The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-05-22
NUMBER 40.

NUMBER 40.
governed by the grandest of all virtues,
Charity. Make the platform pure and
progressive, so that the virtuous and
good may take part in your deliberations.
Faint not because of unworthy support
ers or ridicule. The cause is just, and
Justice must come sooner or later, and
those who are ashamed to take public
stand in an act of common justice, are
unworthy the honor of having the man
tie of the true reformers. When this
question gains popularity and strength,
the press, churches, and courts of JUS
tice will own the right and equality OF
woman to the ballot; and with the ballot
reforms will be inaugurated as soon as
man is ready for them. Little by little,
step 10y step, will woman assume her
proper position in life. Nature works
out an eternity by moments, and
woman will work out her own redemp-
tion by progressive steps. If we judge
the future by the past few years, wom-
ans millennium is now at hand.
Praying, however, that your hands
may be strengthened in the good work,
and that harmony may pervade all your
deliberations, l subscribe myself
Yours truly,
JOHN TAYLOR.
Mount Pleasant. April 2i, 1874.
1t is with no small degree of fdisapPoint-
ment that L am obliged to forego the
pleasure and satisfaction I should feel
in contributing my mite to the, success
of your annual meeting. a previous
engagement in San Diego makes it my
duty to go there; but you will accept
my thanks for your kind invitation,
and hope and pray your meeting may
be marked by unanimity of feeling and
harmony of action. The principles in
volved in our cause, which you have
met to advance, are those which affect
our entire governmental and social rela-
tions; hence they are worthy of our best
thought and wisest action. Principles
so grand-high as heaven and broad as
the universe-should certainly lift us
above all petty personal animosities into
the atmosphere of a noble manhood and
womanhood. l am not in sympathy
with any party or faction in the suffragC
cause, but desire to be counted i'm Will
all true workers in reform who seek the
F..IV af To flf,
end, dear friends, you have my sympa
thy, and such little influence as l may
possess, in carrying forward the Woman
Suffrage reform; and / ardently hop,
the State will gather under one stand
ard, and thus, by an aggregation of al
our forces, characterized by sweet anC
loving spirit, present a united front Il
do battle for equal justice and equa
f privileges for both sexes before the law
and in all our social relations.
With these hastily penned lines
command you all to good and kindly
influences as a guide to lead you int
right action in behalf of the cause t.
which we stand continually pledged
and for which will not fail to bear ties
r timony wherever 1 go.
Hoping all things THAT are good anC
r believing all things THAT are true) re
main yours in spirit. J. L. YORK.
San Francisco, April 27, 1874.
Mrs. -NGddBl:-By request o
Mr.. c. w. Tappan, and in keeping with
an invitation card to him for politica
news from this city, to be read at thu
coming Suffrage Convention, proceed
to address you brief sketch. The vOt
, ing franchise as enjoyed by womeT
: here, is as highly valued by those of the
, Mormon faith as it is by the men, ant
/, it is As persistently exercised, and a
long as women adhere to that belle
(and the claims of the society are men
aced), it will be given in the interest o
!, the Church. But rs soon as a revulsiol
takes place, il will be used as barbe'
goad to bring debating priests and ty
rant rulers to salutary retribution.
), Now the grand necessity is to lear
5 how to concentrate the franchise Of
proper persons for officers. This neces
!, states the study of the first principles G
representation, which will at ono
demonstrate that the only palladium @
: individual or national safety rests il
the nominative franchise. The wome
should have an extra vote for each chill
they introduce into earth life, ais
y guardians of fools and insane persons, q
;, without it justice cannot be compelle
3 in their behalf, as long as mankind Low
: to feed themselves and their own favor
ties better than their neighbors. 1t
y time that the producers of wealth 81
about making laws to protect themseIvt
in its ownership, and no longer feed an
= clothe all the speeulating shirks in tn
: world for nothing.
1 congratulate the ladies for thei
" heroic resolves to redeem themselve
: and their children from barbarisn
: which in promised civilization there
no prospect that men alone will ever &C
complish.
Please forward reports of Conventio
= to Box 132, S. L, City.
Very respectfully,
= S. HUDSON.
Salt Lake, April %, 1874.
a Mrs. Mary SIlOl0-Dedr Madam
Of had purposed being with you at thl
, Convention. It would have been