The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

quite eventful one; and now, as she en-
deavors to recall the incidents of the
past few weeks, to serve them up for
your delectation or your displeasure,
there is so much to say that she does not
expect to be able to tell you half.
Firstly, however, we have been thor
oughly i'll for the most of the time for
six weeks, fact that has so seriously
interrupted both work and travel that
we have not been able to do more than
half duty. The anxiety that this state
of affairs naturally engenders was very
much enhanced by the receipt of letter
from home, giving discouraging view
of the finances of the paper that we are
working our life away to sustain. We
tried to fight back relapse by writing
a savage "Ed. Cor.," for we knew there
would be no lack of patronage at the
close of the year to keep up finances,
if only all patrons who 1OiSh the Peoples
Paper well would accompany their
wishes by its honest dues; but the rem
edy wouldn't work, so we laid by for re-
pairs, like a damaged locomotive, till
the time came for the lecture before the
honorable members of the Illinois State
Legislature, when we whipped up our
tagging strength and went to Spring
| field, where, on the evening of the 18th,
we had the honor of meeting one of the
most intelligent audiences ever assem-
bled to listen to the gospel of freedom.
From the different "nOtices of the press"
which we hope our home readers will
take some interest in, we select the fol-
lowing, clipped from the Illinois Jour
nal of the Goth inst, the paper in which,
under the olden time management of
Simeon Francis, deceased, late of Port
land, Oregon, some of the very first of
our childish effusions saw the light of
public criticism and commendation
Mrs. Duniway's lecture at Representative
Hall was listened to last evening by one of the
most appreciatve audiences ever gathered to-
gether in this city. Secretary Harlow intro
duced the lady in a few happy remarks, after
which she held the audience for an hour and a
half much interested in an argument upon
Constitutional Liberty" She will lecture
again tonight. Subject, "The Personal Expe-
riences that brought me into the field as a Po-
litical Missionary" The house will doubtless
be crowded.
AS the address in question is to be ex-
tensively printed, it wouldn't do for its
humble author to defend or condemn it,
for the dear public is at all times its OWL
best judge of what suits it when you
can gain its ear or eye at all.
Colonel Harlow, Secretary of State
who made the opening address, mosl
emphaticaIly endorsed both missionary
and mission, though some of the audi.
ence thought she ought to have been in
Oregon last summer to have read the
Constitution to DR.. Watts; and some
others were satisfied that her missi OIL
ought to have been to convert Governor
Grover; but as both these gentlemen arr
chronic office-seekers, and, as far a!
they are able to command positions
persistent office-holders, their disease il
incurable, or at least can only be cureC
by the galvanic batteries of increased
Intelligence, applied to the integrity o
human enlightenment.
Speaking of post offices, it's wonderful
funny how women are figuring in every
thing nowadays, gentlemen, WiLL-ye
niL-ye! Mrs. Watts was that postrnaS
ter, and the ponderous doctor was onl,
the figurehead. True, he bore the nam
and poeketed the money, but his wit
was postmaster de factO.
: Being supported and protected b.
men," this woman did the work, the doc
tor bore the honors-equal to Nasby's-
and said honors landed him up Sal
9 River, and-served him right! For h
pretends to be Woman Suffragist an
won't allow that hard working wife c
his to contribute So 90 per year to SUP
port the only paper in the West tina
advocates the principle. We don't lik
,. to kick a man when he's down, bU
we've felt like saying this in "Ed. Cor.
. every time the Peoples Paper ha
blown his trumpet since last Junt
Had DR.. Watts been just to his wifi
and allowed her the name and money
as she certainly deserved, in her unreI
resented position as a taxed postmaste
the little woman might have hire
somebody to do the kitchen work, an
Is then she would have had time to rea
z the Constitution, and would have keJ
81 him better posted. Moral: Men new,
b make anything by robbing woman
e 1.-THE fruit of her hands,"
d We beg the little lady's pardon. ST
;; may fancy that we ought not thus
a bring her into the public prints, bl
= postmasters are of national importanc
T. now, and they who bear the burdens d
rs serve the laurels, and shall have then
d if the "Court knows herself" The tin
y has come when woman must allow "h
s. own works to praise her in the gates"
D, But we were talking about Springfie
10 and the Legislature. The new Stat
house, now in course of completion,
the most imposing structure of the kir
Or we Lave yet visited. It's cost is six mi
j. lions, and the satraps that throng
: corridOrs and fiIl ifs Offinas from, daDni