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im nan FRIDAY. JUNE 10, 1S74. GAGLAW. rnfl.iv evening, at the usual Meeting, after the exercises had been appropriately opened by Rev. Dr.

Atkinson, Rev. Mr. Med-bury spoke far half an hour, chiefly in relation to Suffrage and Its bearing upon tho political qnestion of Tempcrauce. He spoko well and feelingly, bringing up remlnisencea of the late Rebellion in proof that the lamented Lincoln had acted wisely in wailing when the people clamored for action in their haste. We had not been upon the street dur Ing the day, and had not seen the ob noxious "Temperance Book," which It was claimed had been distributed by crusaders.

As It is well known that we believe that the proper thing for women to do is not to electioneer upon the streets, but to demand their legal rights as voters, we feel no call at this stage of political action to attend the polls, or their vicinity. Rut wo gathered, from the drift of Brother Medbury's remarks, that women bad acted Insome instances with more zeal than discretion daring the day, in seeking to foist a principle upon the voters for which public sent! mentwas not ready. He thought the work should be confined alone to prayer, and we cheerfully accord him the credit of having been personally consistent throughout the whole temperanco ex citement. As ho had talked against Woman Suffrage for half an hour, the Spirit moved us to answer him for ten minutes. We did so in spirit of love and truth, and full concession to others of the God-given right to think and act and speak ns seemed good to themselves.

Going back to the times that had been feelingly alluded to by the speaker when that cry of "On to Richmond" caused Mr. Lincoln to yield to the demands of the people and permit the Bull Run disaster, we dwelt upon the fnct that the enemy was everywhere victorious, until at last, guided by the Hand Omnipotent, Mr. Lincoln saw that the people were ready, and then ho issued the famous Emancipation Proclamation. This was the work for which God had been preparing the people through their humiliation and defeat, and forthwith, when it was done, victory perched upon the banners of Freedom, and all the hosts of Oppression were brought low. So, In this great moral war, God was educating the women to a knowledge of their political necessities through such defeats as they had met to-day, and we called upon6ur brethren In the ministry, In the name of the God of Freedom, to issue nil Emancipation Proclamation, demanding that tho women, who are working in fetters for the overthrow of their children's arch cuemy, shall bo legally empowered to do that work which they can now only dcteat as outlaws.

Four or Ave persons who arc strangers to us, (and that, only, Is why they act so badly), left the church, aa they invariably do when we arise to speak, but the large audience listened with almost breathless -attention, and all, save Brother lzer and a very few angry-looklng crusaders, looked Into our face, as wo proceeded, with kindly eyes, and, we know, listened with sympathetic hearts. But it took more courage for us to stand alone that night and face the fierce displeasure of a vindictive and prescriptive few, than any crusader needed to enable her to face "Walter Moffett's hirelings, when supported by her band. If anybody thinks that such a duty is pleasaut, let them attempt It. After we sat down, Mr. Izer arose, and, with a spirit of intolerant proscription that would have put the Popa to shame when issuing a certain famous bull against the comet, this potentate pompously declared that freedom of thought and speech and conscience should not bo tolerated In that church hereafter.

He was pastor, 'and, if people wanted to talk "Suffrage," they, must leave the church to do It. He was evidently resolved that God should do the work according to the Izer plan, or it shouldn't be done at all. He had planned that God should do this work through prayer alone, and the people and God had got to submit, or they must go somewhere else to work. We are not claiming to give theVuitor's words, but their logical sequence. He forcot, too, that ho had been Vie party to appoint a commltteo to take political action in regard to the very defeat under which he was writhe ing.

He forgot that other gentlemen were opposed to the measure, who only consented to act to please him. Ho forgot that he had preached the direst vengeance against the law-makers in church, and that he had urged the people to arise and compel the "vile miscreants" of the rum-shops to respect "pure Christian women, under the law." In rhort, he forgot everything except that we had made au unanswerable argument in favor of enfranchising woman, that she might thus be able to reform the world as a law-maker, and not as an outlaw. Seeing this, he resolved to apply the lash of proscription to the liberty of conscience, and declare that hereafter nothing of the kind shall be said in the church. After the above declarations of proscription had been reiterated a half-dozen time, ho (Brother Izer) concluded to alt down, and Dr. Atkinson, lining to prevent debate, demanded the Doxology and dismissal.

