New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-14
HHHAN r. ANTHONY.

During most Of her long and active career
| Susan B. Anthony suffered a certain injustice
| in being in the public mind conspicuously IL not
| exclusively associated with single cause. and
that not victorious one, while her successful
| and benefcent achievements In other directions
| were largely ignored forgotten. We do not
know that she in the least resented such injus-
| tice or that she paid it sufficient attention to
| be more than subcOnSciOusly aware OF IT, In
| deed she was for the last third of a century so
much absorbed in that one cause that she was
| probably quite willing to be thought of solely
as connected with 1t to the neglect Of everything
else. Equal suffrage for women had become the
Alpha and the Omega of her benevolent ambi-
ton, and she was its chief prOtagonist. AS such
she was unsurpassed In ability, in efficiency, in
the influence which she exerted and in the re-
spect which her character and demeanor COM
manded.
There were, however, other phases of her
work, to which this was at first subsidiary and
which because of their permanent and univer~
sally approved success and their wide and great
benehcence must now be recalled with graft
tude. Her attention was first given to intel
lectual and moral reforms and 1t was as a
means TO those ends that she ultimately en-
tered the political field. The first fifteen years
of her working life were devoted with marked
success to school teaching, and II was with a
demand for the recognition of woman's place
and voice in the educational world that she first
came before the public. Her calm, indomitable
persistence won the day, and in time the woman
teacher became the peer Of the man. At about
the same time she claimed for women the right
which was then denied-to work and to speak
In furtherance OF temperance reforms, and IN
that, too, she was successful. Later, there was
little inclination to challenge the prOpriety Of
her splendid activities in the Women's Loyal
League during the Civil War.
1t was through these things that she was led
logically, it seemed to her-to demand for
women equal civil and political rights with men,
Only thus she believed, could their proper place
in education, temperance and other causes be
secured and maintained To that end she de-
voted her exceptional abilities with a persist
ence. an unselfshness and a singleness Of pur-
pose worthy of all admiration. The wisdom Of
the end she sought, after she had made suffrage
at least apparently that end, is questioned by
many even of her own sex. But there can be
no doubt that the agitation and discussion which
she aroused and so vigorously sustained have
been productive of much good, and that her
labOrs have already been crowned with greater
success than may appear in a superficial view
of the case. She was not, it is true able to
keep the word male" out of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution nor to get Con-
gress TO enact q national woman suffrage law.
But she lived to see largely through her efforts,
equal suffrage granted to women in four states
and large though not complete measure of suf-
frage in various other states She secured for
married women IN New-York and elsewhere the
right to hold and dispose of property, the pos
session and use Of their own earnings, the guar
dianship of their children and many other things
which are now approved as a matter of course
and the denial of which would at the present
time seem reversion to barbarism, yet which
were denied when she began her long campaign.
On the ground Of these real achievements
the fame of Susan B. Anthony is secure, and
the lasting gratitude is assured, not only Of
women who profit from her labors, but equally
of all right thinking men who perceive in the
moral, intellectual and social acknowledgment
Of women an essential and commanding fac
tor in the advancement and elevation Of the
human race The co-educatiOn of the sexes may
or may not be carried as far as she would have
had IT. The equal right with men to vote and
TO hold office, for which she so earnestly con-
tended, may never be universally granted What
is certain is that American wOmanhOOd and the
American people have In this last half century
received a great uplifting toward purity, intel
ligence and Justice and that because of her
prominent and effective participation in that
work Susan B. Anthony is 10 be remembered
with respect and gratitude.