Show sushn 01 ANTHONIs her reminiscences of a long and busy life FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESS irow how women save advanced socially professionally and in every department of lites lifes work tho the great suffrage leaders review of it a progressive past and a hopeful future her efforts to vote bacheller johnson Jo linson bacheller Bae heller back I 1 over v my y ife 6 which has haa been bee n 1 4 t I 1 a ions iong and very t busy one the I 1 first thins thing that I 1 notice Is the V wonderful progress re ress made by my own sex in every detail of we life the onon cion ind women young husbands mid and wives of today to day cannot realize how bow nere in the ibe wr cary y part of this century to say bay that i revolution I hag as occurred between 1830 1890 and 1195 is s to say 1400 or nothing more 10 e than the tha truth IL II Is adoffer a daffer enco t bet between treen different periods in devote all my time wd and thought to the ma matter mariter tIter so about with ii a slight tinge of heiret regret I 1 gave up my iny ell chair ir and biesk to take ace an active pirt part in public life the first struggle in which I 1 took look part on behalf or of these doctrines wis was in the state convention of 0 teachers machers th this I 1 s was an important event which for many man years had been practically monopolized by men anil and in which wom domn n were almost altogether othar de debarred debarres barred from partle lapating the struggle was a hard bird ono one but as it pro progressed I 1 1 gaillee friends and mide ro converts then as our numbers grew tile the conservative opposition lon reluctantly reluctant 1 yielded ferit one privilege and then ano another women were permitted pei matea to take lake pirt part in the delys debit batez bit fr to read esq nys to speak to 10 vote and finally to 10 hold honored positions as officers it seems a vier very ety esy matter today to day and a very mall emall one but forty years axcell W if you had judged by the outcry of conservative elements in eSy and society you 1 would have supposed uial there was a i revolution I 1 in ili p progress which would soon consign things to tile tha liz librabo abo of 0 anarchy nn archy in though the influence and el ojune une e of Pill billbury bury george georce thompson wendell I v ndell IVi william litant lloyd garrison Garr lson land and other noble minic d pa I 1 be bagran an to realize that c slavery livery was ivas a riat national ional evil and should enild ie be abolished at aft any ariy price I 1 took so Inte intense an interest in the lie problem bhat in 1856 I 1 became one of the regular agents of ohp antl anti slavery ry So society cletY I 1 worked very hard bard on behalf of the muse cause I 1 was as in physical condition condl llon at the time and was able to do any amount of work that would have been too much for al a weaker organization organ I 1 spoke in churches school houses 1 halls and kisr birns whre where I 1 crould p tret et no room I 1 have in the open air from lumber wagons and dilapidated carts I 1 tool part in public held debates pro slavery edl tora ors and cl eymil adir addressed essed legislative live assem bIles constitutional conventions and congressional oom committe mitte I 1 was on the columbia river inthe in the days I 1 I 1 t 17 N I 1 41 N 71 N ital ii 25 1 uv I 1 I 1 ft 47 t 7 I 1 le 1 az RN N X t I 1 10 Z 1 I 1 7 X I x A 11 1 II 11 I 1 4 f V U I 1 ia V tf i ITZA 71 4 4 Z 1 1 I 1 k afi M f ay I 1 A i 10 I 1 I 1 1 ir 5 AV I 1 I 1 aks I 1 4 1 1011 J 11 I 1 N N 1 a tri 1 1 r I 1 I 1 aa I 1 1 1 a i 2 J t I 1 f I 1 11 NNA M 4 iz 1 I 1 A g 4 avia I 1 1 I I 1 A 1 4 aen V T I 1 Cs CAT 11 AV W i rf I 1 el tm 12 1 5 0 oj for I 1 jp elf rp naw F 1111 11 1 aza rr I 1 I 1 I 1 00 I 1 Z j T Z 1 J Y 14 ir 4 1 I 1 X afi V I 1 1 1 I I 1 A 1 11 I 1 I 1 C IN r 1 4 I 1 Z 1 t mt ac A 4 19 it 14 X a I 1 ia 14 1 11 ill U M M n ar J N I 1 ai 04 0 4 1 1 V r Y I N va A 7 Q P y V I 1 11 N 4 1 icek 10 I 1 SV it I 1 fn an M susan eusan 33 anthony and mrs 33 maude gross from a photograph taken christmas day history between different parts of 0 the bobe between I 1 might say this world and some other one more barbarous thoughtless and cruel and brutal lathouse in those early days it was considered gentlemanly to use wine trine to excess it was customary and waz was the law tor a husband to take all of his cifes property and use it as he pleased there i were cases not one or two nor twenty or thirty but hundreds in which de signing men would marry innocent girls tor for their money and almost as soon as aa the marriage vow was uttered would waste their cifes dowry in riotous living if a man failed his bs creditors attached his big cifes property properly and frequently took away from her everything phe had eyen evarn down to little ornaments orn amenta for her children or family kee keepsakes keep sakes that had been transmitted to her by her parents and grand rand parents there were cases where women with lazy or dussl gatej husbands would try to work to 10 support themselves and their little onea and when tt it came around to the weekly or monthly pay day a creditor of the husband or the wretched man himself would appear upon the scene collect the proceeds of 0 her ber toll toil and let her go home penniless to it dt might be ai a starving household