Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-01-19

cause. She thought them honest In their opin-
ions, bat supposed they were prejudiced from
hearing the slang phrase "Strong m,neee, eas
they must remember that il required strong
minds to combat against the common enemy
common prejudice. 1t may be that they reason
that they do not require this right, as they might
satisfied with their condition or Thought they
were. When they saw women trodien down by
men, did they not pity their condition? Women
vices OF men. The laws Of Germany
prohibited the habitual drunkard from marry
ing, and she would advocate, when the women
got the power, the enactment of q law to pro-
| hibit the tobacco chewer to marry until he had
reformed himself of the vice. Then the enact
ment Of prohibitory laws against other vices
which are deluging our land with misery. How
| many women are living in the degradation of
refined Incidence, wasting their effeminate lives
accomplishing no good. The idea Is Preposter-
Ons beyond measure that young women of
TO the indolent routine of fashionable life.
No woman can attain to the noble and
useful sphere for which she was created with
such ideas. The life of Jesus Christ four great
pattern) was a life of toll and labor. She adj
vised the young women TO go forth into the
world and choose some useful pursuit, and fol-
| low 1t, thereby establishing name and charac-
| ter for themselves. Christianity demands this
of them, and with the use of the ballot their OPP
portunities to establish a power which man re-
| spects and fears will be increased. and women
| will be improved in their condition morally
| spiritually and physically. The cause is not the
| cause of a few strong minded women, but the
| cause of the civilized world. The warfare will
| go on until the ballot is in the hand of every
American woman. She appealed to the women
| ef the District OF Columbia to arouse to their
| natural rigbts-the ballot.
Mr.. Stiilman. of Rhode Island, the man who
| lost his election by advocating the cause of
woman in the State of Rhode Island arose. but
the audience seeming disenciined to hear a man
| speak began to leave in large numbers, where
| upon
| A CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH BY MISS ANTHONY
Miss Anthony stated that she was sorry to see
the women of Washington SO like the women of
Cincinnati and other cities, who, whenever they
see the head of man, begin to run. Laughter
and applause.] Now, they must hear a woman
speak, and she followed in her enthusiastically
earnest manner. She said that the reason WHY
senator Pomeroy was here to advocate the
cause OF woman suffrage was because he knew
II would succeed, and that il he did not do it he
would never be sent to the u. S. Senate again.
lLaughterl She wanted all the women to emf
crate to wyoming, and make model State of
IT by sending a woman Senator to the National
Capital ILaugiIter.l She would go there il she
had time, but her mission was i'm the States where
she was to continue her labors until the great
reform was accomplished. She appealed to the
men to aid them with their money as well as
their countenance to the cause, by coming IN
and signing the constitution and paying their
admission fee. She invited all present, when
they visited New York, to inquire for the
Woman's Bureau, and especially the Office of
the Revolution" and she wished the reporters
oS"i hCi WHITES tiiat Il the HrSt tlme she
mad mentioned the name OF that paper during
the session Of this convention. (I.auglter.l She
hoped every one would subscribe to the Rero-
lutioa.
Mr.. Stillman got the floor, and said he would
not detain the audience only to give his testmo-
ny to the good of this great cause. Why is it
that woman has always occupied an inferior
position in society? He thought it was because
OF the physical superiority of man. Woman had
been mans AFFECT slave during all ages of the
world. He had no doubt as to the result of this
agitation. 1t would be to secure the universal
franchise of all women. The educational priyi-
leges OF the age should be extended to the female
sex by admitting them to the colleges of the
iann, ana 10 the study OF the arts and sciences.
MISS C0zzen, Of st. Louis, next addressed the
convention. ~
PROF. WILCOX sYMPATHIzEs WITH MRS. II, r..
STOWE.
Prof. Wilcox offered the following resolution.
which the Chair declared out of order and il
was, on motion, laid on the table:
Resotred, That the sympathy of all true men
ana women is due to Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe for the outrageous way i'm which she has
oeen assailed for an honest performance of a
seeming duty.
In advocating the resolution Prof Wilcox said
that the publication of Mrs. Stoves version of
the facts had been followed by an infamous out
burst against that noble lady, which was n dis.
grace to both the press and the public. Adj
jOuTned.
THE lady who had the little '.onpleasantness,
with Prof. Wilcox, as stated i'm yesterdays STAR
feels aggrieved that she was set down a-m,ss i'm
our columns, and we therefore make the dme,ds
honorable by stating that il is Mrs. mot Missl
Briggs, the brilliant Washington correspondent
"Ohyia" OF the Philadelphia press TO whom
Prof. w. would hot extend the right hand of fell
l0Yship.l