Anne Dickinson Speeches & Writings File Miscellaneous Unidentified Ms.best in her own line than to force her to do a half-best in any other line, and also because she believed every natural gift to be God-given and meant for divine use in serving the world." (17 Great praise of the brother (died from drink.) (in reading book, "Cannot fail to see how largely the evolution of this mighty organization has been the work of its gentle, yet magnetic leader, whose wonderful administration talent and superb tact, have given her an almost unparalleled success in controlling & guiding one of the greater movements of modern time. (quotes from F "Unless I am an awfully deceived woman, I am desirous of doing God's will, and so the clamor on this footstool &c" Pictures entirely the work of Wom Temp Publication Asso. " press Co. Would not have felt willing in her own naem to send forth such personal pictures for the public gaze, but she was obliged to yield in this, as in all else concerning the book, to the wishes & judgement of the white (08 ribbon women, etc." "I would like to tell a little story in conclusion. There is a creature in the sea called the Octopus, with a very small body but with immense arms covered with suckers, radiating from every side, that stretch themselves out to indefinite length to draw in all sorts of prey. Miss W. seems to have the same characteristic of being able to reach out mental or spiritual arms to indefinite lengths, whereby to draw in everything and every body that seem likely to help on the cause she has at heart. Hence I, who have felt this grip of those arms of hers, have come to call her in our private moments, "my beloved octopus" & myself her contented victim." (She had not then been dropped for Somerset. "What future histories will need to be written concerning the coming years of the life here portrayed, none can tell. "But [Divine Hand that has led] of this I am sure, that the same her hitherto will still lead and will bring her in triumph to life's close &c &c H.W.G. (She wrote in England19 In her "Prepatory" "The wise ones tell us that we change utterly once in every seven years, so that from the vantage ground of life's serene meridian, I have looked back upon the seven persons I know most about. The &c&c "the tireless traveller"?/ "& lastly the poilitician & advocate of woman's rights! Since all these are seventy dad & gone&c. "Perhaps the honest record of my fifty years may give them pleasure." (these multitudes of people Sep. 28. 1839 Churchville Monrie Co. N.Y. 14 miles from Rochester Her mother is in ecstasy over her study, philosophy &c, "In her childhood & always she strongly repelled occupations not to her taste. x x x x I wonder sometimes that I had the wit to let her do what she preferred instead of obliging her to take up housework as did all the other girls of our acquaintance. x x She dearly loved her brother - Oliver & her sister Mary. " x x Soothed, praised & left at liberty by my mother x x all happy hopes (20 were mine save one - I wasn't the least bit good looking then she by her mother & her sister, her friends she manages a picture of "lovely golden brown hair, of a likeness to the "noblest looking man in all the country round (her "grandpa Hill." Your Heavenly Father has fitted you out so well," " You have father's nice figure, & the small hands & feet of both houses" x her father's "never mind if you are not the handsomest girl in the school I hear them say you are the smartest." - This is what she got by" bemoaning " herself. It was Mary who got up the play bills, & made the properties, & decorated the hats, & served as the private soldier[s], & was the hospital to have nasty drugs poured down her, & pump buckets of water while I flourished a garden syringe &c Kept a hotel weary hostess I post It never occurred to me that I ought to "know housework4. housework "& do it. Mary took to it kindly by nature; I did not & each had her way" ----- Her Indian Story of a Fort-- in foot note "Several" Indian stories "are " bunched "in this sketch." (She never stuck at what would make a tale to suit herself,) She made the toys and then tells how it was her father's cutting and fashioning, her mother's sewing and making and Mary's decorating Prowled out for the day "Mary won the official badge of "Provider" for the practical part of the expedition was in her charge. "We used to shoot at a mark with arrows & become very good at hitting, so much so that at my request, Mary, whose trust in her sister was perfect, stood up by a post with an auger hole in it, & let me fire away & put an arrow through the hole when her sweet blue eye was just beside it. But this was wrong, and when we rushed in "to tell mother," she didn't smile, but made us promise "never, no, never" to do such a thing again " (32) 22. "Sometimes, at winter I would set a "figure-four trap" down in the poor south of "Fort City" where I caught many a plump quail. The trap was nothing but a rough box, held up on the edge by three sticks, fitted together like the figure 4, and having fastened to the cross bar of the figure a few grains of wheat. When the little "More Wheat" singing quails pecked away at the stick to knock off the grains, the whole thing fell down and they were prisoners. I asked to put on an old coat of father's, and some droll little boots my brother had outgrown and perching a soft hat on my head, wend my way over the snows hard crust to see my trap. But I never killed a quail. I would bring them home and hand them over to Soren, who soon set them free into the heavenly bird-land, Then Bridget would pick, stuff and cook the quails, putting in the flavored bread crumbs and such delicious "Summer Savory" as never was tasted before or since, and browning23. the delicious game to a turn. All this is considered a right and proper thing to do because quail could be eaten and so were useful and were not killed for mere sport; But Mary, whose heart was pitiful as an angels, used to wish that "folks could get along without meat, and not kill the creatures with such bright kind eyes as calves have, and lambs & little birdies", and her elder sister, who 'was given to "branching out" would tell her she "presumed that time would come, and hoped it might. Anything that you could imagine was apt to happen some day." (34-35) On page 32 (Out-for holidays) "In the [evening?] we would fish, chiefly for "minnies" (or minnow fish) and we usually had several of these little swimmers in dishes at home, which was a pity, for they died after a few days. We did not mean to be unkind to animals, for mother had taught us better, 24. but we didn't think, sometimes On page 26,--we made this plan at Forest Home; one Sunday father should 'hold the fort,"the next mother, and the next [?]. Whoever did this had to get the dinner ready, and as both father & son were famous cooks, the plan worked well indeed, to see my mother brandish the carving fork in air as we approached on our return from church, and to inhale the rich aroma of his roast chicken with home-raised vegetables and steaming coffee, was an event. Sunday dinner was [?] the central part of the day, and served to keep it in fragrant memory, not withstanding the many deprivations. For me it was all very well under the peculiar circumstance, but I do not approve of a Sunday dinner that deprive working people of theiruse-- their opportunity to go (25 to church. On page 27 "my parents soon decided not to leave the house alone, for prairie _____ ____ [unpleasantly?] near, ________ woke with fields or garden, & there was no dinner when we got home. (servants at Catholic Church,-"such a being as a _____ had not been heard of & "not one ____, much all any fright or danger, befell us ____ pioneers" (in 12 _____) "safe & peaceful lot" as against "fright & peril" of those days. _________________________________ (Mary fixed her medicine & ____) 37 ______ Mary _____ on two _____, "obligingly made when sick" -- her _______ "that I dutifully kept through all those _____ will give the outcome of my medical experience. ( "Sister was sick, & I brought out all my little bottles of sugar, salt & flour. Besides (26 these medicines, I dosed her with [pimento?] pills? & poulticed her with cabbage leaves, but-- she grew no better quite fast, so mother called another doctor. Dear me, if I were my mother, instead of being only a girl, we'd soon see whether [her future?] for medicine or not." But the "other doctor" was purely imaginary, for Mary pinked up & ran off with Olivia after the cows, telling her that I could "try my skill on the calves or the cat next time," & the young Miss D. got quite a lesson from her mother on the value of mod eration in medicine & all other undertakings. Her pome to an Old Oak the _____ when the tiny nub that held thee fast, dropt quietly into the rich dark soil, 'Twas in the plan of the great God of all, that thy [right?], brave, thy green _____ lifted high, thy sturdy trunk, take the noble form27 Should be, some day far distant, loved by me. Should cause my eyes with joy to rest on thee, And so increase earth's gift of God, to me, Thou hast given this grace to marry, thou hast granted it me; But none, perhaps, besides me shall extol thy memory. While their mother went a journey & mary cried Frances "you asked dear, beautiful warm ma to bring you a box" sobbed Mary. "you thought about a box when she was going away off." & she cried aloud. (F. who had only been "biting her eye)" well, I was sorry enough to have her go, was my philosophic answer "but since she had to leave us I thought I might as well have a little something when she came back." All the same Oliver & Mary never ceased poking fun at me about that box, which after all I did not get! - (So Father & Oliver cut the toys & bows &c, & Mary trimmed them. In their singings at home "Mary was excellent at keeping the time, so she came to be the one who played the accompaniments (54) (28 59 "I remember" said Mary, once on a time," that Frank used to go without butter, & father gave her a cent a week for it, which I guess is the reason she liked it so well When she grew older, And I can say the pretty verses that Mrs. Hodge sent back when Frank carried the little pair of socks that mother had knit for John, on Christmas morning." Then she repeated these lines: "I thank you, little Frankie, You're very kind to me, And by & by I promise Your little friend to be. "your nice & pretty present Keeps my little toes so warm, And makes me good & pleasant In all the winter storm "I'm such a little boy you know, And oh, how I would cry If I should freeze my tiny toes, But I sha'nt now - good by! "All the same, Frank never set a stitch in those socks" remarked my brother.'That’s a fact but I gave them to her to give to Johnnie, & I had a right to, hadn’t I?” replied my Mother. (29 While her brother was convalescing at home from college (broken leg) “We girls ('64) read many books aloud to our brother that summer. “Don Quixote," "Gel Blas," the .."Dunciad", “Gulliver’s Travels” and others that he liked. - She (68) had read all of Shakespeare when she was 15. (It was on the book case in her father’s room. & yet page 72 on her 18 birthday there is a scene with her father because she is reading Ivanhoe & "I told you not to read novels" & she would & did because she is 18. &c laughs &c "a chip off the old block." 9 years old before she could write (77) at School Effie Inman "whose steady sweetness of temper was so surprising to one of my impetuous nature, that I told my mother I had ,"just stepped on Effie's toes at recess to see if she wouldn't frown, & sure (30 enough she didn't. -" My mother replied that I had better set about imitating Effie's lovely ways instead of carrying on any more experiments of that sort I was wont to tell this dear teacher (80) that "I was born to a fate." Professor Hodge "He was patient to a fault, & I was glad that in my mathematics, which I did not like , one so considerate took my difficult case in hand." (82) What parents ought to teach their sons & daughters at home (ideas stolen bodily from Mrs. Hooker, might have said it. (84) About her toys at school with Louisa Alden' "And dolls for which I declined to make clothes." - Studying with Mr. & Mrs. Whitman Read "Jane Eyre" "Shirley" & "Vilette" " I read them all in feverish haste closing with "Vilette", in (87 (31 the midst of which I was, (she told on 84 at school now. with L.A" our fishing with a crooked pin, small bait, less fish) on a lovely Summer evening just before twilight, when a long shadow fell across the threshold where I was sitting unconscious of everything about me, & my father's tall form bent over me; he took the book from my hand, & as he saw the flush on my cheeks his brow clouded. "never let my daughter see that book again, if you please, madam," he said to the lady of the house, who, not knowing his rules had hardly noted my proceedings; the book was taken from me, & to this day I have never finished reading Villette. Never cared for dolls (89) "but gave my wax doll to my sister with some show of generosity but no inward sense of sacrifice. "I have an unconquerable aversion to intercourse with my (32 superiors (109) in position, age 32 or education. (This in the account of her college experience She cannot praise herself as student enough so has this chapter written by her sister in law. O the glory of knowing always when you are in the right! I shall arrive at it. Wants to live pretty much alone, with books & nature & drawing &c" Then I shall have pleasure enough, except oh, I want a young friend of my own age, nearly, who shall love me, understand me, bear with me! Often I have thought that I had such an one, but have found to my bitter regret that I was mistaken. (finds she is very like Margaret Fuller Ossoli.) "The