The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-07-06


never lost interest in her daughters
broader life.
The father was a fearless man
and one of great force and it was
from him that Miss Anthony inherited
the forceful traits. She was educated
In school in Hamilton. near Philadel-
phia. She taught for several years
and as religion and temperance were
the only activities thought permits
sable for women to be interested in,
she accordingly Joined The Daugh-
tiers OF temperance and made her
hrSt public speech in its interests.
When she was very young women
she made the acquaintance of Lucretia
and Abigail Mott and through that
friendship began her interest in equal
rights, but in her mind this did not
include voting, because the Quaker
men such as her father did not vote,
thinking 1t wrong to support gov
eminent which believed in war. Later,
however, she joined forces with Eliz-
abeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone,
and these three were the pioneers In
suffrage and on their work all others
have builded. In her effort to get
Maine law passed, she recognized that
indirect influence of women was not
enough, they should have the right of
franchise. In 1852 at the close of the
first woman's rights convention at
Syracuse, she decided to devote her
self unreservedly to this cause Adolf
ton and SUFFRAGE during the COS be-
came so united that they seemed one
cause Under a literal Interpretation
of the fourteenth amendment she at
tempted to vote and was imprisoned
for the attempt. She then made every
effort to have the fifteenth amendment
include suffrage for women and in
this attempt lost the friendship of
William Lloyd Garrison, Wendall Phil
lips, Sumner and others. She suffered
all sorts of accusations from the plat
form and through the press and snf.
fered even physical violence. But re-
lentless as fate she went on to the
end of her days. Almost her last
words were, Failure is impossible
She scaled the walls; it is ours to
take the citidal.'
Miss Ida Gordon Howell was next
introduced and read with splendid ef-
feet, "The Universal Republic" by
Victor Hugo.
subject, why l Believe in Suffrage
as follows:
Why Believe In Suffrage. =
A believer in equal suffrage am I,
If you wish the reasons Why
When in the history of man.
Was it ever the original plan
That woman should not be allowed
to vote2
Whv q n nh
How is it that man and man only is
able to peer ida
Into the future to decide her fate?
Whose was the original idea?
Why should he answer for his
mate?
Has any one solved it?
All me! What of our state?
Iowa! the fair ones; the drowsy ones,
Do these apply? I leave 1t to you.
Adam and, Eve left the garden to-
gether
The Creator willed it with sword of
flame,
Be it fair or foul weather
They were bound through partner
ship, Paradise to reclaim.
The Great Decalogue stands for wom-
an and man.
That and that only was Gods COM
mand; aE
If we defy those well defined laws
Pay We must with severe repri-
mand.
In ages past, women were classed
With goddesses of fame
Odes were sung to the eyebrows,
,Sonnets to the name.
A beautiful garden Of fiction and ro-
nance, .la-...,. ,..
We have accepted just by chance,
But the truth, aye, forsooth. ....
What are we doing for the youth?
I am for suffra ge-First
To my creed / must be true in word
and deed.
Catholic! Universal! A serving for all,
Therefore I answer to the call
OF the children who labor in tender
years,
The women workers-eight million
strong, 1
Unhealthy surroundings; life but a
pawn.
The householder communing within,
Dwelling upon the sorrow and sin
Around her engulfing some of the |
rarest,
Shall she be forced to give up her
fairest?
The teacher striving for the right! !
The woman of leisure who unthinking
retards
And often sends her kindest regards, |
What of the drug so often used?
What of the liquor so often abused?
Cooperation of man and woman these |
problems will solve,
Cannot we all some plans evolve?
IA believer in equal suffrage am I,
clerics endeavor to tell me
Why woman should govern her home |
serenely,
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