a note: 'I have just sold a piece of real
estate and I want to give a part of the proceeds to the suffrage
cause.'" Miss Blackwell added to the tribute: "A quiet woman of Quaker
blood, never seeking office or prominence, she came to the relief of
our distressed officers on innumerable occasions. She once told me
that there were many who could write and speak for equal suffrage but
that the Lord seemed to have given her only one talent, that of making
money, and she meant to use it for the cause.... She was a great
believer in preaching the gospel of reform through the printed page
and she and her daughter, Dr. Mary D. Hussey, who was like-minded with
her, have sent out probably more equal suffrage literature than any
other two women in the United States. She placed the _Woman's Journal_
in a great number of college reading-rooms and sent it far and wide.
During the thirty-three years that the paper has been published--and
published always at a financial loss--she has been one of its most
steadfast and generous friends."[27]

"The palm of victory has come this year to Elizabeth Cady Stanton,"
said Mrs. Catt, "but though she has gone it is still our privilege to
have her friend and co-worker, Susan B. Anthony, and I echo the
prayer of every heart that she may be here till all women are
enfranchised." Miss Anthony was most affectionately greeted and said:
"I feel indeed as if a part of my life had gone. Mrs. Stanton always
said that when the parting came she wanted me to go first, so that she
might write my eulogy. I am not a 'word-artist,' as she was, and I can
not give hers in fitting terms." She read from the last volume of the
History of Woman Suffrage extracts from her great speeches and related
a number of instances showing her characteristics. Dr. Shaw then began
a eulogy, which can only be marred in quoting from memory, by saying:
"Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony and Lucy Stone held up the standard of
truth and when they were urged to lower it in order to suit the ideas
of the world they answered: 'We will not lower our standard to the
level of your world; bring the world up to the standard.' ... I shall
always be thankful that I lived in the present age and knew these
women who never quailed in the face of danger. The side of Mrs.
Stanton that I like best to think of is her home life, her family
affections and her friendships. I was once a guest for several days in
the same house with her and other leaders and she was