The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-03
Rhode Island Woman Suffrage AsSo-
citation Honor Her Memory.
HER LIFE WORK REC0UNYED,
Her Early struggles for an Education
and Their successful Ternination-A A
Woman of Force of Character and
High Purpose-Labors for Suffrage.

The Rhode Island Womau's Suffrage
association held meeting at y. IN.
yesterday at Blackstone hall. Mrs. Eliza
beth Il. Chace, the president, presided.
After preliminary reports the meeting
Was devoted TO memorial exercises in
honor Of Lucy Stone. Mrs. Chase deliv-
cred the hrsJ address. She said:
20. all noble women OF our race Lucy
Stone is preeminent. In her life is tue
history Of two, daughter and son; the
one having all that life could desire. the
other treated as mental. Lucy Stone did
not submit easily TO her lot. AS she saw
her brother grow up and-go- TO col
lege she experienced a longing for an
eoucation herself. She determined TO
have il. At twenty-five. after teaching a
country school for years, she had at last
money eLough to enter Oberlin college.
Here she earned most of her
way by teaching preparatory classes,
doing housework tor three cen S an hour
and cooking her own meals. she labored,
ana her labors have made the way easier
for women Of our generation.
"ODerlin was an anti-savery college
and admitted women, hut ODerlin was
not up TO the standard OF Lucy Stoue.
After graduation in lS47 she began TO
lee ure under the auspices OF the Massa-
chusetts Anti-Slavery association. She
suffered neglect aud contumely, buJ
sue aid not falrer. / remember
her as she was then, slight OF figure,
bright, hopeful aud eloquent. She went
through the New England states pro-
claiming the nations shame. Rude men
oftntr jeered her, Lus she quailed not.
She .bnked them aud went
on with her work In all her
anti-slavery labor she never forgot
| that next TO the slave, woman nee led
| emancipation, She never forgot her sex
| and led "A consisle At liie Of pure woman
| illness. Now she, who inspired US all TO
| good dc eds has gone tIom us and left us
her example"
Mrs. French then read paper on
Woman Sulfrage."
"Tbe organization early resolved" she
| said, that women should have greater
| lpuArtunilies in education aud should be
| gwen the rights of suffrage. Lucy Stone
was the leader of the Woman's Rights
association. The society was composed
| OF men aid Women Doi h.
| 1t was not strange under the circum-
stances that the organization IT'S sted OF
the ballot for women. Lucy Ssole EN-
bodied all its best principals. SIC was
earnest and accurate. She never spok,
| equivocally She was bitterly antago.
nized by her opponents, but she never
| wavered
| Lucy Stone appeared as an advocat,
Of municipal suffrage In Massachusetts,
| She often, especially in her later years
| said SIZE hated TO ask for the ballot, bu
| il must b. done.
| "Ol, en- she vas told that woman sut
| frage woud d disrupt the home. but sbl
would never accept the argument Sh'
| fought againse the suLjection of women
'Her noblest aud most rrnarkabl
trait was ner faith When she believed ,
thing to be right she could never b.
shaken. She belieued that good " ork il
never lost. She believed implicitly IL
God and served him faithful y. May WI
endeavor to FL ber place"
| Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer then an
| nounced that a collection would DO taken
At the annual meetiog last month onl,
about one half Of the annual expenses
WAS raised. A great deal OF money il
| needed TO carry OH the work.
MIS- Spencer paid "a tributeto + Eizlbetl
| Cady Stanton. whom she cassed next Il
| Lucy Stone.
| After the collection had been takei
Mrs. Spencer made "A few comments OH th
| life of Lucy Stone, describing he
| many lovable qualities. her reso
| luton. Ler energy, her devotion to tn
| cause of woman suffrage and her nobl
| priAate life ut was the mot
| 10 OF the woman's suffrag
| association" she said, Ito give to " omal
| all the rights that are given to man. Tn
labor question as it affects woman is
part OF the whole Industrial problem
| Social influences are too often left b.
nea to the care of women
| The woman suffrage question
| hns Jagged behind In America
| England Is far in advance of US. III
| liberal party has efficient help from it
women. The rea'on why Lucy Stone di
| not live to see suffrage for her sex is be
| cnuse the democratic idea received
| che, L.
| Other short testimony was added dur
| inc The meetiuR