Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-14
MEMORIAL SERVICES
TRIBUTE TO THE LATE ELIZA
BETH CADY STANTON.
The Exercises Held Under the Auspices
Of District Equal Suffrage
Association.

Memorial services were held last night at
the Friends meeting house. 1913 l street
northwest, for the late Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, the well-known womans rights
advocate. The service was under the au-
spices of the Equal Suffrage Association of
the District of Columbia, and was presided
over by Mrs. Kent. There were several
speakers present, among them being Civil
Service Commissioner w. D.. Foulke, Mrs.
Helen H. Gardener, Clara Barton, presi-
dent of the Red Cross Society; Mrs. Clara
B. Colby of the Womans Tribune, Mrs.
Sara A. Spencer and DR.. Charles B. Purvs.
Mr. Foulke was the first speaker. After
paying a high tribute to the memory of
Mrs Stanton and dwelling upon her per-
sonaI courage, he called attention to her
moral courage, which, he said was so much
higher test than mere physical courage.
He dwelt upon the general movement in
behalf of suffrage for women, and traced
it's progress to the present time. He then
paid a beautiful tribute to women, and said
that while they had been admitted to the
different professions, they were still exclud-
ed from the position which they had been
proved by history repeatedly to be best
fitted to fila place in the political arena.
He cited among the women whom the world
had placed in power as rulers Maria Teresa
of Austria and Catherine of Russia, the lat
ter one of the. strongest characters and
rulers that country ever possessed. MIR.
FOuike also spoke OF LucTetld hOlt anu uSf
wonderful ability, and closed by expressing
the belief that the day is not far distant
when woman will attain her political free
dem.
Mrs. Gardeners Tribute.
Mrs. Gardener had for many years been
associated with Mrs. Stanton as her COM
panion and assistant in the work to which
she had devoted her life. Mrs. Gardener
paid glowing tribute to the memory of
her dead friend and dwelt upon her qualities
wife, mother and leader of women.
Among other things Mrs. Gardener said:
Three years ago Mrs. Stanton asked
me, in case she should go into silence be-
fore me, if 1 would speak for her-at her
grave. 1 have come here tonight in part,
to keep my promise to the dead. She
agreed to do the same for me should 1
go first. When she died, l was unfortu-
nately travelling hundreds of miles away.
and did not know at once that the end
had come. l am glad. therefore. of this
opportunity to say for her some Of the
things which she particularly wished me to
say.
First of all she wished it known that
rene agnostic. No fear for her soul, no
dread of any future life, prevented her
from using all her splendid energies to bet
ter conditions in this world. She worked
for the welfare of the race, here and now,
and believed that any possible future could
and would take care of itself.
Brain Bequeathed to University.
"In pursuance of this idea it was her
earnest wish that her tireless brain, when
she should be done with it, should go to
Cornell University, that 1t might serve
science and mankind in helping to arrive
at the truth, after death, as 1t always had
done in life.
She died as she wished to die, in the full
possession of her splendid powers. Three
years ago, when the eloquent voice of her
friend and mine, that great and splendid
soul Robert G. Ingersoll, was stilled for
ever she said to me: Sad as 1t Is to lose
him, I am glad that he went just as he did.
| hope 1t may be so with me-and with you.
l do not want to live a day after l fail to be
able to do good work
Many of her colleagues in the suffrage
work deeply deplored her activity in free
religious lines, but she calmly replied that
woman would never be fit for freedom nor
understand its benefits and bearing until
she ceased to hold to her bosom the pri-
mary cause of her degradation-her relig-
icus superstitions, which bind her TO the
degraded status assigned her as the will of
God in all accepted revelations -
The speaker stated that the last few years
of Mrs Stantons life had been devoted more
particularly to a contest against religious
superstitfons rather than against purely po-
litical ones
Other Addresses.
The Rev. Olympia Brown, president of the