The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-11
WOMEN AND THE BALLOT,
Mrs, Potter Palmer Has Become The
Successor Of Susan B. Anthony.

/ What the New Leader VIII Do-An
Interview With Miss Anthony, Who
Declares That Her Life Works Con-
summation is at Hand.
New York, June l0.-If you attended
/ the worlds congress Of women just held
/ at Chicago, you must have noticed that
/ women are rounding a turning point in
/ their civil history
! was present at their congress through
| all its sessions and have been wonderfully
impressed by three things.
/ First, that men are thoroughly in SYM
| pathy with woman in her efforts TO show
that her intellect is upto the level Of
| theirs.
! Secondly, that woman, after years of
endeavOr In right and wrong directions,
has found the place which nature in
tended for her, as coordinate part of the
human race.
| Thirdly, that the advanced woman has
| a high social position. She will be the
social leader in her sphere by virtue of her
brain, whether she have money or not
! was talking with Susan B. Anthony
about this and she agreed with me-
| who have been at work since lS4S, are
| hardened by years and roughened by toll.
| We have endured everything. We have
been hooted, laughed at and scorned. /,
| myself, distinctly remember being stoned
! back in the sos when l attempted to
/ speak. And the law prosecuted me once
! when voted, and it also prosecuted the
poor young inspector who took my vote.
But things are different now. People
| have got used to thinking that agreeable
women can think high thoughts and I'M
derstand deep things and they are let
! ting the newcomers be as learned and as
thoughtful as they please.
| lit began with l4ucretia Mott and Eliza
beth Cady Stanton in 1S4S. When l joined
| them a little later they had hardly begun
! the struggle we have gone through since
and which we feel IS now nearly ended.
I'VE have prepared the way. Like all
! refOrmers, we have been treated with de-
risiOn, but the fact remains that the path
has become smooth for those who choose
to walk in it. 1t began with Lucretia
Mott and has ended with Mrs. Potter
Palmer. Could any one ask for more
glorious shoulders upon which our mantle
could fall!''
MRS. PALMER AS A sUFFRAGIsT.
Miss Anthony's gray eyes filled with
tears and her gold-rimmed spectacles
grew dim as she mentioned Mrs. Palmer.
Like all the eminent women who have
met at this congress, Miss Anthony real
ICES that Mrs. Palmer's qualifications
will place her at the head of all great
movements among women for the next
two decades.
But" said l, Mrs. Palmer has not
joined the ranks of suffragists. Yet l
notice that the women who want to vote
are turning to her. as they used TO turn to
you and Eliza beth Cady Stanton. Has
Mrs. Palmer taken up the cudgel for
womans sutfrage!n
Miss Anthony hesitated.
II am not at liberty to say anything
about that yet" said she, with a signifi-
cant smile, "because Mrs Palmer has not
told me authoritatiYely what will be her
next move, But | am as certain that she
will be our leader as that Lucretia Mott
led us forty years ago.
II think Mrs. Palmer was impressed
with the cause during her visits to Wash
ington to get an appropriation for the
Womans building and for an extra appro-
priation we very much wanted.
Zone day she came back quite disheart-
ened, although she had, as usual, secured,
what she went for. When she arose in
the meeting to tell us of her success, we
asked her why she seemed unenthusiastic
| after having been so successful. | shall
never forget her reply.
Il have begged and have pleaded for
! this appropriation, said she, and l have
secured it. 1t is less than we needed But
! it was all | wanted to beg for. They are
! going to give us more of their own accord
some day, so we can make a proper exhi-
! bition of our native industries. But O, if
| / could only have said to that congress-
man who helped me through "You put
| this bill through and when you run
! for Office next time there will be 5000
| f,,sx lf.t,
l should have been so happy. 1t would
! have seemed so much more womanly and
independent, and so much less like beg
ging for money.
MONEY THE SECRET OF 1T ALL.
''It is woman's dependence on man that
is making all the trouble in the world -
said Miss Anthony with a flash of her
eyes.
! "a little girl is dependent on her
mothers pocket book long after little
boy has an allowance. When a girl grows
into womanhood she must do as her father
wants her to or he will not leave her his
money when he dies, or give her anything
while he lives. If she has merely school
education, as most girls have, she is afraid
to begin earning her living without having
| learned trade or profession. So she
stays at home and gets married, whether
she wants to or not,
Sometimes a delicately reared giIl has
to go out and fight for her bread. Her
father dies and has not as much money as
was supposed. Then the girl must work
and hard time she has of it in the few
avenues of employment open to her.
"She can become a typewriter or a shop
girl. And she can fearn trade. Her
father neglected TO have her taught pro-
fession and it is too late now, because a
professional education costs money. So
she works until she is tired out and then
she gets married She is not strong
enough, physically, to keep on toiling in
the unskilled way her lack of education
entails She marries the first man who
asks her. and she settles down to be de-
pendent upon him just as she had been
dependent upon her father,
How would a man like to be brought
up in idleness, knowing how TO do moth
ing, and then be suddenly cast upon the
world to stand behind counter or do
some other cheap work until he found a
woman who would support hint
The shoe does not fit the other foot at
all. Girls are just as sensitive about
their poverty as boys could be- And
they feel just as keenly the idea of being
a pensioner upon anybody's bounty,
even though that person be father or hus-
band
eff you do not believe this, stop and
count upon your fingers the daughters of