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90 & 15 august 1896 Freethought in the United States: A Descriptive Bibliography [Westport, Conn., 1978], 57–58.) 2. “John Swinton’s Voice: The Terrors of the Times,”Commonwealth 3 (25 July 1896): 21–25, an excerpt from his book Striking for Life. Labor’s Side of the Labor Question: The Right of Workingmen to a Fair Living (1894). The article examined the extreme concentration of wealth in the United States that occurred since the Civil War. Swinton (1829–1901), journalist and labor activist, worked at the New York Sun from 1875 to 1883, at a time when Henry Stanton worked there, and he returned to the paper in 1887. In that interval, he published John Swinton’s Paper, a journal of labor politics, social criticism, and economic justice. (ANB.) ••••••••• 35 • ECS to Clara Bewick Colby Peterboro N.Y. August 20 [1896] Strictly private Dear Mrs Colby, I send hereby the 1st chapter in Judges. Add a few remarks by Mrs Neyman , she speaks of one authority I forget the name.1 If you can read her writing you will see what is worth preserving I could not make one half out. What she says about the incapacity of warriors looking after money matters might be added to Ashcah If you see a good point to add, or criticism to be made, do so. The comments on the women to follow will be more interesting. One point I keep ever in view is to depreciate the Bible view of the Lord, on such familiar terms with Israel. What could “iron chariots” be in the way of one who engineers hurricans & earth-quakes & the pyrotechnics in a thunder storm2 My chapter on Joshua had so many gross mistakes that I sent an “Errata” for publication which does not appear I send this in abundent time for me to get the proof.3 You are right The Womans Journal does not take the place of The Tribune which is far more liberal more hospitable to new ideas. I do wish you could afford to give all your time to it. If the Woman’s Bible is a block in your way, I can send it to the Boston Investigator or The Free Thought Magazine4 though so many of our women would not then see it I had hoped it might be an attraction & help you. If I had money I would help you. The California campaign should have done much for your paper, but Susan is so narrow that she sees nothing but suffrage. She will not ^ 91 even circulate my birthday speech on account of my advice in regard to the church.5 I have her to blame for that resolution of denunciation in Wash. Con. She deplored The Woman’s Bible in the hearing of all her younger coadjutors, so that they really thought she would favor such a resolution She urged me to strike out that passage on the church in my birthday speech.6 She does not like your articles on dress & labor your poetry & Zilka.7 If your columns were all suffrage she would work for it. She does not like Blackwell nor The Woman’s Journal, but it sticks to suffrage I do not believe that you will be invited to speak in California. Yours sincerely U Elizabeth Cady Stanton Y ALS, Clara B. Colby Papers, Archives Division, WHi. 1. Commentaries on the first chapter of the Book of Judges, by ECS and Clara Neymann, were published in Woman’s Tribune, 26 September 1896, Film, 35:1098, and later in Woman’s Bible, Part II, 15–17. Clara Low Neymann (c. 1840–1931), whose name usually appeared as Clara B. Neymann, was a widow, German-American freethinker, and noted lecturer, active in the New York city and state suffrage societies. In addition to writing commentaries, she served on the Woman’s Bible Revising Committee. (Federal Census, 1880; city directories, 1880 to 1891; Woman’s Who’s Who 1914, s.v. “Glucksmann, Olga Neyman”; Woman’s Journal, 23 February 1884; New York Times, 28 May 1931.) Neymann referred to George Foot Moore (1851–1931), who believed, as Neymann put it, that “an older collection of tales”about the heroes of Israel provided the basis for Judges.Moore, professor of Hebrew at Andover Theological Seminary, published A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Judges in 1895. (ANB.) 2. Chariots of iron, capable of limiting the power of the Lord, appear in Judg. 1:19. Otherwise ECS quotes herself; see Woman’s Bible, Part II, 15. 3...

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