The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-10
AN HoUR WITH CORRESPONDENTS.

Convention correspondence has occu-
pied so much of our space during the
past three weeks, that the correspondents
the NEW NORTHWEST have been al
most crowded out; but we assure them,
one and all, that, though they have not
received their usual attention in these
columns, their missives, though silent
to the world, have spoken cheerily as
ever to US. In resuming our inter-
rupted chat with them, we unfold first
a letter from Seattle, "queen city of
Puget Sound" and quote therefrom:
"Pecuniarily speaking, am not able
to take the New NORTHWEST, but the
cause it advocates is so important to the
men, as well as to the women of Amer
lea, that 1 cannot withhold my inf1u-
ence from it, nor my patronage from its
able exponent" We have no doubt,
good friend and true, that so long as
your heart is enlisted in the cause, you
will manage to encourage its "expo-
nent" by yearly reminder akin to the
one that accompanied the words given
above. Yet, as we write this, visions of
women with wistful eyes and wan faces
come before us, who have worked all
their lifetime and worked hard; who
have helped to earn the broad acres that
surround them, the cattle that Craze
thereon, and the reapers that clip the
golden grain which the fervid kiss of
summer has matured, yet, for all this,
cannot command three dollars from the
products of farm or dairy to pay for the
New NORTHWEST, although they think
of it with feverish longing from week to
week. One of these, speaking to us at
the Alliance few weeks since about
the forced stoppage of her paper, re-
marked: "My daughters will never be
ruled as I have been," and the little
CLEAN of triumph that shone in her
eyes begat a throb of triumph in our
heart.
Next comes a letter from Monitor,
Marion county. A postage stamp falls
out as we open it, and the writer says:
t'Please oblige a subscriber of the NEW
NORTHWEST by sending a copy of the
! Womdn'S Journal. think some of my
friends would send for the Journal if
they knew the terms and address, and,
as wish to aid in every way the glori-
Gus cause you are so bravely battling
for, desire to circulate, as far as am
able to do so, the leading papers of the
movement" This sensible matron has
sounded the keynote to success, and
shows a combination of faith and works
that is sure to win in the end. The
paper mentioned is worthy the patron
age of all suffragists. Address Woman s
Journal, Boston, Mass.
Now comes postal card from MEM
Der of a firm, saying: "Stop my part of
subscription addressed" etc. We
puzzle over it, sharpen our pencil, and,
drawing the ponderous mail-book
toward US, after a tedious search (for
our correspondent had forgotten to des-
ignate his post Office, and the post-mark
was, as is usual in such cases, illegible),
we find the name Of the firm, and adjust
the matter as eeuitably as possible.
Next comes word from the President
of the State Woman Suffrage Associa-
tion, Mrs. Loughary, saying that she
had 'just closed meeting at Lafayette
spoken to a large audience-held a
pleasant parlor reunion at the home oi
a co-worker, received words of cheer
and hope from numerous friends, worked
with good effect for the circulation oi
the NEW NORTHWEST, and was ready
to go on her way to Corvallis" rejoic-
ing, we suppose, as we certainly are, al
the cordial reception her good sense and
earnest labors merit.
"Gervais" is the post-mark on the
next letter, and we draw it forth to find
wall from sorrowing mother, ovel
whose daughters breast the wet, fresh
clods of the valley lie-albeit the wal
is not for this, but "because of the cruel
treatment that consigned her while
life was yet young and its hopes buoy,
ant, to the embrace of the "Reaper
whose name is Death" The mothers
lot
"To bear, to nurse, to rear,
To love, and then to lose,"
is doubly bitter when narrowed by in,
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