The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-05


man-tried. man-couvicfed and man-sentenced /
citizens OF this so-calIed Republic, is published I
tha- both sijes may have q h5aring--EDl
SALEM, July so, 1880
To I-IE EDr1B or THE NEw SOUTHWEST;
II you will read the Statesman Of the
29.h ult, you will see oue-sided ae-
count Of the great trouble that have /
lately passed through. | am woman [
without education, can barely read and /
write, and must look to you To correct |
my grammar aud spelling where neces-
sary. Like auy other woman who has /
to do ali kind Of rough work away from /
nome for a living, I have enemies, and /
they have been talking evil Of ME TO my I
children when have been obliged to he /
away earning their bread, aud have /
made them believe that was mean to /
them aud made them work TOO nard.
/ T1e Statesman says ! went o. one Of .
the ueighhoF's TO stay over night, aud |
had left al my flowers to water and
/ large house to clean up. Now, the facts
/ are that went across the river to Polk
county, journey Of ten miles, sfoot, to
get some fruit to put up for Winter.
Would you call person who lives five
miles away your Heighbor?
After | walked there, I gathered a
large pail foil Of berries aud walked
home, carrying them with me-. / left
my girls, one past ten and the other
.
/ family OF children uesr Us that told
them not TO play with, aud had driven
away from my house. told the girls
to water my psusies and weed up
couple Of small beds that I wauted to
SOW turuips in, aud 90 stay right at home
while | was away, aud they faithfully
promised 20 do it. No sooner was gooe
than they dressed up in my best-aud
only deceut-clcthes, and went right
over to The house where l had told them
they must not go, and not one pail OF
water did they draw. They left the
gate open, and the cattle got IN the yard.
had put the house in good order before
leaving, and on returning, exhausted
with my hard work, walking aud carry
ing the berries, | found everything in
the house topsy-turvy. Some carpet
rage had ia a box we're strewn all over
the house aud yard. Tney went after
the children that l had forbidden the
house, and all hands went 90 work TO
get a fine dinner. They got into my
fruits, pickles aud preserves, and strewed
them all over the house I had left
, enough of everything ueedful in the safe
to do them a week, including Jam, pre-
serves, pie and cake, with meat au q
butter. So they had nothing TO DO but
cook their own bread and meat, and, if
they wanted vegetables, there were
plenty in the garden.
admit that I whipped them. and I
know ought to have done IL; bat I did
, not whip them numerically, nor would
they have thought 50 if they hai not
been put up to il by the ueighbofs.
When the case was in court was not
allowed to say one word. The children
were put up to testify against me. They
were put up to say that they had not
been told to have me arrested. And
any person with reasonable sense would
know that children Of their age would
, not know enough to 30 any such thing
unless melted to it by older heads.
4 When I got them home they told me
tust Rp0uey's folks had told them TO 10
, it. This man Rooney is my bitter
enemy for reasons best known to him
self For his wife's sake will not state
them.
The Prosecuting Attorney, in his en-
geruess TO convict a mother who has
fairly gone through fire 10 feed and
cluthe her children, said he had il from
good authority that kept my children
on bread and water most of the uime,
u and the looks Of the children proved It.
Now, you cannot fud two healthier
children, or better fed ones, in Salem
the Moore chill lreu not excepted Then
be went for my eyes, and you would
have thought, to hear him, that I had
made them myself, and ought to be
hung for it. But I did feel little
u ashamed Of them when got home and
looked in the glass, for thought they
j looked like the Prosecuting Attorneys
:. Il I had been "a man, and bad punished
e those children ten times as hard fol
j. their disobedience and the way they de
i stroyed the things n the house, nobody
r would have said word. I know man
e in my own neighborhood who has Re
e peatedly done so, and no fault wa foun,
= with him.
:, My trial and iue fell hard npou me
= hut il is nothing compared to the woun,
5 in my heart, made by my own children
for whose sake I am drudge and
. slave. Ny tears wet the paper as tr,
a to write, and my toil-stiffeued han,
S aches till I can hardly hold my pen
j. But cannot close without calling pub
:, lie attention 70 the condition Of the Jail
Il Every place inside is as filthy as it car
p be The floors, windows, sinks aul
7 closets emit a sickeHing odor; and tn,
! blankets the Sherif's wife loaned to me
4 though she called them clean, wer,
: beasily dirty.
e Mrs. FLORENCE GARRISON.
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Looking around on the noisy inanity
;. Of The world, words with little meaning
actions with little worth. one loves L
,f reflect on Ike great Empire Of Silence