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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09
Portland, March 5, 1877
TO THE FRIENDS OF WOMAN SUI
FRAGE.
DEMOCRAT

Permit me to call your attention to a
circular letter from the Colorado Wom-
an Suffrage Association; also an extract
from private letter received too late for
our meeting at Albany. Now is the
time to work in Colorado. The subject
of woman's enfranchisement will be
submitted to the people next fall. They
want as many copies of the New
NORTHWEST as we can send them.
Who will forward dollar for this pur-
pose? One hundred dollars can be cas-
lily forwarded to Portland by the time
specified to furnish copies for gratuitous
distribution, and while we are helping
them we help ourselves, as indicated in
the letter, and we will help the paper,
which really demands and ought to re-
ceive help from our hands just now.
Isincerely hope that this call will not
be overlooked; we must ,OOrk for our
cause if we expect it to advance. To
set good example, 1 pledge 81 90.
H. A. LoUGHARY,
President o. S. w. S. A.
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THE INAUGURAL OF PRESIDENT
HAYES.

This address, so anxiously looked for,
aud the delivery of which was greeted
by such a vast multitude of listeners,
first with such earnest attention, and
afterward with such deep and abiding
satisfaction, is before the nation. The
various subjects before the people at
this time are briefly but firmly dealt
with by the new executive, who, how
ever, says in the outset that he "will
not undertake to lay down irrevocably
the principles or measures Of the admin
istration, but rather to speak of the mo-
tives that should animate US, and to
suggest certain important ends to be at
tained in accordance with our institu-
tions and essential to the welfare of our
country"
His brief review of the labor system,
civil service, finance, currency question,
etc., shows judgment and discretion,
while the declaration that universal
suffrage should rest upon universal edu-
cation" must meet the hearty approval
Va dAAs LAC lCCOlu ebl
to the Constitution prescribing a term
of six years for the Presidential office,
and forbidding prediction. The address,
more anxiously looked for than any
since the ominous days of '61, when
Abraham Lincoln stood up before q
surging mass of friends and foes and
concluded in solemn tones the words o.
his first inaugural in the memorable ap
peal to his dissatisfied fellow-country'
men," concluded with these words:
I call upon you, Senators, Representatives
Judges, fellOw-citizens, here and everywhere
TO unite with me in an earnest effort to secur,
TO our country the blessings, not only of ma
terial prosperity, but of justice, peace, and un
ion; a union depending, not upon the con
straint of force, but upon the loving devotion
Of free people; that all things may be so OF
dered and settled upon the best and firmes
foundations; that peace and happiness, trutl
and justice, religion and piety, may be estab
lished among us for all generations.
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A SENSIBLE REMEDY.

Remedies for "ticks" on horses being
under discussion in the Farmer, a cor
respondent over the signature of "Ma-
ria" makes the following sensible sug-
gestions: "If men would take the
amount of money they are in the habit
of spending each year in tobacco and
perchance in whisky also, and buy with
it remedy called side oats, and apply
this to their horses internally at the
rate of one-half peck or less, according
to age, twice or three times day, ticks
would not be found on them in any con-
siderable number, it being a fact that
horses kept in good condition are not
troubled with them. This remedy may
not be cheaper than others, but it is so
much nicer" This remedy will GER
tainly commend itself to those who de-
sire to combine economy with comfort
and cleanliness.
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FRIENDLY CRITICISMS.

