The Washington times., 1902-02-19
Miss Anthony's Address
Marks Close of the
Convention.
ELECTS CHEEIS FOR PRESIDENT
Nine. Friedland's Tribute on
Behalf of Foreign Guests.
"POWER OF INCENTIVE -
Rev. Anna VI. Sh:sw'S Brilliant Ora
toricaI Effort - Delegates Make
Formal Demand of Congress for
thc Right TO Cast BALLOT.

The last session of the Woman's Suf-
frage Convention opened to a packed
house and was the most enthusiastic OF
all
The opening address was made by
Madame Friedland, the Russian delegate
She said in part:
When l heard that you had a woman $
century and a new woman in America, and
was asked if We had the same in Russia,
/ humbly shook my head, and said, Not
that | know Of
But afterward | found that We hal
new woman, only she was a thousand
years old: in fact, she was prehistoric.
There is not period in Russian hi orr
when Russian women have patiently sub
mitted to the limitations OF their natural
rights
rev. ANNA Shaw tompiincHtcd-
The next speaker was Senator Thomas
W. Patterson OF Colorado. who opened his
address by paying pretty compliment to
Rev. Anna Shaw. with whom he said he
would attempt no rivalry. Continuing, lo
said:
Il always feel quite Superior to my fell
low Senators. and my fellow members VINO
hail from the States where they must
address audiences only half of whom are
voters
Senator Patterson then quoted the per
Grafton CT the old-fashicned orator. who
urged the women OF his audiences to use
their influence with their fathers. broth
ers. husbands and sweethearts in his
behalf, and as he described the probable
results CT such efforts. il was worth while
10 watch the quizzical fun which iliumed
the face of Miss Susan B. Anthony It
was quite evident that she had seen the
thing tried times enough to lose all faith
in =.
Election Methods ia Colorado.
The speaker gave some interesting de-
tails OF election methods in Colorado po-
litical campaigns. He declared that no
husband in Colorado ever dreamed CT in
terfering with his wifes right to vote as
she pleased. and if one did, he believed
The men CT the community would be ready
to escort him cut of the State with 4
coat Of tar and feathers.
Miss Shaw was introduced as Our
Demosthenes," and was greeted with ap-
plause Her subject was The Power
of Incentive" She claimed that the great
discomfort was not woman's, but that
divine discomfort which demands justice
in all the relations of life
The one great reason why the home
IS not more IDEAL" she said. ''is because
there has never been in the life of the
homemakeT that incentive which shall
make her the ideal administrator Won
should not Re under the absolute con-
troll OF another person. There should be
no master and no servant, but the twain
should be one 1t IS impossible for the
woman to make home alone, though she
has come great deal nearer tc il than
man ever did. II needs the man the
woman. and the child to make home
and these three can make a home in
dugout, tepee, or a palace.
Woman Must lie "a Free Citizen.
The woman must be free citizen in
q free country.
Take that young woman who made
that address before the Senate today
an address which I doubt il any of those
honorable gentlemen could have made
TO save his life-what incentive has she
10 rise in her profession?
This woman has TO go outside her pro-
fession to earn her bread
The pathos of the brilliant woman
struggling for her birthright of talent
and the right to use it was pictured by
The speaker as perhaps never before.
And then. after swaying the audience as
4 juggler plays with cup and ball. she
suddenly remarked. And l cannot Sc
cure the chance in a lecture course that .
Il tuppenny buGoon Of a man, whose whole .
stock in trade is string Of stories OF .
double meaning, can secure.
People are afraid Of 4 woman lecturer.
They are afraid she viii give them
rsrmon or moral lecture. And they
don't want either.
How can Won erect a splendid demo-
cratic system with mcnarchical tap
Toot2
When we became "a World Power.
we did not become a great world .
power when we sank that fleet in the .
harbor OF Manila. but when the bells rang
cut in the city OF Philadelphia the Dec ,
llration Of Independence. Too many peo- /,
pie remember that our fathers fought and
too few remember what our fathers
fought for. I would rather be the de-
sceEdant Of British soldier who fought
against your grandsire and be what am
today than be the descendant Of your
sr@ndsire and be a remOnstralt today.
TO educate patriots We must have sons
OF free mothers.
Women have cause to be grateful to
men fer having erected the highest moral
standards fer them. The pity is that they
did not erect equally high standards for
themselves. Until women are economical
ly independent they Will never have the
power TO erect moral standards for men,
and not until then shall we have a race
of free mothers. Then husband and wife
will be comrades and we shall have the
race of men which Goo had in his heart |
when he said i will create them male and
female
Tribute of Foreign Delegates.
Miss Shaw took her seat amid storm
o. applause. after which Nine. Friedland
paid a graceful little tribute on behalf
OF the foreign delegates to Miss Anthony,
20 Mrs. Gait. and to the convention.
Il thank the convention" she said, for
CAS1ORIA Falnfanis and Children