though many
times weak and weary, and with heavy
heart, did what could to present a
bold front to the wolf and keep him
from my door. You know something OF
my success, but very little of my strug-
giles. But of one thing l am more than
ever strongly convinced, and that is,
women should be educated to be less
dependent and more self-reliant. have
never been what one would call a
"strong- g-minded woman" in the modern
acceptation of the term, yet have long
felt the system of education for Ameri-
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REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING.

4 large and enthusiastic Republican
meeting was held in this city on Satur-
day evening of last week. Over five
hundred names were enrolled as the be-
ginning Of a Grant and Wilson Club,
and Hon. J. H. Mitchell delivered one
Of the finest orations we ever had the
pleasure of hearing. Other prominent
gentlemen also addressed the meeting,
which adjourned at late hour amid
much harmony and good feeling.
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JASPER JOHNSON.

Once in a while the weakest and most
vapid of our interior exchanges of mans
rights and epublicrati-Demican pro-
clivities gets off something sharp. Hear
this from the Roseburg PldiRdeaIer:
Another instance Of the superiority OF Oregon
intellects over the average American Is IaSner
w. Johnson. Like General Hooker Attorney
General Williams, and others we could mem
ton, he was not much in Oregon; but like them
he looms large now by contrast with the feeble
minds Of the Atlantic side.
As an example of sarcasm en- terrible
we never saw the above surpassed. Poor
Jasper! But Oregon's ahead every time.
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A QUESTION.

The Yreka Journal is asked 1chy, when
men are, as we say emphatically, "good
at heart,n they do not "remedy existing
evils by requiring strict discipline
without the necessity of women in the
jury room or at the polls ?p The reason
is plain to us why they do not do so
Cannot our brother give his reason why.