Many of our friends, very kindly in
tentioned no doubt, feel morally GER
tain that did we but heed their advice
in the conduct of the NEW NORTHWEST
that the cause it advocates would be
accelerated. If all of these proposed
one plan we might hearken with little
more attention to it, but each has a
plan of his or her own, and to accept
one would be to reject others. Under
these circumstances we can only pursue
the "even tenor of our way with NAL
ice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right as God gives
us to see the right" To one, however,
who read US a lecture the other day
upon clipping a short article from the
Investigator, which in no way referred
to theological matters, and to another
who seolded US for publishing a letter
from liberalist, we would say, that St.
Paul did not hesitate to incorporate IN
his epistles various sayings from the
Greek poets, especially from the obscene
play-writer Menander, and his epistles
were none the worse for it either. OF
course st. Paul didn't qoute the Objec-
tionable arts, nor did we quote or print
anything from the sources named in the
least Objectionable. Jesus could find
good even in fallen women. His hu-
manity was broad enough for all classes
and conditions. Shall we say we live
in more fortunate times since we find
so many of our teachers better and wiser
! than JeSus and PauI /?
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forty licenses had been granted in about
the same manner as herein stated, that
honorable board opened its eyes for the
first time to this view of the law, but
still did not seem to comprehend the
farce it was playing.
1t being my turn now to whiper, I
said to Jack, al have got enough of this;
let's get out of here"
After entering the hall, remarked !:
"Those commissioners must all take
the Boston Investigator"
"Why 500" said Jack, evidently not
catching my idea.
"Because no Christian set of men would
ever deal out moral characters with as
slight conscientious scruples as they do"
Nonsense" said Jack. at is the al
mighty dollar they are after They
have just built new jail-cost twenty
Thousand dollars-and all the religion in
kingdom come would not stop license
there. Why, the chairman of that
board owns front pew in that church
(pointing to the Episcopal), the middle
man is bedrock Roman Catholic, and
the other is Methodist class leader up
at Fallen City.
Mrs. Editor, 1 will not take up the
valuable space in your paper by follow
ing this farce upon 'moral character
any farther. If any one doubts my
words in this play, let them go over tc
the "lava beds" in the city of Seattle
in Washington Territory, and they will
find plenty of liquor dealers chuckline
over their easy victory. And what ii
true of Washington Territory 1 appre
hend is true of the District of Columbia
Oregon City, or any other place wher
a certificate of good moral character
is required. From the driveling inc
briate on the sidewalk, and the wife
beater in the house, to the occupant o
the Presidential chair, the case is tn
same. The almighty dollar rules
Neither religion, virtue, honor, or integ
rity have feathers weight in the op
posite scale, and they never will hav
until woman has the balIot-that powe
which will enable her to place valu
upon religion, virtue, honor, integrity
and jnstice, in accordance with he
quick perceptions of right.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Portland, February %, 1877.
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RECENT EVENTS.

Governor Nichols was on Monday
reported dangerously i'll.
Governor Hayes resigned the Office
of Governor of Ohio on the I'd inst.
The Packard authorities have released
the would-be assassin, Weldon, on bail
of $1,000.
Five thousand extra copies of the re-
port and testimony in the Oregon cleo
toral case were ordered printed.
The oath of Office was administered to
President Hayes on the 4th of March,
by Chief Justice Waite, at the Execu-
tive Mansion.
Throughout New England Republi-
cans celebrated the Presidential election
by firing salutes and decorating build
ings with bunting.
The Times Washington special says
Ferry signed the declaration of Hayes
election with an eagle quill sent him.
from the far West for that purpose.
The following Oregonians are sojourn-
ing at Washington: Joaquin Miller,
Ben Simpson, DR.. Watts, w. H. Odell,
Asahel Bush, Vic Trevitt, and c. B.
Bellinger.
The 1Fibune'S Washington special
declares that Democrats are bent on re-
ducing the army as revenge for the Re-
publican use of it in the South during
the election.
During the week l23 deaths were reg
istered in San Francisco against 136 for
the previous week, and 118 in the cor
responding week last year. OF these, 8
were from smallpox, "a from diphtheria.
Sixteen new cases of smallpox were
reported this week. Total number of
cases reported since outbreak, 1,5OO;
average mortality, including deaths
among Chinese, who never report cases,
about 25 per cent.
The following is chronicled among
the last proceedings of the forty-fourth
Congress: A resolution was reported from
a select committee on privileges declar-
ing that Samuel ]. Tilden received 1876
electoral votes of electors legally and
constitutionally appointed, and was
thereby duly elected President of the
United States, and that it is the opin-
ion of the House that Thomas A. Hen
bricks, having received a like number
of votes for Vice-President, was duly
elected.
. Kelly, in the Senate on Saturday
called up the long pending House bill
to grant lieu land for the klamath In
dian Reservation in Oregon. Mitchell
said he would vote with his colleague
to take it up for consideration, but
would vote against its passage. The
bill was then taken up, and after dis,
cussion, in which Kelly favored anC
= Mitchell opposed, it was postponed til
next December. As it is House bill
this kills it. Most of its benefciarie'
are residents of California, including 6
number of San Francisco capitalists.
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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

