The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-03
AN HOUR WITH oORREgPONDENTs.

AN HOUR WITH CORRESPONDENTS.
a friend IL Idaho City accompanies
her yearly remittance with the follow
ing words of appreciation: 81 welcome
the NEW NORTHWEST with its words .
Of cheer, and trust its mission may be
still more prosperous until the many
wrongs it is combating shall be righted,
and equality before the law shall be
acknowledged throughout the land"
Words like these, coming, as they do,
from an earnest woman worker and a
lifelong educator, are like "apples Of
gold" and, when placed on the "phil-
osopher's scales" outweigh the adverse /
opinions OF . thousand narrow aud IL
norant souls who affect to think that
womanly purity is protected only by
woman's political bondage.
From Tacoma comes the following:
81 am going TO start out this week So
liciting signatures to the petition to our
constitutional convention asking to
have the word male left out Of the
suffrage qualifications. l will canvass
this place and New Tacoma, and report
what proportion Of the citizens sign the
petition. There is growing interest
in this cause on the Sound, aud | earn
estly hope when Washington is added
to the galaxy Of States she will have
embodied in her constitutional provis-
ions equal rights aud equal privileges
for all intelligent and law-abiding citi-
zens." Wea glad, indeed, to note that
the advocates Of freedom in Washington
Territory see the opportunity that offers
to distinguish their expected State with
an honor TO which her predecessors have
not attained nor even aspired. There is
no doubt but proper effort in this diree-
ton would compass the much desired
end. Il will be proud day, not only
for Washington and her Pacific sisters,
/ but for the myriads of the entire nation
when she wheels into line, decked, not
only with the semblance of liberty, but
proclaiming to the world her belief in
its realities. With her wonderful in
land sea inviting the commerce Of the
world, her lofty mountains challenging
| its admiration, her exhaustless forests
contributing largely to its habitations,
her fertile valleys responding literally
to the demands Of a growing population,
she needs but this crOwning element OF
equality to complete her success.
An Olympia correspondent says: al
have read with pleasure your comments
on DIR. Smiths lectures. Il is rather
astonishing that a man Of his erudition
will lecture evening after evening on
/ Folks and ignore women, of whom
half his audience is composed, utterly"
That is just our opinion. But we be-
lieve women are to blame when they
listen to these lectures time ard again
without calling the attention Of the lee
turer TO the grave omission. II you will
be ignored, you may be nine times out
Of ten.
Now comes a puzzling question, all
the way from Walla Walla: "What
would the world be without MARRIAGE"
We shrink from contemplating social
anarchy and riot, and do not care to
visit, even in Imagination, such a world.
Besides, any reply to this question could
only be imaginative, and would prove
or disprove nothing. If congenial mar
riages were the rule, the task Of depict
ing the world in its marital relations
would be gracious one.
a friend in Clackamas county sub
scribes to the NEW NORTHWEST, so he
says, "to kill time aud patronize a
worthy paper" We shrewdly suspect
him to be widower, with number
two" in view, who is a stauuch Woman
Suffragist, and he, like a sensible man,
seeks the surest road to her affections
by posting himself on a subject in which
she is interested. But "copy" accumu-
lates, the paper is full, and others will
be considered in the future.