FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 1871.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION.
A Woman's Suffrage Convention will be held at Olympic Hall, Olympia, W. T., Nov. 8, 1871, at 10 A. M.
The friends of Woman's Suffrage, from all parts of Washington and Oregon, are cordially invited to be present and participate in the deliberations.
The object of this convention is to arrange some plan by which to secure concert of action among the woman voters of the Territory.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. A. J. Duniway will be present.
- Mrs. Mary O. Brown,
- Mrs. A. E. Bigelow,
- Mrs. Sarah E. Chapman,
- Mrs. Mehitabel H. Elder,
- Mrs. Jane Wylie,
- Mrs. J. B. Allen,
- Mrs. C. A. Sands,
- Mrs. P. D. Moore,
- Mrs. Mary A. Barnes,
- Mrs. M. J. Baldwin,
- Mrs. Susan Dofflemyer,
- Mrs. Olive B. Manning,
- Mrs. Clara M. Littlejohn,
- Mrs. Jane Pattison,
- Mrs. M. M. Ruddle,
- Mrs. A. R. Elliott.
HAVE THE "PEOPLE" VOTED?
The dispatches every few days come to us announcing the triumph of this or that party in some portion of our country. Speeches of jubilation are made, pæans of rejoicing are sung, cannon are fired, bonfires are lit and other expedients resorted to to celebrate the victory. The appeal has been taken to the ballot box, and the "people" have returned the verdict! What a libel, when one-half of the citizens of our country are denied the right to vote, and when consequently not one of that number has the chance to pass an opinion upon the questions at issue!
Come with us, reader, and take a survey of the voters around the polls at election. You see the professional politician, the wily attorney, the wealthy merchant, the devout clergyman, and last but by no means least, the sturdy workingman. They are here to-day to protect, each in his own way so far as in his power lies, his own particular, individual interest Who will say on such an occasion as this that the ballot has no power? Yonder workingman feels that he is the peer of any in the land. He can deposit his ballot, giving expression to his wish as to who shall hold office and frame the laws, and the millionaire can do no more. Should he have wrongs to redress he will remember them here, and woe to the candidate who has incurred his displeasure. How assiduously he is courted by the partakings, and how politely and affably is he treated withal! Let those who say the voting power has nothing to do with the regulation of wages come and take items. Suppose you this laboring man, holding the grand birth-right of freedom in his hands, will deposit his vote in favor of any party or candidate opposed to labor reforms in which he is interested? And do you further suppose that any party or candidate, knowing that this workingman — the type of the great mass of our voters — holds in power the political say-so, will run counter to his wishes?
Having suggested these thoughts in reference to the workingman, let us now turn to the workingwoman. But you will look in vain for her here to day. Toiling for half pay day after day, there is for her no grand court of appeal. The iron grasp of the employer may grow more merciless still, but she is powerless. She casts no vote; she helps make no laws; she has no governmental voice. She is a mere machine. Her work may be in every respect as good as that of the workingman, yet it is only paid half as much for, for it is merely the work of a machine. See you not here the great reason of woman's inequality of wages?
And now, why has not this working woman voted to-day as well as the workingman? Has she no rights to protect, no wrongs to redress, no kindnesses to remember, as well as he? Does she not need the protection of laws in the making of which she has some voice, as well as that the workingman should be enabled to insert in our statutes provisions favorable to his interest? But perhaps you suy this workingwoman's is an exceptional case. Behold the haggard faces of thousands of her sisters, toiling for remorseless taskmasters — the factor girls, the seamstresses, and the multitudes in various other employments — their remuneration but a bare pittance scarcely sufficient to keep body and soul together, and then reflect that upon the earnings of many of these women depends the support of aged parents or orphaned brothers and sisters. Have the "people" voted while this vast army of toiling women and them not only, but every woman throughout the land — has been denied the elective franchise?
Some day, when the people do vote, and that day has nearly come, there will be a general renovation of our laws and customs. Equal pay for equal work will be as readily accorded the workingwoman then as the workingman now. Speed on the good time coming when the women of our country shall no longer be powerless, when they shall no longer be mere machines but the free, independent, responsible beings their creator designed they should be.
DISAPPOINTED.
