The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21

that is f1attering enough, can assure you
| I take it for the cause for which you make
the recognition. l am no better looking
| 1, personally. have no more brain, nor
more power of statement than had forty
years ago-and, forty years ago, whenever
the venerated and sainted Lucretia Mott,
whenever any of us went into commun-
| ity, the whole community did not take off
their hats in reverent recognition of our
/ coming, but, on the other hand, it was
with hootings and with leers and with
words that were not complimentary they
met US.
"It is because the world is coming, not
| to admire the exterior of Lucretla Mott,
the exterior of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, or
any of the advocates OF this great move
ment that this ovation comes. 1t is be-
cause the idea which these women pro-
mulgated almost half a century ago has
become acceptable to the people, and not
only acceptable, but it has become the
cornerstone of the faith in our republic, OF
the faith in our Christianity and OF the
faith in our country altogether. There.
| fore, whatever of courtesy, whatever OF
congratulation you offer to my friend, Miss
Shaw and myself, who have come across
the mountains and the plains in order to
look you in your faces IN the great con-
regation-whatever you tender to US,
seemingly personal, she and L and all
of the friends who are not able to be here
! to-dayAMrs. Stanton, the one survivor OF
the women who called the first convention
that was ever held of women in 184S, she,
sitting in her little room in her little home
in the city of New York, will feel to-day
this ovation, this congratulatlon, this ora
tion, quite as much as we who are here.
And everywhere where woman has awak-
ened to her new destiny, to her new hope,
to her new realization, everywhere where
woman has thus awakened all over the
face of this globe, will go the Associated
Press dispatches of this tender of recogni-
ton and respect and reverence for the
women who first promulgated this grand
idea of perfect equality of rights, civil,
religious, social, literary, educational, for
the women of the world"
Loud hand-clappings interrupted the
flow of eloquence from the lips of Miss
Anthony, and the waving handkerchiefs
in the crowded seats, the packed aisles and
the jammed galleries, looked like myriad
mammoth fakes of purest snow falling
from the canopy above.
II am glad to be here" resumed Miss
Anthony, smiling at the smiling audience
before her. "You will remember, some of
you who are old enough to remember, that
this is not my first visit to your coast. 1t
will be twenty-four years ago, when the
11th day of June shall have come, since
Mrs. Stanton and myself first arrived in
your City.
"We are not without recognition then;
we were not without most cordial reeep-
ton then, but it was not by the multitude
as it is now. It was the few. / rememb Der
that when Mrs. Stanton appeared before
the vast audience, Mr.. Stanford, the then
Governor of the State, made the formal ad-
dress of welcome and presided at the meet
ing, and Mrs. Stanford and himself ten
dered every possible compliment to us as
their guests at the Grand Hotel, which
I nan
eve have had grand California repre-
sentatives in the East from the beginning.
As began vending my way back by the
railroad on that trip, having just finished
speaking at Virginia City and gone down
was not single berth to be had. All were
taken. Your men had then elected as
Senator of the United States, the Hon. A.
A. Sargent. He and his family were then
on board that train, and very kindly, the