DEAR READERS OF THE New NORTHWEST:
Since last we wrote you we have been
so much of the time on the sick list that
there is little progress to report, further
than that we are now at Council Bluffs
and looking westward Iongingly.
The lecture work at Springfield of
which we wrote you left US so nearly
PROSTATE that lying by for repairs was
necessarily in order. Now, if there is
anything we have no patience with, it's
Ourself when an invalid. 1t isn't hard
for us to be friend to other folks when
they're unable to be on duty, but when
we glance in the mirror at hundred
and fifty pounds of anything but feeble
looking avoirdupois, and reflect that
there is always a demand upon the
hands and brain those pounds sustain
that requires constant health and active
effort, and then see the overworked ma
chine break down in spite of its ponder
Gus proportions, while the demands
upon it never "let up" for an instant,
we get so desperate that if we were not a
Christian there's no telling what we
might try to do.
When we got to Council Bluffs our
darling auntie brought out package of
letters from the loved ones at home that
has been awaiting US for weeks; but we
were so homesiek already, and we knew
the appeals to hurry home they con-
tanned would only drive US to bed again,
that we didn't dare to open them lest
we'd never live to get home at all.
After having so far recovered from
the lecture siege in Springfield that the
dear relatives at Mt. Pulaski again per-
mitted US to attempt to travel and toll,
we returned to Chicago, where other
precious kindred, in the city and sub.
urbs, chased dull care away and helped
US much in our health and mission by
their love and cheer.
An appointment was made for lee
ture in Chicago on Sunday, the 11th
but the meeting was unfortunately
sandwiched between Beecher in tht
morning and Woodruff in the evening
so the audience, though appreciative
was small, as compared to other locali
! ties.
Could we have foreseen the possibilit!
of remaining away from home so Ionl
as this when we left the dear ones for
hurried trip across the Continent las
June, and had we made calculations t
be in no hurry anywhere, we Nigh
have been spared innumerable spells @
illness, and made the journey yastl
more pleasant and profitable. Blu
every where we have gone to lecture W
have been in a hurry, and in almos
every instance have broken down an
been compelled to tarry, while the aI
peals from home for haste hav
driven US half distracted. If any
body thinks there is any unalloyed fu
in being political missionary, just le
'em try it.
: Dear readers, your pardon. We didn'
J intend to write letter full of driVelin
} blues, but we fear you'll get no othe
J kind till we are home again. We sha
lecture here an evening or two, an
! then westward no! A. J. D.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Feb. II, 1877.
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NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

Diphtheria has made its dread ap-
pearance in Corvallis.
The second term in the State Univer-
sity began on Monday.
w. r. Dunbar, G.. w. c. T., left The
Dalles for the Ochoco country on Mon
day.
A boy seventeen years old, named
Davis, is down with smallpox in Sc
attic.
Seattle is troubled with vile set of
hoOdlums who smash windows, steal,
and do like things.
The Ashland Tjdings reports the
miners on Applegate Creek rejoicing in
copious supply of water.
There is fully one-third more ground
under cultiyation in Washington county
this season than ever before.
A little girl named Balderee, the child
of a widow, fell into the river at Gar
diner last week, and was drowned.
A. D. Byers, of Astoria, killed bald
head eagle near Harrington's Point last
week, which measured six feet ten
inches from tip to tip.
The crops throughout the country
never looked better than at the present
time. From all appearances the wheat
crop will be immense.
The steamer "Fanny Patton has re-
ceived such injury that she will be COM
PEELED to lie up for a season at the bone
yard to undergo repairs.
A petition will be circulated soon,
asking the Post Office Department to es-
tablish a daily mail from Empire City
to Drain, by way of Gardiner.
The remains of Geo. La Rogue, well
known and highly respected citizen Of
Oregon City, who died recently in Oak
land, California, were brought up by
the dElder'' and taken to Butteville for
| interment,
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PRESIDENT HAYES CABINET.

