The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-06-22
AGAIN WOMAN Suffrage
Simpson Tabernacle Crowded
Last Night
THE WORD "MALE" MUST GO
From the Constitution and Laws OF Our
Fathers
Miss Susan Anthony and the Rev. Anna Shaw
Upon the Enfranchisement of the Sex.
Rights Not Privileges

The doors of Simpson tabernacle were
opened last evening at 80. and though
the lectures of Miss Anthony and the
Rev. Anna Shaw we're not TO begin until
8, the audience poured in as soon as the
doors we're opened. By the time the
speakers appeared the house was filled to
its full seating capacity, the upper gal
lery excepted. Mrs. Alice Moore Nc
Comas, president of the Los Angeles
Woman Suffrage association, called the
meeting to order and invited the follow
ing vice presidents to the platform
Mrs. A. E. Threlkeld, Mrs. Margaret ".
Longley, Mrs. Judge G. G. McComas,
Mrs. Caroline M. Severance, Mrs. Mary
M. Bowman, Mrs. G. d. Stephens, Mrs.
Judge A. J. Utley, Mrs. Dr. Rebecca Lee
Dorsey Mrs. Follansbee. Mr.. and Mrs.
W. A. Spalding, Mr.. and Mrs. j: A. Os-
good; the officers of the Los Angeles SUN,
rage association. Judge b. N. Smith, Will
D. Gould, Mrs. Gould, Mrs. x. I: Galpin,
Miss Jessie Anthony, Jeanne 9. Carr,
Hon. James McLachlan,. Or. Mclean,
Mrs. Mclean, Mrs. Amy G. Brown, Elias
I.onlgey, Miss NJ. NJ. Fette, Mrs. Judge
Hatch. Mrs. NJ. A. McClees, Mrs. Dillon.
Mrs. NJ. L. Kenny. Hon. Bulla, Mrs.
Bulla, Mrs. Wood, Miss Fanny Wills.
speaker that it was intended to invite
Mrs. Caroline Severance to preside. as she
Is known among women as the Mother
of Clubs" but that ill health prevented
her attendance. She then announced the
irst speaker. Miss Anthony.
Miss Anthony said she hau been Won
dcrlng what she should say tonight, and
decided that she would relate how she
became suffragist, not being born one.
She SAID her father was Quaker and
Quakers believed that woman could do
anything, speak from the pulpit and
work in the temperance cause. She be-
came q mem Der of the order OF Daughter s
OF Tenn perance about the year 1S47. Some
of the Sons of Temperance called a con-
vention and invited the Daughters to
send delegates. She then related how the
battle was fought to secure women the
tight to appear as delegates and speak in
the temperance cause. For every point
gained in the advancement of these some
one has been forced to fight battle, to
contest the ground step by step. The
speaker then recountcd the distance trav-
eled since those days. Instead of mini S.
cfs preaching from the text, Let your
women keep silence in the churches" as
they did then, they are proud to invite
Lady Henry Somerset. Frances Willard
and others of the temperance advocates
to fill their pulpts today. Many inter-
estng incidents were given in the speak
er's experience and that OF other women,
illustrating the disadvantages under
which they labor in moral reforms, be-
cause of their position as disfranchised
citizens. Miss Anthony closed with an
appeal 10 all parties to put an equal suff-
rage plank III their platforms next year.
Miss shaw was then introduced anu
opened her remarks by heartily com
in last Sundays Herald. She said,
however, that if the writer ha d followed
the history of the suffrage movement he
would not have accused women who ask
for the ballot of inconsistency. The
article she characterized as manly, fair
and geEtlemanly.
Miss Shaw treated the subject not from
the standpoint of justice, but OF ex.
pediency. The speaker said that in only
two states in the union have we true
republic. Not until the word "male" is
stricken from the constitution will we
proceeded to trace the reason men
give why women are not given tine hal
lot. Government exists for three things.
Protection of person and property, the
administration of justice, the develop
ment of society. Are we persons. is the
question to be settled and the speaker
preceded to settle it by witty incidents
from court decisions that women are really
persons. The speaker cited cases in
which courts have decidetd that women
could not recover damages for accidents
because they were not the owners OF their
own bodies. and having only life in
terest in their husbands property. Wild
ows had not the right to be barred out
of the estate. The speaker gave a
humorous account of how women had
endeavored to have these laws changed,
and in many case how futile their efforts
had been. No report however extended,
can describe the earnestness of Miss Shaw
her fluency of expression, the logic of
her arguments. the pathos, wit and
of the appeal for the enfranchisement of
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