The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-11
YOURS TRULY" RISES TO EX-
PLAIN.


Yours Truly believes she's getting fa-
nous. Never does she sharpen her pen
ell and sit down to write a first-class re-
portorial critique but somebody gets
angry and pitches into the NEW NORTH
WEST about what she writes. This
time, 10, and behold it's the women's
champion, Hon. c. 4. Reed himself,
whom Mrs. ID. has been praising all over
the country in her speeches, for the
action he took in the Legislature in IA
vor of her cause. Indeed, so frequent
had her laudations become, that, had
it not been for this last "unkindest cut"
Yours Truly would have soon poked a
little fun at our Suffrage Champion for
indulging so much in Reed-ic rhapso-
dies. Don't scold Yours Truly if she
steals your thunder, Mrs. ID. She reads
you closely, and likes your style, if you
are little obtuse sometimes, and at
others somewhat belligerent.
Yours Truly never once imagined any
thing urong of Addie Ballou and the
Triple BIunderer, or she never would
hove stopped to write them up at all,
and she is astonished that anybody,
much less Col Reed, should have
thought of such a thing. That the
couple were "smitten" and ''spooney,"
was common theme for laughter and
comment during her two or three weeks
journ in Salem and vicinity; but Yours
Truly's remembrance of her own first
love affair, wherein broad-shouldered
Tom and herself were interested, pre-
vented the suspicion from ever crossing
her mind of any other than honorable
relations between the parties over whom
this "tempest in a teapot" has been
raised.
Yours Truly thought, and still thinks,
that it was very unbecoming in pro-
fessed champion of the Woman Suffrage
movement, to ally herself, by her writ
Ing, with Il man who was using his
temporary position as a journalist to
rldicule, blackmail and otherwise be-
little the leading Woman SufIragist OF
the Pacific Coast, and her acute sense of
injustice, as well as of the ludicrous and
ridiculous, was all that prompted her to
write the captured Statesman up as she
did.
And now, of Col Reed she begs par
don; but it does seem to her, when read
ing Adde'S mOck-herOics and his own
acquiescence therein, that he's n little
smitten with the lady, too. At any
rate, he writes very much as Yours
Truly felt when somebody once got up q
harmless joke on broad-shouldered Tom
and another girl.
Know Col. G. 4. Reed and all con-
cerned by these presents, that Yours
Truly honOrs all that is good and noble
in the lady whose especial champion the
Colonel has become. She is proud to
confess that Mrs. B. is a smart woman,
who understands angling for mems
praises to perfection. But that she is an
angel in dimity, or indeed an average
woman in philanthropy and nobleness,
Yours Truly does not believe; because,
had she been Of this order, she never
would have countenanced a newspaper
or its editor, when that paper, through
its editor, was seeking to destroy the
leader in the Woman Movement, who
had heralded her advent among us with
heartiest acclaim, and who, but for
Yours Truly and her reportorial crit
ique, evidently never would have ut
tered one word against such an unwom-
anly outrage.
Addie Ballou's suspicion that Mrs.
Duniway is Yours Truly is quite COM
pliment to girl Of the period who had
no idea she was progressing so rapidly
as a writer, but it is anything else but a
compli nent to the clairvoyant powers
of professional medium.
That the Colonel may yet see through
the fog of an excited Imagination with
sufficient cleaTness to satisfy himself
that a little fun concerning a self-evi-
dent fact isn't necessarily an accusation
of alleged criminality, is the sincere
wish of Yours TRULY.