Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-06
EQUAL SUFFRAGE,
Able Addresses ut Delaware Avenue zap.
tist Church Monday Night.

Ahle Addresses ut Delaware Avenue J,ap-
list Church Monday Night.
Tho quarterly meeting of the Will
mington Equal Suffrage Club was held
10 Delaware Avenue Baptist Church
Monday and was made especially in
teresting by the presence and the
speeches of Miss Susan b. ANTHONY,
President, and DIR. Anna II. Shaw,
Vice- President of the National Asso-
citation. A large audience was present,
and included goodly proportion Of
men, who accompanied their wives and
sweethearts. Miss Emma Worrall, presi-
dent of the local organizations. intro
duced the speakers and extended an
invitation to the women present to
attend the meetings of the club and TO
become members of it. The opening
prayer was offered by the Rev William
a. Walling, pastor of Delaware Avenue
Church. Solos were sung by IL.
Howard Carver and Miss Emma Lore
Chief Justice Charles B. Lore, in a
short address, gave some historical
points concerning the position of woman
in regard TO the law. He said if he
should ask ~ statesmen What is
woman's sphcre?" he would get II
different answers, as varied as the
patchwork Of JOseph's coat. His deiini-
tion of wonians sphere was that in
which human laws give it fullest
liberty. lie favored giving the ballot
10 the II, 000,0 900 women in this
country.
Miss Anthony, who was the next
speaker, paid glowing tributes TO Miss
Lucretia Mott and Mrs. Stanton Of
New York. She spoke in reminiscent
vein, tracing the progress of woman's
suffrage in the State Of New York. At
one time schools and colleges were
closed to women and now they have
equal educational opportunities.
In tho wartime she was working up
sentiment among the women for the
abolition of slavery, and secured
800, 900 signatures to petition to that
end. She spent a decade in endeavor-
ing to have two clauses acted upon by
constitutional convention whereby
women we're 10 have control Of their
children, and that widows might con
troll their own real estate She did not
secure either OF these. Now she turns
her attention from rights of married
women to equal ballot for women.
She spoke of the suffrage rights of
women in Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming
and Utah. She declared that Delaware
was conservative State, and she
hated that word conservative. I" She
made suggestions as 10 the method of
procedure that might be followed in
this State towards securing 10 women
equal suffrage. The constitutional
convention would furnish them an on
portnnity. She suggested the circu.
lation Of suffrage literature and tho
tEYsrN To-. - a,.NV.
throughout the State. No man de
serves to live in a republic, declared
Miss Anthony, who does not allow his
fellow men and fellow women equal
rights as himself
DIR. Anna III. Shaw, vice president of
the Womau's Suffrage Association, was
the next speaker. She made good
impression upon the audience with her
apt wit. She took up some Of the oh
iections urged against giving woman
the right TO vote and answered them.
She declared that if the women had a
part in the municipal affairs of Phila.
delphia the water there would be bet
ter and the streets cleaner. Speaking
of the saying 1.-THE voice Of people Il
the voice of Cod" she declared that
no orator would gay 1.-THE voice of the
males is the voice Of God "
She took the ground that taxation
without representation is tyranny and
said she never paid her tax without
protest. She referred to the fact that
thousands of foreigners come to this
country and are soon allowed to vote,
while the graduates Of our own schools
and colleges are not allowed to vote.
Men aro no more to blame than women
for the state of affairs; il women sub.
nit to the wrong they aid the wrong.
She believed it to be the dutv az
women to tell the men if they wanted
to vote. Every argument against
women suffrage is argument against
any suffrage. The weak places in our
government are not along the lines of
material and financial development but
are along moral and spiritual lines.
She drew attention to the fact that
women are working in the church, in
missionary soGieties and yet are not
sharing in politics. She made sarcastic
reference to what she looked upon as
wasted energies in church work on