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MAGAZINE SECTION MT VERNON ROCKCASTLE COUNTY KY MARCH 23 1906 Pages 1 to 4
EIGHTYSIXTH BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION OF WOMAN SUF
FRAGISTS IN HONOR OF
MISS ANTIIONF
Protest Against Laws Which Allow
Mothers Small Protection Over
Children Plea for Exercises of
Corrective Ballot
It is a rare occurrence when noted
men of the country gather together to
do honor to a woman who has worked
and striven for a cause to which many
of them are antagonistic Yet this was
the case a week or two ago when
statesmen political leaders jurists
and literary lights joined in paying
homage to Miss Susan B Anthony
the great woman suffragist on the
occasion of her eightysixth birth I
day I
This meeting was held in Washing
ton D C in February Miss Anthony
of course being present to listen to the
addresses and words of felicity She
had just come from a convention of
woman suffragists in Baltimore
Among the letters of congratulation
read was one from President Roose
velt which said
Let me join in congratulating Miss
Susan B Anthony on the occasion of
her eightysixth birthday and extend
my best wishes to her upon her con
tinued good health
In reply to the numerous congratu
lations Miss Anthony owing to a se
vere cold confined her remarks to
these few words
I wish the men would do something
besides extend congratulations I
have asked President Roosevelt to
push the matter of a constitutional
amendment allowing suffrage to
women by a recommendation to Con
gress I would rather have him say a
word to Congress for the cause than
to praise me endlessly
The Rev Anna Howara Shaw a
prominent woman leader presided
over the meeting introducing the
speakers and incidentally poking
much fun at the members of the stern
er sex She said that any man who
accepts a post of especial learning im
mediately dons a gown It was true
of college professors of graduates
and of men who sat upon the Supreme
Bench She stated that the gown is
a symbol of wisdom
Over One Hundred Woman Leaders
In connection with this celebration
of Miss Anthonys birthday one hun
dred and fifty advocates of woman
suffrage swooped down on the Mem
bers of Congress and hurled at the
Statesmen all sorts of feminine oratory
on the subject In appealing to the
solons of the Capitol the argument
was made by the women that God did
not intend the female to be subserv
ient to man and that she should be
given justice through the ballot
The principal address was made by
Miss Mary Thomas of Baltimore
who protested against the laws dis
criminating against women
We have no right to the children
we have cradled in our loving arms
beyond the age of seven years she
said and now our boys of eighteen
need not ask our permission to join
the army and navy if their fathers are
willing The girls of Maryland who
cannot contract legal marriages under
sixteen years of age may then con
sent to their own degradation and
their destroyer go free Think of this
terrible injustice to ignorance and
innocence and grant us the power to
protect the child who cannot protect
himselfThe
The saloon keeper the cigarette
vender and the gambler may ply their
nefarious trades next door to our very
homes and we are powerless to save
the boys of the land from their influ
ence We ask of Congress the right
to express our opinion at the ballot
b > x because it will be the surest and
safest way to accomplish what we
desire
Miss Anthonys Remarkable Bat
tle Against Ridicule and
Calumny
Susan Brownell Anthony was born
86 years ago in the Hicksite Quaker
settlement at South Adams Mass and
was as quiet and gentle and obedient a
little Quaker maiden as any of her
playmates in that tranquil spot Her
life was uneventful until she took up
teaching and went out into the world
She was 26 years old when she made
her first fight for the right of suffrage
It was for the right to vote at a tem
perance meeting which was dominated
by young men The Sons of Temper
ance were holding a convention at
Albany N Y and the Daughters of
Temperance were invited to meet with
them Susan was one of the Daugh
ters who accepted the invitation Ear
ly in the proceedings the young women
discovered that their position tin the
convention was purely an honorary
one The men did not propose tnat
they should have any voice in the pro
ceedings It was against scripture
and against her natural sphere that
woman should raise her voice in the
councils of men were the arguments
of the men in answering the protests
of the women and in refusing their
petition to be allowed to vote
Suddenly a tall slender Quaker girl
arose from her seat and followed by
six others marched out of the convent
ion hall The leader was Susan B
Anthony It was her first rebellion
against that order of things which
gave men a monopoly of power She
