Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-13
SUFFRAGISTS
HONOR MEMORY
OF LUCY STONE
Thousands Make Pilgrimage to
Orange as Tablet to Leader
Is Unveiled.

With a thousand suffragists from
various counties in New Jersey from
Cape May to Sussex, visitors from
several States. one group from Ar
kansas, and Miss Eva Ward. of Eng
land, participating in the exercises, a
tablet to the memory of Lucy Stone,
who in 1858 permitted her old home at
16 Hurlbut street, Orange, to be sold
over her head by the Orange tax as
SCISSOR rather than pay taxes when
denied with her sex the right of fran
chise, was placed in the house.
The occasion was commemorated by
a pilgrimage, and this afternoon talks
by former Governor John Franklin
Fort, DIR. Anna Howard Shaw, the
veteran head of the National Suffrage
League; Miss Alice Stone Blackwell,
daughter of Lucy Stone and head of
the Massachusetts suffrage organiZa-
ton, and Mayor David II. Standish,
of Glen Ridge. The groups formed at
the old Hawkeworth house in Main
street, East Orange, and iourneyed by
automobile to the Hurlbut street
house, where at o'clock the exer-
cises were begun. The day is the
ninety-seventh anniversary of Lucy
stones birth, and in various States
exercises and celebrations are being
conducted with numerous pilgrimages
to homes of suffrage leaders included
in the programs.
| Former Governor Fort said.
Lucy Stone was a purposeful
woman. She had a purpose to get q
college education and to work out
the method and the money, and she
! did It. She stood for the freedom OF
| the slave, and she saw them freed
She started for 'women's rights and
she stayed by the proposition stead
lily to tho end of her days; and she
saw great advance in woman's con-
dition and at least one State confer
the right to vote on women.
mo person has ever achieved great
ness except he had a purpose, mas
tered It, and firmly continued in it
until it was attained. We sometimes
call such people idealists, or, as some
put 1t, persons with one idea So
well was this known among Mrs
Stones friends that Colonel Higgin-
son said in her he had met one per-
fectly single minded human being
These are the kind of people who do
not fail.
Was Born In Country.
"She had one great help to her pur-
poseful lffe-she was born In the
country. The spirit of opposition to
all kinds of oppression grows in the
fields, upon the hills and beside the
streams, in the solitary life of the
country. In the country there are
no distractions for youth such as are
found In urban surroundings, to take
the mind off of the contemplation of
obvious wrongs Opposition to
tyranny grows upon what 1t feeds.
She was reared on farm, and the
farm life of America is the nearest
to absolute equality and independence
of thought and action of any other.
But it had its wrongs In her day, and
these were almost exclusively to
women. 1t was the wrongs to women
that stirred her heart In her youth.
Their inequality with men impressed
her. OF course, she saw woman's
condition In her youth as we do not
see it today. In slavery she stood
beside Garrison, Phillips, Emerson
and Lucretia Mott. She was a nat
ural enemy to slavery. She had a
clear, strong voice; had an eloquence
of speech that even her critics always
acknowledged. Her advocacy was
broad AS we oppose special privi-
lege in our day, she opposed any sort
of special rights based upon sex,
color, or previous condition. A white
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