The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-29
ON HIGHER MORAL PLANE
SUSAN b. ANTHONY PAYS HIGH
TRIBUTE TO THE MOD
ERN GIRL
GETTING GOOD FROM CHOICE
Veteran Woman SufIragist Takes
Optimistic View of Future
of Woman in This
Country.

Miss Susan B. Anthony, the most con-
sricuous and most interesting figure iden-
titled with the woman suffrage movement,
arrived in Minneapolis yesterday morn
ing from her home in Rochester, n. \.
Miss Anthony carries her eighty ne
years as easily as some men and women
sustain half that burden She granted a
reporter three-quarters of an hour of heI
time after dinner at the West last even
ing, and during that interval said several
things that are worth repeating. Some
of them had to do with the cause OF
woman suffrage, and others did not, but
concerned a subject quite as vital, to-wit,
the morals of the young womanhOod OF
today as compared with those Of the
girls Of two generations ago.
ut is my opinion said Miss Anthony
that the young women of today live on
a higher moral plane than they did in the
old days, when fashion and custom re-
strained them of their liberty and hedged
them ruond about with all sorts of re-
Strictions To behave when one cannot
do as one pleases is no evidence of virtue
and morality The real merit consists
in resisting evil when on restrictions are
imposed 1t is most encouraging to OBJ
serve that this greater freedom allowed
young unmarried women does not lndi-
cate a predisposition to badness, but
rather a natural tendency to virtue and
honor.
II attribute the higher moral condition
of American society today largely to ire
greater freedom of choice allowed young
women not only in the mater OF Sc
lecting their husbands, but also In choos-
ing their means of support. Avenues OF
labor are now open to young WON n
that were at one time firmly closed
against them. But this is all changed
now. There is more of real partner
ship between men and women today than
there has ever been heretofore"
Miss Anthony takes direct issue with
those who assert that woman has inVad-
ed mans field of labor.
'NVomen," declared Miss Anthony,
''have not taken away mems work. IN
stead men have taken the work out OF
the home, the spinning, weaving, sewing
etc, and transferred it to the factories,
where the women now go to perform the
work they used to do in their homes In
fact the whole system of economies mas
changed, and it is just as inevitable That
woman should change to meet these con-
ditions as that man should change.
81 note that Fink and some other
theorists would relegate woman Lack 10
these old conditions, as if woman was
the only thing in Gods creation that
must not change. She must keep herself
attuned to be the echo of man.
You may sift all these objections to
Woman's advancement down to the very
bottom, and you will find that man is
simply afraid that woman will be spoiled
as a complement or supplement to him
With regard to the woman suffrage
movement. Miss Anthony explained that
her pet scheme, on which she has been
laboring for the past eighteen months, -
not only to bring the question forcibly
before the people interested enough TO
attend all the woman suffrage conveu-
lions, national and state, but to request
and petition all national bodies to grant
hearings at their conventions to women
qualified to ably present the claim of
woman to full suffrage.