The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-31
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.


cution Of our work because they see
more and more the need Of another and
better element in the law-making
power Of the land to hold in check the
lawless classes who are now in posses. /
sion of the balance Of power every
where, and who, through this power,
virtually tie the hands OF the best aud
most honorable men whenever they are
so inclined, thereby placing the sacred
liberties OF the people, for which our
fathers fought and died, in constant
jeopardy; aud, as we know these thou
sands Of friends to our sacred cause are
waiting anxiously to hear further news
from the political missionary who has
been compelled to become the Arnold
Winkelred Of the new dispeusation in
Jacksonville, we this morning, Monday,
the DIST Of July, awake with the dawn,
and regarding you, our friends and
readers, with far more consideration
than another badly-needed nap for our
humble self, we sharpen our pencil and
proceed to business.
On Saturday morning we stopped
over in daylight in the city of the Phil
istlnes, where a woman who breaches
morality and human rights is in danger
Of losing her life at the hands OF a mob
after nightfall, though she is perfectly
safe from molestation when the sun
shines, and lol aud there wasn't man
OF any claim 10 respectability who
wasn't ready TO swear that he was the
very fellow who had been our stanch
friend all along! Very we'll let 'em
think so but we wish we hadn't made
our appointments to lecture in other
places in such way before the riot that
we cannot now stop 10 test their woman
protecting bravery. On Friday night,
only few hours before, we well remem-
Der seeing brazen prostitutes standing
unmolesied among the Lawmakers on
the street, while We were being con-
veyed away to the country for personal
safety in the closed carriage Of Mrs.
Wright, one OF the good Methodist sis
ters, who, with Mrs. Plymale, had
opened the church for our lectures, but
bad at last bad il locked in their faces
| by the pastor, who, as usual in such
/ cases, had taken sides with the prosti-
tutes and their associates, who, under
the stop thief cry Of their class, had
risen en- massC TO mob "a woman who
had dared to say in public, in answer to
the Gree love filth" with which they
had sought to beslime her, "Both the
fallen women and the fallen voters who
support them know as well as I that
Just so soon as the wives and mothers oi
men in Jacksonville shall have th,
power Of the ballot 20 aid them, they
will make aud enforce such statutes a.
shall banish drunkenness and proslitu
ton from your city limits, and drive
them in confusion to the abode Of owls
and bsts." We can't see the utility o.
the "protection aud esteem" Of sucl
lawmakers as desert their post wher
the sun goes down, and vino compe
their dear good wives and mothers Il
remain away from lectures they hav,
been long planning TO hear for fear th'
rabble will pelt them with eggs. Whei
these virtuous daylight friends COM
out over their own signatures in tn
county papers, aud declare themselve
on the side OF law snd order, and deter
mined to maintain 10, we'll be a littl
more ready TO accept their apologies an
b explanations. Anybody can be a sun
= shine friend But we're not done wit
Jacksonville. We're going back ther
to-day to defy our defamers, and, if pos
siJle, shame them into deceucy. Yo
e shall know how we have succeeded.
on Saturday we came out to WiIlo,
Springs, TO the house Of our stauc
friends the McDonoughs, aud on Sun
p day, having previously engaged th
I best livery turnout from friend Ply
males well-stocked stable iu jackson
= Vile, we started, with Mr.. and Nln
% Plymale and Mrs. McDonuugh, {
= Foote's Creek, where We were appointe
to lecture at one p. II. Our road Ia
g along the foot Of the mountains, an,
a after a three or four hours drive, led d
- up into the very heart OF an old minin
y camp, yet vastly rich in the golden ore
but the diggiugs are now dry, aud mil
i ing has ceased, and the good countr
people are turning their attention {
farming, hOme-maSing and stock-rai
~ ing. At the beautiful farmers home
, Mr.. and Mrs. Lance we were all hospi
ably entertained, and after a SUMPTION
D. dinner we repaired to the school-houi
2 a mile or two further up the little vale
ID that lies between the Delectable Moul
re taiHs.
D, We had no idea that there were
m many people here. They were thick
ls than July blackberries, and they he
At coming after the lecture began till y
a had TO pause frequently till new bench
Ie could be improvized, aud then ever
IN body couldn't get seats. Our spee'
Ia continued for over two and half houl
and when, at last, We bade the frien
goodbye, it was difficult to leave theI
I'd But we promised to go back sometim
III On our return to Willow Springs '
ef came by another route, through lovel
VI verdant and fertile valley, past iunuI
e. erable gold fields, yet fabulously rich
o. ore, where the diggings have so lor
" been dry, owing 10 the scarcity Of {
IS. rainfall, that many places that ha
OF hnnn hnrrnred out and inrned over