The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-29

the resolutions with SO much unsnimlty u ,hsy had
Miss Anthony sd'snccd when she ADDRESSED Them.
Miss Anthony 9 speech, occupying several
This organization represents nearly 10000
voters
mind With public ifa 4 short time ago
' when she was visiting In Philadelphia. o friend
girls and young wives whom she was giving, q
lesson In meDdinR The former she was teach
Ing TO mend . stocking 40 that the darn scarcely
was showing how to put a piece OF not under
the rents In the, husbands underwear and
darn The outside down in a beautiful. old-fash-
Toned way which the modern woman knows
very little about. In a letter. a short time ago
to the writer Of this she said I g9t so tired
and a soft cloth and spent the whole after
noon cleaning the carving on the mahogany
bedstend in the guest chamber, How l wish
house.
These. are merely straws to show that Atty
S Sen's af e a%aaI,ai.a ni o4 d hsEs RSt ds thu iSSa 'S ~
home. which are born In acme women. acquired
by others. while a third class never posees them;
a apS nGlsh Ssvs 3 t RSO Slightest f,ts ne effect ss'r npon the%.
whse, WONDERFULLY hale and hearty old
Here is Elizabeth csdy Stanton In her eighty:
Nth year. writing convention addresses and
newspaper. articles with all the old-time vigor;
Julia Ward Howe at 81. and Mary A. Iivermore
at Is, writing; lecturine. preaching. and keep
Ing abreast OF the current events OF the times;
Lucinda II. Stone, who Inns Just died. aged
mentai powers to the very last; Isabella 'BBeecher
Hooker. who has recently celebrated her sew
enty-eiRhth birthdayt one OF the most intelleo-
Ing as President OF the Connecticut Woman
Suffrage Association. which she founded over
thirty years ago, and writing and s~penklnG
elda q. Wallace. who will be- ~ In August, known
as the mother of Ben Hur." made the prin-
cipal address at the recent sufiraC convention
woman. a tribute to the nobility of man. an
argument for the cooperation OF the two,
Mani the women who were prominent
years age. Clara Barton. Charlotte b. Wilbour.
Caroline u Dali, pr. Hannah T.onsshore, An
%toinetto Brown Blackwell: GRACE Greenwood.
the list isentirely too long for personal mention
are active, working women to-day, on the
platform In the philanlhropies and proie,.
keen and alert as ever. During all these years
they have been persistent advocates Of woman's
enfranchiscment And IT is someIiipg Of a
are not physically strong enough to exercise
the suffrage.
In last Sundays sermon DR.. Talmage made
use Of these words:
II Is impossible tha, people who lived hundreds Of
years ago should fashion an appropriate creed for our
HAS $50 J ysars s sro. II The he's, csniTncs Of HiSl,t siSty
have come since then, and YOU might sS wei hHve
h IMPROVEMENTS eaSTt Siin in %nSSyvfiss,fn;" and 60. back 10 John
f Gl.rnn mds:rn mf n. %spaTSr p prcs sse as as G 10 pt gn"re ail ' he
eXtgetes and the rhi!o,Cris,s; and pc ,sso,,sisns q
,s' ,s hast g s% ys q : az: .I.lt pTi SS ssni Rssd S Snacr ne s cSId
call the names Of twenty living Presbyterian minis
,sIs Of rel sion Who could make q better c,sed I'll han IN
be called TO sit at the feet Of the sixteenth.
Exactly so: yet DR.. Talmage and others
OF his kind are demanding that women shall
continue to sit al the feet OF ~. Paul, who CON
siderably .antedates John CALVIN; abide by
q creed which was made not three hut, nire-
teen hundred wears ago; and he perfectly haapp.y
to ask the world to stick to Fulton's steam
boat. Gutenberg's printing press and Ca.
OF to-day. remain within the narrow sphere
prescribed for them al the time OF Adam; "
Is only a few weeks since DR.. Talmage thun-
men because they were not satisfied 10 mil
late the Va,h,is. Decreases, Rebeccas and Han
nahs of the old Testament who existed i
inventions. which he would now sacrifice.
were even dreamed Of. Progress for every
thing animate, aid inanimate-bnt inertia
The women Of the country ought to read
that great speech Of David B.. Hills at Svrn-
cusc last week. md see how he views with
alarm the tendency toward Capitalization
of power" Because, YOU see. IT ignores the
vital principle Of local self-government sup
posed to he safely entrenched in the Consti-
tuition" Yes. indeed so safely that women
never have been able 10 get any Of 1t.
~ IL the duty Of good citizens 10 resist this
growing tendency" BY all means. and as
women claim TO he good citizens they will
turn out to the POLLS next November and re-
sist II with all their might.
You have not forgotten the fact that only
one year ago II was seriously proposed to DO
| priye all local communities Of the appoint
ment and control Of their own police officers. "
or course women always have been thus de-
griyed but to dei.aud men-dear' dear how
Thoughtful men discover that the principle
Of home rule Is he'd by the Legislature srb-
iect to its discretihn-to 10 granted or with
held at its pleasure" Yes. thoughtful wo-
men discovered that fact some fifty wears
ago. and that. IN their cnse. II was the unvarv-
ING pleasure Of the Legislature 70 withhold
II, They view with alarm also the fact that
every successive Legislature refuses to grant
tax-pnvinu women the right to vote even on
the measures for which they are to be taxed.
a condition that, II imposed upon men, would
be resisted TO the point Of hloodshed.
Il am opposed tn arbitrary power any,
where" That is a good American sentiment,
but whv il IL any worse for ono class Of men
In exercise this power over another class
than IL is for all men to WELD 7 over all women
Nevertheless II was a great speech!