girls" say I am fickle.; I have always had that reputation, I believe. And yet it is not my fault. In Emerson's essays, on "Circles" I find the solution of the problem. Listen: "Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is imitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's boundaries, it is all over with 33 him. Has he Talents? Has he enterprise? Has he knowledge? It boots not, Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in? Now you have found his shores. found it a pond, & you care not it you never see it again." (III) This stuff in her diary at college, The rule to report, "Stand up" 14 months. I didn't do it, every night as prayers, those who had violated the rules were to rise & report: we simply did not rise. Close of term Professor call for all violated, - rose Mary "the saint of the school" among them. Then called he names of all [those] who had not violated the rules, that is, who had not reported doing so & we stood up " & had a beautiful speech of thanks & commendation & holding up as a lovely example [I was so disgusted with on] The fact that we were not suspected, proves that we did not do any thing particularly out of the way, & that out general reputation was good: but I was so disgusted (34 with myself at this false standing, that but for a miserable sense of what they call "honor" subsisting among school-mates & thieves , I should have risen then & there, in obedience to my strong impulse, & states the facts in the case. (Page 116.) part of the business was to read "Jack Sheppard" dress as pirates, Smoke cigars & drink ginger pop "which was as far as we dared to go in the direction of inebriation. (117) When she wishes her larger capacities adored as student & Seeker after truth She gets Prof Jones - a quarter of a Century later to do so, & tho' he is "mistaken as to some of the dates" She is glad to have the general incense burn (hated Mathematics slow, &c mrs. S. S. Bend.) x her delight Belles-lettres, &c (121) x Trying to find out the truth (of the Bible &c) "Dont be disturbed, Mattie," I Said. "if she will only keep on trying to find out. Allher friends have to do, is to pray that she may persevere." 121. /22 x Then has him tell about her going to the altar. High old description (123) " This was one year later than Prof. Jones supposed." "your memory ont he whole unusual. (125) a lot of stuff of herself after leaving school "An Honest Hour this out of her journal "overweaning modesty (of which I think you never have been accused. "Your affections are completely under your control."- Girls should be set to work to learn &c - After leaving school make them independent &c "But these high views had not dawned on the world in my day, (1860) SO fro two years after my graduation , I stayed at home, with three brief intervals of teaching." (124) In a spasmodic way you are generous, yet beneath this, selfishness is deeply rooted in your heart (126 All this that she may copy from the next page What Mary says in the same journal about her beauty &c (36 Lecture on Temperance "It was the best lecture of the kind I have ever heard. Almost the only one (128) more journal (129) " A hungry soul & a bruised heart are objects more pitiful, I think, than a maimed limb or abject penury. I wish my mission might be to those who make no sign, yet suffer most intensely under their cold impassive faces." Oh, - that I were a Don Quixote in a better cause than his. (131 April 21, 1861 On this beautiful Sabbath day the unusual sound of the whistle & the thundering cars, has been heard for the first time, & our thoughts have been more of war, I fear, than of the God of battles whom we tried to worship. It is twilight & soon I shall go peacefully yo sleep. but while I am asleep a thousand soldiers will pass through the quiet village on their way to "the war"; that terrible Somethingwhich hangs over us black & portentous, Somewhere in Wisconsin & on the broad bright plains of Minnesota, Mothers & sisters, daughters & wives will be weeping & praying tonight for these soldiers. God pity them & give them peace. (132) May 19 (139) the account of her father & brother of the wild enthusiasm at the wigwam when Lincoln was nominated :they say we must have laughed or cried if we had been there. I would like to test myself, to try my self- control in some such way." (139) " There is something I can hardly define, but the word character seems to me to express what I lack & what I must acquire. (139) First rules of her teaching I Introduce general exercises when practicable. This concentrates evry mind on one idea, & when they all think alike by your command you can do with then what you will. (140.) Clara Thatcher (daughter of her director "I do not know what I should do without her (she having been treated as if she were their own child) 28 She is a petted child, the only daughter , not used to thinking much of others' comfort but she is very kind to me & marvelously thoughtful of my happiness. (144) _____ diary " in all my friendships I am the one relied on, the one who fights the battles, or would if there were any to fight." (149) ________ Her brother's birthday, -- & she is wondering if he will write to her & so remember it & by & by she goes down town you think to get him something - not at all! a dress "with her own earnings." 154 She has a deal to say about the failure to mezmerize her but not a word of the gifts a book a watch they [?] such as all the girls are wearing now. sent with her father's own watch, taken like his eye [from] for her, "for I do not know what I am to do without it. This begins" Oct 26. Father is the cleverest of men. Just listen to him. (183) First of War (163) "When I think of the love that fills my heart toward the Southern people in general & my own great(39 circle of friends there in particular, I can hardly believe that I exhausted language in anathemas upon them when this news came ("Fort Sumpter fired upon & our flag is there no longer" her father telling it in "an agony of mind April 13 1861). Soon after, the Bull Run defeat showed us what we did not till then believe, that we had foemen worthy of our steel! Up to that time we looked with disdain upon "the lily-handed Sotherons' & thought that Gen Scott would soon teach them the difference between " a lot of idlers" and the horny-handed and lion-hearted soldiers of the North. XX I used to be sorry at the time that none of my kindred, was in the army but I can not say at this distance that I am now, & while I know that if my understanding of the Southern people had then been what it now is, I should have felt altogether different toward them, I have the poor satisfaction of knowing that they anathematized us as [40] bitterly as we did them! When she hears (174) at tea Jan 1 1863 emanc. proc. the girls cheered &c " & far down in my heart something stirred, some chord was struck that gave out music" XX It is a thing that I am thankful has transpired in my experience & that I shall think on with frequent pleasure. (174). Composition work " I think no school-mate ever asked my help without receiving it." Indeed, I am afraid that I had an undeveloped conscience on this subject, for one of my most lovely remembrances is a "Change of Works" by which my clothes were mended, & my room set in order, while I plied my pencil in the interest of some girl whose harp was on the willows in view of the fact that next Friday afternoon she must bring in a composition. (184) [o] June 16 63 Lee's invasion. "The girls are distressed, especially those living to the41 southward, but I am not troubled a bit-". (182) she writes a letter wishes her friend could seen the lovely wild spot ( near Pittsburg) & then instead of describing it tells of hat & veil & gown, & eye glasses. &c &c. (178) The long extracts from the journal that are excuse for any flattering of her vanity because of course they were written for herself alone. ( Her father & mother 'helped her with points & sometimes (184 with sentences" as a child, she herself has probably "helped" these Journals in transcript. When her father got into pecuniary difficulties & the new home of "Rest Cottage was building "my home was with the families of Dr. Raymond & Simeon Farwell never kindness in those days of difficulty - I shall not forget - (189 Her beautiful suite of rooms "my friend, Kate Jackson, came with me. ( to Lima) 42 Genesee Seminary (1866-67) (42 for I had secured her the promise of French classes. Her object in going was to be with me, as she had no occasion to make money for her own use. (191) Tells about the pictures & things &c on her journal "& in a couple of hours I was nicely established in my new home." (191) Oct. 13 - We have changed work; I hear Kate's physiology class & she "does up" our room Oct 15, - Have had a letter from Nina Lunt, dated Geneva, Switzerland. What would I not give to have her opportunity in life, for my pet desire is to travel. If I had been a man I would have liked Bayard Taylor's portion under the sun. Oct 24. Prepared talks to my girls about room - keeping. This is my hobby. I believe, whatever I cannot do I can make a home attractive. My own room I delight to have (her father came with her & put up her things &c) a pleasant place to dwell in. For this I care more than to dress. (192093) She hears H.G. & records chiefly his "nice black suit, velvet vest, wide collar, ring on third finger of left hand. red bandanna &c& (193)(43 Prof. Scoville wished her to speak before the United Societies at Commencement in the College Chapel x x "But I stoutly declined, saying that while I would rejoice to speak were I a man, such a beatitude was not for a woman, & I would not face the grim visage of public prejudice, This was at the Commencement exercises of 1867. Something less than four years later, I was glad to accept Mr. A.E. Bishop's generous championship, & under his auspices to speak an hour & a quarter in Centenary Church Chicago, without manuscript./ So goes the world. It is always broader & better farther on." oh ye gods! (198) my generous Senior girls gave me a beautiful ring like their own (on leaving) & the under-graduates gave me nearly one hundred dollars with which to buy a dressing -case. (197) Her mother speaking to the stenographer "In 1869 Frank went to Europe. Her good (44 friend, Kate Jackson paid all the expenses of their trip which cost about $1200 in gold, at the time when gold was at a premium. returned in Sep. 1870 That winter we did all of our own work, not because we could not have a girl, for Kate had no lack of money", but wanted to be to themselves after "tremendous outing" - she & Kate cooked & worked & Frank brought in some wood & coal (198) The beginning of heir College, Mrs. Mary F. Haskin wife of the kind friend who gave me my first financial send-off. (199) "Of Temperance I never spoke (lectures to the girls at Evanston) taking it for granted that all was well. Now & then, when especially "worn out" I would take a little of Mother's currant wine; on the last winter of my teaching, Dr. Jewell, one of the leaders in our Sunday school, ordered a keg of beer into my cellar, of which I drank(45 a nauseating glass at dinner rebelling at every dose, experiencing no benefit, & abjuring it forever when the blessed crusade wrought its miracle upon our hearts. (219 When she comes to make her fight before a "Special Committee" & is arraigned as not having carried out the rules efficiently "I burst out crying & left the room in 1874 - #(239) & there she bawled "so that they heard me all through the hall." - While the reception went on at Pres. Fowler's house." She wanted everybody in the early morning to ask their forgiveness & before she quite made a fool of herself her mother came in a carriage saying "her own home & her own folks were what Frank needed" & took her away. - 240-241) after 15 years she finds these others were right, & that her rules to restrict the girls & give 46 freedom to the boys &c as against their Equal Rights for all was wrong. went back for a "scene" with them all. Fowler included in church. "Nor do I know nor ever mean to know in this or in any world, a reason why any human being should hesitate to speak to me with cordiality & kindness or why any middle wall of partition should exist between my spirit & any other human spirit that God has made (243 "The Tireless Traveller" 245 Her father died in Jan. 1868 (246 [among] his people at church visit- gives him 9 lives. When she came back to help nurse him Kate J "took a house opposite - & on May 68 took her abroad. 