As the audience aroso.to their feet, wo said, with a. much composure We couIu-command, "If In any 0f these meetings, I have said one word, or given ut terauce to one Idea not In harmnn the moral and religious phaBes of the great temperance question, I should like for Brother Izer to tell us what It Is." I. VI freely admit that you have la all tuat you liavo said and done, been contentious and Irue "Then," thought we, but he wouldn't lot us say so, "If I have been conscientious, and God Is tho author of con science, how daro you, a mortal, young in years and verdant in experience, stand up hcrp and say that my consci entious convictions or right and duty shall not be respected for God's sako We shall see if you succeed in enforc ing gag law, brother wc shall sec. A LIVE MINISTER. Rev.

Mr. Bradford, of New Jersey, who has lately exchanged pulpits for a season with Rev. Mr. Eaton, of the Congregational Church, in this city, held a vast audience spell-bound on last Sunday evening at the Union Temperance Meeting in the Methodist Church. Mr.

B. is one of the best of His utteranco and gestures arc studied and yet natural, his phraseology almost faultless, his eloquence startling aud his doctrine the finest admixture of cosmopolitan liberality, religion and common sense to which we have ever listened from the lips of a minister. He very modestly differs from the crusaders In his style of working for temperance. He contends that there Is a morbid sentiment in favor of the drinker, and too much hatred of the rum-seller. Men will quit selling whisky when men quit drinking it.

The proper way to reform men Is to fore them out of their evil ways. Wo should have one of the finest buildings In Portland, on the best corner, elegantly fitted throughout, for tho accommodation of homeless young men who resort to tho saloons, not because they want to drink, but because they need companionship. We should have, ono room devoted to all manner of amusing games, another to music, another to reading, and a restaurant attached, where coffee, soda, icecream, or anything needful could be furnished upon call at cod price. This home should be a Joint stock concern, and should be filled with what is necessary to amuse aud instruct men. He didn't like tho New York Ledger, but to please the tastes of those that did like it, he would give them that.

He would not make a speciality of stilted Quarter' lia and high-toned literature. He would give men variety. Ho would make parlors of all church basements and utilize every gift of God to man to make men better. It is not possible to get all to live npou a common plane or be governed by ouo Idea. Christians I your own convictions oi ngm anu duty." must amuse men or Satan would, forjHca" Prty will be compelled to grant men mutt hare amusemust.

We must our boou Wc arc not aflcr motives, but make common cause with those' whom we would elevate. Some of the gentleman's illustrations Mere stattlingly vivid. We regret that we have not space to follow him further for the benefit of our readers. Suffice it to say that we be lieve that such preachers enough of them would soon crowd all our churches and fill every hall In the city to repletion. Rev.

Dr. Atkinson made some excellent remarks at tho close of Mr. Bradford's address, and the multitude carried away In their memories a feast of good things that will not soon be forgotten. We cougratulato our Congregational friends upon their good fortune in se curing co able a minister. Let nobody rail to hear him.

WHO'LL TAKEHIS PLACE A prominent saloon-keeper of Yamhill county grows indignant and effervesces thusly Mrs Duniwar Madam Please discontinue my pa-peraswon an my time expires for ths.e rea sons first you countenance A disregard for lnvr for Instance getting license in exchange for monev and iff thoe Wlmeu deprive in the benellt of that license I mn robbed by your cousentln the law wrong uctact It and nut nn Individual sccont the Stw north wet claims to bn Independeut in politics nnd religion I And it neither lmt A tool for the church republican party ami custom house ring aud Iff Wlmen work as much from policy as Men where cull the new element (principle l-found to purify politics that you claim tho enfranchisement oi Wlmen will accomplish It Haiirim We are rorry to lose an liillucutiHl subscriber, but before he leaves us if leave he must we should be i deuced to have him tell us wherein wo have attacked "individuals" in this whisky war, which we mean to woge wholly against the Government, and not against men at all. As to our being a "tool," as charged in the above Indictment, we merely refer our friend to the parties accused, aud will cheerfully abide their decision. PARTISAflJSUITRAGE. By reference to a condensed report of tho recent Suflrage debate in the Senate, to be found elsewhere, our friends will see that twenty-two l'cpublican Senators voted and paired in favorof Woman Suflrage; only eighteen Republicans voted and paired against IU while the thirteen Democrats voted unanimously against it. Thus It will be seen that a majority of the Republican Senators are in favor of Suffrage, while the Democratic ones are a unit in opposing it.