Bro. Campbell, of the Christian Messenger, was disappointed with Miss Anthony's lecture at Monmouth. He thinks her style is "prosy." Whether that be true or not, she doesn't put audiences to sleep near so easily as some preachers we wot of.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
A bill is now before the Legislature of Washington Territory giving women the right to vote. It provides that the question shall be submitted to the women of that Territory, the men not voting upon the question at all, and If a majority of them are willing to exercise their right to the elective franchise, that they shall have the opportunity of so doing. While we are not in the least afraid but that the women of Washington Territory will, in case this bill becomes a law, vote overwhelmingly in favor of Woman Suffrage, yet we do not approve of the principle therein contained, that a portion of the women of our country might be restrained from the just exercise of their inherent rights because a bare majority, perchance, of their own sex were indifferent thereto. If the principle of Woman Suffrage is correct — and that it is, is now almost universally acknowledged — then it logically follows that every woman has the right to vote, and the fact that a majority should not care to exercise that right ought not to debar those who might choose to show their preference in the selection of the officers who are to administer their National, State, county and municipal affairs from giving expression to their wishes at the ballot-box on election day.
This bill, however, is a great stride in the right direction. The opponents of Woman Suffrage may well say that it has become "too formidable to be laughed at," as Beriah Brown expresses it. But a few years ago it was looked upon as an absurdity which would never rally even a respectable number of adherents to its support. To-day in every State and Territory it counts its supporters by thousands; it has found its way into legislative bodies and has become there the one great theme of discussion; political conventions no longer entirely ignore the demands of its votaries; and already in some portions of our country the victory has been won, and, tested in the crucible of experience, the principle is found to be a thorough success when carried out in practice. Judging the future by the gratifying progress made in the past few years, the kingdom of woman is indeed very near at hand.
WILL THE "BULLETIN" EXPLAIN?
The editor of the Bulletin professes to be very ready to correct or retract any false information he may have unwittingly conveyed to the public through the medium of the newspaper over the editorial columns of which he presides. In his paper of October 20th, in the leading editorial column, occurs the following very unfair statement, to say the least, relative to Miss Anthony:
Miss Susan B. Anthony feels very sorry over the Chicago calamity. She cares in cash just one-third as much for the sufferers as she does for Miss Susan B. Anthony. The strong-minded lady was announced to lecture in Olympia last night, and magnanimously proposed to charge no more than one dollar admission fee — one-third of the proceeds — not gross recepts to be devoted to the Chicago sufferers! If, with strong-mindedness and Woman Suffrage, converts to her faith are thus to demonstrate their benevolence, it will hereafter be rough on any who are prostrated by misfortune, if they depend on the Anthony crowd.
Now mark the following, taken from the Olympia Echo of the 19th inst:
We have received from Miss Anthony the following note, which speaks for itself:
Olympia, October, 18, 1871.
Editor Echo: Dear Sir — Enclosed I hand you $30, the entire nett receipts of my last night's lecture. The one-third of the gross re ceipts, as had been proposed, would be altogether to small a sum.
Respectfully yours, Susan B. Anthony.
Olympia, October 18th, 1871. Received of J. H. Munson, [Mr. Mun- son is the proprietor of Echo] thirty dol lars, coin, to be paid as directed by a committee, to be appointed by the people of Olympia to apply on funds of the Chicago sufferers.
G. A. Barnes & Co.
We understand that Miss Anthony forwarded the gross proceeds of her lecture at Salem, Oregon, before an audience of more than two thousand people, to the sufferers of the Chicago fire.
We respectfully suggest to our friend of the Bulletin that when he expects a lecturer traveling from point to point, with more or less expense necessarily incurred thereby, to devote the gross receipts of the various lectures given for an object of charity to its benefit, he is asking the performance of a labor of love which few are able or willing to perform.
We have waited from day to day to have the unfair statement corrected. Now that attention has been called to it there can be no excuse for a failure to set the matter before the public in its true light except the desire to willfully misrepresent Miss Anthony and poison the minds of the people against her.
Will the Bulletin explain? We shall see.
THE NATIONAL W. S. COMMITTEE.
