The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-08
GASES IN POINT"

Aud now comes Brother Brown, of
the Albany Democrat, with ga Word
for the Ladies'" and some very signif-
cant facts he gives, too, concerning
what women can do 10 business, not be-
cause of the aid of men and ballots, but
in spite of them. He quotes from the
Cincinnati Commercial the following
about women bankers:
Miss Frank McGrew has been appointed as
sistant cashier of the First National Bank at
Huntington, Indiana.
Miss Belle Wallace is cashier for Watson,
Huber Co., bankers, MechanicsvilIe, Iowa,
and Miss Anna NJ King for A. W. MAYORS
bank, New Sharon, Iowa.
The banking business of A. K. & f. B. Young
al Fort Collins, Col, has for some time been
conducted by Mrs Z. B. Young, the junior
partner, who is said to be lady of rare sagacity
and experience in money matters.
It appears that the First National Bank of
Huntington, Ind, was the first one to grace its
Board OF Directors with the presence OF a lady,
Mrs. Anna NJ. Daily having been elected di-
rector in 1868 and Mrs. D. J. Purviance IN 1873.
OF the First National OF Peoria H., as has
before been stated, Mrs. Lydia Bradley was
elected director in 1875, and in the First Ma
tional Of Canton, Ohio, Mrs. Louisa Mccall is
one of the board.
He further refers in terms quite COM
plimentary to the success women have
achieved in journalism, and states, as
we have often done, that every daily pa
per of note numbers one or more wom-
en- upon its editorial staff, while lady
compositors are found in many offices,
including his own, one of his most care
ful and expert employees being lady.
For all of this Well-merited tribute to
and acknowledgment of the worth and
industry of women we tender the Dem
Ocrdt our thanks. The editor, however,
makes strange mistake in asserting
that we have argued that "women can
not fill proper stations in life or occupy
places of trust or profit without the ben
eft of the ballot"
We have published from time to time
much longer lists than the above, and
supplemented the same with editorial
comment upon the thrift, worth, en-
ergy and industry of women in the lit
erary and financial world, proving
thereby their right to the ballot as in
telligent American citizens and import
ant factors in the great commonwealth.
We have shown, also, that where wom-
en- have achieved financial success or
displayed journalistic ability, they have
first met and overcome every obstacle
that the jealousy of men in a business
way could possibly devise; that to pro-
tect their property after it is with such
infinite toll and discouragement ac-
cumulated, they need the ballot; that
they need the ballot in order that the
masses may receive protection in their
laboring interests, so that in any place,
from the Treasury Department of the
United States to the factories and school
rooms where under-paid women labor,
the women workers, because non-voters,
are always first dismissed when re-
trenchment is demanded.
We know, and are glad to know and
proud to proclaim, that "women are oc-
cupying many important as well as lu-
crative positions" That they have
achieved these in spite of opposition,
ridicule, and political disabilities only
foreshadOws what they may and will do
when all of these are removed and they
can vote with rulers as rulers, instead of
sitting At the feet Of their political SOW
ereigns as serfs, expected to sue for and
take as fGUOr that which is accorded to
men as right
Though the Democrat "has not before
heard it," we did have for about fifteen
months young lady in the composing
room of the New NORTHWEST, where
she will again take her place "when
school is out" and cheerfully bear testi-
mony to her skill and industry. That
we have not now and all Of the time
lady compositors, is owing to the fact
that in the family of the proprietor of
this journal the girls all happen to be
boys, and the NEW NORTHWEST is
mainly family institution.
We hope to see in the DenlOcrdtin the
future more frequently than we have
been privileged to do in the past "words
for the ladies" calculated to show, as
those under consideration have done,
that women as energetic and industri-
GUS citizens deserve to be taken out of
the catalogue with paupers, idiots, Grim
inals, Cinnamon, and Indians, placed in
the lists of freedom, and endowed with
political privileges. Let US have some
more leases in point" brother.