Aud yet, when we say a word hi favor or the action or the only party that befriends us as a parly, we arc accused by Suffrage "Independents," whose disorganizing work plays constantly Into the hands or our enemies, or being "sold" to "debauching Influences." Consistency, what a jewel thou art! ATTENTION TRENDS. We have lost six good paying subscribers among the Spiritualists, who have gone off to follow our friend Davenport in his defection. Theso sub scribers refused their papers at tho post office, and of courso railed lo see Tim othy's letter and our reply. Now, how many men and women, who are above allowlug sectarian prejudice to -rule them In lieu or cosmopolitan liberality of thought aud expression, will como to toltonilTdrsi mo rescue and send DISCOURAGED. Considering how badly her candidate for Circuit Judge was de tented In this District, nnd the action of Congress, we would almost con- elude that she would be discouraged In her mission for her sex.

She, however, will probably give the Radicals a good scolding and then submit to her defeat gracefully. Oregon City Enterprise. Whenever one of the law-making sex treats us respectfully, as the editor of the Enterprise invariably doc3 or late, we are pleased to hear from him, no matter how adverse his opinions may bo to our own. And so wo say in reply to tho above, that we are in no way re sponsible, good sir, for the defeat of our candidate for Circuit Judge; and, if we have read passing events correctly, it is not. tho "Radicals" who need tho "scolding" for his defeat, but the Democrats, who out-voted them.

We do not, however, feel very badly defeated on that score, becauso Judge Shattuck is a well-known friend to Woman Suffrage, and a good man for tho position to which ho has been elected In many other ways. Ono thing about him pleases us vastly. He proved himself no rat to desert Mr. Greeley's sinking ship In the late national fiasco, and, though wc did not admire his judgment, we applauded Ids pluck. Mr.

Johnson's day will come when tho women are enfranchised, and, despite the late action of Congress, that day will soon come. So far from being "discouraged," good sir, allow us to nssuro you that we were never more jubilant over our certain prospects for success. Had the question of Woman Suflrage como up In tho Senate In any form five years ago it would have met with a storm of derision. Now It comes within four votes of passing, and for its defeat, remember, friend, that it was principally Democrats who were responsible, and, in tills case, as in the other, they, and not the "Radicals," need the "scolding." You need not expect but that Woman Suf-rraglsts will incline, just a little, toward the political party that will give them the most aid and comfort; and, though you well know that tho Republican party has been as timid and hesitating about freeing tho women as it was about freeing tho negroes, yet you also know that that party has granted us all that we have yet received, and It becomes us to be correspondingly grateful. We do not pretend to bo satisfied wllu llave received, but we know that the day is dawning and we snail oon gel an we ask.

Mho Repub- actions at this stage of our game, aud It will be time enough for us to consider the motives that prompted men to grant us equal rights nfter we shall once be free. did you say, friend? Was Washington discouraged when the war of the Revolution was almost won? Was Grant discouraged at the of Richmond? WasDredScottdiscouraged over Judge Taney's infamous decision? Was Fred Douglass discouraged on the cvo of the Emancipation Proclamation? Was Taylor discouraged when Santa i Anna fled from the battle fields of Mex-' ico before his advancing hosts No, no! Imagine that we arc stupid, sick, poverty-stricken, homely, old, savage, unreasonable or chimerical, and we'll let you enjoy yodr Idea in silence, butdou't think we're discouraged unless you want to hear a protest, A "REFORM" THICK. We have learned from the Hps of Mr. Edmunds, author of the "Voters' Book of Remembrance," a circular which lias stirred the pure and virtuous political "reformers" of this cily into such righteous outbursts or degrading invective against a few conscientious women who were, through inexperience, led to tread too roughly upon the corns of the tender-footed, that he knew at the time it was written that it would thrown bomb Into the Republican camp, and that he did it for Unit very purpose. Verily, theso "Independent-reformers of the filthy jiool of politics" are well versed in "ways that are dark and tricks Hint are vain." Rut It would be fun, if it were not such a serious matter, to nolo how readily tho Bulletin gobbles thtf bait and goes over to the "reformers" bscauseof it.

