excellent political advice, but he inclined to the belief that the
temperance reform could be brought about without woman suffrage.
"The women would bring the men around in time; they could
accomplish much by their moral influence; in this they resembled
ministers." Miss Anthony wished to know if it would not be a good
thing then, to disfranchise the ministers and let them depend
entirely on their moral influence. She explained that in what she
had said about prayer she meant prayer by action. She would not
have it understood that she did not believe in prayer; she thought,
however, that an emotion never could be equal to an action.

She went to Chautauqua July 25, when, for the first time in its history,
woman suffrage was presented. Zerelda G. Wallace delivered a grand
address and Rev. Anna Shaw gave "The Fate of Republics." Miss Anthony
followed in a short speech, and the Jamestown Sunday News said: "Woman's
Day was fully justified by the reception given to that intrepid Arnold
Winkelreid of women." Frances Willard wrote a few days later from the
assembly grounds: "Dearest Susan, I could sing hallelujah over you and
our Anna Shaw and 'Deborah' Wallace! It was the best and biggest day
Chautauqua ever saw. Do urge your suffragists to go in for this on next
year's program."

Miss Anthony attended the golden wedding of John and Isabella Beecher
Hooker, in Hartford, August 5; "a most beautiful occasion," she writes
in her diary, "but to the surprise of all there was no speaking." An
affair without speeches was to her what a feast without wine would have
been to the ancients. On the 15th suffrage had a great day at Lily
Dale, the famous Spiritualist camp meeting grounds, Miss Shaw and
herself making the principal addresses. Miss Anthony thus speaks of the
meeting in a letter:

... To Brother Buckley's assertion, made a short time before, that
women should not be allowed to vote because the majority of
Spiritualists, Christian Scientists and all false religions were
women, Miss Shaw replied that there was a larger ratio of men in
the audience before her than she had seen in any Methodist or
temperance camp meeting or Chautauqua assembly this summer. When
Mr. Buckley charged that women were too numerous in the false
religions to vote, she would remind him that there were three women
to one man in the Methodist church also; and