The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-10
OUR COLORADO LETTER,

Very soon we hope to have more stir
ring news of our work here to write;
at present the papers are quiet on the
subject, and Mrs. Campbell's canvass
ing is the only active movement that is
now in progress. She writes of very
good meeting at Alma: 1--WE have
heard by a man who came over the
range to Granite that we created great
excitement at Alma, and he said we
should come near carrying it there, but
not quite do it for he should work with
all his might against it, notwithstand-
ing his wife and mother are both in
favor! He said if we could convince
him that every woman would vote the
Republican ticket be would go for it
with all his might.'
Noble motives influence that man, do
they not? And men constantly talk
about women being governed by preju-
dice to the exclusion of principle! Miss
Eastman, speaking of the way one
woman's characteristics serve for the
SN0I says hO MOllu WOuiU
seem to be made up of many men and
one woman. We know more than one
man who will not look at the principle
of this or any other question, but that
does not prevent our belief that the ma
jority of men, when they are led to
consider the subject seriously, will vote
yes for the sake of its principle, to
the entire exclusion of any party inter-
est or personal prejudice"
Mrs. Campbell says: "At Malta there
was no place large enough for a meet
ing, and spoke from the steps of the
hotel, Mr.. Campbell having secured
the use of lumber enough to make seats
in front for the men, and the women
filling the small dining-room of the
house. At Granite the house was too
large for the people. They say it was
never filled except at dance, which
they came forty miles to attend"
Mrs. NJ. V. Longley is soliciting funds
for US in Cincinnati. She writes: "This
is hard, and to me, very disagreeable
work, but remembering remark James
Murdoch once made to me, that if wom-
en- did not care enough for the ballot
to make great sacrifices to obtain it,
they deserved to go without it, started
out. The first day collected fifty cents.
1t costs me sixteen to go into the city
and back, besides street-car fare while
, | thnro Tho Haxy IL
: dollars, street-car fare sixty cents. ]
} continued most of the week going in
!, each morning and remaining unit
: completely tired out, late in the after,
noon. 1 collected thirty-three dollars
which is in the bank. 1 have some
} places to call at yet, but 1 do not believt
, you need depend on more than fifty"
While these women in this hot month
, Of July are riding through the country
= speaking from hotel steps to rough, ig
= norant peOple-people who fill a hal
] only when there is dance-people VIII,
e help make the laws which govern tn
cultured lady who begs them to let he
: help, too, and walking through tn
e dusty streets of Cincinnati, solicitiD,
3 money for the same cause; while thes
! women are working thus, their lords
9 lounging in their cool and shady store
o or offices with an unusual amount Q
D time to gossip, because business is s
g dull this hot weather, are saying: sc
women don't really want the ballot
: These lecturing women like the excite
: ment and notoriety, and the rest ar
b just restless and dissatisfied women tha
d have to be stirring up something o
other cause they haven't got anythin
o else to do" Ah, we'll! 1t is with tn
o world as with individuals. We ar
d born blind, mentally; and as, one afte
It another, the great truths of life are re
e vealed to US, so to the world, one by on
e the great truths of justice are mad
manifest. The eyes are opened, an
things before passed heedlessly by, a
empty and meaningless, become file
with a new and deep significance.
1t is with great regret that we repoI
3 Mrs. Livermore's inability to be wit
: US this fall, as we had hoped. Sh
: writes of financial losses which max
her contemplated journey impossible
s. Far from being cast down aud discour
g aged, she seems to have met her mis-
l. fortunes with undaunted courage, an
speaks of regret only in connection wit
n her disinterested visit to Colorado.
+ wonder If those who so object to strong
a. minded women ever wonder what
feeble-minded one would do in an emel
, gency like this H. L.
Denver, Colorado, July %, 1877.
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