The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-20
MISS ANTHONY'S MEMORIAL $6o, ,OOo NOW RAISED
Committee of Women Se- cured Large Amount in
 Three Months.

A pleasant exception to the rule
 that subscriptions for memorials to
 distinguished Americans drag discred- itably is found in the case of Susan B. Anthony. A committee of women has raised $60,O0O in her honor in three
 months, and has done it without ad- vertising or any general knowledge that the project was under way. The promptness and enthusiasm of the gifts is a loving tribute to a woman who earned love by a lifelong devotion
 to her sex. Fortunately, Miss Anthony
 lived long enough to outlast the ridi- cule of the early years of her stalwart devotion to an unpopular cause, and came into what widespread admiration
 as a leader, not merely of women, but
 of civilization, which was the pleasant
 portion of, her later years.
 No woman who appeared in public
 for the last fifteen or twenty years of
 her life was regarded with as hearty
 and genuine affection as she. So Miss Anthony got in her lifetime some of the reward which she earned by her long devotion to the things Which she believed to be right, If she was to have had a memorial, she would have chosen the very form in which this committee is to invest it's funds The S60,000 will be used to support propa- ganda for the cause Of woman suf- ,frage for the next five years, $12,OoO each year. That is done in the be- lief that after five years the cause will have won recruits enough to keep it. self afloat without endowment, and to
 secure the, passage of the laws for
 which Miss Anthony worked for half
 century.
 That arrangement is in exact accord with Miss Anthony's belief in the later
 years of her life, when she thought
 that she saw the adoption of woman
 suffrage just ahead Thus one can ap- prove of the tribute which these friends of Miss Anthony are to pay to her memory without in the least agreeing with Miss Anthony's belief or expect | ing to see the result she hoped for brought nearer by this five years of or l ganized agitation. The fact is that | agitation for woman suffrage today is like trying to blow the lid off a kettle
 when the sides are all open. The le- gal and industrial rights which were l conferred on the women of the last generation have taken away the motive which gave force and momentum to the suffrage agitation when Miss An thony and Mrs. Stanton began it, Any | woman is now free to enter upon any
 profession or trade which she chooses,
 and in the few fields where her efficien- 1 cy is as great as that of men, like writ
 ing and the arts, she is quite as well | paid as men are,
 l And married women may control her l own children, her own earnings or her
 own property Those are rights
 which the early suffragists expected to l obtain through suffrage. In fact, those
 rights were conferred without question
 while suffrage was denied But those
 changes in the laws satisfied the vast
 majority of women and left the agita-
 ton for suffrage to be continued by
 that small majority who are more
 moved by logic or an abstract sense
 of justice than they are by practical
 considerations The great majority of
 women are satisfied with industrial and social rights which involve none
 of the obligations of citizenship; and
 so long as they continue in that frame
 of mind, the experiment of woman suf-
 frage, tried in few western States,
 will hardly spread east of the Mis- | souri.-Brooklyn Eagle.