The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-10

COURAGE AND CHARACTER. The
dread that is entertained by the political
magnates lest the. existing Temperance
crusade should reach the field of polities
is amusing. They are willing that the
women should wear themselves ont
over the most exhausting efforts that
female flesh and blood is capable of inn
periling the health and quite likely sac
rificlng the lives of some of them while
they cheer them on. But to attempt to
reach intemperance through the law, or
by giving women the ballot. is quite
another thing. Ex-Governor Dennison
made speech at a Temperance mass
meeting advising the women to perse-
we're, but "warning them to keep clear
OF any tangling alliance with an exist
ing temperance organization, and to
avoid politicians" What "tangling
alliance" can he refer to, excepting the
only political organization which dis
tinctly frowns upon the manufacture
and sale of the article which the women
are using their efforts to pour into the
gutter? How singularly afraid some
people are Of any political efforts COM
pelling reform. Temperance must be
kept out of politics. Women may
stand round filthy saloons breathing the
! fumes of tobacco and whisky, and ex-
| haustiDg their lungs in singing and
praying over the whisky-drinking and
whisky-selling voters, but they must
have no political rights with which, to-
gether with the men who cherish prin-
ciple better than popularity, they can
suppress the evil in the only effectual
manner and the only truly dignified
method of the responsible citizen. Oh,
noi Women may pray, but they must
not vote. Intemperance may be prayed
down, but never voted down. Femi-
nine endurance may be tested outside
/ the doors of the whisky mart, but femi-
nine delicacy must not be jeopardiZed
at the ballot-box.-IOledo Journal.
MAN AND WoMAN.-A woman who
loves, thinks first of the man who has
her heart; while he, as general rule, is
primarily concerned with himself. II
Bressant wished Cornelia to be happy
and loving, il was in order that he him
self might thereby be melted to greater
love and happiness; but had her pleas
ure been independent of his own, he
would not have troubled himself about
it. To her, on the other hand, Bres-
SAINTS well-being would have been para
mount TO her own, and to be preserved,
"a hNCA nCAtf az us a
perception, on her part, of this selfish
ness in him, would not have alienated
her. Selfishness in him she loves, does
not chill, but augments a wOman's af-
fections. Cornelia, already intending
to allow her companion everything,
would have seen nothing unbeeoming
in his being of the same mind himself.
He could scarcely value himself so high
as she.-"Bressdnt," by Julian Hdl0-
hOrne.
Women are self-denying and uncan-
did. Men are self-indulgent and out
spoken; and this is the key to a thous-
and double Misunderstanding for good
women are just as stupid in misunder-
standing men, as good men are stupid
in misunderstanding women.-" White
Lies" by Charles Redde.
Woman seems to differ from man in
mental disposition, chiefly in her greater
tenderness, and lesser selfishness. Man
is the rival of other men; he delights in
competition, and this leads to ambition,
which passes too easily into selfishness.
These latter qualities seem to be his
natural and unfortunate birthright.-
DdrIUiR.