The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-03-28
Questions and Answers.

w Al4DSBORA, ME-, feOruary, 1919.
Editor Of the DeBiocrdt:-Will you
please giveyour opinion upon the follow
ing questions, viz:
lst. Which is the stronger passion
love or hatred?
ID. Who DO you consider the happiest
man and woman?
81. Which has been the most destIUc-
tive-intemperance or war?
4th. Are you in favor of woman suf-
frage? If so, give the reasons.
5th. Are you in favor of an educa-
tional qualification to the right of suf
frage?
9Th. Are you in favor Of capital pun
ishment?
7th. Which do you think the most
worthy of our sympathy-the Indian or
negro?
sth. Are you in favor of compulsory
education?
As l am more interested in your
"SOcial Chats with Friends than any
part of your paper, you will greatly
Oblige me 10y answering these questions.
w. NJ.
REPLY.
1st. Love is the strongest passion, be-
cause il forgives what hate does, even as
God forgives.
I'd. My wife and T.
Sd. Intemperance-ten to one.
4th. Yes Because it is right. Moth
ing prevents their helping make law:
as they help pay taxes, being ou
equals, but narrow-minded prejudice
If good men should hold office, goo,
women should holy elect them, an,
there are thousands of offices womel
should hold, and could fill even bette
thor, do man To rit-o yt-nr,,au tho v-icr ],
of suffrage would not lower men, bu
would raise the status of woman.
would give women something beside
. fashion and idle gossip to think of.
would add to the strength of woman
mind and the greatness of her character
1t would, following her vote on Temper
ance, moral and educational questions
result IN better laws, more even justic
to taxpayers, and a greater good {,
greater numbers. 1t would add to tn
strength of coming generations, as minO
operates on matter, and the more tina
is grand and noble a woman has {,
think of, the greater her responsibility
the better character her offspring will
have. 1t will reduce the number o
prostitutes in the land, for then thous
ands of women will advance n step oil
the road of progression, have avenues o
employment opened to them, and b.
not so much at the mercy of those mel
who are but brutes, and who hold WON
en- rs slaves.
9th. Yes. No person should vote ol
any question to please another person
and should vote understandingly.
9th. No. Imprisonment for life in
prison from which there could be no es
cape save by death, or a life of labor il
a chain gang on the streets of large cit
les, with a metal sign worn on the bacl
stating name and offence would be les
barbarOus and more effectual punish
, ment, rs bad men do not fear death S
much as thousands of Christians do, no
! so much as they fear the eyes of tn
public, or dread the remarks of the Gu
riOus.
l. 9TH. The negro, because he is NOR
humane, and is, after being a friend t
himself, better friend of the whites.
: Sth. Yes, where people will not edU
I cate themselves. The law holds no on
{ guiltless because of ignorance. There
n fore it should to make itself perfect, sc
# that all are educated, and deal in era
n justice.
n The State should be supreme in il
e power, its rewards and its punishment
!. And it should guard the citizen froI
II the vicious, the avaricious, the disease
n in mind and body, and should maB
It every citizen of lawful age responsible
: and equally interested in all that effec
" the public.-BFicE PODlerOU