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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-01
RECENT EVENTS.

A terrible wind and rain storm pre-
vailed Sunday aud Monday at Yreka,
California.
In the House on the 29th inst Lutrell
presented the petition Of over 10000 la
boring men Of his district asking for a
modification of the Chinese treaty in
order to prevent the influx Of Chinese
to America. Referred.
The Times Washington special says
Secretary Sherman in an interview said
that he recognizes the fact that the
silver bill will become law. He be-
lieves there is clear two-thirds for it
in each branch of Congress.
Isabella Beeeher Hooker was before
the House judiciary committee on jan
uary SOth in behalf of the taxpayers Of
the United States. Her argument was
to the effect that every woman who was
a taxpayer was entitled to vote.
Although the attempt to defeat the
cigar-makers' long strike by importa-
ton of Chinese workmen failed in New
York City, the strike itself has collapsed
after four months struggle and enor-
nous waste Of money. The men are
generally seeking work again at manu-
facturers' terms.
Over a million trade dollars have been
sent East from Washington the present
month for domestic circulation. The
profit in shipping trade dollars to East
ern States is three per cent. Secretary
Sherman has the matter under cOnsid-
Grafton, and it is probable that the trade
dollar coinage will for the time be
wholly suspended.
A Washington dispatch Of January
26th says: "Lamar's able and emphatic
speech against BANDS silver bill was
considered the more remarkable because
he represents the repudiating state Of
Mississippi, whose Legislature failed to
pass resolutions instructing her Senators
to vote for the silver scheme only be-
cause Of the certainty that Lamar would
disobey them"
A San Francisco dispatch dated Janu-
airy 29th says: Contractors in the East
are making arrangements to take a
small portion Of Chinatown of our
hands. \ coal mining company in
Missouri has just concluded contract
for five hundred Chinese to work in
their mines, and an order for two hund-
red more has been received from Arkan-
sas. Quite number of similar orders
are being received in this city,"
y New York dispatch says that since
the Eastern war began the demand from
Europe, especially England, for sole
leather has greatly increased; one OF
the results, it is said, has been the clos
ing up Of a large number Of the German
tanneries. Within two months large
shipments Of leather, principally sole,
have been made to Russia, and the
price has materially advanced. The
supply, it is reported, has kept up with
the unusual demand.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-01
Mr.. MITCHELL ON THE SIXTEENTH
AMENDMENT,

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
I am in receipt in due course Of your
communication Of the 2sth ult. enclos-
ing your individual petition in which
you respectfully ana earnestly memo
rialize Congress to enact law remov-
ing your political disabilities, urging as
a reason that you are a tax-paying,
aw-abiding citizen Of the United States,
but denied personal representations solely
on account Of sex.
shall take pleasure at the earliest
opportunity in presenting your petition
to the Senate and asking its reference
to the committee on privileges and cleo
tions, of which I am q member And
in this connection you will permit me
to add that no effort or vote on my part
shall be lacking in aid of the legisla-
ton for which you pray. And 1 may
as well here say that ! am and have
been unequivocally in favor of a Six
teenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, prohibiting the
several States from disfranchising
women on account of sex.
Your petition reaches me at a very
opportune time. To-day the committee
on privileges and elections have been
engaged in listening to arguments from
several of the leading ladies of the land
in favor of such legislation. Numerous
able aud eloquent speeches were made.
While all were very good, unexception-
able in style aud substance, that one
delivered by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, something over one hour in length,
would have doBe honor to the ablest
statesman of our day. The hearing be-
fore the committee was not concluded
to-day, and will be continued to-mor-
row at half-past ten o'clock, a. NJ, at
which time numerous other representa-
tives of the cause will be heard, includ-
ing Mrs. DR.. Thompson Of our State,
whose addresses since here, by the way,
have attracted considerable attention,
and received very favorable comment.
am, with great respect, your obedi-
ent servant, JOHN H. MITCHELL.
Washington, d. c., January II, 1878.
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A LABORBR IN TEE FIELD.