Immediately set about organizing the
Womens New York State Temperance
Society That was the real beginning
of what has been her lifes work In
which the central theme has ever been
equal suffrage for the sexes
Great Courage to Withstand Rebuffs
It required great courage to under
take this work at the time and in the
manner she did But she possessed
that requisite and exercised it on
many occasions She never faltered
never lost heart though she was con
stantly subjected to ridicule calumny
and opposition Few women were
brave enough to follow her in those
days In 1852 she addressed a large
convention of men teachers A clergy
man who was present complimented
her afterwards
afterwardsYou
You spoke ably and well he said
but I had rather see my mother
and sister dead in their graves than
to hear them speaking from a public
platformUnceasingly
Unceasingly she preached the doc
trine of womans suffrage and equal
rights Few even among women them
Partial Suffrage in Many States
I never saw that tall stately Quaker
girl coming across my lawn said Mrs
Stanton But what I knew another
bombshell was to be hurled into some
assembly of men
Miss Anthony was arrested and fined
for illegal voting in 1872 She had
cast a ballot at the election She never
paid the fine Since then four states
have granted the right of 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 tax
ation of property For years Miss
Anthony hoped to live to see a woman
elected and inaugurated as President
of the United States but she has a
bandoned that hope now realizing that
such a thing will not come to pass in
her day
Her life is now less strenuous and
she and her sister Mary have a quiet
pretty home at Rochester N Y She
keeps in touch with every cause in the
interest of or for the advancement of
woman and in her voluminous corres
pondence continues to give advice and
counsel to women in all quarters of
the globe Out of her little workshop
in the attic of the Rochester home
comes much of the ammunition used
in continuing the battle for suffrage
Six years ago at the age of 80 she
learned to operate a typewriter which
she employs In her personal corres
pondence and In carrying on her work
Time has dealt gently with her She
is still stately and erect and her step
has the vigor and elasticity of most I
Women many years her junior Her
memory is undulled by age all of her
faculties seem to retain the keenness
which made her such a power In the
prime of her life Her Interest ia the
worlds affairs is unabated and her
mind is attuned to every movement
having for its object the bettennefft
of mankind
TRIUMPH FOR ROOT
GERMANYS NEW TARIFF ACT
ALLOWS SMALLEST RATE ON
AMERICAN GOODS
Securing This Unlooked For Conces
sion Makes Secretary of State a
Diplomat of First Rank German
Market Prized
War has been averted between the
United States and Germany not the
strife of cannon and sword but com
mercial war which nevertheless very
seriously threatened important Ameri
can industries
The recent action of the German
reichstag in passing legislation defer
ring from March 1 next until June 30
1907 the assessment of the maximum
SUSANB ANTHONY
Lcader of Woman Suffrage Movement Who HasflJust Celebrated Her Eightysixth Birthday I
selves grasped her message and her 1
very name became a term of derision
She was caricatured insulted jeered at I
and maligned In the early days of the
movement Womens Rights was the
synonym for dress reform for neglect I
ed home duties for rabid political
tendencies and for unwomanly women
womenI
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was Miss
MissI
Anthonys earliest ally Together they I
conducted one campaign after another
seemingly making but little headway
at first They traveled all over the
country going from place to place in
open wagons stage coaches or what
ever other conveyance was obtainable
and from door to door on foot They
endured many hardships and were sub
jected to insults innumerable People
said of them that Mrs Stanton made
the balls and Miss Anthony fired them
She proved her good marksmanship by
making every ball count
schedules of the new imperial tariff
against American goods thus averting
a tariff war with the United States is
the climax to a protracted interchange
of correspondence between Secretary
Root and Ambassador Sternberg in
which Secretary Root has achieved his
first great feat of pure diplomacy
The success of the State Department
in obtaining for another sixteen months
equal consideration in the German
trade with other governments that have
made great concessions to obtain the
minimum tariff in Germany without I
any amelioration of our schedules
against German goods entering this
country ranks as one of the notable
works of statecraft in several decades
of the recent history of the American
