entries
in the journal show her to be as cheerful, as philosophical, as full of
hopeful plans, as ever she had been in all her long and busy life. After
just one day at home she started for Cleveland. The W. C. T. U. were
holding a national convention in that city and were to have a great
"gospel suffrage" meeting in Music Hall, Sunday afternoon, which she was
invited to address. The Cleveland Leader, in describing the occasion,
said:

Miss Willard, the chieftain of the white ribbon army, introduced
Miss Anthony, the chieftain of the yellow ribbon army, saying:
"Once we would not have allowed the yellow ribbon to be so
generously displayed here. Had its wearers asked us to admit it
with the white we might have voted it down; but the yellow badge of
the suffragists looks natural now. The golden rule has done it.
Well do I remember that in the hard struggle mother and I had in
paying the taxes on our little home, no man appeared to pay them
for us. Had I been condemned to death I would not have expected a
man to startup and take my place. Susan B. Anthony--she of the
senatorial mind--will be remembered when the politicians of today
have long been doomed to 'innocuous desuetude.'" Miss Willard then
quoted a few familiar lines ending with the sentence, "And Susan B.
Anthony has been ordained of God to lead us on."

Miss Anthony was greeted with a rousing Chautauqua salute. "I am
delighted beyond measure," she said, "that at last the women of
this great national body have found there is only one way by which
they can reach their desired end, and that is by the ballot. What
is 'gospel suffrage?' It is a system by which truth and justice
might be made the uppermost principles of government. Every
election is the solution of a mathematical problem, the figuring
out of what the majority desire. We have in this country
mercantile, mining, manufacturing and all kinds of business by
which money can be made. The interests of every one of these are
put into the political scale, but when the moral issues are put in
the other side the material pull them down. Why? Because the moral
issues are not weighted with votes. The men who are associated with
women in movements of reform get no more in the way of legislation
than do women themselves, because when they go to the legislatures
or to