Evening star., 1902-02-11
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
AIDS TO MISS ANTHoNY PREPAR.
ING FOB CONVENTION.
Some Of the Delegates and the States
They Represent-Talk With
Madame Eriedland.

Riggs House today, where the woman's suf-
| frage clans are gathering for the coming
convention. The officers have been about
twelve hours in business session, and have
things pretty we'll shaped up. The first
meeting will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning at the First Presbyterian Church.
Miss Anthony, who insists that she Is no
longer actively engaged in the work. seems
to be pretty good pilot, for nobody wants
to do anything until she Is sure that Miss
Anthony has o. KID 1t.
The Utah delegation is quite notable
one. Mrs. Emaline E. Wells, editor of the
Woman's Exponent. is at it's head. She is
accompanied by Mrs. Amelia F. Young,
Mrs. E. A. Hyde, Miss Addie NJ. Cannon,
Mrs B. Y Beatie, Mrs. Ida s. Dusenberry,
Miss Anna NJ. Cannon, Miss Myra !; Dou-
ton Miss Rebecca Doolan, Miss Hannah
Tapish, Mrs. George Q. Cannon, Mrs. Alon-
20 E Hyde, Miss Alice T. Steele and Mrs.
Olive Cannon all of Salt Lake City.
The Kansas delegation. which is scattered
through the city, is as follows: Miss kim
ber, state president; Mrs. Elizabeth john
son, Miss Helen Ecker, Mrs. Henrietta
Stoddard Turner, Mrs. w. A. Johnson, Mrs.
Henrietta Briggs Wall, Mrs. C. w. Smith
and Mrs. Girls Hoffman.
Among other arrivals registered are Mrs.
Ketcham of Michigan, Mrs. Eliza Wright
Osborne of Sew York and Madame Sofia
Friedland of Russia
A resolution was adopted by the commit
tee in business session this morning which
recited that AS the centennial of Victor
Hugos birth is to be celebrated on Feb
ruary 26 and because Of the fact that at
the first International woman's rights con-
vention held In Paris in 1878. at which the
United States was represented by Julia
Ward Howe Mary A. Liyermore and Theo-
dore Stanton. Victor Hugo was to have pre-
sided, and was only prevented by illness,
the committee recommends the equal rights
associations everywhere to celebrate the
Hugo centennial. and call attention to the
fact that the great Frenchman was friend
TO equal rights for women, and christened
the nineteenth century the woman's CEN
tGry."
The mother of Miss Sarah Eddy, the
young lady who painted Miss Anthony s
picture, was the lifelong friend of the
noted worker. and at her death beQueathed
Miss Anthony s24,oOo, which was to be
used In the suffrage cause just as Miss
Anthony saw, fit to place it. Miss Anthony
concluded that the noblest monument TO
the memory. IF a pioneer in womans cause,
such as Mrs. Eddy was, would be a history
of the movement. Three volumes were
written, and. there the work rested for
several years. During the past two years
Miss Anthony has been vigorously en-
gagged in bri.iging the history up to date.
Mrs. Ida H .sted Harper who was Miss
Anthony's bi:,grapher, has been engaged In
editing this ls,st volume, and has it almost
completed.
While her Health is excellent. she is so
lame that sha gets about with difficulty and
does not care: to make the trip. She will be
represented by her daughter, Elizabeth
Stanton Blatth.
Fror. Parkway Russia.
One Of the most interesting personalities
of the suffrage convention will probably be
Madame Sofa Lvovna Friedland Of Russia.
Madame Frt;dland Is a little woman with
lots of energt. She talks very entertaining
ly Of the political condition of women in Rus
sia, and according to her 1t Is not SO bad as
| might be expected. She says that among
| the peasant classes men and women are
absolutely equal They vote alike in mu-
nicipal elections, they work in store, field.
| office-everyW hereby the side Of the men,
| and the peasant woman once had the same
property rights as the peasant man until
| she deprived herself Of 1t by her own vote.
| This matter has now gone before the Rus-
| sian senate. and Madame Friedland says
| that the senate believes that the peasants
| did wrong anti Is about to restore to peasant
women the property right.
When asked how long this condition had
| existed Madsame Friedland said: "As far
| back as the twelfth century our peasant
| women have mad these rights Oh, think
even further: back than that, even," she
| quickly added. ''The first person in pagan
| rtussia who embraced the Christian faith
| was woman. the Princess Olga" she said.
! ing subjects when she did it. This hap
pened in the eleventh century, so you see
| our women enjoyed considerable ipdepend-
| ence even SO early as that.
| "Woman's emancipation has entered Rus
| STA without noise or uproar," she said.
| when 1t first knocked at our doors We
| were ready for 1t and 1t was just as much
| our men as our women who desired 1t.
1 Without stormy meetings, without club
| life and without battling for rights our wo-
| men have quietly followed the way which
| seemed best to them, and have suddenly
| appeared on the stage Of public life the rep
| resentativs Of work, intelligence, persever-
| ance and courage. We have no women S
clubs, but we have a great many societies
| and great organizations which aim to do
| the same work done by the great clubs IN
| the United States"
| Discusses Siberia.
| In speaking Of Siberia, Madame Fried
| land said: III Siberia has been called the
| shame Of our government, 1t has also be-
! come the glor.- of our best men and women.
! History presdnts US long line of heroic
women who willingly suffered with their
| husbands af:.r the revolution or 1S25
Thanks to thAse women who followed their
husbands to iberia that part of our coun-
try has toda! "A society as cultured and re-
fined as coul4 be found anywhere In the
most civilize.s places. We have what you
| have not In &c United States, am told, a
| monument in RUSSIA to the heroism Of our
women. In TIT city Of Sebas opol stands a
| monument erected in the memory of the
| brave womens who took the most active
| part in the sisge of that city in 1855.
In 1863 our women in a scientific meeting
held at the University Of st. Petersburg
demanded eas,al educational advantages
| with men, arr today Russia Is more ad-
| vanced than my other European country
| in this respeft. all owing to the brave,
| progressive W9men who for years strug-
gled against all absolute government and a
| conservative aStstocracv.
| And now" a'aid Madame Friedland. the
colleges are aa opening to women, and we
find them as dentists. physicians. pharma-
cists and all the rest. The government Of
| fees have all opened their doors to these
| representativeaof of brain and work. and
what Is more. encourages them by giving
them equal rights with men. All profess
sional women serving the government. all
| school officials. from principal down to the
| youngest teacher, Inspectors OF hospitals
and other publ C institutions, are entitled to
| the same distractions as men in the same
professions. AID many Russian woman
may be seen wsaring on her breast the cross
Of st. Anne or;St. Vladimir, given to her In
appreciation o! her services, At the pres
ent time everf government employe. man
or woman. receives pension after fifteen
years of service. and our state banks. post
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