Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-03-16
Passing Of Susan B. Anthony.

Probably the life OF no woman has
had more important part IN shaping
the policy of this nation on matters of
reform, than Susan B. Anthony, I'M
less it may have been that of Harriet
Beecher Stowe, whom circumstances, if
not chance, made the author of "Uncle
Toms Cabin" that did more to end
slavery than all the agitation that
had preceded it.
Susan Brownell Anthony was born
at South Adams, Mass, February 18th
1920. Her father, a cotton manuiac-
turer, gave her liberal education, and
as he died when she was only IL years
old, it enabled her to support herself
by school teaching till she was 80. 1t
was while thus engaged Miss Anthony
became confirmed in those opinions
which have embalmed her name in
grateful memory as a broad minded
philanthropist, and leader of the for.
lorn hope upon many economic ques.
tions.
She first engaged in temperance re-
form, and the fu.ility of introducing
new ideas, led her to consider the ballot
as an inseparable aid for a guaranty Of
any hope of success in that mission
She then advocated by pen and voice
the enfrarcbisement OF women, in
newspapers and before committees of
Congress and State and Territorial
Legislatures. 1t is no doubt owing to
the attention directed to this subject
by mastery address before the
Washington Legislature that gave the
ballot to women in this State Chen
Territory back in the seventies, in
which every promise made, every pre-
diction forecast OF the wisdom OF the
movement, was verified by their brief
possession Of the ballot. In 1872,
Miss Anthony was arrested for voting
at the Presidential election. BY ad.
vice OF her lawyer, who was unwilling
to have her 60 to Jail, she gave bonds
and was released. and the opportunity
thu. afforded to have taken the issue
to the U. S. Supreme Court was lost
She always regarded it as a mistake
that the contention was not thus
managed to have obtained an authori-
tative hearing before that high trib.
unal.
For . period of two years Miss An
thony edited weekly paper in New
York, called Revolution. 1t failed,
placing her $4,000 in debt, which
was paid entirely by her own earnings
from lectures.
Miss Anthony was likewise inter.
ested in agitations which resulted in
giving the ballot to women in school
elections OF many States.
The search is made in vain for some
reason why she had to bear the full
brunt OF opposition to measures OF
progress, which are slowly received by
the masses, unless it may have been
the senseless and silly caricatures
made of cold maids" leading up to
q equiet yet none the less effective
triumph of her opponents by means OF
the cruel lampoon. Miss Anthony was
neat and tasteful in dress, and pos.
sessed . sweet disposition and an un.
rufiied temper at oil times, which
should have made her impervious to
the shafts of ridicule aimed at all re.
formers and to the traits Of spinsters
who have dared to attract attention to
themselves by their important public
work.
Miss Anthony's home has been in
Rochester. New York, keeping house"
with her scarcely less lovable sister,
Mary Anthony. Here she has spent
the greater part of her later life, and
it was seldom that she appeared in
public the last decade except for ad-
vancement Of some cherished project
of her life mission. She was at q
meeting of the Suffrage Association at
Baltimore, . few weeks ago, working
with undiminished ardor, and later in
Washington, D. c., where she attended
a celebration OF her birthday, by some
OF her friends, at which she read to
them . letter from President Roose.
welt congratulating her arriving at the
Seth milestone in her eventful journey
OF life, in continued good health. 1t
is said that her smile had suspicion
OF sarcasm in it, when she declared,
with gentle asperity, would much
rather have had him say a few words
to Congress in favor OF women suffrage
than to praise me needlessly."
At Baltimore, when she received an
ovation that lasted ten minutes, she
simply alluded to it as a tribute to the
once derided principles she then repre-.
sented.
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