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LET THE LAWS BE EXECUTED.

Indications now 60 to show that the
temperance work in this city has at last
assumed something Of a practical and
tangible shape, and that instead of
windy debate and redundant argument
to prove that which is apparent to any
sane person, we are about to have rea-
sonable effort in the right direction.
This effort will be concentrated toward
the proper enforcement of the tenn
perance laws, which, under the pres
ent regime, are merely dead upon the
statutes. 1t is well known that there is
a stringent law in this State, with at
tendant heavy penalties, against selling
liquor to minors, and also to persons in
the habit of becoming intoxicated; it is
equally well known that these laws are
daily violated, and that with scarcely a
show of concealment.
The gambling law, also, the passage
of which rejoiced the moral portions of
all order-lOviDg communities, and the
Sunday law, which has been so long, so
flagrautly and so openly violated, are
merely laughter to the foes of moral
ity, and a silent, reproachful shame to
its friends.
At each biennial session of our State
Legislature, much time is consumed
with temperance legislation, and this in
the face of the fact that those laws now
upon the statute books are not enforced.
A cotemporary very justly says: at is
not legislation that is needed in the
community as much as rigid execu-
tion of the laws already on the statute
book. Evils are not easily cured by
| legislation. 1t is better to resort to the
courts more often, and to the legislature
less often than seems to be the wont of
the people generally"
Our citizens seem now to be waking
up to these facts, aud have adopted the
plan We proposed several months since,
of raising committees whose duty it
shall be to see that the laws We have re-
lating to temperance and morality are
enforced. Vigilant and fearless action
is necessary to do this, and we hope be-
fore many weeks to be able to "report
progress" in the direction indicated.
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cure the insane, the idiot, the hemiple-
gic, the ediIeptie, the ehoreic, how much
higher is the work of preventing these
degeneracies in the ineipient being, by
averting those eommotions which storm
him in the holy region, intended for a
terrestrial paradise during the period of
evolutIOnl To teach him reverence
toward the bearer of his race, to instruct
her in the sacredness Of bland and Sc
rene feelings during the godlikecreative
process, is educating two generations at
once-this is the highest education Of
the nursery"
There is great deal more l would
say, but leave it to some future time
when 1 am less occupied with private
cares. send my love to the faithful
if often condemned sisterhood, who tC
the best of their knowledge are working
for our common good.
Yours most sincerely,
+, T, VICTOR.
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Astoria, February 6, 1877.
LETTER FROM IOWA.
Yours most sincerely,
F. F. VICTOR,

To THE EnIToR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Presuming you have arrived at your
Oregon home, and remembering our
pleasant meeting at the "Woman's
Congress" in Philadelphia, we feel like
renewing that brief acquaintance. You
recoIlect we there subscribed for the
NEW NORTHWEST, but owing to some
mistake, it has been directed to Indiana
instead of Iowa, consequently, have re-
ceived but few numbers. My husband
and myself are so much pleased with
those we have by chance received, we
cannot think of losing more time with
out correcting the address. Allow me
to express the deep interest we have
felt in your success, as the press has
traced your meandering footsteps home
ward bound. While your Eastern trip
must have proved a pecuniary benefit
to you, the greatest good will be real
lied from the truths dropped from your
lips, which have, by their logic, pene.
trated many minds, and will prove as
an inspiration to the final elevation o.
our sex.
While the party elements are beins
disturbed, let us with our best argu
ments quiet the storm. Convince, /
possible, each party they need the activ,
influence to right the wrong. Had ou
petitions, with many thousand sigma
lures for a 10Th Amendent, been "re
spectfully considered" our next Presi
Dental election would have less of in
timidatiOn, whisky, and fraud. Th
subject of equal rights has become liv
ing issue, and when much of ignOranc
and prejudice is overthrown, the righ
will prevail. Let US possess our soul il
patience, and work with all our capa
bilities for the speedy enfranchisemen
of women. Yours in every good work
Mrs. N. r. ALLEN.
Maquoketa, Iowa.
P. S. You can see by the printe
head to my paper that the Governor {
/ Iowa considers a woman worthy an
capable of being a NOTARY Public,
something of an advance for women
) the last decade or two. N. r. A.
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He RESPONDS.