We don't wonder that the Oregonian rejoiced when O'Meara became editor or tho Bulletin. There Is no party in tills Union strong enough to carry him and Hill couldn't ask better thing. WOMAN iSUFPRAGE IN MICHIGAN. As evidence that the great Methodist Church has more confidence In the power or God than to imagine that a few conscientious men or women can thwart His great, designs by Intruding moral facts and. arguments, as well as prayer, Into the Church upon public oc uasiuns, we can uie aucnuon oi isomer any worse for a disreputable woman Izer lo the fact that tho State Conier- to earn her bread In this way than it Is ence of Michigan passed the following for disreputable man to do so? Is the resolutions at its late session without a l0uso in question tiie only ono where negative vole: tragedies' have occurred in this city? WitKitEAs, Tho Legislature of Michigan, at Why should licenses bo Issued to men Its recent session, has submitted to the electors i i of tbo Mate proposition to change the State lS WS iSSU0 WOmcn Conslltutlon Mas to admit the women of Mich-i DId houso of prostitution ordruuk-Igstn to the elective franchise; therefore, I enncss exist ill this city, we should have this Convention recognlies the! Httlo need for policemen, and then action of the Legislature a step toward "community would sacrifice no more higher and purer administration of the Gov eminent of our country, and we hope the pro- i Schoppes." But man demands the pres-vision will be adopted.

i once of women in these places, and this, What a terrible Ihing It was for God onl'' 19 they are there. Women that our brother wasti't there lo keep who kecP saloons are dependent for a down "side Issues E. B. Stokes, tho murderer or FIsk, has Just capped the climax of mcauness by complaining bitterly lo the reporters becauso his wife obtained a divorce from him, two weeks ago, by mutual agreement. Stokes complains bitterly of his wife's neglect since he killed Fisk.

The complaint comes with singular grace from tho paramour of Joslo Mansfield. A Toledo man reckons that tho recent In ilin-nrlre of woolen rairs has WITH SORROW WE SAY IT. O'Meara, with his characteristic disposition to denounce and falsify, perpetrated the following attack upon tho Woman Suffragists of this city, on tho day following the election of councll-mcn: "If we arc to accept the scenes and Incidents of yesterday as at all akin to what may be expected to transpire under the projected dispensation of Woman Suffrage, wc beg to be excuse if wceay we have had moro than enough of It. Beside the pitiful and objectional scenes witnessed at the polls, by the obstructive conduct "of tho "crusadere," was tho much worso aud actually shameful behavior of thoso who distributed that disgustingly vile, wicked, slauderous and blasphemous sheet, tho 'Voters' Book of among tho multitude. Whenever men shall so disgrace themselves in an elec tion, wo shall denounce their vicious-ncss aud wickedness in the strongest language wc can apply.

It Is with pro found sorrow aud almost with shame for their sake that we aro constrained to say liio oiienders this Instance were women. If such Is the 'reformation' that 'w6man's Inlluence at the polls1 istobriug tho body, politic, let us all. In respect and mercy to the ser, forover resolutely decline in promoting it. Ono such day is altogether too much." No ono knows hotter than Mr. O'Meara that the crusaders, as a body, are just as violently opposed to Woman Sufi rage us himself.

No ono knows bet ter than ho that the objectionable clrcu lar, entitled the "Voters' Book or Re- membrauce," was not gotten up by women, but by a mail, and a stranger In our midst at that, who through ignorance or malevolence palmed the excres cence upon the voters as the work or tho Temperance League. If women were beguiled Into circulating the document, it was not because they were Woman Suffragists, but becauso certain minis ters have taught them that they must not bo such. Our memory goes back, just a few years, when O'Meara, the arch seces sionist of tho great Rebellion in tills State, accused General Hooker or being an abolitionist while that same conser vative time-server was returning every elavo to tho enemy that escaped to his lines. this same arch enemy to freedom calls tho crusaders "Sull'ra gists," when their ring-leader, the stub born boy who runs the Methodist Church in this city, commands the Woman Suflragists to stitle the voice or conscience and obey his puny man date. We affirm that tho prospects for the Republican party of Oregon are blue indeed if O'Meara is to bo its rep resentative leader.

