Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1921-01-02
The Haskir1 Letter
UNDERTAKING LADIES.
By FREDERIC /.
HASklN

ington IN bronze. and great head Of
| Lincoln rising out of marble block by
Gutzon Borglum.
An unheknown Great Man.
Next to the massive Lincoln head, the
statue labeled Baker attracts the most
| attention, because few people can place
him in history. His clothes are of cut
which suggests the time after the Revo-
| luton, and because he is reproduced
| lfe-s sized instead Of heroic, he looks
| short and chunky. Even down in the
office of the superintendent of the CAPT
toll it required some wracking Of brains
and consultation of encyclopedias to drag
forth the facts that Colonel +. D. Baker
was a noted warrior in the Mexican war
senator from Oregon and finally dice
leading desperate charge early in the
Civil war at Balls Bluff
After ALL Baker was man Of dis
tinctioD, but placed by Washington. JEFF
ferson. and Lincoln the visitor is usually
puzzled as to his Importance Probably
some people will be equally unfamiliar
with the women who are to be added to
the occupants of the rotunda. To the
women who have been fighting for suf-
frage they are household names. Susan
Is. Anthony in particular, has always
been q rame to conjure with in feminist
circles.
Susan B. was brought up by Quaker
father to the belief that both men and
women should be economically independ
emit. She began to teach school at Is
years, and from then on, whether teach
ing or lecturing and campaigning for
suffrage. she was working woman to
her death at Sc years.
The most interesting incident in her
life is probably her attempt to vote in
the presidential election of 1872 as q
test of the 14th amendment She was
arrested on Thanksgiving day, and the
case was tried the next June in little
New York county court.
The Judge who from his mannerisms
has come down in history as most
ladyike Judge" lined himself up with
that the sentence Of the court is that
you paw a fine Of one hundred dollars
and the cost of the prosecution" to
which the prisoner returned. May it |
please your honor, | shall never pay |
dollar OF your unjust penalty
The judge believed her. and as one
biographer says, mot wishing to inear
cerate her TO all eternity, he added /
gently: Madam, the court will not orde, |
you committed until the fine is paid
Spinster on Principle.
Miss Anthony never considered mar
rage. She said half IN jest that she
could not consent that the man she low
ed. possessed of the rights of citizen
ship and eligible to the office of presi
dent, should unite his destin:es in marri-
age with a political slave and pariah, as
a woman was by the laws of the country.
Elizabeth Stanton was as ardent an
exponent of woman's equality with man
as was Susan b.. but she did not wait
for the law to come around before she
would marry. She did, however--hack
n 1S40--insist on the word obey being
left out of the marriage ceremony.
She writes: Il obstinatelv refused to
obey one with whom l supposed | was
entering into an equal relationship.
The word "ohstinately" she uses. not
because her fiance opposed the omission.
]ut because the Scottish minister who
vas to perform the ceremony objected
He finally gave in, but he
avenged himself by praying long and fer
'ently and preaching nearly an hour on
he Obligations Of the dutiful wife.
Lucretia Mott the third reformer of
he triangle, was little Quakeress, vi
'oeiouS OF manner, always simply dress
ID. AS only the heads and shoulder of the
women in the memorial are TO be sculped
nut Of the rock, the Quaker cap of
.ucretia Mott is the only hit Of signifi-
ent dress noticeable about the statue.
Mrs. Mott was noted in her day for
Ter lectures, especially her famous dis .
curse ON woman in which she pleaded
or a woman TO be acknowledged as
moral, responsible being. She espe-
ially decried the propertF laws which
ave all Of woman's possessions TO :
Ter husband from the day Of her mar ,,
iage to do with as he pleased. :