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TIE CENTENNIAL.

Hon. A. J. Dufur, Centennial Com
missioner for Oregon, is out in a letter
to the Bulletin In which he urges upon
the people the Importance Of taking ac-
tive measures to do their part in con-
tributing to the success of the National
jubilee. We especially urge upon the
ladies the necessity that our part OF the
exhibition be made equal to that of CAL
ifornia. We have every facility under
the sun for preparing everything that is
needed to make up a first-class exhibit
ton. We suggest to some Of our wax
fruit and flower fanclers the preparation
Of complete variety Of fae-similes Of
Oregon fruits, flowers, vegetables and
plants. Then we have the finest ferns,
MOSES, forest-leaves, grasses, ETC., etc,
to be found anywhere. Let these be
gathered and prepared in every con-
ceivable variety. Receipts for skeleton
izlng, crystalizing, or otherwise pre-
pairing leaves and flowers for preserva-
ton will be gratefully accepted for pub
lication.
We will take personal charge Of all
specimens of art or utility that may be
forwarded 10 US for exhibition, and will
hold the same, subject to the owners
orders, without additional expense tc
them. So let our ladies be up and NOV
ing in this matter.
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METAPHYSICS.

Dear Mrs. DlmitCdy:-I endorse the
entire doctrine OF Human rights as set
forth by Edward Eldridge before the
Washington Territorial Legislature.
ave hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men are created free and equal"
A self-evident truth does not require a
proof. Aristotle says that "he who
would attempt to prove a first truth has
neither reason nor reasoning, for proofs
would extend to an unlimited extent"
1t being seL-crident truth that "all
men are created free and equal" it fol-
lows that as woman is included as part
Of all men. g., a part Of mankind
that she has the right Of suffrage. Rhet-
orically thus:
All men are equal and have the right
of suffrage. Women are part of all
men. Therefore lCOmen have the right
of suffrage Or, Metaphysically thus:
A self-evident truth, that is evidentally
universal, is evidently true. Evident
truth is convertible with the negation
of plurality and difference. The truth
and the knowledge Of the truth are
therefore identical. But knowledge
supposes n plurality Of terms-the plu-
rality OF subject and object. knowledge
whose essence is plurality cannot be
identical with truth whose essence is
unity. A truth E1lorn is different from
a truth eristiHg. Two truths, the one
true and the other false, cannot exist as
unit. a plurality of self-evident truths
is incompatible with the nature Of the
Declaration of Independence. 1t being
self-evident truth that imam is created
free and equal" the evidence Of the
truth is the inalienable right Of suf-
frage to all Of every grade, ser and color
And the best evidence we have Of a self.
evident truth, or first truth, is the ef-
feet originating from the first cause.
JOHN A. WOHACK.
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PAUPERISM.

We are rejoiced TO note the goOd-Sa-
maritan work Of number Of prominent
ladies wives OF wealthy mem, who are
doing as much as they can to relieve the
poor, and thus patch up the mistaken
system of finance which so often makes
beggars of the unfortunate. An ex-
tended account Of the labors and success
Of these ladies is published elsewhere,
for which we are indebted to our not al
ways honorable neighbor, the Daily
OregOnidn.
In Gerald Massey's recent lecture on
the "Devil," he is reported to have said:
christians get rich by grinding each
other down, and then hope to be saved
by a sacrifice made eighteen hundred
years ago. You build comfortable houses
for broken-down paupers to die in while
breeding this disease which you treat so
generously. Surely no human being has
been so much misrepresented as the man
Jesus Christ. He came not to preach a
sermon, not to write novel, but TO live
II life-s life that is an example TO us.
IL was a full-length, straightforward
laying down his life for others. Instead
OF following that example, we have SC
tually rested all our hopes of salvation
on that death. We have erected churches
splendid tombs In which we have bur.
ried him. We have arrested the needed
work Of this world In order TO agree
on the easiest way to the next. We
have erected beautiful statues to hi.
memory for the people to look upwarL
to, while we have been filching the very
soil from under the feet OF the multi
tude. We have never yet begun at the
right beginning. The reason, then, tha
| God does not kill the Devil Is becaus,
man has unconsclously created all tha
Is the Devil, the demon greed and op
preston, and this, fostered by human
laws and usages, is perpetually destroy
ing His own good work"
or course We shall have need Of'Home
for the Homeless, OF Relief Societies ant
Alms-houses, and public and privat
charities Of every description so lon
as humanity bases its finance upol
the present absorbing, aggregatinl
Z aud aggressive system In which W
practically say, Every fellow 70
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WOE! woEl