Tho Democracy played a losing game until they grew wise enough to discharge him, and tho Republlcau party will find itself de featod at every turn so long as a politi cal mountebank, In whom nobody has confidence, is trailing its banner in tho dust. Wc say this in sorrow, but the truth must bo told though the heavens fall, and no one knows that we have spoken truly any better than does O'Meara himself. "AN EVIL TOBE ABATED." Last Saturday evening a man, crazy with drink, shot at a woman in ono of the low doggeries that Infest our city, and an ofllcer of tho police, hearing her screams, rushed to the rescue, and received a mortal wound. Commenting upon this dreadful visitation of drunkenness, the Bulletin says: It is not because of the shocking murder that whs perpetrated In a saloon In this cily, kept by a woman, lust Saturday night, that we now saynosuch houses ought lo be licensed oral-lowed here, and yrt that murderisthcorcflslon for what we do say on the subject. Licensing liquor saloons to be kept by women Is a far greater evil than It can ever be lo license similar saloons to be kept by men.

Whatever may he thought of licensing drinking satoous nt nli, under any circumstances, by this oue or that, all will agree, we Imagine, that women ought never lo be engaged In that style of tratllc Only a class of women who are anything Ixit an honor to their sex or a credit to society will engage In It, and therefore they ought not to be allowed to keep such house. Hnil not the home In which that brave and r.ilthfiil ofllcer received his death wound last Saturday night been permitted, Bchnppc would now be lllng, aud his mourning widow and ratherless little ones would not be plunged In the unutterable grief which wrings their hearts, nor bo thus shockingly bereft of their loved and fond protector. License or no license, let there be no moro licenses to this most objectionable class of houses. Let licenses li.u only to men. Community has no more Schoppes to sacrifice.

Wliilo thcro is much truth In the foregoing, yet there Is much of that silly proscription against women Tor which the Bidlctin editor is notorious. Experience has taught that women will, through their financial necessities, follow tho example ot the class or men wltu wuom they arc associated. Or course, we agree that women should never keep saloons, hut, after u-hy Is nveiinoou lor themselves and liltlo ones upou such occupation as tho world of competition ofiers them, and the insidious Injustice that condemns in woman the very business which it condones in man well merits tho disapprobation of all clear thinkers. TO THE CRUSADERS, GREETING. The undersigned will give ono hundred dollars to any person who will invent any form of prayer which God will answer outsldo of the fixed principles or natural law.

O. P. HExnv. Pioneer, Clark county, W. 'IV CRUSADE.

We are in receipt or several letters in tended for publication, in which the. ac tion of the crusaders Is severely criti cised; but, as the writers desire their names withheld from publication, we respectfully decline to print their cfiu- 6lous. We, however, thank them for having written, becauso their thoughts lend wings to our own; but wo should bo much moro grateful if, liko Mr. Kuliu, Mrs. Johns, and Mrs.

McKune, they would write. boldly over their own signatures, aud become personally re sponsible for their own ideas. Ono or these writers says that the ac tions or women in the crusade arc convincing arguments to him against the fitness or woman tor Suffrage. Now, suppose that some women have really been doing something outrageously ridiculous and wicked in the crusade; ills hardly to besupposed thateveryone would have acted wisely. Does that prove that women should be denied the exercise of Inalienable rights? A man murdered another in a saloon the other day.

Is that a convincing ar gument to you, sir, aguinst tho fitness of man for Suffrage? A rule that will not work both ways may well bo re jected by wlso womeu. Granting that women havcsometlmes been indiscreet in their mode of conducting tills moral warfare, aro men always so profoundly judicious that they are capacitated to become all women's unqualified censors Men will commit excesses when sub jected to tyranny. It is natural aud right that they should; but they need jiot expect womeu, of whom they are born, to submit tamely to that against which they, being of like nature, inwardly and outwardly rebel. The tyranny or Rum has been along and terrible one. Ruin lias run riot in his wake, and strong men, hound with hits maddening chains, have sunk by thousand into driveling idiots.

These rum-soaked victims or the chains or appetite have, in their turn, tyrannized over women, made hells or homes, and orphans or children. The voice or lamentation has ascended to the listening ear or the Hlghe.it, and, borne upon tho breezes or Heaven, tho stirring words litive been watted to the oppressed wire and mother, "Resistance to tyranny obedience to God." Tho time will come when the anni versaries or this out-break or womeu will be celebrated rrom the Jersey Hills to the Chehalem mountains. And, though we do not approve of all that the women have done, or may do, we recognize their rigid to rebel, and we are proud to see that they have the Spartan courage to work according to their own Ideas of right and justice. But wc, at tiie same time, recognize the right of every opponent to a ilillerelit opinion, aud, so far as wo may have space, we are ready aud willing to give all a hearing, only insisting that all personal matter be published over the writer's name. LADIES' TEMPERANCE "ALLIANCE.

