ocrat: Saturday, March 28, 1908.

BRILLIANT ADDRESS
The Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw at Athenaeum.

Speaks to Splendid Audience on

Woman Suffrage.



Draws Lesson from Fall of An

cient Republics.



Says Women Are Better Fitted Than

Criminals to Vote.



Wish to Go Along Side by Side With

Men in the Making of a Great

Republic.


The Rev. Anna Howard Show, The Female Demossthenes of this country, as she is called, delivered an address at the Athenaeum last night to an audience that was representative of both sexes, intensely good-natured and enthusiastic. rhere were no vacant seats in the auditorium, and there were no persons stand jug in the aisles, as was the case the evening before, when Mrs. Catt, the president of the suffragists, delivered her speech. Miss Show kept her audience laughing much of the time. She did not herself indulge in smiles. She was busy talking from the moment Miss Susan B. Anthony introduced her until she stopped for the evening. Miss Shaw is dIfferent from the original male Demosthenes. There was never any impediment in her speech; she never bad to walk by the shores of the sobbing seas and bold pebbles underneath her tongue to cure stuttering, as the Roman orator did when he was a young man, ambitious to win the debate at the crossrends schoolhouse Friday evenings. It Is said of her that she was never bothered with impediment of speech when young, and it. is certain that she is not hampered that way now. Sam P. Jones is said to talk faster than any other- living speaker. He rocks along at a gait of 220 words a minute. A gentleman sitting next to the reporter last night, while Miss Shaw was talking, offered to "make Book" that Miss Slate could, hour in and hour out, make the Georgia evangelist appear like a handear running against The Twentieth Century Limited.
It was one of tier best effortsthat speech of hers iast night. If she had waited for the applause to die when, after some striking sentence, the handclapping commenced it would have taken her much longer to have concluded her effort. But she never stopped for little things like cheers. Taking a position in the middle of tile stage-commencing by saying, Ladies and Gentlemen, which she did clearly and sweetlyshe quickly drifted on until a moment later she was talking like a Congressman begging for a pension.
MISS SHAW 'S PERSONALITY.
MIss Shaw is not an old woman; neither is sites young one. Perhaps she is fifty years of age; her body Is rotund, Jut waist round, head well shaped, hair gray and coiled on top about the slut of a fourbuttoned rattlesnake. Last night she was dressed in a pale, tailor-made gown, and neither throat, fingers nor ears were adorned by any sort of jewelry. She made a brilliant speech, never moving from tile spot she took when Miss An. thony presented her. She iterated the men for denying women the right of suffrage she appealed masterfully that the cause of women be recognized; that they ho made a part of the nation's poiiiical body.
Miss Shaw pointed out the error of the government in denying the women, whom site said represented the very best, the noblest, the most law-abiding, the most moral and religious and best educated elements of society, recognition in the voice of the government. Site pictured decay. disruption, the disintegratIon of the republic, it politics remained as it is. The remedies that are needed, she argued, may be brought about ity the ad. mission of n-omen into polling booths. She acknowledged that, so far, the men of the country in constructive genius were superior to the women, but this fact could be attributed to conditions. Women itad been given bitt fifty years to show the mettle that was in them, to get education. to study the sciences, to part icipate lit a ffa Its pelt at pertaining to the educational and political affairs of a State.
	THE DANGER OF THE COUNTRY.
	Women must settle the glorythen must accentuate the lasting powers of this re. public. she said. "T he courses which have led to the oseribrow of other re- publics will come our way unless women are permitted to participate in Americas affairs. The great force (In this continent, to he sure. is masculine, but it i tite woman who Is the conservative memher of sock y Do men imagine lbs for a moment the women would ask fo things that would be detrimental to bet family? Is It not ibe mother attd lit wife and the sister who honor most tb integrity of the fireside? Where men lead now women follow. We dtt so uti complainingly, following those we love and honor gladly.
	Yet we are tint permitted to Itel frsme our country's laws, We see nur litters, libertines, tile debauched a nd th disgraced, go unchallenged to the polls. applauded by tite men for witom the. cast their votes: and the patient, mitral woman, loving her family as few met know how to love, sit silently by am atch these characters participate and direct freely in lilt affairs that directly ,oncern them. Think of it! In 1896 th ear before the Spanish-American war here were 31,000 murders committed it ite rnited States, the most civilized o all countries.
