The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-12
HERALD Calendar for May.
TWO CELEBRATED WOMEN.

Salt Lake win have some distin-
guished guests during the next few
days. Today two celebrated women
will be received by large delegation
who will meet them at the Union Pa
cific depot. They are Miss Susan B.
Anthony and Rev. Anna Shaw.
Miss Anthony's name is so intimate
~ associated with the movement for
women's rights, that it is scarcely
possible to speak of one without think
ing OF the other. For many years she
has devoted her life, time and talents
10 the elevation of her sex and the en-
deavor to make woman equal with
man in all respects before the law.
She has lived to see many things
she has worked and hoped for accom-
plished.
In most of the states of the Union
there have been notifications of the
law, by which women have been re-
lieved of civil disabilities which pre-
vailed under the old common law sys-
tenn. They can hold property in their
own right. They are no longer the legal
inferior Of man. A large degree of
liberty has been extended to them,
and the way is opening for their full
emancipation.
Women are admitted now to profess
sions which once were closed to them
and were reserved entirely to men.
Any occupation for which woman is
adapted is open to her. and the senti-
ment is growing rapidly that women
should be as we'll paid as men for
services that they can perform as
efficiently.
In the political field woman
has won many signal victories,
Partial suffrage has been extended
to her in a number of States. In
Wyoming, Colorado and Utah the state
constitutions debar woman from no
made equal with man in politics. The
disqualification of sex does not exist il
hose commemorative.
All this must be very gratifying to
Susan B. Anthony, who, through toll
ard suffering, ridicule and libel. re-
peated disappointments and apparent
failures, has worked steadily along,
and never despaired even when pros
poets were the darkest. On the plat
form and through the press. before
congressional committees and public
conventions, she has battled bravely
for what she believed to be the right
and her struggles have not been in
vain. What wonder if because OF the
warfare she has had to wage, she has
sometimes used the weapons of sar-
casm and has flung fiery darts at the
enemy? Yet those who know Miss
Anthony best regard her with the
greatest respect and affection, and
many thousands of her sex are gladly
willing TO follow her able leadership.
AS a presiding officer in a public con-
vention she can give examples which
many an anti-suffrage man might fol-
low with profit, and as political
manager she has marked ability. Miss
Anthony is a very remarkable woman.
Rev. Anna Shaw is also an American
celebrity. She is a double doctor, be.
ing both a medical graduate and a
regularly ordained divine. Her ability
as a preacher is no less than as
political orator. IN the pulpit and on
the platform she is equally at home
and her exceptional talents are devoted
to the amelioration of her sex. She
will preach in the Tabernacle today
and, with Miss Anthony, will speak in
the theatre tonight.
The Herald voices the feelings Of
many thousands of Utah's people in
welcoming these ladies to Salt Lake
and in wishing them a pleasant and
profitable visit 20 the valleys of the
Wasatch mountains.