The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
with a radiance that made her look almost

with radiance that made her look almost
young again.
''Now woman who is a speaker or q
preacher, can go almost anywhere, and
the ministers are willing to have her. Look
at Miss Shaw, how much demand she is
ln They are going to have Woman's 8
Christian Temperance meeting in London
soon, and 300 pulpits in London and the
neighborhood have been thrown open to
those women from all parts of the world
not only ordained women, but temper
ance speakers"
Miss Anthony then went on to tell how,
gradually. almost inch by inch at first,
concessions had been made towards the
cause of equal rights for men and women.
In 1860 law was passed, in one State,
making the earnings of married woman
her own. Ten years lator women got
municipal suffrage in England. In 1880
the Isle of Man gave full suffrage to
women. Now New Zealand and parts of
the United States and Australia have fol-
lowed suit.
SIN all the British colonies women have
municipal suffrage, though in England
itself 1T is the taxpayer, whether man or
woman, who votes for the local board
school board, etc. You see their basic
idea is property-the property holder
votes-while our basic idea is that the in
dividual votes"
"And do you think that women will
eventually vote everywhere2"
II know they WILL" declared Miss An.
thony, with perfect and joyful conviction.
"Look at the progress that has been made
during the last quarter of century and
| then imagine what even another ten years
will bring forth"
There was one more subject on which
| Miss Anthony was asked to give her
opinion, and that was the new woman.
"She is more wide-awake intellectually
than the old woman" said the woman
suffragist, who evidently was glowing with
admiration for the new woman. "The
! height of the old woman's ambition was to
serve good dinner; she limited her aims
| to the making of puddings. Now boys and
| girls are educated side by side, and the re-
suit is the new woman-one who knows
| how to use her intellectual faculties and
| makes the most of the talents God has
given her."
| Recalling her forty-five years service in
the cause of equal rights, Miss An
any sense discouraged. The progress re.
Gently made in the movement was espe-
/ cially gratifying, and she referred with evil
dent pleasure TO the fact that amendments
| proposing to confer the ballot on women
| were pending in California, New York,
Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.
In her judgment the cause woulo ulti-
Indteiy triumph. one knew tndt no u1S-
! franchised men ever asked for the ballot.
| Suffrage had been extended by statesmen
| in behalf of the laborers in England and
| the negroes in the United States. There
was no influence of craftsmanship in be-
| half of woman suffrage. Everything that
women gained in this respect had to be
contended for against obstacles often in
| terposed by clergymen and other men
exercising moral weight in society.
Miss Anthony was asked, SIN Denver
and Leavenworth, where women vote, do
the degraded women rally at the polls and
strive to keep the better element of woman
hood away?"
at had Just the opposite effect in
Leavenworth," ;" said Miss Anthony. .sDr
Neely, who was candidate for Mayor at
one election, becoming convinced that a