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FULL PROTECTION. ."

"Ihe law affords women foil protec-
tion," said our sapient German cotem-
porary a few weeks since. Read the
following and tell us where the "full
protection" comes in: "Mary Sulli-
van, the poor girl in New York who
left her child wrapped 10 her shawl on
a stoop, and pleaded before the Justice,
1 loved my child, but had no place to
take care Of it, was sentenced by Re-
corder Hackett to three years in the
penitentiary for abandoning her child.
What about punishment for the man
who abandoned both mother and ehiId2'
On the other hand, Christian Ohlandt.
proprietor of a low liquor saloon in
the same city, who, finding a sick and
half-crazed woman in the street, Mrs.
Addie Oakman, enticed her into his
shop and outraged her, was sentenced
by Judge Gildersleeve to eighteen
months imprisonment Aud this week
Robert Baker, indicted for bigamy, who
admitted in the court Of sessions that
within the last four or five years he had
married three wives, was sentenced 10
the penitentiary for four years. Only
sixteen months imprisonment for ru-
lining an innocent woman for life,
under circumstances of the basest de-
ception and falsehoodl Only four years
Tor running three women, and casting
tnem and their children on the world,
disgraced, nameless, aud homelessl
These are the fruits Of mems laws for
wOmenn
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MADELINE TO THE RESCUE.

/ Madeline Vinton Dahlgren, the self
appointed mouth-piece for "silent and
modest" women, a woman who goes be-
fore the Congress Of the United States
petitioning that body not to allow the
voice of woman to be heard in political
matters, lest il "Open a Pandora's box
from which much evil must issue, and
which, once opened, may never again
be closed" is evidently too meek aud
saint-like to live much longer in a COM
munity composed of ordinary human
beings. She discourses Of f"sileut masses'
Gf silent, how came she to hear them
speak p, "Christian society,"" the "im-
mutable laws of the Almighty" which
last she is sacreligious enough to think
women can break if allowed to vote, in
dulges in totally irrelevant talk on mar
riage, declares. with wonderful acute
ness that the "family is the foundation
Of the State" says she is deprived by the
"adorable will of God Of husband,
father, brother, and son, and stands
alone, having minor children to edu-
cate, and considerable property interests
to guard" and prefers to trust to her
"moral influence" over men TO secure
the favors and privileges she wishes.
We would indeed like to know what
vandal ever proposed to attack this cit
adel Of silence and modesty and drag
this recluse (?) to the polls. The follow
ing is the chief argument set forth in
this remarkable "memorial:"
We have but 10 look az the condition OF our
Indian sister, upon whose bended back the
heavy pack is laid by her lord and master,
who treads I'm subjectionShe beaten pathway
Of equal rights, and compare her situation
with our own, 10 thank the God Of Christian
nations who has placed us above that plat
form, where right is might, and might is tyr
amy.
Truly, the men Of this nation must
feel cOmplimented by this estimate Of
the latent brutality which Mrs. Dahl
gren supposes to be sleeping in their na-
lures, ready to spring forth on their
mothers and wives when they dare ap-
proaeh the polling-places of the republic.
To interpret this argument literally, one
would be forced to conclude that, were
its premises true, the Sixteenth Amend
ment asked for by thousands and tens Of
thousands of our most thoughtful men
and women would not only confer suf-
frage on women, but would at the same
time transform all men into ignorant,
barbarous, and mereiless savages. Our
acquaintance with our brethren GER
tainly does not warrant US in endorsing
such unjust suspicious Of them, and our
advice to the fair Madeline is to get her
self into nunnery as quickly as possi-
oie' where "silence" can more effectu-
ally environ her.
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SEX REVERENCE.

