Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01


An immense crowd waved the white
handkerchief at Miss Susan B. Anthony,
the venerable Aunt SUSAN when she
rose to speak in Westminster, Tuesday.
Her topic was Woman in Politics." of
course, for when has Miss Anthony spo-
ken on anything else during he last so
years? And she was. as usual, clear
spoken and convincing-although there
will always be doubters. 1t may be said
thai few of the doubters were present,
however, and if the question of universal
suffrage for women had been put to the
audience it would have carried almost to
a woman, and certainly to a man; for the
few men who We're present We're decid-
eddy woman s~uffragists.
The audience, unconsciously. gave Miss
Anthony the ChautauQua salute, for it
is. after all, the Drettiest way a woman
can show her applause, by the fiuttering
of handkerchiefs. 1t is so much more
digniied than the and clapping and
stamping of men.
The London papers are going wild over
Miss Anthony, declaring her to be the
most unaggreSsive woman Suffragist
they ever saw. They are accustomed to
the bifurcated, loud voiced. strident wo-
men of the stump. and therefore Miss
A~nthOny's slim figure. severe face. and
smoothly banded hair was an innovation.
is so much like ones grandmother
that one can imagine her singing among
the angel choir without discord. even
though her present voice We're retained
in the hereafter.
Miss Anthony has visited Europe only
once before. the occasion being her trip
to Germany 16 years ago. She was at
that time only a girl of 63 years old and
was full of fight. AS soon as she was set
tied on the kaiser's domain she sent a
letter home. OF the back of which she
wrote: Taxation without representa-
ton is tyranny"
The legend fell into the hands of the
German postal authorities and Miss An
thOny was arrested. The charge was
conspiracy against the government. 1t
took the American minister a long time
to get Miss Anthony out of prison, but
she was finally set free. on the police
being convinced that she was merely ut
tering the rallying cry of her own coun-
try. and not exciting the Germans
agains, the Faderland.
Miss Anthony came over this time. not
to fight. but to placate. Her fighting
daE ara over: she is resting now and
waiting and, Incidentally. doing the best
Work OF her life: for she is more con-
winding now than she was in the bolder
6aES- L said when she left America
that she hoped 70 have as interesting a
z-zV Is that I lS5. but preferred a less
1cI-g org.
I1--1 ar Z great nan questions asked
seout Miss Anthony here. for she repre-
SAINTS an American TYPE quite unknown
II England They find il hard 10 believe
from her neat figure thai she was born
II 1s-A- and has crossed the line into her
s9th ear; il their own Queen Victoria
could ht 81 smart, they would be SO
thankful,
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n Massachusetts. as the daughter OF
wealthy parents. began to teach school,
as New England girls did in those days,
Tor the country was young and there
were no idlers. Miss Anthony taught
from the age of Is until she was 90: and
then she began her political work in AL
bany by addressing meetings upon the
subject of temperance and woman stuff
rage. The latter point was taken up
quietly, for it was very unpopular then.
In 1897 Miss Anthony Joined hands with
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and, as Miss
Anthony told the writer, I'VE travelled all
over the country, lecturing. I planned the
trip. attended to the business end of the
concern, and wrote the speeches. E,liz-
abeth Cady Stanton delivered the
speeches. She used so much force while
she was speaking that she was complete
~ tired out, and I had to manage every
thing. She was at that time a marvel
Gus speaker and will be known in his
tory as the woman orator of the nine
teenth century" Later Miss Anthony
Joined forces with Lucy Stone. and the
trio attended to the matter of woman's
suffrage for all the women of the United
States, but for 20 years they had few fol-
lowers.
In 1850 Miss Anthony added abolition
to her u and became one of the wo-
men ab~olitionists of the day. a firm sup
porter of Lincoln and an aggressive pro-
jector Of the civil war. Like Lincoln,
Miss Anthony had little diplomacy at
that time and while she was RICH in her
views according to the north-just as the