The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-02-24
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

Lively Talk by Susan Ii. Anthony.
Susan B. Anthony the noted woman's
rights champion, who was en- route to
Washing ton to attend the National Con-
vention of the Woman's Suffrage Assoc
iation stopped over in Baltimore on re.
Gently, and in the evening made things
lively at the Friends Meeting House,
where she addressed an audience com
posed of her less courageous Baltimore
sisters.
Exactly forty years ago." she said,
visited Baltimore for the first time
good old days" she added sarcastically,
"good old days, when things were not
as they are now. l was on the same
errand then that am on now, and that
was to try and persuade the men and
women of Maryland that the principles
enunciated in the Declaration of indie
pendeuce and the Golden Rule should
have practical application to the women
of this nation. Yes, | am on the same
errand, but how great is the change in
the state of affairs. At our first ConYen-
ton in Seneca Falls, in lS4S, when we
women expressed our views and our
needs, the nation, from Maine to Louis
| iana-these were the boundaries then
shook with laughter. There is no laugh
ter now, no rdioule, no scorn. There is
inertia, plenty of it, but of absolute
opposition, none. we asked for justice
then, and we ask for justice now. We
haven't got quite what we want yet, but
we are going to get it. Do you hear?
We are going to get it. There is not the
shadow of doubt.
Fifty years ago there was no college
open to woman. Now the great univers-
tiles of the West and Northwest well
come her, and even old Harvard and
Columbia and other Eastern universities
are creaking their old doors and letting
the women squeeze through by what
thew call their aunexes. There were no
industries open to women. Now all are
open, the only difficulty here beng that
of what man is paid for the same work
That injustice will prevail until womsn
are enfranchsed.
In those early times there was one
woman doctor and one woman minister
Now every city has its women doctors
who are doing their full quota of curing
nr bill m ha w Z no
women ministers are yearly increasing il
number, only the orthodox folks cling
ing to old usages. The women lawyers,
| too, are coming to the front, while even
in States in which woman suffrage has
made no Roadway, the laws are being
amended so as to give the women little
share in their own possessions aud tt il
own earnings; SO that we may take hope
that the day vii! come when tle wora-
ing woman who supports her husband
will not have to humbly ask him to let
her have dime low and then out of her
own earnings, as she has to do now
''By military necessity of the lato
war;" she continued, the negro was
emancipated. By political necessity
after the close OF the war he was en-
franchised. Had he not been, there
would have been no governmental move
ment to elevate his condition. When
l say that his emancipation and enfran-
chisement were the results of military
and political necessities, | mean what
say. There was nothing more that in
the question. The little ballot has
brought them every right enjoyed by the
American people by people, l mean of
course the men.
Women of Maryland, that is what
the negro got out of it. Cannot We get
the same? We've never had any flag,
never had any country. Let us get
both. Only prejudice stands in the way.
Education, reason judgment have moth
ing to do with the opposition. Its only
prejudice.
There is an old saying that if you give
a woman an inch she'll take an ell.
| Women of Maryland-we've got the
inch.