The census Of Massachusetts contains
the names of about sixty thousand more
women than men, yet, Notwithstanding
this fact, the humber Of men who are
paupers are greatly in excess Of the
number Of women so situated. Among
the people Of Massachusetts, as else
where, the DISTINGUISHED class is de-
scribed as 'fdiots, paupers, criminals,
and women" Among these last in that
State are those who pay taxes on mill
ions of dollars, thus helping to support
the paupers; yet is the classification be-
cause of this not varied, though women
by thousands have asked year after
year for a removal Of their political dis
abilities that would lift them out Of
such obnoxious classification. All who
have kept up with the workings Of the
woman movement know how extremely
difficult it has been 10 years past and
how very uncertain it is, even in times
present, for the law-abiding, intelligent,
and taX-pay ing women of Massachusetts
to get hearing IN her legislative cham
bers. "Male" paupers, IL seems, have no
such trouble. Search was commenced
in that body and vigorously prosecuted
to find out what length Of time must
elapse after a man had ceased 10 be a
public burden before he could vote. The
legislature, which has hesitated not to
declare that no length OF time would
suffice to qualify tax-paying women for
the franchise, could not decide this i'm
portant (?) question for the "msle' pau
pers of the State, and the Supreme
Court was appealed to. This august
body decided that no special time was
necessary, virtually deciding, as Lucy
Stone puts it, "that male paupers who
have been kept at public expense for
S64 days in the year may before the day
Of election saw wood enough to earn a
breakfast, and then have the party or
candidate who needs their votes pay
their poll tax, and they are free from
political disqualification and entitled to
vote. When this high duty Of citizen
ship has been performed, they can next
morning resume their old place at the
public expense, aud for another year be
fed and clothed, while thrifty aud in
dustrious women who are not permitted
to vote will be taxed for their support y
Further comment is unnecessary. The
lesson Of injustice aud oppression
founded on sex reverence is plain for all
who are acquainted even with the al
phabet Of freedom. He who runs may
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INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCE WITH
THE NARROW-MIEDED."

said an interrogator to lady physi-
clan: docs the racket you undergo,
and do the painful scenes you witness
reeoil disadvantageously upon you
Has your grain become coarser and
your moral sense blunter? ,"
81 have simply become sublimated,"
was the answer. II have come to have
immense pity for the human race. aud
most of all for my half-emancipsted sis
ters. have learned that no weed is a
weed TO the artist; 10 trash, trash TO the
chemist, and nothing unworthy ofinves-
tigation TO the thinker. What the exact
drift of the grim comedy called human
life is I cannot answer, but it seems to
me that the path Of many to a higher
state lies through putrid fermentation
"a notion that teaches me to be tol-
Grant where formerly I would have
flung stones. But 1 think it we'll to
tell you that / eschew intimate ac-
quaintance with narrow-miuded persons
who object to women living out their
own lives"
In order to olive out their own lives"
in a manner that shall not only satisfy
conscience, but promote public veal and
preserve equability Of temper and stead
fastness Of purpose, it is, if not neces-
sary, at least well for women thinkers
to observe the last clause in the para
graph above quoted. A daily contact
with things we loathe saps and exhausts
bodily and mental strength more than
any amount Of the hardest congeuial
labor can do. So daily association with
narrow-minded persons-persons whom
for humanitys sake and for the sake Of
common politeness we endeavor to treat
with courtesy, feeling all the time as il
courtesy is thereby in some sort sullied-
narrows and to some extent belittles in
their own estimation those who strive
for fairer visions and broader fields
wherein to labor and to plan.
"Filled with an immense pity for the
human race" one can be, without allow
ing its most hopeiessly narrOw-minded
representatives TO clog and weight him
down with daily companionship. Il
takes ofttimes brave heart and deter
mined purpose to work unfiinchingly in
ways hedged up by custom and double
g-arded by prejudice and ignorance,
aud every one who has tried it knows
how much more of comfort and Of self
qualification there is in meeting a log
ical, sensible, and courteous opponent
in these ways than is to be found in en-
deavoring to convince pig-headed mar
rowness Of its error. The latter, con-
WINGED over and again, is Of "the same
opinion still, because, forsoOth, there is
room for but one idea in the mind, and
ignorance has titled and planted with
such ignOble success that her heritage
therein is forever assured.
Workers in the reform field may meei
and exchange shots with these elements
at long range without injury to theil
own tempers and detriment TO their owl
mentality, and this may be done fire.
quently or constantly without discom
fort; but intimate acquaintance will
narrow-minded persons should be es
chewed by those who work on In,
higher plane OF intellectually, for tn,
reason that life is too short aud hold
too many high possibilities to waste il
vital forces in meaningless warfare will
human stocks and stones.
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WOMEN AS PHYSICIANS.