1864 - helped her at the [Grove?] school by teaching French When W. was Cor. Sec of the Am Methodist Ladies47 Centenary Asso in 1866" Miss J did much writing for me." went to Lima &c "Go home write me as Xmas, for I am bound to coax my father to agree that you & I shall take the tour of Europe." I looked into her face with large eyed wonder & delight. To see the countries of which I had read so much, & the home and shrine of the great & good, had been one of my cherished dreams. I thought that to fulfillment would sometime come to me, but supposed it would be late in life. x went home. "I was prepared to admire & respect & through whose liberality, I was soon to have one of the crowning blessings of my life. He readily fell in with the project of his daughter Kate & told me not to feel in the least under obligations to himself or to her, for he had long desired that she should go abroad but had never until now found 48 any one with whom he felt inclined to send her. This gracious speech of the (48 generous gentleman dispelled my scruples, which, indeed were not strong, as Kate & I had been for years devoted friends and so it came about that good James Jackson (He was proprietor of the New Jersey Locomotive Words. At[Paterson?) & his daughter an among the foremost of the beautiful procession of helpful souls that have so many times stood for me at the parting of the ways & pointed onward, (248-249) He died while they were gone (Lot of common place stuff following about travels) In Paris journal (she has said of K. J. on (248) "she was foremost as a scholar, having a very exception gift for the languages, especially Latin49 and French" had taught it in these colleges for years, -- then 271" had hours of solid French. It was pleasant to me to be able to understand a whole conversation in another language, with the help of an occasional word from Kate, who is always ready & willing to come to my aid. It is odd, but when she is a moment absent I do not altogether understand sentences that would give me no trouble if she were within earshot. Feb. 8 (P. 272) " & when [evidently her journal has to lie] Kate acting as mouthpiece for us both (in an argument) because she speaks French even to herself more readily than I do"- !! "You might just as well try to dismiss the plague with a dancing room bow" (at the pyramids. Look back to (246) at the Mallison House Chicago when she was nearly 19 [ ] Mary 16 [description of the table &c Her father summoned him (the waiter) for a conference --------------------------------- 50 and chose my dinner for me. But I was distressed for fear I should do something awkward under these strange circumstances, ate almost nothing, and had a wretched all-overish sense of being unequal to the situation. Helplessly I envied the fair girl of sixteen who sat beside me, and was full of merry quips with father, and not at all concerned about her conduct or herself-- my beautiful sister Mary." "In all these journeyings x x we did not lose (250) a day through illness save by my brief attack in Denmark, & our comrades " exalted them ad nauseum in Palestine did not render the Christian scholars in Palestine " tho' it involved hardships to is unheard of and unknown until we braved the terrors of "camping out" my friend, Anna Gordon has estimated the distance standard, abroad, & since51 then in the Temperance work of fifteen years, with the little flutterings that preceded , (She went to N.Y. to get 19 Beautiful &c published borrowed $100 from as making a total to two hundred and fifty thousand miles for the poor little girl that stood in the barn doorway & thought she should never see anybody nor go anywhere?" "I am immortal! The centuries flow onward at (286) thy feet, O weird and mystic sphynx! Oft from their fertile waves thou dost not gather aught that enriches them, But for me each noble fields blessings that shall last forever, and all climes and age are my gleaming fields, not like an ignoble worm do I crawl beneath these, but like a treeless bird I soar above, For a moment I have paused to muse 52 on thy strange, unproductive history, but now I spread my wings and fly away to other scenes, and by and by weary of one small world I shall journey to another " &c (all this from the majesty of the sphynx to the greater thought" I am immortal.) W. S. ? [ ] (306) "Three things I did, once in awhile, during my two years & four months of foreign travel, that I never did and never do at home. I went to see sights on Sunday, went to the theatre, & took wine at dinner. I reflect upon these facts with undisguised regret but will frankly mention how this apostasy occurred, never having been inside of a theatre but once in America and that on my first visit to New York City, in 1863, or went a few times in London, Paris, Berlin, and once in Moscow -perhaps half a dozen times in all. The53 universal judgment of 0 up cheaps (288) seated herself on the top most stone Taking from my pocket a Jaffa orange (bought with this same intent) I tore it open & buried my parched eyes in the juicy pulp. If I were called upon to name the most delectable sensation that ever human palate knew I should refer to the foregoing incident. RR.? All this in large type not from her notes evidently tourists is that one's impression of the class that has best opportunity of culture is best gained by one's observations at the play, & their native language is spoken with greater purity, by actors, perhaps, than by any other class. There are some important sights in Paris never to be seen except on Sunday so we went a few times, " probably not half a dozen, in the nine months (54 of our residence there. Having been reared a total abstainer (note p.p. ) the thought never occurred to me to take wine until my violent illness in Copenhagen, when a kind faced physician bent over me & told me in French that if I ever expected to see my home again, I must avoid drinking water as we journeyed from one country to another, that being the most fruitful source of disease among travellers. The subject had not then been studied (?!!) as it has been since, & I was more reverent towards physicians than I am now, so these words came to me as law & gospel. From that time on I thought it right to mix a little wine with water at dinner, taking tea & coffee at the other meals. Kate (!!) also carried a bottle of wine with which to55 moisten our box of Albert biscuit, which was a requisite on our long car rides. Coming home, the custom was at once abandoned by us both, & not renewed by her in her many years of foreign travel since, not by me save as herein confessed. (219? - the wine & the beer?) Its like the Republicanism When she went (193) on Oct 29 at Lima "I went down to a political mass meeting addressed by Horace Greeley Here was American politics as manifested in a crowd of yeomanry with bands & such matters as "Down with the One Man Power" "Congress Must & Shall Be Sustained!" 'Andy Johnson. Swinging Around the Circle!" This motley throng surges to & fro nearly taking us off, 56 our feet. It was somewhat to study to be sure, but we didn't stay long, the place was so breathless & full in spite of the rain. I like Horace's quiet unwritten face. Life hasn't hurt him much - the noble old philosopher, I liked to watch him standing there in his nice black suit, with velvet vest, wide collar & queer ruffle of [gray] whiskers gray; with the bald head, ring on third left hand finger & red bandanna in his hand. He is a historic figure & embodies well the idea of our government - freedom in all right things, to all Give everybody a fair chance & let the outcome come! Honor to H.G., the self-made chief editor in the Un. St. for the last score of years. At the International breakfast in Philada which was a part of the(57 Centennial celebration by temperance people in 1876. I heard testimonies from travelers who had circumnavigated the globe many times, to the effect that they never drank wine. I know it is the testimony of all our Methodist Bishops & their duties take them to every clime, & my honored friends, Mr & Mrs Joseph Cook, of Boston, tells me that they found a bottle of thoroughly boiled water to be a perfectly saf & satisfactory substitute for wine & all their world- wide travels, so that were I now to set out for a voyage around the world as I suspect I shall some day , I should have no anxiety in my character of total abstainer. I firmly believe that had I never tasted wine while on the other side of the water & had I scupulously followed the American customs in my Sabbath observance, (58 it would have been much better for me every way" 306-307 {Now see the wine story P. { & remember A. G. She says Aug 23 (p 307) of her teacher & I suppose boarding mistress at leaving "She has a firm & loyal friend in me ( what would she do for the woman & her children? & I am sure that while she lives I shall not lack one on this side the water, nor shall I lack, while she has a roof over her, a home, where I am as welcome as anywhere on earth save in the little Gothic college on the sunset shore of Lake Michigan." In Southern Cal. "[The] &c (311) of Arizona "Roads leading nowhere, desert plains, strange, useless vegetation; no fences, general appearances not unlike Arabia Petraca, according to the books (note!) Now & then an emigrant wagon & lone mountains, tranquiltreeless & distant like vast, (59 heaped-up shapes of sand or stone: a saw-tooth sky-line, &c The only living things indigenous to the plains that cheered our eyes, were six graceful antelopes, discerned at early dawn, coming no whence, going no whither. What a strange juxtaposition, this wilderness outside, & the race-horse of the East, puffing his undaunted way; the elegant "silver car," with its artistic decorations [&c] its tapestry cushions & curtains, & way-wise men & women reading the Chicago dailies the last Century, of New York, Atlantic, of Boston, or Spectator, of London, & looking out through costly glass (adjusted from "opera" to "field") over this waste of primeval lonesomeness! (this is (66 supposed to be "noting down some items of our stay at Tucson, for ten years the Capitol of Arizona." (311) She quotes Garfield's saying (313) That the time wants men "who have the courage to look the devil squarely in the face & tell him that he is the devil." The Yosemite (316) Where, after a mountain ride of half a day, surrounded by inclined plains of evergreens, each of which would have been a world's wonder at the East, with supurb curves in the road evermore opening fresh vista's of "Ilimitable height, verdure & beauty, we rounded Inspiration Point," there was no more spirit in us." Word-pauperism oppresses one upon this height as nowhere else on earth. x x What was it like?" & she has out Milton & Wordsworth.(61 She goes softly with the Mormons while there "These were honest, simple, kindly souls, & believed what they had said about Joe Smith as a prophet & polygamy as a sacred tie. But for the self-control which years & discipline have bought me since my impetuous girlhood days, I would have lifted up my voice & wept." 325-26. Southward Ho! (328) my first trip of three months (1881) spent in blessed work for the homes & loved ones of a most genial, intelligent & heartily responsive people, made me quite in love with the South. To think they should have received me as a sister beloved, yet with full knowledge that I was that novel & unpalatable combination (as a Richmond gentleman said) "a woman; a (62 a Northern woman a temperance woman!" I had been told that to speak in public in the South was "not to be thought of that all would be lost if I attempted anything beyond parlor meetings. But instead of this, their liberality of sentiment was abundantly equal to the strain;" (crowded churches, united ministers &c &c "their editors, without the slightest subsidizing, were so kind & helpful as my own brother could have been." x for such & such reason x "temperance has an immense advantage in the south (x " the native population is so regnant, colored population is of such home-like nature, & the foreign element so insignificant in influence [&] numbers, that temp - Beer has no such grip on the habits or the politics of the(63 people as at the North. Almost without exception the Gulf and seabound states have taken advance ground. The time is ripe; "the sound in the mulberry trees" is plainly audible. I have now made five trips thither, & always with the same warm welcome." A Temperance Advocate & Organizer Her father's certificate as a Washingtonian always on dining room wall (331) dated 1838. "unconsciously & ineffaceably I learned from that one object-lesson (the nice man home & the fellow with the bottle) what the precepts & practice of my parents steadily enforced, that we were to let strong drink alone. In 1855 I cut from my favorite Youth's Cabinet, the chief juvenile paper of that day, the (64 following pledge, & pasting it in our family Bible insisted on its being signed by every member of the family parents, brother, sister & self. "A pledge we make no wine to take, nor brandy red that turns the head, Nor fiery rum that ruins home, Nor brewers' beer, for that we fear, And cider, too, will never do, To quench out thirsts, will always bring Cold water from the well or spring; So here we pledge perpetual hate To all that can intoxicate." It is still there, there signed & represents the first bit of temperance work I ever did. Its object was simply to enshrine in the most sacred place our home afforded a pledge that I considered uniquely sacred. Nobody asked me to sign it &c x x In all my teaching, in(65 Sunday school, public school & Seminary, I never mentioned total abstinence until the winter of the Crusade, taking it always as a matter of course that my pupils didn't drink nor did they as a rule. I never in my life saw wine offered in my own country but once, when Mrs. Will Knox, of Pittsburg a former Sunday School scholar of my Sister Mary, brought cake & wine to a young lady of high family in our Church, & to me, when we went to call on her after her wedding . "Not to be singular" we touched it to our lips - but that was twenty five years ago, before the great examples burnt into the nations memory , & conscience by Lucy Webb Hayes, Rose Cleveland Francis Folsom Cleveland, 331-332 Find something (333)Material to the Action of the Case How long before You can take action 66 better than formal society, - these "new women" - we make no "formal calls," x x "If a new woman's face appears in church we wonder if she won't "come with us," in the W.H.M.S. , the W.F. M.S., the W.C.T.U., or some other "ring-around-a-rosy" circle, formed "for other's sake." She has said it in travel business, now in "A Temp. advocate & organizer" (334) "from 1866 to 1870 I studied & traveled abroad, not tasting wine until in Denmark, after three months absence, I was taken suddenly & violently ill with something resembling cholera, & the kind-faced physician in Copenhagen bending above my weakness said in broken French: "Mademoiselle, you must put wine in