The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-01-08
III rHEIR owN nEHALF.
Tho Part Women Sufrragists Have
Taken in the Progress Of Women.

The Part Women SufrraGists Have
Taken in the Progress OF Women.
The first organization of women in
the United States was that formed by
woman suffragists. The first college
graduates, the first women speakers,
the first petitioners to legislatures for
better law for women, were woman
SuffragiSts.
When Ernestine L. Rose, in 1886,
wished to petition the New York Leg
islature to give married women the
right to control their own property,
she could find in the whole State but
FIVE women to join with her.
A half-century has rolled by and the
results of this movement are so COM
plete, that many woman graspS the
privileges and liberties of to-day with
out the slightest thought that other
women bore the brunt Of cruel
worlds bitterest condemnation that
she might possess them. She takes
her college degree, forgetful that when
this movement began the world hon.
estly believed that women did not
possess physical health or mental
strength sufficient to master college
course. She freely speaks in public,
forgetful that other women were
mobbed and 'rotten egged' before
the public would tolerate such liberty.
She enters business and professions,
collects her wages, manages fortunes,
buys and sells, forgetful that none of
these privileges would be hers had
not other women plead her cause. She
attends her club, forgetful that the
first organization was compelled to
live down the public conviction, that
organized women only sought motor
iety by making themselves conspicuous
before men,"
Happily the old common law has
been largely replaced by rational
statutes and few of the old humiliat-
ing and oppressive conditions remain,
thanks to the courage, the persistency,
and the logic of that band of early
woman Suffragists, most of whom
have passed on to their reward.
CARRIE CHAPMAN GAIT.
President National Woman Suffrage
Association.
THESE BANK BILLS WORTH LESS.
Ancient Jersey Money Finds Favor
in Colorado.
Bank bills that were in good oder
years ago, but afterward fell from
grace, have taken on new lease of
life. The State Bank of New Bruins
wick on which the notes were issued
went out with the other State banks
years ago. The unissued notes of the
bank, together with the plates from
which they were printed, fell into the
hands of New Brunswick junk dealer,
who kept them in hand for several
years and then began to dispose of
them in bulk to adventurous spirits.
They were ostensibly sold as curiosi-
ties. When the first worthless notes
appeared, the Secret Service folks
went down to New Brunswick and
grabbed the plates and all the notes
they could get hold of. But lot of
the notes escaped and are constantly
heard from in the far West, where
folks are given to the use of "hard
money" and are not sharp in guessing
at irregularities of paper money.
Some of these notes have turned up
at Pueblo, Col, and they will probably
turn up elsewhere as long as there
are swindlers with the nerve to
push them.
Charms New York Music Lovers.
Henry w. Savage's famous English
Grand Opera Company, with it's
orchestra of fifty and all-American
contingent of principals and chorus,
is dividing attention of New York
music lovers with the Italian opera
singers during the holidays. The
West End Theatre, where Mr.. Savage
is giving a five-weeks' season of grand
opera, has been fairly packed since
the opening night. The crowds that
heard "Othello" and Carmen"
d lring the first week were still
larger during the second week when
Gounod's "Faust" and Verdi'S I'll
Troyatore" were sung.
Another masterpiece will have its
first English performance in New
York next week when Puccini's
''Tosca" will divide attention with
Wagner's ''Lohengrin.
After the New York season Mr..
Savage will take his company to
Washington for week and then to
Buffalo for two weeks, after which
the big company will make its annual
tour of the middle West.
MILTON.