The following letter from Mrs. f. A.
Logan, of California, who has been do
ing good work for the cause Of human
rights in the interior Of the State, will
be read with interest by friends of the
movement:
I'VE found some In sympathy with
us, and others who raised their hands in
holy horror at the bare idea that wom-
an should aspire 10 equal chance with
men for life, liberty, and the pursuit Of
happiness. While we pity the latter
for being so far behind the times, ouI
hearts are made glad by the sympathy
and assistance Of the former class.
"At Brownsville your old friends,
Rev. Bishop and family, entertained
me, and gratuitously furnished halr and
music for the crowded audiences.
ain Eugene we found the previously
organized temperance society in a -four
ishing condition, as also the one at Har-
risburg. Also organized a society OF
forty members at Shedd's station, Rev.
Clark presiding, and here, in Lebanon,
have spoken in the Presbyterian Church
to a densely packed audience, aud on
Monday evening organized a temper
ance and literary society Of one hundred
and twelve signers TO the pledge, Pro-
fessor Gilbert, President, and Mrs.
Hamilton, Vice-President. Last even
ing spoke in the chapel Of the academy
on the Relation Man Sustains to Wom-
an, Legally, Socially, and Morally
Here, also, found friends to the cause
Of equal rights who desired to know
when and where the next annual meet
ing is 10 be held.
Il find in many OF the towns Of Oregon
that Mrs. Duniway has set the people to
thinking by her eloquent and inspired
earnestness, and hope the time is not
far distant when l can clasp hands with
her at the State convention, aud all
other workers for human veal. 1 see
your valuable paper in many places,
but would like few copies of my own.
Address Mrs. F. A. Logan"
We think our friend could greatly aid
the good work by canvassing for sub
scriptions to the NEW NORTHWEST.
Could we spare the time to go the
rounds for the next three months where
she has been during the last three, We
could add hundreds Of names to the list
of the regular readers Of the Journal o.
Peace. Whilewe are holding the helm
we respectfully solicit all workers OF
yard-arms to keep their eye on the flag
at the masthead.
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letter writing which some Of our strug-
Cling lady friends are sending usfrom
time to time in their efforts to aid their
own emancipation from the shackles Of
ignorance and oppression.
Don't show my letter to anybody"
writes one of these, "for my long life
has been sacrifice to others, and ]
never could improve myself. But l
want the ballot for the benefit Of my
posterity.n
Noble, self-sacrificing woman! Let
the evening of your days be spent for
yourself. Your children are grown
now, and your literary lord can hire a
Chinaman to do his druGgery for the
balance Of his life, while you cultivate
your mind, that you may not remain a
Hannah Jane" throughout eternity.
What If you are sixty? All eternity is
before you, and nobody ever gets too old
to learn.
But this department is full. Other
letters will be considered next week.
We like this hour with correspondents,
and with our bachelor friend before al
luded to, think it delightful.
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HONESTY.

The champion Federal officer in Amer
lea lives at Eureka, California, aud is
postmaster. Some months ago We sent
a copy Of david and Anna Matson" to
the order of a young lady in that city,
which was never called for. The post
master did not know the lady, so be
wrote TO the Portland postmaster con-
eerning it. The letter Of inquiry was
handed over to US, and we had almost
forgotten the circumstance when we re-
ceived an order for the money from the
aforesaid postmaster, who says in his
note. 'Tbe book has not been called
for, and, as I like the style Of IL, 1 in
close you the price, and will keep it If
you have no objection" The name Of
this official phenomenon is Fred Axe,
and We u wager a dozen copies Of "Da-
vid and Anna" that whoever undertakes
to grind axes where he is will be COM
PEELED to use an honest grindstone.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-01
PROGRESS.