We print to-day a letter from Mrs. Griffing, Secretary of the National Woman Suffrage Committee, announcing the proposal of our name as a member of the Committee, we are willing to work in any way we can for the furtherance of our grand and glorious cause, and cheerfully accept the position assigned us. A fair idea of the work being done by the Committee may be formed by the perusal of this letter. The sale and spread of publications is one or the means adopted to bring our cause before the country, and it is a very efficacious one. Let every woman in favor of asserting her just, inalienable rights immediately forward her name to the Committee, and, if possible, accompany it with a dollar, the same to be applied to the further publication of documents. A full History of the Woman Suffrage Movement for the past twenty years will be fowarded in return. Mrs. G. indicates quite fully the work of the Committee, and we feel sure the women of Oregon will be liberal in lending a helping hand.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Olympia, W. T., October 23d, 1871.
We have had a delightful journey. What with steamboat rides, stage coaches and corduroy roads to aid digestion and controversy, and fun to keep our tongues employed, we reached Olympia in perfect health, but with fagged out bodies and wearied brains. A change was made in the time of our meetings, so the first evening after our ride of 90 miles in the stage coach found us in the rostrum with Miss Anthony, on hand with her invincible array of facts about the Power of the Ballot. One hour and forty minutes did this invincible veteran talk, and all who listened were converted except an obtuse Johnny Bull, whom we'll gather into our fold at the Woman Suffrage Convention on the 8th of November.
On Thursday, the 19th inst, we had the honor of addressing the Territorial Legislature, by the special Invitation of that honorable body. Miss Anthony led off in the argument, as by right she should, and her plea for the recognition of our rights under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, as well as her plain showing that we posses the right, converted hundreds of people to a knowledge of the truth as it is in the Constitution. Her argument was calm, courteous, convincing, dignified. She dwelt particularly upon the fact that women already possess the right to vote under the Territorial Law of Washington, and urged the Legislature to pass a declaratory or instruction Act, by which obtuse judges of elections may be compelled to recognize the law.
With our heart in our throat over the idea of addressing a legislative body of wise-looking and critical men, we followed with a short history of the rise and progress of the movement in ye land of Webfoot, which was well received. We are certain that our brethren of Washington Territory do not feel that the enfranchisement of woman will be at all unpleasant They were as cheerful and happy as the day, and many of them are now at work to pass a bill to secure the law that Miss Anthony recommends.
A motion to amend Mr. Bigelow's bill by declaring women already voters was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 16 for and 11 against. The names of the immortal eleven will be heralded throughout the great Northwest. We hope to get the bill through in proper shape before the close of the session, as we hear every day of some new convert in one house or the other.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY LAWS.
The Legislature of Washington Territory is now in session, and we respectfully call the attention of that honorable body to a communication on the first page of to-day's issue, which suggests some needed reforms in the laws relating to women holding property. As in Washington Territory, so it is in every State and Territory throughout the Union, to a greater or less extent, where women are denied participation in framing the statutes. We have no idea that this unfair discrimination will ever be done away until woman is armed with that most efficacious of all reformatory weapons, the ballot. The attention of masculine legislators has been called to this rank injustice time and time again, yet but very little action has been taken to remedy it, and that in an extremely tardy and sparing way.
The letter we print, as it announces, was not intended for publication by the writer, but we have thought best to waive his objections to its appearing in print and let the article speak for itself.
Legislators of Washinton Territory, will you longer permit such odious laws to disgrace your statute books?
THAT "NIPPING FROST."
The Herald of this city calls the woman who is endeavoring to gain a little cheap notoriety by following in the wake of Miss Anthony's lectures, not daring to confront that distinguished advocate of Woman Suffrage, a "nipping Frost." Well, we agree. And so, we think, will the afflicted audiences who have been so mercilessly "nipped" by this "nipping Frost." They were indeed very badly "Frost-bitten."
The same paper says this "nipping Frost" is very anxious to have a discussion with Miss Anthony. How does this statement agree with the fact that she peremptorily refused to discuss with Miss Anthony at Albany?
Should she ever muster up courage sufficient to meet Miss Anthony on the rostrum, we predict this "nipping Frost" will be most effectually thawed.
THE CAMPAIGN IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
As will be seen by copious extracts from the Washington Territory papers, Miss Anthony is carrying everything before her there, her success being fully equal to that in Oregon. Besides the lectures of which accounts are given elsewhere, she spoke at Tum Water on Friday evening, Oct 20th; at Olympia on Saturday evening, Oct 21st; at Victoria on Monday and Tuesday, the 23d and 24th, and probably the two evenings following. This (Friday) evening she is announced to speak at Fort Townsend, and also at the same place again to-morrow night.
