The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-08-27
WHOLE NUMBER ISSUED, 2Oo.

For four times fifty-two weeks the NEW
NORTHWEST has flung its banner to the
breezes and scattered the leaves of its
thoughts toward the four corners of the
earth, many of them alighting in thick
clusters in the nearby towns and viii
lages, Others borne farther away, scatter
Ing as they journeyed, and yet others,
waited by wings of steam, have sought
out the far distant abodes of denizens of
foreign lands beyond both Orient and
Occident.
And, to-day, as we fling the initial
number of Volume Five to the same
friendly breezes, our heart goes out from
our cozy sanctum to our readers all over
the earth with gladsome greeting. Dear
dweliers in the lonely farm-houses,
whose weary feet keep ceaseless time to
the treadmill duties of endless toll, the
New NORTHWEST salutes you. Well we
know that these columns have often
times made your pulses throb with emo
tions of pleasure as you have watched
the difficult progress of our little barque,
as with sails spread and colors flying we
have stemmed the tide and outrode the
breakers which have cast many a man
freighted journal upon, financial reefs
and broken it in twain thereon since we
began our journey.
SOrrowful watchers by the couch of
pain, the New NORTHWEST salutes you.
May your weary vigils ever find this
little messenger of love aud cheer beside
you in the still small hours of the silent
night.
Sad sufferer, confined 10 bed Of lam
gushing, to whom the memory of the
bustling busy world is but painful yet
pleasant dream, the New NORTHWEST
salutes you. May you gather fresh cour-
age from the perusal of its love- freighted
pages, and may you feel as the rolling
months and years bring you nearer the
mystic River, that our humble, we'll
meant endeavOrs have sometimes as
sisted you to obtain glimpses beyond the
Vale where sickness and suffering shall
be known no more forever.
To every loving, hoping, praying
woman, whose soul goes out in ardent
longing for avenues of usefulness, the
NEW NORTHWEST cries out, Behold the
way. Do what you can for women's po-
litical freedom. Help us to open the
way TO their timid feet, and cast rays of
light upon their blinded paths. AS God
has given you influence for this end,
hesitate not to WELD it, else it be said of
you at the last that you have hidden
your talents in a napkin. The Peoples
Paper cries to you for aid. Will you
not bestow il?
And last, but by no means least, we
say to men, our brothers everywhere,
Wherever the light of these thoughts
may fall, with kindly heart we greet
you. But for the aid that you have
given us, our barque had long ago been
wrecked for want of financial ballast.
We thank you cordially, heartily, sim
cerely, for your oft-given words and
deeds of cheer. We fling our banner to
the breeze this Friday morning for the
two-hundred-and-ninth time because we
trust and honor you. We have looked
to you in the past for friendship and we
have found it. We shall look to you in
the future for aid In the continuation of
our enterprise and shall receive it.
To our brethren of the press we make
our lowest bow and say, All hail.
Despite the skirmishes we have often
had in which occasionally some of you
have had the bad taste to exhibit bad
temper and obscenity, for which you
have not yet apologized, although we
know you are ashamed of it, we have
conquered the respectful consideration
of the entire fraternity. No editor of
any note, save one, is even pOutiag at
US. And he, poor fellow, finds it up Hill
business. Many, indeed the majority of
you, have always treated us with cour-
tesy. We thank you-not for doing
your simple duty, but for having had
the courage to stand by US so faithfully
when others of your class were throwing
mud. Especially do we thank you for
your respectful treatment of our sister
and associate editor, Mrs. G. A. Coburn,
whom Providence has enabled usto bring
to the front, where she royalty sways her
graceful scepter, under cover of our col
umbaid, while even the erewhile mud
slingers behave themselves properly.
To all our friends, both men and
women, and especially TO all friends of
woman's acknowledgements, we say, Put
shoulder to the wheel and help us to
keep our barque in sailing order, we'll
balanced by bills receivable. We can
not continue the fight for freedom with
out constant pecuniary responses from
those whose subscriptions are due.
Assist us in our labors, friends of human
rights, and in SO doing you will assist
yourselves.
HALF RATES TO THE STATE FAIR.