Among the many successful profess
sional enterprises of American women
who are proving that their enfranchise-
ment is deserved, we are proud to mem
ton the triumphs Of Mrs. DIR. Murray,
of this city, who already has DO acknowl-
edged peer among her gentlemen asso-
ciates in the healing art. In some of
the most difficult cases la obstetrics of
which we have any knowledge she has
recently performed marvellous feats OF
skilled surgery. At her daily receptions
for the afflicted her rooms are crowded
by waiting ones who can only take
turns for treatment. We have conversed
with a number Of our most eminent
gentlemen physicians concerning her,
and all who know her are firm in her
praises. DR.. Murray has spent several
years in Paris, under the most scientific
medical tuition in the world, and is a
regular of the straightest sort.
OF the representative women in medi-
cine who occupy first rank with gentle
men in this important science, the peo-
pie of Oregon point proudly TO their
own Mrs. DIR. Owens, physician, surgeon,
and druggist, whose testimonials of her
wonderful success in restoring the af-
flicted could be produced by the hund-
reds But her most valuable testimO-
mails are the healed and gladdened men
and women who go forth from under
her treatment, rejoicing that woman
has at last found her proper professional
sphere. DIR. Owens combines the Allo-
pathic and Electic branches Of the med
ieal schools in her practice, and also
makes excellent use OF medicated vapor
baths.
And now comes Mrs. DR.. Burr, a
Homeopathic physician, and one Of the
most skillful of the order, who has al
ready built up an extensive practice,
though resident of but a few months
in the city. She is as much rushed
with business as either Of the ladies
above mentioned, and is equally success
ful. Her Saturday afternoon lectures
TO ladies are well attended, and her
standing with the medical profession OF
her school Is OF the highest order.
The above are only few Of the many
results of the agitation Of the woman
movement in our midst, but for which
the average woman would yet turn
up her nose at the mention of a lady
physician. The change in public senti-
ment concerning the many things that
women may and can accomplish is as
agreeable as unexpected. All honor tc
women as physicians, emphatically say
We
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NEWS ITEMS.

alton. '' 'pei.
unsatisfactory i''' has oeeH very
+ IoSts have done but sIi,bt ds-,o,e
u iu'e III western Washington.
me Lebanon -four mills h,ys ,,s.,,,-,5
nanus 10 the tuue Of sixteen thoussnJ
The steam saw mill belongi,e, 70 a..
Yakima Reservation viii be IL, - ;,-e
operation in few days.
The Yamhill Republicans will hold
their county convention on the 9th of
May; Democrats on the 18th.
The Democrats Of Walla Walla have
subscribed 81 500 to enable Tom Merry
to start party organ at that city.
Mrs. Wood, an insane woman from
Coos county, arrived at the asylum on
Friday in charge Of Sheriff Aiken.
The jam in the Skagit is now Omen
enough To permit canoe To pass lTougl.
II is thought the June freshe- VIII com
plete the work.
Immigrants are fioekiug into Yakima
from all quarters, taking W Iand under
the homestead, pre-emptiOu, timoer-cui-
ture, and desert land acts.
The Columbia Chronicle, published a
Dayton, Washington Territory, has
made its appearance. T. NJ. May aud
II. II. Gale are publishers.
Teachers wages in Whitm5u county,
Washington Territory, during the past
year have averaged, for town schools,
$40 per month; for country schools, 80
per month.
Sixteen thousand head Of cattle will
be swum across the Columbia River,
driven out of Eastern Washington,
through Idaho, over the Rocky Noun
taius and TO Cheyenne, in Wyoming
Territory, during the next three months.
Grading began on Monday at Dayton
on the Iamhill railroad. Fifty men
are employed on this part Of the work.
The rolling stock has been shipped
from Caruollsville, Pennsylvania, and
track laying will begin In about six
weeks.
Yakima county cares very little
whether Washington is State or
Territory. The vote for delegates to
frame "A State constitution was very
light, several Of the precincts returning
their poll-bOok without single vote
being registered.
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An INTELLIGENT Echn.