and stringer Bt ranger I 1 still the father had the right of custody I 1 over the children at the expense of the I 1 mother these facts will illustrate a condition in which wont women ell had no rights and no privileges where in fact they hardly had aboul a soul to call their own 0 w n the thine struck me so forcibly the that in my youth I 1 determined to enter public life and battle for roy my sex 1 I thought the matter ater over very carefully and oon and resolved never to war marry but to devote all my time and ability to the cause of humanity uy my father was a quaker jn in an age ag e when to be a quaker involved a strong will power and great firmness tt of character I 1 received a good e education duL atlon but unlike most young women of those days I 1 was trained as a matter ot of conscience confidence on the part of my parents to honest self elf support I 1 the calling of a school teacher and followed tills this calling with considerable success forill tor fifteen years my aly experiences were daled i but taken altogether extremely pleasant one that ahat promised to be veradis very din dis agreeable wound up in exactly the op manner it wag waa at a school at centre falls fahs in there mere was a certain ve vey vesy y bad boy there aped aged about 15 who had bad made my predecessors life a very try unhappy one he was 0 youns young nian whose only qualifications tor sor the office of teacher were ones lie ile lacked firmness and irad had lost the respect of its hla scholars who under the lie leadership of the bad boy ment kond had made hla bla career a continuous torment and who finally chased him out of a window tho the boys had heird heard ct cf into as a merit meek young quaker girl ich who id did not bellave in dogging Oos and had bad agreed upon any number of surp burp lapa tor for my particular benefit bonef lt the ati ilay day came and I 1 entered the school my appearance ie pe arance must have bave confirmed cor cocci firmed mcd the reports that the boys had bad heard for they immediately began Indu indulging laing in various pranks and antics in which the bad boy took look the initiative I 1 called him to ahe platform in my iny quietest manner told him to lay off his bis coat and then with B e good bitch birch rod which I 1 had pro providina vidna tor for the occasion I 1 administered with creat precision and somo some muscularity AL a lesson to this young gentleman which completely revolutionized not only his preexisting pre existing not notions lons but also those ot of the entire class from that time on until the end of the term lie and they were armong the arst scholars that I 1 ever had this li Is one of the I 1 few ew occasions I 1 when necessity eIty compelled com me to depart trout from my principles in three questions teran began to agitate the llie american public all ot of which were to bew become me powerful ors in tho the I 1 ot of the american nation shey hey were tem temperance perance antl anti livery aud and suffrage I 1 made myself acquainted quain ted with anany of their diore ell cn T 1 I F aj when you traveled in stage coaches and the railway had not yet knittl knitted tile die continent to together gother on one occasion I 1 spoke in Iric higan to the inmates of an institution for the deaf and dumb it was wag a v very cry queer experience perien the superintendent stood by my side on the platform and as rapidly as aa I 1 spoke transmuted d my utterances te rances into the sign language I 1 could sec the effect lar far better on their races faces than upon those of men in possession of all their senses tears laughter earnest attention quick nervous movements of oc tho the head and face of the hands and even feet showed that every one olle of these unfortunates waa completely absorbed in tho the remarks I 1 was making in I 1 determined to test how bow far a woman could exercise the right of suffrage and having given notice duly voted the thing thin made a great stir and I 1 was made a target tor for several thousand editorial anathemas aLbernas ana nn themas I 1 was vas arrested as aa a common cr criminal ianina 1 and only from imprisonment b by Y giving bonds I 1 was duly tried beforce bedfor a magistrate ite who glared at me and said you voted as a woman did you not as it if to vote as a woman were a variety of treason trean I 1 replied promptly no sir I 1 voted as a citi yen aen of the united stat it ft made no diftler difference ence however they had to make an example of and a nd they did they found me guilty of I 1 do not know what wit at a t and ined fined me and costs with the alternative of going to jill jail to work out the fine I 1 was intensely in dinnant dI gnant and said bald to the judge Reel resistance tance to tyranny Is obedience to god ind and I 1 shall never pay a penny pc anny of this unjust claim and I 1 nver never have either strange brange to say the judgment ot of the fhe court awoke a strong feeling of sympathy on every hand and the magistrate vind and his friends thinking discretion the better part of valor never tried to execute the judgment of the court but the be poor inspectors who received the ballot were fined and imprisoned they the did not get any sympathy and po co were comp compelled ened to bear the brunt of my deed never nevertheless ill eless the tha moment we presented the facts before