eously she
might have set out to right the wrong, had she lacked endurance,
she had never been the one to lead us to victory. As justice is the
root of the tree of character, and patience the stalk from which
all growth proceeds, so tenderness is the outflowering of the
divinity within. By her tenderness Miss Anthony has made herself
loved where she might have only been honored.

It was perhaps the drop hardest to swallow from the cup of
bitterness which was ever pressed to the lips of the early woman
suffragists, that they were destroyers of the home. To Miss
Anthony, the home and kindred-lover--homeless only for the sake of
the homes of the mother-half of the race--this must have been
especially hard to bear. There are such all over the land where she
has been a tender and sympathetic friend and where she is enshrined
in the hearts of the homekeepers.... Thus Miss Anthony,
justice-loving, patient and tender, has erected for herself a
lasting monument in the hearts of the women of this nation. May the
time be long deferred when she shall pass from the leadership of
her now triumphant host, but when that day comes, let there be, as
she has enjoined upon us, no tears, but only glad thankfulness for
a great life-work wrought in courage, fidelity and tenderness.

Mrs. Colby urged the Historical Society to purchase the old homestead,
if possible, as a depository not only for relics of the Anthony family
but for mementoes of suffrage work and workers. No report ever can give
an adequate idea of the eloquence of Anna Shaw, so artistically
diversified by delicious bits of humor and keen points of satire. A
portion of her address was as follows:

Amidst all the eulogy which has surrounded Miss Anthony this
afternoon, her brother said to me, "Don't you think they will turn
Susan's head?" I answered, "No, she has had so many years of
misrepresentation and abuse that if they keep on eulogizing her as
long as she lives, it won't balance the other side." There is no
danger in this world that the leader of an unpopular cause ever
will die of overpraise, for, in America as in Jerusalem, the
prophets of God have always been received with stones. We who know
her best love her most, and to me the truest and deepest love of my
existence, since my mother entered the life beyond, is that whi