Tho reading public was somewhat startled yesterday morning by an an-notmeeinent that a Ladies' Temperance Alliance, consisting or sixteen members and live officers, had presented a petition, ina very sensible manner, as wo think, to the City Council, for the object or suppressing, orrurther regulating tho sale or Intoxicating beverages. As the Nkw Nokthwkst was "made up" for tho week before the interested public had heard that there was such an "Alliance," wo arc compelled to defer publication of petition and comments until the next issue. But the petition was "tabled" as a matter of course, and there we believe it will Ho till tlfe women are voters. TEMPERANCE PARTY. We have strenuously opposed, from the first, any partisan political action upon the temperanco The men who were so unwise as to be led by certain "Independents" to put up a mongrel State Tempcrauce Ticket, composed or candidates from all other political parties in the already over-crowded field, should have learned enough from their rormer defeat to bo Warned against repeating tho mistake.

The most that temperance people can safely do is to quietly use their influence to get temperanco men nominated upon tho platforms of the various parties and then keep out of the contest as partisans. We knew from the first that the Republicans leaders in this city had no affiliation with the temperance party in the lato city election, and we also knew that the whisky and Oregonian Inlluence combined would defeat the Republican nominees from the very moment Jhat we learned tlve action of the temperance men. Wo have not, for a long time, seen anything in the Oregonian which wo commend so strongly as IU lost Tuesday's leader. That article does much to exonerate its writer from the suspicion that wc have for sometime entertained, that the Oregonian faction secretly helped to put up the State job for "temperance" which did so much lo make a Democratic victory. But, much as there Is to commend In that editorial, we see that it is all upset in another, in which tho Republican party or this city is charged with working as a ring with the temperance people.

Alas, there isn't so-hriely cuough among Republican leaders for that They are just as far removed from total abstinence as the Oregonian clique, and hundreds ot them voted for the successful candidates for Couucllmen against their political proclivities rather than concede to anything that looked like temperance. But we aro not sorrj'i af'er all, that tho temperance people are routed in this Ilttlo city fight They -must learn that it Js not woman's prayers alone, but woman's votos an well, that will tell with power against Intemperance. Thoy must be whipped into thU knowledge, for they arc determined, mauy of tiicm, at least, (and the most noisy anil persistent ones, to manacle woman to the last. A few more Ball's Bluff defeats and Bull Run disasters are before them, ere the clergy will issue a uuited Emancipation Proclamation which shall shake tho shackles from the souls of praying women and lead thorn to demand tho ballot. These defeats are coming thick and strong, and (he wom en's eyes are being opened by degrees.

LETTER PROM SALEM. To the Editor or the New Xoethwest: Will you please to publish the following clipping from tho Portland Bulletin "which I lately found in that paper credited to the Chicago Tribune There aro unmarried women In England, above the age of 15, who are engaged In specific occupations, and are earning money thereby. This is the report of the cencus of 1ST1. In this country, according lo the cencus of 1ST0, there are but lMSS women over the age of 19, unmarried and married, "engaged in all classes of occupations." It thus appears that English women are, as a class, much more Industrious than their American "When all the married women have been excluded, the ratio ot feminine workers above 15 years in England Is oyer 1 In 7. In this country, where all the women arc counted In, and when the limiting age Is put flv years lower, the ratio is about 1 In 21.

A heavier pressure of want, and the greater extension or manulacturcs, with the consequent chanco of employment, are probably the main causes n( this somewhat amazing difference. We have had much more talk here than In England about the propriety oi providing work for women. They seem to have quietly gone to work there. Instead ol talking about It. I'crhaps this has had IU Influence In Improving their chances for the ballot, which they may obtain even from a conservative Government.

If the word "male" wtre stricken out of the existing laws ou the franchise, the Tories would gain a number of votes. The new voters would be "widows or spinsters living on annuities or carrying on small re tail trades in boroughs." These classes are crabbetllj conservative. Disraeli will not Introduce the needed bill, but Mr. Forsyth, one of his supporters, will. The Government will not oppose It, and there Is said to be a fair chance of its passage.