Lucy Stone has the following in the
Woman's Journal relative to the Oregon
State Woman Suffrage Association and
the workers therein. 1t is gratifying to
note that the echo of words spoken for
freedom at Albany, in February, so
soon reached the eastern verge Of our
nation with such force as to send imme-
diately its reverberatious back to her
western shores. Let US labor, friends,
to deserve the commendation Of the
words always onward :"
"The fifth annual meeting Of the Ore
gOn Woman Suffrage Association WAS
IN every way success. IL was well at
tended aud well sustained There are
no more constant or efficient workers
for Woman Suffrage than those in Ore
gOn. The activity Of Mrs. A. J. Duni-
way is truly Herculean. Wife, mother,
editor, lecturer, author, she Is at the
same time filling the duties of all these
important parts, AMI through them all,
and by them all, is proving her capacity
to serve the State. Her watcuful criti-
cisms Of OppOsers, in the State or out Of
It, never cease, while her husband and
sons give her their effective support in
her various fields OF duty. Mrs. LOugh-
ary's heartfelt devotion TO the same
cause makes one always wish to grasp
her hand and give her a fervent God
speed Mrs. Foltz, with equal fidelity,
uses the lecture field with persuasive
elOqueuee, and whether she is in Oregon
or California, every friend of suffrage
speaks her name with respect and alice
tiOn. Others add 70 the strong force
their contributions in various wavs so
that the cause is always onward in Ore
gOn."
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Miss Catherine L. Beecher, in a letter
to the New York Tribune, says: "My
father rejected the idea of literal fire
aud birthstone torments, but he de-
scribed the suffering of the wicked in
such terms as caused myself and Mrs.
Stowe to leave the church in the N idst
of his sermon" The letter reviews the
teachings Of clergymen who were con .
temporaries Of the Rev. DR.. Beecher,
and is severe enough TO create sensa-
linn
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a good question for sensible men to
ponder: Why is il that a woman own
ing property and paying taxes thereon
should he prohibited from voting, while
men who never pay a cent Of taxes vote
at every election? II some logical man
will reconcile this state Of affairs with
the declaration that taxation without
representation is tyranny" aud still
show that women are not subject to
tyranny, we shall be greatly Obliged.
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Another woman has left large be-
quest for the education Of men. Mrs.
Anne P. Seaver has given 100000 to
Harvard College, the doors Of which.
notwithstanding the most persistent
Knocking by women applicants, have
through all the past decades remained
closed to women.
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WARY FnSrFR

Commission Merchant and Purchasing Agent.
is prepared TO make purchases in New York
and other Cities on order, of all goods, ieweiry,
groceries, etc, on commission Of 8 per cent. for
; Of j. and 10 per cent for others outside Of
the Order West India preserves and Mexican
eonserves. Address p. o. Station "D,p New
York City.
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Brother Abbott makes a feeb'e at.
tempt at wit and good wishes. express.
ing the hope that some good man NAV
gobble Sister Coburn up and make her
life companion" Thank you, brother;
but, to say the truth, "gobblersr are no,
our especial admiration, neither can We
construe their diseordant notes into the
"sweet things" which you profess your
self anxious to utter.
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NOTICE

Correspondents, in order 20 insure prompt
attention 20 their communications, should sd
dress all letters containing remittances or mat
Ter for publication 70 the NEW NoKTHwEsT
Letters intended for Mrs. Duniway OF Mrs. Co
burn should be addressed 20 them personally,
without reference 70 the paper
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-03