the wateryou drink & you will never (67 live to see your home." This prescription I them faithfully followed for two years with a gradual tendency so to amend it as to make us read, "You may put water in your wine," & a leaning toward the "pure article" especially when some rich friend sent for a costly bottle of "Rudesheimer" or treated me to such a luxury as "Grand Chratreuse." At a London dinner where I was the guest of English friends, & seven wine glasses stood around my plate. I did not protest nor abstain — so easily does poor human nature fall away, especially when backed up by a medical prescription. But beyond a flushing of the cheek an unwonted readiness at repartee & an anticipation of the dinner (68 hour, unknown to me before or since, I came under no thralldom, & returning to this blessed "land of the wineless dinner table: my matural environments were such that I do nto recall the use of intoxicants by me "as an homage" from that day to this. Thus much do I owe to a Methodist training & the social usage of my grand old mother church. For years in Oberlin, Ohio, in my childhood, also did much to ground me in the faith of total abstinence & the general laws of hygiene. x x The Crusade" 73-74 "& my brother (334) Oliver a Willard, then editor of the Chicago Evening Mail gave favorable & full reports, saying privately to me "I shall speak just as (69 well of the women as I dare to" — a more characteristic editorial remark, I have since thought, though more frequently acted out than uttered." "it is my nature to give myself utterly to whatever work I have in hand. (336) "Soon after, ( the first of her noon demonstrations (336) I spoke in Robert Collyer's Church x x Here for the first & last time I read my speech I believe it was Rev. Dr. L. T. Chamberlain, who called it a "school-girl essay" -- & served it right. Robert Collyer took up the collection himself, I remember, rattling the box & cracking jokes along the aisle as he moved among his aristocratic "Northsiders." I went home blue enough & registered a vow as yet well nigh unbroken, that I would never again appear (70 before a popular audience manuscript in hand. My next attempt was in the Union Park Congregational Church a few weeks later. Here I had my "heads" on paper, but from that time forward I "swung clear" of the manuscript crutch & the "outline" walking-stick. x x It has been often said in my praise (June / 75?) that I did this (resigned Deanship) for the explicit purpose of enlisting in the temperance army, but it is my painful duty in this plain, unvarnished tale to admit that the reasons upon which I based that act, so revolutionary of all my most cherished plans & purposes, related wholly to the local situation in the university itself. (337) Then she went among the new societies of Temp. women - places in New York &c. &(71 "with several of these new friends I went to Old Orchard Beach, Me, where Francis Murphy &c. & others she saw "& here in a Portland hotel where I stayed with Mary Hartt, of Brooklyn, & wondered "where the money was to come from" as I had none, & had Mother's expenses & my own to meet, I opened the Bible lying on the hotel bureau & lighted on this memorable verse: Psalm 37.3. "Trust in the Lord, & do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, & verily thou shalt be fed." (336) That was a turning-point in life with me. Great spiritual illumination, unequalled in all my history before, had been vouchsafed me in the sorrowful last days at Evanston, but here came clinching faith for what was to me a most difficult emergency." (she doesn't say who paid the Hotel bill.) 72 They want me (339) to come & take the head of the Temp. organization in Chicago Elected Sep. 1874 one of the ladies said "we have no money but we will try to get some if you will tell us your expectations as to salary." "Ah," thought I, "here is my coveted opportunity for the exercise of faith", & I quietly replied "Oh that will be all right!" & the dear innocent went her way thinking that some rich friend had supplied the necessary help. It was known that my generous comrade, Miss Kate A Jackson, had taken me abroad for a stay over two years, so the ladies naturally concluded that she was once more the good fairy behind the scenes. But this was not true. She had not approved my entrance upon temperance work. She was a thousand miles away & knew nothing of my needs. (342) (343) (73 "Having always been my faithful friend I knew she would help me in this crisis, but I chose not to tell her, for I had a theory & now was the time to put it to the test. To my mind there was a missing link in the faith of George Müller Dorothea Trubel & other saintly men & women who "spoke & let their wants be known" By means of annual announcements reports, etc., so I said to myself, "I am just simply going to pray, to work & to trust God." So, with no financial backing whatever, I set about my work, opened the first Headquarters & meetings &c &c. x x "& once in awhile made a dash into some town or village, where I spoke, receiving a collection which represented financially "my little all." I remember that the first of these (74 collections was at Princeton in Oct. 1874 & amounted to seven dollars, for I had small reputation & audiences in proportion. Meanwhile my Mother, who owned her little home free from incumbrance, held the fort at "Rest Cottage, Evanston, dismissed her "help" & lived in strict seclusion & economy. 35 35 70 years old? I was entertained by different ladies at the city, or was boarded at a nominal figure by my kind friend Mrs. Wm Wheeler, x Many a time I went without my noonday lunch down town because I had no money with which to buy, & many a mile did I walk because I had not the pre-requisite nickel for street-car riding. But I would not mention money or allow it named to me. My witty(75 brother Oliver, then editor of the Chicago Mail, who with all his cares was helping Mother from his slender purse, & who had learned my secret from her, said, "Frank, your faith - method is simply a challenge to the Almighty. You've put a chip on your shoulder & dared Omnipotence to knock it off." But for several months I went on in this way & my life never had a happier season For the first time I knew the gnawings of hunger whereat I used to smile & say to myself as I elbowed my way among the wretched people to whom I was sent, "I'm a better friend than you dream! I know more about you than you think, for, bless God, I'm hungry too!" When in Italy I had been greatly moved (76 by the study of St. Francis d 'Assisi, whose city I had visited for this purpose, a nobleman who gave his life to the poor & who was so beloved of Christ that legends say he was permitted to receive the stigmata. Thinking of him my small privations seemed so ridiculously trivial that I was eager to suffer something really worthy of a disciple for humanity's sweet sake. I had some pretty rings, given me in others days by friends & pupils, these I put off & never have resumed them, also my watch chain, for I would have no striking contrast between these poor people & myself. To share my last dime with some famished looking(77 man or woman was a pure delight. Indeed, my whole life has not known a more lovely period. I communed with God; I dwelt in the Spirit; His word had nothing to give me, nothing to take away. My friend Kate came back from the East & I told her all about it. (note page before) "Why you are poor as poverty," she said with pitying amazement. "True" I replied, "I haven't a cent in the world, but all the same I own Chicago," & it was a literal fact; the sense of universal ownership was never so strong upon my spirit before or since that blessed time. "I'm the Child of a King" was the inmost song of my soul, xx After (347) several (78 months invested in this fashion, I went to speak one night at Freeport, a four hours ride from the City; became ill from overwork addressed my audience while in a burning fever, came home to mother & went to bed with inflammatory rheumatism. I asked her to send for our family physician, then Dr. Jewell, x of sainted memory (x note year?) The man who had prayed at my bedside six months before, when I was sick with heartache at leaving my dear College. "No," said that Spartan Matron "You are giving up faith - You do not need a doctor." The truth was she always believed that She best knew, what the children needed, whetherthey were well or ill, "now (79 I want you to listen to your mother," she quietly continued. "I believe in faith as much as you do, but you can, with pure intention yet ignorantly, flown in the face of Providence. Those good women spoke to you about a maintenance on the very day they chose you president. That was your Heavenly Father's kind provision, & you turned away from it & d[i]ebated to Him the method of His care. The laborer is worthy of his hire XX God isnt going to start loaves of bread flying down chimney nor set the fire going in my stove without fuel. I shall soon see the bottom of the flour barrel and coal bin. You are out as the elbows down at the heel, & down sick, too. Now write to (the Moody business) *80* those ladies a plain statement of facts & tell them that you have made the discovery that God works by means & they may help you if they like." The Mother's words were a needed revelation. I wrote a letter to my dear women. Later on I learned that they cried over it in Executive Committee. That night a tender note came from them with a $100 check enclosed, & my "faith test" was put upon the Heavenly Father's basis, not upon the one I had presented for Him But I enjoyed that episode & shall be the better & the richer for it [for] evermore. One of my best & brightest (348) Coadjutors from the first has been Mrs. Matilda B, Carse, of Chicago, the chief financial woman(81 of our white ribbon host. Her first money-raising venture consisted in getting one hundred men to give ten dollars apiece to keep me going when my blissful episode of impecuniosity was over. Rev. Dr. J. C. Peck, "of ours," was the first name she secured. From that day to this she has been on the war path financially raising hundreds of thousands (for So & So & incidentally one would say for F.W. Her howl over Mrs. Livermore for standing by her at the Woman's Congress &c Oct 8. 1874 (mutual adm. society) "help to a "new beginner" &c -Made Sec of Natl - W.C.T.U. autumn 74 - in 75 - Local Keep her at $100 a month & time to work for the National "The Summer of 1875 I spent with Mrs. Wittenmeyer at Ocean (82 Grove (she tells where she went, but nothing about the Chicago Meeting. xx "After a second winter's work / 75 &76 in (351) Chicago x x I made a trip through Ohio & while in Columbus for a Sunday engagement remained at home in the morning for Bible study and prayer, upon my knees alone, in the room of my hostess, there was borne in upon my mind, as I believe, from loftier regions, the declaration "You are to speak for Woman's ballot as a weapon of protection to her home & tempted loved ones from the tyranny of drink," & then for the first & only time in my life, there flashed through my brain a complete line of argument & illustration - the samethat I used a few months (83 later before the Woman's Congress, in St George's Hall, Philadelphia, when I first publicly avowed my faith in the enfranchisement of women. I at once wrote Mrs. Wittenmayer, with whom I had always been in perfect accord telling her I wished to speak on "The Home Protection Ballot" at the International Temp. Con. of Women then being planned by us as a Centennial feature of the Movement. She replied mildly, but firmly, declining to permit the subject to be brought forward. We had our Con. in the Acad of Music Phila. & an International Woman's Christian Temp. Union was organized with Mrs. Margaret Parker of Eng, as the presiden, & Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of Iowa, Secretary, but the time was not ripe for such a movement & (84 it advanced but a short distance beyond the name & letter-head. I spoke, but not upon the theme I would have chosen, & Mrs. Mary A Livermore who was present & to whom I offered to give my time, so greatly have I always honored and admired her, was not allowed to speak, because of her progressive views upon the woman question. At the Newark N.W.C.T.U Con, held that Autumn (1876) disregarding the earnest, almost tearful pleading of my friends, I updated my "suffrage speech" with added emphasis. The great Church was packed to the doors. Mrs. Wittenmeyer was on the platform, Mrs. Allen Butler, a Presbyterian lady of Syracuse, then president of the N.Y.W.C T.U. presided. I remember her quoting at the outset an anecdote x of Mrs. Lathrops about a(85 colored man in the war who saw a confederate boat approaching an island, where several Union soldiers of whom he was one were just landing, whereupon they all lay flat in their canoe Colored man & all, until he jumped up, saying "Somebody's got to be shot at & it might as well be me," pushed the boat from shore, & fell pierced by bullets, but saved the day for his comrades. I then gave the people my argument "X X I knew they were with me &c (351-52) X X It is true that at the Cin Convention, held in St. Paul's M. E. Church just one year previous, Mrs. Governor Wallace had secured the adoption of a resolution favorable to submitting the question of prohibiting the dram shops (86 to a vote of men & women, But it is equally true that this was done by her great personal influence in privately securing from leaders strongly opposed, an agreement to let her make the test, whereupon the resolution went through without debate. Thus it is an historical fact that the first time the subject of prohibition came before the Temp Women of America was upon the proposition that the united home forces should vote out the saloon. We knew that we could not at Newark get such a resolution passed, therefore we tried another plan, asking that in the territories & the District of Columbia the sale of alcoholic drinks should be legalized only "when a majority of men by their votes & women by their signature should ask for the legalizing of such sale. X X It was at this Newark87 Convention that the national motto "For God & Home & Native Land" was first indorsed xx It was at the Newark Convention that a majority of the members pledged themselves to pass the cup untasted at the sacramental table, if they knew that it held alcoholic wine. (353) She with others gave their work, money &c to their organ "during which (months) I was entertained at Brooklyn by my good friends, Mr. & Mrs. J.F. Stout. (353) (353-54) In 1877 at Washington she remembers "the "blandly non-committal Garfield. xx the earnest Blair x I remember being most hospitably entertained for ten days in the home of Rev. Dr. & Mrs. John P Newman, when I said nothing about my intention to speak before the com on Judiciary (88 supposing that my kind friends were opposed to a movement so progressive & I remember, too, how glad I was when they told me afterward of their hearty sympathy & took me to task for not inviting them to be present. In /77 January went at Moody's request for Bible meetings. --Had studied it a few weeks with Rev. W. J. Erdman & this the first real whole days study ever given to it on her way.