The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-24
PROGRESS OF THE CAUSE IN
MARION COUNTY.


The Marion County Woman Suffrage
Association held an adjourned meet
ing on the 18th. We were few in num-
bers, but strong in purpose / wish |
had been supplied with pencil and paper
to have reported n short impromptu
speech by our lady President. 1t showed
that she, at least, was awake and ready
to work for the cause, as she said, to heI
latest hour. She expressed deal of in
diguation at the action of Ohio, in try
ing TO shut out the question of Impartial
Suffrage from its future legislation, and
said "she should think it would make
honorable men hang their heads"
/ The Association was resolved into {
committee of the whole to circulate
the petition to be presented TO the Leg
islature, and.all were exhorted TO give
| the town a thorough canvass.
Mr.. c. 4. Reed, one of the stanch
friends TO our cause, said he thought
there might be some hope that the petit
tion would meet with success, as there
were several Of the advocates of the
Woman Suffrage Movement elected to
/ this Legislature. l think, however,
that as long as such Intelligent men as
the Hon. Rufus Mallory, and Rev. p.
s. Knight exhort the women in their
own meetings to ''get ready and prepare
themselves to vote" and intimate that
another generation will probably pass
before the people will be ready for the
question, that we have little to hope from
an average Oregon Legislature next fall.
If women need so much preparation
and elevation before they are fit to
vote" why in all conscience do not peO-
pie wait till men are fit, before they are
allowed the privilege? But 1 wander
from the report of our meeting. A COM
mittee of three was appointed to collect
the petitions, and see that the work oi
circulating them was properly prose
cuted
The Report Of the Corresponding Sec.
retary was received with regard to let
ters ordered to be sent to the Secretaries
of the respective Oranges of the county,
for the circulation of the petitions, and
the business of the meeting closed by
adjourning 20 meet the last Saturday in
August.
I neglected to note in its proper place
n motion by Mrs. Johns that Mrs. Duni.
way be invited to attend our next meet.
ing. 1t was thought that so many Of
our citizens would be absent from towr
at that time, that the meeting might be
a failure, and could not be as we'll at.
tended as we would like, so the motion
was deferred.
| have received no response to the
several letters sent to the Oranges of the
county, and Notwithstanding Mr.. Min.
tO's assertion that the Oranges are prdc
teal Woman SufIragists, / fear they are
not yet aware of it.
l heard from one of my letters. 4
lady friend told of a touching little Incl
dent connected with it. She was the
wife Of the Secretary to whom l sent
the petition. She said she presented
| the petition to a young man whose
mother had been for years an advocate
Of the cause of woman, but who had
died before seeing her hopes fruitlon.
s'Yes," said the young man, "my
mother wanted to vote, and died with
out the privilege; and now want other
women to be granted the privilege as
soon as possible" So you see that one
mother being dead, yet speaketh (; and
so can we all, il we work for truth and
right. Our work and its results will
live after we are gone, aud its influence
will be in proportion to our earnest i'm
provement of every opportunity. !
have a faith i'm our cause like that OF
the Christian, that "all things will work
together for our good" If it is true
that we are in the right, (which | do not
in the least donbt,l then we need not
fear the action of the enemies of the
cause in Ohio or any other place, FOL
God has way of making the wrath oi
/ his enemies to serve him, and l think
the enemies of a righteous cause often
overshoot the mark, as they did in Port
land in the courts, with regard to the
crusaders, and by bitter and unjust
measures cause a reaction in favor oil
I the truth.
That the cause of Equal Rights is
gaining ground in Oregon in our towns
and cities, is no doubt true, but the