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THE HISTORY
OF
Woman Suffrage
EDITED BY
SUSAN B. ANTHONY &
IDA HUSTED HARPER
ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATE AND PHOTOGRAVURE
ENGRAVINGS
IN FOUR VOLUMES
VOL. IV.
1883-1900
"PERFECT EQUALITY OF RIGHTS FOR WOMAN, CIVIL, LEGAL
AND POLITICAL"
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y.
Copyright, 1902, by Susan B. Anthony
THE HOLLENBECK PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS
* * * * Make me respect my material so much that I dare not slight mywork. Help me to deal very honestly with words and with people,because they are both alive. Show me that, as in a river, so inwriting, clearness is the best quality, and a little that is pure isworth more than much that is mixed. Teach me to see the local colorwithout being blind to the inner light. Give me an ideal that willstand the strain of weaving into human stuff on the loom of the real.Keep me from caring more for books than for folks, for art than forlife. Steady me to do my full stint of work as well as I can, and whenthat is done, stop me, pay me what wages thou wilt, and help me to sayfrom a quiet heart a grateful Amen.
PREFACE
After the movement for woman suffrage, which commenced about themiddle of the nineteenth century, had continued for twenty-five years,the feeling became strongly impressed upon its active promoters, MissSusan B. Anthony and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that the recordsconnected with it should be secured to posterity. With Miss Anthony,indeed, the idea had been ever present, and from the beginning she hadcarefully preserved as far as possible the letters, speeches andnewspaper clippings, accounts of conventions and legislative andcongressional reports. By 1876 they were convinced through variouscircumstances that the time had come for writing the history. Solittle did they foresee the magnitude which this labor would assumethat they made a mutual agreement to accept no engagements for fourmonths, expecting to finish it within that time, as they contemplatednothing more than a small volume, probably a pamphlet of a few hundredpages. Miss Anthony packed in trunks and boxes the accumulations ofthe years and shipped them to Mrs. Stanton's home in Tenafly, N. J.,where the two women went cheerfully to work.
Mrs. Stanton was the matchless writer, Miss Anthony the collector ofmaterial, the searcher of statistics, the business manager, the keencritic, the detector of omissions,