The following delectable bit OF COM
pounded rhetorical elegance Is clipped
from the Evening Netps of this city, an
inflnitessimal thumb paper whose
editor is indelibly impressed with the
sextual hsllucinatlon peculiar to Its
class:
shriekIng sister is exercised because the
salem Mercury" wouldn't publish the pro-
eeedinss OF q Suffrage Conven ntion, and did pub
liEb, In half dozen lines. an announcement OF
the great $4,000 race In California The latter
was al Item OF news, precisely as the anounce-
ment OF a suicide or shipwreck would be; while
there 10 nothing new In the gabble or one OF
these Conventions OF shrieking sisters. Every
body knows that these diseontented females
want 10 be males, but they can't, 30 what is the
uEe OF boring she world with their "taklngs
on p"
or course ''horse race" a "ship-
wreck" or "suiclde" is something
''new" under the sun, but "Woma n
Suffrage Convention" bah! "every-
body knows they were matters of every
day occurrence long before these were
thought Of!
The unfledged gosllng Of the Ne1cS has
the "males rights" malady bad, and
supposes females are "discontentedr
because they can't catch 1t. Well, we'll;
let 1t rave. This type Of lunacy never
hurts anybody but the victim. Its
worst symptom is the delusory ode that
everybody except itself is afflicted with
Its dlstemper, so deal gently with it, ye
moral physicians. 1t has chronic at
tack Of the siniples. If it were not af-
fiicted with softening of the brain we
should try to teach 1t that there is no
''use boring the worl d so often" with
what says''everybody knows" butalas
alas! the little wit 1t ever had has gone
a-daft for good aud all.
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LETTER FROM TILLAMOOK.

Dear Mrs. DtmiIc0y:-Seeing an oc-
casional word OF cheer that goes from
here to the NEW NORTHWEST, take
this opportunity to clear my conscience,
by adding my testimony to the truth OF
the position taken by you and the adj
vocates of Woman Suffrage generally for
the purpose of emanclpating woman
from her present degraded situation. II
fools cannot nor knaves will not see that
all their prating about bestowing upon
women the right to vote is not positive
proof that by their masculine physical
power they have always deprived her OF
a right that nature gave her Ia power
which brutes only maintain) let them
prate; let their hearts be dsrkened that
they may bow down their backs always.
AS TO their criticisms upon yourself,
cater neither to this nor that. Not that
| have any fears that you will, but to
encourage you to be yourself as you have
always been. Go on as you are going
and future generations will rise up and
call you blessed. You have more friends
than you might suppose, even in Tilla-
nook.
II you see proper when my present
subscription expires set me down for
another year. + will hand over the
three dollars as soon as can.
HIRAM SMITH,
[Of Tillamook.l
] Noysnber q. 1872.
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Our City Charities.

