The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-02-20
FROM CLACKAMAs COUNTY.

To Hlc Friends OF Impartial Suffrage
IN C'ackdmas Countg:-You are all IA
vored with the issues of the 18th and
10Th inst OF the NEW NORTHWEST, the
Clackamas County Equal Rights Club
sending them TO all known frie-' who
are not subscribers.
We would call your attention, first, 10
the report Of our county organiza-
ton. We are encouraged beyond meas
ure by our prospects. We expect to
WELD a great power for the moral, intel
lectual and political good of the county
and country. You will surely aid us.
You are welcome to our meetings at
any time, as sympathizers with the OBJ
jects Of our association. We solicit your
membership and will allow you an in
spection of our Constitution and By
Laws. We have no penalties for nom
attendance. We expect TO so arrange
that members outside of Oregon City
and Canemah, not availing themselves
Of the privileges Of the library, shall not
be liable to dues beyond the initiation
fee. Please send us at any time the
names Of friends sympathizing with US,
whether able TO join us or not, so that
we may count upon them and send them
information in various forms.
We congratulate you and the State
upon the success of the meeting of the
State Woman Suffrage Association,
whose proceedings you will note. We
have not only held grand rally, which
has encouraged us and Interested others,
but we have laid broad and deep foun-
dations for future important operations.
We confidently expect your aid. We
will afford you an opportunity Of sign
ing the Constitution and Bylaws of
Tie State organization and paying the
initistion fee. Every name and every
dollar viii increase the amount and
value Of our State work.
We invite your attention, thirdly, to
the NEW NORTHWEST. 1t is our avowed
organ aud calculated to be of great SER
vice to us. 1t is imperatively necessary
10 sustain it. We are assured that q
certain number OF new subscribers will
allow the engagement of an assistant
editor, who will assume the editorial
management of the paper and allow the
present sole editor TO enter the lecture
field and otherwise advance our int.
rests. The editor OF the NEW NORTH
WEST says that journal is and shall be
"what the friends make it," Therefore,
II you have any doubts or objections as
10 the management, remove any neees-
sity for them by using the influence
oil your names money and contributions
IN what you conceive to be the right di-
tee'lon. We must have an organ, and
II can not live unless IL obtains greater
support from US. Shall it have IL? We
expect every friend of impartial suffrage
III Ciaekamas county to answer in The
Aii''ina'iNe. Clackamas has alresdv n
PIo"u record at home and abroad We
have great confidence in her disnos;,;or
and ability to maintain her nro-o,,,;
nence by furthering the cool couso =, :,
every possible manner. '' ~
If possible, let every non-suhso-,,..
in Claekamas county to whom ~ so.-Dei .1.,.
ent issue is sent, forward his nsnoai Paes =. -
subscription, IN ddc0nce, for fba AN. n.
NORTHWEST, either to the editor ~ - hN y
the undersigned, who is a duly accraJ
tied agent of the paper.
J. DEVoRE JOHNSON.
Secretary pro TEN c. c. f, r. c.