The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-30
mrs. STANTON LAID AT REST.
Tributes TO HER LIFE AND
WORK At HER FUNERAL.
she Spoke Not for One Canse. but for Right.
Reason and Justice wherever Denied.
Says M0ncure d. COnway-Only Few
Friends Hidden TO the Last Rites.

at her home, $50 West Ninet y-fourth street
Her body was Inferred at Woodlawn yes
terday afternoon. Only a few friends
were hidden to the funeral. Most con-
spicuous of them were DR.. Mo ncure D.
Conway, Miss Susan b. Anthony, Mrs.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell and Mrs.
Phebe A. Hanaford Only members Of
Mrs. Stanton's family and few most in
innate friends accompanied the body to
the cemetery. in accordance with the wishes
Of Mrs. Stanton's family.
On table in one of the rooms in which
the mourncrs assembled for the funeral
ceremonies were the four books which
Mrs stanton had last been engaged in
reading To followers of her career they
were of much interest, and they are elo-
auent, by title, to the world They were
Haeckel's Riddle OF the Universe, Leckys
Map Of Life" Froudes Short Stu lies
on Great Subjects" and Thomas Paine's
The Crisis"
There were also the three volumes Of her
own life which Mrs. Stanton had completed
ont of a work in four volumes. The last
volume is being written by Mrs. Harper,
the biographcr Of Miss Susan b. Anthony.
The funeral ceremony was OF the simplest
Before the coffin sat DR.. Conway and Mrs.
blackwell, facing the mourning family
and friends. DIR. Conway, under the stress
of manifes,ly great emotion, arose at
IL o'clock and read a short address lie
said. in part:
The life of Eliza beth Cady stanton has
drawn - close. For the hr-t time We gather
around her. not TO be delighted by the play
Of her Wit. not to be- warmed by her glowing
heart ana cheered by her sweet and braye
spirit. but to realize that We are deeply bereft;
10 1pr children, her relatives, TO nei spiritual
kindred who have wrought and toiled with
her. the bereavement Is one ie,t IN the SOIL,
In words But the RAISING OF fine person
Atty. Affecting 70 those WHO have personally
where that personality il historic by reason
of its association with ideas and movements
A lighthouse on the human coast is fallen.
To vast multtudes the name Elizabeth Cady
stanton does nGt mean 80 much person di a. a
Roses viii grow out of her ashes: individual
Characters viii give q reSurre ,t,on TO her
soul and genius. but the Immortality she has
achieved Is that of her long and magnificent
services TO every cause Of Justice and reason.
Beginning her career amid ridicuie and ohio
sSe s low love and frIsndsfip, which have Sur.
her last day. but but has been rstarned to her
tenfold in the successes Of her cause
SUPERSTITION f, has not Diminished. war has
gained fresh lease. But the cause which
has most nearly fulfilled its promise to the
little company of adheTents who espoused
1.-two general ons 60 Is that which demanded
liberation and Justice for woman Without
any force but thought and reason. without
vote or sword, the cause Of woman has dis
tanced that of slave emancipation, which
welded both vote P no ana wSpd or Of ,ms,
can history is contiined in four books: The
Memoirs OF TIE. Sisters Grimkc. who initiated
fraFe, Movement, by Elizabeth Cad.v stanton
So" H and Mors and Mr. arpar E f Of
Susan b. Anthony" would bind them to-
gethsr and write on them tie far-reqching
in three measures of meal II was woman
who did it.
been pointing out the extent TO which women
are held by letters forged out OF the Bible
not iH mt in the original Hebrew Bible saws
that woman was made from the rib OF man.
Only few days before her death Mrs stanton
dictated the reply: Il decline TO accept He
brew mythology as guide In twentieth cen.
Those who think Of her as the advocate
Of hut on" particular cause are n error She
denied. Because the most salient example
Of reason and Injustice were involved in
the cause of woman; that became the main
arena of her struggle, but she applied her
touchstone to other public wrongs also. and
Svernl of the finest things she ever uttered
serc discourses in exaltation of rational over
hrati onal religion. She did not burden
people with doubts. hut with convictions.
bhe gave us heart and hope. her face was
always toward the sunrise.
told | utter TO hrr my farewell ] would
:lv: R"yercd and beloved Trend, YOU mss
TO your rest after bray" and beautiful hic;
You hay: 'ourr"y'd hr = ,nrtN o. uuemli"d
hsht' II ever there shall be Established
" America Republic constitution and
Goyernm"nt free from all caste and privilege.
whether OF color, creed or sex ITS founders
Viii bc discovered not in those who purchased
by their valor and blood mere independence
o. territory Ia which a government allied
with slavery was founded, but among those
who. will fiittiul TO heart and home. toi!rd
.IwadTidl Tor an ideal civilization.
The advance i indeed arrested; hut should
that sun which has set in blood ever Hgain
sscend. aud Civilz9tion resume IT'S develop.
ment. they who IN that era Of Jeac. and good
kpn 20 nop rEot wee nor W,'
but only dream TIC outcome and fruit@s q.
OF your work But thcv cannot with more
loving holnh &c r'l"ht yHnr nnme INN We
M.o hsNe "nil'SS'u your NJ. anu now, reside
your erdN' rl'" oP nm" eau YOU Dressed
Following DR.. Conway, Mrs Blackwell,
who uas Tho 6rs, woman ordained in no
ministry IN his country mad" some hrisf
,liiIis,,y ~ ,n'e s.i"''' ''a''' '''''' o'iei
reiharHs' one SAD
NV mind Goes back so many wears 70 the
DAYS when we worked side nv side and felt
closer than sisters and brother. 10 mo limos
yhen ,be helieyers in thn c,,,nh,v ~ a.. o,,,.,