The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-03
"DoN'T IEJURE THE CAUSE"

Under this head the Temperance Star, /
a little, half-starved publication that
has undertaken to exc out what has |
proved to be a very precarious existence
by taking advantage Of the temperance
excitement in this city, realizing the
futility of its hopes in that direction,
tries now to create little diversion in
its favor by perpetrating mess of silly
lies about the editor of the NEW NORTH
WEST. Among other things, he accuses
US of attacking the pastors" in this
city. We have never attacked the pas
tors, and he knows it; and we have not
had occasion to defend ourself from the
attacks of but one. Evidently the Star
sees double. The pastors of this city,
with one single exception, are our
friends, and towards the exception al
luded to we have not the smallest de-
gree of i'll feeling. He is but boy,
whom the heads of the Church very un-
wisely put forward in a position for
which his youth and inexperience were
not fitted, and he is more to be pitied
than blamed when he is egotistical and
proscriptive. 1t is very natural for
pious boys Of tender years to imagine
that they must protect God from the
law-making power of woman, and it Is
especially natural for one who has been
put in a mans place, while he should
- - 49,, Iaornfuu a 4 ft,a faaf of his
maternal Gamaliel, to assume that
power which ministers of twice and
thrice his years are too wise to arrogate.
The accusation Of the Star, that 1ce are
trying to incorporate Woman Suffrage
in the plan of the Prayer League, is as
absurd and silly as it is meant TO be
false and malicious. God has planted
it there, and all the hosts Of oppression
cannot destroy it. Their very frantic
attempts to do so but prove TO what
straits the enemies of Human Freedom
are driven.
We have never alluded to Suffrage ct
all, in any of the meetings, except in
reply to what somebody else had said,
and then always in that spirit of kind
ness and dconciliation and Difference to the
opinions and rights of others inculcated
by the Golden Rule.
The Star has heard it said that we
acted as if we couldn't get an audience
to speak to, and wanted TO steal one,
but doesn't believe It," though he
thinks, when we learn that the pastors
double seeing again-thought so
Well understand why we were re-
buked," etc. a.
For the benefit Of our contemporary
and to rid the mind of that astute "pas
tors" of such a suspicion, we will inform
the parties interested that the proserip
tive course of certain members Of th
I League, and their lack Of courtesy TO Us
( an active lecturer in the temperance re
e form for years while they were idl.
: sleeping, have so disgusted the publ
that their audiences have fallen of one
E half and We have been importuned dail
by influential citizens to get up oppOsi
tion lectures, which we have refused t
do, because we prize unity Of actiol
above all things except liberty Of con
science, and we will not do that whicl
looks like dividing the work, unless tn
doors are locked against us, and this W
do not look for.
For inexcusable, fndescribable, ineffa
bic meaImess We have never seen tn,
equal Of the Stars accusation that W,
would "injure the cause because w
can't lead it," Ten thousand souls lik
that of the man who uttered it cOull
find ample room to dance within Tia
d walls of mustard seed.