George w. Murray, clerk of School
District No. l, responded promptly to
our request for the publication of the
section of our common laws which de-
fined the qualification of voters at
school elections, by adding the section
which was at first omitted, touching
the qualifications of women voters. His
prompt correction shows that the omis-
sion was accidental, and did not arise
from desire to defraud women tax
payers of their rightful voice in a mat
ter of such Importance to all citizens as
is the proper care, management, and
maintenance of our very excellent pub
lie schools.
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LETTER FROM IDAHO.

To TIE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Thinking perhaps a few lines from
'Idaho Flat" might not be uninterest-
ing to your readers, by your permission,
will try to drop few scattering
thoughts.
Garden Valley, or Upper Payette Val
ley, is, as its name would indicate, a
small valley on the waters of the Pay
ette River, which rises in the noun
tains, and flowing a southwesterly
course, empties into Snake River near
WashOe ferry, or about fifteen miles be-
low where the old emigrant road crossed
Snake River near old Fort Boise. At
this crossing in 1852, while my parents
were en- route from the Eastern States
to Oregon, 1 was born, and now claim
to be the oldest white resident born in
Idaho, although, correctly speaking,
was born in Oregon, this then being a
portion of that State. l DO not know if
I am the veritable "Idadon of Mrs. DIS
EDNA aud John" story, at least, If so,
have forgotten most of the incidents of
my early life, being a resident Of Hard
scrabble in the Webfoot fogs on first re-
alizing my existence. There, where
Mrs. Duniway "made enough butter to
grease the axles of the universe" and
where she first began to conceive ideas
of "woman's rights" is it strange I too
should have been contaminated with
the prevailing epidemic, for be it known
"Hardscrabble" now numbers many
stanch advocates of our rights.
But the Oregon climate beingstrongly
contesting my right to life, we were
compelled to leave that dear old place
for the wilds of Idaho three years ago.
Now this is a famous country in
many respects, but were it not for its
pure air and water, and its many health
inspiring properties, should take a
7 great pleasure in leaving it. But here
= we are again where 1 started, at Garden
= Valley, fifteen miles north of Placer
Il Vile, in valley or hole in the noun
tains, surrounded by farming commu-
% nifty of one hundred and fifty souls OF
u every conceivable nationality, religion,
and politics, but not considered of suffi-
. cient Importance to Uncle Sam to JUS
,s tify him in extending to US the privi-
- lege of post office, but must go tC
PlacerVille to get our papers, among
which none are more eagerly read than
: the "woman's paper" With this in
:; PRODUCTION, lest may tire your patience
with the promise that if you SO desire
will at some future time give you de-
:, scription of "Boise Basin" (not "IdadC
Flat") aud its mines aud surroundings
will close. J. R. GARRETT.
IN Garden Valley, March IA, 1877.
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OFFICERS OF THE o. S. W. S. A.

President, Mrs. II. A. Loughary,
Amity; Recording Secretary, Miss V.
NJ. Olds, McMinnville; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. Ann NJ. Martin, Lafay-
cite; Treasurer, Mrs. Mary A. Mimic,
Salem; Viee-Presidents, Mrs. E. Strong,
Marion; D. D. Gray, Linn; Mrs. De-
Lashmutt, Multnomah; Mary Shane
Smith, Clatsop; Mrs. E. A. Corwin,
Tillamook Mrs. Hanna, Union; Mrs.
DR.. Hoover, Douglas; Mrs. NJ. Cleaver,
Baker Frank Martin, Yamhill; VIM.
Mcleod, Washington; Mrs. NJ. Levins,
Polk; Hon. D. w. Cheeseman, Lake;
Mrs. Susan Giltner, Columbia; Mr.
Howe, Lane; Mrs. Dinnick, Benton; B.
+. Dowell, Jackson; Hon. Eugene Skin
ner, Coos and Curry Mrs. S. McCown,
Clackamas; Col. James Fulton, Wasco;
Mrs. o. h. Hallock, Umatilla Execu-
tive Committe, Mrs. II. A. Loughary,
Miss V. NJ. Olds, Mrs. c. A. Coburn,
Mrs. A. J. Duniway, and DR.. Mary A.
Thompson.
The Vice-Presidents have also been
appointed Collecting Agents, whose
duty it is to collect the annual dues Of
the members, and all other moneys, and
forward the same to the Treasurer ol
the Association.
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The eliminating Act in Great Tragedy.

