The record-union., 1896-10-31
A Large Audience at the Metropolitan
Theater Last Night.
Addresses by Miss Susan B. Anthony
Rev. Eliza Upper Wilkes and
DIR. Anna Shaw.

rev. E1ilZd Iupper Wilkes ana Dr.
Anna Shaw.
Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw have
spoken before in this city. Mrs. Wilkes
made her first appearance before a Sac
| ramento audience and is the most effect
i've speaker for the cause that has ever
appeared here, as she does not deal in
sarcasm and abuse of the men, but
trusts to her power of persuasion
The programme was opened with a
selection by Neales Orchestra. which
was followed by beautiful vocal solo
| by Miss Frances Moeller rendered with
| taste and feeling and loudly applauded.
Miss Anna Shaw was accompanist.
Mrs. Maggie Beattie Willis presided
and introduced Miss Susan B. Anthony.
| Miss Anthony impressed upon her
hearers the Importance of voting for
the amendment allowing woman suf-
frage, saying that every man who had
the interest of the State at heart would
vote for it. She argued that as no
woman who could not read and write
could vote under the amendment passed
two years ago, there could be no dan
ser in giving women vote. Edu-
Gated women, she claimed, We're all in
favor of the movement, the Teachers
Association at Pacific Grove AMI the
various religious societies who have
met within the past year had indorsad
it, the larger part of the congregations
being women. The Peoples Party Con-
vention, the Prohibition Party's Con-
vention and the Republican Convention
had also indorsed it, as we'll as the
| Socialist Labor party, but the Demo-
cratic Convention did not, only 149
members voting for it. The San Fran
cisco newspapers had also declared for
| it. Only two large and influential pa
pcrs in the State, one here ana the
other at Los Angeles, oppose it.
| She prophesied that the majority of
the men in the State would vote for it
next Tuesday. At present every for
elgner and native, no matter how ig-
norant and uneducated, who has vote,
| is the superior of the educated woman
politically.
| Mrs. Willis then announced that a
subscription would be taken up to de-
fray the expenses attendant on the
meeting.
| Mrs. Eliza Tupper Wilkes was intro
duced by Mrs. Willis and opened her
| address with a quotation from the
! Declaration Of Independence, that all
Governments rest upon the consent of
the governed and asked if it was
strange that women should wish to
vote and have a voice in how they
should be governed and assessed Men
Gid not want to vote on account of the
hurrah of political excitement, but be-
cause they loved their country and
wished to aid in securing it's prosperity
| No government rO1116 ha ca 70 "a
not representative government We
would not dare to let any people come
into this country without putting on
| them a sense of responsibility for the
welfare of the country and making
! them feel that it was their own. But
there is right here at home a large ele-
n.ent that is not representative wo-
me OF America and they will be an
element of weakness until they have a
vote There is no question of the JUS
| tice of their demand for the ballot.
There is no danger of women being de-
graded. II the polls are too degraded
1 for the wives and mothers to go to,
heaven pity the country, she said She
riGiculed the argument that women,
Should not vote, as they could not fight.
| ard spoke of the sacrifices made by
women during the Civil War and the
work done by them for the army.
| Women want to vote because they feel
| they have the same interest in the
country that men have; because they
want the right to protect their boys
! when they go from them out into the
world. She was sure that the old Cali
| fornians would not forget to vote for
The women next Tuesday.
| She saw a cloud coming that is no
| larger than a mans hand and the
! time is not far off when the country
Will need all the aid it can get on the
side of liberty and justice, and if the
| women have vote then they will not
be found wanting. (Applause)
| Miss Belle Darlington next rendered
a fine vocal solo, with a flute obligato
by Charles Neale, that was heartily
! received and encored
DR.. Anna Shaw was the last speaker
She gave an account of her experiences
in speaking throughout the State. The
| foreigners who come here are very
willing to receive the ballot, but do not
want their wives to do So Several
| men said, when suffrage literature was
| handed to them, that their wives stayed
n, home. They did not think that it
was any indignity that their wives
/ Should have to stay at home.
Her address was full Of sarcastic
filings at men, and she said they could
! rot realize that the relations of men
and women are changing She ridi-
culed the idea that women were in
feriors and could not compete with men,
| and said that young men were boosted
along by friends and women were ham
pe-ed, although all they wanted was
to be let alone
/ The tariff, the financial question, the
] Nicaragua Canal and all the other
great problems of the day are esteemed
| far more important, she said, than the
freedom of half the people in the coun-
/ try. She did not believe in men and
vcmen organizing by themselves, but
in their organizing together for all good
works. She did not understand the
questions of tariff or finance, but there
were moral questions that women un-
derstand and would work for the solu-
ton of if she could vote. The prosperity
| Ct country depends more on the in
/ telligence of its citizens than on it's
| financial policy. The cause of the pres
| ent distress is the mismangement of
the Government by man. Should the
women try them any longer or ask
| to have a voice in the Government
themselves? She complained that wo-
Laen were universally assessed more
than men. She thought the women
should raise an insurrection and rebel
against injustice.
! Miss Darlington then sang a suffrage
song and the audience dispersed
A CHILD SAVED,