--"Went with no material on hand save a few temperance lectures" (357) xx My temerity in undertaking a Bible reading daily before the most cultured audience of women on the footstool surprises me as I reflect upon it. Entertained in the beautiful house of Mrs. Fenno Tudor, an Episcopalian lady of89 broad views, on Beacon Hill, studied each morning till noon & then saw 'em. Went out to the suburbs for Temp meetings (also told her National W.C.T.U. Sec.) Moody asked her why? For money &c "Well! I never heard the like." & he was off like a shot. That evening as I was going into my meeting he thrust a generous check into my hand saying "Don't you go beatting about in the suburbs any more." Everything went on smoothly until a W.C.T.U. con was denounced at Malden, [Live] & I was asked to speak there with Mrs. Livermore, then Pres. of the Mass. W.C.T.U I agreed to go, & was again taken to talk by Brother Moody, but this time on another ground. He held with earnestness that I ought not to appear 90 on the same platform with one who denied the divinity of Christ. In this he was so earnest & so cogent, by reason of his deep convictions & his unrivaled knowledge of proof- passages, that I deferred to his judgment, partly from conviction & partly from a desire to keep the peace & go on with my good friend in his work; for I deem it one of the choicest seals of my calling that Dwight L Moody should have invited me to cast my little lot with his great one as an evangelist. But on returning West I went over The whole subject of an "Orthodox" Christian's duty, for myself & as a result sent the following letter to my honored brother through my gracious friend, his wife. (Mind when she's got all of that & its done, Evanston Sep 7.1877, & the cowardice of not saying "to you" direct. "he looks at it as"evangelical" work (temperance) (91 (362) 359.360) Throughout the next year, 1878, I was a free lance for the W.C.T.U. during which period I proceeded to "go on a bureau". My friends had long urged me to quit the guerilla warfare of haphazard engagements, so to speak, & to put my invitations into the hands of a Lyceum Lecture Bureau. In an evil hour I listened to the sirens voice, went to Mr. Slayton & handed him some of my letters & lists of invitations of which I had [more] enough to cover more time & territory than I could ever exhaust; submitted to the indignity of placards, small bills & a big lithograph; [x x contracted] was duly set forth on glossy tinted paper in an imposing "Annual" - in common with one hundred others - as a light of the age, no newspaper to the contrary being quoted; contracted to pay 92) my percent, & was started out. I remained on that bureau, to which I had climbed at the expense of a hundred-dollar lithograph & all the rest of it, just three weeks. It was what is called "a damper" to one of my temperament & habitudes. To go from the genial, breezy, out- doorsy temperance meeting, the warm, tender, exalted gospel meeting, the home-like, sisterly, inspiring W C.T. U. Con. into a human snow-bank of folks who have "paid to get in" - & are reckoning quietly, as one proceeds, whether or not they are really going "to get their money's worth", is an experience not to be endured with equanimity by anybody who can slip his head out of the noose. To have a solemn "Lyceum Committee" of men meet you at the train, take you to a hotel of funeral(93 dreariness & cooked over cuisine; to march upon a realistic stage that no woman's hand has beautified or brightened; to have no heartsome music or winsome prayer preceding you & tuning your weary spirit to the high ministry for which you came; to face the glare of footlights; & after you have "gone through" your speech & are feeling particularly "gone", to hear the jerimiad of the treasurer that "they had not sold so many tickets as they hoped", or "the weather was against them" or "counter attractions had proved too powerful"; All this is "nerve-wear" to no purpose. Then (note) to be exploited over the country with as little regard for comfort as if you were a case of cod-fish or a keg of nails, the heart of the night being all the symptoms of a heart that your time table reveals, the wee small hours being made 94) consciously present with you in order that you may "make" the next engagement, the unconscionable "wait" at side stations & uncanny junction depots, all these are reasons of my hope never again to see a "Bureau" - in deed, I can hardly tolerate one in my room since an end was put to that abyssmal epoch of three weeks. I think my manager was as glad to have me go as I was to say Good-by, for I wouldn't arise my price ($25), even when double & three times that amount was offered for an "option". "No". I replied with reproving tone, "a philanthropist can't afford to make money. It shall (note Gough Page ) never be said that I charged more as I became more popular. Ive set my (note her $1200 & her $600 coat alone) price once for all & I'll95) never raise it & I'll never lay up money & I'll never be rich. - Nobody shall ever bring that reproach upon me no matter how else I may fail. Whereat my handsome manager was wont to look upon me as mildly lunatic changing the subject lest I might become violent. Returning to Anna Gordon's tender mercies, a young woman who has repeatedly convinced ticket-agents that they make mistakes concerning train-time[s]: Who has a face as honest that (before that wretched Interstate law!) she has often got passes for me from entire strangers on her simple say so: Who understands travel[l]ing as well as Robert Bouner does Maud S.. & who hasn't her superior as a business woman on this continent, I have gone my way in peace since 1878, visiting with her every state & territory 96) & all but two capitals, those of Arizona & Idaho, in a single year (1883, our temperance "round up" ten years after the Crusade.) & reaching, since my work began, a thousand towns, including all that by the Census of 1870 had ten thousand inhabitants, & most of those having [*5*] five thousand. Mother says that for about ten years she thinks I averaged but three weeks in a year at home, & Anna Gordon says she thinks I averaged one meeting daily throughout that period. Her brother died in 1878. March 17. He had worked her up an audience. Sick at Palmer House. Saw him. Went on to Saginaw [*Friday*] had "a good time " Sunday (what sort of spiritual sense had she?) got telegram Monday- died Sunday morning. - Went to Temperance Meeting in afternoon (posed) "told them[* 97 *] all about it while they cried together. & they saw her off. & When I reached (367) my sweet Rest Cottage home, there stood my mother, seventy four years old. upon the steps. He was the pride & darling of her life, & I had almost feared to see her sorrow. But no, her dear old face was radiant & she said "Praise Heaven with me - I've grown gray praying for my son - & now to think your brother Oliver is safe with God!" (he had a wife & four little children to support out of his stipend - note earlier) She says in a foot note of this prayer-meeting afterward I had the comfort of learning that a young & gifted man that day decided in the meeting to be a missionary (368) Elected Pres, at Indianapolis in 1879 - head of Liberals as against Western Members Conservatives 78 "In respect to woman's ballot - we believed it was part & parcel of the temperance movement our way out of the wilderness of Whisky domination, & that any individual, any state or local union ought to have the right to say so &c In /78 Baltimore debated a Whole day "Shall we indorse the ballot for women as a temperance measure? At Boston the ballot for women as a weapon for the protection of her home was endorsed. (371) (371) In the spring of 1881 following the convention, I went to Washington to be present at the inauguration of Gen. Garfield & to meet the Commissioner of the Mrs. Hayes Temperance Memorial, of which I was president. The W.C.T.U of the North - it was then practically non existent at the South - had stood solidly for99 the Republican Candidate whom we then believed to be a (in the Boston Con. 1880-81 part of the resolution read "Though we have not taken sides as yet, in politics, he cannot be insensible to the consideration shown us in the platform of the Prohibition party - a prophecy of that chivalry of justice which shall yet afford us a still wider recognition.) friend of total abstinence & prohibition. His name was cheered whenever mentioned in the Boston Con., & being personally acquainted with him, I had written him as Mentor, immediately after his nomination, that if he would hold to total abstinence during the campaign, he might count on our support - although Neal Dow was in the field, & I had been invited, but declined to go to the Prohibition Convention at Cleveland. For I had not then beheld, therefore was not disobedient to the heavenly vision of political as well as legal suasion for the liquor traffic. 100 The disappointment of our temperance women was so great over the reply of Pres. Garfield, when, on March 8 he went to the White House & presented the picture of Mrs. Hayes. His manner seemed to be constrained He was not the brotherly & (372) Disciple preacher of old, but the adroit politician "in the hands of his friends" & perfectly aware that the liquor camp held the balance of power. Surprised & pained by his language, we at once adjourned to the Temple Hotel & such a prayer meeting I have seldom attended The women poured out their souls to God in prayer that total abstinence might be enthroned at the White House, that a Chief Magistrate might come unto the kingdom who would respond to the plea of the national home-people seeking protection for their tempted loved ones,[*101*] From Washington I started for the South XX I had also with me my faithful Anna Gordon Ø & her sister Bessie" visited everywhere; gone 4 times Ø note her property? since. "Good Bishop Wightman, when not able to sit up, wrote me letters of introduction as hearty as our own Northern bishops would have penned, & they found the "Open Sesame" to many an influential (he is methodist) home in the Gulf states; brought many a pastor out from the quiet of his study to "work me up a meeting;" conciliated the immense influence of church journalism & paved the way for the recognition of the white ribbon movement through out the Southern states. I would gladly name the noble leaders who thus stood by me both in methodist & other churches, but the roll would be too long.No. 405 W. 22 St. New York City 1. 6. 1895 To / Dr. H. M. Paine Sir:102 Is it written on my heart, where it will never grow dim. (Note - this is for her personally ??? not for her for what she represents.) (373) That trip was the most unique in all thy history. It "reconstructed me. Everywhere the Southern White people desired me to speak to the colored. In Charleston I had an immense audience of them in the M.E.Church, north in New Orleans. Mrs. Judge Merrick a native of Louisiana, whose husband was Chief Justice in that state under the Confederacy invited the Northern teachers to her home, & wrote me with joy that the W.C.T.U would yet solve the problem of good understanding between sections. I was present repeatedly in the gallery when legislatures of the Gulf States voted money for Negro education, & for schools founded by Northerners." We were suspicious of the Northern school-teachers at first" said Southern friends to me "we thought they had come down here, as the carpet-baggers did, to serve their pockets & their ambitions by our means, but 103 we don't think. so now" I found the era of good feeling had indeed set in, & that nothing helped it forward faster than the work of temperance, that nothing would liberate the suppressed colored vote so soon as to divide the white vote on the issues "wet" & "dry". that the South "Solid" for prohibition of the liquor traffic might be exchanged for the South Solid against the North, by such a realignment of those moving armies of civilization popularly called "parties" as would put the temperance men of North & South in the same camp. Therefore it was borne in upon my spirit that I must declare in my next annual address, as President of the National W.C.T.U. the new faith that was within me. (her footnote talks about the Constitutional Amendment Campaigns - & so she gave me F. VII (375) A Woman In Politics. Saratoga Con - National [*Summer 1881*] Temperance Society, of which Hon. Wm.E. Dodge was president XX I shall never forgetthe night before the close of the Con. (104 When I x x could not sleep x but x I thought through to the conclusion of my personal duty & delight to take sides for the Prohibition party. It was a Solemn & exalted hour in which my brain teemed with the sweet reasonableness of such a course, & my conscience rejoiced in its triumph over considerations of expediency. Nothing has ever disturbed the tranquil assurance that I was then helped to make a logical & wise decision inspired from Heaven. x x x 276 ) Lake Bluff in the summer Coming here with a heart full of new love for the South, & enkindled perceptions touching what might be done, x x x [of] She talked to them among other things, of the stirring in my spirit when my brave cousin Willard Robinson also a reformed man " &c " her father? Mother's wine. Oliver's D. T. - cousin - self, family trait. R.W. Nelson of the Chicago Liberator paper devoted to political prohibition We then & there founded the "Home Protection Party. 