John D. Lee, so far as has yet trans
pired, the chief factor in the Mountain
Meadows horror, expiated his fearful
crime last Friday. The details of the
sickeDing and soul-revolting crime
have been often given to shuddering
world, and it was fitting that the place
that witnessed these horrors should also
witness the retribution SO long delayed
that came at last to one who bore in
them such conspicuous part. A dis
patch thus describes the execution,
which, according to Lees choice, was
by shooting, instead of hanging:
He died as he had lived, religious
fanatic. The marshal with the soldiers
and Lee, District Attorney Howard anC
Rev. Mr.. Stokes arrived at Mountain
Meadows about s o'clock Thursday
evening. After eating and stationing
guards, all retired around the camp-fi
except Lee and Rev. Stokes, who slep
together in a wagon. Lee slept al
night and took light meal. He gave
directions as to the disposition of hi!
property to Attorney Howard, dividing
it equally between three of his wive.
and their children. He requested the
marshal to deliver his body to his wife
Rachel, and also requested that hi
might be shot at short range, and tha
they would aim at his heart. He knel
down on his coffin, and was requested t
sit there while photographer presen
took his picture. Lee called the artis
to him and requested that each of hi
wives should be forwarded a copy. Afte
his remarks Rev. Stokes offered prayer
Lee kneeling on his coffin, bandag
was placed on his eyes. He sat on hi
coffin, took off his coat and hat, handeC
them to an officer, held up his hand
and said he was ready. The marsha
gave the word and three shots wen
through his heart. He fell back upoi
his coffin and died without a struggle
Quite a number of spectators were pres
ent. The best of order prevailed. Tn
body was Immediately placed in a coffil
and sent to his wife Rachel. Durin
the past few days Lee has had som
hopes of executive Interference in re
sponse to a petition recently presente
by his children.
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AS SOME MEN TESTIFY.

