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THEY DON'T ANSWER.

Up to the time of going to press We
have failed TO find one Democratic paper
that even notices the information con-
tanned i'm last weeks NEW NORTH
WEST concerning the real name of J. y.
Smith, alias "J. w. Nesmith," alias
"Unpurchasable Woman" Several
Republican papers have ventured to
copy without comment, taking care to
give us credit, which they do not al
ways do when quoting us, and num-
Der of gentlemen have timidly asked us
to give our authority. Never mind,
friends, it's time enough to prove a
statement after it has been denied by
the parties concerned. The information
reached us through the agency Of q
well known bedrock Democrat, who is
perfectly able to stand by his assertions.
Corbett claims that he knew all about
Senator Mitchelrs alias before he was
elected to the Senate. If so, the out-cry
his man Friday is now making through
his OregoHidn, and at his dictation,
comes with very bad grace from quar-
ter where all the responsibility ofNIitch-
ell's election should rest. We do not
look upon a change of name as crime
by any means-we changed our own
once, and if left widow would no doubt
have plenty of opportunity to repeat
the experiment-but when a man who
has been q United States Senator pro-
claims himself to be "An Unpurchasa-
bic Woman" it is quite time to "speaz
out in meeting" And when an individ-
usl plumes himself and endeavors to
soar upon the downfall of another when
guilty of the same mistake himself, it is
quite time to expose the hypocritical
farce. This, and this only, is the reason
why we called attention to the conduct
of the candidate with more than one
alias
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QUESTIONS.

PORTLAND, September IA, 1873.
EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST;
As you have devoted much space to
lauding Mrs. Chamberlain, will you al
allow me printers stick full of ques-
tiOns and criticisms?
When the lady is describing "spirits"
she never objects, but plainly enjoys it
when any one processes to recognize
their friends from her descriptions; yet
when gentleman said, the other even
ing, 81 do not recognize him." she grew
as cranky as a warped grapevine. She
is certainly fine speaker, but does she
or her doctrines gain any friends from
her being captious because her hearers
are honest? SPECTATOR.
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CHEEK.

We have always known that our
brethren Of the "Hubp plumed them
selves to a great extend upon being
1--WE, the people," and that they think,
from their narrow sphere, among the
granite-bound hills of little old New
England, whose whole area would
hardly make an Oregon county, that
they are far ahead of all other places i'm
newspaper enterprises, but We were
hardly prepared for the following out
burst of egotism, from +. W. Higginson,
whom the New NORTHWEST, expressly
devoted to the Woman Suffrage move
ment," good sir, hasquoted till the West
is becoming well acquainted with him.
Come, acknowledge MS, brother; you're
not SO big fish but that others may be
seen and heard too. Says ''T. w. H."
As for the "disreputable persons" who have
captured the reform-horse, foot, and dra-
goons,n confess that I have never seen them.
The ''woman's journal" is, 50 far as l know,
the only newspaper in America expressly de-
voted TO the Woman Suffrage movement; and
it has never been captured by any but its pres
ent proprietors. The American Woman Suf-
frage Association is the only national society
for this purpose which has regular auxiliaries
in the different States. The names Of the edi-
tors Of this paper may be found on the first
page and the same names are prominent in
the list OF officers OF the above-named society.
They have never been captured by anybody,
to their knowledge; and II they themselves are
"disreputable persons" they can only promise
10 try and 10 better
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AN HONEST QUERY.

EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
Will you grant me space in your val
liable paper for a little friendly criti-
cism?
1 really think your structures in your
last issue upon the political situation
are altogether one-sided.
Your columns sparkle all over with
just censure against certain Pharisees of
the rule or ruin policy on the one hand,
but you say nothing about the band of
office-holders on the other, who were
equally determined to have their own
way in the Convention at all hazards.
Please explain and oblige H.
If our friend will turn to the editorial
leader Of our last issue and read it again,
he will learn that we soundly rated
whomsoever was guilty of foisting that
Mitchell resolution upon the Republican
party as a bone of contention-not be-
cause there was anything wrong in the
resolution, but because wise men will
always quietly take a 'dare' rather
than give an adversary wished-fOr op-
portunity to make discord. There was
nothing more absurd than the passing
of a resolution with which the Conven-
ton had nothing to do. a few wise
women would have known better. But
one wrong does not justify another.
What is past is past, and it is worse
than useless TO harp upon that which is
irrevocable. SO now the next thing to
be done is to elect the better man Of the
two opposing candidates. One or the
other must go to Congress. One is a
good man, Of unimpeachable reputa-
ton. The other is political mounte-
bank, with no character to lose or sus-
tain. When men pretend, as does the
OrcgoniaH, that by defeating the good
man, and thus electing the monnte-
bank, they can redeem their sullied
"honor," their acts are too namely silly
for serious consideration.
Office-holders may have packed and
run the Convention. 1t is quite likely
that they did. We know that men are
not above such lodges, but it so hap
pened that they chose a good man for
Congress; therefore all moral and virtu-
Gus men, who have confidence in their
own purity, will support him cheer
fully in preference to the other man
who is not good. We do not expect
men to do so who are fearful of becom-
ing "bigamists." Do you understand
US?
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AN EVIL SPIRIT.

When w. Lair Hill began the publi-
cation of the Oregonidn, the prospect
before him for q distinguished, honora-
BILE and useful life were passing brill
liant. For a season the tone and temper
Of the paper was admirable, command
ing the respect of both friend and foe.
But a change came DER the spirit of its
dream, and from being a high-toned,
moral, influential teacher Of the people,
it has descended into and wallows in
the lowest of all immoral nastiness. At
first We imagined that it was a mere
spasm OF virtuous indignation that pos
sessed it-a spasm which would soon
pass away, leaving behind it only SOL
itary track to mark its dereliction, and
We waited, hoping that it would see the
error Of its way. But, alas! for the van
ity of human expectation! The sequel
proves that it is not virtue but spleen,
not righteousness but baffled ambition,
that actuates its editor, who, possessed
by an evil spirit, loses sight of all con-
sistency, all journalistic honor, all phil
anthropy and nObleness in the vindic-
tive pursuit of one single object of his
hate, and the few who are brave enough
to express their own adverse opinion.
And then, to prove his insineerity, he
ignores equal and present derelietions in
the lives of other prominent public men,
and even accuses those whose lives are
without spot or blemish of pandering to
hideous sins that he may thereby glut
his vengeance on one offender who has
crossed his personal path.
o, brother Hill, let the voice of wom-
an warn youl Turn from the error of
your ways before the sober second
thought of the people shall place
you under the iron heel of universal
condemnation forever. Clouds are
gathering thick around you. Your old
time friends are sorrow-stricken at your
anti-Christian, anti-hitmdn course, so
unlike all that they had looked orhoped
for in you. Your new friends are of the
scum and slum of the worst purlieus of
of vice. As in the days of slavery the
pro-slavery agitator had no ally so
vehement rs the worst classes of poor
white trash, who were themselves
much lower in the human scale than
the lowliest negro, so in the present day
OF your vindictive pursuit, no ally is 50
boisterous rs the debauchee, who goes
reeling from the brothel to the doggery
to quote the Oregonion on ''vlrtue" and
political honor" We call upon that
evil spirit to come out of him. We ex-
orcise it in the name of common sense
and comMon honesty. We condemn it
in the name Of God and humanity, and
under the immortal precepts of the
Golden Rule, we conjure it to depart
e'er it rend its victim sorely.
Men and brethren, it is not Hill that
speaketh. He is grievously vexed with
q devil.
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LECTURES.

Mrs. Belle a. Chamberlain is draw
ing crowded houses nightly at the Court
House, in this city, and in her success
is verifying the statement We made a
fortnight since that she, as a speaker,
excelled Beecher or Bishop Peck. Sc
we're indisposition has kept US away
from the most of these lectures, conse-
quently we are compelled to omit all
attempt at a report, She is puzzling
our sages with her wonderful impromptu
eloquence and unanswerable and incon-
trovertible logic. When women do
such work as this without previous
preparation, who shall say that their
legitimate sphere is within the limits of
the kitchen and woOdshed?
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LETTER FROM ROsEBURG.

