The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1890-05-23
SUSAN, B. ANTHONY

oOoAN. De AN111VN
Addresses the People On Equal
Suffrage.
Susan B. Anthony addressed a large
audience at the court house Tuesday
evening, Her interesting address
was listened to with good attention.
The speaker, who is perfectly at home
onthe platform, has very deliberate
way of talking. and while she does
not speak with the enthusiasm which
probably characterized her twenty
years ago, her talk is calculated
to interest and hold attention.
AT the beginning she compared the
equal suffrage question with other
great questions as to their relative
importance. She believed 1t outrank.
ed any question Of public interest
that bad thus far come before the
American people, though it was one
ftha hardest ones for people to get
a correct appreciation Of 1t was IA
question Of philosophy and of polit-
ie;il economy in its different bearings.
4ffter forty years of advocacy of the
cause she had been taunte,l with such
question's as What's the use of all
/, this agitation? What have you ac-
complished by it?" Then the speaker
proceeded to tell what had been &C.
complished within the last forty years.
Forty years ago there was only one
college in the United States where
women could be admitted to gain a
higher education-that was Oberlin.
We now have special universities and
colleges for women, besides the an
nexes to Harvard and others in the
east. And when you get west of
Michigan all the universities and COL
leges are open to women equally with
men. Thus in educational matters
alone there has been great revolu-
tion within the time named. While
it is fact that forty years ago the
avocations of women were narrowed
down and limited to few poorly paid
callings, there are now over three
hundred occupations in which women
engage. The effect of this great
change is noticed in the increased
intelligence of women generally, nota-
bly, SO in South Dakota. Now where
an educated man can GO and obtain a
high position, a woman may also GO
and become Ills competitor. Forty
years ago Antoinette Brown was the
only woman who was an ordained
minister. While public sentiment
against women makes it hard for them
to gain foothold in the professions
they are, nevertheless, making their
way there in large numbers, though
when they occupy such positions as
wage workers they are compelled to
take salaries inferior to those of the
men.
The moment a woman becomes a
capitalist or an employer the result of
dlsfranchisement ceases to affect her.
That is, when they become producers
and place their products on the mar
ket, then and then only are they re.
lieyed Of having to take a price in.
ferior to what mem would receive for
their labor.
The speaker then discussed the op.
pressive laws which were on the stat.
ute books of the eastern states forty
years ego and told how many years of
agitation and work was req uired to
get them repealed. She asserted that
it was impossible for one class to leg
islate justly for another class. When
the power is granted to men to give, II
also implies the power to take away
In all the transition of the growth of
liberty in tLis country no class had
ever succeeded In obtaining ciyilrights
till they became enfranchised. While
we have been demanding the right to
help ourselves men have tried to quiet
us by giving little It'd bits of justice
and on the whole much has been &C
complished in the last twenty-five
years. She paid high tribute to wy.
oming, which, she predicted by July
4tb, would become state in the unio1
with full suffrage to all her citizens.
Itis not dmooratic nor manly fol
men to maintain and exercise q power
to work an injustice to women just be
cause they have thepower.
DR.. T. II. Bras and wife, of New
Boston, ILL.,, the former a brother o,
q. w. Bras, of this city, are visiting
the latter, expecting to remain her,
two or three weeks.
NERVE.PAtN9.
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