of the world, from New
Zealand, where the vote was extended to women. This confirmed her
growing conviction that equal citizenship was best understood on the
frontier and that in her own country victory would come from the West.
FOOTNOTES:
[367] Minor vs. Happersett, _History of Woman Suffrage_, II, pp.
741-742. North and South Dakota, Washington and Montana were admitted
in 1889, Wyoming and Idaho in 1890.
[368] _Ibid._, IV, pp. 999-1000.
[369] North Dakota's constitution provided that the legislature might
in the future enfranchise women.
[370] _History of Woman Suffrage_, IV, p. 556.
[371] Harper, _Anthony_, II, p. 690.
[372] _Ibid._, p. 688.
[373] Anna Howard Shaw, _The Story of a Pioneer_ (New York, 1915), p.
202.
[374] Harper, _Anthony_, II, p. 731.
[375] Ms., Diary, Feb. 28, April 18, 1893.
[376] Published first in the _Woman's Tribune_, then as a book in 1898
under the title, _Eighty Years and More_.
[377] Harper, _Anthony_, II, p. 712.
[378] During this visit the young sculptor, Adelaide Johnson, modeled
busts of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton which later were chiseled in
marble and were exhibited with the bust of Lucretia Mott at the
World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. They are now in the Capitol in
Washington.
[379] To Clarina Nichols. Harper, _Anthony_, II, p. 544. Miss Anthony
wrote in her diary, Oct. 18, 1893, "Lucy Stone died this evening at
her home--Dorchester, Mass. aged 75--I can but wonder if the spirit
now sees things as it did 25 years ago!" The wound inflicted by Lucy's
misunderstanding of her motives had never healed.
[380] _Ibid._, p. 727.
[381] Rachel Foster was married in 1888 to Cyrus Miller Avery.
[382] May Wright Sewall, Editor, _The World's Congress of
Representative Women_ (Chicago, 1894), p. 464.
[383] Statement by Lucy E. Anthony, Una R. Winter Collection.
[384] Miss Anthony's diary, 1893, mentions visiting "dear Mrs.
Coonley" (Lydia Avery Coonley) in her beautiful, friendly home. May
Wright Sewall, and devoted Emily Gross. Her sister Mary, Daniel,
Merritt, and their families joined her at the Fair for a few weeks.
[385] Shaw, _The Story of a Pioneer_, pp. 205-207.
[386] Ms., Diary, Nov. 8, 1893.
LIQUOR INTERESTS ALERT FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE
"I am in the midst of as severe a treadmill as I ever experienced,
traveling from fifty to one hundred miles every day and speaking five
or six nights a week,"[387] Susa
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