The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-18
NUMBER 30.

description. Suffrage is the legal ex-
preston of opinion; nothing more"
What says Bishop Simpson?
''fhat it is useless even TO struggle for
"A Temperance reform, until woman shall
go with the power of the ballot in her
hands to the polls to protect her own
household
Perhaps no one in the United States
can sway 4 greater number of minds
can lead and influence other minds more
than Bishop Simpson.
Other Bishops, too, are sowing the
good seed in their wide and well ploughed
field.
Leading educators are rapidly reeOg-
nizing the power and capacity Of girls as
students, and doors are beginning to
stand ajar in all directions.
Even when the doors are locked, the
keys grow rusty and begin to rattle.
The winds of discussion and eXpediency
are shaking the old-fashioned hinges
nightly.
Many of the most widely circulated
and influential weeklies Of the country,
those that carry their educating force
into farmhouse and medicine shop,
schOOl-roOm and club and sewing circle,
such papers rs the TupeT'S, Hdcpend-
eHf, Christian Union and others, are firm
and bold in their advocacy of Woman
Suffrage. Think you, the millions who
read will fail to understand and come to
the standard of right and justice when
the day and hour come?
Women physicians, who are amassing
fortunes through their successful and
popular practice, are already saying:
"Give us the ballot, that we may do
1..v
public hospitals, and among the poor
and needy who are supported by the
taxes we pay as well as others"
Women lawyers demand the ballot
that they may command the right be-
fore the law to plead the cause of Il suf-
fering sister or brother who needs the
sympathy and gentlencss OF woman i'm
the hours of trying need.
Woman is claiming the pulpit, and
with it, the ballot to sustain her in her
mission of love to her land.
Women merchants are learning that
business and labor demand equal rights
in trade and speculation, and that the
ballot alone can secure these TO any class
of people.
Our army of workers and lady board
ing house keepers find that all women
have rights which men must be made to
feel they are bound to respect.
Thus through every ramitication oI
our social organism there is growing {
more liberal feeling and a truer recogni.
tion of the positive need of woman in
all the great interests of the nation, 4:
power las well rs a persuasiOn), t,
/ bring the world to 4 higher plane o
morals and of duty. This On-rOllin.
/ tidal wave will receive no stay in il
/ progress, but, gathering force rs it goes
will sweep away all the crumbling sand
I banks which are being filled up to retar
| its force, until it will roll from the At
lantic to the Pacific. And then, as j
was after slavery was abolished, II,
men or women will be found willing I,
admit that they ever stood as advocate
of this stupenduous wrong of woman'
disfranchisement.
| Mr.. White Loud babe me good even
| ing without Il reply, and Miss FurbelOw
I hoping she might never live to Sc,
women at the elections with the rowdiei
and drunkarls, sailed out of the room
| her head high with false hair, swingins
her half-yard train of fiounces and lac,
with righteous Indignation as she disap
/ npa rod