The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-29
AN HOUR WITH CORRESPONDENTS

"If this little poem meets with your
approval, will you publish in the NEW
NORTHWEST? ] have had quite a num-
Der published in the - papers, but
would like TO introduce them ia one of
note. Having seen you end heard you
speak in Albany, I believe you 10 be
willing, after having attained a high
literary reputation by your own efforts,
to assist a youth in rising"
The literary reputation our young
I friend is seeking must come through his
own efforts, also. We give the best
portion Of his poem, corrected to suit
these columns, and advise him to COM
pare it, as published, with the original.
Nothing but experience and practice
will insure success in any walk Of life,
least OF all in literature:
d. Day is dawning, and the moon, iull high,
Rides in beauty through the shadowy west,
/ And cloudlets in the clear and liquid sky
Are floating eastward, gold and silver
dressed.
And while gaze upon the kindling skies,
The stars are growing DINNER In my sight,
And the pale moon, as through the clouds he
hies,
Gives forth psiiid, almost rayless light
" Gandly from yonder snowy mountain top
The sunlight sheds it's golden glory round;
Ny throbbing pulses quiver and half stop
In view OF brilliant beauty SO profound.
d" Light. ceaseless, chaseth darkness, darkness
light,
Around this busy, weary world OF ours.
/ First gladsome day holds empire; then the
night
/ Leads on with noiseIess step his gLostly
powers"
Our friend will see that we have not
followed "copy." though we have crys-
talized the sense Of what he meant to
say. Let him study rhetoric and train
his fine Imagination. Il is far better
for young men that they be poetizers
than that they should spend their spare
time 10 evil company. Clio infinitely
better company than Baechus, always.
We Inadvertently wound up our old
friend Lawson last week, and set him to
going, aud while we do not agree with
his phantasies about the enmity Of labor
and capital, nor have we seen for Ourself
the medium" he tells us Of, we cheer
fully give him space 10 speak bis little
piece, satisfied that we have sometimes
given room to more prosy productions:
"In the last NEW NORTHWEST is an
editorial notice Of my humble labors for
the finance and labor reform movement,
which, coming from the source it does,
demands Of me some little recognition.
I copy; The notion prevails among a
great many wiseacres that G. w. Law
son is crack-brained lunatic. While
we will not attempt TO answer for or pal
late any other Of his supposed vagaries,
we must aver that in our humble judg-
ment there is more method in his money
madness than can be found among all
the other lunatics, ourself included, who
have attempted to air the question:
J Then follows an extended quotation OF
T one of my articles on the money ques-
, tion, and concludes as follows: 'Galileo,
! Newton, Franklin, Fulton, Morse, and
, Field were all called lunatics. Dream
- on, LAWSON you are in good company
e In 1852, nearly twenty-six years ago, ]
: came to Oregon, and brought with me a
e good test medium, seventeen-year-old
} boy, whose extraordinary powers and
S unmistakable spiritual manifestations
S were witnessed by most Of the then
= leading men of the State, including
e Colonel Nesmith, Judge Boise, Judge
f Wilson, Asahel Bush, Nat II. Lane
{ George II. Williams, Delazon Smith
r and others. Ialso brought with me and
3. distributed over the State three hundred
e volumes of work on manifestations
} giving light to a new truth Of the age
D For my labors IN this cause l earned
} from bigotry and intolerance the cognO-
D men Of crazy. As time has worn along
? aud all the really intelligent and libera
minded have become satisfied Of the
truths Of Spiritualism, l have had tC
look to some other missionary field FOL
q occupation. Ny next eccentricity wai
4 running against General Lane for dele
, gate 10 Congress, on the foreshadoweC
t. proslavery policy Of the English bill,
. extending slavery into new territories
= / aired that question for all that wai
T. out, and added my little mite to crust
/ out that iniquitous curse Of greed anC
e avarice, African slavery, from oul
n American soil. ! recollect an amusing
J. aneedote of that occasion. In some dis
b cussion in the House about the Oregon
d election, General Lane sought to convey
n the impression that there was no polit
d ical expression Of the people agains
j slavery, as the man who ran agains
l. him was crazy. Galusha A. Grow
5 leading Republican in the House, told
d him it didn't look well for him to assert
=, that he'd been nearly beaten by a crazy
e man, and the General dropped the sug
d gestion. Since then I have had nc
+, special fight against anything but loca
o monopolies, railroad frauds in Congress
J.. Cascade portages, lock and dam swim
. dies, and election frauds, that hav,
brought me into the independent field
until now, when the oppression anC
- starvation of the labor class by the cap
e italists enlists all my valor and vehe
e mence in their cause. Doubtless / shal
= now be entitled to my old cognomen
/. and il will be warmly bestowed by tn,
= enemies Of the masses and the advocates
f Of a government TO legislate for the few