The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02

-" nv ~ III dtoNutI anu "a more entIRUten6Q
generation
Mrs. stanton never grew old in mind.
me writer Of these lines remembers dis
tinctiy the dignified answer which was
returned when she dared suggest TO Mrs.
stanton. about year ago, that perhaps
she would take different view OF certa
subject II she were more closely in touch
with outside life. with the metropolitan
newspapers laid fresh upon my table every
day: with the magazines. the great SER
mons and speeches and the new books
constantly al hand, 1 am never out Of touch
win any part OF the world I hnk OF this
answer from woman OF SO.
Nhen TINS department was established In
TIE SUN nearly four years ago. not person
Anywhere was more keonly Interested than
MIS-. Station. She regarded it a. the
greatest opportunity even given for prcscn-
tation Of the question of woman sLHrage.
Every Sunday morning immediately after
' I 1kias' II WAS read aloud to her and dis
GU led. ana IL II probable she never mis- sed a
number. Not more than few weeks ever
passed that its editor did not receive from
her letter of suggest ion or conmend stion.
ana newspaper cnppngs of interest. Soon
after II was begun The wrote: Put in plenty
offun. Humor will save il from mono, ony.
Don't spare the sarcasm Be careful not 20
make the department too serious
II was grief TO her that il did not make
strong feature Of the part played by tho
Bible. the church and the Gallon law Ia the
| subsection Of woman. She had a lofty
scorn for the argument that TO H. this
would mjurc instead Of help the raue.
| and she rejected utterly the assertion hat
the Interpretation of the Scriptures which
for agps did hold woman in an inferior
position had practically lost it's authority.
| On Oct. Of this year, on. of Difference 10
| her oft expressed wish. the question was
| considered partly from her standpoint,
| and on the same day she wrote;s have just
| read your article in The Sun and canIo,
| ,,n ,bnnkf,u I nm that ha
| spoken a. YOU have in that popular metro
| pplitan journal II you will do the work in
| The Church that YOU have in the State.
woman should b. i'd the highest monurns nj
70 your memory. over raised 10 mortal
Yours. with heartfelt thanks
| Last January Mrs. Stanton wrote in
| regard to this department: Every time
read one OF these articles say, These must
| Toe put int yermanelt form. To-day this
| feeling h no strong that I am impeNed
| to conjure you TO do this tho moment
| YOU escape from Susan's grasp. You
| have touc! every vital point of our move
| me1t."
| 4 laughing answer was sent that il would
| frs, 10 ne esslry to earn the money to
| publish tho book. and then earn some more
| 10 hire Jcople to read it. On Feb. she
| wrote again: 1T is borne upon mo afresh
TODAY that all you have said on the
| woman qnei't ion must not be re!egated to the
| ephoTeral literature of the day. Can you
| not at least take Just those single leaves
| of the paper and bind them in cloth covers;
Don't you believe that Mr. Carnegie would
help you publish tlen .prorerly? Alas,
| she did not know that Mr.. Carnegie had
| declined TO do this even for Miss An
thongs writings, a. had Mr.. Rockefeller
and Mr. Morgan and Miss Helen Gould.
| Again a few months Inter, she wrote:
| oDo you think that our women encourage
| THE Sun enough for the noble work 1t *
doing for woman suffrage? How ] wish
every woman in the nation would sub
scribe for it," and followed with words
| too kind TO reproduce.
Thus it has Teen A,rough the years. and
| these lines OF to-day are the first which
| have not been penned with the inspiring
! thought that they would bc read by the one
who herself has written on the subjects
| as no woman ever has done in the past
| or ever can do in the future.
The death Of Mrs. stanton at this time
| has brought even a keener personal diSap-
| pointment The past two wears. during
which Miss Anthony and the editor of tins
| department have been writing the fourth
| volume of the History of Woman Suffrage,
have brought letters almost weekly from
| Mrs Slant on. who. with Miss Anthony, wrote
| the first three volumes twenty years ago
| Almost invariably they began. As | was
wide awake last night for hours when
| should have been asleep, | spent the time
| in thinking OF YOU and your work, Then
| would follow pages of clear, logical sug-
| gestions as TO subject matter and arrange.
| ment, showing all the old-time force and
acunen She was kept informed of every
| step of its progress. and its editors were in
| constant, dread lest she should pass away
! before the book was finished. When
| finally he great task was ended and all was
| la type. Miss Anthony wrote her, Offering
! 70 send the proof sheets. but she answered
! that this would be unnecessary. as she was
! getting all her work out of the way and
| everything in order so that she might take
| uninterrupted pleasure in having tho whole
/ book read o her as soon as II came from
| the publishers II awaited only the index.
| but now it never will be read by tho one
| Of all 81 hers whom il was destined to honor.
| The disappoint ment is overwhelming. and
| it is only mitigated by the thought that
| within its pages are preserved Tor posterny
| an unsurpassed collect ion of Mrs. StantoEs
| own magnificent speeches.
| Through these eloquent addresses viii
| speak to future generations one OF the
| worlds greatest reforners, and as they
| read they will marvel that Government
calling itself republic should have denied
1 To such woman voice in It's councils,
! that n people boastng OF their political
| liberty should have refused il To one with
! the soul Of Samuel Adams. the spirit of
| Patrick Henry, the genius OF George WASH
! inz,on We look back with amaDment
| and contempt on those who refused 10
| women the right Of Tree speech. of educ3-
| ton, of employment. of ownership in prop
| crty; but every man and every woman who
| would deny to them the right OF individual
| representation belongs in that early cate
| CORY. Elizabeth Cdy Stanton was IN adj
| vance Of her age in the middle OF the last
| century: she was in advance OF Il at the
| bn2nninu Of the new century; but she
brought the world so nearly to her own
| ideas of Justice that she was able TO pass
| on in the supreme consciousness that the
i dav j. near at hand for their complete
| fulflment IDA Hustled HARPER.