The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09
The CAUSE OF WOMAN.
OPINIONS or THE PRESS on MRS.
STANTON AND HER WORK.
They show That About Ono Quarter Of
the Newspapers OF the Country Ap.
prove Woman Suffrage. Another Quar-.
ter Oppose II and . Half Have No
Opinion - Tributes to Her Work.

Ter IMPOSE u anu nave No
Opinion - Tributes to Her work.
Most Of the newspapers in the entire
country have contained editorials during
the past week on the career and death of
Elzabeth Cady Stanton. A compilation Of
these utterances gives a very fair indica-
tton Of the present status Of opinion on the
question Of woman suffrage. In round
numbers, about one-fourth are favorable.
one-four,h opposed. and one-half with no
decided convictions. In but few cases
does there seem to be a strong hostility,
but the opposition takes the attitude rather
that the women do not want II. nobody
has any interest in IL and he cause il making
no progress This probably represents
correctly the position Of the average man,
and il in itself gain over the coarseness
and vindictiveness with which Mrs Stanton
and her contemporaries were assailed when
they first began their work for the redemp-
ton Of woman
THE SrS deserves a prominent place
among the papers which gave full and
fair recognition 10 the approximate success
Of the principal object 10 which Mrs. Stanton
devoted her life Many women will cherish
its editorial OF Oct. 20. which began:
The honorable distir c,ion which came
was a vindcaton OF tie cause of woman's
rights for which She had fought through two
generations against ridirule and reproach.
but. far more to her satisfaction. 1t was evil
dence OF the practical triumph of that LONG
struggle.
After depicting "the obloquy poured upon
Mrs. Stanton and her associates when they
began their agitation for woman's equality
under the law and "how she and Miss
Anthony were hooted at and lampooned,"
Il proceeded to show tina, -cvery right they
demanded has been granted though the
elective franchise In only a modified de-
gree" and closed with these stirring words:
The battle in which Mrs stanton began
to engage In her young woinanhood she
lived to see carried forward 10 victory She
snd the little company of women WHO bore
with her the brunt OF the fight had long
ceased to be singular before her end came
So far as concerned the general emanCipa ion
OF woman from the restraints and dtsahiii-
ties against which she had fought almost
singly for many years. she became at last
the representative OF the great mass o! In
telligent women. and. accordingly. she found
honor heaped on her in her later years
Woman has been cmanCipated and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the heroine OF
the victory
II would be impossible to quote nj length
from thu mass Of editorial comment but a
few examples will show the general tenor,
favorable and unfavorable. The uni
versa tributes TO Mrs. Stanton as a woman.
a wife, a mother, an orator. Il deep thinker
a clear reasoner. never have been eQualled
No woman ever has been 40 honored and
the only difference OF opinion is in regard TO
the merit and success of her cause.
The New York World says: Mrs. Stan
ton was fortunate indeed in her long life
which permitted her to see the cause she
espoused respected even by it's opponents
and slowly but steadily gaining ground
In most of the civilized nations"
The American closes an eloquent tribute
by saying: And so in a ripe. old age
like as a shock of corn cometh in its season
Mrs. Stanton passes away. but not withou,
having seen the Promised Land Of which
she dreamed in the wilderness"
The Times disagpres and ends n column
editorial, depicting the marvellous change
which have taken place in the position d
women largely through the efforts of Mrs
stanton and her co-workcrs with the con
clusion that -the cause of suffrage has no
been greatly advanced" This it thinks
is chiefly because of the indifference o
hostility Of women rs class and thei
almost complete failure To use the RICH
Of suffrage where II has been III part opei
to them" The Times fails 10 rememba
that women "a a class were indifferent q
hostile TO every privilege they now EMO,
while few were struggling To get l. 10
them And why should one oppose sui
frage for women because they do not us
it extensively where It is only in part open
when they do Use II in n larger proportion
than men where II II open in full'
The Mail and Express goes still furthe
and declares that 1T was Mrs. stanton
fate to see the movement for woman SUI
fragc undergo. in the last few years,
considerable decline. The pretty sta
whose rise she watched with SO much an
rhusiasrn appears to be- decidedly on tn
wane to-day. Yes; only four state
granted the full franchise to women dur
ing III. past decade. and two "A taxpayer
franchise during tn" last four years. In
etar is almost set
The Brooklyn Standard Union declare
that to-day the result Of her work H. So"
all about us" and that women such n
she arr a power in the elevation Of the race
The Brooklyn Times says with much force;
Whether the great work to which she d,
voted her hie. the admission OF women !
not the Nork she did ia compelling recogn
ton Of the intellectual equality OF woma
tude OF womanhood for all time, The wor
che did would have STAMPED her as one
the great Of her generation, even II she hd
been man, and with all OF mans advai
tacss On her side being woman, ana haNit
had to Struggle against All thc pIcJuul''
that prevailed sixty years ago, she Inu
be granted u place among the greatest
The Chicago Inter Ocean thinks th5
most of Mrs. Stantons demands ap peale
10 the common sense Of men, ~ well
the sympathirs of women. Most of thor
have been granted, But for female 81
frage she failed to enlist either Judgmer
or sympathy. and 70 failed to obtain n
one thing dearest to her heart If IL
editor would read ancient history or stud
current events along this line he woul
find that the demand for woman sulrae
to-day enlists far more judgment al
sympathy than any OF the demands mac
by Mrs stanton forty years ago.
The Chicago Chronicle ends a fine tribu
by saving that while Mrs. stanton I'll
not succeed ia completely converting Amer
can womanhood u her CONVICTION that u
ballo, is a cure for all evils the
H. not a woman who has succeeded in LAY
medicine journalism. the arts and science
higher education. trade and commerc
but feels. OF ought to feel, grateful TO III
American ma,ritrch.
The Chi ago Tribune which Is strong
opposed to the embarrassment of wome
gives Mn. Stanton suprem" credit Tor u