The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-05-27
MISS ANTHONY SEES
ONLY CORRUPTION
Susan 8. Talks Pessimisticaily
About General Political
Conditions.
GOES 70 BERLIN MEETING
Leader of the Suffrage Cause Think
the Time Must Come When Wom-
an Will Have to Be Taken in
to Save Public.
GOES 70 BERLIN MEETING

New York, May 24.-Among the pas
sengers on the North Geaman Lloyd
liner Frederick der Crosse We're nearly
100 delegates to the International coun
ell of women's clubs, which meets in
Berlin June 6. Miss Susan Is. Anthony
was at the head of the delegation. Be
fore sailing Miss Anthony said:
wv are nearer gaining our point to-
day than eve before. We are more
enlightened, but until Wolnen can con-
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 mass of corruption.
They form a great ring and don't mean
to let ONE inside. They don't want
women to know just what they are
seXually, politically or financially. But
when women get their own constitu-
ency they can get inside the ring, n
in spite OF the politicians go to con-
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' We're ar
rested in Denver this week for raudu
ent voting.
For" said she. there We're 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 m The thing has
never happened before. and a funny
thing about this case is that the woman
who claimed to have discovered the IL
legality suddenly disappeared and 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 INC state, out it is
the same the country over. Politics are
interviewer into ever fiber of public in
stitutions and corruption is rampant.
Politicians are only too glad of IN OPP
portunity as thai in Denver to slap the
suffragists. and no occasion, whether
real or manufactured, is allowed to slip
which can be used to rap women in
politics."
In a recent will case in Rochester
Miss Anthony, who was asked to testify
has been quoted as saying that women
didn't know the use of money. When
asked II that meant that women We're
unduly e~Xtravagant, Miss Anthony
said:
Don't Handle Money.
Not at all. That is not the point.
Wlal l meant was CQal women are
not used to handling money and COM
p%aratively few are. during the lives OF
their husbands, so that when the OPP
portunity ONE they don't know how
to spend 1t wisely, consequently they
hold on to it. In this particular case
q young oma whom I knew since
h was a child, herself a poor girl.
married a a a distiller, who, dying
a while age, left her we'll off-at least
with a handsome house and about
100000 a year income.
Never having been accustomed to
the use Of money, she refused to help
many worthy objects with which she
was perfectly familiar. As a conse-
quence no. knowing how to spend her
none she held INTO it.
II say 1t 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 grudging 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.
"Oh, I gave them some digs" said
the veteran s%uffragist, laughing, "and
I wish I'd given them more"
When asked what would be her sub
Ject at the quiEtennial, Miss Anthony
replied:
My speaking days are over. They
will have to be content to look at me,
not hear me-"