The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-09
FROM CALIFORNIA

SAN JosF. August 24 lSsO.
10 THE EDITOR or ruE NEW NORTHWEST:
presume the politicians think they
have done for Us effeciually this time,
ia not even eisine us respectful con
sIderation - but We are not dead, but
tt1tiRg We are not even asleep this
time. imagine our self constituted
rulers will need the assistance Of the
loyal women again to bind up the
wounds they will iutlict on each other
before they settle which party is to
gather ne sg'iis of Office for the next
four years. To rasi the papers, one
would think there was not an honest
man In tbe United ates. What must
foreign nations tniuR Of US?
l suppose you exchange with the
Mercury. II 50, you saw that one Of the
Republicans clubs has invited the ladies
to come up and sign the roll as menr-
bers giving as a reason that If they can
get the ladies' to come, each une will
probably bring a gentleman, and in that
way their meetings will Ue much better
attended than at present; at least, they
would 'make up in quality what they
lacked in quantity" A gentleman
state that the Republicans first intro
duced the idea Of ladies in political
meetings. and claimed that they were
friends Of tie Republican party, etc.
When a recess was taken, all the ladies'
present signed the roll The first on the
list was Mrs. J. l.. York. + X. Dunlap
moved that the privileges Of the rostTum
be extended TO the ladies, and that some
lady be invited 10 address the meeting.
Taey had better have sent representa-
tives To Chicago who were ,CiFnq TO be
just and give 90 their wives, mothers
and daughters plank i'm the platform
at least recognizing them as persons,
and according u the same rights they
do to the ignorant negroes and foreign
ers, or else release us from taxation, as
they do the Indians, who are not per
United to vo,e, although in New York
they tried to force the ballot on the Iu-
dians in order that they could tax them.
II they could only have taxed them, it
would have made them persons" But
taxation doesn't make women 'per-
sOus" Such consistency
In the Mercury Of August l9.h there
appeared quite an editorial under the
head of ''Naturalized Citizens" 1t
quoted from the Fourteenth Amend
meut 20 the Constitution, "All persons
born or Daturalized in the United States,
aud subject to the Jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens thereof, and Of the State in
which they reside" claiming that this
Amendment was opposed by the Demoe-
racy ard passed entirely 10y Republi-
cans. Now, | should think every Re
publican in the State, or the United
States, would be ashamed 10 either read
or hear that Amendment read aud then
deny the ballot 90 the women Of Amer
lea, aud especially to the tax-payiug
women. CAN persons" Women, then,
are not "persons," even with the Re
publican party, it seems. Then IL quotes
from the Fifteenth Amendment, which
declares, ''The right Of the citizens of
the United States TO vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States,
or any State" Some Republican friends
do not consider US sitizens, either
What better treatment do we get from
them than We get from the other par
ties, although they, like the Democrats,
claim that they are, "psr excellence" &"
the friends Of the women? Both of
these laws were enacted by the Repub-
licans in spite Of the Democrats, and the
Mercury winds up ty asking, "Who,
then, is the friend Of the naturaIized cit
Temp We would like to know who,
then, is the friend Of the 1Comen?
Very cordially your friend,
KNOX GooDRICH.