The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-21
THE CONVENTION.

Never has a more harmonious or sue
cessful business meeting been held in
Portland than the Woman Suffrage
Convention, to the report OF which we
this week yield every available inch of
space. Now that the meeting is over,
and we sit in our quiet study perusing
these facts, we look upon the effort Of a
few jealous and earnest friends to inaug-
urate and carry forward such a work
in so short 4 space of time as prodigious.
But we have learned one fact that we
are anxious for the world to know at
once, viz: women, with all their mex
perience in public affairs, have success
fully accomplished a work, with a few
days effort, that would have occupied
her brother man, with all his boasted
wisdom, many weeks in its prepara-
ton.
We all regret exceedingly that, owing
10 the bad state Of the weather, the
mails were so delayed that the letters
from California and Washington Terri
tory failed to reach US in time to be read
before the Convention but they will ap-
pear from time to time in the NEW
NORTHWEST, as we have space for
them. We thank the friends of our
sister State and Territory for their CO.
operation, and assure them Of recip-
rocity Of the courtesy when opportunity
shall occur. We do not thank the poll
ticians of Portland for snubbing the
Convention. But rs they would not
come ont to learn for themselves Just
aghat we were all doing and how we en-
ployed 4 shorthand writer to report our
own address of the last session, which
we shall publish, that every ',tender-toed
Federal office-holdef, and every timid-
minded aspiraut forfafurs political emol-
Hments, who feared to face the music,
may see themselves as Others see them.
The leading politicians aof Portland
were personally invited TO address the
meeting, yet they did not dare to show
their faces. And, as neither words noi
grass win DO, we viii try-when we get
ready-what virtue there s. in stones,
For their future consideration We refer
them to the speech, which will appears a
soon as we have rootn.J y9iiIollA
To the daily press /. We tender oul
thanks for eourtesies reesiTed, and tC
the public at large our Reorganization
on their good sense In coming out il
such large numbers 70 learn Of the on,
li.vitaU issue now ibsfore restheuAmericai
people. @ 2 tl'l''l''1
rn-'I We are especially. mindful OF the ser
VICES, Of Prof. and Mrs aAIeGibeny il
furnishing the Convention with appro
- pfgate vocal ana insfrpmenssl music
and cannot close this hurried motto
without expressing thanks to Col. Rec
Of Salem, Messrs. Walker, Mills, Nc
Leod aud Luellan, OF Washington cour
ty, and Mr. Combs, Mr.. Eliot, Mr.. Gil
son, Mr.. Hendee, Mr.. Peters, and otht
gentlemen Of this city, for the
aid in carrying forward the bu:
iness Of the meeting, and to Messn
DePrans and Badger for the use of o.
gans for music. iDi'
The ladies with the exception of
few selfish ones who have no infuenc
and Of themselves would never be alb
10 earn their own bread because of inci
paeity, but whose husbands hay
'guckedn into official positions-cons
quently they have all the rights the
want, and decidedly object to the righ
OF other wOmen), attended at the NOR
ing session moderately well, the afte
moons in much increased numbers, al
the evening sessions in crowds. Dor
say to us, poor effete woman-eroakt
whoever you may be, that ''woman dc
not want to vote" All women want
vote who are not in themselves pet
tyrants, with hen-pecked husban,
over whom they fear TO lose dOmes
sway by Just equalization of polite
power and responsibility, and the FL
eraI officers wives, who know that f
competition in public life would abrid
their husbands opportunities for otfic
position, and their own opportunity
ostentation and display. II this lar
should strike any Of those who are l
in justice doomed TO carry it, we say
them, come out like women and pre-
that you do not deserve this thrust, a
we will apologize in due form and vii
draw the lance at once, but we shall
it rankle, with the addition Of an oc
sional twist, in the breast Of everyc
Of you who bring upon yourself {
censurc by your own seifishness.