The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-04
A LEAF FOR THE CROWN.

ALEAF FOR THE CROWN.
In the death of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who
died at Moylan, Pa, on Wednesday evening, al
the age of seventy-one years, America loses one
of the pioneers in woman's work in this country
and death removes one of the strongest and mos
picturesque figures of the age.
DIR. Shaw was well known i'm Pensacola, where
she was entertained by the members of the Pen
sacola Equal Suffrage League, and where she
lectured on equal suffrage, winning many ad-
herents to the cause to which she had given the
best part of long life
s Coming as she did from Scotch ancestry, she
inherited many of the sterling qualities of her
Highland ancestors, and was indeed pioneer
in the cause of freedom for women, not only that
political freedom to which women so
rapidly approaching, but freedom to equal edu-
cational rights and freedom in the churches.
In the closing words of her autobiography,
"The Story of Pioneer" DR.. Shaw says: CAS-
for life's gifts, have had some of them, too. /
have made many friendships; have looked upon
the beauty of many lands; have the assurance
of the respect and AFFECTING of thousands of mer
and women l have never even met. Though
have given all 1 had, have received thousand
times more than l have given. Neither the
world nor my Cause is indebted to me-but from
the depths of full and grateful heart acknowl-
edge my lasting Indebtedness to BOTH"
Elsewhere in her autobiography she says:
Every suffrafist have ever met has been the
lover of home; and only the conviction that she
is fighting for her home, her children, and other
women, or for all of these, has sustained her in
her public work."
Again DIR. Shaw says, speaking of mitancy:
PERSONALLY am wholly opposed to it. Militant
methods undignified, unworthy, in other
words, un-American."
The National Woman Suffrage Association, of
which DR.. Shaw the official head for so many
years, and of which she has been honorary presi-
dent since her health forbade that she should
continue strenuous life as the presidency
demanded, has always denounced militancy, and
has invariably used peaceful means in attaining
its ends. Yet the ignorant and those who are
its political enemies have allowed the acts of an
organization which has never been affiliated
with the parent association, and few wild acts
of individuals, to prejudice them against the
work of the brainiest women in this country
women who have literally given themselves and
all that was theirs for the cause to which they
pledged themselves until woman had come into
her own and had the right to express her con-
victions through the ballot.
What contrast such women and their &C
tons to bigoted leaders, such as as the one who
rushed into print in The Journal of Thursday
"Let us them" says this sage, exert ourselves
in keeping her intact from any of the mental Of
fices of government, and raise her to the level
of man in all the highness that appertains to the
protection of her venue refinement and mother
hood"
The gentleman and such as he are quite too |
late. Woman does not need his kindly offices |
She has already gone out into the world and is ,
fast sweeping it clean and making it safe and
pure for her children. DIR. Anna Howard Shaw
and other noble, consecrated women, without this I
gentleman's permission, or the permission of any
of the other gentlemen who are now so eagerly
opening the door, and offering the lady seat
ID the councils of town and country, have long