The following nominations were re-
ceived by the Senate at 2:30 P. NJ. orthe
18th: For Secretary of State, VIM. NJ.
Evarts, of New York; Secretary of the
Treasury, John Sherman, of Ohio; Sec
retary of War, Geo. w. McCrary, ot
Iowa; Secretary of the Navy, Richard
NJ. Thompson, of Indiana; Attorney
General, Chas. Devins, Of Massachusetts;
Postmaster General, David M. Key, oI
Tennessee; Secretary of the Interior
Carl Shurz, of Missouri.
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Amity, February %, 1877.
WANT OF DBOENOY IS WANT OF
SENSE"

We beg to call the attention Of Brother
Abbott, of The Dalles Tribune, to the
fact that younger and more progressive
journalists have already learned that
obscenity is not wit, and indecent innu-
endo will not pass current for pleasantly.
When an editor is compelled to resort
to the vernacular of the prize ring for
words to express his ideas, he is more
to be pitied than condemned. We ad-
wise the brother to place the following
couplet in a conspicuous place in his
sanctum, where, when he looks about
for an idea, it may meet his gaze:
Immodest words admit of no defense;
A want of decency is want of sense"
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Circular Letter.

To the Oregon State Woman Suffrage
AssociatiOn-D Friends: In compli-
auce with the requirements of our State
Constitution, adopted July l, 1875, the
present Assembly has passed bill pro-
viding for equal suffrage; said bill will
be voted upon at the next general cleo
ton, Tuesday, October 8, 1877.
We feel confident that, with the nee
essary means to carry forward thor
ough and vigorous campaign, we have
good prospect of success, as our popula-
tion is small and generally intelligent,
and the spirit of progress is dominant.
We think that the same amount OF tai
eut and capital invested in this field, at
this time, will do more for our common
cause than it could possibly do any
where else. We believe that we are go
ing to fight the impartial suffrage battle
for the nation next autumn, and that
victory i'm Colorado will make success
comparatively easy for other States.
Hence our conviction that the inter-
est. the energetic effort, and the finan-
ciaI aid of all the friends of this right
eous cause should be concentrated here
during the approaching campaign.
We must succeed, and to this end we
earnestly ask your sympathy and CO.
operation. We ask, not for ourselves
and our beloved State only, but for you
and your State, and for our common
country and her highest interests.
May we depend upon you to the ex-
tent (at least) of furnishing the means
to employ lecturer for one month?
Hoping for generous and favorable
response, we are, dear friends, your fel-
low-laborers for freedom,
Aida G. AVERY,
Pres't Colorado W. s. A.
HARRIET A. LAWSON,
Treasurer and Cor. Sec'y.
D, NJ. RICHARDS,
Chairman Ex. Com.
Denver, Colorado, February, 1877,
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Three times in our nations history
has the Constitutional Inauguration
day come on Sunday. The first was
the second inaugural of President Mon
roe, March 4, 1921; the second was the
inaugural of Zachary Taylor, March 4,
lS49; the third was the inaugural of
Rutherford B. Hayes, March 4, 1877.
These occur three times during GEN.
tnry, and Inauguration day will fall on
Sunday during the next century, in
1917, 1919, and 1878.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09
THE OUTLOOK FOR SUFFRAGE.