Speaking of the New Northwest the San Jose (Cal.) Mercury says:
We welcome to our exchange list the above excellent journal, started a few months ago at Portland, Oregon, by Mrs. A. J. Duniway. It is an able and earnest auxiliary in the great reform. Mrs. Duniway has proved herself mistress of her art and calling, as her paper is very neatly printed and most ably edited.
The Mercury is one of our best exchanges, being n good, readable, reliable newspaper, alive to the exigencies of the times, and of course, as all such papers are, in favor of Woman's political and civil equality. Success to you, Bro. Owen.
GOING TO THE POLLS.
BY ROSE GREENLEAF.
"You wouldn't go to the polls, would you?" inquired a horror stricken young man.
"Yes; why not?"
"Well, a sister of mine should not go to such a place If I could help it. It is enough that I must mingle with the brawling crowd on election day," and the speaker indignantly signified his desire to dismiss the discussion of such a subject, leaving me to meditate in silence upon all the positions the ballot might compel me to occupy.
To many a mind that most insignificant part of the question, "going to the polls," is a most serious objection to the whole suffrage movement, for what woman, It is asked, would be willing to mix with the drunken, fighting, excited throng that gathers around the ballot box? And from many a lip the reply comes confidently, "None but the coarse and low." It is true that few sensitive women would possess sufficient courage to cast a ballot if it were necessary', in entering the political arena, to participate in the general melee, for it must be acknowledged that election day are anything but days of peace and quietness, but are prolific of drunken brawls and pugilistic combats. This can hardly be said to be a disgrace to the masculine half of creation, though it is much to be regretted, and shows clearly that man cannot walk alone without stumbling, but needs the presence of woman even In politics to keep him within the bounds of good order and decency. During a political campaign the streets of our cities are filled with public demonstrations of every kind, and it is not considered unladylike to mingle with the crowd, not only as spectators but as participants. On all days except one women help to increase the magnificence of party display, and the excitement incident to such occasions sometimes leads them to attract greater attention than casting a ballot could possibly do under any circumstances, while they lend their aid to crown the victors after the result is made known. If meddling with politics is out of a woman's sphere all this is certainly treading close upon the boundary lines, yet it is never intimated that it is in any way improper; but as soon as we ask to take part in the exercises of that one day a dismayed cry comes from every quarter. Overlooking a public parade I saw decorated wagons filled with women, from the gray-haired to those of childish years, yet could I have asked them in their sober moments the question, "Would you like to vote?" the indignant reply from the majority would have been, "Do you think we would unsex ourselves?" never dreaming of the inconsistency of gracing a party demonstration and affecting disgust with the idea of giving their political convictions expression and force by the ballot.
That men have possessed the ballot box entirely to themselves is all the reason that anyone ever deemed it improper for women to go the polls, while all that renders our fairs, picnics and Fourths of July other than general displays of rowdyism is due to the presence of women. And why, dear brothers, ask us to participate in the celebration of the national anniversary If we should have nothing to do with politic Women always exhibit party spirit, do not hesitate to attend political meetings, talk politics and help to make public displays; remove the interdict and they will go to the polls en masse.
Salem, Oct. 20th, 1871.
THE OLYMPIA PRESS.
The press of Olympia is unanimously in favor of our most righteous cause. The Echo and Standard were known to be our friends, and whatever doubts the Tribune and Transcript may have had have been dispelled by Miss Anthony's visit All hail to the gallant press of the capitol of Washington, say we. We assure you, brethren, one and all, that your noble stand in favor of political and civil equality will be remembered in the swift-coming era of the triumph of Woman Suffrage.
The Ethics of Dress.
The first instinct about a new fashion is the true one. Don't wait till your eye has lost its accuracy and your judgment its edge. Subject the thing at once to the general rule, and bow to the decision.
2d — What suits one person does not suit another.
3d — Dress should supplement good points and corsets bad ones. Thick and thin, long and short, are not all to be subjected to one Procrustean style.
