of all ages; and now
men mock us with the fact, and say we are ever cruel to each other.
Let us end this ignoble record and henceforth stand by womanhood.
If Victoria Woodhull must be crucified, let men drive the spikes
and plait the crown of thorns.

[Autograph: Lucinda Hinsdale Stone]

Immediately after the Washington convention, Miss Anthony went to fill
a lecture engagement at Kalamazoo, the arrangements made by her friend,
the widely-known and revered Lucinda H. Stone. She spoke also at Grand
Rapids and other points in Michigan. At Chicago she was fortunate
enough to have a day with Mrs. Stanton, also on a lecturing tour, and
then took the train for Leavenworth. At Kansas City the papers said she
made "the success of the lecture season." She spoke in Leavenworth,
Lawrence, Topeka, Paola, Olathe and other places throughout the State.
Although it was very cold and the half-frozen mud knee deep, she
usually had good audiences. At Lincoln, Neb., she was entertained at
the home of Governor Butler and introduced by him at her lecture. At
Omaha her share of the receipts was $100. At Council Bluffs she was the
guest of her old fellow-worker, Amelia Bloomer. Cedar Rapids and Des
Moines gave packed houses. She lectured in a number of Illinois towns,
taking trains at midnight and at daybreak; and, waiting four hours at
one little station, the diary says she was so thoroughly worn-out she
was compelled to lie down on the dirty floor. On the homeward route she
spoke at Antioch College, and was the guest of President Hosmer's
family. According to the infallible little journal: "The president said
he had listened to all the woman suffrage lecturers in the field, but
tonight, for the first time, he had heard an _argument_; a compliment
above all others, coming from an aged and conservative minister."

She spoke also at Wilberforce University, at Dayton, Springfield,
Crestline, and in Columbus before the two Houses of the Legislature. At
Salem she ran across Parker Pillsbury, who was lecturing there. When
she took the train at Columbus "there sat Mrs. Stanton, fast asleep,
her gray curls sticking out." Then again into Michigan she went,
speaking at Jackson, Lansing, Ann Arbor and other cities. Mrs. Stanton
had preceded her and it was many times said that her lecture needed
Miss Anthony's to make it complete. Then to Chicago, where she spoke at
a suffrage matinee in Farwell Hall and at the Cook county annual
suffr