the president der it he ha pardoned them immediately jn in I 1 found myself mi self tired llred from overwork and recognized the pressing ff need of art an nelre entire change in the current of my life and st thought hought EO 0 I 1 made my arrangements as ag rapidly as possible and took a trip to england ant and the continent devoting myself so BO fax far as the tatt latair was aas a as concerned to france germany and italy it ans aci a avery very interesting te chapter in my life an and d full of surprises of many forts on one A occasion aca slon I 1 was male mafle to feel the difference between home borne and abroad jn ili a very mner manner whilo while in dertin derlin at the residence or of our silvister SIl nIster I 1 innocently or posted pasted a lt of letters in th envelopes of the iho woman comans womans suffrage fag adso IIa tion ot of america on these were printed our principle no jut just government can be without the consent of tile the governed tho the german officials F ww w those these revolutionary documents decumen is W bh c astern aaion direfully ciro fully held beli them for discussion anil and consIder consideration atlon and nd fitter after the consumption of large qui quint lUeg of red tape returned them to me with the su sugg callon that puch envelopes vt arp rp contrary to law lavir I 1 found out afterward tir ward that if I 1 had not a gl allt lt of the united fl len I 1 should have been arrested as is a or anarchist or nihilist or disorderly clis character r a c le r another great change which home cometo to me with ever increasing force is the attitude of my own sex arx in mat tors not only of suffrage tut but of all great public rong long ago it was an insIgn minority baho vho be any attention upon suell such s subjects ab while today to day I 1 believe that a 1 majority of american women hold taft position there was tras no organization and no bomena wortie ns clubs rind and very tow row opportunities for women getting 4 a hl alc hn her education much lest less a professional training today to day they are or in every part ot of the anent there art are club cluba t I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 tile the divulgence of these hese lias been one 0 ie ot of the happiest features ot or my work and travel in it the past ten tc n years a during that period I 1 have been in many states anti and Teril torim i and everywhere ery where I 1 have soen seen the same forces at work and th same condition condl llon ot of affairs coming anto bring the people ot of the east bast who pride themselves on tile the Il arvail annex ot of tho the slite Stat eq who glory in ili barnard bryn and nd vassar need not suppose that they monopolize 1 all I these good things in michigan and illinois in iowa and coligado Coli Coln rado lu in and california there are arc zi similar nillar institutions turning out hundreds hundred of alumnae there are hundreds of clubs where women meet ex chancre ideas and keep themselves thenis Aveo informed upon the question or of the day there are hundreds and thousands of organizations improve assist reward reform or punish as the case may be I 1 ind find the same culture among the women or of the prairies the mining ettles find the great bleat lake ports na as in the old itlo of new kew anglani Eng Eli feland lani and I 1 rc realize alize that the age aee Is sweeping speeding eDIng onward to a higher moral and intellectual and social condition while it Is true that women have only secured s full surf sul frase mage in ili two states they have secured parti partial allor or local suffrage in ili more than ten thousand communities muni ties including towns and anil and in ili nearly every instance havo have discharged char geil their duties in respect to the exercise of the tha ballot with a purity and orderliness which lave won tile the esteem of all witnessing their action they have already been candidates have passed the ordeal of the ballai ballot box and occupied positions as hagh as mayor suite slate attorney and su superintendent perin ot of state instruction thus tar far none of them have followed ane footsteps or of man end and yielded to temptations and I 1 hope they never will la iii communities where they do not vote they are organized and exert a juLI palpable Dable tangible influence upon parties and upon candidature whit with their political baudy clubs their leagues their social purity organizations their christian ic apor unions the day is soon at hand when no party can afford to put up a man whose name Is synonymous with dissipation with immorality with ill propriety or the base esse ede ot of human nature r this is largely the result ot of the junr xee movement 0 and in accomplishing this krand grand brok they have ave done clone more for tho the true welfare of the nation than f 11 tile the high hisch tariffs and low itA rits combined the only difference that remains the irle last surviving relic of the ago when woman was chattel property and was the savage slave of a still more sa savage vage lord remains remaina to be wiped away when this Is done tor for the first firs t time in the world we will have perfect lab liberty erty and perfect independence perfect f freedom and perfect equality these thesa have been the stars to which my 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