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^ 253 November 1898 to debate a bill requiring that sleeping car companies segregate passengers into separate cars. (Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina Passed at the Regular Session of 1898 [Columbia, S.C., 1898], 777–78; Gilbert Thomas Stephenson, Race Distinctions in American Law [New York, 1910], 216–20; Linda M. Matthews, “Keeping Down Jim Crow: The Railroads and the Separate Coach Bills in South Carolina,” South Atlantic Quarterly 73 [Winter 1974]: 117–29; Washington Post, 13 November 1898.) ••••••••• 106 • ECS to SBA [New York, c. 4 December 1898] 1 Bob Hattie & I read last night until after eleven. I feared it might be prosey, but it is fresh & breezy. Miss nMrsp H. has done well & so [in margin] have you Y AN, Ida Harper Woman Suffrage Scrapbook 3, Rare Books, DLC. 1. This note probably falls after 3 December 1898.On that date,SBA remarked in a letter to ECS, “You do not report receiving the Advance sheets,” meaning pages of Ida Harper’s biography of SBA. This seems to be a response. See Film, 38:963–64. ••••••••• 107 • SBA to Ida Husted Harper Rochester, N.Y., Dec. 7, 1898— My Dear Mrs Harper Your letter of last Saturday came yesterday—and I read & re-read it— and was going to argue the question of newspaper work—but this mornings despatches of the Hawaian Commissions report for nthep provisional government of that new U.S. territory to be based on sex regardless of intelligence—instead of on intelligence regardless of sex—so roused me that I said if Mrs Harper can hold her pen from pitching into such a brutal proposal—at the close of this war—at the nveryp opening of the 20th century — 1 If her soul is not so fired that all other work—in Mexico or Europe fades out of sight with her—it is of no use for me to talk—she must choose 2 december 1898 254 & her own place!— There never was a time when that ncouldp be called the crucial moment in woman’s chances for freedom like the present—with all of these provisional government schemes to nbep brought before Congress this very session—and a male oligarchy fastened upon every one of the ne[w] possessions of this nation—instead of the nanp enlightened democracy —that wipes out the sex line!!— I have just thanke[d] Mrs WestoverAlden 2 for her full page on our book in last Sundays Tribune— The nN.Y.p Herald of last Sunday had a full illustrated page also 3 —and I asked her if she thought any of the other N.Y.Dalies would give a page to a brainy woman!— But then—she could not pitch in & criticise this damnable proposition to perpetuate male superiority—and female inferiority in our new possessions— that would antagonize & run counter to the poli[tical] policy of the Tribune,—& the powers that be there now—will no more allow any woman[’s] demands beyond or different from the Republi[can] party than would they when Greeley was the ruling power— No—not a political or religious paper will give a woman full freedom on a page—to intelligence to put there what is counter to its political policy or religious creed— If you got a page or column of the Sun you could n’t put into it your deepest and truest ideas—only surface things—that wouldn’t run a tilt with the interests of the counting room— I have asked Mrs Alden point blank—if she would be allowed to scarify this proposal for the male supremacy in Hawaii? I know she would not—unless the Editor in chief had decided to kill the proposal— A woman would be there as a subordinate —and that is not the position you seek— If you wish to espouse the politics & policy of any one of the papers—& cut & trim your articles to them—that is your privilege—but I know that is not what you wish— Oh if I only could say this minute—“Jimmy Grind”—what an article would go out over the Associated Press wires this very night—but alas I have no “Jimmy Grind”now—so I can only fret & fume and scold to one & another with this old scratchy steel pen— No—I should not feel at liber[ty] to appropriate the money I have raised for newspaper work—such as you did in California—to any sort of fugitive articles— Of...

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