Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26
HOW SUFFRAGE WAS
 ATTAINED BY WOMEN
After Sixty-Six Years of Endeavors, Women
 May Vote

legislature, giving some twenty-seven million women the right to vote, a brief history of the long and many times discouraging battle by leaders of the cause will be of interest
 Sixty-six years have passed since Susan Brownell Anthony, a Quaker school teacher, born in Massachu- setts and reared in Rochester, N. r. began her fight for complete legal equality of the sexes-known and ridiculed for long time thereafter 1 as "women's rights" Her federsa suffrage amendment, now ratified line for line just as she wrote it, shs offered in 1S78-forty-two years ago. Both the big political parties put suffrage into their platforms i'm 1916-four years ago. The house of representatives passed the amend ment first on January 10, 1918- two years and seven months ago. The senate passed it on June 1, 1918 fourteen months ago. Tennessee, the thirty-sixth, state, ratified ft last week.
 Those are milestones of suffrage- At the beginning women who ven- tured to assert that they and their sisters had political rights were set down as "brazen hussies." At the end more than 26,000,000 of them are entitled to vote this fall fer president of the United States or anybody else who is running for office.
 The complete historian of suffrage will go much further back than Su- san B. Anthony, but the "movement'' for Federal amendment began with her. Few women sided with Abigail Adams when she wrote to her hus- band, John Adams, then serving in the Continental congress, threaten a women's rebellion and saying:
 "We will not hold ourselves bound to obey laws in which we have no voice or representation"
 Lucretia Mott is credited with being the first woman to speak at q public meeting in America She, too, was Quaker. In 1848 she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called a convention at Seneca Falls, N. Y which drew up womank bill of rights. Even by most members of their own sex they were regarded aS freaks, as were the generation of workers who came after them.
 In 1852 Susan B. Anthony, who had been fighting slavery and rum and who founded the first Amerirax women's temperance society, attend. ed 8 convention of the Sons of 'TemS perance in Albany. To her astonish-l ment, when she rose to speak she was rebuked by the presiding officer.
 Rebuke for Susan B. Anthony
 'The sisters were not invited here to speak but to listen and learn," he said.
 Thereafter she gave suffrage her serious attention, and after 1854 de- voted her life to it except in the civil war period. In the early '50s "women's rights" conventions were held in several states. In 1869 two national organizations were formed the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Wom- an Suffrage Association.
 Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe were leaders of the first and Eliza beth Cady Stanton and Miss Anthony the second. There was a cleavage of purpose which has existed be- tween two groups up to a recent time. The Anthony-Stanton group believed it most important to work for federal amendment, the Stone Howe group preferred to win the fight state by state. In the end the winning of states helped nightly in the winning of congress.
 The pioneer suffrage state, Wyo- ming, then a territory, came in in 1869; for twenty four years there after, despite all the efforts for the "cause" not another state joined her.
 Meanwhile Susan Anthony, tra- yelling first through New York state, toured the whole country, enduring no end of discomfort, even going to the mining camps of California, to preach her gospel. In 1872 she tried, by having herself arrested, to obtain an interpretation of the Four teenth and Fifteenth amendments, which would allow women to vote. ohS "ShI lo thG pols III hocueSter and cast her ballot. A jury, after six months, found her guilty and she was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs.
 "May it please your Honor" she said to the Judge, "I will never pay ! dollar of your unjust penalty and shall earnestly and consistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, Resistance c. tyranny is obedience to God
 Fellow suffragists sent in money, put Miss Anthony never paid the inc and was never imprisoned. The .nl1r-t in this cncn nnA l.an........ -..L-A