The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-24

is concerned, was bosh. The husband
owned 1t al, his and his wife's. The clothes
she wore, the bonnet she donned was his,
all his, and there was no way of getting
around it.
In conclusion Mrs. Bowles said that she
was confident that if these odious laws
were brought to the notice of the men of
california they would undoubtedly have
them wiped off the statute-boo She
believed that in California the hearts of
the men were right to-day.
Mrs. Harland of Los Angeles made the
statement that in California community
property could not be sold without the
consent of the wife, but Miss Shaw in
formed her that that rule only applied to
real estate. Ii the community property
! consisted of horses the husband could sell
1t without the least consultation with his
wife.
Mrs. DR.. Kellogg of Oakland stated that
the men of California were SO much better
than the laws that if every man in the
State were to try to live up to the laws
! they would not stand year on the statute
! books.
There was great applause as Mrs. Cooper
introduced the last speaker of the after
noon, Susan B. Anthony, ''the woman
who has done more for her sex than any
other woman. We have left her free to
choose any subject she likes to select
Miss Anthony did not state her subject,
but at once began to address the congress
in a chatty, pleasant way, which made her
| remarks easy and pleasant hearing. eff
there is one thing that has been said
against Susan B. Anthony, it is that she is
| hard on the men," she said. 1.-THE pre-
ceding speaker, who has been making all
those dreadful charges is a wife, and no
doubt she knows what she is talking
| about"
When the laughter aroused by this sally
had concluded, Miss Anthony continued
II have often said if men would be Just
for ten minutes as mean as the laws, they
would very soon be blotted out of the
statute book. The question is not one of
Shall woman's opinion be respected and
| counted Pr
The speaker went on to say what will
ensue in States like Colorado when woman
is recognized as an equal by the men.
Zone of the first changes will be that
women are paid equal wages with men,
for the question underlying all the in
Justice to women is that of disfranchise-
ment. During the last half century we
have gained nearly everything else we
wanted and that was once denied u.s."
1.-THE battle of fifty years ago was not to
have the right to vote but to have the
right to have an opinion. From the
crowds which have attended this congress
it looks as if there were large number of
people in favor of women speaking in
public. The thing that we need now is
anything that will tend to give women the
ballot.
Miss Anthony described tersely how
women had secured the ballot in Colorado
by getting all parties to put suffrage
plank in their platforms, SO that every
newspaper and every politician in the State
favored it.
There was no discussion on Miss
Anthony's address, as Rev. Anna Shaw
was asked to answer written paper that
had just been handed upsuo the platform.
''If women vote, what will be done
!, respecting the degraded and ignorant
women who will sell their votes to the
bosses?'
Miss Shaw said that question was easily
answered. 1.-THE only class of women in
politics to-day outside Colorado is the
degraded class. What we ask now, is to
give the other class a chance. Did you
ever hear of a degraded class of women
asking for the ballot2 If one could make
certain classes of politicians believe that,
only degraded women would vote. We
should have the ballot in year. There
are 100000 of these immoral women out of
the IL, 900 900 of women in this country. If
the moral women cannot outvote the
immoral women we had better sell OUT
Miss Shaw concluded by saying that any
politician who tried TO get in by utilizing
the votes of this class of women to any
| large extent would be signing his own
| political doom.