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^ 235 ren. When the National-American’s headquarters were moved to Warren in 1904, Hauser was the principal staff member.An active suffragist until 1920,Hauser went on to work with the League of Women Voters. (David D. Van Tassel and John J. Grabowski, eds., The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History [Bloomington, Ind., 1987]; Joseph G. Butler, Jr., History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio [Chicago and New York, 1921], 2:191–92.) 22. SBA created accounts for the Press Bureau at the back of her diary for 1898. By this date in May, she had raised $875 from forty donors. At year’s end, she transferred $1,416 to the account for 1899. (SBA diary, 1898, memoranda pages, Film, 37:604ff.) ••••••••• 95 • SBA to Elizabeth Smith Miller Rochester, N.Y. May 30, 1898. My Dear Friend:—¶1 Yours of May 25th, enclosing the speech made by your father on Cuba, a quarter of a century ago, came duly. 1 I read every word of that appeal, and was made to feel ashamed that I knew so little of the ten years war on the part of those liberty-loving Cubans. I hope that you have sent a copy with one of your beautiful letters to Charles Fitch,editor of the Post-Express of this city, and to ever so many other editors. A personal letter accompanying your father’s speech will be apt to call attention to its importance and secure its publication. I fully agree with you that the only excuse for this war is that through it another people may be able to secure their liberty. It was a splendid thought of yours to revive that characteristic appeal of your father’s, and I hope that it will be printed all over the country.¶2 I have read the comments of Miss Putnam 2 on my failure to call out the descendants of Frederick Douglass at the Pioneers’ Session in Washington. We had had his grandson 3 playing the violin for us and he had received a most cordial encore, and if I failed to call out the descendants of Frederick on that evening it was because my eyes failed to discern any of them on the platform or in the audience. I had especially asked the children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews of all pioneers, to come to the platform, but very few of them did so, hence I was obliged to depend on my short sight to catch those whom I knew,scattered through the audience.As I began reading Miss Putnam, 27 may 1898 236 & I supposed she was going to criticise me because I did not give my consent for Mrs. Douglass to have an hour at the evening session to present the horrors of the chain-gangs of the South. 4 I refused her request because I felt that we were not assembled to right the wrongs of the negroes South, or the white boys and girls of the North, and most of all because no person on the program had over thirty minutes. I told her that it was impossible to give her even thirty minutes without taking time from some one to whom it had already been allotted.¶3 Miss Putnam,like so many of the women interested in all the different reforms, makes the blunder of supposing that our suffrage associations are to take up and protest against everything which we believe to be wrong in the country and the world, whereas our one business is to demand of our government, State and national, the right for women to have their opinions counted at the ballot-box on everyone of the different questions brought there. I was at the Spiritualistic jubilee meeting here yesterday evening, 5 and at its close one woman upbraided me for not declaring that I was a Spiritualist and giving to that cause the weight of my influence, saying that Spiritualism and woman suffrage both had their birth here in Rochester the same year, and that they were twins and ought always to be associated together. So I had to tell her, as I told Mrs. Douglass, that while I rejoiced in every good work and word for women by any and every society, yet I could not feel that the objects of the different societies were questions to be discussed on our platform. But it is very difficult for people to understand this position.¶4 I hear that Miss Putnam is visiting Miss Howland at...

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