The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-07
NAMES LATEST LIQUOR LAW.

Maine is the acknowledged home of the Pro-
hibitionists. Their number in the Pine Tree State
is sufficiently great to enable them To put almost
any restriction on the whisky traffic The le.,is-
latiOn heretofore in operation having been found
inadequate to fully carry out the intentions of the
people, they determined to enact "a law which
should cover the entire ground and prevent the
sale, gift or use OF liquors Apparently they have
succeeded in making a whis1y-proof statute The
ingenuity of the wine-bibblers and whisxy-sellers
will be taxed TO the utmost to evade its provisions
In the past, lOop-hole of some sort has always
been found in the legislation on the subject; but
it is believed that the drinkers are in bottle
and that the cork is tightly driven in. When the
ordinary liquor saloon compelled to put UP its
shutters, the private club came into existence ;
and when payment for liquor was prohibited the
dispenser of the beverage found way Of giving il
away, at the same time rcaping the usual com
mercial profit. Under the new law, all these
tricks and evasions will come 10 naught Club
houses and all similar contrivances are to be de-
clared nuisances and suppressed upon sight
Giving liquor away is to be remOrselessly pun
ished. \ person found intoxicated, either on the
streets in his house, shall be sent to jail for
thirty days and if he undertakes to do the thing
second time, he will be given vacation and an op-
10 ftloTlil lOf term Ilfee times long
1t has been reported all over the United States
that the National Woman Suffrage Association
designed to throw its influence in favor of the
Democratic party, and that Miss Anthony had
begun vigorous campaign in Western New York
against Garfield and in favor of Hancock Some
of the Democratic journals in Oregon have helped
circulate the report, and their attention is asked
to these remarks from the National Citizen the
recognized organ of the National Association {:
This lrepOrtl is bOsh, or worse-a lie. The Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association, i'm accord
ance with its line of policy adopted at its annual
business meeting in indianapolis, last May, will
support neither party, neither party inserted
a plank recognizing woman's right to self-govern-
ment."
Our Providence correspondent believes i'm edu-
cational qualifications for voters, deplores the
fact that ignorant men vote "early and often"
and evidently does not favor giving the ballot to
woman. We have objection to educational
qualifications for voters, but we want them to ap-
ply to men and women alike. We are opposed TO
keeping all women disfranchised because some
are ignorant, while all men, illiterate and edu-
Gated alike can vote We do not ask for a con-
tinuance of the method of defining voters without
reference to their intelligence or culture but we
do ask that if the plan is not to be discarded with
reference to men, it be not made to apply to
women.
great effort is being made by the New York
Woman Suffrage Association to induce the
women of the State to accept the right to vote
on all questions relating to the schools. Members
of the Association-amo them Miss Anthony,
Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Slocum-are canvassing the
state and arousing women to the importance of
voting 'as far as the law will allow them to do"
As they outnumber the men of the State some
10000, they have the power to work some just and
needed changes i'm the conduct of the schools The
election will be held on the 18th instant.
From the Pomeroy (W. t. Independents '"Two
ladies have been nominated for superintendent of
Schools in this upper country-One on the Demo
cratic and one on the Independent ticket"