Dear Mrs. D,niWdy:-The change in
public sentiment that has come over
the people of this place since Miss An
thongs advent among us two years ago
is one of the most noticeable improve
ments among the many that mark our
onward course. Then, a prominent
county officer got up ball in opposition
to woman's meeting, because, though
he tho 'ghtit perfectly modestan proper
fora wol nan to swing herself in the arms
Of half+.lrunk voter in the mazes of the
dance, he cit that it would forever un-
sex her to listen to an elegant and elo-
quent lectur, from another woman con-
cerning such Is1atters of moment as are
necessary to pnDvent voters from becom-
ing. drunkards. Now, the people are
looking anxious.y for you to come
and speak, and tn, re is not hall in the
town large enough o hold the audiences
that wait to greet on. Then, the few
who were brave eL9ugh to take the
New NORTHWEST ' ere considered fit
subjects for social cstracism. Now,
everybody enquiries fol it and all the
leading citizens are your patrons
Do you remember that lady who
has a fine flower garden refused bo-
quet to deck your stand when you were
here little over a year ago? Well,
that same lady is one of your strongest
admirers now. A lady left here to-day
for Portland, and one of the heartiest
injunctions, among the many that were
given her, was charge to "give her
love to Mrs. Duniway and bid her God
speed" by the very woman who refused
you the flowers when you We're here.
Nobody can endure the OregOnidn ex-
cept the Nesmith Democrats, and they
Democrats who are going to vote for
Hiram Smith on the strength of your
voucher that he is 2 Woman Suffragist.
Then, his reputation as a moral man,
who is not a professional politician, is
much in his favor. If the Oregonidn
thinks there are any gudgeons up this
way who can be fooled into supporting
Nesmith, the political mOuntebank and
saloon ally, as against Mr.. Smith, the
moral man and virtuous citizen, it reck-
ons without its host. If the OregOnida
is in earnest in its virtuous outcry
against Senator Mitchell, why in the
name of common decency does it want
to send as bad a man as he to Congress?
Nesmith is no better man than Mitchell,
even granting that the worst things
Mitchell's enemies say of him are true;
and that the thousandth part of what
the Oregonidn says is true nobody be-
lieves, and the man who has less faith
in them than anybody else is w. Lair
Hill. But suppose they are true, what
then Will it mend the matter to re-
peat the outrage by sending up a Repre-
sentative who has no better character?
But Fll be writing a long letter if I
don't stop, and 1 only intended to tell
you how our cause is growing in Rose
burg and relate the incident about the
flowers. Thine for equal rights, w.
ROsEBURG, Sept, "a, 1878.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

NJ. J. R., Salem, writes: ave think
that you would succeed better if you
would let politics and politicians alone"
Why, bless your innocent soul, our
work is emphatically and only political.
If we had 'let politics and politicians
alone" from the beginning, we should
not yet have made a ripple upon the
surface of the public mind. Our forte is
in stirring up the politicians. Take our
weapons of truth and criticism from us
and we should be compelled to yield the
struggle. We are engaged in the great
moral battle of right against might.
Truth is sharper than a two edged
sword. No wonder it makes politicians
feel uncomfortable. Let 'em vince.
Farmer, East Portland precinct: Many
thanks for your words of encourage
ment. Your letter would find a well
come place in our columns were we al
ready a recognized citizen of the United
States, but We shall keep our columns
clear of all partisan matters that do not
directly tend, in our own judgment,
toward the Acknowledgement of woman,
until some party has backbone enough
to face the direct issue. We have very
little respect for the present day politi-
clans idea OF the "time-honored princi-
pies" of any party. You are on the
right track, however, and so are ten
thousand other good and moral men of
our State. Again we thank you.
Milliner:. We have lately been so bus
lily occupied in the more important
work of breaking the way for woman's
emancipation that We have not had
time or opportunity to bestow much at
tention upon her fashions. The fall
styles are now out, but our city pur-
chasers are yet wearing summer hats
We note no very striking changes in
the styles. The hats and bonnets are
very nearly or quite alike in shape
Both are worn high on the head, or
rather the hair The colors, or tinges,
are soft, and the general effect of their
combination very becoming to good
cOmplexions.
5. \. g., Corvallis: Our columns are
closed against the Mitchell controversy.
Your views coincide with our own,
which have been so frequently pro-
claimed that any sert OF repetition is
unnecessary. The vltuperative spleen
Of his-enemies will avail them nothing.
Like Mr.. Geary, we hold our final judg-
ment in reserve until charges are proved
or disproved. In the meantime, let us
all be reasonable.
J. y. w, Albany: We think the
young lady who was ''sewed to your
sleeve for more than an hour must
have afflicted you with Sewing ma
chine" on the heart and brain. We
should be glad of a letter giving the
particulars of the Linn county Fair.
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NO GAMBLING FOR WOMEN.

