The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-04
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

keeping our correspondence up with our
travels, has become n somewhat formid-
able one. And, were it not that we are
often ehided by subscribers for failing to
sustain this department more fully, we
fear that multitudinous other occupa-
tions would induce US to forego it alto
gether. We believe that our last letter
hailed from The Dalles, where we have
a dim remembrance of sitting up till a
late hour to briefly chronicle what had
happened after the writing of the last
but one.
On the next morning after reaching
The Dalles we paid an early visit to tue
printing Office of Mr.. Hand, where we
gave orders for some bills, announcing
two lectures in the Congregational
church, which we had promised to the
citizens upon the occasion of our former
visit.
We there learned that a few over
pious men, who had not attended our
former course Of lectures, and who, OF
course, imagined that we were as wicked
as themselves, had decided to lock the
church in the faces of the lecture-going
public. Tired as we were, we set ou. to
visit the trustees and learned that while
a majority of them did not object to Civ
ing us the church, the preacher, who had
taken advantage of the interest that we
had created in the Woman Movement,
to get out a good audience on Sunday
evening upon "Man's Rights" had con-
cluded that the building must be used
only for religious" purposes in the
future This, he doubtless thought,
would stiflle the progress of Gods free
thought among the women, and satisfy
them in n practical manner concerning
the superiority Of "free white males"
On our way to meet the irascible
trustee who was too ''religious" to have
any faith in anybody but the genus mas
culine, we met the dapper little mans
rights preacher, engaged in his usual
herculean occupation of trundling baby
carriage on the sidewalk. Kissed the
child, which was a very pretty one, and
told the preacher our errand. He put
on an air of gracious superiority that
gravely became his high position,
and informed us that he should object,
unless the trustees would unanimously
consent, and he was satisfied that Mr..
Waldron, the man to whom we were
going, would not permit US TO use the
church. We assured him that we
wanted to deal fairly and courteously by
every body, and would therefore go and
see this righteous man. Here We parted
company, and the preacher, taking
another route, trundled his baby before
him, and reached the aforesaid trustees
business house before we did-his pur-
pose, doubtless, being to enforce strength
by his presence in the feeble knees OF
the pious fraud, who held the keys OF
the church aud worshiped Almighty
Mammon. The preacher kept his eyes on
his baby and did not attempt to notice us
when we entered the store. In busi-
ness-like and pleasant way we stated our
errand, and were met by an ungracious
and dogmatic no.
"Did you attend our former course OF
lectures ?" we asked, timidly.
"No ~ still more emphatically; ~ so
to church, but have no time to attend
upon the various humbugs of the day.
The church is built to worship God in ~
"You will excuse me, sir, but you can
not judge OF the merits or demerits OF
my mission, when you know nothing
about it," we answered earnestly.
"If l had time to argue with you,
madam, might spend half day, but l
am very busy just now" said the polite
woman protector, looking into the face
of the baby-tending preacher for assur-
ance, as he, the baby-tender, stood dumb
in the presence Of protected woman
hood.
dyes, | see,n we answered quickly.
"You evidently care much more for the
Almighty Dollar than for God and hu-
manity; and let me say to you, gentle
men, when / meet you on the golden
shores of the hereafter, if you ever get
there-uhich doubt-depend upon it,
YOU will be ashamed Of this. Good
morning"
We then engaged the Good Templars'
Hall, at very reasonable rates, and for
two evenings The Dalles public, who
build and support the churches, sub
mitted with what grace they might, to
the inconvenience of being crowded upon
narrow benches in poorly seated hall,
or standing in throngs around the door
way and in the aisles listening, the first
evening, to IA Week in Salt Lake City,"
/ We gave an earnest recital of the woes
of a woman who had appealed to us in
Salt Lake to raise money for her among
the Christian people, to get herself and
children away from Utah, TO save her
daughter from the lustful embraces Of a
Mormon farmer, already six times mar
ried. "And yet" we said, ''dId get our
people raise thousands Of dollars an
nuaIly for foreign missions, where about
the only good that is accomplishment
| that a doubtful one-is to support the
surplus ofT-shoots of our superintendent
Theological Seminaries. And when
woman asks the privilege to speak in
/ the church concerning n heathenism
which fiourishes almost under the shad-
ows of the spires of our temples devoted
to Christianity and chiefly sustained by
women, she finds the door locked in her
face, and herself compelled to hire halls