foreign office Had Secretary Root not
already given ample promise of being
a diplomat of the first class he would
lightin
in international politics
All Done in a Month
Only a month before the action of the
reichstag the German government was
position
tion that the maximum rates would be
enforced on March 1 >
In the light of the reichstags action
at the earnest solicitation of Chancellor
von Buelow one 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 is not
the case The seed of education as to
the result of the tariff war which Mr
Root had been sowing did not sprout
until within the last few weeks then
its growth was rapid
Realizing that Mr Root was thor
oughly familiar with all the premises
and sound in his understanding of what
the results would be of any course pur
sued by Germany and that he could
not be shaken from his position of
polite regret that no concession was
possible at this ond of the wire the
German statesmen quickly went to
their reichstag and had legislation
passed deferring the trouble
Had the department here shown
signs of hysteria or had Secretary
Root not fully appreciated the several
angles of the case or had lie made ex
cited efforts to have Congress act hur
riedly In giving Germany concessions
before March 1 the Germans would
have d rldnr1 that the TJjiIted States
could be coerced by actually applying
the maximum tariff but < Mr Roots
placid explanations that nothing at all
could be done here either before or
after March 1 had an exceedingly
quieting effect upon German tariff
opinionsSecretary
Secretary Roots Impassive attitude
which was so remarkably effective In
this case Is all the more notable In
view of the flood of excited protests
that have come to Washington from
associations of farminv amifacturlng
I
and other producing interests In the
Middle West which consider the Ger
man market their velvet
STOCK EXCHANGE SEATS
Points of Vantage Where Millions
Are Made and Lost While You
Wait
In keeping with the recent remark
able rise in stock prices in this coun
try is the rapid advance in rates at
which New York Stock Exchange
seats are selling The membership of
the Exchange is strictly limited to
1100 and seats are therefore objects
of ardent desire on the part of many
hundreds of market operators to
whom a membership would be mate
rially valuable A month ago a seat
sold for 85000 a record price A few
days ago membership rights were sold
for 90000 and one seat was bought
at the unprecedented price of 95000
It is believed that if there is another
transaction of this character soon the
price will reach 100000 or somewhat
more than 50 per cent greater than
the rate at which seats were sold two
years ago In 1872 Stock Exchange
seats sold for 4000 and this was re
garded as high
An idea of the reason why Wall
Street operators are anxious to ob
tain the right to transact their busi
ness on the floor of the Exchange
is gained from the fact that the stock
transactions nowadays average close
upon 1000000 shares a day If every
member of the Exchange were active
and if the business were evenly di
vided such a daily business would give
to each member a commission upon
about 990 shares amounting to a
yearly income of 32700 This is of
course entirely apart from individual
operations and profits
These Stock Exchange seats are re
garded as assets There has been in
the past some trading in them for the
sake of the profits gained by the rise
in the rate but the tendency was dis
couraged by a rigid enforcement of the
rule that the purchaser must be ac
ceptable to the governors of the Ex
change Men now sell their seats only
for urgent reason such as failure of
health or removal to other fields In
the latter case the New York seat is
probably more profitably turned into
cash at the high rates now prevailing
than to be held for future use When
a member of the exchange dies his
executors sell his seat for the highest
obtainable rate The bidding is often
spirited and some of the most strik
ing advances in the record prices have
been scored in this way
MILLIONAIRES FOR WAITERS
Caddies Feasted as Guests of the
Germantown Cricket Club Near
Philadelphia
Millionaires and men of promin
ence in the business and social life
of the city turned waiters and fed
the little lads who have served as
caddies on the golf links of the Ger
mantown Cricket Club at a banquet
at the clubhouse at Wissahickon
Heights the other night The lads
were delighted with the feast but
more pleased with the attention show
ered upon them by the dignified men
of affairs who left nothing undone to
make them happy
As the eightysix youngsters rang
ing in age from eight to sixteen years
sat about the banquet board garbed
in their regular costumes Samuel T
Heebner one of the old members of
the club wielded the carving knife
and huge slices of turkey were prompt