Ladies Says the Saratoga cores
pondent of the Boston Globe are forbid
den to step foot in the precincts of Mr..
John Morrissey's great and elegant
gambling house. This veto was put
upon the ladies by the Young Mems
Christian Association, for the purpose
of saving the ladies and running the
men, or, as would appear most clearly
i'm sensible minds, for the purpose Of
running both. For how are women to
be saved il men go to destruction? And
much more certain is the fact that shut
ting the women out from any place
where men congregate is the best means
in the world TO abandon it to a doubtful
fate. a lady, however, went into John
Morrissey's house, the other day, and
looked it over. She was accompanied
by highly agreeable and intelligent
Southern gentleman, to whom she is
greatly indebted for a minute explana-
tiOn Of the workings OF this institution,
its follies and failings. The house is
magnificent in frescoing, carving, furni-
ture, cut-glass, carpets, and chandeliers,
beyond anything that can probably be
seen in this country. The card-tables
were covered, as it was very early in
the morning, so she was deprived of
witnessing the games. The most ex-
travagant and costly food is served here,
on plates of silver and gold. The wait
ers are the best trained. Here is the
Office where the business of the racing
is done, the pools bought and sold. One
looks upon the whole thing, takes n
realizing sense of it all, and exclaims,
"What an elegant and superb hell"
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Miss Emma S. Eastman, OF Wor-
eester' Mass, is the first lady graduate
OF Cornell. When she first entered. she
was not recognized by the trustees as a
member of the University. Although
she attended lectures, she could not re-
cite, and was not allowed to pay her tut
ton, for thus she would gain her title to
recognition as a member. But grad
ually the red tape loosened, and she has
completed her course in science with
high honors. She may, then, be con-
sidered the true pioneer in co-education
at Cornell.
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The EUening Nelcs, a characteristic
Democratic sheet, that subsists on such
offal as it can gather from all sorts Of
questionable sources, having become
frightened at the sledge-hammer blows
We are dealing against its "Unpurchas-
able Woman" has gone to throwing
swill at US in particular and Woman
Suffrage in general in a very reprehen-
sible manner. Slash away, Sir Scav-
enger. 1t amuses you and doesn't reach
us. But, if it be possible to innoculate
your reeking brain with small dose of
deceney, let us say to you, and this is
the last time we shall stoop to notice
you, that obscenity is not argument,
and smutty levity is not wit.
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STARTLING FAILURES.

The failure of Jay Cooke & Co., fol-
lowed 10y the suspension of many other
banking houses, is only warning OF
what the people are liable TO realize all
over the civilized world at any moment
The fact is, there is no bottom to any
financial system in any of the worlds
governments. Gold represents an alto
gether fictitious value, which is but a
bubble, liable to burst when the people
least expect it.
We recoIlect remarking to friends q
few weeks since, in relation to the re-
fusal Of our city capitalists to receive
financial aid from abroad for the losers
by the great fire, that the refusal grew
out of desire TO make 1t appear in
monied circles in the East that there
was an abundance of wealth among our
people-which in reality does not ex-
lst-in order to keep their credit good.
We have no wish to suggest anything
that VIII create a panic in Portland.
The most the people can do is to stand
by me banks; but We declare, and chal-
lenge the world to disprove it, that there
is not solvent banker or broker or
railroad or corporation in the United
States. That is, there is not a business
Of the kind, of any important dimen-
sions, but would go down with a crash
II uniform and immediate settlement
upon all liabilities were peremptorily
demanded. While it is not probable
that such an emergency will occur, yet
we all know that it is possible, for
finance has no fixed foundation. A
mighty international financial upheaval
is imminent. Look out for it.
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woMAN's PROPER SPHERE.