The Iowa House of Representatives
recently voted to submit a Woman
Suffrage constitutional amendment to
the qualified voters of the State. Ayes,
fifty-five; noes, forty-two.
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60 The National Sold Medal was awarded
TO Bradley & Rulofson forthe best Photographs
In the United states, and tie Vienna Medal
lor the best in the world. 429 Montgomery
street, san Francisco.
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NJ. ;. Booth, of Seattle, has recently
written for the Hltelligelcer and Orego-
nian several articles on finance that are
worthy Of consideration.
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The widow Of President Tyler has for
years been in the possession aud excl
else of the franking privilege.
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"PRBsAGB OF VICTORY. q"

Democrats remember with a shiver OF
dread for the result Of the coming con-
test, how one balmy June in the years
agone they gave their banner into the
hands Of a Methodist Episcopal minis
ter, and he bore it to victory for them.
All their efforts to hide their grim fore
bodings behind feeble pleasantries about
methodist Conferences" just now are
of no avail. IL it were not for Mart
Brown to float them along on his shall
low and irreverent wit, they would lose
all hope. As it is, they "grin CHASTITY
smiles" while they echo him to keep
their courage up. Meanwhile this little
historical scrap, once so comforting, but
now so disquieting 10 Democrats, fills
with
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"Daniel Der0nda' has thus far profited
its gifted author, George Eliot, two
hundred thousand dollars.
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And fierce desire Of battle"
While they whistle ''turn about is fair
play"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-08

Ia selecting -four, first look at its
color. If it is white, with a yellow straw.
colored tint, buy it. If it is white, with
a blush cast or white specks in it, refuse
it. Second, examine its adhesiveness-
wet and kuead a little of it between your
fingers; if it is soft and sticky, it is poor.
Throw a little lump Of dry -four against
a smooth surface; if it falls like powder
it is bad. Third, squeeze some of the
flour tightly in your hand; if it retains
the shape given by the pressure, that,
too, is a good sign. 1t is safe to buy
-four that will stand all these tests. These
modes are given by all old -four dealers,
and they pertain to a matter that con.
Germs everybody.
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THE SILVER L
1 tRemAins tn the Hands Of the Gov.
eminent Almost Entirely.

IL RemAins tn the Hands Of the GOV.
eminent AlmRst Entirely.
Washington Special to New York Verdi
The minis have now coined in the
neighborhood of S,000,O 900 silver dollars,
and will continue to coin them after the
LIST OF July at the rate Of about 1000. 900
a month. There will, therefore, be about
$20,0 900, 900 Of this coin in existence on
the LIST OF January next. Almost the
whole amount of dollars thus far coined
is still in the possession of the govern.
ment. People do not want them, and it
is utterly impossible to get them into
circulation. The issue Of silver eertii
Gates has reached an aggregate Of
81 .462, 600, but these certificates, like the
dollars themselves, come directly back
to the government as soon as they are
issued. The treasury now has in its
various offices 81, !33S, 40 of them, The
present operation Of the silver law is as
follows: The government was compelled
at the start to use gold coin to purchase
silver bullion, but as soon as the first
million of silver dollars were coined. the
bullion was paid for in these dollars.
The seller Of bullion Immediately passed
the silver dollar to brokers, who paid
them back to the government for customs
duties. AS o as the issue of silver
certificates was begun by the govern
ment these took the place of the silver
dollars in payment Of silver bullion.
The bullion broker now receives silver
certificates for his bullion and the silver
dollars do not 90 out of the possession
of the government at all The silver
certificates are passed to brokers and
used in the payment Of duties. They
are not legal tender, and are not sought
for any other purpose. As the govern.
ment will only purchase bullion at the
rate of 81. 900. 900 a month, not more
than 81. 900, 900 worth of certificates are
brought into use, and this amount viii
be sufficient to cover the silver bullion
business for the remainder Of the year
II is calculated at the treasury depart
ment that by the lst of January next
the government will have been deprived
of at least ten millions of gold, which il
would have received if silver anC
silver certificates were not used for
the payment Of duties Should the treas
ury department increase the amount o.
coinage, the use of silver certificates fol
the payment of duties would be CORE
spondingly increased, but the govern
ment would be wholly deprived of it
supply Of gold coin.