4th — Colors should be harmonious — should be massed — should be becoming. Id est, many little points or blotches of color sprinklded over a costume produce a disagreeably pied and speckled effect, as of a monstrous robin's egg, or a plum pudding. One tint should prevail, relieved by a contrasting tint. No amount of fashionable prestige can make an unbecoming color becoming. "Nile Green" will turn some people into oranges, though twenty empresses ordain its adoption.
5th — Lines should be continued, grace ful, and feminine. It is better to look like a woman (if you happen to be one) than anything else — even a fashion plate!
6th — Ornament must be subordinate. Nature, with all profusion, never forgets this fundamental law.
7th — Above all things, be neat. Dainty precision and freshness is as essential to a woman as a flower.
8th — Individuality is the rarest and the cheapest thing in the world.
9th — And lastly, "Stylish" is of all the words in the English language the most deadly. It has slain its thousands. — Scribner's Magazine.
Mrs. Flint, the Boston dressmaker, is about to tell the absorbing story of her "little bill" in a chaste volume from her own pen. If she will expose the extortions of dressmakers, her book will be an immense success.
There is a lady telegraph operator in the West who can receive a message on one circuit and transmit it in a second, simultaneously, with ease and rapidity.
Nine-tenths of all the school-teachers in Massachusetts are women.
Hon. Albert Hagan. — The Woman Suffragist of this State will not be likely to forget that at the very outset in Mrs. Van Valkenberg's registration suit, Judge Hagan made a free offer of his services to conduct that suit, and did the same ably. Failing to gain a favorable verdict in the District Court, he promptly offered, gratuitously, to plead the case before the Supreme Court of this State (to which the plaintiff had decided to carry it), This generous courtesy on the part of Judge Hagan makes it easy and possible to bring the question of woman's right to vote under the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution to a speedy trial. It will be argued at the October term of the Court and we shall await the result with great interest. — Pioneer.
Miss Anthony's Speech Before the Washington Territory Legislature.
[From Legislative proceedings of October 18th, in the "Washington Standard.")
The House met at 2 P. M. and was called to order by the Speaker. A large number of ladies present were invited within the bar. The hall and lobby were crowded with visitors. The Committee appointed to wait upon Miss Anthony and Mrs. Duniway escorted those ladies to the forum, whereupon the Speaker introduced the ladies to the Assembly.
Miss Anthony, upon taking the stand, said for the first time in her life, she appeared as a speaker before a Legislature, and this was the first time in his tory of our nation that a woman has been allowed the privilege of addressing the law-makers in session. She said they had done themselves honor in according her the privileges of the floor. She appeared as the advocate of woman suffrage under the guarantees of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. Governments, she held, were institutions not to establish rights but to secure them to their possessors. The theory of our Government is embodied in the Declaration of Independence which declares that "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights;" "that to secure these rights, Governments were instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." And it further declares that: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles as shall secure their safety and happiness." How can this be done peaceably except by giving to them the right to vote? The idea of free government does not appertain to those not enfranchised. The tenor of the Constitution is the same. The preamble says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice," etc., "establish this Constitution." The preamble of the Constitution of the State of New York begins with "We, the people, in order to secure the blessings of freedom," etc., and the Organic Act of Oregon, which a few years ago was the supreme law of this Territory as well, reads "We, the people of Oregon." These examples are sufficient to show that all the people were included as the body corporate. It is assumed that men only were included from the fact that the personal pronoun "he" and "his"has been used through the Constitution or the United States, and is the mode of expression in the laws framed in accordance with it. If this is so, the laws affixing penalties and levying taxes should receive the same construction, and only apply to the male sex. She held that the pronoun included both sexes, and the injustice of collecting taxes from disfranchised women was acknowledged, whenever they made a spirited opposition to such demands. Miss Wall, of Massachusetts, and a widow lady in Wisconsin, she lately met on the cars, refused to pay taxes after long submission, and the tax-gatherer passed them by without attempting to enforce collection. She said that until the 14th and 15th Amendments were adopted, no law existed fixing the status of the citizen. The 14th Amendment affirms that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside." The only question is, Are women citizens? The next clause declares that "no State shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." Would any member of this Assembly believe that he held all these rights and immunities, should he be