The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-10

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when tue Humanitarian essays to
heal the moral or social ulcers from
which lis kind aIe suffering, he be-
comes q surgeon who must not spare the
rain nls patient experiences while IN
,sergsi,Ie tEs operation 10 ho would re-
move tie csase Of The disturbance aud
thereby place him in condition where
in he may be ultimately cured OF a
chronic maIady. We are led to this re-
mark through reading the "proof' Of
Mrs. Duniway's vigorous editorial let
ters, wherein she spares neither high
nor lowly, friend nor foe, kith nor kin
dred, and least Of all her own indomita-
bic self, il by so doing she can probe an
ulcer of oppression, or extract barb OF
tyranny from the side Of any patient
who has suffered from injustice under
the law or custom which she is pleased
to call the ''aristocraey Of sex" Some
times some Of her best friends, equally
in earnest with herself in the cause for
which she is laboring, but more timid
than she, and consequently less able to
use the scalpel, have criticised herquite
severely for her thorough work and
fearless speech. But time has generally
proved her decisions correct. She
claims that she is working for a PriRci-
Ulc, and must make effective work of
her endeavors or forego them alto
gether. OF one thing her opponents
NAV rest assured: She is working 10
,gin, and is winning her way wherever
she goes; and the greater the opposition,
the greater her triumph everywhere, as
is proven by the long subscription lists
she is now sending every week from
Southern Oregon, where, from her pub
lished correspondence and the notices ol
the press, we judge that much effort ha:
been made to check the progress Of bel
mission among the masses, to whom
her views were either entirely new ol
wholly misunderstood prior to hel
visit. But as a political missionary she
is irrepressible. She will not leave any
community where she begins her worl
till the backbone OF opposition is broken
and this object once accomplished, he
way is easy ever after in that locality
The amount Of ignorance with whiel
the world is governed is absolutely
amazing. Especially is it astonishin,
TO note the errors afloat and the popula
idea upon the Woman Suffrage ques
tion wherever the movement has no
been agitated. Men and women max
wild, eztravagant theories upon th
subject, and then organize tbemselve
into a social element for the purpose q
fighting their own mistaken fsucies.
seems to be Mrs. Duniway's mission t
cure them Of their mistakes; and, thong
some of her surgical operations ar
painful, they are safe aud effective, an
We do not agree with those who imae
inc that her incisive methods are nc
necessary. In many cases the cur
must come through the pain of the pa
tient whose disorder is being destroyed
but the pain will soon be over it if it b
but borne with fortitude. a wound al
ways "feels good after itquits hurting,
aud the individual wounds she make
in curing the fallacies Of the age, bein
made in mercy, are never long in hea
ing, and they always leave the patier
well who is willing to be healed. It
the opposition she meets that makes b,
campaign vigorous. The enemy vi
capitulate in Jackson county, as els
where, before her work is finishe
there, aud it is almost as pleasing
contemplate the fact that everybod
will be happy after they are cured as
is to realize that she will successful
extract the barbed arrows Of prejudi'
from the ulcers Of ignorance.