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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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