The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-03
ONE THING AND ANOTHER.
PAPER NUMBER FOUR
GO ON.


to the end to be attained does not al
ways inspire US with fresh courage, for
the goal is often obscured by the noun
tains of difficulty in the way. The hills
do not always look green in the distance,
and looking back upon the lions already
slain will often reanimate with strength
and zeal, when contemplating the long
road before would only serve to discour-
age us. When friends, seeing what a
vast enterprise we have undertaken,
predict an utter failure for us, it will
serve to convince them that we will
succeed at last, to show them what we
have already done. At each decision of
the legislature upon the question of the
enfranchisement of women, there is q
cry for the advocates of the movement
to lay down their arms and give up the
contest; but we have only to point
them to our fallen foes to prove that we
will conquer in time. A great deep
rooted tree of prejudice cannot be felled
at one blow. We may sometimes be-
come impatient by noting the amount
of hewing still to do; but we can feel
confident that the tree will sooner or
later lie PROSTATE, if we keep working
away, by looking at the chips We have
made.
It was an ancient belief that when a
hero slew an enemy in battle, the
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that of the conqueror, whose power be-
came redoubled. This has been the case
with Woman Suffrage. Every con-
quered enemy of the cause has supplied
it with fresh sinew and muscle. That
the State Legislature should deem the
question one worthy of earnest debate,
is triumph of itself, even though the
! friends of the movement have thus far
been in the minority. Where could a
legislature have been found twenty
years ago that would have discussed the
question at all? A quarter of century
ago, handful of women, the subjects OF
SCOTS and jeers, stood as lone advocates
of the cause; but to-day eminent states
men, leading journals, and hosts OF
good men and women all over the land,
have become convinced that sex should
debar no one from the ballot.
A short memory will serve to call to
mind the time when the finger of scorn
was pointed at a woman who was bold
enough to avow the belief that wom-
ans sphere ought to extend beyond the
kitchen; and when a literary woman
was commonly considered utterly unfit
to hold the responsible position of wife
and mother; when the only legitimate
occupations for women were thought tC
be household labors, sewing, and teach
ing the very simplest branches; when 6
smattering of this and that was thought
to be all the education woman needed
when her mind was considered too veal
to master deep subjects, and her physi
cal weakness such as to render it haz
ardous for her to be subject to severt
mental discipline; when it was looked
upon as immodest for her to help her
self, to travel alone, or to go anywher'
or do anything without having he
movements superintended.
Now, people are wondering what
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much power and ability to remain in
active. Women are now employed a
clerks and accountants in mercantile es
tablishments, and hosts of them are be
coming telegraph operators, type-set
ters, and reporters. They are employec
in the mints, and do duty as clerks il
the various government departments
giving always the best of satisfaction
Many of the higher schools and college
have been opened to them, and tn
courses of study in the various femal
seminaries and academies have bee
made more thorough; in consequence
women can now be numbered in th
great army of eminent and effective ed
ucatOrs by the hundreds. To-day W
have scores of newspapers edited an
managed entirely by women, an
women as travelling correspondents an
regular contributors to political paper:
Many of our first-class papers and mag
azines have women upon their editoria
, staffs, while the majority of our livin
literary celebrities are women. w
have women upon the rostrum an
in the pulpit; we have women studyin
medicine and practicing it so success
fully that none can now refuse to cor
cede the point that the interests of Sc
ciety and humanity demand that the
5 should do it.
The laws in regard to the property {
women have been changed so as to b
: more just to them, and women are bt
,, ginning to study law, yes, to practice i
: as is illustrated by the wife of prom
nent Dubuque Qowa) lawyer being az
mitted to the bar, and captivating tt
entire legal fraternity of that city b
Y her learning, eloquence, modesty, an
q grace. We have women in foreig
, missionary societies who are sendin
r. out gospel-bearing missionaries to tt
n benighted of other lands, who are a
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