The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-10
MULTITUDE OF OoUNsBLoRs.

A MULTITUDE OF 00UNSEL0 Rs.
If advice, gratuitous, abundant, and
oft-repeated could accomplish that
which those who so freely offer it have
confidence that its observance would,
surely the NEW NORTHWEST would
march through groves of bay and laurel
to Immortality. Unfortunately, how
ever, for the realization of the hopes of
these advisers, the editor, sitting in her
sanetum and making the conduct of the
paper a speciality, is, after weighing
this, hearkening to that and replying
to the other, forced to conclude that in
dividual Judgment in carrying on a
newspaper is indispensable to success;
so feigning a meekness she does not
feel, she listens, returns thanks and de-
pends upon herself Breaking the seal
but now of letter from a good friend
who has the ''good of the cause at heart
and hopes that we will take her criti-
cisms kindly" we are advised through
four mortal pages closely written on
both sides to ''stick to Woman Suffrage"
and never let an article appear in the
paper but has that for text and sermon.
"Sufragists expect it, the cause needs
it," etc., etc.
Struggling with our desire to write
"Plesse mind your own business" on a
postal card and direct it to this good
friend of the cause in our boldest hiero-
glyphics, We rise to answer the door
bell, and find there bland and smiling
face, the owner of which, when COM
fortably seated in our Office chair and
rattling our exchanges, says-depre-
ciatingly at first to see how we will
take it-"Don't you think you have
most too much suffrage in the paper ?''
Then seeing our imperturbable counte.
nance-"T do, and I tell them that you
ought to have one column devoted tc
education and have it filled with school
and institute reports, commencement
announces, and such like"
ESPECIALLY such like" we an
swered, allowing little covert sarcasm
to take the place of the sharp answer
that involuntarily rose to our lips as we
remembered that another would-be con.
troller of our columns had informed u,
that "those reports of teachers institut te.
were so awfully dry; nobody ever reaC
them"
"We can only afford one paper anC
oogtef bava tho nauS ~ oovs ooo tCJIT,
get the news in the daily papers; givt
US suffrage articles and plenty of them, ,
says another. "Don't touch upon the
ology," advises a third. "Show sec
tartan bigots where they stand" coun
sells fourth. "Don't give shadow o
endorsement to the miserable dogmas o
Spiritualism, whispers a fifth. "Pleast
give space to this remarkable spiritua
phenomena of which was a witness,
writes sixth. "Don't try to carry
temperance, it is so unpopular with th,
masses" says a seventh. "BuiJd upoI
temperance, it is one of your stronges
planks," eXhorts an eighth. "Let poll
tics alone" sententiously observes
ninth. "Show them that woman
knows something about politics as wei
as men do" sagely argues a tenth.
But there! We're out of breath
though our stock of patience has he'll
out wonderfully through the recapitu
lation-and after reading the above W
hope our readers will not think u
wholly lost to reverence for the Hol
Scriptures if we intimate that we ca
hardly agree with the text which de
clares, 'In a multitude of counselor
there is safety"