The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-11
' woMBH's WAR WITH WHISKY


After having aitentively examined
Mrs. Vietor's pamphlet, bearing the
above title, we are enabled to say that as
y souuciir of the crusade it contains q
convenient compilation Of much matter
that those most particularly interested
will be pleased to possess in such a
shape; but that, upon the whole, tue
work is remarkably one-sided affair
and that it would live longer, sell better
and reflect far more credit upon its gifted
compiler, IL some OF the proscriptive and
intolerant acts of few Of the crusaders
and their self-righteous leaders against
the Woman Movement, that are well
known to the general public, had been
faithfully portrayed, as they ought TO
have been.
While we stand up for all that is good
aud conscientious that the crusaders
have done and are doing, and are just as
truly and sincerely friend TO them as
Mrs. Victor can be, we know that some
of them have done much that merits the
condemnation of all sincere temperance
workers. And we know also that the
faithful historian is expected to publish
both sides of question in hand, and
this our friend has signally failed to do
| in the work before US.
Speaking of the disastrous defeat
which certain "dodger" had brought
upon the temperance council ticket,
Mrs. Victor says: " Rev. y. r.. Med
bury, who had from the first worked
zealously in the temperance cause, in
the first soreness of defeat said, have
often doubted Of the wisdom of enfran-
chising the negro before he was sulli-
ciently educated TO understand the value
and responsibility of the ballot etc,
etc, meaning 10 make the ladies under
stand that he felt they had, by wishing
TO NEEDLE i'm politics, done great mis-
chief TO the cause they had at heart.
Women are so used to being classed with
slaves and chattels, that no one alslrcrcd
him back" ETC., etc. Italics ours.
The plain truth j., that the editor-in-
chief of the New NORTHWEST freely and
fully answered him back" at the same
meeting in which ne made the assertion.
What our historian means by denying
this fact and ignoring its results, already
published in these columns, may not be
clear to the general public, but it is per
feetly clear TO herself and US. We assure
her, however, that she utterly mistakes
the public sentiment TO which she tries
TO cater, and that she will learn the
same by sad experience before she is
done with the sale Of her pamphlet.
1t is this ignoring the Woman Move
ment, and applying the gag law TO its
earnest advocates in the temperance
work that has crippled the crusaders and
caused the great public TO lose conf
dence in their sincerity and leave off at
tending their meetings; and we are ex'
ceedingly pained To see so graceful {
writer as our amiable and gifted friend
engaged in any sort of connivance at ol
sympathy with the few proscriptivC
bigots who have been and are yet vainly
trying TO carry on the war agains
whisky, without consenting that IA
tional appeal be made in their meeting
to the rioters Of the nation to empowe
= women 10 work as lawmakers wher'
they can now only work as outlaws.
We see nothing in the pamphle
which we can recommend TO suffragist
as an aid In breaking the political fet
tiers that hold women subject to tn
power of the law-making rabble win
vote regularly in the whisky interests
geographically the work is well ex
ecuted, and reflects credit upon the pub
fishing house Of Geo. II. Hines. K ca
Price, fifty cefsts.