The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-03-04
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.


been forwarded last week from Eugene,
there was an attempt inaugurated by
the undersigned and her friends 70 in
sure a general discussion Of the one sub
iect which the advocates Of mems rights
most dread the Acknowledgement OF
woman. II was announced that Mon
day aud Tuesday evenings would be de-
voted to the discussion, aud any gentle
man or lady who could show a reason
why the women Of America ought not,
Of right, to be free aud independent, was
respectfully requested TO make it known,
or forever after hold their peace. I'm
mediately after this announcement IL
became apparent that the hoodlums Of
Eugene-sous Of subjugated mothers,
and fit representatives Of a peniIentiary
or an aristocraey Of sex-were deter
mined to turn the whole matter into
ridicule. The Skipworth lad, whose in
ordinate self-conceit made him a capital
oars-paw for disereeter though not wiser
men, was induced to remain as spokes-
man for the opposition; aud our good
friend, 1Ir. B. f. Doris (who isn't tall
enough for military duty, but is as fully
conscious Of his right to govern women
by the power Of the law through virtue
of his superior sex as is the autocrat OF
all the Russias OF 5. Jones Tilden), be-
gan stuhlng the lad aforesaid with DR..
Hollands feeble and long g-agO-exploded
essays and Francis Parkmau's recently
dissipated dyspeptic nonsense; and be
kept up stufiing him till the boy impa-
tiently awaited the hour Of combat, with
a feeling Of moral certainty that he was
the David Of the masculine dispensation
who was to brain the Goliah Of the
forthcoming feminine millennium with
a volisy Of straw pellets from the pom
derous depths Of file Of North Anieri.
can RcUic,cs.
Foreseeing trouble with the hoodlum
element, it was deemed advisable to
raise a committee TO preserve order and
decorum during the lectures, which
were to be held in the Court House.
This committee, consisting OF Hon. J.
B. Cochran, Rodney Scott. J. w. Jack
son, Rev. I. ID. Driver and Rev. Thomas
Condor, finding that our opponents
were all determined 10 hide themselves
behind the over-stufied Skipworth boy
decided that We should 90 on with q
lecture, as usual, after which the lad, Of
anybody else, should reply or object, 4
go inclined. Mr.. Cochran presided a
the meeting, which was so densely
crowded that not over bali OF the audi
ence could get seats. With the aid o
the city marshal, the worthy chairman
kept toleTable order during the hour oc
cupied by oursell in making an argu
ment for woman's liberty on the follow
ing basis;
RcSOlyed, That the eafrarchisemen
OF woman is in accord with the spiri
aud letter of the Declaration Of Iude
pendeuce, as drafted by the immorta
Thomas Jefferson and ratified by tn
Constitution Of the United States.
We then asked any gentleman or lad,
who held these truths to be untenabls {
come forward aud say so and give thel
reasons for such an opinion.
The Skipworth lad was then place,
upon the platform, snd, amid the gen
eral uproar Of standing hoodlums
begged the whole question in a modiiet
re-hash Of the same speech which ha
been heretofore reported in full in Tia
NEW NORTHWEST. Poor fellowl Tn
North Amerjcan ReUiers availed hin
nothing; tue essays he had learned b,
rote were pGlpably out Of place, hi
hOodlum hackers were not permitted {,
/ organize a riot, and his watch wOuldn'
/ tick fast enough, SO it was very hard 70
him to ill his time. But he manage,
to refer once more 70 the horrible wori
Of women in Utah ami Wyoming; sal,
no woman had ever been a successfu
sovereign, while men, as rulers, were in
their heaven-appoiuted sphere; sale
women could not fight, etc, etc, anC
ended by declaring that "the highest
ambition Of any good woman was tC
look up to her husband, even as Saral
obeyed Abraham, calling him laiCd
and what NOAH could any woman
want ?"
Our friends thought We ought not t.
condescend to reply to the STRIPPING; bul
We thought, and still think, differently
He represented the opposition, who
we're out Ia force, and whom we c0ulC
not hope TO catch at another time; go
after raising n collection to pay tn,
boys fare back to his ma, We proceeded
TO recover the ground aud capture the
enemies light batteries At every turn
Good reader, unless you had been there
you could not Imagine how bard IL wa;
for the opponents Of Liberty (who were
go tightly jammed in the courtroom
among the friends Of the munihcenl
goddess that they couldn't get out, anc
were so restrained by fear OF fiue anC
imprisonment that they couldn't yeiD
to sit or stand supinely 10y aud see th'
eham with which they had sought t.
choke the utterauees OF an apostle o
freedom pulled back 10 their faces witt
scarcely an effort.
The next morning the boy took th'
money we bad raised for him by collec
tion and bought a homeward-b boun'
ticket, and, like the Arab, folded hi
tent and stole silently away, leaving tn
/ fafa for tho carnnd avaufnu- in tha cnnn
pleie possession OF the friends Of humal