Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-08-02

sion in the home department of the Iowa
Homestead, and so fearful was she of Gen.
sure that for years even her family did
not know her nom de plume"
Pardon personal reference to the writer
of thi. sketch. Aside from my success
after long years of labor in the securing
of just property laws for the married
women of Kentucky to influence this big
Drained Iowa woman to become an able
free thought writer and speaker, is the
greatest compensation / have for my years
of toll and sacrifice. But of this our Har-
riet M. Closz shall speak for herself. In
a private letter she writes
after writing for long time under
nom de plume / later became acquainted
with your work for free thought. l was
seized with the desire to hold up your
hands and how well we have succeeded to-
gether we will let the Blade readers Judge.
| want you to take to yourself the credit,
if I am credit, of giving me the incentive
and inspiration for what have done, and if
l ever were given to thanking god for
favors / would devoutly acknowledge
such appropriations for your acquaintance
and influence. / am not given to flattery
but | want you to feel that 1 realize my
obligation to you
Great, indeed, is my reward even now for
my feeble efforts. To have helped awaken
the genius and industry of such a grand
woman for the grandest of all causes is
indeed a rich reward for the efforts of a
life time. Harriet has broken an alabaster
box filled with the fragrant perfumes OF
encouragement and appreciation into my
bereaved, pupsating heart Rather few
words of cheer and encouragement now
while / am living, when my ears can hear
and my heart respond, than eulogy and
wealth of floral tributes, after l am dead.
Flowers on coffin cast no fragrance back
ward over the weary way.
During the absence of Editor Charles G.
Moore in the Orient, the matter for the
Blade was written by Dr. j. b. Wilson,
the Nestor of the Liberal press OF America;
Harriet NJ Closz, and the writer OF this.
The lamented Editor II. l.. Green, of the
Free Thought Magazine, said of this COM
bined effort: THAT if Editor Moore would
crystalize these writings into book form
il would be better seller than book OF
travels and that he (Green) would carry
page 'ad of such book in his magazine"
Harriet M. Closzs pamphlet" Woman
and Her Relation to the Church; or Canon
Law for Women" is companion work to
the 'Woman's Bible" and Woman, Church
and State by Matilda JOslyn Gage. Each
contain facts that supplement the two other
works Elizabeth Cady Stanton said of It:
1T Is the best brief write-up on the sub
ject that ] ever read" Mrs. Stanton or
dered hundreds Of copies of It, and dis
tributed them among the thinking women
of our country. Stanton, Gage, Kicker and
Closz. These four American women have
probed tho dealings of christianity with
women and shown that ecclesiastic high
ways and byways are fetid with injustice,
disrespect, and degrading slavery of every
type for women
These women have spoken in clarion
tones and offered proof Of their statements.
yet no clergyman or church council have
ever yet dared to challenge their state
ments Only an attempt made to bar their
works from public libraries One fact
makes the system tremble from corner