celebration, reported by the Oregon press, contributed largely to
the growth of the equal-rights sentiment among the people of the
State. Two stanzas of a spirited poem are subjoined, written for
the Woman Suffrage Association just after our defeat at the
polls, by a young man from Southern Oregon who has withheld his
own name but included the names of all the counties in his
glorious prophecy:

From Clatsop and from Clackamas, from Linn and Tillamook;
From Grant, Multnomah, Lane and Coos, and Benton, Lake and
Crook;
From Josephine, Columbia, and loyal Washington,
And Union, Baker and Yamhill, and proud old Marion;
From where the Cascade mountain-streams their foaming waters
pour,
We're coming, mothers, sisters, dear, "ten times ten thousand
more."

From Klamath's lakes and Wasco's plains, and Jackson's rolling
hills;
From Douglas with her mines of gold, and Curry with her mills;
From Umatilla's burdened fields, and hills and dales of Polk,
We're coming with our votes and songs to break the tyrant's
yoke,
And in the ears of Liberty this song of joy we'll pour,
We're coming, mothers, sisters, dear, "ten times ten thousand
more."

Mrs. Mary Olney Brown gives an amusing account of her attempts to
vote in Washington territory. The incidents related occurred
several years before the passage of the act specifically
enfranchising women. She says:

I do not think there has ever been a session of our legislature
that has not had before it the subject of woman suffrage. It has
been my habit to write out, and send to all parts of the
territory, before the assembling of each legislature, petitions
to be signed, asking for a law guaranteeing to women the
exercise of their right to vote. These petitions were not without
their effect, though no one knew who sent them out, or, when
returned, who selected the member to receive and present them to
the legislature. At the session of 1867, mainly through the
efforts of Edward Eldridge of Whatcom County, an act was passed
giving "all white American citizens above the age of twenty-one
years" the right to vote. This law is still on our statute books;
but, like the fourteenth amendmen