377) on 13 March 1882 A call for a national Con on 23 [august] of following August, to be held in Chicago. 105. was issued by Gideon. T. Stewart Chairman of the Prohibition Reform party of the W. T. [(377) In the Autumn of 1881 two months after Lake Bluff the N. W. C. T. U. met in Washington D C] following the Lake Bluff Convocation, our national W C T U met in W. DC. When I prepared my annual address, this thought came to me : for you to favor the Prohibition party as an individual is one thing, & to ask the W.C. TU in your official address to indorse that party, is quite another: are you going to do it? Such action will cost you much good will & many votes. "But a voice from loftier regions said: You right to declare for the party officially as well as individually I knelt to pray, & rose to write." as follows, without one misgiving: Beloved Sisters & CoWorkers - When the National Prohibition party held its Con. in Cleveland in 1880, women were invited to attend as delegates; but while I admired the progressive spirit thus indicated, it seemedto me clearly my duty not to go (106 Always profoundly interested in politics, as the mightiest force on earth, except [politics] Christianity, & trained to be a staunch Republican, both my education & sympathies were arrayed on Garfield's side; moreover, I labored under the hallucination that the South presently waited its opportunity to reopen the issues of the war. During all that stormy summer of the presidential campaign, I did not hear Walton's candidacy spoken of with interest by the workers of the W.C.T.U. & yet in all honored & gloried in that brave father of the Maine Law. In contrast to the apathy with which we regarded the "Third Party" movement, you will remember the profound enthusiasm that greeted General Garfield's name at out annual meeting in Boston, & that , later on, we hailed his election as an answered prayer. Dear sisters, since then, by your Commission I have visited the Southern States & met in every one of them representatives & leaders of opinion. I have seen their acceptance in good faith of the issues of the War - a good faith sufficiently attested by the great loyalty they invariably (107 manifested toward[s] President Garfield, in spite of his army record, his radical utterances, in Congress, & the uncompromising tone of his clear-cut inaugural. I have seen Northern capital pouring into those once disaffected states in untold millions, & I know there is no stronger bridge across the "bloody chasm" than this one woven out of national coin, & supported by the iron jointed cables of self-interest: I have seen their Legislatures making state appropriations for the educaion of the freedmen, & helping to sustain those "colored schools" whose new England teachers they once despised; I have learned how ex masters cheered to the echo the utterances of their ex slaves in the great Prohibition Convention of North Carolina, & my heart has glowed with the hope of a real "home government". for the South, & a "color line" broken, not by bayonets nor repudiationists, but by ballots from white hands & black, for prohibitory law. Seeing is believing, & on that sure basis I believe the South is ready for a party along the lines of longitude, - a party that shall wipe Mason & Dixon's line out of the heart as well as off the map, weld the AngloSaxon[s]108 of the New World into one royal family, & give us a really re-United States, with what deep significance is this belief confirmed by the South's tender sympathy in the last political Summer , & the unbroken group of States that so lately knelt around our fallen hero's [*note*] grave? But this new party cannot bear the name of Rep or Dem. (neither victor nor vanquished would accept the old war cry of a section; besides, " the party of moral ideas" has ceased to have a distinctive policy, was its early motto "Free Territory"? We have realized it. Later did it declare the Union must be preserved & slavery abolished? Both have been done. Did it demand Negro enfranchisement & the passage of a bill of Civil Rights? Both are accomplished facts, so far as they can be untill education completes the desired work., Was the redemption of our financial pledges essential to good faith? That noble record of the Rep. party cannot be erased. If we contemplate questions still unsettled, as Civil Service Reform both parties claim to desire it; or a National Fund for Southern Education - each deems it necessary. But when we name the greatest issue not pending on this, or any, continent - the prohibition of the manufacture & sale of intoxicating (109 liquors as a drink - behold, the Reps of Maine, N.H. & Vermont vote for, & the Dems of Kansas oppose, & of S.C. favor it!! Now, I blame neither party for this inconsistency; it is simply the handwriting on the wall, which tells that both are weighed in the balance & found wanting. For they are formed of men who, while they thought alike & fought alike on many great questions, on this greatest of all questions, are hopelessly divided, & a "house divided against itself cannot stand." This is saying nothing whatever against the house; it is recognizing the law of gravitation, that is all. Believing that the hour had come for us, the W.C.T. U. of Ill., at its annual meeting, nearly two months ago, indorsed the action of the Lake Bluff Convocation, held a few days earlier & composed of representative men & women from twelve different States In many a meeting of our temperance women I have seen the power of the highest manifest[ed], but in none has the glow of Crusade fire been so bright as when these daughters of heroic sires who in the early days of the great party110 whose defection we deplore, endured reproach without the camp, solemnly declared their loyalty to the Home Protection party, Wherein dwelleth righteousness. Let me read you the statement of doctrine to which we women of Ill. subscribed: {We recommend that , looking {to the composition of the {next legislature, we request {& aid the Home Protection party to {put in nomination in each {district a Home Protec Candidate, {committed not more by his {specific promise than by his well {known character, to vote for the {submission of a constitutional {amend, giving the full ballot {to the women of DC as a means {of protection to their homes. {Finally, to those advance positions we have been slowly & {surely brought by the logic {of events & the argument of {defeat in our seven years march {since the Crusade. We have {patiently appealed to existing {parties, only to find our appeals {disregarded. We now appeal {to the manhood of our State {to go forward in the name of {"God & Home & Native Land." Ten days later the Liquor League of Ill. held its Con. , the day being universally observed by our unions in that state in 111 fervent prayer that God would send confusion & defeat as the sequel to their machinations." Let me read you their declaration: Resolved: That the district executive Com. be instructed to make a rigorous fight against all such candidates for the General Assembly, no matter what political party they may belong to, who cannot be fully relied upon to vote in favor of personal liberty & an equal protection of ours, with all other legitimate business interests" They want protection, too! & they know the legislature alone can give it. But we know, as the result of out local Home Protection ordinance, under which women have voted in many a dozen widely separated localities of Ill, & have voted overwhelmingly against license, that our enfranchisement means confusion & defeat to the liquor sellers. Therefore, since for this we have prayed, we must take out places at the front & say, with the greatest reformer of the sixteenth Century: "Here I stand. I can do no other God help me. Amen!"112 Here, then at the Nation's capital let us declare our allegiance; & here let us turn our faces towards the beckoning future; here, when the liquor traffic pours in each bar its revenue of gold, stained with the blood of our dearest & best, let us set up our Home Protection standard in the name of the Lord! !!!But the Convention took No Action ; the Sentiment of the Society was not yet ripe for the declaration I so earnestly desired!!! Of this Con. , held in Foundry M.E. Church, the most notable feature was the large attendance from the Southern States, a delegation of thirty or more from a majority of these states, being present, headed by Mrs.. Sallie F Chapin. At this Convention the following resolution was adopted: Resolved that wisdom dictates the Do-everything policy. Constitutional Amendment, where the way is open for it, " Home Protection ' (ie. the vote for women on the temperance question only) where (113 Home Protection is the strongest rallying cry; Equal Franchise, where the votes of women joined to those of men can alone give stability to temperance legislation." The plan of Work Com. also recommended: A Com on Franchise whose duty it shall be to furnish advice instruction & assistance to states that so desire in inaugurating measures for securing & using woman's ballot in the interest of temperance." The Southern delegation requested permission not to vote upon these measures but showed a degree of tolerance not to have been expected of them at their first convention Besides, Susan B. Anthony was present as a visitor, was introduced on motion of a delegate & publicly kissed by an enthusiastic Quaker lady from the West. All this had alarmed the Conservatives, & a few of them withdrew, stating that they could no longer keep us company The N Y Tribune, which had never reported our work, nor shown the least interest114 in our proceedings except as an antagonist, now came out with displayed headlines announcing that our society had "split in two" The facts are that out of a total of 218 delegates only 12 or 15 left us. Made immediate overtures to the South Women to join them, stating that "then there would be a conservative movement divested of the radicalism that was destroying this one," but the Southern ladies said "they had seceded once & found it didn't work." not one of them joined the malcontents, but the latter found themselves into the N.W. Evangelical Tem. Union, which had, perhaps, a dozen auxiliaries, but soon died for lack of members. At this convention the constitution was so changed that actual membership became the basis of representation instead of as heretofore, allowing so many delegates to each congressional district, no matter how few its white ribbon women. 115 New women came to us continually with bright ideas about the work. Personal initiative was at a premium & a new department usually developed from the advent of a woman with a mission, to whom, after a study of her character & reputation, we gave a com-mission. We thus conserved enthusiasm & attached experts to our society. 382 1882 Reorganization of party at "Home Protection Convention" the home becoming "Prohibition Home Protection Party." x x I then became officially related to a political party as a member of the Central Committee & have been thus related almost ever since. A new force was added to the Prohibitionists by means of this Convention, chiefly drawn from the Crusade movement & consisting of men & women116 who had dearly loved the Republican party & who retired from it with unaffected sorrow x In/ 83 (to 84 ) should see every state & ter. visited by me & organized. "Helped by the railroad men to passes, replenished financially by an appropriation of $300 from the Good Templars of California, & personal gifts from Dr. McDonald of San Fran Cap. Charles Goodall, of the Oregon steamship Co & other wealthy friends (for I had no salary until 1886) I went the rounds accompanied by Anna Gordon XX at Lewiston couldn't wait had meeting in parlor after 36 hours on river & went back on omnibus to boat, - others might carry the contagion of dipheria ("Municipal authorities" forbidden public meeting for fear) home &c. - They had their meeting & (117 ice cream in the onmibus & skipped Her exalted praise of Blair (386) &c (391 - Although I had been working with the Prohibition party, my final farewell was not yet said to the Republican. I had yet fond & foolish hopes that it might take advanced ground[s] though the difficulties seemed insuperable & I believed that it & every other party should be obliged to go on record for or against the grandest living issue. Home or Saloon Protection , which shall it be? x Went to See Com. on Resolutions of Rep. Nat. Con. 1884 - In a violent state of mind because there was tobacco smoke in the room - tho' no smoking , - & spittoons. Also that they were not shaken hands with nor "We118 were not asked what votes we could deliver or questioned in any way whatever, x did not get half an hour " Senator Blair gathered in as many as he could of the Com. & asked for a hearing. He then began to speak of our mission & after a few minutes was called to order & a motion made that the length of time to be granted be now fixed. The Senator asked that we might have half an hour "No" - 15 minutes (an army of reps of societies waiting to see them, & the day before the platform was presented). She tells them "some political party will respond &c (393) Says the Greenbacks have &c x I (394) ought to say that while I spoke, those present listened respectfully, so far as I observed Indeed. I took no special 119 exceptions to their conduct which was, no doubt, from their point of view, altogether courteous." 