Evening star., 1896-01-18

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Rev. Anna H. Shaw.
II is advisable to give Them the full right
of suffrage. In all five of the Australian
provinces they have made political equality
their organic law, as nave North and South
New Zealand and Tasmania. Bermuda has
conferred suffrage upon Its women, put has
safeguarded 1t by educational qualifica tons
for both sexes. -.
In England, limited and local suffrage is
almost universal, and the movement for
fuL parliamentary suffrage Is progressing
with great rapidity. member Of the in
ternational council reports over three mil
lion Of men and women enrolled under the
banners of enfranchisement, while a census
of the present parliament shows four-ninthS
of the members of the house Of commons as
being on record In its favor. In the house
of lords, a majority of the bishops are in
favor of suffrage for women, while the lords
temporal hold the opposite opinion. All
these facts will be given in extenso at the
various sessions of the coming convention
or of its many committees.
The Venerable Miss ANTHONY.
The convention will be called to order by
it's heroic leader Susan B. Anthony of
Rochester. N. Y. She has attended every
convention from the start, and long before
the formation of the present association she
attended and called to order the conventions
of long forgotten organizations of the same
sort. She began her work on behalf of
womans rights when only fourteen years
of age, siXty-tWo years"ago. s,f.2
In those days, besides wishing for 3suf
frage. the eaInes: and thoughtful women
desired equally much the abolition of the
strict and cruel principles of the common
law which made a woman under age and,
above all, married woman, mere slave
or piece of property in the one case of
xI,of f,tl i ;, of1 4
The opposition was SO fierce in age
coarser, ruder ard harsher than our own.
that we can form very little conception of
the trials which Miss Anthony and her hand
full of colleagues experienced. They were
mobbed and stoned, rotten-egged and shot,
were thrown out of halls, and pitched into
swamps and pools by the gentlemen" of
that period. roo,
| never dismayed and they3kept in their work,
no matter how helpless and foreboding
seemed the future. in this hardest of all
| schools Miss Anthony learned to speak, to
and to preside over conventions with an
| ability and tact which, make her the female
| Tom Reed Of this country.
The success of her ideas in the years that
! have passed has apparently given her new
strength and Vitality, Only short time
ago she took part ip, the New York state
convention at Newburg.'' and in thought.
speech and action was, one of the most
active. youthful and vitalzed orators upon
She looks back over a very long career.
| She expressed 1t very, neatly on one ocea-
sion in addressing the .conmittee of the leg
| isla ture, when she said;;rHfGentlemen. am
really getting tired OF coming here and maxi
ing this argument, asking for the right to
vote. I did the same thing before your
fathers. when you were little boys, and did
| the same thing before your grandfathers
| when your fathers were little boys and you
were undreamed Of" She did not add how
|
her part and that of her associates had con-
| Verted scarcely ae handful of the grand
| fathers. about one-fourth of the fathers.
| and about three-fifths Of the generation to
| whom she was addressing herself
SOme-Well known Workers.
Among the officers who will appear on the
occasion with Mss Anthony is Vice Presi-
deEt-at-large the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw
of Philadelphia, Pa, who is the faverite
orator and wit of the organization. She is
| an extraordinary woman. In her girlhood
| she was literary, ambitious and very re-
| lieious. She had an intense love for hui
| manfty and determined to become a preach
| err She belonged to a distinguished family
| and had every advantage which education
| can give. -
After she had finishe1 her studies and dis
played 4 rare scholarship, she applied for
| admiss. on to the pulpit, and was refused,
| or the ground that she was woman. See
| ing that some other meeting Of the church
| authorities might grant her request she de-
voted her time to improving her mind by
studying law. She applied again for admis-
sion to the pulpit, and was again refused.
She was still willing to wait, and utilized
the time by studying medicine. She was
! graduated with honors and again applied
to the pulpit for recognition, and again was
| refused. Finally she was ordained. but 1t
was not until she had become one of the
nest versatile and literally educated dwomen
| known to History. "a
Since then sne has devoted her liff to the
| cause OF her sex. She is attractive and in
1uentiai as writer, speaker, physician and
Another enc Of the distinguished leaders
OF the officers is Mrs. Harriette Taylor Up
ton of W afren. Ohio a TALL massive, hand
some woman, whose equanimity and kindli-
ness are proverbal. She is worker and an
executive rather than a platform; speaker
or a convention debater. She has a genius
TO: committee work and for such literary
duties as the composition of resolutions. ar
and public documents
The other officers are Mrs. Rachel Foster
Avery Of Philadelphia. corresponding secre.
tary; Miss A. Blackwell recording secre,
tary: Miss H. A. Howard and Mrs, Digs
. auditors. and Mrs. Gait, chairman of The
committee on organization, and one of the
ablest ora tors and writer's of the association
Mrs Gait will receive an ovation, as she re
turns from campaign tour in which sh,
has spoken to large and admiring audience.
. IN neatly every part Of the Union.
E Dfstinsuished Delegates.
There VIII be large attendance of dis
> tirguished women among sthe delegates an
invited guests. Among those expected ar
E Mrs. Emily Ketchan, ~ talented speake
> from Michigan; Mrs. Hannah Bailey, on
> of the eminent women 1f Maine, and a
: officer of the NationaI Council Of Womer
Maine sends also Miks Elizabeth U. Yates
8 one of its most beautiful daughters an
e talented tale platform starsr From Kentnck
), viii come Miss Laura Clay, worthy rela
. | tive of the great statesman. She will prob
ably be Joined by Mrs. Clara Hoffman, til
silver tongued crater Of Missouri Mrs
, HOFFMAN was delegate to the world
council Of women in London, in June, an
= was pronounced by the English press to b
= one of the best woifien orators who ha
e ever appeared before the British publ.
n Nebraska will be represented by Mr..
l. Clara B. Colby. clever. lecturer. speake
: and journalist, who deyotes her life to tn
: | suffrage cause
: From far-of Utah will appear Mrs. En-
h incline B. Wells. who has toiled thirt
II years for her principles, and now sees thel
| triumDh2nt he he will p.