The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-09-07
A FORENOON WITH CONTRIBUTORS.

attempted two weeks ago, has brought
to US score or more of additional let
tiers, in which all sorts Of comments, ad-
vice, experience, questions, and so
forth, are as freely INDUCED in as
though the writers knew the editor to
have a cuticle like leather, through
which the nettles of criticism could not
reach to raise blister of disturbance,
or make single abrasion upon the epi-
dermis of her editorial understanding !:
"Stop the paper! addressed to Mrs.
George So-and-So," says one irate head
of a family from Eastern Oregon. ~
will not permit paper to come into the
house which will editorially admit that
there can be anything goo in any of
the manifestations that border on mod
ern spiritism, no matter what their
teachings may be- The human heart
is deceitful above all things, and des-
perately wicked, and we must guard
our children from all these things, as
from a pestilence. 1t amazes me TO
know that a sensible woman like you
can look upon such deviltry with the
least degree of allowance. If we would
save our children's souls from eternal
burnings, we must purge our homes of
all denominations"
We half agree with our suspicious
friend about the desperate wickedness"
of some ''deceitful hearts," especially af-
ter we have looked in vain for the name
of "lErS. George"-in mercy to the
woman we omit the surname aud
find in its stead, at the post Office indi-
Gated, Mrs. Mary" So-and-So, as one
of our valued subscribers, whose dues
are paid in advance. Well not stop
Mrs. Mary's" paper, Mr.. George" ="
post office for her, we'll publish your
name in black list, as sure as you're
born.
From Boise City, Idaho, comes a
gladstone, CHEEKY letter, incIosing six
dollars, "for my own renewal and one
new subscriber"
= "YOur paper has become daily food
for me-" she says, "and 1 would not be
, without it for ten times its cost. Your
stories are marvellous, because they are
so true. The editorial letters are well
worth the subscription price of the pa.
: per, and Mrs. Coburn's editorials are
simply grand. The man or woman
, who can read your journal without be.
coming better, wiser, purer, and more
devoted to liberty, humanity, and JUS
tice than before is narrow and selfish il
the extreme"
Would to heaven there were just s
| thousand like you, ready and willing tC
assist US just now with contribution.
and words of cheer. Shall we not bt
able to report few more letters like thi,
next week?
A good friend from Salem asks:
: care you behind in your bills at thu
close of the current volume? If so, how
much? Please state the financial con
) dition of the work in your next issue
: and let US see what can be done to re
D lieve you if you need help. The parti
o san papers all have subsidies to sustain
them if they need assistance, and you
should have it, too. looked at you oi
the platform in Salem last week, ant
sdaO and felt the load you are carrying
mentally, physically, and financially
and l feel that it is too hard for you T.
do all the work for woman's enfran
chisement, and bear all the burdens O
its debts besides"
o Thank you, good friend. We hav
n often "felt sorry for ourself'' in realizing
t the truth of what you so forcibly ex
n press. In spite of all the economy am
d industry of ourself and family durin
the summer, there is an Indebtedness c
$lO6 in San Francisco on paper bill, c
= which we do think the friends OF th
n cause ought to rally and relieve US
4 Who will start the matter? Who wi
n give $40? who $40? who So? who 81
# or even smaller sums? We are not &c
f ing to let the paper die, even if We mus
q again do dress-making after lectur
- ilOuIS W meet llS uellcllSj UuJ our pUyS
ical strength is giving way under tn
q added weight of increasing years, an
, we are by no means sure we shall nc
q die Ourself before the work is completed
% unless we do have assistance.
s. "2lease print the iuclosed poetry. !
n was written under spirit CONTROL" write
Of another. "If you do not print, retur
it to me, and L will send it to a MOI
liberal paper, and you may discontinu
my name on your subscribers list"
1t is remarkable how often a reque.
to publish this or that vagary of an ur
10 cultivated mind carries with it a cove
: threat to withdraw patronage unless "
- acquiesee. We examine the "poetry,
;, and find the rhyme faulty, the metre i
II regular, the grammar execrable, an
% the sense obscure. Now, we believe
E the power and existence of certain maj
ie ifestations, which, if not the work
spirits, are beyond human compreher
i sion. We believe this, because we hay
re ''tried the spirits" and know where
5, we speak. But we do not believe thi
III every spirit, any more than every mo
III tai, is q Solomon. or even q Shak