deprived of the right of voting? Webster defines citizenship to be "a person, native or naturalized, who has the privilege of exercising the elective franchise or the qualifications which enable hum to vote for rulers, and to purchase and hold real estate." All authorities agree that citizenship includes the right to vote and hold office. Previous to the adoption of the 14th Amendment, the negroes had all the rights except voting and holding office. Chas. Sumner declares that there was no necessity for it, that all citizens possessed these rights. Judge Taney said in substance, in the famous Dred Scott decision, that negroes had no rights that white men were bound to respect. His decision is to the point. He declined to assert that Dred Scott was one of the people; to acknowledge this would have been to acknowledge citizenship, civil and political. Under the act of congress of 1870 and the recent Ku Klux bill, if anybody estops a negro from voting he is liable to the severe penalty therein provided; and these apply with no less force if anybody hinders or prevents a woman from voting. Naturalization does not change an alien; if he is in Irishman he is an Irishman still: he possesses all the rights of citizenship except what this is designed to confer — namely, the right to vote and hold office. The enfranchisement of the negro was the result of party necessity. Nobody cared for him further than this. Although he had the right to vote, the question was unsettled and the result therefore uncertain. To determine the question, and obtain a judicial explanation of the exact meaning of the terms employed the 14th amendment was adopted. The two amendments together determine, unquestionably, who are citizens and who are entitled to vote. It is claimed that because women were not specially mentioned it was not the intent to include them, but she maintained that under the clause "involuntary servitude," a special allusion is made to woman. By all men's definitions of the term, the witholding of the ballot and representation while taxes are imposed, is the most abject of servitude. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Otis says that the act of taxing, exercised over those not represented, is servitude. Franklin said that to be enslaved is to have others govern them. Paine said that the right of voting is the primary right upon which all other rights are based. All the women want of congress or State Legislatures is a declaratory law, explaining the meaning of the 14th Amendment. Legislatures are estopped from legislation to regulate the matter, as the right exists in the fullest and freest form. Even granting that this was not so, she objected to Mr. Bigelow's bill, because it submitted the matter to the women, who were in a condition of servitude and incapacitated from voting on the question. It was hard to break loose from the restraint imposed by popular sentiment, and only those who have used the ballot know its value. You might just as well leave the decision of school matters to the children, who would prefer to romp and play, the regulating of the sale of liquors to the saloon-keepers, that of gambling to the gambler, or that of brothels to the prostitutes. The negroes when given the ballot thought it was a mule, but they were soon instructed in an intelligent use of it.
She recommended as a substitute for Mr. Bigelow's measure, a declaratory act (and she hoped it would be proposed by some good Democrat) requiring the proper officer to register the names of women and making it the duty of the judges of election to count their votes, the same as those of the men. This is only needed to allay the doubts which may exist in the minds of the election officers. The Legislature could very properly do this, and if they did, she could promise them the most gratifying of results — the immigration of a large number of good women to the Territory. The ballot is the key that unlocks the door to knowledge, to equal wages, to honor, to prosperity.
Among the hosts of eminent men who endorse the enfranchisement of women, Miss Anthony mentioned the names of Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Church, Judge Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, those of a large number of Senators and Representatives, Democrats and Republicans.
The Speaker of the House, at the close of miss Anthony's remarks, introduced Mrs. Duniway, who in well-chosen but very emphatic language, gave a brief review or the rise, the present condition and the future prospects of the Woman Suffrage party of Oregon. She said that her first efforts caused her lady friends intense alarm, but that having an nounced her determination to vote at the next election, and having discussed the question until the novelty of the in novation upon ordinary customs had somewhat abated, she now was sup ported by a large party of intelligent and respectable women, who design march- with her to the polls. She warned those having political aspirations that now was the accepted time of salvation; to take heed of the indications of the times, before it was too late. Already many men were filled with fear and trembling, and she urged them to hesitate no lon- and at once embrace the inevitable logic of events.
A New Britain (Conn.) pastor was rather carless the other day in his se lections of the "to be omitted" portions of the good old hymn in which occur these lines: "Shall such worthless worm as I be found at thy right hand?" The next stanza was omitted, and the choir continued singing: "Oh I Lord, prevent it by thy grace!"
