Rock Island daily Argus., 1888-03-27


held in this country. SUSAN b. ANTHONY.
The call for the meeting forty years ago, she
said il she remembered rightly, had no sig
natures to II, but, nevertheless, the two NOV
ing spirits In originating and carrying on
the work were Lucretia Mott-the sainted
Lucreta Mott--and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
who was with them to-day. She referred in
passing to the progress made IN
forty years: Forty years ago women
had no place anywhere, save in
the home; no hope of pecuniary independ
ence, or place, or position in the world; no
purpose in life except that which came
through marriage and the home. They never
heard any such thing then as a woman earn
ing her living in any way except in teaching,
domestic service or in factories. During the
forty years there had been an open sesame to
almost all the avenues of industry. She was
almost the peer of man i'll the industrial
world What was true in work was true in
education-in everything. Men had granted
them everything almost, but the one pivotal
right by which the women of the country
could protect all other rights. She then in
troduced Mrs. Stanton, who for twenty years
had been she said, the president of the Ma
tiOnal Woman Suffrage association.
Mrs Stanton read long address, in which
she reviewed the history of wuman's organ
lied demand for woman suffrage, and
womans advancement in this and other
countries The initiative steps in the country,
she said were taken in her native state-New
YoTli-forty years ago. In 1873 two CON
ventions were held in central New York, and
the same year the married woman's property
bill passed the legislature Other conven-
tions were soon called in Ohio, Indiana Mas
sachusetts, Pennsylvania, and the other
Of "a al
York's advance legislation. Thus started the
greatest movement for human liberty re
corded on the page of history; demand for
freedom TO one half the entire race and the
keynote struck in this country in rs had
been echoed round the world.
Mrs. Stanton at several points in her ad-
dress, drifted away from her manuscript and
sailed out into the realm of spontaneous ora
tory She said she could not fully agree with
Miss Anthony to the degree of freedom
women had attained They were by no
means SO near obtaining all they demanded
as some women thought. She referred to the
fact that recently women had been denied ad
mission to college in Cleveland Their claims
could not be said TO have been granted when
colleges were closed against them. When
she reached the point where she said
"women are but the echoes of men," Mrs
Stanton stopped and said that many persons
expressed the fear that some women, by OBJ
tanning these rights, would be l.Isexed and
become like men. "Why, my friends" she
said, 1--WE have never yet had any women on
the face of the globe. We have always been
mere echoes of men"
Speaking of the more powerful ammuni-
ton" than arguments, which she said women
might use if arguments proved Intellectual,
Mrs Stanton again left her manuscript ~
have" she said, "often said to men of the
present day that the next generation of
women will not stand arguing with you as
patiently as we have for half century. The
organizations of labor all over the country
are holding out their hands to women. The
time is not far distant when, if men do not do
justice to women, the women will strike hands
with labor, with Socialists, with Anarchists
and you will have the scenes of the revolution
in France acted over again in this republic"
At the night session papers relating to edu-
cation in its relations to women were read by
Mrs May Wright Sewall, Sarah b. Cooper,
Louisa Reed Stowell, Rena A. Michaels and
others,