Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-01-31
W. G. T. I. SELECTIONS.
CONDUCTED BY EMELINE STEWART.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,s Birthday
Celebration.
Nov. II, 1918: Nov. u, 1896.

When Mrs. Stanton was introduced
the audience rose and cheering gave
the Chautauqa salute. In clear,
audible voice Mrs. Stanton said: 81
thank you all very much for the trib-
ute of love. respect and gratitude
which have been sent in kilograms
and letters and expressed in this great
audience. AS am not able to stand
very long have invited Miss Helen
Potter to read what have to say to
you" The paper was then read by
Miss Potter, the well-known elocu-
zionist, who has impersonated Mrs.
Stanton in some of her telling
speeches all over the country.
A few quotations from the address
of Mrs. Stanton:
ain response to the many letters
and kilograms l have received from
the Old World and the New, would
say to one and all that in demanding
justice and equality for all women /
have secured larger liberties for my
self. am we'll aware that these pub
lie demonstrations throughout the
country tonight to celebrate my birth
day are not so much tributes to me as
an individual, as to the great idea we
representative enfranchisement of
| women.
"The majority of women have ridi-
culed the idea of political rights for
themselves; the press have circulated,
the pulpit denounced, but above this
wave of clamor arose the clarion voice
of Phillips; "This is the Inauguration
of the most momentous reform yet
launched upon the world, the protest
against the injustice that has brooded
for ages over the character and des-
tiny of One.half the human family.
Soon conventions were held in half
a dozen States, letters of sympathy
came from women in this country,
from Italy, France and Germany"
Woman's sphere: "In hating one
day found an old document, said to
have been written at the dawn of Gre
alton, when the Gods were in consul.
tation about the creation of man.
They said: Let us make man in our
own image, male and female. and give
them dominion over the whole earth,
and every living thing therein They
did 80. Here we have the first title
deed to this green earth. given alike to
man and woman, and the first hint OF
Gods intentions. Those who will
make some logical concessions must
admit that wherever woman has been
and maintained foothold, and what
ever she has done and done we'll, it
must have been the Creators inten-
tons that she should occupy that po-
sition and do that special work. Un-
less you admit this, you impeach the
wisdom of the Creator and exalt the
woman as able to set at defiance the
laws of her being. While everything
in the Universe moves according to
immutable law, the sun, the moon.
the stars and every planet revolving in
its own elliptic. the fish OF the sea, the
birds of the air all in their appointed
places, moving together in harmony,
how can woman get out OF her spheref
The moment you declare she is, you
make her all-powerful, greater than
her Maker. To do this she must defy
the laws of attraction, cohesion and
gravitation, the centripetal and GEN.
trifugal forces, the positive and mega
tive electricity, to be scattered into
space herself and DO seen no more for
ever. Instead of this fatal -escapade,
she is here: tied to this planet just as
man is. He is happy and contented
and always stays in his sphere and
nobody writes or talks about it.
Every day ne has some new surprise
for us and new promises OF the future,
when we are to make the journey Of
life by electricity, when all our pres.
ent modes of locomotion, even the BIZ
cycle, will be thrown in the shade.
He will make lie like a sweet dream,
the realization Of a fairy land. Thus
we see woman need no longer knit or
weave. make butter or cheese. Gun.
ming arms and fingers of steel now do
it all for her. Women need no longer
cook or wash, or iron, or brew, for men
do it all in restaurants. laundries, bak-
cries and breweries. Women need no
longer sew, for with cunning ma.
chimes men now make underclothes
for women and children, and even the
man.milliner bonnets, and the tailor.
made dresses are superior to what wo.
men themselves can produce.
Now / suppose women all over the
house are saying" Where do we come
in? If man fills all space, where is our
sphere?" Why it 10 plain to every ra-
tionsl mind that If man is everywhere
and women must OF necessity remain
on the planet, then their sphere is the
same. They are and ever must be in
dissolubly bound together, as mother,
father. husband, wife, brother, sister,
in childhood, in marriage, in all life's
struggles. ever sharing each others
joys and SORROWS. With tears of affec-
ton and immortal wreaths they per-
form the last sad Offices of love and
friendship for each other, and in the
bosom of mother earth, side by side,
they rest at last together. Yes, the
sphere of man and woman are the
same. with different duties according
to the capacity. of the individual.
Woman, like all created things, lives,
moves, and has her being obedient to
law, exploring with man the mysteries
of the universe and speculsting on the
glories OF the hereafter. In the words
of Tennyson they must be together.
Everywhere. ,e...,~s-.
Two heads In council, two beside the hearth,
Two in the tangled business Of the world,
Two In the liberal Offices Of life,
Two plummcts dropped for one, to sound the
abyss
OF science and the secrets of the mind"
The question is no longer the sphere
OF whole sex but of each individual.
Women are now in the trades and
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