The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
REVIEW OF A REVIEW.

We find in the last weeks Lndcpe,ld-
e,,t, column of review of our last
lecture in Forest Grove, which Is, in the
main, so fair and candid, not to say fiat
tering, that we are disposed to thank
our contemporary for a courtesy which
we shall be pleased to reciprocate when
ever the opportunity shall offer. But we
cannot forbear of accusing him Of de-
cided inattention to some parts Of the
discourse, In so far as our recital Of in
eidents was concerned. We never
knew, until the Independent said so,
that We had lost brother by intemper-
ance, and are hardly prepared to give it
up, even now. Again, our friend mixed
matters badly in eonfounding the
Quinn assault, which we related, with
the recent Farley murder, of which we
said nothing. In justice to the husband
Of poor Mrs. Farley, we ask him to
correct his assertion that we accused
Farley of drunkenness or bad behavior
We did not allude to this couple at all
in the discourse. Here is the substance
OF what we did say: "Our laws, as now
framed, too often screen the guilty and
punish the innocent. The most of you
probably remember reading of a case
in point. One evening last spring a
policeman heard sudden screams issuing
from a tenement within block of my
home in Portland. He listened for some
moments, and hearing nothing further,
concluded that something was wrong.
Bursting open the door, he discovered a
weak and helpless woman lying with
her face upon the floor, and an infant OF
three weeks old lying near her. He
tried to arouse the woman but found
her unable TO speak. Forcing open the
door of the bedroom adjoining, he found
the husband, the head OF the family, the
legal voter, the lord of creation, Sd
drunk as 10 be utterly irresponsible
for his act Of frenzy, disrobed and ready
for bed. AS soon as the woman could
speak, she explained that this man had
driven her speechless by repeated kicks
IN the back. Then, this lord and master,
this protector of women, this legal voter
who has the power to help license
whisky selling while his protected ~
wife is denied petition or protest was
taken by the officer TO the lookup, and
there fined, the next morning, fifty dol
lars and costs. To pay this fine the poor
assaulted wife was robbed by Tie lac ot
her last dollar"
We claimed, too, that the laws ought
to be made the same to protect morals
as they now are TO protect finance; the
vender Of counterfeit food and drink is
protected by our present laws, while the
vender Of counterfeit money, for whom
no protecting licenses are Issued, suffer;
q felon's penalty for his misdeed.
Our contemporary's recital Of oul
story of the bad woman who controlled
twelve voters and shot the thirteenth il
the leg because he wouldn't vote tn,
, Democratic ticket after having had ;
months free whisky as perqusite, is a!
badly rendered as the other one; anS
yet, in the main, he gives very tolera
ble digest of the main points of the dis
, course.
Now, brother Luce, as you say ou
premises are bad, will you be kin,
enough to tell us hotC and 'cly an,
tohere they are bad, and not leave us, a
Tony Noltner does, in maze OF doub
as to your possible meaning?