The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-26

Susan B. Talks PessimistiCally
About General Political
Conditions.
GOES TO BERLIN MEETING
Leader of the Suffrage Cause Think
the Time Must Come When Wom-
an Will Have to Be Taken in
to Save Public.

New York, May 24.-Among the pas
sengerS on the North Geamun Lloyd
liner Frederick der Crosse were nearly
100 delegates to the international coun-
Gil of WOmen'S clubs, which meets in
Berlin June 6. Miss Susan b. Anthony
was at the head Of the delegation. Be
fore sailing Miss Anthony said
w are nearer gaining our point to-
day than eVer before. We are more
enlightened, but until women can o n
vince their fathers, husbands and
brothers of the justice of suffrage the
doors will be closed against us, and
mercy knows When they will be opened.
For we are not fighting alone against
the old prejudice today. The men of
the country are one of corruption.
They form a great ring n don't mean
to let women inside. They dom want
women to know just what they are
~sexually, politically or financially. But
when women get their own constitu~
ency they a get inside the ring, and
gress and not only demand suffrage,
but get it,
The Women "Repeaters."
Miss Anthony was somewhat indig-
nant over the n%otoriety given the fact
that two women "repeaters" were ar
rested in Denver this week for fraudu-
lent voting.
For" said she, there were probably
1000 men at that election who voted
Illegally, but, OF course, nothing was
ever heard of it, but persons who are
opposed to suffrage are only too glad
TO get the opportunity to bring oppro-
brium upon Women. The thing has
never happened before, and a funny
thing about this case is that the
who claimed to have discovered the il
legality suddenly disappeared n was
not there to appear against them. There
was never a time When politically the
situation was SO corrupt as now Not
only in our city and state, but it is
the same the country over. Politics are
interviewer into ever fiber of public in
situations and corruption is rampant.
Politicians are only too glad of an OPP
p~ortunity as that in Denver to slap the
s~uffrasists, and Nc occasion, whether
real or manufactured, is allowed to slip
when can be used to rap WOmen in
politics."
In a recent will ease in Rochester
Miss Anthony, who was asked to testify
mas been quoted as saying that women
didnt know the use of money. When
asked If that meant that wonen We're
unduly eXtravagant, Miss Anthony
said:
Don't Handle Money.
Not at all. That is not the point.
l. lilSdlll WAS lldl NOlileU are
used to handling one and COM
paratively few are, during the lives Of
their husbands, so that when the OPP
p~ortunity comes they don't know how
to spend 1t wisely, consequently they
hold on to it. In this particular case
a young Woman whom I knew since
she was a child, herself a poor girl,
married a man, a distiller, who, dying
a while ago, left her we'll off-at least
with a handsome house and about
$780, 900 a year income
the use OF money, she refused to help
many worthy objects with which she
was perfectly familiar. AS a onse-
quence not knowing how to spend her
money she held onto it.
Il say it only goes to show how
handicapped women are. They are
kept in ignorance OF their husbands
business situation, have no handling of
money, no dispensing Of charity, only
the use of a grudglng sum. dealt out
occasionally for personal needs. 1t is
no wonder that when they are suddenly
left with big incomes they don't know
what to do.
ooh, I gave them some digs" said
the veteran suffragist, laughing, land
I wish I'd given them more"
When asked what would be her sub
ject at the quintennial, Hiss Anthony
replied:
My speaking days are over. They
will LAY to be content to look at me,
not hear HE"