The constantly increasing interest
manifested at the "hearings" annually
allowed to Woman Suffragists in the
various State Legislatures is a source of
great encouragement to the friends of
the cause. During the first weeks of
February four of these hearings were
granted, one each in Indiana, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
These were all occasions of the greatest
interest.
Representative Hall, in the last
named State, on Tuesday, the 18th day
of February, (the day on which our State
Association met at Albany, was crowded
with men and women, some of whom
had come sixty miles to the feast
Seats, aisles, and steps around the
Speakers desk were full; the three gal
leries were crowded, and every passage
way was packed. The signatures of
9,036 citizens of the Old Bay State were
appended to a petition asking suffrage
for women, and Hon. VIM. J. Bowditch,
Rev. Jesse H. Jones, Wendell Phillips,
Miss Mary E. Beedy, VIM. Lloyd Garri-
son, Julia Ward Howe, and many 9TH
ers, with ready-voiced eloquence, advo-
Gated the claims of woman to the ballot.
On the Wednesday preceding (the 9TH
of February the subject was presented
to the Connecticut Legislature by the
indefatigable Smith sisters, and these
were supported by an array of argu-
ments from some of the best and wisest
men and women of the State. The suf-
fragists of that State have been greatly
encouraged by the excellent message o.
the Governor, which calls emphatically
for better laws for women.
On the day following Thursday, the
Sth,) the Rhode Island Woman Suffrag,
Association had hearing before a spec
ial committee, to which their petitions
had been referred. Here, as in otheI
States, the interest was intense.
In looking over the field, every suf
fragist feels thrill of pride and hope
Appeals of this kind cannot mucl
longer be made in vain.
Fair young Colorado is coming to tn
front with her earnest Western workers
who, while they propose vigorously t.
help themselves, yet ask help from
abroad to render their coming campaign
vigorous as BELTS the great occasion. /
courage and energy and work is stron
enough to contend against prejudice an
Indifference aud ignorance, the victor
in Colorado is certain.
Our own State has in the last year &C
eomplished no mean amount of labor /
the great cause. We only need a suffi
cient number of earnest, judicious, an
energetic workers in the field to be abl
to have a Legislature two years henC
that will give proper attention to th
demands of our now disfranchised cit
zens. Help is springing up in all qua
ters; women who but a few years ag
were silent upon the subject now b
scores are agitating the question in
quiet way that prepares the ground upo
which the braver workers are soon [
scatter broadcast the immortal seeds
truth. Friends Of the cause, the outloo
in the East is encouraging; in the nit
die West victory is lowering over tt
banners of equal rights; in tie far We
the leaven is working. Let us push G
to victory, mindful ever of the SUI
promise, 'In due time ye shall rea y
We faint not"
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& A new monthly journal, entitled
Wonaan's Words, will be issued in Phil
adelphia on the 18th of this month. 1t
will be sixteen page journal, printed
on tinted paper, and will be of literary
tendency and progressive ideas, devoted
to the needs of women, their encour-
agement and entertainment. Price,
81 90 per annum.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

According to Hon. R. B. Cochran, of
Lane county, Republican powder leaves
an unpleasant odor in Democratic nos
trils, and he begs, warns, and entreats
the victors to burn no more of the tan :
talizing and infiammable compound.
They will probably desist.
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Mrs. Loughary will lecture at Corval-
lis on this friday evening. She is an
earnest, unfinching advocate for the
right, and will doubtless receive cor
dial greeting from the citizens of Cor
valIiS
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

Mrs. Maria Ramnage is authorized to
collect, solicit, aud receipt for subscrip-
tions to the NEW NORTHWEST in North
Yamhill and vicinity.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

A sensible woman's postscript in a
letter to an editor: "Don' say anything
against Woman Suffrage ii you want
me to love you."
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NOTICE.

Agents Will please take notice that il is a
great tax upon us 10 pay express charges upon
small sums. and they will confer great favor
BY remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1877-02-10

Our devil" had IL dream the other
night. lie dreamt that The end Of all
hirgs had com md that he was
stationed on in ,mincnce from which
lie could survey the closing scenes i'll
the last session Of the great supreme
court. His gaze became rivctcd upon
i group cf politicians rs THY walked
up to receive sentence and among the
number he singled out one man whose
bald head contrnstcd strangely with
the kinky unkcmpt heads about him.
lie listened intcntly and upon the
solemn air came to his cars the fear
iul announcement:
Blessed are they that do his com
mai i;ncnts, that they may have righ,
to the tree Of life, and may enter i'll
through the sates into the city. For
without are dogs, and sorcercrs, and
whorcmongcrs, and murdsrers, and
lo!ators, and whosorrer ioecM and
nukcM q Hc."
It was Daniel II. Chamberlain
the picture was perfect. "And in
he: lie lifted up his yes being in tor
ment.'