The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-20
WOMEN AS ORATORS
4 Number Of Platform PaYoPiteS and
Their Characteristics.
Anna DickInson's Attachment for
Susan b. Anthony Gate
Fields Appreciation
OF Humor.


ANNA DICKINSON was essentially n mag
netic speaker. There has been no n
like her before or since. II was a dis
tinct loss to the platform when she left il.
There has been n great deal If wonder
rs to why she left her work when she
was at the fiood-tidc of her popularity.
The reason Is simply this: She felt that
she had no special message to give, and
she was truly n Quaker to speak unless
she felt the moving Of the spirit. ~ had
a message to bring" she said, land I
gave IL from my heart, but my work is
done for the present; what may come up
by and by | cannot tell. When il comes,
aud II il comes, IL will find me ready"
There Is no one who ever heard her who
does not wish that n message would be
again given to her.
The one woman To whom Anna Dickin-
son always gave n royal need of gratitude
was Susan Ii. Anthony, To whom she was
deeply attached. She used to say that
Miss Anthony's feet had trodden the rough
path tn make IL smooth for young women.
And IL was true. Boston knows too little
Of Susan Anthony, her uprightness and
do%wnriRhtness. She has few Rraces of ora
tory, hut she strikes out from the shoulder
in a most vigorous fashion. She has an old
fashioned way OF telling the truth, even IL
II N unpleasant To hear. She hates wrong.
but with characteristic generosity b
lives the wrong down. She is the kindli-
est soul that ever lived, and she can't bear
malice. even To the persons who have
caricatured her and held her up to
ridicule. She is hurt and sorry. but she
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