Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-03-20

minister, but has plenty to be
teacher, every man of you who
condescends to teach, tacitly ad.
mits before all Israel and the sun
that he has no more brains than
a woman?" Though vilifed and
maligned for her defiance of the
circumscribed rules for woman's
conduct, the result of Miss An
thonv's act was that before the
convention closed two resolutions
were introduced. One recon-
mendation that women be given
a voice in all deliberations of the
teachers association, and the
other calling attention to the in
equality of wages for men and
women. The next few years of
Miss Anthony's life were devoted
to work in temperance, anti
slavery and woman suffrage
movements.
In 1872, after securing the
opinion of such eminent jurists
as Benjamin F. Butler, Judge
Riddle, and various supreme
court decisions which conceded
that under the Fourteenth
Amendment women were en-
franchised, Miss Anthony regis
tered and cast her vote. For
this she was arrested. The case
of the United States of America
VS.. Susan B. Anthony was unique
and one of the hardest fought
battles in supreme court records.
The train of events which fol-
lowed Miss Anthony's voting
were so unusual, dramatic and
significant that the champion of
woman's rights became the CEN
ter of National attention. After
a sensational trial before a jury,
Judge Hunt, without leaving the
bench, delivered a written
opinion to the effect that the
Fourteenth Amendment under
which Miss Anthony claimed the
right to vote, "was protection,
not to all our rights, but to our
rights as citizens only" He
directed the jury to bring in a
verdict of guilty. The verdict
was brought accordingly, The
Judge ordered Miss Anthony to
stand up while he delivered SEN
tence which was that she pay an
fine of 500 and cost of prosecu-
ton. Miss Anthony in a firm
voice replied: ''May it please
your Honor, will never pay a
unjust penalty. All the stock in
trade I possess is debt of $40, 900
incurred by publishing my paper,
''The Revolution the sole OBJ
ject of which was to educate all
women to do precisely as I have
done-rebel against your man
made, unjust, unconstitutiona al
forms of law which tax, fne i'm
prison, hang women while deny
ing them the right of representa-
ton in the government, and l
will work with might and main
to pay every dollar of that honest
debt, but not peuny shall go to
this unjust claim. And I shall
earnestly and persistently con-
tinue to urge all women to the
practical recognition of the old
Revolutionary maxim Resist
auce to tyranny is obedience to
God" y" Miss Anthony kept hel
word; she never paid the fine. I
In 1888 Miss Anthony and
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is
sued a call for an international
Council of Women which should
include all departments of wo
| mems work. The funds fequir-
ed were raised largely through
Miss Anthony's personal efforts.
and the scope of the Council wa.
enlarged until today it reache:
the civilized countries of Europe,
| America and Australia.
In 1902 the Internationa
Woman Suffrage Association wa.
effected with representative
present from nine different coun
tries aud Miss Anthony was elect
ed as its first President.
1t was Miss Anthony, with th'
assistance of few friends, wht
secured the passage of the 14tl
Amendment to the Worlds Fai
Bill providing for the appoint
ment of women commissioners
afterwards known as the Board @
Lady Managers. She presente'
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