The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
Avery Brilliant Debate Between
Rev. Anna Shaw and
Rev. c. c. Woods.
The East and the West Matched
Against Each Other on
Woman Suffrage.
Many Persons Attend and Ap.
plaud Their Forensic Wit
and Eloquence.

OF entertaining HIS ever Detu Htdiu
in Sedalia than the debate ON Woman
Suffrage at the Chautauqua, yester-
day afternoon, between Rev. Anna
Shaw, of Philadelphia, and Rev. DIR.
c. G. Woods, president of Scarritt
college, Neosho, Mo.
The event had been widely adver-
tised and the attendance was unusu-
ally large. Ladies and children ar
rived by car, by carriage or afoot,
and at $50 o'clock, Art hall. at Asso-
citation park, was almost filled by a
splendid audience.
Miss Shaws fame as speaker and
debater and as brilliant champion of
woman suffrage and kindred reforms
is not confined to any locality or state
She has been touring and lecturing
for the past light years and is known
from the Atlantic seaboard to Caliior-
MIA and from the lakes of the North to
New Orleans. She was but recently
honored by being chosen to deliver
the opening address before the Wo-
mems Congress at the Worlds fair,
and she also, sometime ago, achieved
great distinction by her debate on wo-
man suffrage with the celebrated
scholar, editor and orator, Rev. DR..
Buckley. of New York.
DIR. Woods is Il gentleman of dis
tinguished state reputation. As pas
tor of the Walnut street NJ. E. church,
South, in Kansas City, and as pre>i-
dent of the Scarritt college he has
made much fame. His speeches on
special occasions have also served to
properly place him in the foremost
rank of men who have the rare
GIFT OF ELoQUENCE.
In huency of language and bril-
liancy of thought doubtless he has no
superior and but few equals in all
Missouri.
These, therefore, were the chosen
champions of this important question,
for and against Little wonder, then,
that the people were eager to hear
them and that 50 large and repre-
sentative an assemblage graced the
occasion.
DIR. Lenig, director of the Chau-
tauqua, was selected as chairman on
this occasion and he announced that
Miss Shaw should open the debate,
with Sd minutes argument, DIR.
Woods should follow with ID minutes,
and she should close with 10 min
utes speech.
Shortly before three o'clock the
great debate between these intellectu-
al champions besan. Mrs. Shaw,
upon mounting the platform, was re-
ceived with applause the character of
which plainly indicated that she. If not
hercause, was extremely popular. She
spoke of her celebrated contest with
DIR. Buckley and said tina: she had
had similar engagement with him be-
fore six Chautauqua assemblies in as
many different states, but he had de-
clined to fulfill his part OF the contract.
She expressed her sympathy with DR.
Woods because of the weakness OF
the cause he proposed to uphold.
And then with amazin" rapidi'y Of
utterance, though distinct and silvery
enunciation, she proceeded to enter
into the arguments tavoring her sile
OF the question. She stated that the
principal reasois given by
her opponents for their OPP
position to the suffrage OF woman
was that il was contrary To TIE teach
ings OF cripture; con;rs'v to the
nature OF woman and contrary io the
ideals of government. She brought
forth strong and brilliant arguments
to prove that, mentally, Woman is the
equal if not the superior, o! man, and
while he is generally recognized as the
head of the house. the head is often
on THE WRONG SHOULDER.
She said that men were given to boast
ing of having had a Shakespeare, a
Beethoven,a Napoleon Bonaparte, but,
if after four thousand years of advan-
tages the wogen could not produce
like characters in their sex, then they
might abandon certain claims. The
speaker referred at length to the in
Justice done women in that
in the courts of the land
they were never tried by a
jury of their peers-themselves con-
stituting the jury. No woman, she
boldly declared, had ever been fairly
tried in this country. She spoke
scathingly and sarcastically of the
marriage laws of the land and of the
laws in reference to women holding
property, and closed by denouncing
what is called chivalry. Let US, said
she, have justice instead of ehivalry,