Not only does the ringing letter from
Senator Mitchell elsewhere published
sound the key note of early triumph
from Washington, but the daily papers
Of the convention week are filed with
enthusiastic comments and respectful
editorial mention, sufficient to glsdden
the heart Of every friend Of liberty.
The Washington Star says: "The
Woman Suffrage question will be a
great political issue some day. A move
ment in the direction Of alleged rights
by body Of American citizens cannot
be forever checked, even though its
progress for many years may be very
gradual. There are so many sound ar
guments to be advanced in favor Of
Woman Suffrage that it cannot fail in
time to be weighed as a matter Of pol
icy after il shall have been Overwhelm-
ingly conceded as a matter Of right.
Woman Suffrage must become a matter
Of policy for a political party before it
can be realized. Congress does not pass
revolutionary measures on abstract con-
siderations Of right"
We notice, also, marked improve
ment in the tone Of all the so-called
leading newspapers of the land that lay
any claim to respectability. Even the
Chicago Times is favorable to the move
ment, and the San Francisco Chronicle
no longer opposes it. The San Jose
Mercury, one Of our very ablest ex.
changes, is outspoken in advocacy Of
the measure. Hdrper's Weekly has al
ways been in favor, and the Toledo
Blade has ever been an advocate. Add
10 these the ten thousand smaller jour
mails that openly espouse our cause, the
half dozen women's papers of large and
increasing circulation, and the thousand
lecturers Of greater or lesser note, COM
bined with the electric telegraph and
the mighty steam engine, al OF which
are used in our work, and we may
safely say the progress Of the times is
most encouraging.
Yet a little longer, aud the sun of
liberty shall rise to set no more forever;
for woman, armed with the sword OF
truth, bearing in her left hand the olive
branch Of peace, and covered with the
garment Of freedom as with a canopy OF
steel, shall modestly assert herself in
her own domain, beside her husband
and her brother, and shall shed new
and benignant luster upon the political
waste places Of the nation. The signs
of the times are portent with the proph-
ecy that wOman's hour is indeed come
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WORK FOR EVERYBODY.

Circulate petitions for a 10th Amend
ment, to enfranchise the women, not OF
one State alone, but of all the States
and Territories. WOman's right to q
voice in the government under which
she lives is a natural right, and must be
guaranteed to her by the Federal Con-
stitution. Now is our time to knock at
the doors Of Congress and plant this
right deep in the fundamental law of
the land.
Petitions fora Sixteenth Amendment,
for woman's enfranehisement, from
10000 United States citizens, from
twenty-five States, have been presented
in open House and Senate by 81 Repre-
sentatives and % Senators since January
10, 1877. The friends of Woman Suf-
frage in both houses, who intend to adj
vocate the Amendment in the new
Congress, desire its friends to sustain
them by mammoth petitions from every
quarter. Circulate this petition through
the autumn and winter up to January
20, 1878. Obtain the names OF. all who
have signed similar petitions to the
present Congress, and as many more as
possible. Head the petitions with such
well-known names as you wish to have
appear in the Congressional Record.
Fill the blanks for State, town, and
county, that members may refer to
their own districts in presenting petit
tions. Have all the names signed
plainly with ink on two copies of the
petition, one for the House, and one for
the Senate. Ask each signer to remit
at least ten cents to the Treasurer of the
National Woman Suffrage Association,
Mrs. Ellen Z. Sargent, No. 1873 De
Sales street, Washington, D. c., to
defray expenses of classification for
presentation to the 18th Congress. EUerg
name received before December /, 1877,
will be classified with its appropriate
State and county petitions, and pre-
sented by the appropriate Representa-
tive and Senator. Send with the petit
tions name and post office address of
each one who obtains signatures, so the
officers may know the workers.
Cut this out, and paste it at the head
OF a sheet Of paper aud go to work. Put
the names Of men on the right, and
women on the left of your petition, and
trace every name carefully in ink:
PETITION FOR
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
To the Senate and House Of Represen-
tatiUes, IN Congress assembled The
undersigned, citizens of the United
States, residents Of the State of
county of -, town Of -, earn
estly pray your honorable body to
adopt measures for so amending the
Constitution as to prohibit the several
states from DISTINGUISHING United States
citizens on account of sex.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-01
STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE AsS0-
CITATION.