For usefulness in ministering faith
fully and impartially to the wants Of
those who are unfortunate, and in ac-
complishing the greatest measure of
good-spiritual and temporal-the La
dies Relief Society of Portland stands
pre-eminent. This noble institution has
been organized some years, and its per-
manency and sphere of usefulness has
become a recognized fact. Its members
are composed of many of our wealthiest,
most aristocratic, but truly benevolent
and nOble-hearted ladies. Difficulties
of most embarrassing nature beset the
organization and earlier work of the La
dies Relief Society, and it required long,
faithful and tiTeless labor before its eX-
istence was assured and mission OF char
ity established beyond a peradventure.
In this work of benevolenee the ladies
were assiduous. Although many OBJ
stacles lay in the way Of establishing an
institution whose special and sole prov
ince was to relieve destitute and unfor-
tunate women, and homeless, friendless
orphans, yet these exemplary women,
out of the depths of hearts overflowing
with the kindest impulses OF humanity,
battled against impediments and strug-
gled over all opposition, until their ef-
forts have been crowned with signal sue
cess. Through persistent, constant, ef-
fort, means were raised by festivals, con-
certs, entertainments and voluntary
contributions, until sufficient were
raised to begin the erection of build
ing or "Home," which would answer
for years to come the demands OF char
ity. AS the name implies, it was to be
a home to those who were homeless,
sick, destitute and friendless. In these
noble and praiseworthy efforts, the ladies
were greatly assisted by numerous Of our
benevolent citizens, and the pastors of
the several denominations in the CITY.
Justice and truth require the statement
that on all proper occasions the minis
tiers OF Portland have never allowed an
opportunity to pass by unimproved to
press the claims OF this institution from
the pulpit, or 10 labor earnestly In its
behalf among their congregations. To
their cooperation much of the success
OF the home is mainly attributable.
THE "HOME."
More than one year ago the "Home"
was completed and ready for inmates:
The building is erected on fractional
portion of block at the corner OF Four
teenth and F streets. il is large, com,
Portable structure, two stories hign, ana
contains eleven rooms. The rooms are
all large and commodiousi with an
abundance of light and air, well iur,
nished with neat, plain, but substantial
furniture. The ceilings are nlgn anu an,
airy and we'll adapted toinvallds OF slck
inmates. Everything ls kept mVse
serupulously neat, wnlen eon'rLouseo L
HI air ~ the institution. The Home
/ Il under the immed ate supervision OF a
Natron. Mrs. Law, most intelligent
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MOTHER AND SONS.

A number of years ago n drunken
husband and father in this city aban-
doned his wife and two little boys and
taking up his abode among lewd men
and women, left his unprotected family
to their fate. The mother, a conscien-
tious, energetic business woman, learned
dressmaking and set TO work I'm earnest
to support herself and children. Last
summer she was one ef the sufferers by
the fire. Her little boys had grown
large enough to drive dump carts
around the city, and with their mothers
permission and encouragement applied
their joint earnings to fitting up little
confectionery business in the same store
with her on Oak street, between First
and Second. The children have added
to their stock as business increased
until they now have an attractive little
store. The mother, despite the diff
culties that beset any woman in her po-
sition, has given the children thus far
good educational advantages and taught
them TO be steady and industrious, al
though the father has proved the very
opposite of all this. Now, which, by
right, is sntitled to n voice in making
the laws; the woman who does her duty
or the man who shirks it?
Men and brothers, when you contem-
plate such an every day occurrence as
the one just cited, are you not ashamed
of your self-appropriated sexual prerog
affves9
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men endure womau's burdens is indeed
wonderful.
The press has long cried out against
unjust sexual Determinations in the
matter of teachers salaries, but law
makers can only recogize political power
in those for whom they legislate, and
as the women do not possess this power
the press is unable to remove them.
Saws the New York Herald of recent
date:
Last wednesday afternoon, al a meeting OF
the Board OF Education, the report OF the spe-
ciAl Committee on Salaries and Economy was
presented. discussed and adopted. Amer TX
ing the maximum annual salary OF the male
principals OF grammar schools al $500 OF male
viee-princlpals st 81 go, OF male first assistants
at 5000, and OF other male assistants at Sl'0o'
the report provides that the maximum salary
OF female principals shall be 5000; OF female
vice-prineipals, 81. 200; offemale frst assistants
| Qf instrueting classes Of a particular gradel'
/ 81 900. and OF other female assistants, an amount
ranging from $500 and $500 Now this plan may
be economical, but It is certainly not consonant
mon sense, we might also say common de-
eeney. We defy any logic 10 prove that two
persons performing equal amounts OF equally
Important work ought TO be paid unequally be-
cause there happens to be between them DIFF
ference OF sex.
The amazing injustice Of the present arrange
ment is 50 patent that 20 discuss Il would seem
a waste OF words, were It not for the fact that a
greater amount OF pig-hesdedness obtains In
Boards OF Education than In almost any Other
public bodies upon which functions equally
valuable depend. We are making a very mod
crate statement Of the case when we claim thai
the ability OF our female teachers, a class, IA
quite equal TO that OF our male. The quick In
tuition the acute sensibility, the tender conscl
entiousness, and the sweeter and more mag
netic moral suasion that contribute TO consti
tute the influence OF G good and Intelligent
woman (and we have reason 10 believe that III,
majority OF cur female teachers are made O
this materially, are often particularly happy IN
the results they accomplish on pupils, botl
girls and boys. In these respects the femal,
teacher often has the superiority. Let her
then, be at least equally well paid with th'
male Instructors. That Is her right, as ineon
testible as that OF life and happiness.
Yet the Herald profess that 1t doe
not see the necessity of political righti
for women while vigorously opposing
the direct result OF her want Of them
Consistency, thou art q jewel!
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Clackamas County Woman Suffrage

