The record-union., 1896-10-14
WAS UNJUSTLY QUOTED.
President Eliot Of Harvard University
Writes a Letter.
The College President Claims That
Woman Suffragists Misrepre-
sented His Real Opinion.

President Charles w. Eliot Of Har-
ward University has addressed a letter
to Mrs. j. V. l.. Pruyn of Albany, in
which he severely criticises the call is
sued for the twenty-e annual con-
VentlOn OF the National American ASSo-
cation of Women Suffra gists, which is
to be held in Washington, January 23d
to 2Sth
The part of the call objected to and
President Eliot's references thereto will
be read with interest by those people
all over the country who are either for
or against woman suffrage.
They are contained in the following,
which was furnished the Argus press
CT Albany, N. Y, by Bishop Doane:
THE CALL
(EXtract from the call of the twenty
eighth annual convention of the Ma
tional American Association of Wo-
man Suffra gists:)
"All friends of justice and equal
rights are earnestly invited to assem-
bic in the twenty-eighth annual conven-
ton Of the American Womans Suffrage
Association, in the Church of Our
Father. Washington, January 23d to
2Sth.
energy which has for its aim the ele-
walton Of our race in mental and moral
directions, in every department, indeed,
of human life. Living under the law,
helped and hindered by it's enactments,
women are, by every principle Of natu-
raj justice, as well as by the nature Of
our institutions, as fully entitled as
men to vote and to be eligible to office.
"A G the President Of II v,;x
sity says: The exercise of suffrage
stimulates all citizens to reflect on
problems outside the narrow circle of
their private interests and occupations.
The duties of republican citizenship,
rightly discharged, constitute in them
selves prolonged education The bull
warks Of the commonwealth will prove
all the stronger and more lasting be-
cause women, as well as men, can work
on them and help to transmit them,
ever broader and firmer from genera
ton to generation
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, President.
MR.. ELIOTS DENIAL.
Extract from letter of the President
Of Harvard University
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAM
FRIDGE, Jan. 6, 1S96-The quotation
in the call for the twenty eighth annual
convention of the National American
Woman's Suffrage Association intro
duced by the clause, GAS the President
of Harvard University says" is from
an article by me in the Forum of Oc-
tober. 1894, entitled "Some Reasons
Why the American Republic May En-
dure"
The last paragraph in the quotation
is separated in the article by ten pages
from the preceding paragraphs of the
quotation. In the last quoted para
graph "the bulwarks'' should be "these
bulwarks." ''These bulwarks" had just
been enumerated in the last paragraph
Of my article, and the suffrage, whether
for men, for women or for both, was
not mentioned among these bulwarks.
The list is long and specific, and does
not contain the suffrage. The manner
in which the quotation is printed in
the call, the alteration of these to
my real opinion make the extracts in
the call a perfect example Of misleading
and unjust ~rlotation
You are at liberty to make any use
of this article which may seem to you
desirable. Very truly yours,
CHARLES w. ELIOT,
Bishop Doane is strongly opposed to
woman suffrage, and is one of it's many
opponents in the country.