The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-25
EDITORIAL OoRREsPONDENCF.

We believe the last editorial letter
took leave of you at Salt Lake City,
where we were enjoying the hospitali-
ties of Gentle friends and forming the
acquaintance of the latter-day saints.
The Sunday evening lecture in the NJ.
E. Church was largely attended, despite
the intense heat. Col. S. E. May led
most excellent choir, the music, both
vocal and instrumental, being equal to
the best in Portland AS elsewhere, our
meetings were popular among the
masses, but the press, especially the
| Gentle portion, did not take so kindly
to them because of our we'll known op-
position to the repeal of bill to disfran-
chise Mormon women. If polygamy is
a crime, let the Government have suffi-
cient stamina to so declare it, or else
give all women an opportunity to do
that which men haven't stamina to un-
dertake, and they will not hesitate to do
so. Or, let men ask for an Act disfran-
chising Mormon men as well as Nor
mon women, for the violation of law,
and we shall not object; but we shall
! fight one-sided legislation and one-sexed
oligarchy wherever we find it, whether
among polygamists or other prostitu-
| tionists
By-the-way, we saw a very sensible
article in a late Scribner against one
sided legislation, or the punishment of
sexual commerce according to the sex
of the sinner, instead of considering the
euorE1ity of the crime the same in both
sexes, and from its drift we are led to
conclude that DR.. Holland is getting
sensible on the woman question, a
symptom we are glad to chronicle, for
there are yet many of his readers who
pay him regularly to do their thinking,
because too lazy to think for themselves.
On Sunday, as we were going through
the basement of the great "Co-op.," a
Mormon lady, who acted as chaperone,
and was both obliging and intelligent,
accosted a brother, whose name we did
not learn, and said to him:
"Have you been to see - lately ?'
evidently meaning one of the wives of
the man addressed.
mo-" said he, 'not for some time.
How are they getting along?"
'Nicely," replied our guide; "but you
ought to go and see her. She has a nice
new baby"
az know I ought to go, but I'm too
busy" said the saint
When the mothers of men are thus
neglected, through viciousness or drunk
enness, when undergoing the fiery or
deal of unwelcome and enforced ma
ternity, men denounce the cruelty,
though failing to prevent it by law
but what shall we say of such inhu-
manity when practiced under the name
of religion, and adhered to as an Ordi-
nance of God, the law, meanwhile, re.
naming powerless.
The ballot will after a while bring
property rights to the Mormon women
and then they'll break their unequal
matrimonial traces, in spite of the
vaunted grace of God, which they in.
sanely fancy to be their sustenance.
On Monday, accompanied by H. J
Chapman, of Portland, who is sOjourn.
ing in Salt Lake for a season, we called
upon President Young and chatted fol
half-hour. The prophet is almost the
exact image of Beecher, though little
older and more infirm. He has tht
same magnetic eye, the same thicl
neck, q less sensuous mouth, and quite
as hearty and social manner. And
after all, Brigham Young's people art
no more attached to him, and obey hin
no more implicitly, and trust him NJ
more thoroughly, than Beecher's do
The difference between the two is no
in their intellect or intelligence, but il
their religious views. Both are borI
leaders, and both are, in spite of them
selves, opening humanity's eyes to th,
necessity of doing their own thinking
AS nothing is made in vain, and al
leaders have their uses, we must learl
to be charitable with everybody, living
always according to the light as we re
, ceive it. To deny that "alI is for tn
, best" is to doubt the wisdom of tn
great Architect of human destiny. Tha
evil, everywhere, will ultimately b
overcome with good, and that many o
the manifestations of evil are but stage
. of growth in the great economy G
: change, we believe implicitly.
e On Tuesday evening, August 1st, W
D met an intelligence audience in tn
I United States Courtroom, to whom W
4 spoke for an hour upon the resource
q and needs of the great Northwest. Their
is not only much need of the Portland
7 Dalles, and Salt Lake Railroad, bu
}, there is much incentive to the enter
prise from financial standpoint, whic
r the average Congressman who passe
6 judgment upon subsidies knows no MOI
r about than we do about the mountain
in the moon. There ought to be la,
v compelling every member of Congress
v and every President and Cabinet office
/ to traverse the entire continent by stag,
e Then they'd be prepared to legislate an
n execute sensibly and with justice.
), Our work at Salt Lake being finished