Clackamas County Woman Suffrage
Association.
The following names were given In
response: V. o. Harding, $. Augusta
Chase, S. II. McCown, Martin Judy, H.
L. Bacon, II. Cary Johnson, J. Devore
johnson, Fanny Cochran, Miranda S.
Buck, Mary E. White, Olive McCord.
\ Committee of five was appointed,
consisting of V. o. Harding, S. Augusta
Chase, s. II. McCown, Miranda s. Buck
and ]. Devore Johnson, to draft consti-
tuition for the consideration of the next
meeting.
The same Committee was appointed
as Committee of Arrangements to pre-
pare for a meeting sometime during the
present month, for the purpose of eff
fecting a permanent organization.
A Committee of six, consisting of S.
Augusta Chase, Rev. Martin Judy, H.
l.. Bacon, V. o. Harding, S. II. McCown
and J. Devore johnson, was appointed
to canvass the town and county to pro-
cure the signatures of such persons as
are willing to aid in the formation of q
Womans Suffrage Association for Clack-
amas County.
Mrs. Duniway concluded with few
remarks relative to the work in the East
and in Washington Territory, where
Woman Suffrage Clubs are being
formed, composed Of members of all po'
litical parties, who are pledging them
selves to use all honorable means tC
nominate and elect only such public Of
ficers as are pledged to the promotion o
this principle. Oregon was going Il
work in earnest also, and she believed
that Clackamas would not fall behinC
her sister counties in aiding to carry oil
the greatest political reform ever ye
conceived by humanity.
Upon motion the Convention ad
journed sine die.
J. DEvoRE JOHNSON, Sec. pro tenn.
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!im.elf and the Devil take the

himself and the Devil take the
While we, as journalist and human
itarian, rejoice that in spite of wrong
laws and wrong usages, the milk of hu-
man kindness still flows in small and
sometimes even copious streams for the
benefit Of the "hind-most" in the pell-
NELL race for self-interest, yet we look
with longing eyes to timein the future
when every son and daughter OF God
shall be permitted to possess and use for
life, as a natural inheritance, as much
of the landed domain as he or she shall
deed to make a home where provision
against want in illness or old age may
be made without the constant, haunting
fear that some ShylOck, whose right to
dispossess the toiling occupant is vested,
not in human rights, but human laws,
will be able to turn from home and shell
ter the man or woman who has failed TO
over-reach him in the struggle for vast
BoocGooAOAASs
Gerald Massey tells an important,
vital truth when he says that humanity
breeds the disease of pauperism. Our
charities mitigate many Of the evils OF
this terrible disease, but do not prevent
it, because they are powerless to reach
the cause. In looking over the worlds
work, the humanitarian sees so much
need of legislation that has never yet
assumed practical shape, that the very
thought is almost overwhelming.
But, we repeat, let the good-Samari
tan work go on. Temporary anC
sometimes needed relief is gained by it
and when we, as people, shall take the
grand step in Human Liberty that il
looked for by those engaged in tn,
movement for the Enfranchisement o
Women, we shall then effect right be
ginning in the legislation that has beeI
going wrong for centuries.
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JUSTICE.
agItate.