	Miss Shaw wont on to tell of the down fall of Greece. Where wesitit accumuisles. men decay. she said. "Rome did not overthrow Greece until Greece was corrupted by money. Rob non monopoly ttf its political power. of its political strength and you make it weak, T here is a great, deal of good legislation--there are more good men than bad men., Ru the trouble is the good men stay at home. I remember talking to ttn excellent gen. tleman not lottg ago who told me he did not vote because there was too much corruption in poitties, Think of this malt remaining away from the polls under such conditions: And there are hundreds i-is like him, They are the sort of persons n-ho should be disfranchised--not the good women who love the country.
STORY 6000 YEARS OLD.
	Miss Shaw confessed that men, in some ways. were superior to the women. "But." she went on. "men have lieeti teliiiig us all about their, superior to forces for lo! these 6000 years. amid we women have listened wiih loving attention. We have gloried in theIr achievements, have never wearied of theIr long stories. Now, we want a chance to talk, We hart- had less than fifty years to tell ott r stories, and we must talk rapidly that we tony catch up with the males; and. site continued amid much laughter, t sin doing my pert.
	We wish to go along aide liy side with you men, glorying in this countrys masterful strides. smillttg with you when our people are happy, mingling out tests whit yours when in gloom. In all ibis broad and brave republic whert. is there a monument retied to the mentory of the gallant women w ho assisted in nursing the wounded anti dc-tag of the North attd the South during that long
struggle between the Slates forty years ago? Neither in bronze or in marble, in sculpture sir in art are the women of this country commemorated. Not long ago r went to a meetIng of the Pilgrims' Society in Boston, and stooti in si for four hours to watch he unveiling of a monument. On thts shaft were the words: In Grateful at efui Mcmory of the Pilgrim leathers. I protest against no mit-it fathering. We have, father this and fat tier that until I ant tired of heating ltc word. I insist i lint the name 'mother' appear somewhere oitce in a while.
"And you Sottthertt men. My, my. how sweetly you do talk when you get to the women. I heard one of your statesmen speak sometime ago, and when he bad finished I wouldnt have been an angel for anything in the world, Angels is wet too little things compared to American 
womeit, That man put its on a pedestal that was just too lovely for 
It we are angels, wino are better er r this countryangels or saloonkeepers?
MORALS OF WOMEN AND MEN.
Women are more moral than men, Y ou permit the biack man, the saloonman, the criminal, the vicious to exercise the right to suffrage, and you wontlei why your temperance laws are not sit liter and better observed. When the cruel civil war had ended and the black man, the uneducated, the unlettered, tite untutored, W as giveut kite right to vote, we went to Wash- ington and appealed tic Mr. r. I Lincoln ti give the womeit (hi- same privliege. But Mr. Greeley said it would be wrong. sit Think of It, think of the ignorant bin h. with full rights of citizenship and the religious ant! moral women denied them? It is, said that we are not legally Salle; that if we were strong around h,alhat boxes that we should impair the virtues and - the morality of stir sex; that liters would be more divorce suits than the courts could lake
al, Let us see about tie., continued	Miss Shaw. rho women , Wyoming have suffrage. In tiles there was not a slims woman con fined in any of that States institutions; female occupying a room in the State sat asylum. not a divorce suit TO be heard. These 
refute s tatement that Prisons and Pol- itics go together. And they say that We 
not legally sane; that we see onto emotional till one at you ever attend a national convention ? Well, there one ha supposed to see snue persons. When Gen. Harrison was nominated in Chicago I do not remember of seeing to much legal saneness--men hugging each other. crashing hats. shouting like things that hail gone mad, singing, crushing crying for minutes. The wt,men compose thu-c, -fourths oh the membership of the churches and yet they
are	voters, because they ace not legally
	AN INGALLS STORY,
Same years ago Senator John P. Ingalls of Kansas was detested for reelectlon by Mrs. Mary Ellen Leone, A month afterwards Mrs. Lease wished to make friends with the Senator, anti far that purpose scent in Washing tan that she might have a personal talk will the distInguished Kansan. Card after card was sent to his room by Mrs. Lease, but be .Seuatar n-as always buoy, One day, after he had ieeeive,l an importunate meaonge front Mrs. Lease, he neat this mesusge to tier:
Please tat-got me, I ant supposed to be dead. I know that you nreawa woman sad I know that women sad Indians ouby scalp the dead. Please go away,
Mrs. Leases anbipaolty to Mr. Ingalls was brought about by his saying that the golden rule had as place in the, decalogue of poll tics, She lIt on him with all fury, sad brought about his defeat. Thin name saying of B Ingalls wan referred to by Miss Shaw last night. Do you believe, she said, that I there was tbe proper observance of tbe golden rule, such as the women of the eo,lntry would have. Ohat there would be starsiag hat,t,s homeless wameu, the suffering that is gain

At She conclusion of her brtlblant speech and while the s,tdienee was cheerIng he genuinely, Miss Shaw was prenented with huge bouquet of Amerten, Beauty roses.