San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-28
KATE FIELD.
TRIBUTE TO HER WOMANLINESS
AND WORTH.
From the Pen of Henry Higbtop, Friend
And Admirer of the Dead
American Woman.

San Francisco, Cal, Dec. 2S.-HOn.
Henry Il. Highton, a prominent law
yer and a devoted admirer of Miss
Field, has written the following tri-
butte to her, for the Associated Press:
THE great lesson of Kate Fields
life and death is her intense patriot
ism, which now waves above all pc
RODS and should command universal
respect. She was an American to
the core, broad, tolerant, without fan
atheism or bigotry Of any kind, and
devoted to human freedom ON a con-
stitutional basis. Like Gen. Grant,
she had travelled widely and had met
the most noted thinkers and states
men of Europe, and like him she re-
turned to her own land even more
deeply imbued than before with the
spirit of our institutions, in their hap
by combinations of individual several
ty, state autonomy and national uni
ty.
"The last aspirations Of her soul,as
expressed and in the sOlemnities of
her will, were that her ashes should
mingle with her native soil and that
her individuality Should be represent
ed by the flag. A writer of universal
power, she never unsexed herself. In
dealing with important questions for
nearly a qparter of century, she dis
cussed them as an American woman,
intelligently, with cultivated refine
ment and under every condition true
to native ideas. She was familiar
with the best literature of the world,
and conveyed the Hottest thoughts
and the purest sentiments of the age
in language so clear and so intelligent
that many of her phrases have be-
come part of that popular education
of which she was so enthusiastic
champion.
women Of her type and character,
trained and armed the heroes Of our
revolutionary war. In the darkest
years OF the republic, such women con-
secrated their children to their places
Of freedom and of independence; and
though towards the closing years of
the century, patriotic education has
dwindled in its extent and earnest
ness that type of American woman is
not extinct, but in any national emer-
gency that may arise will be revived
and re-irvigorated by the example and
by the life of Kate Field.
ITO this state her services were val
liable and unique.
"She spread the history of our
achievements and of our resources all
over the United States. With prac-
teal sagacity that shamed many OF
our citizens, she anticipated and pre-
dicted the mighty future Of the PACIFIC
coast. She boldly repudiated all
narrow or transcendental views when
they thwarted our progress or injur-
ed our local industries and she bore
her role well. 1t is fitting therefore
that the obsequies of this noble and
gifted woman should have been mark
ed by national recognition and pecu-
liarity appropriate that they should
have been elaborated IN the state of
California, to which much Of her best
work during her late years was conse-
Grated. When the unanimity and fer
yer with which the last bonors to her
memory have been paid. are correctly
realized, they will prove that not only
here, but throughout the Union, not
only throughout the Union, but
throughout the world, she being dead
vet she speaketh.'"