The sixth annual meeting OF the Ore
gon State Wonan Suffrage Association
Will be held at Albany, commencing
FEBRUARY y, 1878, at p. NJ, continuing
three or more days. The place selected
is central and easily reached by railroad
and river. Arrangements are being
made for return free tickets to ell in at
tendance. The kind people OF Albany
will freely share with US their homes
and hospitalities while there, thereby
greatly reducing the expenses. We
hope, therefore, that members and
friends will not permit trivial excuses
TO keep them at home. Such as cannot
attend will please remember that money
is a very essential element in carrying
forward any cause, and will forward
their annual dues to our Treasurer, Mrs.
Mary Minto, Salem, or to the Assoeia-
ton when convened.
The State Temperance Alliance will
also meet in Albany the following week.
Why can there not be hearty cooper
alton with these two bodies in the work
of temperance as there is in other
States
The Association will devote much
special time to the temperance work,
as usual, aud doubtless many will tsrry
to aid in the Alliance. We hope, there
fore, that many Of the temperance work
ers will lay aside their prejudiees and
go into both bodies and aid in the same
work.
As many of the exchanges Of the
NEW NORTHWEST in the State as will
publish this notice will confer great
favor on the Association.
H. A. LOUGHARY,
President.
Amity, Oregon, January 5, 1878.
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PROTECTION.

Two miserable apologies Of the aris-
tocracy Of sex, named respectively
Smith and Huntington, called one
evening last week at several Of the es-
Establishments in this city, where women
are supported, though by no means pro-
tected, by men, and the next day made
complaint against the women thus Wis
tied, to the effect that they bad sold
them liquor. Two Of the accused par
ties plead guilty and paid their fines, to
help sustain their pseudo protectors in
idleness, one Of the prosecuted forfeited
bail, and the fourth, more plucky than
the rest, demanded a jury trial and got
of with an attorneys fee. The pinks of
masculine propriety above named ad-
mitted before the court that they had
brought the charges to obtain half Of
the fines imposed, which sums they
agreed to divide equally when the cases
were concluded. We have not heard
that the police judge, prosecuting at
tOrney, or Anybody else has made any
effort to even censure, much less fine
and imprison these voters because Of
their perjury.
But see how it is, reader, Disreputa-
bic women exist as such only by and
through the patronage Of men. That
they are shut out from the pale Of re-
spectacle society is because men, many
of whom visit them secretly, command
and compel their wives and daughters
TO show them no quarter, and give them
no opportunity to reform, under peril of
their own downfall. Once in a while
the aristOcracy Of sex gets spasm of
pretended virtue, and officially pulls"
a bagnio, and by that means repletes its
treasury, doubtless depleted in the first
instance by patronizing these very
places. But the latest dodge Of these
protectors is that Of Smith and Hunt
ington. Had they thus borne false wit
ness against voters, they would not
come of so easily.
The NEW NORTHWEST would not see
discrimination between the fallen man
and fallen woman. Both are guilty OF
violation Of moral law, and let them
receive like punishment at the hands Of
the civil law for like offenses. If it is
wrong for women to sell liquor, it is
equally wrong for men to buy 1t of
them; but it is trebly wrong for an ac-
eomplice in any crime, especially the
stronger and more favored party, after
being both aecomplice and leader in IL
to expose the weaker and helpless side
TO the sole consequences resulting from
mutual violation Of law and order
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-01
NEWS ITEMS
STATE AND rERRIroRlAL.

