all be boys. It will have come to a
strange pass indeed when the good women of this land, who, as
mothers, have the nurture, training and admonition of every boy
from his cradle to mature manhood, are unwilling to trust in the
hands of their own offspring the destinies of the nation.

That such an attack can not be attributed to sectional prejudice may be
proved by this extract from a column of vituperation in the Grand
Rapids, Mich., Times, during this same trip, headed "Spinster Susan's
Suffrage Show:"

A "miss" of an uncertain number of years, more or less brains, a
slimsy figure, nut-cracker face and store teeth, goes raiding about
the country attempting to teach mothers and wives their duty.... As
is the yellow-fever to the South, the grasshopper to the plains,
and diphtheria to our northern cities, so is Susan B. Anthony and
her class to all true, pure, lovely women. The sirocco of the
desert blows no hotter or more tainting breath in the face of the
traveller, than does this woman against all men who do not believe
as she does, and no pestilence makes sadder havoc among them than
would Susan B. Anthony if she had the power. The women who make
homes, who are sources of comfort to husbands, fathers, brothers,
sisters or themselves, who wish to keep sacred all that goes to
make their lives noble, refined and worth the living, will be as
diametrically opposed to the lecturer of last evening as are most
intelligent men. Susan B. Anthony may find her remedy in suffrage,
but alas! there is no remedy for us against Susan and her ilk.

Each lecture usually was followed by letters not only from friends but
from entire strangers, asking her forgiveness for having misjudged her
so many years, and closing something like this from a lady in St. Paul,
Minn.: "For the last ten years your name has been familiar to me
through the newspapers, or rather through newspaper ridicule, and has
always been associated with what was pretentious and wholly unamiable.
Your lecture tonight has been a revelation to me. I wanted to come and
touch your hand, but I felt too guilty. Henceforth I am the avowed
defender of woman suffrage. Never again shall a word of mine be heard
derogatory to the noble women who are working with heart and hand for
the best welfare of humanity."

A two-column interview in the Chicago Tribune during this tour gives
Miss Anthony's views