395 xx "Whether or not they received the Brewers Com., & what length of time was accorded its members, if received, I do not authentically know. It is said that those men had an hour - I can not say, & do not wish to do anyone injustice, least of all my political opponents." She took Blair's ticket, went on platform no revolution for them "When the report was accepted without debate & without a single negative (although the Iowa delegates, the Maine & Kansas delegates were out in full force) I said to myself, "Streams can not rise higher than their fountains : Men in the states cannot rise superior to their party nationally, & this Rep.120 party, once so dear to me, I must now leave because here is the proof that even good men dare not stand by prohibition when they meet upon a national platform." So then & there I bade the G.O.P. an everlasting farewell & took up my line of march toward the Grand Army of Reform. By this, I mean, that while I had already acted with the Prohibition party for a brief period, I had never until now utterly given up the hope that the Rep. party might so retrieve itself that it could stand together for God & Home & Nation Land. (395) "I cannot count myself other than at home in your presence. Her father had been a Rep. "But I rejoice today in the sisterhood of the woman's party, W.C.T.U. When I may march side by side with that brilliant southern leader, Sallie F. Chapin of S.C. who At the Dem. She did not go to talk evidently "Major Burke of the N.O.Times -Democrat presented the Memorial (for Con. Amend,) which was referred without debate to the Com. 121 on platform; they reported against Sumptuary laws that vex the Citizen 396 396 Went to Pittsburg The following droll resolution, offered by John Lloyd Thomas of Md. shows the paternal interest manifested in us by leaders of the party which in the heroic days had waked the echoes of this same hall! "Resolved, That the Con. of the Prohib party recognizes with due humility the anxious care for the welfare of our party displayed by the representatives of the National Gov, who in the persons of W. W. Dudley, Commissioner of Pensions, & Hon Hiram Price, Council of Indian Affairs, have violated Civil Service rules & used public time to come to Pittsburg & to urge advice upon members of the Con., but, Resolved, that we timidly advance the claim that-the intelligence of this 122 assembly is ample to provide for its own security - x x she is delightfully "surprised" when Kansas asks her to second St John's nomination, & consumes a whole long paragraph about herself as a little girl setting up to an unwontedly late hour for her people to come home from a Hale & Julian meeting & "she will never forget the eagerness with which she listened to that recital." ("the news from the Free Soil Meeting" What" Who was there? or what they wore or what, - ) & her amazement at the advance of the world if which she never dreamed that would allow so & so "and women come forth onto public work like singing birds after a thunder storm," /oh ye gods! 123 Resolved: that believing in the civil & political equality of the sexes, & that the ballot in the hands of woman is her right for protection & would prove a powerful ally for the abolition of the liquor traffic, the execution of law, the promotion of reform in civil affairs & the removal of corruption in public life, we enunciate the principle, & relegate the practical outworking of this reform to the discretion of the Prohib. party in the several states, according to the conditions of public sentiment in those States. "I had been so much in the South ([????]) that its delegates confided to me their earnest hope that we would, draw it mild, "but I felt that they would hardly disown their traditional doctrine of State rights as here expressed. They did not nor do I believe that , as a class, they will antagonize those of us who are committed to the equal suffrage plank in he prohib platform" x x Went back to name Prohibition" old liners." Our side. struggling for a ten syllabled name "The old liners were too strong for us, & almost124 without debate, the change was agreed to (Miner of Boston had moved that the old name "Prohibition be restored.) This action scored another of those huge disappointments through which one learns "to endure hardness as a good soldier But the old name was endeared to those who had suffered for it, & they were not disposed to give it up. In this I then & always believed them to be unwise. Went (402) at Mr. Daniels (V. N Card.) to Cumberland Md. to speak at ratification meeting Had only once spoken on politics ("So far as I can recall"!!) "To meet the "world's people" in the opening of a fierce campaign was painful to me, & I did it only as a token of loyalty to our new candidate. This town among the hills is fore-ordained to be provincial, by reason of its physical geography. Its pretty little opera House was well filled that night, but the air felt cold as winter to my spirit, though July's heat was really there. Curiously enough did its well dressed women look at me, standing forlorn before the footlights, on a bare stage & sighing for the heart warmth of a W's. C. T. U. Meeting, where 125 women would have crowded around me, flowers sent forth their perfume ("martyrs died in flame" Lowell) & hymns & prayers made all of us have felt at home. I spoke. No doubt, forlornly, anyhow. I felt forlorn. The gainsaying political papers said next day that I was poor enough & our candidate even poorer than I." 402 St Louis Con. in 84 - debqate between Lathiah from Prohib party & Foster, - "that scene has passed into memory & will be recorded in history, - for then & there the fitting representatives of Am. womanhood, both North & South" entered politics" for the sake of home protection, & when the came they came to stay." (407) Among others, Mrs. Dr. Erwin Pres of Miss W.C.T U. standing with Bible &c "By God's grace I vote this way for the sake of the poor, misguided colored people of the South. At Minnapolis in 1886 Mrs Rastall Pres of Kansas WCTU offered "Having for these years thoroughly discussed & established by a large majority vote our position in regard to the Prohibition party, I move the adoption of the following by-law: "any resolution126 referring to our attitude toward political parties is to be decided by vote without discussion." Was in force at Nashville only & rescinded by an over whelming vote in New York. Foster's res of "Non partisan" -" it was far (409) from our intent." We were for prohib &c. In 1887 in Nashville (417) Resolved, That with a deep sense of the significance of such action, we women, representatives of thirty seven states & five Ters do most solemnly urge upon all political parties & partisan papers the duty of avoiding, in the pending Presidential Campaign, the personal vilification & abuse that characterized the last, & we call upon them to consider the fact that the women of the North & the South have clasped hands in concord & co-operation which is a most practical proof, that war issues are dead, & that the land should have rest from reviving them for campaign purposes. We protest as women against this outrage upon the growing spirit of fraternity, & re-iterate the cry of the great genius let us have peace" 127 The white cross - Bell Mass Gazette Cleared the air & broke the spell [of] so that silence now seems criminal & we only wonder that we did not speak before (419) - "Phila. 1885 launched the life boat nationally, & because no other woman could be found to stand at its helm I have tried to do so, though utterly unable to give to this great work an attention more than fragmentary." x x 1858 - At Col. the young woman gathered her dress about her & fled the room. (421 x Powderly, E. Fig Jos. Balter, Mrs. Cleveland & Pandita Ramabai, (Mrs. Cleveland & her WCTU association, - the try displaced, the life sent on &c. (423) x on age of consent raised to 18 years send it to all of his societies &c At Washington 1888 (425 Council of Women - on Social Purity work - W's address - near its close ' Let me speak a word of hope. I have heard this statement from a woman who has just come from Germany, a woman for years a student in the128 universities, She says the professors' wives tell her that the new science has developed this thought & that professors are saying to their young men: "If you want a scintillating brain, if you want magnificent power of imagination, conserve every force, be as chaste as your sister is, & put your power into the brain that throbs on like an untired engine." [*(note)*] 428 The Greatest Party. (436) The contradiction & malignity of political debate have long since ceased to mar the tranquility of my spirit, I will do what I can to mitigate the asperities of politics [,] but for myself, x none of these things move me. She finds it a wonder that women are in politics for the first time (England &c) The Dem party led by Pres. Cleveland, projected the tariff issue squarely across the path of the Campaign; Republicans took it up eagerly, distorted the 129 un[s]ion of the tariff, which was the actual issue, into the abolition of the tariff, to which the traditions of the money getting [o] believing them to be altogether needless & unnatural, but for myself I have entered the region of calms, & none of these things &c, Yankee nation were totally opposed, & won the battle of the ballot box by making good temperance people believe that they must save their country, just once more, within the old lines of political warfare, by unblushing bribery, & by gently assuring the liquor element that its interest would be as safe in Republican as in Democratic hands. x x x x Resolution hurried through under circumstances proving to fair minded lookers on that it was but a sop in the form of a subterfuge to the prohibition Cerberus. Resolved that the first concern of130 all good government is the virtue & sobriety of the people & the purity of the home. The Rep party cordially sympathizes with all wise & well directed efforts for the promotion of temperance & morality." - Fires at Mrs. Foster & her "heart side of the tariff question - whatever that may be. " — & says "this (438) was the first time that women had even been recognized as helpers by either of the great parties, & shows the gathering force of the great woman movement in America as everywhere." (The woman headquarters. - ) No doubt the attitude of the Prohib party, which had from the first recognized women as integral forces in its organization & which had for many years given them a place upon its National Com. & invited them as delegates to all of its conventions, did much to pioneer the way for this surprising new depar[ture?] 131 The success of Mrs. Foster's effort to organize Rep. Clubs of Women was not conspicuous, but, chiefly through her efforts, no doubt, some clubs were formed, women participated in the campaign as speakers, - notably Anna Dickinson While at Pittsburg in /63 she notes in her journal May 17 "I have been reading a sketch of the orator, Anna E Dickinson My heart thrills with the hope of a long life on earth, & of seeing these persons I read about." Page 339 When she would stop at Pittsburg & see a Saloon Crusade 1874? her friends were astonished "for in the two years I had taught in Pittsburg these friends associated me with the recitation room, the Shakespearean Club, the lecture course, the Opera, indeed, all the haunts open to me that a literary-minded woman would care to enter. x & Mrs. Foster The Prohibition party Con. May 30 1888 Indianapolis. Tomlinson Hallafter all her howl she admits the "equal suffrage plank had been in from the first nominating Con. of the party in 1872. - The attempt made by Watin Thomas Miles to drop it because it would alienate the South "Only about sixty voted to drop the plank." - Sam Small at end of long debate in Com (441) on Resolutions : gallantly declared at last his willingness to let the resolution pass, because he said, " The majority has been so magnanimous that I cannot do less than bow my neck to the yoke." The ballot [withheld] 8 "That the right of suffrage rests on no mere accident of race, color, sex, or nationality, & that where, from any cause, it has been witheld from citizens who are of suitable age & mentally & morally qualified for the exercise of an intelligent ballot, it should be restored by the people through the legislatures of the several states (3? on such educational basis as they may deem [wise] wise." She says " (442 "This was the Prohibition party's platform in 1888, upon which there is reason to believe that in spite of dejection, misrepresentation, bribery & the stolen mailing lists of the New York Voice three hundred thousand men took their position. [* no tax on food clothing & other comforts & necessities of life *] 5- Free Trade doctrine John M Olive ) W.T. Miles. T.C. of Wisconsin ) Richmond & Neal Dow opposed them. Willard closed the debate,"& Sam Small came forward, took my hand & spoke in his eloquent way, saying, in effect, "As we had added the educational test, he would stand with us." - The South had been most generous from the beginning, showing a spirit of forebearance & good-will for which the women of that convention can never be too grateful." 