The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-20

these evil influences. NO
woman whose opinion is worth mo-
ment's notice has any desire to change
places with man. This is convenient
assumption of our opponents, because
they wish to set up other than the real
subject at issue to combat. Mr.. Fidler
then proceeded to propose that all
Woman Sufragists and those weak men
who.were foolish enough to believe in
the political rights Of women should
emigrate to Alaska and there settle the
question of establishing woman's gov
ernment and fight it out among them
selves, intimating that only quarrel
some discontents were on this side of
the question, and they should leave
peaceable people to enjoy the fruits of
their own vine and fig tree without mo-
lestation. Now, this plan cannot be
said to be original with Mr.. Fidler. |
Tennyson and Joaquin Miller have both !
established AmaZonian governments,
I'but they were not so unkind as to send
women off to the Polar regions, where
nothing but seals, polar bears, and the
like could find sustenance, and claim for
themselves all the inhabitable portions
of the globe; so we see that Mr.. Fidler
| is even more selfish and hard-hearted
than they were. Dir. +. made several
quotations from poets, which, consider
ing his reading and known literary
tastes, seemed very weak selections, be-
ing merely sentimental praises of
"Iovely woman," a kind of sugar-plum-
ish concoction, gotten up to please silly
women who care more for a compliment
to their pretty faces and angelic smiles
than they do for recognition of their
mental power or intellectual wants.
The gentleman from Benton 1--WE be-
lieve it was Chambers) knew of a wom-
an who neglected her babies to go to
Woman Suffrage meetings and rush
around in public. Now, we venture to
believe that if be really knows such a
woman, and can tell her name, if such
woman has mind enough to advocate
Woman Suffrage, she has mind enough
to attend to her babies, and all other
branches of her own business, and if she
; has not love enough for her own child
ron to attend to ALL their wants, her ad-
vocacy of Woman Suffrage has in no
way deprived her of that love; neither
9 would the espousal of the opposite side
! of the question give to her the love she
now lacks.
. Dr. Peyton made very neat speech
, in praise of women; but our little boy
asked, on going home, Mamma, which
side of the question was DR.. Peyton on?'
!, He voted for the resolution, at any rate
The gentleman from Douglas believes
= in doing unto others as you would hav,
= them 60 unto you. "If any portion o
the male members of this communit!
were deprived of the privilege of voting
Il they would be clamoring for their rights
We knO1O it,"
-, Some one, we did not learn who, aske,
=, at this stage of affairs the pertinen
e question, "What is woman's sphere p
! We would like to answer this by say
ing, at is precisely what man choose
# to make it." In past ages it was
~ plow and bear the burdens. In Turke
2 it is to sit in harems and cover their face
with veil on going out. In our fore
F. fathers time, it was to spin and weave
and learn only to read and write and C
g pher little. 1t changes with every at
~ vance man makes in the progress
Is civilization, and is just what, in th
y mind of each individual man, he aUish'
1t it to be. The same man thought won
an was too tender-hearted to punis
It, crime if she had the power. We woul
IN like to ask, "Who whips the lit
e, boys ?" If she can punish her oW
r. children to bring them to right doing,
'e think she will not hesitate to admin
n ter the same corrective to the childre
Sc of others.
Some one thought the woman que
g. ton was going down, ignoring the ia
i'll that in our midst hundreds of men al
nd women who were not in our favor OF
n. year ago have declared for US now al
Id signed our petitions.
of The petitions were objected to as b
ing small in proportion to our popul
lk ton. They were not generally circ
to lated, and that only in a few countie
be We had 1T names from MultnomG
ne two years ago that were not present,
he at this time, and many from 9th
IL places. We only presented the new p
TIA titiOns.
Vi Here a motion to adjourn was pr
and the special session was adjOurn
us without coming to vote.
On Thursday, after the House W
ed opened as usual by prayer and the jou
So nal read, Mr.. Cheesman opened the d
bate as follows:
at 1 feel like a mariner who has be
he sailing without his bearings. VIII
lis the sun comes out he is anxious to ta
,p- them. 1 go back to the Declarati
lst of Independence. 1t created CT
ity cium light to illuminate the darkness
are ages. "Every person in the whole III
Ter verse has a right to life, liberty" ct
m, and right to any right that can secu
en that right. They should possess all
ial privileges that would give it. This n
int olution asks a right for these women