Now let the friends of Woman Suffrage yield the palm and cense to advo cate the principle of Human Rights. Lot them rather gently urgo tho laboring women or America to go to work 1 Yes, let them go to work, as they do In England, for a mere pittance, and say nothing about right and Justice. What right have they to live, anyhow? They'ro nothing but women How that editor who wrote and that other editor who copied the above must have shrieked in agonizing woe when they discovered that lack or industry was what was ailing the working womeu ot America! True, the women of this country have not worked lit the mines as they do in England, where thousands of children are born who have never seeu the light of day. But we think that our protect ors instead of complaining of our lack of "industry" because we do noi mlno or break cobble-stones or work in harvest fields, or carry bricks and mortar should be proud to see our protect- cdl?) hands as white as their own. And if women excel them in editing papers or doing anything elso that Is light and tasty, instead of growling at them Tor lack or industry, why not rejoice that they are ablo to do this higher work? Doubtless women have done many menial Jobs for these self-same editors for a paltry pittance perhaps for less.

But English women "seem to have quietly gone to work without talking about It." Oh, yes, so they did! long before America was discovered or Columbus was born. Women have worked for many thousands of years. English women have carried hods and made bricks and built highways, and so, are "moro industrious than American women" and their "industry" lias "improved their chances for the ballot," eh? How eucouraglng! A thousand generations, more or less, of these hardworking women have gone the way of the earth, unrequited for their ceaseless toil, but the thousandth generation or their descendant sons will grant the women ot to-day the ballot if they will only work more and talk less! What magnanimity! What subllmo condescension As our country is new and the majority of men are in comparatively com-fortablo circumstances, and America's vast body of new land enables the fathers and brothers or women to furnish unremuncratlve indoor labor to the feminine portions of tho household, our single women are not yet driven to the fields for a livelihood as they aro in England. But that docs not prove that they are not industrious, although it docs prove that they have no regular occupation, though they turn their hands continually to almost everything. Are not the working women or America equally as industrious as tho working men? Thcro are many drones in the, hive or humanity both men and women yet tho Iabonuc classes must support all such whether they have money or not, for there Is no producing power in money which, without labor, would be an incubus upon the hands of anybody All who labor are tax-payers, and mere is no honor nor honesty nor Justice in taxing American citizens who are denied a voice in making the" laws; and If tho word "male" were stricken from our statutes we might hope to seethe "industry" of American women turned to more profitable account than at present." Look around you, gentlemen editors, and see ir you cannot find two women as Industrious as yourselves, and then, deny them the ballot ir your consciences will let yoa A JWISS The House Committee on the Judiciary have make a report sustaining the petition or Susan B.

Anthony, praying that tho fine imposed upon her by the Circuit Court or tho United States for the Northern District of New York, for tho octorvotlug, bo rcmllted. and have recommended the passage or a bill for that purpose. Holland vs. the Needs and Rights of Woman. Nothing in American history has more nobly illustrated the moral power of women, than the past and current crusade against the vico of drinking and the traffic upon which it feeds' The exhibition and demonstration of this power are so full of suggestion and instruction, both to men aud women that they demand moro than a passing consideration, especially in their bearing upon some or the moststlrringques-tions of the time.

Why is it that tho hardened rum-seller who, behind his bar, has dealt oui the liquid death to His victims for years, quails beforo a band or praying, beseeching women women who, coming rrom their comfortable retirement, bravo wind and storm nnd mud bravo obloquy and misrepresentation and curses, aud all the harsh obstacles that brutality can throw in their path, to compass a reform that shall keep their natural supporters aud prolcelers pure and prosperous? First, of course, because there is no man, however brutal, who does not know that the women are right that whiskv is a curse, no't only to those who drink It, but to the unoffending who do not drink it. All men, who deserve the name of men, desire the respect of women; nod when a man finds himself Itva business which fixes upon him the disapproval of a whole community of women, power is brought to bear upou him" which lie certainly can not ignore. A man's self-respect can only be nursed to Its besi estate in the approval of the finer sense and quicker conscience or the woman who knows him. And lfbw for the lesson which this crusade teaches us. It will be a hard one for some women to learn, but a desire for the conservation of the beit forces of society demands that it shall not only be stated, but heeded.

