Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08

paid in that place. But when she went
to a larger school and did the same
work as a man and found that he re-
ceived four times the amount paid to
her, her Quaker blood boiled.
From then she began to sound the
| alarm which never ceased to ring until
| every woman teacher in the country
demanded the same pay for the same
work. It was largely for this reason
that she demanded of Davies the right
| to speak in the New York State Teach
ers' Convention. When it seemed as il
the heavens might fall at her audacity
she stood on the floor for one -half hour,
waiting for the assembled man teachers
to decide her fate.
At last the motion that a woman
member of the convention be allowed to
speak was adopted and Miss Anthony
voiced sentiment that should have
shamed all man teachers into stanch
| support of her cause. The question I'M
der discussion was: Why is not the pro-
feSSion of teacher respected as much as
| that of the lawyer, doctor or preacher?
She said:
1T seems to me that you men fail to
comprehend the cause of the disrespsct
you complain of. Do you not see that
so long as society says a woman has not
brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer
or preacher, but has enough to be a
teacher, every man of you who con-
deScendS to teach, tacitly admits before
all Israel and the sun that he has no
more brains than a woman"
Never again was a woman teacher
denied the privilege of speaking in a
New York State Teachers Convention.
If Susan B. Anthony were living
today it is likely that she would be at
a meeting of the Curriculum Commits
sion. urging that the achievements of
women be given an appropriate mention
in the new text books of the public
schools and that the pictures of such
women as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy
Stone, Clara Barton and Frances Will
lard be hung alonSide of Washington.
Lincoln, Roosevelt and other makers of
American history on the walls of every
school building Of the country and she
would probably suggest further that
some of the school buildings be named
after these great women.
Taught for Is Years.
Miss Anthony taught school for is
years. At the end of that time she felt
that she had become strong enough to
respond to the call for workers from
| the two great reform movements OF the
time. And, too, she wanted to try her
sails on a larger sea and match her
strength with the brave men and women
who dared defy the prejudice of public
opinion for cause. Only the many
enforced visits into the intimate family
life of the American home could have
made her understanding soul cry out so
pitifully for a greater freedom for
women.
Among the many struggles toward the
ideal of true democracy that will COM
pei the attention of students OF history
in succeeding generations none will be
so fascinating as those Of woman Suf-
frage and anti-slavery, the former car
ried on" for rs years, while the latter
covered q period of about $50 years OF
agitation. Men and women grew gray
| in the cause of human freedom, then
gave way to younger ones, fresh with
the spiritual fire that knew no cessation
until every slave became free and every
woman's political status changed from
subject to citizen.
When the Saint-like Samuel May re-
buked the opponent of antislavery,
William Lloyd Garrison, for language
too hot and strong for the temper of
the time by laying his hand on the
earnest mans shoulder and saying,
why, man you are all In fire." The
reply came softly with an answering
rebuke. II need to be all in fire, have
mountains of ice all around me to
melt" Susan B. Anthony counted 1t
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