o convert to suffrage, neither know nor care whether
you and the rest of the women who want to vote, are especially
inspired by God to make the demand. Those who are good Methodists
like yourself ought to believe in suffrage already, and therefore
your appeals are to be made to the men who are not Methodists,
possibly not even Christians, and would be repelled by your
presenting any of the religious motives which are so powerful with
you and other church members. To prevail with the rank and file of
voters, you must appeal to their sense of justice. I am glad to
have you tell me personally about your communings with the Lord,
but for you to give that talk of "miraculous intervention" to the
common run of voters would be, as the Good Book says, "casting
pearls before swine."

To a nephew, D. R. Anthony, Jr., and his bride on the day of their
wedding, she telegraphed the beautiful words of Lucretia Mott: "May your
independence be equal, your dependence mutual, your obligations
reciprocal."

In the winter of 1897 a great cry was raised about what was called
"yellow" journalism, the mischievous sensationalism of certain
metropolitan newspapers. The matter was taken up by the W. C. T. U. and
Miss Willard sent out an address to prominent women asking that they
should protest against this journalism and also against such spectacles
as the recent Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize fight. When it reached Miss
Anthony she answered:

Your circular letter came duly, proposing that women should refuse
to patronize the so-called "yellow" newspapers, and also protest
against prize fighting. It seems to me that for the women of the
country to come out now with their little piping voices, after all
the great daily papers of the nation have written the strongest
kind of editorials against both these evils, would be very like the
caricatures of the old Conkling-Platt fight in the United States
Senate--the tall Conkling dealing his blow, and the little Platt
peeping, "Me, too."

Instead of going around echoing one or another class of men, it is
time for women to put their heads together and demand to have their
opinions counted the same as those of the men who make possible
"yellow journalism" and prize fighting. They who wish may waste
their time trying to make bricks without straw--to change the
conditions of