Mumps are very prevalent at Olympia.
The editor Of the Tacoma Herald is
Secretary Of the Pierce County Bible
Society.
The schools at Salem are more than
full, so much so that private ones are
being organized.
The saw mills at Port Discovery have
shut down for the year under subsidy
from the other mills.
Former residents of Puget Sound.
now in San Francisco, have organized a
social club in that city.
Much of the wheat in the vicinity of
Applegate, Josephine county, was in
jured 10y the late cold snap.
The Salem University Debating Club
has decided that Chinese in Oregon are
a detriment-and that settles il.
Money & Co. have removed the news
paper, book and job printing establish
ment from kalama to New Tacoma,
Washington Territory.
Four hundred dollars have already
been subscribed toward the erection of
a Methodist Church in Puyallup, on a
lot donated by J. p. Stewart.
Farmers and others in Baker City
have organized joint stock company
which will build large Touring mill.
Such an establishment is much wanted.
During the whole of last week re-
vival meetings continued at the MethO-
dist Church at Seattle with great inter-
est This week the meetings continue
at the Congregational Church.
The governor Of Washington Terri
tory has issued a proclamation calling
for the election Of delegates to the con-
stitutiOnal convention. The election
will take place on the 9th of April, and
the convention will assemble at Walla
Walla on the llth Of June.
A correspondent of the Record Union,
while in Boise county, Idaho, recently,
was very favOrably impressed with what
he saw of the resources of that section.
He considers the project of bedrock
fumes in MOOre's Creek as a practicable
enterprise aud one certain to pay inn
mensely.
At Seattle temperance men have is
sued an appeal TO the citizens of Wash
ingtOn Territory to take some means of
securing a prohibitOry liquor law Of
some kind, or at least a restriction law
fox the Territory; and they recommend
that the temperance people OF each
county assemble in mass meeting on
the 2Oth of February to elect delegates
to a Territorial convention on the 9Th Of
March.
The Baker City Democrat says that
Eastern Oregon is famous for her pleas
ant winters, and the present is only
sample of those in general, only little
more so. They have not had to exceed
one iuch of snow this winter, and the
/ ground is bare now, and the mercury
| has not been to zero but one morning.
Stock is making its own living in the
/ valley and on the foot hills. ThesnOw on
| the mountains is not as deep as usual,
and the prospects for good mining
season are not as hattering as we could
wish, but there lis still time for more
snow.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-01

The LU5Or World, which inaugurates
its war against monopolies by patron
iziug the patent inside swindle, the
meanest monopoly of any age, wants
the NEW NORTHWEST to make both
sides patent, so it can compete. Thanks,
friend, for your solicitude, but we re-
spectfully decline to cheat either reader
or printer by patronizing a monopoly
of the art preservative in any such way.
Don't crowd printers or pressmen to
the wall, brother. That's worse than
the Chinamen are doing
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ENDLESS PUNISHMENT.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Ia looking over an old copy of your
inimitable journal to-day, came across
some correspondence between yourself
and Mr.. Lawson, Of Salem, published
in '75, wherein he took Mrs. Coburn to
task for declining to publish one of his
characteristic attacks against the
churches. Your reply in the same issue,
wherein you say, Wouldn't you howl
il somebody should publish in these
columns a coarse attack upon Spiritual
ism, for instance ?" was the Thought
that bit the case exactly. And vet, 1
see no reason why you should not pub
lish the pros and cons of all subjects.
People have a right to think and ex-
press their thoughts In the public prints
they patronize, and am sorry, though
an orthodox Christian myself, that Mr..
Lawson was not beard.
Last week you had your say about
eternal punishment, though you re-
marked the week before that you "had
your own opinions upon theology, but
they were not popular enough to print,
therefore other writers must excuse you
from treating them as you were COM
PEELED to treat yourself" Now, will
you let me have a word in your paper,
and thus treat me as you treat your
self? I promise to pay the pecuniary
damage, If any occurs because Of what
say, for 1 believe that is only just and
proper.
Is the present controversy upon hell
founded OF the word of God If so,
geA II not, let it cease. The Bible
says, "rhe wicked shall be turned into
hell with all the nations that forget
God" Can language be more explicit g?
Do we not provoke condemnation upon
our own souls by raising quibbIes upon
Gods holy word? Again, "These shall
20 away into everlasting punishment,
but the righteous into life eternal. u
Can We be Christians and yet doubt e?
Also, Mrs. Editor, it pains me to see a
woman occupying your public position,
where so many will naturally accept
your sayings as their gospel, declaring
that you prefer to teach your children
that there is no escape from the evil
consequences Of sin, except by restitu-
tion, aud that all must pay the penalty
for their own misdeeds-I say it pains
me inexpressibly, for did not Christ
atone for all sin upon the cross, that we
through his death and suffering might
inherit everlasting life ? Be careful that
you treasure not up wrath against the
day Of wrath by teaching your children
to believe lie that they may be damned.
ONE WHO FEARS HE'LL.
Oregon City, January 10, 1873.
We have written several replies to
the above, but can't afford the luxury
Of printing any of them, as they reach
so deeply after proofs and causes that
our inquiries would surely shock oui
friend. But we will give gladly reason
able space to any one else who Will an
swer, that is, upon the terms given by
our correspondent. ED.