Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-13

Three questions-temperance woman suf-
frage and the abolition of slavery-were
much discussed throughout the country in
1910 and they interested Miss Anthony. In a
few years she gave up teaching to take up
public life
Her ready tongue. quick mind and ex-
ecutlve ability won for her a leading place
among the female reformers before the
war. She was living in Rochester then,
where her father had established a home
stead. Admission to a temperance con-
Vcntion was refused TO her on account OF
her sex and in 1851 she called a meeting
of her own in Albany in the interest of
the cause, which because of its success
was the foundation of her future fame. In
1880 and 1851 she established several tenn
perahce societies In New York state; she
took advantage of every convention of
teachers to expound her views on reform.
and she soon had large following
Miss Anthony first became conspicuous
as an ant-slavery agitator in 1856, when
she became one of the regular agents of
the Anti-Slavery Society. She spoke in
schools. barns halls and churches and II
no hall could be secured she addressed
meetings from lumber wagons or carts in
the open air.
Legislation for Women.
A the same time she continued her work
in favor OF woman's suffrage, which She
began actively in 1854. The question OF
not command much OF her attention as
legislation which handicapped women in
their civil rights. 1t was due largely to
her labors that the New York legislature In
1850 passed the act giving to a married
woman the right to her earnings and the
guardianship of her children
In 1850 she presented to Congress her
first petition In favor of leaving the word
male out of the fourteenth amendment
and at the end of the war with Mrs Stan
ton and Lucy Stone she went to Kentucky
and agitated the woman's suffrage cues
ton SO successfully that In 1867 there were
1000 votes cast In favor of the reform
The following year she spent in New York
city managing, with Mrs Stanton Parker
Pllsbury and George Francis Train. a
weekly journal called the Revolutionist de-
voted TO the emancipation of women.
Testing the Constitution.
Miss Anthony decided to make a radical
test of her rights in 1872, and with dozen
or more women she insisted upon casting
ballots at the state and congressional cleo
lions in Rochester. She said she did II In
order to test the application OF the four,
teenth and fifteenth amendments She was
indicted for voting Illegally and was found
guilty by Justice Hunt in the United States
court.
When the justice fined her 800 and gave
her the alternative of going to jafl or nav
ing she declared that she would never nav.
and she never did. The justice did not SAND
her TO jail ana Miss Anthony sent q petit
ton to President Grant In response to
this she and the inspectors who received
her ballot, and had been fined, were par
doned.
Often Seen in Washington,
Miss Anthony continued to lecture and
address meetings IN the cause of women
until few months ago. when illness made
1t impossible for her to leave her home In
Rochester. She did not devote all OF her
energies to the question of votes, either
Coeducatiou was one of the things which
interested her greatly: and much of her
time and considerable of her money were
spent in aiding colleges In which women
students We're taught. She was conspicu-
Gus figure whenever delegation of women
came to Washington to impress their ideas
upon Congress, and at all of the conventions
of the woman suffragists she was the ac-
knowledged leader
Even after she passed the age of eighty
she continued her activity and her brain
seemed to be as clear as ever. She was
wonderfully alert, and at the age Of eighty
four she went abroad, attended convention
and made an extended tour in the suffrage
cause. At that time she was received with
twenty-one other delegates to the conyen-
ton, by the Empress OF Germany and was
told by the empress:
You are my special guest on this occa-
sion."
Part of her work OF late years consisted
of placing suffrage literature in colleges and
libraries where 1t would do the most good.
Miss Anthony. with Miss Ida Huested
Harper. was the author OF a History of
Woman Suffrage" four-volume work. At