The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-15
THE WORK IN COLORADO.

your valuable paper, and I wish you
would thank the friends in Oregon and
California who contributed funds to fur
nish the copies of the NEW NORTHWEST
for our benefit"
We will say in this connection to our
readers generally, and those in particu-
lar who have sent US a dollar and or
dered copy of this paper sent to Colo
RADIO for four months, that we began
sending the paper with the first issue in |
this month. The number sent is very |
much smaller than it should be, being |
only about twenty-five copies all told. !
We had hoped-not for our benefit, for
the price at which we furnish them
leaves no margin for profit-but for the
sake of the struggling cause in Colorado
and the brave and energetic home
workers there, that a much greater
number of our friends would respond to
the call and place the New NORTHWEST
in many homes and in the hands of
many voters in that young State dur
ing the four months of the campaign.
All the testimony that we have received
goes to show that the hopes of the suf-
fragists of Colorado to bring this ques-
ton to a successful issue there this fall
will be verified if only the merits of the
cause are properly, thoroughly, and ju-
diciously brought before the people.
Unlike the older communities farther
east, where people go plodding on in the
grooves worn for their feet by their fore
fathers in the aforementioned ages"
the inhabitants of Colorado are wide
awake, enterprising, and progressive,
quick to perceive and ready to perform,
and if they are preparing to vote may"
when the question of woman's enfran-
chisement is submitted to them for de-
cision, it is in most cases because the
subject has not been brought before
them in proper light. There are no
doubt many voters in that State who,
when the question of Woman Suffrage is
S mentioned, answer upon impulse, and
S because of custom, ''that woman's place
: is home;" yet show them that there are
t home to shelter them by their own ex-
d ertions outside of it, and that the exer-
i else of the franchise is no more iu con-
= Uct with woman's daily routine of la
= Dor, even if she finds herself in a shell
/ tered home, than it is with that of men
/ whose principal duties are not of pO-
= litical nature, but to maintain that
n home, and they begin to think, and we
s all know that thought is the lever that
y moves reforms. 1t is impossibletO pub
- lish journal in the interests of Woman
l. Suffrage for four months, or even four
e weeks, without giving many problems
'' for candid opponents to solve, and it is
d equally impossible for candid men and
1t sensible women-unless blinded by
E. the veriest prejudice-to read these
without stopping, first to wonder thai
n they have never before viewed SO plain
n a proposition in the light of justice, anC
k then to pronounce in favor of the right
IL For these reasons, newspapers anC
=. especially the former, as they
discuss the subject from week to week
are invaluable aids. We do not wist
u men to vote in the affirmative upon thit
question against their convictions o
right, nor do we wish to force women t.
exercise the rights of citizenship, but WI
do most earnestly desire to place tn
" question before them in the broad ligh
of truth and justice, being assured tina
~ the convictions of the one will, after du
consideration, be upon the side of equa
10 rights, and the duties and responsible
he ties of citizenship be cheerfully accepts
he and conscientiously discharged by th
is. other. We know that "these thing
ne Us women can do and not leave the othe
ey undone." That they can be loyal wives
ed careful mothers, pains-taking home
OF makers, and political sovereigns, W
-, know just as well as we know that me
N can be good husbands, kind fathers, an
Dr. industrious business men without bein
;aI political serfs. Argument is not want
re- ing to prove these things, and opportu
:, nifty for women to prove their part, g
~ - men have long since proven theirs, wi
y, uo not long be wanting in Colorado if th
=" chance to bring these arguments befol
" the people is sufficient.
al So, friends, come up to the aid (
truth and justice and ENLIGHTENMENT
against error and prejudice and igno
ance by sending a four months sui
to scription to the New NORTHWEST fC
lie, campaign purposes in Colorado. W
ly will send back numbers from June Is
N, and 81 90 will cover the entire expen;
for copy for the period named.
Id, Forgiving and forgetting everythIn
of personal, and hating only wrong
he against humanity, let US each aid to tt
rs. extent of our power this great reform
M being assured that after the night con
ci- eth the morning, and after victory.
ne rest.