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^ 257 2. Isa.6:6–7.After live coals were taken from the altar and placed in the sinner’s mouth, a seraphim said “thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.” 3. SBA here selected senators from states where women voted. Frank Jenne Cannon (1859–1933), Republican of Utah, served in the Senate from 1896 to 1899, after serving a year as territorial delegate to the House of Representatives in 1895. Francis Emory Warren (1844–1929),Republican of Wyoming,served in the Senate from 1890 to 1893 and 1895 until his death. (BDAC.) ••••••••• 109 • SBA to Anna H. Shaw [Rochester, c. 23 December 1898] 1 I want—also—a full understanding as to what Rachel is to do about her office & salary next year—what Mrs Catt intends to do— you see it is of no use to plan Press Bureau nHead Quartersp—or anything—unless we know who are to man our ship of state— Now—this is to you & Lucy—Rachel & Nicolas—only— Brother D. R. & Sister Mary are most emphatic in their feeling that I should no longer allow myself to stand the responsible head of the Association — And I have been growing more & more strongly in the same feeling— 1st I want the young women to start into the 20th Century in full control of the Association—& for that—the officers must be elected at our Con. in 1899—and tried their hand at running things their way—nso as to report at the Con of 1900—p Not that I wish to work less—but only that it will be a relief to me not to feel responsible for the things done or not done—especially the things not done—or thought of—for instance not one of our B.C. has written me of her thinking of—much less of her feeling a worry because of the tendency shown all round of a reactionary sentiment —action—as the Federation of Labor 2 —the North Western R.R. 3 the Hawaiian government—Porto Rico 4 —South Carolina & lastly President Harpers pronunciamento against women’s holding official position over men— 5 Our souls ought all to be on fire—& yet no one seems awake to the threatening signs of the times— Well—I know you have seen & shouted to your audiences about them— But our organization Com—nor Cor.Secy.have nneverp asked me to say or do a thing—or hinted that there was anything to be done Lovingly yours— U Susan B Anthony 17 december 1898 258 & Y ALS incomplete, on NAWSA letterhead, SBA Papers, MCR-S. 1. On this fragment of a letter,someone other than SBA wrote “Dec.'98.”Most events listed in the letter were reported in the press by 20 December 1898, and the ideas in the first paragraph match a letter written on 23 December. See SBA to Rachel F. Avery, 23 December 1898, Film, 38:1020–22. 2. For another use of this list of outrages, see SBA’s article in New York Herald, 15 January 1899, Film, 39:467. During its convention on 13 December 1898, the American Federation of Labor heard a resolution asking Congress to remove all women from government employment and set a precedent for the wider removal of women from public life, but it was not endorsed or adopted by the delegates. (Gompers, Papers, 5:35–39.) 3. On 17 December 1898,the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad dismissed all female employees who had been with the company for less than two years,effective 1 January 1899.One official told the Washington Post that the company wanted “to advance its employees from low positions to offices of trust. Can you imagine a woman as General Superintendent or General Manager of the affairs of this great railway system?” (Chicago Daily Tribune, 18 December 1898; Washington Post, 18 December 1898.) 4. Puerto Rico came under American control when the Spanish left the island in October 1898, in advance of Senate ratification of the Treaty of Paris. At the instruction of the military governor, mayors across the island sent delegates to San Juan for a meeting on 19 December 1898 to advise him about local needs. On more than one occasion, SBA took offense at their advice on voting rights. “The convention,which was politically harmonious,”according to a wire service report, “pronounced in favor of commercial and religious liberty,and the future limitation of the suffrage to males over twenty-one years of age who pay taxes and are able...

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