Women in Colleges. I confess that the arguments for admitting women to men's colleges are pretty nearly conclusive; but I cannot resist the temptation of standing off and looking at the subject in various aspects, before settling down upon the stereoscopic view. The men's colleges are established, endowed, enriched by antiquity and charity; they have libraries, museums, laboratories, all the facilities of a varied training; and to their establishment women have contributed quite as much as men. The mothers's prayers count for something, and everybody knows that the gifts and legacies, though in the man's name, are usually the result of the joint earning and economy of the man and his wife. The colleges are in full line of usefulness and opportunity, and it would be the work of many years to create their equal for women, even if it were possible in this new country to duplicate the teachers of learning and experience. The present colleges must long remain the best, and if women are to have the best advantages, they must go to them. This being so, and the right being conceded, there is nothing to do but to vote that woman is a man and brother, and open the the college gates; and not only the gates, admitting to the purlieus, the lecture-rooms, and the libraries, but the other doors where the honey of Hymettus is stored, and classic bees are hiving it. — C. D. Warner in Christian Union.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes as follows: "I grieve to inform you of the death of my dear mother. She was a grand, brave woman. Her name headed the largest petition sent to the last Constitutional Convention of the State of New York asking to have the word 'male' stricken from the State Constitution. She has said for years that she hoped to be enfranchised before entering the kingdom of heaven; but the wheels of progress have moved too slowly for her earnest wish to be gratified, although she has watched and waited eighty-seven years." Mrs.Stanton's mother was Mrs. Margaret Livingston Cady, wife of Judge Daniel Cay, and a resident of Johnstown, New York.
Cleanliness. A neat, clean, fresh-aired, sweet, cheerful, well-arranged house exerts a moral influence over its inmates, and makes the members of a family peaceful and considerate of each other's feelings and happiness. The connection is obvious between the state of mind this produces, and respect for others, and for those higher duties and obligations which no law can enforce. On the contrary, a filthy, squalid, noxious dwelling, in which none of the decencies of life are observed, contributes to make the inhabitants selfish, sensual and regardless of the feelings of others; and the constant indulgence of such passions renders them reckless and brutal.
Handsome Men. An exchange says: "One of the greatest nuisances of a hotel is a handsome man. He is an intolerable bore to all the ladies of good sense in the house. If we might be allowed a suggestion, we would advise every father who is threatened with a handsome son in the family, just to take a clothes pounder and batter his nose to a pumice. For some cause or other, nine out of ten of the handsome men you meet are conceited jackdaws. They cultivate their hair and complexion so much that they have no time to thing of their brains. By the time they reach thirty their heads and hands are equally soft."
Mary Wager says she knows a man who prayed night and morning, preached on Sundays, and was a rich farmer be sides. His wife milked the cows in all sorts of weather, cut most of the wood, built the fires, churned, economized, and died of consumption. He put a weed on his hat tried to resign himself to the "dispensation of Providence," when he ought to have been tried for womanslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to chop wood and milk cows in the rain all the rest of his life. She wants debating clubs to discuss whether it will go harder with him or Jim Bludso in the day of judgement.
A full-bearded young grandfather recently had his hairsute appendage shaved off, showing a clean face for the first time for a number of years. At the dinner table his three-year-old granddaughter noticing it, "Gazed long with wondering eye," and finally ejaculated: "Grandfather, whose head you got on?"
