ed States blessed with all the political privileges of
citizenship. If this wish might be fulfilled, I know it would bring
the highest joy ever permitted a human being; therefore because I
love her tenderly I make it, with gratitude for her years of
service and with a reverence unspeakable for the woman whose
courage, determination and adherence to principle made the service
possible.

A few evenings later Miss Anthony attended a meeting held in Rochester
by the Cuban League. As soon as she entered she was invited to a seat
on the stage and then the audience insisted on a speech. Finally she
came forward and said:

From the report of the first outrage in Cuba down to the present
time, there has not been a moment but that its people have had my
sympathy. Never since I began to know the meaning of the word
"freedom" has anything taken a stronger hold on me than this
struggle in Cuba. Even where all men are free, women are not, and I
trust that when Cuban men achieve their independence and frame
their constitution, they will not forget the women who have borne
the struggle with them, as our Revolutionary fathers forgot the
women who toiled by their side. The men of only four out of
forty-five States of our republic have yet granted liberty to the
women. I never can speak in a meeting like this without bearing
testimony to the cowardice of the men of this nation in refusing to
make the women free. I believe in liberty and equality for every
human being under every flag, not for men alone but for women also.

The last of February a telegram announced the death of Maude, wife of
Senator L. H. Humphrey, who but a few weeks before had visited the
Anthony home, and stated that the husband desired Miss Anthony to speak
at the funeral. She was a young and lovely wife and mother, treasurer of
the State Federation of Clubs and an officer of the State and county
suffrage associations. It was said that Miss Anthony spoke as one
inspired of the woman in whose death everything good had lost a helpful
hand, who had gone out of life with no fear for herself but only loving
thoughtfulness for others. She told of her courage in following the
truth wherever it might lead, of the freedom into which she had grown,
and the beautiful faith and trust in which she had lived; she said that
it was such who walked with God, and that her spiritual lif