The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-10
SALEM CORRESPONDENCE.

DhHhm OOhhbOI ONDhNO1t
Madam c. a. Co6urn My friend, 1
have read your letter replying to mine,
about my rejected article. am much
beholden to you for your criticism, as
was in hopes you would have been by
mine. But instead of seeing n1ediocrity
in the NEW NORTHWEST, you only see
it in my article. First, you refuse its
admission because you are only furnish
ing 'milk to babes;" next you come
out and say sit ridicules sacred things"
Then, "you keep out articles of nledi-
ocrity, if you know it," etc. Well, you
are logical! You keep out my article
because it ridicules sacred things! then
ridicule my article That is as sacred to
me as any other PERSONS religion is to
him or her! 30, woman, in our hours
of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to
please" No meat for men, but milk for
babes, is all you furnish, you dear tease.
If you would put the same spice,
sense, piquancy, in your paper all over
that you have penned in your letter to
me, 1 should not complain of nlediocrity.
Now, let me write a letter, requesting
you to "stop the paper" and you pub
lish it as written, and then reply to it,
as follows print ii all aoo0; don't gar
ble):
EDITOR New NORTHWEST PLEASE discon-
tinue my paper, for cause, as follows: There is
nothing new or Interestingly in it, any more:
That story of Captain Gray's Company is flat as
dishwater. 1t is taking up room in the paper
that ought to have good story in it. When
the author wrote that story she was young, and
had no experience of Life or Love to draw from
Her facts are too simple, too much the every
day affairs Of common life. Her characters are
all green, and she was green for becoming their
BiOgrapher. Such people and books are coun-
tryfed-Pikey. The N. n. W. is getting be-
hind the age. Then again your scissors are
dull, such tame, old fogy anecdotes and Incl
dents as you clip from your basket shows a
very lame quality of exchanges or extreme
dullness in selection. So much like spelling
book pieces and first reader jokes.
Then again those dry repetitions of your
travelling editor The same all over the State;
what good yellow legged chickens she got at
Sister Simpkins and how nice brother Hitch
emup's son drove her over to some discontented
Methodist meeting house to give a ten hundred
times repeated lecture on Woman's Sufferings
of which her great, fat, plump, indolent, easy
self is the leading example.
Your paper is too tame, it is toned down next
to nonentity itself Imbecility is no name for
it. Now reply to this and scold all you want
to. In this last paragraph give you chance to
| turn ragged edge" upon me, your suffering
old subscriber JONES SMITH.
Aug. oath 1875 eagle Cove" Oregon.
P. s. you have even had to go and make a
miIliner out of Lord Dunraven's wife, to fiatten
out the only sensational column in the n. N.
W. for the last several weeks. Us.
Now reply to Mr.. Smiths letter; first
give that to the public, so they can see
what he complains of, then reply to it
your wittiest.
And if you can't ''do justice" to it,
Mrs. D. can. Put in a spicy reply to it;
give it fits. Where is pretty, witty,
sweet "Yours Truly?" 1 am not alto
gether joking about the New NORTH
WEST getting dry. You say it is pros
porous. Well, what makes it? People
at first subscribed because it was wom-
ans paper and Mrs. D. struck right and
left at abuses, at old fogy notions, things
held sacred by fogy people NOW, yOo,
won't touch anything "sacred'D. Since
then, she has scolded every feller that
wrote her letter of dissatisfaction with
the paper, so that nobody ddreS stop it,
and also she is constantly travelling and
canvassing, and folks, perhaps, live in
hopes the paper will become reformer,
some time. But am afraid you have
settled down into the fatal rut of all
free journalism, ease and established re-
specta6iIity, and you will knight-errant
no more.
To show you that it is not nlediocrits
in my articles but mediocrity in the
newspaper that refuses to publish them
Isend you one just published in the Re.
Hgio- Philosophical Journal, of Chicago
The society before which it was deliv.
cred suggested its publication in you
paper. But 1 told them 1 thought you
. were afraid of Hammond and the
churches and would not publish it; yet
right in priest ridden, press silenceC
! Portland is where such articles ought tC
be published. Everywhere in Europ,
, and America the liberal press are sound
, ing the alarm. Warning the people o
the advances of the churches and o
| priestcraft against civil liberty. You
t paper, protesting to elevate woman
, would only free her from political do
, minion, to plunge her, and the State by
her vote, under the blood-dyed domin
t ion of the priesthood.
3 We may soon have to have a pape
) that will beat back the waves of fanati
f cism that you call "sacred." "* :" see
: the Importance of the occasion, and doe
good in your columns. My style doe
| not suit, but go on with him. Som
3 folks are moved by logic, some not, bu
f such can see a point when lit up by th
: torch of ridicule; for such 1 wrote.
t shall not grumble at being shut out o
your paper, for have access to wide
) spreading journals for all the ideas tina
r have time to clothe, and don't car
whether my ideas have even fig lea
2 on them. try to sag something whel
? write, not to fill columns and get t.