The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-16
LETTER FROM TUMWATER.
To THE EDITOR OF THE New NORTHWEST
. HaRing taken occasion in the las

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST
Having taken occasion in the last
number of the NEW NORTHWEST to say
few words to your readers relative to
each sending small sum, in accord
ance with a suggestion made by Miss
Anthony, toward defraying the ex-
penses of the senior editors trip to our
national Centennial celebration, l would
wish further to remark to them that l
am not personally y acquainted with Mrs.
Duniway, having met her but once, and
then but for a moment; consequently,
neither these nor former remarks are the
result of any intimated or expressed de-
sire on her part that they should be
written or published. This explanation
L most willingly make, in order to clear
her, or any connected with the paper,
of the charge Should it be made, or
even thought) of sliding into the mod
ern and quite fashionable habit of too
frequently passing round the hat"
However, what is said in this con-
nection is for the benefit of the cause,
instead of the editor as an individual,
although think the enterprise in which
she has embarked is not at present, at
least, very remunerative in dollars and
cents, whatever the result may be in a
matter of conscience, corelative to
known duty.
l can well see that in coming years
the advocacy of equal rights will be as
popular as its most sanguine well-wish-
ers could desire. But at the present it
is far otherwise. Just now now it takes
hard uphill work to conduct the enter
prise. None but the best balanced
minds and the bravest hearts can stand
the strain inseparably necessary to Sc
cure the desired results in this field.
1t needs hut little observation to con-
vince one of the very potent fact. that a
journal devoted almost exclusively to
sensational reading can, and will ex.
tend its circulation aud influence to O
fourfold greater extent in u given time
than one devoted To the interests o.
truth, justice, and solid facts alone. A
present l know of 10 journal that enter;
the field as the opponent of cherished
errors and advocate of unpalatablt
truth whose conductor does not need al
the reasonable help she or he can ge
from the friends of the cause advocated
Now, friends, very small amoun
from each one of as we shall not miss
while the cause greatly needs and viii
highly appreciate it. RecOllect, WI
have money and strong political infiu
ence to contend with, and they must b,
met by ability, and that backed by tn,
physical representative of value.
Again, let US not think or feel a
though we were doing Mrs. Duniway
or any other individual, great favor
even should we by our little separate
, one dollar efforts thus strengthen tn
editors right arm to the amount of
few hundred dollars. at is NOR
blessed to give than to receive" espe
, cially when one can feel that he is &C
complishing a real and lasting good t.
all classes.
And now, speaking of Woman Suf
frage, woman's rights, etc., 1 woulC
here call the attention of my brother
especially to this matter. Men neveI
have had their rights, nor never will, til
those of the other sex are fully securet
by law and a healthy and enlightenet
public sentiment. Whenever the ole
effete and semi-barbarous hindrance
and legal disabilities are simply re
moved from woman's field of usefulness
natural ability, and duties, the obviou
benefits will readily accrue to man a
well as woman. Not so much, how
ever, perhaps in a legislative capacit.
direct, or some of the bolder enterprise
of the day, as in the moulding of publi
sentiment at the ballot-bOx into sucl
intelligent and healthy legislation a
will tend to reduce, year by year, by
slow but sure process, those two grea
fiood-tide causes of human misery-in
temperance and war.
Yours for the right,
w. B. RICHTER.
Tumwater, June 10, 1876.