The San Francisco call., 1896-08-06
SUFFRAGE VS.. SOCIALISM
Miss Anthony Addresses a Meet.
ing at the Turk-Street
Temple.
She Edits a Query Column and I'm.
parts Some Homely Bits of
Wisdom.

Miss Susan B. Anthony addressed a
meeting of socialists at the Turk-street
Temple last evening, and at the close OF
her rem arks answered number of queries
relating to woman suffrage. 1t cannot
be said that the questions asked the noted
advocate of her sex and exceedingly quick
witted lady were burdened with profun-
dity or blaziug with brilliancy. They were
unique, however.
One asked if woman, more or less re-
ligious, would not carry her faith into
politics, and so mix church and state in
confusion worse confounded. Miss An
thony replied that the influence of any de-
no mination or any minister of the gospel
could not be detrimental to state founded
on the principles of morality, and more
over the influence of a clergyman who was
dependent upon his congregation for his
su stenance could not exert a very over
whelming influence over the individual
members of his flock.
He could not have nearly so much inhu-
ence as the great corporations upon whom
so many voters were dependent for their
daily bread.
Another querist asked if women, who
are generally ignorant of the principles of
government, could use the ballot for her
The answer was that the workingmen
had been voting in this country for CEN
tury, and, according to the socialists, their
political and economic condition was most
deplorable.
One doubling Thomas asserted that
women were Intellectually inferior to
men, and also that she had no knowledge
of economic and labor questions. He was
told that the first seven years of a boy s
life were in the hands of his mother, and
during that time she laid the foundation
of his future intellect and usefulness in
the world. She impaired the same in
struction to his sisters, and their early
training was Identical.
The schools were now graduating three
girls to one boy and the higher educa-
tional institutions at the ratio offive girls to
three boys Intelligent men always sought
the society of women and unless the
former were like oysters closed tightly in
their own individual shells they certa My
would impart some of their intellectual
gifts to the latter.
In answer to a question why the woman
suffragists did not ally themselves to the
labor cause Miss Anthony answered that
a woman was cook and baker and always
had been, and was in sympathy with their
cause, but she could only be OF use to them
and their brother workers when she had
the ballot.
She was not partisan, only suffragist.
And regarding woman's alleged econ
omic ignorance, she asked what man could
make dollar go as far as could woman.
One speaker got the floor and uproari-
ously asserted that woman who could
not trust her husband to do her voting, he,
the speaker, would not have for mother.
He quoted Christ, st. Paul and went
back into the dust of Egyptian centuries
to prove that woman was at the bottom
of the world bad luck.
The chairman apologized for permitting
him to talk with the explanation that the
orator was evidently wound up, and it
was better to let him run down. A num-
ber of other speeches of the same caliber
were INDUCED in, while Miss Anthony sat
patiently and listened