The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-11-13
What Distinguished Women Say.

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Mrs Mary 4. Livermore says: III
women are not allowed to vote and ex-
press their opinions upon the laws 10y
which they are TO be governed, and u
they are not to have opened to them all
proper fields of labor, they Will turn
| their attention to dressmaking and to
millinery, aud 10 all other hOt-beds oi
fast modern life. II is doing great
harm, and that Is one reason why |
earnestly plead in their behalf for the
ballot and the responsibilities attending
| ttn
Grace Greenwood says: "That wOm-
en- are going 10 vote, is just as inevitable
as the falling of the avalanche from an
Alpine slope. It must come. Anybody
who looks AT il must see it. That man
hood suffrage includes wOmanhOod sut-
frage, and equal rights and equal wages
and universal education are the logical
results of our form OF government,
cannot conceive that there can be a
doubt. Unless we 90 back on the very
/ principles of the Declaration Of Inde-
/ pendence, these things must be. They
are the express train OF Gods provi-
deuce, aud unless We make up our mind
/ to go along with the train, we had bet
ter stand out Of the way"
/ Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford says: at is
I your (wOmen's) solemn, sacred duty, as
/ you love God and the truth and human
welfare, to seek the ballot, and, having
obtained it, to use it in purifying our
statute books and making them read
more like the Oracles of God-the eleven
commandments aud the Golden Rule -
/ Julia Ward Howe says: "This mighty
edIfice of the ideal society has many
mansions, whose doors open one after
another in the ruins of ages. When
Providence has moved the mysterious
seal from one Of these doors, those who
know the signs of the times gladly en-
| ter. The crowd without laugh at them
in loud chorus, See, those fools have
gone in therer After a while the halt
aud the lame and the blind hear Of the
new refuge, the new benefaction, and
make haste to crowd its halls and par
/ lors."
Miss Abby w. May says: "I claim
for women that-as in the case Of men
both justice and expediency demand
that the right OF suffrage should be con-
terred, because they are members Of So
ciety walking side by side with men,
bearing their share of life's burdens, do
ing their share of its duties, and making
their share Of sacrifices for the good OF
their fellow-citizens"
Mrs. Celia Burleigh says: ain an
cient times, women were veiied aud
Kept in sacred seclusion, but they have
by degrees thrown of the veil and
stepped forth from seclusion, till now
they stand forth in beauty and lowell.
ness. In ancient times she did not read
but, after the veil was thrown off in
course Of time the spelling-book was put
into her hands; then there was an ept
to their subjIgatiOu. If the true spher,
3 OF woman is imbecility, a great mistak,
was made in giving her the spelling
book. After that step, there was moth
ing left for women 10 DO but to go for
ward; they could not go back. From
that they were led on to be teachers
now they may go to college and he edu
Gated as thoroughly as men. There {
but one step more; they must be al
lowed the privilege Of using their edu
cation in all honorable ways, and espe
cialiy in voting"
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps says: 'Qui
etly, gradually, powerfully, in th
hearts Of timid women and magnani
nous men, an agitation is becoming
conservation; a problem is solving int
Suffrage is movement which a sneer
a scowl, threat, bon mot, can M
longer hinder, for it is the most tremen
dOus question since God asked, 'Wha
think ye OF Christ 2"
Jane G.. Swisshelm says: "The com
plete enfranchisemeut of women is tht
legitimate offspring of the church; an,
| shall live to see the mother take HON,
her child. The Bible is the Magu,
Charta OF all human rights, the grea
teacher Of all human duties. The caus,
Of wOman's Acknowledgement is the caus,
Of God, and no one need fear 10 stand by
1t, even though all the imps Of darknes
oppose it,"
Mrs. Elizabeth X. Churchill says
"Our claim for political rights is base,
upon no new gospel, but upon the verl
foundations of our Government It ha
been said the women do not know
enough to vote; il may be urged in re
ply that God made the women to mattel
the men. The sphere of woman ha
changed much in the course of pas
ages; it will change still more aud fo
the better, as it ever has dOne.n
Mrs. Edna d. Cheney says: ether
is no argument against suffrage fo
women to enlist "a fOeman worthy o
our steel;' therefore, to plead for thii
right is like making plea for virtue OF
fresh air. 1t is coming, and wOmer
should prepare themselves to exerci~.
the right aud to perform active public
seivice.n