The Republican journal., 1913-08-21

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- 0.vn thinking became vaguely
satisfied with woman's position
onomlc scheme of things. Now
a6 back upon the influences that
lr d my childhood and girlhood, it
.. seem strange to me. My father.
Mas the friend of all the oppressed
aal fifty years ago, as warden of
4chusetts State Prison, made
the model prison Of the
Was an ardent sutfragist. His
Of the first women clergymen
- e7lrtry, entered a divinity school
t- VAS over fifty, graduating at the
-r class-the only woman in it
aIag charge Immediately of two
., -alked. lectured and preached
rage to the end of her days.
-art Mills essay "Ol the Sub
Women" proved at fourteen
.llnt about which all my vague
rrbeIlions focused. From that
H4- an ardent suffragist. This
-- ate eighties, when the move
was still target for rhymesters,
and cartoonists and when the
man sutfragist was Synonymous
frank, fanatic. | remember
t-p, short haired women and
r-d men," was constantly being
II at Us, although We were all quite
this detail.
81 r. burn in those days with the
+ ny wrongs, and | shall have to
SIS hat from twelve to sixteen |
.sts. a deep, heavy black despite
5 ertlre male sex. ! believed that
.eas ing woman lay under the heel
If grant man and that his main ex-
vas grinding that heel into her
re member somewhere in my
'eeHs | made an agreement with
Jnat, when | grew up, | should
book, called "The Arrangement. !"
iaraed it, it was not really book,
as f work. 1t was to be about
'olumes long, and it was to deal
nan and men. Starting with Adam,
ended to run down the ages, consi-
9 every man mentioned both in
= and profane history entirely in
light of his relation to the woman
ton. The term undertaking had
one INTO the language yet; but my
q as to muckrake man. l made up
1nd that | would tell a listening
exactly what l thought of him. l
OF intend to leave him a leg to stand
font Of fact, that marvel of muck
y was never written, nor even be-
u continued to espouse my chosen
with an ever-increasing enthusi-
Until | went to college, however,
7med in my little world to stand
an very unpopular pinnacle of
But at Radcliffe College | be-
he intimate friend of Maud Wood,
Yrs. Park, who was quite as ardent
liaglst as I; more ardent, in fact,
since her graduation, Mrs. Park has
ser whole life to the movement,
eea9 have worked for it only at in
u.s. At first we were the only suf-
rs IN the college. but we prosely-
sai essly, Before we left in 1899,
sl 2athered little band about US.
,sHt year, Mrs. Park evolved the
vi ii College Equal Suffrage League,
laie up of college graduates living
aQston who were believers in suf-
nat League grew steadily. In
'-her Leagues came into existence
l-r cities and affiliated themselves
VS. now the College Equal suffrage
cue IS a national institution.
The meantime, of course, l had
So myself in other ways into the
/ attending suffrage meetings.
any little here and there, going
Year with the Massachusetts suf-
nus to petition the Massachusetts
siature for the franchise. Nothing
, pSh have been concerned has left
' IT.. such sense of helpless indigna-
o a. that annual pilgrimage to the
aa. State House. 1t was always a
;;cVy dlgnifed proceeding. The suf-
's stated their side. The anti
'slsts stated theirs. The speeches
n, snort, concise, convincing. l have
I IL; on those occasions to the best
mug have ever heard. We en-