The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-31
Power than men or mobs that overrules
this Woman Movement. y. 5. ID.
Wurow SpRrNGs. July p.

Oi our sOlOuTn in JACKSONVILLE we huF- I
riedly seize our oft-onending, though T.
truth-telling, pencil TO portray facts as
they have occurred during the interim
since last We wrote you.
On Monday, the 2lst, we returned TO
the city Of the Philistines as we had
thoagh we were careful TO en-
ter and depar. uuring daylight, as the
militia" aud other protectors Of women
with whom we have bad to deal in that
modern Sodom are Of the kind that are
only to be feared in the darkness.
At Mrs. Winnings we again found hos
pitable welcome, and, after a quiet,
social dinner with Mrs. Kenney, Mrs.
McDonough and Mrs. Plymale at Mrs.
VS. well filed board, we seribbled an
open letter to the men Of Jacksonville,
which, after little elimination, the ed
itorso OF the Times and the Sentinel agreed
to publish, the former in his issue Of the
oath, and the latter, whose paper was
already full for this week, on his next
publication day. We found our breth-
rem Of the press disposed to be afiable,
though they are not yet sufficiently over
the licentious craze o, few Of their
evil-minded, loud mouthed patrons to
fairly distinguish virtue from vice and
80 they still persist in saying that We
have scandalized a lady by declaring
her to have been unjustly attainted with
masculine oppression aud slander.
"You ought to have permitted her and
her children to bear the stain forever,
because it was no longer the subject of
street talk, and the Judges wife had got
used to IT," is the substance of their so
called logic. A man who is either so
blind that lie cannot, or so perverse that
he will not, see the sacred principle in
volved in the facts we have published,
and who has tried mob law to check the
progress OF free speech, free press and
free women, is a thousand times wiser
in his own conceit than seven women
who can render reason. You may
"Bray a fool seven times in mortar"
says solomon, land yet his folly viii
not depart from him.
We refrain from publishing the un-
wise attempt of a certain young man to
defend the injustice OF his father at the
expense Of his mothers character, for
the boy will be deeply enough ashamed
of it after lie has come out from among
his mothers defamers and learned a lit
/ tie wisdom. It is not natural for son
/ to assist in defending a rabble in its in
dignation against lady who has dared
/ in the face OF long-established masculine
opinion TO the contrary, to declare that
/ his mother is innocent OF a crime. The
youth, the inexperience, and the bat
example that surround the boy ar,
generously brought forward in his de-
fense. Let us cover his mistake viii
the mantle Of charity.
We have another matter TO tell yoJ
Of, good reader, and it concerns the in
famous conduct Of the Brigadier- Genera
Of the Oregon militia; but emineu
counsel advises us to wait till the mat
ter has first been ventilated in court a
law. Even could We bring our pencil
low enough to make it write them, VI
could not put the common street ex
pressions Of this chief Of the hom
guards about US and to us upon pape
without danger of being Indicted 70
sending obscene matter through To
United States mails.
In the afternoon OF Monday we mad
an address on the street, right in TIA
midst Of the crowd where we had beel
threatened with eggs and publicl
howled at on the Friday before
and there was the most respectful 81
lence and attention while we spoke
We defended the boys who had bee
accused Of instigating the riot. w
charged the whole cause OF the disturb
ance upon older heads-yoters and law
makers-and we here predict that IN
sequel will prove it. The boys are nc
to blame. 1t was bearded aud beardles
hoodlums, aud bad whisky and voter
7, and law makers, that did it.
But, after all, it's fun to see how W
have scared the politicians. Quite
number Of the bedrock Democrat
think we have come out here under IA
: patronage Of the Republican party, fc
, the purpose Of laying wires in the intel
est of some candidate OF other for IA
United States Senate. Others say "
are surreptitiously working for the su,
cess Of the greenback or independer
movement, and still others that we al
in the interest Of the dominant wing
the Oregon Democracy. But. no ma
ter which horn Of the dilemma they az
, eept- they seize hold Of il like drownin
men catching at straws. The editor
the Sentinel hurls ruin in the path
y Judge Prim, by pretending to be angr
u because we have told the truth and
u hundred Democratic voters who read Il
{ Sentinel have failed TO see the point ii
= they have fallen in the trap. The II
dependents and the Democrats of a
u Thayer school are also jealous Of q
= mans rights Judge, and they are a IN
Is with the Republicans in secretly excl
J. ing the bedrock ring to 20 ahead al
E spoil the future chances Of the Judg
.e But he is wiser in one sense than the
y all.
Years ago, when the Republica
" Joined with the Democrats in an orga
Y lied warfare against the woman NOV
'e ment, we successfully silenced the
.e "free love" cry by publishing a part