We spoke several weeks since of the
tobacco nuisance" setting forth facts
that no one has the hardihood to gain
say, and this being the case, sensible
men remain silent. Not so Mart.
Brown, however, for he, with his usual
elegance ~ of style, language, and die
tion, attempts to say something witty
concerning "strong- minded" women
and tobacco, but succeeds only in dis
playing his innate vulgarity.
That all men are not disposed, not
only to tolerate the tobacco nuisance
In silence, but to cast ungentlemanly
slurs upon women who are courageous
enough to denounce the practice, is
proven by the following, written by a
man, and taken from the Salt Lake
Herald, Oh smoking in the post office:
Every day the finer feelings of ladies', and
those gentlemen who do not use tobacco, are
offended on entering the post office by thick
cloud of tobacco smoke. 1 see no excuse for
this state of things, and am surprised at seeing
men of apparent refinement so thoughtless or
/
thing against which it takes even the harder
constitution of a man a long time to fortify
itself.
Gentlemen, you who have loaded your blood
and breath with corruption by this habit, you
little know how much discomfort and injury
you really do force upon your felIow-creature:
who are free from it, by obliging them every
where, on highway and byway, indoors and
a..
smoke OF this man-cursing weed. 1t seems tC
me that steps might and ought to be taken t.
prevent its use in the post Office 1t may bt
urged that no one need to remain in the ofic,
long enough to incur injury, but it must be re
membered that while the mail is being dis
tributed people oftentimes have to wait TO
more than half an hour, and to be compelled
as they are to endure a dense cloud of tobacc,
smoke is simply an outrage.
Another correspondent, referring Il
! the above, says to the editor of the Her
T aid:
You and your correspondent are entitled 3
the heartfelt thanks of every man and woma
in Salt Lake City for your rebuke of the vulgar
indecent, and brutal habit of smoking in tn
vestibule of the post office, and if you succee
in abating that public nuisance, our peopl
ought to give you benefit. While the write
of this is himself smoker, and cheerfulIy ret
Ognizes the right of every man to enjoy tn
, fragrant weed, at proper times and in all propt
: places, where it cannot be offensive to men {
O women, whom frequently it makes sick, yet
burns with indignation at those who, pretenc
ing to be gentlemen, make themselves offensiI
i and disgusting to their neighbors and friend
=
But if it is offensive in the common vestibu
of the post office, what shall we say of it in IL
t courtroom, the hall of justice, and the solem
O temple OF the law, which ought to be as pur
= as quiet, and as undefiled as the temple of Il
everything God And yet, ,whosoeverare cor
} PEELED to do business in our courts and clerk
e offices will find themselves slckened at the
y stomachs, and disgusted beyond enduranC
4 by seeing United States marshals, Unit,
States Jurors, witnesses, and members of Il
Ii bar indulging in that loathsome practice.
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The editor Of the AdVocate says that
much of the matter in the NEW NORTH
WEST is not burdened with piety, to
which we reply that much If the mat
ter in the Advocate might be truthfully
arraigned upon the same charge, with
this difference: The New NORTHWEST
does not pretend to make religion and
church matters speciality, while tue
AdUocGte does. One thing is certain.
We have never declared that the liceus-
ing of preachers was not a "serious
question:" nor treated the same in a
manner "purely playful"
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"Jefferson's political maxims" as fire.
quently and vauntingly published, pro-
claim among other things: illegal
equality for human beings" mo ia
vored classes" ELECTIONS free and suf-
frage universal" Let degenerate scions
of old Jeffersonian Democracy Clike
Mart. Brown, for instance cover their
faces in confusion when they read these
maxims, and reflect how widely sepa-
rated from the bOasted precepts of their
great examplar are their own narrow
and unjust views and expressions upon
"political equality and universal suf-
frapeu
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WOMEN IN OFFICIAL PLACES.

Above the roar and din of political
warfare we occasionally hear a just
tribute paid to the faithfulness of wom-
en- who, disfranchised because of their
sex, are laboring side by side with men
in governmental affairs for only half
the pay accorded to men. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Louisville
Courier Journal speaks of the women
employed in the Treasury Department,
saying that the detection of another
thief in the cash-room of the Treasury
gives an opportunity of calling atten-
ton to the superiority of women over
men in resisting temptation. Proof of
this assertion is advanced by statements
that since the first greenback was
printed the counting and putting up OF
packages has devolved entirely upon
girls and women, and in the millions OF
dollars thus passed through their hands,
not fraction of one has been missing.
This correspondent thus continues:
Have they been rewarded ? No Numbers OF
men like Winslow, the last thief caught, have
been appointed by political influence at sala-
ries double those paid women; aud these expe.
rienced, tried and trusted women, who cannot
be well dispensed with, are not only not pro.
NOTED, but are treated as though they should
be thankful that they are permitted to serve
the government at SIS month. Sometimes q
package that has been counted by a woman
has been found short in the account, and nc
matter how innocent the counter may be, the
amount missing is taken from her months
salary. In almost every instance Of this kind
eventually the thief has been found to be q
male messenger, or some man who received
the package from the lady and abstracted one
or two notes.
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qTAKR oARE OF THE GIRLs.n p