At the recent Teachers Meeting In
Eugene Rev Mr. Gray spoke on the
disparity between the salaries Of men
and women teachers. He thought there
should be the same pay for the same
work. Mr Simpson said: 81 do not
think there Is any discrimination In
this matter as against the ladies. There
are more lady teachers than gentleme n.
They offer their services at lower
figure, and Of course are not given more
than they ask" Mr.. Hendricks diff
fered from the last speaker. sin my
county, we here there are twenty-five or
thirty lady teachers, and double that
number OF male teachers. The ladies
get from sos TO $40 per month, while the
gentlemen get from $40 to SlOO. do
not think the ladies have any cause OF
themselves" Mrs Grubbs said: 'T
think these things are regulated by the
law Of supply and demand. The number
of avOcations is very few, and there are
many women who must have employ
ment. Women can cOok-and wages
are very low-they can sew, and wages
are not much better-while r few may
attain positions rs dress-makers and mill
liners. so lady teachers get the best
wages they can. You, Mr.. President,
and taught In the same institution a
few years ago. 1 got 500 year while
YOU got $500, and the professor Of mat H.
ematics 81, 900, and worked harder than
either Of you. We don't like to work sc
low, but We are obliged to do it."
And why, good sister, are We
obliged to do IT." Simply because
disenfranchised and therefore politically
sublugated class always cOmpetes at
pecunisry disadvantage with the en-
iranchised classes, who, having votes
possess power with which to command
equality In life, liberty, wages ant
property.
Every avocatiOn that has yet beei
opened for woman has been met by tn.
teeth OF opposition. That there "ar,
many women who must have employ
ment" entirely explodes the fallaey tina
"wOmen are supported by men," whicl
Is the chief excuse men offer for keen
ing US In political subsection.
If Mr.. Hendricks thinks "the ladle
have no cause OF complaint" let hin
change places with one Of them, an
give her the 500 portion, and take tn
sos one for himself This would Ell
tighten his understanding littlerand "
should soon see that he had "csuse fc
complaint" The foTtItuds With While
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

John y. Womack, with whom we are
having a spicy correspondence upon our
right to practice what we both preach,
sends the following which the same It Is
good: "You want men elected who arein
favor of our cause; If Republicans, all
right; if Democrats, 10 matter That
reminds me of little story: \ few
years ago an aged gentleman of the col
Ored persuasion fell overheard from the
deck Of a steamboat into the Mississippi
river. Giving himself up for lost, be
began praying first to God and then to
the Devil. After he was rescued he was
asked why he prayed both to God and
Satan? Why said he, Il did not
know whose hands l would fall into
Our friends anecdote is exactly to the
point. There is indeed no telling into
what political party's hands Woman
Suffrage will fall; but certes, we might
adopt his style of reasoning upon the
abstract right of Woman Suffrage and
bore humanity with interminable met
aphysics forever, but what would it all
amount tor Suppose that "colored gen.
tleman" had been advised to theorize
against the misfortune Of drowning,
only. II our friend Womack had been
present when the drowning man began
to pray in earnest, to have been consist
ent with himself, he would have "be-
come angry, and fit and fit and iit' be-
cause, however much he might have
belered in life on dry land, he would
have concluded" that the darhie "had
no right" to do aught else than heoriEe
upon the blessings of terra Jirnld, be-
cause, forsooth, he was out Of luck in
: being overheard. John! John! You
remind us of old lady Partington. She
was very anxious that Ike should graf
ify his desire to go to sea. She believed
in his inalienable right to do so; bu
when her boy started, and she began to
see prospect that her theories would
be practiced, the good dame called aftel
him thus: "You can see everybody, anC
you ought to see everything; but I'll hay'
no goin' down to see in ships while
have power to control YOU"
! Mrs. f. A. c., Nehalem: Will sem
: the ''private letter. as soon as possible
Have not yet had time to go out an
and purchase the Browning" Will at
tend to 1t soon. II every subscribe
/. would send US six new names with tia
cash for the coming year we would fee
as much obliged TO them as to yourself
= Do not be afraid that you will "trouble
g us with letters.
d F. H., Olympia: The redingotes ar
not only very fashionable but are yer.
sensible outdoor garments for the pres
% ent inelement weather. Get five yard
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ceived. Many thanks. Hope you wi
like the New NORTHWEST and induC
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