Does auy one suppose that the moral power whicli the women wield to-day would be in their hands to wield If they held the ballot? Not a bit or it. They aro strong because they are not political. They are strong because they have no party to serve, no personal ambitions to push, no selfish ends to seek. If the womeu had the ballot, how long Is it to be supposed that this crusade would be without political leadership and political perversion If these women were tho representatives of political power, how much toleration would they receive at the hands of those whose interests they imperil or distroy What kind of treatment would an office-holder have in their ranks? Would an office-holder dare to be seen In their ranks at all? If woman had the ballot, such acrusaueas this would simply be impossible. To re spond that It would be unnecessary, Is to trine with uie suojecc.

Further, let it be witnessed, that tho women who are doing the most or the work In this crusade never have asked for tho ballot and never will do so. They would regard the conferment of political suffrage upon them as a calamity. It would rob them of their peculiar power a power which all experience proves can not be preserved too carefolly. Woman can not afford the. ballot.

It would tie her hands, weaken her influence, destroy her disinterestedness in the treat- mentor all public questions, anu open into the beautiful realms of her moral power ten thousand streams of weakness and corruption. This crusade does not mean the ballot; It means that woman does not need tho ballot, cannot afford to take the ballot, will not have the ballot; and with this conviction let all American society gratefully felicitate itself. Dr. J. G.

Holland, in Scribncr's Monthly for June. Utterances like the above come with a strange, unnatural ring, and seem to lack that preponderating element of tho nineteenth century common sense, nad the auther slept like Rip Van Winkle in tho mountains, the victim of some powerful potion, and had only aroused and come down to find all of his own generation passed away and ideas and customs ciianged, he could not less truly reflect tho vital thought or the day than In the extracts above quoted. It seems very much as though Dr. Holland looked at woman from a mythical point of view and also from a selfish point. Women are indeed flesh and blood not angels, very often far from sniuts nor are they idiots.

They are or the same humanity as man; sub ject to the same conditions and hold strictly amenable to tnesamo laws. It seems incredible that a man with the ttno culture or Dr. Holland can contemplate with any complaceny the thought or "beseeching women coming rrom theircomfortuble retirement, brav-inir wind and storm and mud. obloauv and misrepresentation and all the harsh obstacles that brutality can throw In their path, to compass a reform that shall keep their natural supporters and prolecters pure and pros perous." What a burlesque to apply the term "their natural supporters and protectors" in such a connection How uttor tho selfishness which Is willincr to re gard women "in a beseeching" attitude, and subjected to repulsive conditions for the sake ot bringing about a reform which it is their right to legislate into being: now utter the Inconsistency which, confessing a belief in the exalted nature of women and their potent influence in the world, yet lauds them for humiliating themselves to conditions whieh all the hich insticts of a wom an's nature and all the true instincts In man must cry out against And yet to contend that this idealized being of Dr. iionauu's, rather than touch tho "poor machinery of politics;" rather than defile her dainty fingers with the white "ballot," which used uncorruptibly is pure as truth itself, should grovel in the slime or saloons for the sake of proving her "disinterestedness and the beautiful realms or her moral power" this indeed seems ono or those absurdities which the ordinary brain, traveling in the ordinary orbit, can hardly fathom.

Dr. Holland draws a graphic picture or the humiliations to which tho "crusaders," who he states do not want the ballot, have voluntarily subjected themselves to tacitly admitting them to be, Instead of the peers of men, their inferiors in everything but an Indefinable, mythical moral Influence, which, nevertheless, to establish i sway Im to drive Its victims to iiaf ion and the moat unpleasant positions. This, then, Is preferable to legal solf-protectlon this, iUCHf j1 ClUsiWtW WW btV calm, quiet, dignified, yet potent, whicli no Amirican man is too low, or too high, too bad, (if.out of prison), or too pure, to avail himself of the ballot. No, no, no it Is a disgrace to American civilization tiiat woman should bo compelled, in a country which calls Itself free aud its citizens self-governed, to resort, for the purification or society and the protection or homes, to the conditions involved in what is called the crusade, which Dr. Holland po enthusiastically endors a.

It is a diigrace to civilized men that the ballot should bo withheld rrom women and at the samo time, this other course this dernier resortbe upheld and advocated. The crusade, so far from raeauing that woman does not need tho ballot, proclaims that-she a thousand times needs it, and Indicates, furthor, that she means to hava It. Toledo Journal..