445 "That most eventful day ever known to woman's annals of enfranchisement." Gordon & Shaw were with her at might sewalls "I couldbut think, of that other day 134 in Dixon Ill, in the year 1875, at the second session of the Ill. W. C. T.U. when I was in the second year of my temperance work. I remembered writing a declaration to this effect. 'Resolved, That since woman is the greatest sufferer from the rum curse, she ought to have power to close the dramshop door over against her home." - x x her speech &c " if I (who had no home &c) could have no adverse public opinion for the sake of other women's homes, surely they could do so for the sake of their own." 447 ) Mrs Louise S. Rounds with her. — "And thus the good ship Illinois swung from her moorings & put out to sea for a long & stormy voyage." x "How often was the rude wreath of leaves placed on the grave of a confederate by the union soldiers who had killed & yet who had wept over him." 449 Her verse & pays at Ind.) "Here side by side sit the Blue & the Gray (she begins) no other than the Prohibition party (she calls the speech The Greatest Party (35 even dared to be so great as to ordain a scene like this. I speak the words of truth - & soberness 447 The army of the Blue & Gray as represented in this convention, Memorial Day & the howl she makes over the enthusiasm for her. - Fifth Ave Hotel. B. O. [*0*] Their 1888 W C T. U - 5 days' Metropolitan Opera House In her address "Envy & jealousy light the intensest fires that ever burn in human hearts; gossip & scandal are the smoke emitted by them." "number disloyal to the organization who antagonize policy of prohib. - aimed at Indy, "Every action of the W.T.con, showed a liberality of spirit for which , I dare assert, no parallel can be found in history of associated effort among men & women." 451 Elegant home of Episcopal lady in town on Hudson "Will you not allow me to send you up a glass of wine? You [*great beautiful room*] must be very tired after your journey." The blood flushed in cheek & now as I said to her, "Madam, 200,000 women would lose somewhat of their136 faith in humanity if I should drink a drop of wine." And I pointed to my white ribbon saying , " This is the sign between us." The lady's eyes filled with tears & she impressively begged my pardon & begged me to understand that in her home wine was not used as a beverage, beat a hasty retreat from my room x) It was difficult for me to understand how she came to ask such a question of me, I know that the popular belief is that temperance men who speak are not always invulnerable, but I am confident this is a libel on these men & largely originates in the Saloon. Evidently this x & with her family showed me the utmost kindness & consideration throughout my stay. ) lady lived in a world so different from my own that it did not occur to her that a temperance woman was a total abstainer! 492 Ye gods! - & Evanston. - All Europe &c. Anna Gordon - have seen her with the 137 black bottle! - She did not have it for a beverage." either. 492. x "My father was a good Democrat an active politician, - took & read (& she too) Democratic papers. John T. Hale & Geo. W Julian visited the neighboring town of Janesville & my mother would go to hear them speak. Oliver acting as her escort; returning late at night from her unexampled adventure, she found us all up & waiting "to hear the arguments". My father forsook the Dems ere long & joined the Barn Burners, free-soilers & Republicans all parts of our tremendous whole Page 496. in her pen stuff Page 397 - Hale & Julian nominated here - in Lafayette Hall Pittsburg. "During their campaign a little girl - a farmer's daughter on the prairies of Wisconsin sat up until unprecedentedly late at night to "hear the news from the ["] Free Soil Meeting &c which her Mother & brother had gone miles to attend because H & J were to speak, & she will never forget the eagerness with which she listened to that recital. But how little did she dream138 that in the interval between those days & these the world would grow so tolerant & old prejudices would roll away like clouds below the horizon & women come forth into public work like singing birds after a thunder storm." Page. 592 " I cannot count myself other than at home Chicago 84 in your presence gentlemen, as you represent that great party which, on the prairies of Wisconsin, my honored father helped to build &c &c Prof Hodge took the Tribune & 496 we had the reading of that paper in Horace Greeley's day, When it was the friend of human freedom, & not flung from a vast town, wherein "The spirit above is a spirit of sin, And the spirit below is the spirit of gin." 509 Mary manuscript - borrowed $100 of Mr. S Haskin - went to New York by way of Niagara Sunday so & so, Monday so & so & Barnum's. - Mr Hoag put her in coach for St Nicholas Hotel - no money "Ting-a-ling went the drivers bell. - the Jew who paid for her, cried at remembrance of 139 his kindness. That night we went to Wallack's Theatre. It was the first & last time in all my life that I ever attended the theatre in my own land. I said to myself: "This is the most respectable one there is: 'Rosedale' is a reputable play & Lester Wallack is at his best in it; no one knows me & no harm will be done." This I then stated to my father's friend & he agreed; both of us being good Christians & church members. We went - it was an evening of wonder & delight, but I forbear to state who of our Western friends & fellow church members we then & there beheld, who had gone from the same motives that actuated us." 510 She smears the journalists with praise - & all the fault is from alcoholism of lies & bitterness &c 573 I have learned a calm philosophy x when bitterly [v????] & earned. 51 (about Mary book "Fewer tobacco cobwebs in air & brain & a less alcoholic ink are the punic necessities of the present newspaper. Mixed with miraculous good of journalism note the random statements given today only that140 they may be taken back tomorrow. Note the hyperbolism of heads not line the sensationalism, the low details not lawful to be uttered, the savardry of the pugilist & baseball columns, the beery mental flavor, the bitter gall dipped from the editorial inkstand & spattered on political opponents. But the journalistic temperament is almost the finest in the world - keen kind, progressive, & humanitarian. Take away the hallucination of nicotine & the crop of alcoholic dreams, & you would have remaining an incomparable set of brother-hearted men, whose glimpses of God would be not at all infrequent Anchor alongside these chivalric- natured experts, women &c & you will have &c &c -, paradise, 513 x x Until the bitter controversy about the Prohibition party's relation to politics, I have been treated almost universally with kind consideration by the editorial fraternity. (Her brother & her own 141 connection with journalism the cause also a certain kindliness that I believe belongs to the journalistic temperament. x x If the politics of the future cannot be more reasonable, if men & women cannot discuss great questions without using abusive epithets, then the true civilization is a long way off." 514 Gladstone "this the greatest leader of the Century. (525 Meeting for her of W.C.T.U in his churches "and yet - she can not vote! Aren't you ashamed men, that this should be? I was grateful indeed to him for thus clearly taking sides with the sacred cause of Women's enfranchisement - but then, he was President of the Am. Woman Suf. Asso " away back in 1870. &c 1886 having heard he had abjured his total abstinence principles I went to him & said "Mr. B. I am denying what the paper say about you drinking ale & wine = that is what you expect of her I hope? He smiled, shook hands cordially & answered as the throng passed upon him, Yes, you are right - I stand where I always did, butI have no harsh word for 142 my breth[e]ren in the ministry who do not see as I do." This was his testimony the last time I ever heard his kindly voice & it outweighs all testimony uttered against him. 534 I deeply love to praise him - he has been blamed so much! 553 We paid him Gough $1500 for that lecture, but made seven hundred dollars clear of all expenses. Many have criticised Mr. Gough for accepting such large sums but he earned them if ever mortal did & he was one of the most generous men that ever lived She pays her debts &c (648 "In this good reputation the chief credit should be given to these good women who ever since the unspeakable loneliness of my sister's going from me have been x x guide philosopher & friend. A thousand times they hear my "don't forget" Whether it is to pay the insurance or to return a borrowed slate pencil, & with punctilious x x can they see it done. For I \143 have felt (about not having anything but Rest Cottage while having earned thousands of dollars, as the great Agassiz declared of his, that one of my vocation "Could not afford to make money." (Is her vocation Gough's? & why could not she if she could earn it do as he? "His gifts (553) were private & most unostentations, but the young men & women he sent to school & college, the friends he helped, the families he supported, would make up a list of princely benefactions. Money passing into his hands was always transmuted into blessing." Living Comfortably but with entire simplicity x we barely succeed in making both ends of the year meet, after giving away from a fifth to a fourth of our income until 1886 I was not salaried by the National W.C.T.U. & for three years before that, generous friends sent money to mother to keep the home intact. I hold that a reformer cannot advantageously144 advantageously lay up money at least I cannot. The leverage lost in public confidence is too great an offset, the demands are to varied, constant & imperious. Some years ago I set out to receive no more than $25 per lecture, & though offered $50 $75 & $100, I have steadily declined to advance my figures. My friends have talked severely to me about this, but I am convinced; my course was Christian & along financial lines more in harmony with that day of brotherhood toward which we hasten than any other one thing of all that I have tried to do." (425) After holding the hem of her robe she read about a betrayed woman & there came a deep honest purpose in my inmost spirit always to stand by women in every circumstance, I was thirty years of age before I had the opportunity." (Bertha.) The "passes" &c (384) (& 363 about Anna Gordon) Her brother Oliver's last week was to work her up a big audience at home 570 The Fearless Anna Dickinson 571 The First Gun For Home Protection" 145 (600) Her hate of one experience in the caboose of a freight train [also] 602 In 1875, when without salary I was serving the national W.C.T.U. as its corresponding secretary, Mrs. Wittenmeyer, knowing my embarrassment, mentioned to Eliphalet Remington , of the well known firm of Remington Bros., that she would be very glad to have him give me the encouragement of some financial aid. Forthwith there came a beautiful letter, full of the most brotherly sympathy, & inclosing a check for five hundred with the modest remark that he hoped she would pardon him for sending so little, as the calls [then] were just then more numerous than usual." Kate Jackson H.W. Smith . Lady Somerset, - Her mother & brother. - & her mother at 65 doing kitchen work to please her with the fiction that she was doing something. 626 In 1866 she "unconditionally yielded my pretty little jewels & great peace came to my soul" (from Palmer Holiness Meetings. - & then did it over again in 74? = 634 "In this field (lecturing) I have studied the non-dramatic style because it is less wearing & fully as well adapted to purposes of information & conviction" Illustrations can be used that involve146 but little action, thus keeping the circulation normal, avoiding the exposures that attend perspiration & the reaction resulting from undue fatigue." (under "Gospel of Health." 637) Under " Companionships" the quote. " Tell me with whom thou goest & I'll tell thee what thou doest." 647) "You see double" had been said of me when I had decimated a friend whom I admired." 688) I always wanted to be widely known, loud & believed" ( & this she calls "aspiring" Capable of heroism" 691) a friend said to me "Do things because they are in themselves pure lovely & harmonious, without regard to whether anybody knows that you do them or not. But every nature has its limitations & mine was here precisely. I wanted some one else to know! 125) "You are hardly natural enough when in society, & have a certain air of self -consciousness sometimes that ill becomes you. However, as you think much upon the subject it is not unlikely that by & by Your manner will assume the half cordial, half dignified character 14[9]7 that accords best with your nature at 21 (575 "Always in presence of an audience I am saying to myself at one time or another "How dare I stand here, Taking at least a thousand hours of time & focalizing the attention of a thousand immortal human spirits. Who am I that so great possibility of influence should have fallen to my lot?" (361-1677 — Resolution — known in our annals "as the famous 13th" was adopted declaring that "women ought to have the power to close the dram shop door over against her home," She says at the end of her Bertha stories "Th[i]ence is he armed that hath his quarrel just."[?] on a Flyleaf-- Or [a?o?] young girl,--[ ] Revives a nobler cause to a[ ] Shaking from warning f[?????]--[ } The doom of her apocalypse.