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354 & ••••••••• 160 • SBA to Mary McHenry Keith Rochester, N.Y. July 25, 1900. My Dear Friend:—¶1 I have just come across your good letter of June 9th in which you report your speech and your talk on woman suffrage,and especially the good word that Mrs. Hearst 1 told you that you had almost converted her. 2 I hope you will be able to let her hear you at least once more because I feel it would be of the greatest possible service to our cause to have her fully converted, so that she would see that the wisest appropriation of her millions would be in the direction of educating the young men and young women of California, and of the entire nation, into the knowledge that the votes of all the people, including women with men, will surely bring about the wisest and best government the world has ever seen.¶2 How Mrs. Hearst or anybody else can possibly persuade herself that a government composed wholly of men can legislate better for themselves and for women than can a government composed of both sexes is more than I can understand. All of our wars today are the result of a government wholly masculine. I do not believe any one of them would have been possible had the women of the United States and of England had their full and rightful share in deciding all questions that were at issue between the various nations.Man is the fighting half of the human family, and woman is the peace-making half, and in order to have a fine and even adjustment of things the two halves must be brought into perfect co-operation. Thanking you for all your kind words, and with love to yourself and Mr. Keith, I am, Very sincerely yours, U Susan B. Anthony Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Keith-McHenry-Pond Family Papers, C-B 595, CU-BANC. 1. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842–1919) was the wealthy widow of George Hearst and mother of William Randolph Hearst. She was a major donor to the University of California. (NAW; ANB.) 25 july 1900 ^ 355 2. This catching up with mail comes as SBA recovered from a serious collapse and partial paralysis suffered while in Auburn, New York, with Eliza Osborne on 1 July 1900. After giving her multiple “electric treatments,” a doctor there pronounced her ailment to be “a tired out body.” Anna Shaw and Lucy Anthony arrived on July 5 to escort her back to Rochester. She wrote nothing in her diary until July 22 and stayed home until September 1. (SBA diary, 1–5 July 1900, Film, 40:363ff.) Textual Notes¶2 ll. 6–7 England has had their full nand rightfulp share and right ••••••••• 161 • ECS to the Editor, NEW YORK TRIBUNE 1 No. 250 West Ninety-fourth-st., New-York September 3, 1900. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: In reply to Miss Walbridge’s 2 strictures on co-education I would say, first, that co-education accomplishes the best results for boys and girls alike for the development of character. As the lifework of many individuals of both sexes is essentially the same, there is no reason why their education should differ. Second—Thousands of men are at the head of hotels, where they must understand all departments of housekeeping; at the head of laundries, bakeries and restaurants; cooks and waiters in fashionable families and hotels, on yachts, railroads, in the army, the navy, on steamers, and in all engineering and exploring expeditions.Men are tailors,at the head of great mercantile establishments, making dresses and hats for women, as well as clothes for their own sex.Men are said to be more skilful than women in all these industries,and the devotees of fashion at the present time all demand tailor-made suits. Because thousands of men are thus engaged in what are called domestic employments, should all men in their college course be required to study cooking and sewing? Third—While a rapidly increasing number of women are crowding into all the trades and professions, as lawyers, doctors, preachers, presidents and professors in colleges, writers of history, novels, poetry, school books, articles for magazines and the daily press; artists, actors, typewriters, stenographers, clerks in courts, teachers in public schools, and in four States of the Union are the equals of men, crowned with all their civil and 25 july 1900 ...

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