The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-10
STOP THE LEAKS.

The Treasury Department at Wash
ington has at last discovered leak in
national finances and gone to work in
earnest to amend it.
Our readers will remember how a
rigid economy was brought to the sup
port of the sinking funds of the Federal
Government last winter, when tone fe-
male eopyist'' was deposed from her po-
sition as man-protected employee, and
remanded to the shades of ''tOil without
recompense," all to aid In that ''reform"
in politics which can only come through
q judicious retrenchment Of Govern
mental expenditures.
Congress breathed freely after that
great public duty was performed ana
pursued the even tenor Of its way with
a sublime consciousness that 'back sal
ary grabs" and ''Credit Mobiliers" were
for while atoned for by the counter
action Of this mighty act of economy,
through which a member of the nom
voting sex was deprived Of her power to
rob the voters of q salary for which she
had been so foolish as to render an
equivalent in daily labor. e
But the demand for "retrenchment'
was only quieted for little season by
the dismissal of "one female copyist;"
and no revolution followed, as a rebuke,
from the enraged people when it was
known that n member Of the unrepre-
sented half of the people had been de-
prived of the means of subsistence
through a wise economy that starves the
surplus women who were so unrighteous
and presumptuous as to be born with
the unfortunate attributes of femininity
inherent in their natures, and so row
comes the Treasury Department, having
gathered courage from the benign ex-
ample of the National Legislature, and
at one fell swoop, officially beheadeth q
whole army of the Objectionable sex
for the majesty of masculine rule must
be upheld, and what can woman, who
is not a voter, render to the Govern
ment as political equivalent for such 8
favor as a Federal salary?
Three hundred and seyenty-five o.
these wrong-sexed individuals turned
out OF Office because Government mus
economize! 'Twasn't much matter
Only fourteen out of the whole number
tainted when the news reached them
They might have been in better luck
They had no business to be of the non.
voting sex. The Government of these
United States is made by men and fol
men, and when women have tho
audacity to forsake the home and the
fireside, or worse still, the wash-tub and
scrubbing- mop, and the dish-rag and
cooking-stove, and aspire 10 the light Ia
Dor and easy hours of the people with the
proper sex, they needn't expect but that
they'll meet with the just rebuke of q
prompt dismissal whenever the voters
shall so will it.
No doubt many of these employees
turned up their noses at Woman Suf.
fragists, and chad all the rights they
wanted" They are learning a bittel
and needful lesson now, and we are GLAD
the voting sex has decided to administer
it.
Men, as class, are far more willing
to-day to grant the ballot to women
than they, as class, are ready TO re-
ceive it. So, il they have any more
economies Of the same kind to put ia
force among the non-voters in othel
Departments, we hope they will be JUS
to sensible women, and visit all theii
wise measures Of retrenchment upor
those who, like the slaves in war time
wouldn't be free IL they cosld.n