The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-23
WOMAN 81 FFRAGE AND GROWTH or
POPuIATfON.
Ingenious Appeal Of a woman SufraSist TO
the Voters Of Oregon.

To THE EDITOR or II SUN-Sjr: One OF the
mos, striking effects of equal suffrage for
women in the States where ii exists is the ex-
traordinary growth of population and material
prosperity which have resulted Wyoming
granted fun suffrage to women with less than
1000 Inhabitants. to-day il has more than iO0,-
ONo. Wyoming. Colorado, and Idaho combined
had only 2,7,1l8 in 1850, to-day they number
nearly a million. Many people in the Eastern
and Middle states are annually driven by the
advancing wage Of European immigration TO
make their homes farther west Intheir choice
OF residence they are attracted by the iact that
equal suffrage has been adopted in certain
localities That speaks we'll for the chivalry
OF sthe men and for the intelligence and
public spirit OF the women A decadent
community has no use for a movement, to enlarge
liberty and promote free Institutions When
people read thar the oregon lyesi ~.latnre, b. an
OverN helming ma Oritv of both houses, IN two
successtve sessions, has voted TO submit en-
equal suffrage amendment newt June. they say
why If not oregon the best Of Al! States IA
which To make our homes and educate our
children II the suffraye amendment /. car
rird il Nill be- worth millions OF dollars 10 the
State within the neyt five years in the increased
iNimber and superior qunIity OF Immigrants
and in the advanced value of real estate that
will follow
Attention Is turned a, this time. IA never be-
fore, to the Pacific slope, The annexation o! Ha-
wall and the Philippine will stimulate the grow.
ins between the. United states and
the sNarming populations nf China and Japan.
i vii! give the Western farmers now markets
for their products and a free exchange OF these
for sugar tea, coffee, tobacco, hemp and
aeaboard Portland. Me. has grown rich on
West India commerce; why should not Port
land, ore, grow rich on her East lndia con
meet on~? The poSSibiiitie. of Portland AZ "A
! manufacturing and commercial centre for tho
weslrru bali Of the continent are not
yet fully appreciated. san francisco on the
south. Tacoma and seattle on the north, have
been NOR" widely advertised and have achieved
greater notOIiety Yet the Intermediate locality
may prove in the long run more available New
York on the Hudson River was once n smaller
city than Philadelphia or Boston, yet Il ha. -ur-
| ra,,'d them both Portland. IN the Columbia
River Valley may also some dav distance It's
northern and southern competitors The soil
and climate OF Oregon have greH, advantages
Fron from drought and dust, blessed with an
cNunhle. temperatur" at MI seasons, unsur-
passed IN healthtuinnSs and fertility. Oregon
i-."auslle OF supporting u great farming popl-
lation. and Portland, n rs business ard social
centre, may vet become the metropolis OF the
Pacific coast
Oregon is excsmlonally fortunate IN the chat-
actrr Of its people They have not been sud
denly drawn to II by the greed of precious met
o.. %r I'll" cycitsmen, Of ,lecnlatiom II. early
women Who proceeded the Introduction ~ rail-
rond. They crossed the desola,s plain. for
hand. guarding their families and live sock
against hostile Indians Their worth IL shown
BY the ability Of their public men and the supe-
riOr neri, " their newspapers
The advantages Of oregon are being talked
over to-day IN hundred Of families throughout
the states east of the Mississippi River. These
people are about 10 decide whether their future
homes shall hc in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, MIN
neSota or the Dakotas, or whether they will
cross the Rockies; and Il the latter, whether
California. Oregon or Washington shall be their
destination II the equal suffrage amendment
carrir-. the ponulGr choice will be- Oregon
Boston, April u. Henry b. BLACKwE FIJI.