The Dickinson press., 1914-09-05
NATIONAL LECTURER
IS COMING TO CITY

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DR.. Anna Howard Shaw will speak
in Dickinson Saturday, September
10th, arriving in the city at 2:25 p.
m. The coming Of the noted head of
the national suffrage association is
creating intense interest and her tour
of the state promises to be very sue
cessful. In fact the demand has been
so great to hear her that DR.. Shaw
will make special addresses from the
platform of her train. 1t is expected
that her visit to Dickinson will be
largely attended. DIR. Anna Shaw is
the foremost orator of the suffrage
movement in America, if not the
world. She has spoken in nearly
every country on the globe and has
been the recipient of unusual honors
everywhere. AS master of the art of
speaking, she will carry her audience
through the gamut of emotions dur
ing an hours talk. Witty, yet SYM
pathetic, she tears down the barriers
of prejudice and precedent and forces
home the elementary truths of her
cause. She pleads for every interest
that will better the conditions Of
women, but chiefly for suffrage as
the fundamental step in all reforms,
economic, social and legal.
DR.. Shaw is an English woman by
birth, although since early childhood
her life has been spent in America.
In the days when women received
little more instruction than in the
three RS DR.. Shaw studied at Albion
college, Michigan; then in spite Of the
pleading of her family and friends
she determined to be a minister. Her
eloquence as a public speaker led
the district conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, of which she
was a member, to grant her a local
preachers license, which was annually
renewed for eight years. In 1875
she entered the theological depart
ment of the Boston University from
which she graduated with honors in
1878. During the last year Of her
course she was pastor Of the First
M. E. church of bingham, Mass, and
her second passionate was with the
Methodist church Of East Dennis, on
Cape Cod, where she remained seven
years. For six years of that time
she also supplied the Congregational
church of Dennis. Although she
passed the best examination of any
candidate she was refused ordina-
ton, because she was a woman, by
the England Methodist conference.
Her case was again refused by the
conference at Cincinnati in 1880. She
then supplemented her theological
decree by n in medicine at the
Boston University. Then finding
that the great reforms for which she
desired could only be brought about
effectively by the ballot il the hands
of women as we'll as men, as national
Superintendent of franchise of the w.
C. T. U. she continued to speak for
suffrage for twenty years. In 1904
she was elected president of the Nat
ional association and has e e it
grow from a small body of enthusi-
astic women to a great army.
Possessed by a wonderful vitality,
never ailing humor and hopefulness,
she is always ready to meet the con-
slant demands upon her time and
energy. Her campaign in North Da-
kota promises to be one of the most
successful of the year and arrange
ments are being made for addresses
from the platform Of the train. so
that the greater part of the state will
be able to hear of suffrage from the
lips of the pioneer worker who
lectured in this state twenty years
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