"Why do YOU, as a woman, claim the
right to vote ," queried gentleman re-
Gently, as though he were asking an
original question, and one utterly unan-
swerable.
Because, sir, believe in Republi-
can form of government. l believe that
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed. 1
believe that what God has Joined to-
gether man should not put asunder. l
believe, as taught us in the Constitu-
tion and proclaimed from twenty thous-
and stands on every Fourth of July,
that taxation without representation is
tyranny And yet, sir, in the face of
all the above incontrovertible testimony
in favor Of Woman Suffrage in this Re
public, we women are denied the power
to give or withhold assent to the laws
which elect our rulers and demand our
taxes.
"But, If women vote, they must
fight"
My friend is of exceeding low stature,
and as 1 looked down into his face l
with difficulty repressed meaning
smile, as I said:
'Do you fight ?"
81 never have fought, madam, but l
hold myself in readiness to do so when
ever the public safety may require it,"
"But you can't join the armyE
"Why not ~
Excuse me, sir-I do not wish TO Of
fend you, but you are too short by a
head, too crooked by neck, and cannot
see out of one eye. Unlike you, sir, |
do not claim that these deficiencies,
which are not borne by all humanity in
common, should ostracise you from po-
litical freedom; I only mean that if
should be disenfrancised because can
not fight, so ought you to be for the
same reason.n
"But 1 could fight, if il were not for
certain army regulations, which you
seem to delight to dwell upon"
$50 could !, sir, if there were no laws
to prevent me. But / do not believe in
fighting. / believe in peace"
"But We must sometimes have war"
"Ies, under exclusive masculine gov
ernment, but with a proper adjustment
of human legislation the whole world
would settle its difficulties by interna-
tional arbitration"
"But it is impossible to arrive at that
proper state of government"
Perhaps so, under masculine rule,
but men have never yet conceived the
idea of what proper government really
/ isu
"You take great credit to your sex foI
sagacity, madam, when you imply that
women are wiser than men,"
"Not at all. Women, if left to them
selves to make and administer all the
laws, would make rs many mistakes in
n half-dozen generations rs men have
made in the same period. 1t is the
combined wisdom of the masculine and
feminine minds of the world, or the ma
tion, that is needed to enable us to ar
rive at true conclusions regarding what
constitutes good government"
My friend went on his way convinced
but not silenced. The next time l heard
from him he was haranguing a crowd
from the porch of one of our hotels upon
the same old story, "woman's proper
sphere" sc.
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We wish our friends would be brave
enough to come out squarely over their
own signatures when they send us COM
munications. OF course we cannot COM
pei this, but we shall not fail to insist
upon it. An article has twice the weight
when substantlated by the writer's
name.
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Mrs. Belle 4. Chamberlain will hold
a public seanco on this friday even
ing will lecture on Saturday night
subject, "a Review of the ideas Con-
cerning Tyndalrs Prayer Gauge;r and
on Sunday night upon "Science and
the Spirit Land"
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Miss Anthony will send her pamphlet
containing full report of the prosecu-
tion and trial Of the women who voted
to every person who will send her fifty
cents for the same.
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The contortions of our Democratic
contemporaries from the Oregonidn up to
the Eugene Guard convince US that our
shots are taking effect. Let 'em writhe.
It's good for 'em.
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Mr.. Disraeli has expressed a hope
that the wisdom of Parliament will re-
move the anomaly of eliminating the
franchise from household or property
qualification when held by woman.
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1t is said that an inscription, recently
discovered, ON the back Of painting by
Holbein, In Bohemia, fixes definitely
the date of his birth, which Is 1897.
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Other parties desiring 10 act as Agents VIII
please forward their names. We want Agents
at every postofice throughout Oregon and
Washington Territory.