The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-10-24
POLITICAL AND PEOUEIARY
RIGHTS.

So said the Portland Bulletin some
time since, in response to our declara-
tion that the political right the basis Of
all rights-pecuuiary and otherwise.
We asked a question in reply to the
above, which our readers will remember
was in substance like this: ''If pecuni- /
ary rights bring man no pecuniary ben
efts, why is it that he so often draws
fat paw as President, Vice President,
senator, Representative, Legislator,
Governor, Secretary of State, etc, etc."
As it is generally conceded that a
journalistic failure to reply to ques-
ton courteously asked is tacit admission
OF inability 10 do so, we dropped the
subIect. for 1t is always slow work sail |
ing up stream without some head wind |
in the shape Of opposition. But as the
guUetia gathers, with never firing as
sidulty, every silly-pated reporters re-
view Of every sensational attack upon |
the principle OF Human Rights, whose
equity and Justice II cannot logically
oppose, we deem il necessary to give
thai Journal 2 little further candid atten- |
ton.
Ina recent Issue we find an article en-
titled "AIiss Edgerton on Suffrage"
which we copy in another column, and
I'm which she Miss e. is called "noted
Young lady lecturer" Why, bless your
honest soul, brother, that ''young lady"
is lust dozen years older than our VEN
erabIe self! The reporter who gave 8
synopsis of her speech was doubtless
one Of those whipper-snapper voters OF
the "male" persuasion, with down just
yeretating on his upper lip, who are SO
plenty and cheap in New York that
they give their peculiar "coloring" in
the newspapers 10 everything that
women say or do. Never, until women
are armed with the peaceful pot7er OF
the ballot. will they command respect
ful attention from the responsible editors
Of city newspapers, unless like willy
slaves under the old slave-Owning
reginlc OF the South, they stake Sides
with their masters. Then the BtetletH
will auote them with amazing gasto
Tie reader is here requested TO pause IL
fhis editorial until he reads "Niss I'd
Carlon on Suffrage in another column
Sow, we will 20 Oh. Miss L. argues
that "indiscrimate male suffrage is al
ready a source of evil and danger, as II
gives ignorance equal power with intel
lieence." Very well. Let US look al
this: sNIaler ignorance as it now eX'
isis, has unlimited power over female
tnfe,Zigence. Is that justice, o, Bulletin
How would "the evil be increased" by
giving suffrage 10 woman in the same
manner, IL "only an increase would fol-
low without any change in the re-
suit?
Miss E.'s declaration that by the bal
lot the best and purest women would
be brought into degrading contact with
the worst and vilest, Is just about such
compliment to her own personal in
tegrity as timid Republicans paid them
selves when they feared to vote FOL
Hiram Smith, lest they might be in
Jueed by 50 doing to commit "bigamy.'
The course Of reasoning is the same
precisely.
Miss L. says truly thst her "pure
sisters will be compelled to vote to saw
the Nation" The Bulletin will pleas
saka notice that every vile woman j
the lsnd, who plies her infamous callin
as bagnio keeper or bOarder, influence
ihe votes OF from five to fifty men, az
o0fding to her talent, charms, whisk
or other influence. Nothing but th
votes Of the good and pure women
the country will cOunteract this wicl
edness. And women like Miss Edge
ton, who pretend TO so much love
womanly retirement, while mountir
public rostrums to proclaim by the
own acts the fact that they are only e
deayoring 10 catch little newspap
praise by pRndering TO the morbid a
rrobatiyeness of man-their practi
giving the lie diSsct totheir preaching
will. In the nearby future, sink out
public sight, unwept, nnhonored al
unsung.
The courtesy" to which Miss E. 1
Iudes. and Of which approbative man
dearly loves 10 hear, is not denied, b
always acknowledged by the vi
Woman Sufraglst. 1t Is the same Sc
of chivalric feeling that prompted I
slave owner to smile gracionsly up
the obsequious Sambo, or tip his beaS
with a ''killingn air when meeting {
bright eyes OF Dinah. But courtes
delightful as II is, will not longer be {
cepted In lieu Of justice by women
practical good sense and ingenious d
positions.
1t Is true that the average woman
slways relentless toward sinners Of !
own sex,n and she exhibits this ph:
of vassalage too, precisely as the av
are slave exhibited the same spl
when he or she had power to punlEt
dishonest or refractory brother or sist
IN the name of their master.
But We have wandered far from
idea With which We begau the edlto
quotation from the Bulletin :