ities of her audience, but
confined her discourse to the one subject of woman suffrage as a
means to attain equality of competitive labor. This portion of her
lecture we have not time to discuss. Our sole purpose now is to
enter our protest against the inculcation of doctrines which we
believe are calculated to degrade and debauch society by
demolishing the dividing lines between virtue and vice. It is true
that Miss Anthony did not openly advocate "free love" and a
disregard of the sanctity of the marriage relation, but she did
worse--under the guise of defending women against manifest wrongs,
she attempts to instil into their minds an utter disregard for all
that is right and conservative in the present order of society.

Apparently Mr. Brown did not approve of woman suffrage. According to
his own statement Miss Anthony confined her entire discourse to the one
point of competitive labor. The editorial was founded wholly upon his
own depraved imagination.

Miss Anthony went into British Columbia and spoke several times at
Victoria. The doctrine of equal rights was entirely new in that city
and on the first evening there was not a woman in the hall. At no
succeeding lecture were twenty women present, although there were fair
audiences of men. The press was respectful in its treatment of speaker
and speeches, but some of the "cards" which were sent to the papers
were amusing, to say the least.[61]

The journal depicts the hardships of a new country, the poor hotels,
the long stage-rides, the inconvenient hours, etc. At one place, where
there was an appalling prospect of spending Sunday in the wretched
excuse for a hotel, a lady came and took her to a fine, new home and
Miss Anthony was delighted; but when the husband appeared he announced
that he "did not keep a tavern," and so, after her evening lecture, she
returned to her former quarters, the wife not daring to remonstrate.
After meeting one woman who had had six husbands, and at least a dozen
whose husbands had deserted them and married other women without the
formality of a divorce, she writes in her journal, "Marriage seems to
be anything but an indissoluble contract out here on the coast."
Meanwhile she had received urgent invitations from California once more
to try her fortune in that State. After lecturing to crowded houses at
Oregon City, Eugene and other points, she continued southward, her
rough experience on sh