Show great courage tt to withstand rebuffs it required great courage to undertake this work at the time and in tho the manner she did but she possessed that requisite and exercised it on many occasions she never faltered never lost heart though she was waa constantly subjected to ridicule calumny and opposition few women were brave enough to follow her in those days in 1852 sho she addressed a large convention of men teachers A clergyman who was present complimented her afterwards you spoke ably and well ho he said but I 1 had bad rather see my mother and sister dead in their graves than to hear them speaking from a public platform unceasingly she preached tho the doctrine of womans comans suffrage anti and equal rights few oven even among women them d A A r 4 ANTHONY leader of woman suffrage movement who Hasl Just celebrated tier her eighty sixth birth birthday solves grasped her message and hor very name became a term of derision she was caricatured insulted jeered at and maligned in the early days of the movement rights was tho the synonym for dress reform for neglected homo home duties tor for rabid political tendencies and for unwomanly women elizabeth cady stanton was miss bliss anthonys earliest ally together they conducted ono one campaign after another seemingly making but little headway at first they traveled all avor the country going from place to place in open wagons stage coaches or whatever other conveyance was obtainable and from door to door on foot they endured many hardships and were subjected to insults ins innumerable people said eald of them that mrs stanton made the balls and miss anthony fired them she proved her good marksmanship by making every ball count partial suffrage in many states 1 I never saw that tall stately quaker girl coming across my lawn said mrs stanton but what I 1 knew another bombshell bomb shell was to be hurled into some assembly of men miss anthony was arrested and lined fined for illegal voting in 1872 she had cast a ballot at the election sho she never paid the fine since then four states have granted the right of 0 suffrage to women 23 states have given them the right to vote at school elections and new york permits women taxpayers to vote on all questions affecting the taxation of property for years miss anthony hoped to live to see a woman elected and inaugurated as president of oc the united states but she has haa abandon abandoned bandon bando ned cd that hope now realizing that such a thins thing will not come to pass in her day her life Is 13 now less strenuous and she and her sister mary have a quiet pretty home at hochwater Hoch Itoch cater IN Y she keeps in touch with every cause in the interest of or for the advancement of woman and in her voluminous correspondence pon dence continues to give advice and counsel to women in n all quarters of the globe out of her bw little workshop in the attic of the rochester homo home comes much of the ammunition used in continuing the battle for suffrage six years ago zt at the age of 80 she learned to operate a typewriter which she employs in her personal correspondence pon dence and in carrying on her work time has haa dealt gently with her she Js still stately and erect ard her step has the vigor and elasticity of most women many years her jr bior her memory Is by age all of her faculties anam to retain the keenness which made her such a power in the prime of her life her interest in the worlds affairs is unab unabated aed and her mind Is attuned to every movement having for its 15 object the betterment of mankind x sell schedules dules of the now new imperial tariff against american goods thus averting a tariff war with the united states Is the allm climax to inter interchange chanie of bor correspondence between secretary root and ambassador sternberg in which secretary root hoot has achieved bis hl first great feat of pure diplomacy diploma ey i tho the success of the state department Depart med in obtaining for another sixteen months equal consideration in tho the german germ tra trade dewith with other governments that havn have mado made great concessions to obtain the minimum tariff in germany with 0 ut any amelioration of our schedules lest against german goods entering this country ranks as one of tho the notable works of statecraft la in several decades of the recent history of the american Amerle flan foreign office had secretary root not alread already y given ample promise ot of being a diplomat of the first class he would now bo be hailed as tho the new stellar light in international politics all done in a month only a month before the action of the reichstag stag the german government was still apparently inexorable in I 1 its ts position that the ma maximum imura rat aratea would be enforced on march 1 in the light of the action at the earnest solicitation of chancellor von buelow one ona might be led to think a colossal bluff had been attempted and pushed to the last moment by germany but this it Is understood here la Is not tho the case the seed of education as to the result of the tariff war which mr root had bad been sowing did not sprout until within the last few weeks then its growth was rapid realizing that mr root was thova thoroughly familiar with all the premises prem isec and sound in his bis understanding of what the results would be of any course bourse pursued by germany ind and that he could not be shaken from fora his position of polite regret that no concession conces siba was waa possible at this 1 I and of the ware the german statesmen quickly went to their reichstag and had legislation passed deferring the trouble had the department here shown signs sl as of hysteria by steria or had bad secretary root not fully the several angles 0 of the case or had he be made excited efforts to have congress act h hurriedly ur in plying giving jerrin nv C concessions on lions before march 1 tho germans german a w would have decided that the Unit ednd leit leai could be coerced bv av c could fernr the maximum tariff butof placid explanations that 1 q boqi jc rould could lip be done here aith eithern h 1 10 aai 00 oo after march 1 had bad an exco 0 u 13 quieting effect upon germ german tana opinions secretary tary roots impassive attitude which was so remarkably effective I 1 in this case la 14 all the TOOM mora notable in view of nf the lood flood of excited protests that awre vo come to washington from associations of farming manufacturing |