New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-26
WORKING AT SEVENTY-N1NE.
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND HER
FINISHED BIOGRAPHY.
~rF,B1Sp EVERY GREAT MAN Is A GREAT WON
AN" SHE sAYs-"THE LATE WAR
CRIME AGAINST WOMEN

AN" SHE sAYs-"THE LATE WAR
CRIME AGAINST WOMEN"
Miss Susan B. Anthony has finished the proof
reading Of her forthcoming biography and now
feels free to do outside work once more She iefi
home Thursday morning for short visit to hei
birthplace. Adams. Mass. where she Viii be me
guest of a cousin. Mrs. Harriet Cook Cady FROM
there she goes Maine, speaking In Portland Mon
day evening and at the State Suffrage Conven-
ton to be held in Hampton Corners, on Tuesday
and Wednesday.
At this place she will spend the week with her
old and dear friend Mrs. Jane II. Spoford' Tor
mery Of Washington, d. c., where her hosplahty
made the Riggs House the National sunrase heau.
quarters for so many winters. With her usual
thoughtfulness Miss Anthony has taken with her
the page proofs Of her biography so that Mrs'
spofford may enjoy reading parts Of It to her
mother who is ninety. before II Is given 10
the general public
AUNT SUSAN SPEAKS FOR WOMEN.
At the age of nearly seventy-nine MISS susan
B. Anthony lately made one OF the two princlpal
addresses at the unwilling of the Douglass monu-
ment In Rochester. her home city. when seen oy
Tribune reporter yesterday. and asked what she
thought Of the great in the late war she elo-
ouently replied. behind every one OF those mag
nifcent men magnificent woman want TO
speak for the women Elizabeth HerricK OF Eng
land was the first 10 utter the sentence when
Garrison made famous as his watohword. lmmedi-
ate and unconditional emancipation The worid
was not ready to listen and heed then nut "heh
Garrison spoke the same words 1t was ready ana
the credit OF them was given TO him. He had
wife who was the mother Of five children ana
,ooked we'll after her home noble. loving lovely
woman who was ready TO share every danger with
him; and / stand here to-day TO say that "ilhain
Iloyd Garrison could not have done mis- splenuiu
work for the slave and woman-for he worked
for woman too-if she had not stood behind MIN.
"Then that great Worlds Anti-Slavery Conven-
ton held in London In 1910. rent In twain over
the question of accepting the women delegates
Wendell Phlllips's invalid wife. Ann Green had
been carried 10 the hall in a chair. and she said
20 him before he rose TO defend the womens right
" he there Now don't shly-shally to-day Wen
dell: be a man I remember that once IN TINS CITY
he made the grandest speech ever heard ana
when told him so he replied THANK Ann TOT
that
1T could run over of our greatest
men and show how behind every one stands
great woman. Every Revolutionary hero had De-
hind him a Revolutionary heroine through all
this war with Spain women have stood behind
our men to bring freedom TO Cuba. and shelter her
neonle under the American flag and now these
very of are proposing to make these Tor
eicners American citizens, ana place inc daushteS
OF Revolutionary soldiers beneath their heels
HER IDEAS ON WAR.
..Sever was there such crime against woman
hood as this war. No woman was ever asked II
there should be a war with Spain. but women have
been taxed TO support IT, and thousands or their
boys have been taken from their homes to ngnt so
can enlist. but his mothers consent is not heces-
"Women nurses were not allowed in the hos
pas at first so when nePess sars sey had 10
cali out of the ranks 70 look after him some other
soldier who had sa5dS His o% S Shirt his
mother forgot to lay 1t out for him nj, III Wo ni
care of those poor fellows long before Clara Barton
forced her way to them through tangles OF req
tape,
MEN. SHE SAYS ARE no HOUsEKEEPERs
"Tbe military science Of this war has been beyond
nraise The only place for criticism has been In It's
housekeeping department. What else could you
expect when a was put in charge OF the
commissary who knew nothing about II but what
he had learned from books instead OF good. ca
pable women who had raised half a dozen boys
and knew what they needed to keep them well ana
gut the climax came when President Mckinley
ing department and picked out nine men TO e Ty
class OF men and each political party ana 1a cV 6
section of the country in order TO see seem rar play 'u'
Where in Heavens name, was McKinley's brain
that he did not appoint such we woman nan as Of
the New-York State Board of Charities 10 Know
benevolent institutions 9han any, mSn v 4r Drc
did he not appoint DR. Emy la VnrN cG H"T col
ieges? or Dr. Mary Putnam Jacob leader r. a"
the physeanss s 2 MI ackei sevsnson who
al the head Of the medical profession in chicago :
AUNT SUSAN ANGRY
Now / call this adding insult to injury. FIRST
came the Injury OF being deprived OF all voice IN
the Government and yet forced to bear the ouroehs
and sorrows Of the war; and then the Insult OF
be,ne possed over and ignored in our own depart
ment-our admitted 'wOmans sphere-of nursing
and housekeepng' IL our mission must De Simply
10 repair darnages insist that we shall be given
the same authority In our department as ,he men
have IN theirs-an authority wnlch Is srah'eu "'''
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