New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-15

\ "oNiAN MUCH BELOVED. EVEN By THOSE WHO
DO NOT BELIEVE IN HER CONNECTIONS
SOME WHO WILL HONOR HER
To-day in Washington. D. c. the convention OF
the National American Suffrage Association cele-
brates the eightieth birthday Of Susan B. Anthony.
The venerable leader lays down her wand of Office
and resigns the responsibilities presidency.
Representatives from every State and Territory as
well as from MANY foreign countries are assembled
to pay their respects to the woman who has fought
longer than any other for any cause.
For fifty years Mss Anthony has given all her
time, all her money all her energy and talent to
the restoration OF her. rights in person property
and children to the from whom they had
been taker- Her home associations were broaden
ing in unusual degree It 4 common thing
on Sunday for fifteen twenty of the lib
eral thinkers in the country gather about her
fathers hospitabe table and among those visitors
ware Garrison. Claiming, Phillips and PiIlsbury.
Her family belonged to the Quaker community,
which always recognized the equality of the sexes
and gave women the right to speak in their
meetings that the men possessed. which gave Miss
Anthony the impetus that finally carried her to
the lecture platform.
Her first public speech of actual Importance was
the sensation of the day at the State Teachers
Convention in 1853 at Rochester, n. Y. The sub
Ject being discussed Why Is not the teach
er's profession much respected as the Doctors
lawyers or minister's?" The quiet young Quaker
''schoolmarm' listened with her brain full of
thoughts she wanted 10 express until she could
control herself no longer, then arose and said:
Mr.. President" A rustic Of surprise and muir
nurs Of disappToval ran through the hall at the
sound Of a woman's voice so daringly uplifted.
Charles Davies, Ii. D, professor Of mathematics
at West Point. was the president, and when he re-
covered from the shock ne asked satirically:
What viii the lady have?"
4 wish to speak to the question under discus
SION said Miss Anthony, quietly.
After some heated but low toned controversy
among the officers of the convention the young
woman was allowed TO speak. and this is what
she said:
true cause of the disrespect of which you com
woman has not brains enough TO be a doctor
lawyer or minister, but has plenty 10 be teacher,
every man of you who teaches tacitly admits be
fore all Israel and the sun that he has no more
brains than a woman?
Soon after this her journal has this entry, re-
ferTing work in the cause Of total abstinence
made to feel the evil Of woman's utter dependence
on man for the necessary means TO aid reform
own and how this be long a the law de-
and the Joint earnng9 There is no true freadoT1
for woman without the possession Of equal prop
ertF rights and these can be obtained only through
legislation Since this is So the sooner the demand
is made the sooner il will be granted. It must be
1THe Dg peuLoh- low can the work De started!
We must hold convention and adopt some plan
Of united action.
Before the year 1854 was well started she had
begun the campaign that has given women the
entrance TO colleges, the professions and business
and has improved the person and property laws
in many States.
THE Revolution" was the first woman suffrage
paper. and conducted by Miss Anthony dur
ing 1858 1863 and 1870 failed al length, leav-
ing her in debt TO the amount of $4,000. This she
afterward paid from the proceeds of her lectures.
AUNT SUSAN ARRESTED
An interesting episode in Miss Anthony's life
her arrest in 1872 for Illegal voting" Sire said in
her own defence at her trial:
Your Honor I am tried by laws made by men in
FAVOR or men and against women, and hence Your
States citizen for the exercise of the citizens
right 70 vote, merely because that citizen a
ishabIe with 81 600 Gne and sfx months in6ritson
or nights shelter to a painting fugitive tracking
his way 10 Canada. Every woman in whose
veins eoursed drop of human sympathy violated
was justified in So doing. As then the slaves who
got their freedom had to take il under
women take it TO get their right TO voice in the
government have taken mine. and mean 10 take
II at every opportunity
Said the Judge: The Court orders the prisoner
10 sit down. II viii allow another word"
Miss Anthony went TO London last year 10 at
tend The International Congress OF Women, and
spent two months in England and Scotland study
ing the conditions in wOman's work prevail
ing there She says that the cause Of woman suf-
rage Is further advanced there than here as in
England all property holding women married or
7-l-s-Tr nave the 10 vote local affairs and
that fully onehaIf of the poor law guardians are
old struggle INC
among me prominent people who will take part
IN the birJhday celebration Carrie Chapman
Satt, the new president; Eliza beth Cady Stanton.
honorary president Of the National Association:
A Emma gene Paul Superintendent Of the Street
Cleaning Depar tment. First Ward, Chicago. i'll.
Annie L. Digs, State Librarian Topeka. Kan
president OF the Kansas Woman Suffrage Assoca-
L0n' virginia D Young, Editor and proprietor Of
me Fairfax Enterprise and also president OF the
South Carolina Woman Suffrage Association: Clara
Bewick Colby, Editor OF The Woman's Tribune"
Washington, D. c, Harriet Stanton Batch, of
England, daughter Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Ida
Hustled Harper, editor Of the Life Works of
Susan =. Anthony the Rev. Ida g. Hu!tin, pastor
OF the First Unitarian Church Moline Ill: Harriet
frage Association: John G. Bell Member of Con-
gress from Colorado; Eliza beth Burrtn Curtis.
daughter OF George William Curtis: Florence Howe
Hall. daughter of Julia Ward Howe, and president
Of the NeW-Jersey Association. sabeI c. Barrows.
vice president Of the National Conference Of Chart
ties and Correction; Gail Laughlin secretary of the
Association Of Women Lawyers; Helen A Shaw.
Of Boston: DR.. Julia Holmes Smith. dean OF
the National Medical College. Chicago; Mary
ton Of Colored Women; Miss Kate Gordon presi-
dent Womens Sewerage and Drainage League,
Nev-Orleans: Miss Diana Hirschler and Anna Bar
The Board of Trustees OF the torcorau Art Gal
lery have opened the gallery to-day for a private
view TO the National American Woman Suffrage
Association. The date selected in compliment
10 Miss Anthony.