Woman Suffrage.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, the renowned advocate of universal suffrage and Temperance reform, lectured in Olympia Hall on Tuesday evening upon the one great object of her life — the enfranchisement of women. We had formed a high opinion of the ability of the lady, and her remarkable talent as a public speaker, and our expectations have been more than realized. She presents her arguments in graceful and elegant language, her illustrations are ample and well chosen, and the hearer is irresistably drawn to the conclusions which she seeks to inculcate. She cited the inadequacy of the wages and salaries paid to women, as a result of her disfranchisement, and illustrated by the history of the trades Unions, and the "strikes" which result when capital bears with too remorseless a tread upon labor. Those inaugurated by men had generally been successful, for men with their votes were enabled to control the politicians, by the same means could control the capitalists. With women, however, the case was different. When they required an increase of the miserable pittance which constitutes "woman's wages," or a reduction of the number of hours constituting a day's labor, they were met with a prompt refusal; and experience had proven that "strikes" were of no avail, for without the potent charm of the ballot, the employers found but little opposition to their plan of starving the employers into a compliance with the old rates; or, probably, a further reduction, or still more onerous burdens were imposed to punish such presumption. In the higher branches of labor, requiring special knowledge or skill, the salaries paid to men were always higher than those paid to women for the same services, performed with equal precision and fidelity. She cited an instance in which the authorities of one of our metropolitan cities advertised for principals for the common schools, in response to which several applications were made by women, who were refused the positions although amply qualified to discharge the duties, simply because they were women; and another instance wherein the salaries of a number of lady teachers were reduced, though already lower than those of the male teachers, to increase the salaries of the men. She likewise related an amusing incident in which the person authorized to pass upon the qualifications of teachers had to employ a lady school teacher to examine applicants, and signed his name with an X when the certificate was written out by his assistant But it excited no comment, for the authority was held by a man, even if he did avail himself of the use of woman's brains to extricate himself from a dilemma. He could vote, and exercise influence at ward meetings, and this covered all the defects of intellect or education. She referred to the condition of the negro before the ballot was given to him, as the most universally condemned and despised of all races or conditions of men, and noted how pliant had became the hinges of the knee of the politicians now, whenever Sambo asserted his "rights." It could have but this effect if given to the women. While it might not be required by those surrounded by all the luxuries of wealth, or those who have never known want through the exertions and earnings of fathers, husbands or brothers, it was essential as the life blood to those who labor early and late for their daily bread.
There is no denying the sound logic of these arguments. They appeal to a sense of right and justice which cannot be longer denied. In expressing this opinion and it is no new position for us — we are aware we invite criticism, but we have resolved to meet and answer all arguments against the proposition with candor and earnestness, to the best of our ability. It must be understood that we do this as an individual, and not as a party journalist It is a question upon which Democrats as well as Republicans, may honestly differ. We do not depart in the least from the principles we cherish and have so long advocated, nor do we intend to do so. It is simply a question of right, upon which we wish to be on the side of right. — Washington Standard, Oct. 21.
Miss Anthony's Speech. The far-famed Miss Susan B. Anthony, on the invitation of the Legislature, addressed that body, and a large assemblance of our citizens, both men and women, on Thursday afternoon last, at 2 o'clock, at the Legislative Hall. The speaker confined herself to the Constitutional argument touching the right of women to vote. To make these points clear and demonstrate them beyond the possibility of contravention, she quoted extensively from judicial divisions, brought to bear the Declaration of Independence, and the early opinions of the founders of the government, in order to sustain her position as to who are meant by the term citizen, and their rights are such. She clearly demonstrated under these decisions, together with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, that the right of women to vote and participate as citizens in the benefits of the government exists by Constitutional law, and the Territorial Legislature had no right to abridge these privileges; and to give effect to her views on the subject, simply requiring the judges, at the next annual election, to receive the votes of women and count them as they would any other citizen qualified to vote. The speaker held this to be the fair interpretation of our election law, as well as the Constitutional view of the case. Miss Anthony is a woman of more than ordinary ability, and the able manner in which she handled her subject before the legislature, was ample warning to the members of that body who oppose woman suffrage to be silent. Mrs. Duniway, the able editress of the New Northwest, was present and made a few remarks. The speeches were listened to with marked attention, and if they do not accomplish the purpose intended, it will not be for the want of sound logic. — Olympia Transcript, Oct. 21st.
From the Yamhill paper: A singular evidence of Oregon's antiquity was lately taken out of the ground at Tillamook Head. It appears that some men were grading a road bed. and when 25 feet be- low the surface, one of them exhumed a copper bowie knife, over 22 inches long, 2½ inches wide by 3/8 of an inch thick. The curiosity was sent to C. Roop, of Dayton, who has it in his museum. Here is another mystery for the oldest inhab itant to explain. The knife is made of the best copper, and the work is done in a superior style.
A negro preacher at a Georgia campmeeting told his hearers they could never enter heaven with whisky bottles in their pockets, and urged them to "bring 'em right up to the pulpit," and he would "offer 'em a sacrifice to de Lord." It was done: but the preacher was found incapable when the hour for evening service arrived.
Two sisters, a Mrs. Eldred and a Mrs. Barton, aged respectively 08 and 93, who had always been together as much as possible, recently died, within two hours of each other, at Baldwinsville, in New York, and were buried in one grave.
The day to pick your wife is Choose-day. Weddens-day is the day to be married on, of course.
