The National tribune., 1902-10-30
DEATH OF MRS. STANTON.
Passing Away Of the Leader of Brilliant
Band OF Women.

Elizabeth Cady stantoa Is dead A leaf
has been torn from the bspk of the Past,
and the volume closed. Cd 26. at the age
of 81, her life-work exlca. The weary
wheels of life simply sSssdkstll.
There are very few left now of that re-
markable cOterie of hjg-brained women
who boldly and coura geously hewed clear
the path through whiclle millions of women
today walk, working their ryay to affluence
through trades and professions never open
ed to women until Cady Stanton set the
torch to prejudices. 'n'
For over 10 years EiI.si beth Cady Stan
ton has been one of the prominent figures
in public life. She first appeared before
the public as an anti-Slavery aSitatOr and
orator as carly as 1910. One can scarcely
credit the theory now, but i'll that day Mrs.
Stanton was looked upon as an abnormal
thing, an unseXed woman. Il creature to
be Stunned by the respectable of either
sex. Yet Mrs. Stanton WAS young. beau
tiful. highly educated, brilliant, homestead
ly accomplished and Il perfect housekeeper.
Her home was an Eden, and her children,
reared by herself, and never entrusted to
servants, grew up as brilliant as herself,
and soon found their places i'll the world S
work. All of the six sons and daughters
were beside her when the end came.
From the worlds great Anti Slavery
Convention. held in London, 1910, to which
Mrs. Stanton, then bride. was Il delegate.
she returned TO the United States "Wo-
man Snffragst." Over there she met
I.ucretia Mott, the gentle, sweet-vOiced
Quaker refornier, and on this side of the
water the acquaintance grew to an i'll
timacy that lasted with ever Strengthening
bonds until death claimed Mrs. Mott.
Lucretia Mott and Cady Stanton signed
the first call ever ISSUED for Woman's
Rights Convention. which met ut Seneca
Falls. n. ". July 1920. 1913. From that
time to her death Mrs. Stanton was prom
iEently connected with the suffrage
movements of the world. She. with her
husband. Henry Brewster Stanton. a we'll
known newspaper man and editorial
writer, who died in 1893. were prime
movers in the Anti-Slavery agitation pre-
ceding the war of the rebellion, and the
Obl0quy and insult heape,f upon Mrs. Stan
ton. Mrs. Mott. Susan Il. Anthony.
Isabella Beccher Hooker, Lucy Stone, and
the other noble women who barred their
heads to the storms Of that tempestuous
period. would beggar in description the
stories OF the crusades.
Like fine gold from the furnace these
women came through the fiery trials puri-
fed and stronger for struggle. And then
the world came to know them as they
really We're. and to love and honor them.
Over 40 years, longer than the Israelites
III tueIi stdfth tHt j
Land, these Women Iteformers' faced
the jeers and contempts of n scoiiing pub
lie. and then the tide turned.
Today the world saiutes them as heroes.
They never carried guns or wore the uni
form of the army, but deep-seared on sell
Sitive wOInanly hearts are wounds that
never healed. received in the cause of hu-
manity. and endured uncomplainingly.
There are not many of this band of 1913
RefOrmers left. Isabella Beecher Hooker.
like her loved friend. Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton. snOw-crOwned and sunny -natured, is
nearing the century mark; Susan B. An
thOny. gentle and wOmSnly!,yet brainy and
dogInatic. is in the sliaaOms iOf the eighties.
and so utterly crushed Iy the death of her
close friend of 50 years flat she may not
long survive the shock, Rev. Antoinette
Brown Blackwell. appafcfitly powerful as
ever III debate, lingera uI6n the stage of
active, life, and Rev. Olympia Brown
shows no sign of failing powers. Yet all
have passed the allotted period of life. and
are living on ''bOrrOwelf tiffie" Long may
they continue and no Interest accrue. Ger
tainly the world is infihftcly better for the
clean, pure lives thesf Keformers have
shown women how to lfte. While one may
not always indorse al tie projects that
many of them set fortli. it is nevertheless
true that the great Underlying principles
which spurred them ON were exactly those
which sent martyrs. to the stake and scaf-
fold. f arAn ~ t9a" ""i's
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