Under the above head a Philadelphia
paper discourses at considerable length,
saying "that the stranger or even sedate
citizen who walks upon Chestnut street
on holiday evening must be astonished
and puzzled at the number of young
girls he meets" and goes on, almost up
setting our faith in mankind, "our nat
ural protectors" ~ by picturing the
frightful danger to which these young
girls are exposed, because, forsooth,
they venture out of an evening, by
"twos and threes, unattended"
1t is indeed a sad commentary upon
men as the natural protectors of wom-
en-, or upon their ability or inclination
to protect them, when girls must be
closely housed at nightfall or run the
risk of insult, or worse. 1t is well in
deed for girls to be taken care of, and
they should be cared for more by proper
and careful instruction concerning the
dangers that beset the feet of the un-
wary, than by suspicious surveillance.
But if boys also were properly trained
and cared for, the recruits to the army
of low and infamous scoundrels who dog
the footsteps of women if they are out
unattended after nightfall, would speed
lily fall of, and but a few years would
suffice to put rank and file of this skulk-
ing army to rout.
That the present danger to girls and
young women who from necessity or in
clination are abroad of an evening in
our great cities is exaggerated, we have
no reason to believe. But will keeping
them closely housed, except in broad
daylight, abate the evil? Certainly
not.
Will men confess that they are una
BILE, having all the law and all the powel
in their own hands, to protect or frame
laws for the protection of any class o
persons, more especially those who
according to the journal quoted, EAR
too simple to harbor a wrong thought
and too young to understand the fright
full risks they run?"
A girl can protect herself with loci
and key, but if she is forced to use thes
to save herself from insult and danger
where is the boasted chivalry, the "nat
ural protection" which theorists assur
us men everywhere accord to women?
A speedy abatement of any great ev
is not looked for by any thoughtful pei
son, but a sure though somewhat slo'
abatement of this one-the dangers ths
lie in the way of girls and women VIII
, venture out unattended in our gres
, cities of evenings-can be reached b
| teaching growing boys that departul
: from the path of reetitude is just as rel
rehensible in them as it is in girls, an
= that just as much is expected Of theI
! in the way of virtue and morality as
f expected of their sisters. Such instru
g tions rigidly" enforced would in I'll
= course of a few decades supplant IL
s low-ninded puppies who imagine thi
their sex renders legitimate every ou
: rage upon decency, by race of honor
] BILE and upright men who would no
d themselves amenable to the same NOR
b laws that have from time immemori
t been marked out for the guidance
| woman
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A correspondent of Western journal
says, concerning the atmosphere in
which justice is administered: "The at
mosphere of court-roOms, chemically
analyzed, has been found to be more
deleterious and disgusting than any
other apartments used by civilized
man, but when you add to exhalations
Of dirty, unwashed, and uneleanly peO-
pie, the fetid air of Il hundred filthy
pipes and cigars, you add insult to in
jury, bring into contempt and disgrace
the god of justice, his temple, and those
who minister at his altar"
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The Rev. Mrs. Maggie Van Colt closed
a remarkable series of revival meetings
in the East Sixty-first street church,
New York, last week. Four hundred
converts were the result of her three
weeks work in this church, and she has
made 200 converts in three churches
in New York during the past winter.
This was accomplished notwithstanding
the fact that some think that women
have no right to preach.
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Plans have been perfected for the erec-
tion in Omaha of a large college by the
Catholics, funds for the same having
been bequested by the late Edward
Creighton.
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J. NJ. Kelly has been appointed post
master at Lafayette. We hope in case
he is nominated for Presidential elector
four years hence, he will have the good
sense to resign hispresent lucrative ~
position.
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NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that it is a
great tax upon us TO pay express charges upon
small sums. and they will confer great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
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Ex-President Grant and family will
sail for Europe about the 10th of May.
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Grasshoppers in Nebraska are reported
Matched and very active in some places.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-04
LAST NIGHT,

The entertainment furnished la.t evening
at the Congregational church by the Yank-
ton lecture association was one of the choi-
cest ever put before a Yankton audience.
\. p. Burbank as a reader is hardly to be
surpassed. His voice and action are pre-
cisely adapted to the work and his long
study and practice have made him a perfect
master of the pleasing art of elocution. His
audience last night was moved to tears and
laughter at the will of the wonderful man
before them. Selections common enough
and posse sing no more than ordinary in
terest when taken from the pages of a
printed book were given an unknown sig
%nifcance, sentiment and pathos from the
lips of Mr.. Burbank. His audience, though
not as large as it should have been, was an
exceedingly appreciative one and every
member thereof went away highly pleased
with the evenings entertainment. There ii
a sample of what the lecture association
proposes giving the people of Yankton THU
winter if it meets with the right sort of en-
couragement.