who worked against the woman suffrage amendment," and Miss Anthony
replied:

It is hardly worth while for you or anybody to talk about "God's
punishing people." If He does, He has been a long time about it in
a good many cases and not succeeded in doing it very thoroughly. He
certainly didn't punish the liquor dealers of San Francisco;
instead of that, He let them rejoice over us women because of their
power to cheat us out of right and justice. I think it is quite
time, at least for anybody who has Anthony blood in her, to see
that God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, and
that the tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it
out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that
the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the
tares, root and branch. Instead of that, good men stay away from
the ballot-box or else form third, fourth and forty-'leventh
parties, thus leaving the liquor men and vicious elements, who
always know enough to stand together, a balance of power on the
side of the candidate or the party that will do most for their
interests. If the good men were as bright as the bad men, they
would pull together instead of separately.

To the Jewish Woman's Council: "From day to day I read the press reports
of your meetings, and was pleased to see how successful they were;
especially was I glad at the answer one of your women made to the
criticism of your holding a meeting on Sunday. It is time to teach some
of our Protestant women that it is just as worthy to do a good thing on
Sunday as on Monday or any other day in the week, and no worse to do a
bad one. They should learn also that they have no more right to ask you
to hold their Sunday sacred than you have to demand that they shall
observe your Jewish Sabbath."

Some California women wrote her that the politicians were advising them
to ask for "educated and property suffrage," and she replied:

I should answer them that it is quite difficult enough for women to
push their demand for enfranchisement on an _equal_ basis with men.
They all know there is not a man who has any political aspirations
or a party which hopes for success, that would take a public stand
in favor of such a measure as they wish us to adopt. I do not agree
with them that we have too many voters now. Instead of