ly hurried to the hungry youngsters
by the millionaire waiters
First exMinister to Italy William
Potter would hurry away with a
plate then Sheriff Brown and Direc
tor of Public Safety Potter would rush
from the carvers side carrying plat
ters heaped with turkey and tempting
vegetables Edward S Buckley Jr
president of the club took a hand and
was assisted by VicePresident H H
Kingston Harian S Page Howard
Perrin Joseph S Clark Charles T
Cowperwaite Henry A Lewis Robert
C Cooke William R Buckley C H
Potter William Disston and W Find
ley Brown and all of them were busy
looking after the wants of their cad
dies all of them men of great affairs
After the collation had been served
William C Houston chairman of the
golf committee called the gathering
to order and made a brief address in
which he congratulated the boys upon
their behavior during the year As a
means of still further pleasing the cad
lies each was presented with a box
of candy and prizes ranging from 51
to 250 in gold
A Propeller In the Air
An English device Is reported of an
air motor boat which while not re
markable as a speed craft is yet very
useful in navigating many bodies of
water which on account of their ex
treme shallowness are practically clos
ed to navigation Other deeper rivers
and lakes are likewise avoided by a
screw or paddle wheel craft on ac
count of their growths of rank vege
tation A flat shallow draft launch has been
constructed which overcomes both dif
ficulties for its screw propeller or fan
works not In the water but in the air
Driven by a motor the fan whirling in
the air sends the boat along at a good
rate of speed
0
Curara one of ths deadly poisons
and that with which South American
Indians annoint their arrow heads
has been found very helpful In the
treatment of hydrophobia
IN THE WARM SOUTHLAND
A FEBRUARY JOURNEY FROM THE
LAND OF ICE TO THE LAND
OF FLOWERS
Breezy Account of a Midwinter Trip
to Charleston Jacksonville and St
Augustine Hotels Which Are
Palaces
We left Washington on February
eighteenth and after spending two de
lightful days in New York boarded the
Seminole for Jacksonville on Wash
ingtons birthday Now the one accom
plishment of my life has been that I
was always a good sailor but on this
trip I had to succumb never raising
my head from the pillow from the hour
we started until we reached Charles
ton I thought pretty faithfully of my
son who was sick for 12 days while go
ing to the Isthmus It was a terrible
passage for us very cold rainy and
completely dismal Nearly every one
was sick only two ladies and a few
gentlemen my husband among them
being the exceptions I had the dub
ious pleasure of taking all my meals
in my berth For two nights the
steamer pitched and rolled to such an
extent that my husband couldnt stay
in his upper berth and when we came
around Hatteras it seemed really peril
ous The captain said it was the rough
est night the boat had experienced for
five years and it will be a long long
while before I shall want to round
Hatteras again Saturday morning
however the misery was over and at
eight A M we stopped at Charleston
with a partially clear sky and a few
hours before us in which to do the
City We drove to the Battery and
walked the length of the sea wall
CALHOUN MONUMENT CHARLESTON S C
covered with red ones We went into
St Michaels church one of the oldest
churches in the South twice injured
by fire and the walls cracked during
the great earthquake The three walls
are lined with memorial tablets the
pews are of the old style high ones
FORT SUMTER
CHARLESTON HARBOR
OSCEOLAS GRAVE
FORT MOULT1A
MOULTthere
there The street is broad the houses
right on the street their grounds on
either side planted with vegetables
magnolia trees roses in full bloom and
a wealth of vines everywhere The
houses here were built before the war
and are immense three story structures
running way back with two and three
story verandas facing the South to
catch the sea breeze Quaint old carv
ings are on the doors which are also
resplendent with great brass knockers
The view is fine and expansive in
cluding Charleston Harbor Fort Sum
ter in the distance and the Ashley and
Cooper Rivers In the park are severa
old statues and on a warm night il
must be a charming spot
Flowers in Winter
Then we drove through the town
encountering everywhere gardens in
bloom and trees in foliage as if it were
the month of May A lady we mel
gave me an exquisite red and white
camel a and I saw aa immense bySb
our heads just appearing over the tops
We rambled through the market a ono
story building extending from block
to block till I think I counted six
Here we saw fruits and fresh vege
tables in abundance the darkey women
balancing great fiat baskets on their
Continued on next page
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